Poor Annie avoided passing Mrs. Duncan’s home for two days, dreading to speak of her mother’s decision. The second day the expected letter came from Georgia. It told of a delicate little colored girl—a graduate of the Higher Normal Department of an A. M. A. School. This girl’s father had run away $150 in debt, and the home that sheltered the little family was to be sold at sheriff’s sale to pay the debt. This girl found a man who would pay it and wait for her to pay him in small sums as she earned it by teaching. As soon as this was paid she begged her sister to go to the school from which she graduated. The sister thought she was too old to begin to go to school again, and could not be persuaded till at last she was told—“Now Sis, kind friends at the North have helped me get my education and _I_ am going to send _some_ poor girl to that same school, and if you don’t go, some one else will be glad of my help.” So now she is paying nine dollars a month for that sister’s board and tuition, and buys her books and clothes, better ones, too, than she wore herself. A letter was also enclosed from this girl to her old teacher, begging for help to build a school house where she is now teaching. So besides educating her sister she is trying to build a school house. But I have the letter and will let the girl tell her own story: “Dear Friend, Mrs. W——: I know you are very busy, and will not want to hear the word ‘building,’ but I don’t know whom else to write to. We have paid $71.70 on an acre of land for our school lot. We have $68.30 to pay and twelve months to pay it in, with no interest. We want to ask the A. M. A. if they will help us build a school house. We can begin now as soon as we are able. We want the A. M. A. to take full control of the house and the building of it, and we will help all we can. We want this to be a school for _everybody_. We have six men as trustees of the land, and have worked hard and are working still. * * * The whites are helping us and urging us to go on. Three white men gave $5 apiece, and others less. They were a little careful about giving this time, as money has been solicited twice before for the same purpose, so most of them would put their names down and say, ‘Come when you are ready for it.’ There was no trouble in getting it yesterday when we went for it. I was anxious to decide the matter and make a payment yesterday. I’ll try to get my money to you by the 10th for sister. “Very truly, ———— ————” When Annie got home from school she read both letters with great interest, but said, “Ma, don’t you suppose such letters are sometimes gotten up for effect?” “Perhaps they are, but I am sure this one was not, for you know I wrote asking for some case of pressing need, and the girl’s letter never could have been written for my eyes, as it is dated some weeks ago.”