The last season here was a bad crop season. Tho there is a plentiful support for the country, there is not much of a surpluss of any kind of produce. I have not seen Brother William for the Past three months he was tolerably well. William T. Scott I am sorry to say that I do not think that there is a triflinger creature upon the face of the earth. I have taken some pains to counsel and reclaim him but you might just as well reason to a stump or advise Satan to become a saint.
Times are yet hard here tho easier than one two and three years past.
We owe some yet toward some of our land but if we can have one good crop season we will not have to say so this time next year. We are doing well as any person here. We have all the property that we now need. We have thirty eight acres in wheat. The great chase that seems to be going on all over the globe in every order from the most diminutive of the animal creation through every grade up to man for the mastery and presence over each other is a good stumbling stone to me when contemplating the benificense of the adorable Diety.