The Mena weekly star., 1909-07-08
CHAPTER XIX. Extract from 2 Letter,

From Mrs Rebecca Winter to Mrs John s. c. Winslow.
 Fairport. la.
 And it was delightful to discover that you were so distressed about me. l must be getting a trlfle maudlin fin my old age, for l have a lump in my throat every time I have thought of Johnny and you actually starting out to find me: am thankful my tele- gram (Please. Peggy. do not call 1t a wire again-to me! loathe these verbal indolences) reached you at Omaha in time to stop you.
 Really, we have not had hardships. Thanks to Israel Putnam Arnold! I have very admiring gratitude for that man. Tn these day of degener- acy he builded a stanCl enduring house. With union labor. tool don't see how he contrived to do it. Generally, when they build houses here. they scamp the underpinning and weaken the joists and paint over the dirt instead of washing 1t of; and otherwise deserve to be killed. The unfortunate man opposite had just that kind of house, which tumbled down and burned up, at once; but, alasl 1t killed some of the people in l.. not the guilty masons and carpen- ,prs!
 Our chimneys have been inspected
 un . actually sound; but we did not suffer. We cooked out on the sidewalk, and supplemented cur cooking with young Tracy's stove.
 told you of Janet's engagement. Conndantially, my dear Peggy, l am bit responsible. They met by chance on the train; and l assure you, al though .hance might have parted us, did not let it. clung to Nephew BertIe. .'Ll sure he wondered why knew bottsr than to let him suspect But succesA you can't share is Ike rose without a smell So l confess to you have made this match. But vhen yor see Miliicent she will tell you that she helped things along She has abused Janet like pickpocket' but now. since she has discovered Janet didn't draw the Daughters carl ca,ure of her. she regards her as one of the gems of the century
 We are recovering from the terri hIa events of which we wrote. It IS certainly relief that Atkins is killed ue was one of the two scoundrels who sneaked into the patio and put the bombs into the automobile. ber'is shot him. You have no doubt heard ou ahout Mir. Keatcham's death. He was killed by the man whose wicAeo mega he had unconsciously fostereo uo did not know 1t, but l make ho ao,h, his swollen fortune and the un- scrunulous daring of it's acquiring ha" great influence in corruptins ms secretary. s.ar,s
 And his corruption was his master s..s undoing I must say sympa'nl.o w,th young Tracy, who said last nieht. CT Seel as if I had been put 10 soah ,o crlnai That bomb was the iiniit' In future. me for the common or sss dan virtue: it may be tame. but pre- fer tameness to dellrium tremens
 used to think that should M nSe .o watch my wits against a first ciaSs or,n,lnal intellect; God forgive me ioi ,ha wtshi I have been matching WIS for the last month; and never puss,ae .sn'e m my shoes without looking ID .ns,~ .,,',., sn sa. . hahv bomblet or feeling a twihks o, w indigestion without darkly suspect ,pn M ,he cook-who is really the oess 'ns "rsatnre in the world. sent MT. Arho,g M by a good Chinese friend oi ,a ni'as' .s r'S had n chance to do 8 good turn " ..s s,, nsa .s sv ,bs uar during the eaIsa