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not forthcoming to mitigate her crime, she at least
might have Christian burial in the paupers' cemwhere in after years the bad boys could play football with her skull.* In Vali^araiso I saw even more evidences of civilization than were ever found in Concepcion. I saw there the stained windows and the green screen just inside the door so common in all the saloons in a Christian land. It was the first sight of the kind I had seen since leaving New York. It almost cheered me to know that I was once more in etery,
Any
a land that evidenced Christian civilization.
thoughts that I might have had of stopping were instantly driven away, however, by the appearance He wore two reof a man from behind the screen. volvers, a large knife, and a frightful scar, extending from his temple to the corner of his mouth. I doubted the place from that moment, although it did look wonderfully like the thousands of places
established and protected
by law in our own Christ-
ian America. I will add, that such great
improvement
to one kind of missionary effort.
B
,
is
due
The Rev. Mr.
a missionary of great zeal, was laboring to
Montana Terrisame agency were many very
elevate the Indians in the far-away tory; but at the
Skulls and other human bones are very plentiful in the paupers' cemetery in Concepcion.