pentry, tailoring, shoemaking, etc. The total attendance at the end of the year was 105 boys and 40 girls. The Normal Department, which is co-educational, opened last year, has had an attendance of 66 students.

INANDA SEMINARY FOR GIRLS. - Total enrollment, 205, with an average attendance of 136. Eleven were passed on to the Normal Training School. Thirty-eight of the pupils were from heathen homes; 32 were church members. The girls are given practical training in sewing, dressmaking, while many are given employment for a part of the time in the laundry and in the garden.

UMZUMBE HOME FOR GIRLS. - Total enrollment, 107, with an average attendance of 78. Established thirty-seven years ago as a refuge for kraal girls, it is now an important school of secondary grade. It has four European teachers and two native teachers. Pupils are not admitted except by payment of the full fee or by its equivalent in special labor.

MEDICAL WORK AT DURBAN.

Hospital and dispensary. A growing work. UNION THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL AT IMPOLWENI. -Carried on by the American Board and the United Free Church Mission.

EUROPEAN TURKEY MISSION

Stations: Location and Special Work of Missionaries

MONASTIR. Miss Mary L. Matthews: Principal of the boarding and high school at Monastir. Miss Mary M. Haskell: Associate in the school; general work for women.

PHILIPPOPOLIS. - George D. Marsh, D.D., ordained: General work. Mrs. Ursula C. Marsh: Woman's work. Henry C. Haskell, D.D., ordained: Literary and general evangelistic work. Mrs. Margaret B. Haskell: Woman's

work.

SAMOKOV.

Robert Thomson, ordained: Literary and educational work; acting principal of the Collegiate and Theological Institute. Mrs. Agnes C. Thomson. John W. Baird, ordained: Educational and evangelistic work. Mrs. Ellen R. Baird. Theodore T. Holway, ordained: Educational and general evangelistic work. Mrs. Elizabeth H. Holway. Miss Esther T. Maltbie, Miss Agnes M. Baird and Miss Inez L. Abbott: Girls' boarding and high school and general educational and evangelistic work for women.

Residing at Sofia. — James F. Clarke, D.D., ordained: Temperance and general work. Miss Elizabeth C. Clarke: Kindergarten work and work for women.

SALONICA. J. Henry House, D.D.: In charge of the Thessalonica Agricultural and Industrial Institute. Mrs. Addie B. House. Edward B. Haskell, ordained: General evangelistic work. Mrs. Elizabeth F. Haskell. William C. Cooper, ordained: Student of language and secretary of the mission.

KORTCHA, ALBANIA. Phineas P. Kennedy, ordained: Educational and general evangelistic work. Mrs. Violet B. Kennedy: Educational work for girls and woman's evangelistic work.

ELBASAN, ALBANIA.

work.

- Charles T. Erickson, ordained: General evangelistic Mrs. Carrie E. Erickson.

On furlough. - William P. Clarke, ordained. Mrs. Martha G. Clarke. Leroy F. Ostrander, ordained. Mrs. Mary L. Ostrander.

Associated with the mission, not under appointment. Samokov.

- Miss Emma Baird,

Seven stations; 51 outstations; 13 ordained missionaries; II wives; 6 single women; total missionary force, 30; 17 ordained native preachers; 18 unordained preachers; 55 teachers; 8 Bible women; 11 other native helpers; total native helpers, 109; 19 organized churches, 2 entirely self-supporting; 1,454 communicants; 90 added on confession the past year; average attendance, 3,313; 57 Sunday-schools, 2,512 members; I theological and collegiate institute; 3 students for the ministry and 85 pupils in collegiate training; 4 boarding and high schools, 270 students; 22 other schools, 512 students; total number under instruction, 870; native contributions for all purposes, $7,692.

There have been few changes in the personnel of the mission during the year. Mr. Cooper has been appointed to the mission and has entered upon the study of the language at Salonica. Mr. and Mrs. Holway and Mrs. Marsh have returned after a period of rest at home. Miss Cole on account of health has withdrawn from the mission. Mr. and Mrs. William P. Clarke, and Mr. and Mrs. Ostrander have entered upon their furlough.

The Story of the European Turkey Mission

The European Turkey Mission occupies the southeast section of Europe, one of the most interesting parts of the continent. Within the limits of this mission are old Mount Olympus, of classical history, and it was from this region that Alexander the Great went forth to his conquests. The mission deals with Albanians, Turks, and Bulgarians, and is in close contact with large Greek populations. The work of the mission is directly for the three first-named classes. The country itself is mountainous and generally rugged and has from time immemorial been noted for its brigandage. The field occupied extends from the Adriatic Sea eastward to the Black Sea, and from the Balkan Mountains on the north for 140 miles southward to the Egean Sea. The area covered is larger than all New England and with about the same population. Among these mixed races the class that has most quickly responded is the Bulgarian people. Since the Board began its work among them in 1848 Bulgaria has gained her independence and

has made great progress in every way. The Bulgarians themselves belong to a branch of the Greek Church, but one which is independent of St. Petersburg and Athens. This independence has been won and is maintained at great cost. Each one of the races above referred to has its own language, which does not make more simple, to say the least, the organization and development of mission work among them.

In the development of the work the first school for young women was opened at Eski Zaghra, and one for young men at Philippopolis. The former station was given up and the women's educational work was transferred to Samokov.

A Glimpse of Monastir

The boys' school was also moved to Samokov, which has now become the educational center of the mission, where are maintained the Collegiate and Theological Institute for young men, and the Girls' High and Boarding School. Samokov is an important town, elevated about 3,600 feet above the sea, and is often referred to as the sanitarium" of Bulgaria. It is 36 miles almost due south from Sofia, the capital of the country.

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At present there are practically three departments in the mission. The Bulgarian section, with its schools in Samokov and the publication work in the Bulgarian language, is carried on at Samokov and Philippopolis, with a kindergarten in Sofia. The Macedonian section centers in Salonica, with a second station at Monastir. The principal work of these stations is among the Bulgarians, and the young men in training for future service are sent. across the line for education. In the last few years there has been developed a distinctively Albanian side of the work, although for many years the mission has been interested in the Albanian people and has done much for them, the school for girls in Kortcha having been carried on with great success. Two stations have recently been occupied by ordained missionaries sent out especially for the Albanian work, namely, Kortcha and Elbasan. This work is hardly yet well established, but the reception of the missionaries