American ^llissianarj;) <^ssariation, 
 
 Fourth Ave. and Twenty-second St., New York. 
 
 THE EDUCATIONAL MISSIONARY IN THE 
 INDIAN COUNTRY. 
 
 Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota. 
 
 DEACON HLACKCOAT's RESIDENCE. 
 
 The teacher was preparing his stereopti- 
 con apparatus when Deacon Oglesapa 
 (black-coat) entered to announce that one 
 of the faithful young men of Virgin Creek 
 Church was at the door with his wagon to 
 take the teacher and his apparatus half a 
 mile up the hill to the Virgin Creek Chapel. 
 
The teacher entrusted an arm-load of his 
 fragile machinery to the deacon and fol- 
 lowed with the rest. Very strangely the 
 deacon did not go out the gate but crawled 
 over the fence, approached the wagon from 
 the rear and very cautiously deposited his 
 burdens. The teacher remarked that if 
 those range horses were so scarey he would 
 
 VIRGIN CREEK CHURCH. 
 
 rather walk and carry his belongings. But 
 the deacon would listen to nothing of that 
 kind. The horses were all right when they 
 got started ! 
 
The deacon anchored their heads while 
 the Indian Jehu quietly gathered himself 
 into his seat. Then the deacon was out of 
 the way at a flash. Both horses stood on 
 their tails and ears alternately. They 
 made a terrific leap into the air, one before 
 the other, one throwing the other down — 
 k’whack onto the wagon tongue. The 
 other slipped on the icy ground and dived 
 under the tongue. If horses ever see stars 
 those must have. And the teacher foresaw 
 his forty-dollar bundle of lantern slides 
 sma.shed, and imagined his stereopticon 
 gas apparatus and what-not strewn over 
 the hills, prairie dog villages and cactus 
 flats. But the Indian bronchos happened 
 to gain their feet simultaneously. With 
 one long swoop we shot into space. The 
 tail of the wagon snapped around the head 
 of a ravine and the chapel soon loomed up 
 in the moonlight over the fiat. 
 
 The teacher fell out with the fragiblesin 
 his arms and snatched the remainder as the 
 wagon passed on. When last seen the 
 bronchos were being headed into the prairie 
 dog town just beyond. The lantern lecture 
 was a success. 
 
 We were invited to Sunday dinner at the 
 parsonage. The Indian missionary who 
 goes on the principle of having the people 
 
VIRGIN CREEK PARSONAGE. 
 
 provide for themselves -will find the fruit- 
 of-the vine very changeable. On a recent 
 tour of the Cheyenne River Reservation 
 mission stations the Lord’s Supper was 
 observed as follows: at Cherry Creek, 
 
 canned blackberry juice; at Elizabeth 
 Station, on Cheyenne River, diluted buffalo- 
 berry jelly; at Virgin Creek, juice of stewed 
 dried choke cherries ; at Whitehorse Vil- 
 lage, on Moreau River, cranberry juice; at 
 Remington Station, Greengrass Creek on 
 Moreau, juice of stewed dried raspberries. 
 
 F. B. R.