Our night school is particularly interesting. Although in my own room, I have not more than one or two who can read enough to read a paper, they have as clear an understanding of political matters as half of the voters at home, and could be trusted to vote with greater safety.

After the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, I asked my evening class if they knew any thing about it, and there was not one who had not a pretty good idea of it. One said, "It is to give us our rights;" another, "to give us our voice;" another, "to let us speak in court." One said, "What is Johnson going to do now?"He had, somehow, got it into his head that the President was not one of his "best friends." Some of them asked me to tell them all about it; and after I had explained it, as fully as I could, one old woman clapped her hands, and shouted, "Glory to God!" She told me, the next night, that "all day while she was about her work, 'peared like she 'couldn't help saying all the time, "Glory!" I wish I could repeat to you all she said. I never heard greater eloquence.

MARY E. PERKINS.