PRIVATE letters to Brother G. A. Baker of this office from his son and wife in Uganda, East Africa, tell of the progress now being made in their mission school. They were erecting a one-story building 28 by 70 feet, 10 feet high. It will be used for school and chapel. The body is of stone with thatched roof. Sometimes as many as 600 come to service when the tax-gatherer is not around. The natives are lazy and shiftless and filthy, but teachable. They make a picturesque and grotesque sight in all manner of dress and undress. They have never known what it is to work. The pure heathen are more susceptible to truth than those who have been affected by Mohammedanism. It is difficult to keep them at work; they are "eye-servants," and one of the most trying things is to teach a man how, and then have him stay away and send a raw substitute. About the only way is to keep their pay-day some distance ahead. Salt costs sixteen times as much as it does in England. While Brother Baker superintends the buildings, Mrs. Baker looks after the sick and wounded, and she has much of it to do. In the meantime they are endeavoring to shed light into the darkened minds of these children of nature. God is blessing them with good health.