Among the recitations, “Betty, the Bound Girl,” and “The Peril of a Passenger Train,” were well rendered.  Lowell’s “A Day in June” was given with a pleasant voice and manner that fitted the poem.  There was an organ solo, an organ duet, and a sprightly little song by a quartet, “All Among the Barley.”  Among the best things were part of an address by Channing on “Distinction of Mind and Material Forms,” and one by Mitchell on “The First View of the Heavens.”  The thoughts were noble and nobly expressed, and the young men delivered them with thoughtfulness and appreciation, which made us glad, especially as these addresses were their own choice.

Immediately after these exercises we all adjourned to the dining room to see what the girls had done in their little missionary society.  Here was a table gay with pretty articles they had made.  Among them were a nice comfortable, some embroidered doilies, chair pillows, handkerchief cases, and other things.  Most of them were quickly sold.  There was also ice-cream and cake for sale.  The girls took about seventeen dollars by their fair, and the proceeds are to go to the A.M.A.

The next day was the last.  We planned to have an exhibition of school and industrial work during the forenoon, and parade of cadets in the afternoon.  And, in order to give the pupils a little uplift of enthusiasm in a good cause, we arranged to have a Christian Endeavor rally of societies from five neighboring towns, and also to invite the members of two Sunday-schools that are bravely “lifting the gospel banner,” each in a scattered community near by, where there is no church.

The people began to arrive about half-past ten.  One party came in a large farm wagon made gay with flags.

We hastened to take them about.  In the blacksmith shop, two young men who had been in school only a year, were making some steel nut-crackers.  A table covered with hooks, bolts, chains, towels, ice-picks, etc., represented the work done during the year.  In the printing office, the boys were turning the press, and printing our Indian paper.  The carpenter-shop exhibit contained some neat boxes, tables, and cabinets, and here some small boys were at work making joints.  In the cooking school, the girls were making biscuits, coffee, and corn-bread, while the table was covered with nice loaves of bread, cake, rolls, and cookies, made the day before.  Here, also, the girls’ sewing was displayed.  There was a neat set of doll’s clothing, a doll’s mattress, pillows, sheets, and pillow-cases, a number of boys’ shirts ready for use in the school, beside other clothing for the girls.

The primary schoolroom contained clay animals, weaving and sewing done by the kindergarten class, and some neat language and number work by the older pupils.  The other schoolrooms also had illustrated language work, examination papers, maps on paper and in sand, and a collection of botanical specimens.