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The foregoing statements will give our readers a faint view only of the wonderful and useful life that Mrs. D. I. Hayden has lived for years among her people.

CHAPTER LX.

MRS. N. A. R. LESLIE.

Modest, zealous, aspiring and faithful to duty; economical and yet philanthropic; conservative and kind, are traits characteristic of this very devoted laborer in the cause of Afro-American education.

She was born in Amelia county, Va., and is the fourth daughter of Nannie and Charles P. Coles. She has taught school most of her life, beginning with the Eng-