tains regiments of cuirassiers, artillery, muskets. About ten o'clock I was ordered into the city to procure food for the men and horses of my regiment. While I was attempting this, the French marched in at the other gate, and, of course, I said "Goodby" for the present. At the very first our thirty thousand men were ordered to fall back at a slow pace, and thus Blücher's beautiful position had to be changed. This day dreadful slaughter commenced; no quarter was given. Napoleon was determined to crush Blücher first, because he feared him, and then to finish Wellington. Therefore he attacked Blücher's corps with his whole army and two hundred and forty pieces of artillery. Foot for foot was disputed. The village of St. Amand I saw taken and retaken several times.

At nine o'clock my light hussar regiment was ordered to break a French square, but we were received with such a rain of balls that we became separated. Lützow was taken prisoner. Blücher's fine horse was here killed under him, and an officer of my regiment Schneider gave Blücher his horse and saved himself. The French cuirassiers drove us before them, but we soon rallied and drove them back. At this moment Blücher was yet lying under his horse. Nastich, his aid-de-camp, had covered him with his cloak. After the French, driven before us, had passed, Nastich sprang forward, took the first horse by the bridle, and Blücher was saved.

After eleven o'clock we left the field of this great battle, and halted half an hour's distance. Exhausted, thirsty, and hungry, I sucked clover flowers, halting in a large clover field. The French bivouac fires were before our eyes. Neither party was conquered. Napoleon estimated our loss in the French bulletin fifteen thousand men killed. Since no quarter was given on either side we were not troubled with many prisoners. Several of our brave generals were wounded. The next morning, early on the 17th (of June), we moved towards Wavre, ten miles from Genappe, where we bivouacked. The rain fell in torrents all night. In the afternoon we heard a brisk cannonade towards Quatre-Bras. The English forces being posted in that neighborhood, it was supposed that none except them could be engaged by Napoleon. To guard, however, that my brigade might not come between two fires, I was ordered to reconnoiter in that direction and make report to General Tresko. I took three picked men of our lancers and a French

guide and rode, in a dreadful storm, in the direction of the thunder of the cannon. Fortunately, I hit the desired point. After inquiry of an English officer at a picket how the battle was going, he informed me that the English army was obliged to retreat. This was good news for us. After several hours I arrived safe at our bivouac and made my report to the old general, who also was glad to hear the news. He thanked me, and I turned on my heels.

At two o'clock in the morning of the 18th of June we broke up and marched towards Wavre, where Blücher's corps concentrated itself. After a long and dreadfully hard march- the whole day the whole day and in spite of the great battle of the 16th and only one day's rest, and in spite of privation for men and horses, we arrived at last, in full gallop, on the field at Mont Saint Jean towards four o'clock. Our brigade of four regiments of cavalry was commanded by the brave MajorGeneral von Folgersberg, Lützow having been taken prisoner on the 16th. Hard work for the Prussian army again. Wellington was almost beaten when we arrived, and we decided that great day. Had we arrived an hour later, Napoleon would have had Wellington surrounded and beaten.

By nine o'clock in the evening the battlefield was almost cleared of the French army. It was an evening which no pen is able to picture. The surrounding villages were yet in flames; the lamentations of the wounded of both armies, the singing for joy, no one could describe, nor could he find names to give to the horrible scenes. During the whole night we followed the enemy, and no one can form an idea of the quantity of cannon, baggage-wagons, etc., which lay on the road along which the French retreated. Brandy, rice, chocolate, etc., in abundance fell into our hands. We also took Napoleon's carriage,' and amused ourselves with it. Among other things we found in it Napoleon's proclamation, in which he said that he would dine at Brussels on the 18th, so certain was he of beating Wellington - not expecting old Blücher and Bülow at Waterloo, on account of the dreadful conflict of the 16th.

At sunrise of the 19th we passed Genappe and afterwards Quatre-Bras, where Wellington was beaten on the 17th. Six miles beyond Quatre-Bras, to the right of the road, we rested till afternoon. The heat

This famous steel carriage has long been a conspicuous object at Mme. Tassaud's on Baker street, London. Doubtless many readers have personally investigated it.

months. I had fine living and fun, but had to write day and night.

When we arrived, on our march home, near Versailles, I was ordered there with another officer to receive at this fortress provisions and forage for our troops. My quarters were in the hotel at the Big Docks. I made the acquaintance of a Dutch captain

here with whom I spent many pleasant hours. Plenty of fun here- birthdays, punch-parties, and amusements of various kinds. Shortly after we left France, and I arrived safe. I had the good fortune to embrace my good old mother and all the rest. Wilhelm Geisse and Christie Dencklar had just arrived and saw me as a Black Hussar.

HE educational work of Protestant missionaries in China began in 1818 with the establishment of an AngloChinese college at Malacca, where Europeans might acquire Chinese learning, and the Chinese, while being grounded in western learning, might also be instructed in the principles of Christianity. The school was removed to Hongkong in 1844, and in the course of its history has sent forth hundreds of graduates.

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From so small a beginning the various academies, colleges, and universities, maintained and officered by American missions have increased until they have spread throughout the empire. The term "Ameriis used advisedly, for at least ninety per cent of foreign schools and hospitals are endowed and supported by American missionary boards; while those that the Chinese themselves had begun to establish after the western models were largely controlled by Americans chosen by the imperial government. The educational institutions have not been confined to the accessible parts, but they have been doing most efficient work even in the remote western and northern provinces.

