already understand the nature of the devotion of tile Sacred Heart. To propagate it we have laid the foundations of several societies, of which all tile most virtuous men, wo men and young people have become members. Victor, the great chief, is prefect of one of these associations, and Agnes, his wife, is president of another. They were not elected through any deference for their dignity or birth, but solely on account of their great personal merits. A fact which proves that tile Flatheads regard merit more than rank is, that the place of great chief becoming vacant by the death of Peter, they chose for his successor tile chief of the men's society, and for no other reason did lie obtain this high dignity than for the noble qualities, both of heart and head, which they all thought he possessed. Every night and morning, when all is quiet in the camp, he harangues the people; the subject of his discourse being principally a repetition of what the Black-robes have said before. This good chief walks faithfully in the footsteps of his predecessor, which is no slight praise. This last, who was baptized at the age of eighty, and admitted to communion in his eighty-second year, was the first to deserve this double favor, more on account of his virtue than his years. The day of his baptism he said to me, " If during my life I have committed faults they were those of ignorance; it appears to tile that I never did anything, knowing it to be wrong." At the time of his first communion, which preceded his death but a few days, having been asked if he had not some faults with which to reproach himself since his baptism - " Faults," lie replied, with surprise, " how could I ever commit any, I whose duty it is to teach others how to do good? " He was buried in the red drapery he was accustomed to hang out on Sunday to announce that it was the day of tile Lord. Alphonsus in the prime of youth soon followed him. He said to me on the day of his baptism: " I dread so much offending again the Great Spirit, that I beg of him to grant me the grace to die