_Impressions of a Teacher of Long Experience South._—I am sure, in our busy and crowded life, most of us teachers especially fail to realize how broad and comprehensive our work at the South is; how what we do, well or poorly, is to affect the whole educational interest at the South where everything is in a transition state. Should we not, in view of what our work and influence have accomplished in the past, and in view of our greater and growing opportunities for the future, should we not be aroused to a sense of these things that we may make the most of our chances in this direction? INDIAN GIRLS AT HAMPTON. [Illustration: _From Harper’s Monthly._] The accompanying cuts were published in Harper’s _Monthly_, April, 1881. The improvement made in the appearance of Indian students, boys and girls, by a three years’ course of study at Hampton has convinced more than one observer from the Western frontier that there is something better to do for the red man than to shoot him on sight. Miss Helen W. Ludlow, one of their teachers, says of the two older girls that appear in the picture: “They have been among the farmers of Berkshire County, Mass., working for their board, sharing the home life and improving in health, English and general tone; they have won a good report from the families which have taken them, even better this year than last, and have done much to increase public sympathy for their race. The Indian girls’ improvement has been as marked as the boys’. Their early inuring to labor has its compensation in a better physical condition apparently, and their uplifting may prove the most important of factors in the salvation of their race.” [Illustration: _From Harper’s Monthly._] GENERAL NOTES. THE INDIANS. —The Indian Bureau reports that the number of self-supporting Indians cannot be precisely stated, but gives the following as a fair estimate: Wholly or almost entirely self-supporting, 105,939; partially self-supporting, 44,119; wholly dependent on government rations, 50,882; these figures do not include the five civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, numbering 59,187. At Crow Creek Agency, Dakota, 60,000 of the 500,000 acres of reservation land had been taken up by 235 out of 325 neighboring families, of whom 208 had broken ground, cultivating an average of five acres apiece. Their title is a certificate from the Secretary of the Interior, and can be made valid only by an act of Congress.