“They have fallen, they have fallen, In the fierceness of the strife, Leaving us to bear the battle, And the burden of this life; While their disembodied spirits Wing their way to realms above, Where they sing their songs of triumph Round the great white throne of love.” The following is the amount of money collected while in Michigan, in the winter of 1865: Proceeds Children’s Fair, Kalamazoo, $10 35 Soldier’s Aid Society, South Jackson, 4 00 Proceeds Oyster Supper, ” ” 50 00 ” ” ” Muir, 75 00 ” ” ” Salem, 43 85 Collection, Baptist Church, ” 26 15 Cash, Pontiac. By request, name not given, 10 00 Social, Ionia, including a few individual contributions, 60 70 Proceeds Oyster Supper, Northfield, 25 35 ” Tableaux, Galesburg, 25 00 ” ” Chelsea, 37 00 Collection, Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, 23 35 ” Dutch M. E. Church, ” ” 2 75 From Brighton, 5 00 Individual contributions, 1 50 ------- Total, $400 00 In regard to the children’s fair here mentioned, I would say that it was held by only three little children, viz.: Ella May, Frank and Ida Knappin. The weather was cold and rainy, but they did not mind the cold, for their hearts were in their work. The tableaux at Chelsea were gotten up almost entirely through the earnest efforts of Miss Josie May and Miss White, who, I believe, have never before had credit therefor. Had I begun my work of collecting a little earlier, before the holiday season was over, during which fairs had been held, and various other means employed to raise money, I might have doubled, and perhaps tripled the amount collected; for nearly every place I visited I was met with, “Why didn’t you come sooner? A week or two earlier, and we might have raised twice as much as we now can.” But if the money only went for the desired object, it mattered little through what channel it was conveyed. I would take this opportunity to acknowledge publicly the receipt of thirty dollars from friends in Muir and vicinity, ten from South Jackson, and twenty from Salem, besides a few dollars from individual persons as a present to myself. I here renew my thanks to each and every donor; for it was only through occasional donations of this kind that I was enabled to continue my work so long. One of my former teachers at Kalamazoo, to whom I was indebted thirty dollars for money hired while in school, kindly took up the note, thus relieving me of all anxiety of how that debt, though small, was to be paid.