While it is true that there are among the teaching corps the dull and the commonplace, men and women of the most brilliant attainments are also included. Of these may be mentioned Dr. W. A. P. Martin, president of the Imperial University in Peking-a state institution founded and supported by the imperial government; Dr. Lowry of the Methodist University; Dr. Pott of St. John's College, Shanghai; Mrs. Charlotte M. Jewell, and Professor Gamewell, whose knowledge of engineering saved the British legation during the six weeks' siege.

Many of the teachers in the mission schools have been thoroughly trained in American normal schools, or have taken degrees, and

have taught in our own institutions before going out to China; and this has been the rule rather than the exception. Still others have left comfortable and even luxurious homes to endure the deprivation and practical exile inseparable from their chosen work.

In Peking, which is the educational center for North China, the various missionary boards provided comfortable comfortable residences for the corps of teachers, preachers, and medical men and women whom they have sent out. The building of substantial and convenient houses was a matter of practical business sense, the Boxer uprising in which all were destroyed not being, of course, foreseen. It was hoped that, by doing the work well in the first instance, the structures might last, instead of falling into speedy decay. In every case a stated allowance was fixed, to be expended in buildings, of which a careful account was rendered; and, in one instance, at least the Sleeper Davis Memorial Hospital a considerable sum was returned to the donor after the building was completed and equipped, the full amount of the bequest not being required.

The buildings of the various Peking missions stood within their own compound, or grounds, which were many acres in extent. The land had been secured by the purchase of native houses, at a price fixed by the government, and the houses were then torn down. Each compound was graded, planted with shrubs and such grass as could be induced to grow in the alkali soil, and the fine trees, which aside from the forests of the frontier survive only in the courtyards of towns and cities, were carefully preserved. Strong brick walls, fifteen or twenty feet high, with two heavy gates-one at the front and one at the rear- were built around the entire compound. The gates could be closed and barred, and the gate-keeper, who

was on duty day and night, lived in an adjoining lodge.

The buildings comprised the residences of the faculty, the school, college, hospital, and the Chinese houses of the students, servants, and employees.

The Methodist mission in Peking with its university, preparatory schools, Bible schools, and hospitals-all of which have been destroyed-was the most extensive, modern, and well-equipped in all China. The residences were plain houses of gray Chinese brick, built by a Chinese contractor who, supervised by the Americans, did his work well. The residences, although they would have been considered luxurious compared to those of other teachers elsewhere, were plainly but tastefully furnished. The floors were covered with Chinese matting which cost but a few cents a yard, or with the beautiful camel's hair rugs that were manufactured in Peking and warranted to last a lifetime. These could be bought for ten or twelve dollars, gold; a trifling sum for the purchaser, but representing ten or twelve thousand cash to the Chinese manufacturer. All the residences were simply but tastefully furnished, the walls hung with pictures, and in each were bookcases with well-filled shelves the private property of the occupants, and generally gifts from their friends at home.

The houses stood in a row, a comfortable distance apart, a broad stone walk in front of each connecting the lawns and extending nearly the entire length of the compound. This walk was invaluable, since it was the only place where a constitutional could be enjoyed in that city of "dirt, dust, and disdain," with its idle, staring crowds and horribly filthy streets.

Commendable wisdom has been shown by teachers everywhere and of every denomination for all have carried on their work upon much the same general plan-not to denationalize the people among whom they are laboring. No other foreigners so well understand the weaknesses and the virtues of the Chinese, and the steadfast effort required to develop their noble traits and to help them overcome those evils to which they yield most readily.

In many respects the schools were models for those in the United States. In the girls' boarding-schools the pupils were not crowded together in dormitories, but lived, three or four together, in small Chinese houses. These houses were ranged around a wide, open court, the playground, upon which the

earth was beaten as hard and smooth as a floor, which the pupils took special pride in keeping clean. The doors and windows were protected from the drip of rain or melting snow by the broad, overhanging eaves. Each was furnished in Chinese fashion with a k'ang or native bed. This is a brick platform, filling one end of the room, heated from a square hole in the floor with pipes passing under the bed, upon which the occupants of the room not only slept at night rolled up in wadded comforters, but sat during the day to study, sew, or gossip. The fuel used was "coal balls," which are composed of coaldust mixed with earth, and molded into balls. These, after the gas had passed off during which process doors and windows must be left open - became red-hot and retained the heat for hours. The other appointments were a wash-stand - which was an innovation-a Chinese table, and chairs or stools. The floors were paved, and were regularly swept and scrubbed as they might require; instead of the paper windows which were made ragged by wind and rain, glass was supplied, and this was considered the acme of luxury. The rooms were inspected daily, marks being given for neatness, and demerits for untidiness; the report being duly signed by the inspector and posted conspicuously, where it met the eye not only of the pupil but of any chance visitor. As pride, or vanity, is one of the strongest traits of the Chinese, each person desiring to appear well in the eyes of his neighbors, this conspicuous posting of the inspector's report worked well in both ways; the untidy pupil was shamed into better habits, and the neat were encouraged to continued well-doing.

Ordinarily, the lower and middle classes do not wear underclothing, and the people of all classes, unlike the Japanese, are decidedly averse to bathing. The girls in all mission schools are required to wear undergarments, to change them regularly, and Saturday is the day set apart for the weekly plunge. The water is heated in a huge kettle in the bath-house, and is carried to the big earthenware bath-tub of the pattern seen everywhere in the East.

In a short time the pupils look forward to the advent of Saturday with great pleasure, and seldom relinquish the habit of bathing when they leave school to take up their abode in homes of their own. taught to wash their clothing, and for this, as for all the duties required of them, there is a fixed time. They make a sort of game of it, bringing the small wooden tubs which

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