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According to the census of 1890 there were in California 72,472 Chinese; the census of 1900 shows 45,753, a decrease of 26,719. This would seem to indicate that the exclusion act really excludes, and also points to the time in the near future when the number of Chinese in California will be quite insignificant.

In 1890 there were present in California 1,147 Japanese, whereas by the census of 1900 there are 10,151; a very significant increase. These figures apparently shift the emphasis of missionary work from the Chinese to the Japanese in California, at least. We shall look with interest for the revelation of the census as to the numbers of these two classes in other States.

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No. 9.

The summer of 1901 seems to have broken all previous records for the intensity and continuance of its heat. In one week during July nearly one thousand persons perished from heat in the City of New York alone, while the number of deaths in the entire country from this cause is appalling. The longcontinued drought, which at one time threatened to utterly destroy the vast crops in the West, was fortunately broken by the welcome rains in time to save considerable portion of the crop.

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District Secretary Proper, writing from Kansas, says that thousands and thousands of acres of corn will not yield a bushel to the acre, and that the same condition obtains in a large portion of Nebraska. The loss of this great crop will be very severely felt by the farmers, and will necessarily interfere with all missionary collections.

Quite a unique series of Home Mission meetings were held in the Tent Evangelist in Buffalo during the week beginning August 5th. On successive days the Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists and Presbyterians set forth the work of Home Missions conducted by them. Tuesday, August 6th, was Baptist Day. A very appreciative audience gathered at half past ten. Dr. A. S. Coats gracefully presided, and interesting addresses were made by President A. C. Osborn, of Benedict College; President George Sale, of Atlanta, and Mrs. William Scott. In the evening, notwithstanding the severe rain storm that prevailed, a deeply interested audi

ence listened to addresses by Professor Schwegler of Indian University, Rev. W. H. Sloan of Mexico, and the Corresponding Secretary. Rev. Dr. George Whitman presided, and the success of the meetings was in no small degree due to his enthusiasm and interest.

When the buildings and ground of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo are illuminated with electricity they present the most beautiful spectacle of the kind ever created. The effect of it is almost magical, and produces an impression that can never be effaced from the mind. It would be well worth a long journey if the Exposition had nothing else to show. But the buildings are beautiful; "the color scheme" unique and impressive, and the exhibits various and costly.

There is even something to be learned on the Mid-way and in the side shows; but also something to be deplored. The so-called "Indian Congress" blends the real and the artificial, the instructive and the pathetic. It presents wild Indian life in some of its worst aspects, but fails utterly to give one a true knowledge of the real Indians as they are to-day. The visitor needs to be able to discriminate between the true and the false if he would get the most profit from his visit. The Carlisle Indian Band composed of 45 Indian young men affords a fine illustration of what education will do for these people. It is well worth hearing: and is vastly more valuable as an object lesson in real Indian character than the so-called Indian Congress.

In order that the readers of the Monthly may look at the question of home missions from another point of view, we publish this month the address delivered by Dr. Charles L. Thompson," Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of

Home Missions. We are sure that no one will begin to read it who does not finish it, and no one will finish it without being profoundly impressed with the vastness, the urgency and the hopefulness of the mighty work in which we are engaged of winning North America. for Christ.

A few of our readers have heard of Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson, pastor of a Negro Baptist Church, in Baltimore, Md., who has made himself somewhat notorious among his own people by attacking the Home Mission Society, and by repeated insistence that the Negroes ought to establish and maintain their own schools without help from their white friends. He is known as an intense "race man." He is apparently honest in believing that the Negroes can and ought to support their own schools.

Baltimore has a large number of Negro Baptists, and there is an earnest call for a Secondary School. Here is certainly Dr. Johnson's chance to vindicate his own theory. Let him rally his people. for the establishment, maintenance and endowment of a first class Negro Academy in the City of Baltimore. His success would go far towards removing the impression that he is either insincere in his advocacy of race independence, or that his philosophy is sadly at fault.

The work of developing an institution of the first class at Richmond, Va., is proceeding rapidly and most satisfactorily. The embarrassment that confronts us at the present time is the success of the work: we have not sufficient room for the students who wish to attend. The enrollment last year was nearly two hundred, and it is believed that the enrollment in the near future could be carried to five hundred if we had suitable accommodations. We dislike very much to say to the enterprising Negro young men of Virginia who are anxious to acquire