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 tain that our own rule would be wholly acceptable to the Samoans, though there is no doubt about their preference when Germany is in question. The Samoans have not the barbaric traits which have been so freely ascribed by the "piebalds" to the Filipinos; they are a brave, generous people, kindhearted and intelligent, and capable of a high civilization. At the time of the great hurricane they risked their lives, and in some cases lost them, to save our drowning sailors. We can trust the present administration to conserve our interests in Samoa, and to prevent the German eagle from laying eggs in the American bird's nest.

Red Cross Aftermath

SINCE the January number went to press we have received supplementary reports from the Oregon Emergency Corps and Red Cross Society and from the Washington State Red Cross.

The Oregon Society announces the formation of a State Red Cross Association, with headquarters at Portland, and the following officers: President, Mrs. Henry E. Jones, Portland; First Vice-President, Mrs. Levi Young, Portland; Second Vice-President, Mrs. R. E. Bryan, Hillsboro; Secretary, Mrs. F. E. Lounsbury, Portland; Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Protzman, Portland; Honorary Vice- Presidents,— Mrs. Eleanor Warren, Weston; Mrs! S. J. Cleveland, Astoria; Mrs. A. Yer- ington, Eugene; Mrs. Mattie Oiler, Hood River; Mrs. J. A. Lowell, Pendleton; Mrs. Jennie Stanton, Roseburg.

In October four hundred dollars was cabled to Dr. Frances E. Woods, Oregon Red Cross Nurse No. 1, at Manila. Funds running low, a canvass was made and $2,000 raised in a few days. Six hundred dollars more was then sent for the sick of the Sec- ond Oregon Volunteers at Manila.

Total receipts to December 1st, $8,082.12; expenditures, $6,389. 54; balance, $1,692.58.

Over 950 Christmas boxes, weighing 36,433 pounds, were sent to Manila, most of the freight forwarded to San Francisco by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company free of charge. Colonel A. J. Coffey kindly attended to receipt and reshipment at San Francisco. More was to be sent on the Arizona by the kindness of her Captain, John Barneson.

The Relief Committee, among the families of soldiers, and the Hospital Committee, among the sick troops, had continued active work. The St. Vincent and Good Samaritan Hospitals, of Portland, had helped greatly. The Entertainment Committee had con- tinued its work among passing troops, and had entertained the California Volunteers at Vancouver barracks Avith a supper, and later at a Christmas dinner. The report, which is written by Mrs. Levi Young, closes hopefully: " In the grand summing up, may Oregon be found worthy of mention, for she hath done what she could."

Washington State Red Cross presents a heat pamphlet, giving its constitution and by-laws, and forms to be used by local so- cieties, and the officers of State and local societies. The State officers are: Mrs. John B. Allen, President, Seattle; Miss Marie Hewitt, Recording Secretary, Tacoma; Mrs. Everett Griggs, Assistant Recording Secre- tary, Tacoma; Mrs. Francis Rotch, Corre- sponding Secretary, Seattle; Miss Helen J. Cowie, Assistant Corresponding Secretary, Seattle; Miss Sadie Maynard, Treasurer, Tacoma; Miss Jessie Seymour, Assistant Treasurer, Tacoma; Vice-Presidents, — Mrs. Chauncey W. Griggs, Tacoma; Mrs. J. C. Haines, Seattle; Mrs. Virginia B. Hay ward, Spokane; Mrs. Lester S. Wilson, Walla Walla; Mrs. John C. Evans, New Whatcom.

There are auxiliaries in Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Walla Walla, Waitsburg, North Yakima, Whatcom, and Bellingham Bay, with Emergency Corps in several other towns, ready to affiliate.

Between five and six thousand dollars has been raised as Red Cross, and nearly as much more as Emergency Corps. Washing- ton was not organized as quickly as some States, but is thoroughly alive now, and more than ready to do her full share in future work.

The closing of the Red Cross Department in the Overland is not due to any slacken- ing of the work on the part of the Red Cross in any of its organizations, but only because the committee recognized the fact that the methods of the work are now so well known and the field so well covered throughout the Pacific Coast, that the future reports would be largely repetition.