Doctor Latimer by his kindness and skill has won the name of the “Good Doctor.”  But he is more than a successful doctor; he is a true patriot and a good citizen.  Honest, just, and discriminating, he endeavors by precept and example to instill into the minds of others sentiments of good citizenship.  He is a leader in every reform movement for the benefit of the community; but his patriotism is not confined to race lines.  “The world is his country, and mankind his countrymen.”  While he abhors their deeds of violence, he pities the short-sighted and besotted men who seem madly intent upon laying magazines of powder under the cradles of unborn generations.  He has great faith in the possibilities of the negro, and believes that, enlightened and Christianized, he will sink the old animosities of slavery into the new community of interests arising from freedom; and that his influence upon the South will be as the influence of the sun upon the earth.  As when the sun passes from Capricorn to Cancer, beauty, greenness, and harmony spring up in his path, so he hopes that the future career of the negro will be a greater influence for freedom and social advancement than it was in the days of yore for slavery and its inferior civilization.

Harry and Lucille are at the head of a large and flourishing school.  Lucille gives her ripening experience to her chosen work, to which she was too devoted to resign.  And through the school they are lifting up the homes of the people.  Some have pitied, others blamed, Harry for casting his lot with the colored people, but he knows that life’s highest and best advantages do not depend on the color of the skin or texture of the hair.  He has his reward in the improved condition of his pupils and the superb manhood and noble life which he has developed in his much needed work.

Uncle Daniel still lingers on the shores of time, a cheery, lovable old man, loved and respected by all; a welcome guest in every home.  Soon after Iola’s marriage, Robert sold out his business and moved with his mother and sister to North Carolina.  He bought a large plantation near C——­, which he divided into small homesteads, and sold to poor but thrifty laborers, and his heart has been gladdened by their increased prosperity and progress.  He has seen the one-roomed cabins change to comfortable cottages, in which cleanliness and order have supplanted the prolific causes of disease and death.  Kind and generous, he often remembers Mrs. Johnson and sends her timely aid.

Marie’s pale, spiritual face still bears traces of the beauty which was her youthful dower, but its bloom has been succeeded by an air of sweetness and dignity.  Though frail in health, she is always ready to lend a helping hand wherever and whenever she can.

Grandmother Johnson was glad to return South and spend the remnant of her days with the remaining friends of her early life.  Although feeble, she is in full sympathy with her children for the uplifting of the race.  Marie and her mother are enjoying their aftermath of life, one by rendering to others all the service in her power, while the other, with her face turned toward the celestial city, is