To repair the damage done our mission home and school buildings by the earthquake at Charleston a careful estimate calls for not less than $2,500. One of our teachers, Mr. E. A. Lawrence, has been meeting the emergency by holding school in a barn. The time has come when the necessary repairs must be made, both upon the home and school. Hundreds of scholars are waiting and parents are begging that Avery Institute be again opened. In response to our former appeals for Charleston some special donations have been received, but they are entirely inadequate to meet the emergency. We beg leave to remind our friends that the money needed to make these repairs must be furnished either by special contributions or else taken out of money already appropriated to other work. We trust they will not leave us to be compelled to do the latter. It may also be added that to delay these repairs much longer will result in the ruin of the buildings. * * * * * REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The Second Annual Report of Commissioner Atkins is a candid and comprehensive document, dealing briefly but frankly with the several problems growing out of the relations of the Government to the Indians. We have not space for a review of the Report, but we wish to call special attention to the facts which it incidentally presents as to the neglect of Congress, and especially of the House of Representatives, to act upon a number of important bills touching Indian affairs. No less than eight such bills are mentioned—six of them passed the Senate, but failed to receive final action in the House—and some of these are by far the most essential to the welfare of the Indians. Three of these bills we wish particularly to name: The Dawes’ Bill for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty; the Sioux Bill for the Division of the great Sioux Reservation into six reservations; and the Bill for the Relief of the Mission Indians in California. The first of these is fundamental to the settlement of the Indians in separate homes, and consequently to their becoming American citizens; the second has the same end in view; and the third is a simple act of justice, long and shamefully deferred, to the suffering and deserving Indians, whose sad case has been so pathetically depicted by Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson in her touching story of Romona.