SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FROM MRS. A. E. R. JONES, MISSIONARY TO THE CHINESE.--Since writing you last month I am happy to say that two of our pupils have entered Salt Lake College as students. They have joined the preparatory classes in arithmetic and grammar. It is a great step for them. We help them in our evening school in the lessons for the next day. But this encouragement is little in comparison with the great blessing that has come to us. By God's grace we trust three persons have been led to Himself. These desire to be baptized next Sunday. It is no hasty act, but has been postponed for some time rather than to make haste. We believe that their conversions are of the Lord and are true and genuine. * * * * * The Indians. * * * * * NEW TYPE OF INDIAN UPRISING. REV. GEORGE W. REED, FORT YATES, N. D. The missionaries' correspondence begins to bring inquiries concerning an Indian uprising. With the war news are mingled expressions of fear that the Indians will be only too ready to seize upon the opportunity to avenge fancied wrongs. Most of the soldiers have been withdrawn from the frontier posts. In regard to the Sioux, those who know them best have no fear. They recognize the progress made by them in the last ten years. Too many of them have become followers of the Prince of Peace. These ten years of splendid school training have given us a new type of young men and women, who have more of home love and who are beginning to think for themselves. The majority are no longer roused to action by the harangue of a petty chief. The day of the chief is rapidly passing away. The thinker and not the talker is becoming the leader. There must be convincing proof of a good cause and of beneficial results before another Indian war is undertaken under the most favorable circumstances. In territory there is nothing to be gained. They cling tenaciously to what they have, but they are not grasping for more, for they realize that their vast hunting grounds have been lost to them forever. The young men and women in going half across the continent to Carlisle and Hampton, being educated there and in summer homes in the East, come back impressed with the largeness of the country, the prosperity and vast numerical superiority of the people. They care not to war against so strong a foe. There is an uprising of the Indians, however, which is being too slowly recognized. They are slowly but surely rising above superstition and ignorance, yes, even above indolence. The old roving, restless, tramp-like spirit has not wholly disappeared. Some are still living only a stomach level life, with apparently no thought of head or heart. The old Indian life is self-centered, hence selfish, ever gathering to itself, never giving out, hence stagnant, non-progressive.