The two sections began life together and formed a government. The South had the advantage of soil, climate, and wealth. At the end of eighty-four years the two grappled and fought. The Yankee section came to the fight richer and stronger than our Southern section, and beat us into the earth while we did our best. To-day these Yankees are rich in everything, and we are poor in everything but manhood and womanhood, and have less than we began with one hundred years back. These same Yankees furnish the bulk of the capital we use, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the books we read and study, and the high-grade teaching in the normal schools of the Southern States. Almost every convenience of life and invention of art and science we know, came from these same people, who have in ten years done more for Florida than the Florida natives have done in fifty. Almost any one of their large communities could buy the whole South for a park if they liked it for that purpose. In a fight they could crush us like eggshells. In politics they are masters, and we have to hold our breath in every big campaign to avoid offending them. Their percentage of ignorance is one-tenth of ours. When trouble comes on us we depend on them for most of the help, and get it. The world knows them as America, and us as outlying and unconsidered provinces.--_Greenville, (S. C.) News._ * * * * * GEORGE W. MONISTY was a slave, and was sold from his parents in 1853, being taken to Mississippi. He subsequently served as a Union soldier all through the war, and finally settled at Lafayette, Ind. While at the Wabash depot recently, George fancied he recognized two colored women who were passing, _en route_ to Iowa. The recognition was mutual, and with tears, cries of joy, and embraces, the mother, brother and sister came together after a separation of thirty-three years. * * * * * REV. W. W. WEIR, pastor of the 2d Congregational Church in Eureka, Kansas, died Nov. 21st, in his fifty-first year. He had been sick some time with consumption, and his death was not unexpected. He began his ministry in the African Methodist Church, and was ordained as a Congregational minister in Eureka in 1881. In an obituary in a local paper it is said of him: “Considering the limited privileges which he had in his youth, he was a man of superior qualifications, and each year has increased the esteem in which he was held by the community.” * * * * * THE SOUTH. NOTES IN THE SADDLE. BY FIELD-SUPERINTENDENT C. J RYDER. The Lincoln Memorial Church at Washington, D. C., are rejoicing in their remodeled building. Various branches of missionary work are carried on with increased vigor. The industrial training is now under the direction of the _pastoress_, Mrs. Moore, and is reaching a large number of women and girls. The outlook of this work at Washington was never so bright as now.