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plexed, troubled in many ways. The small minority who go with him - of his church, are trying to build a meeting house, so he gives up all salary- for the present, they have been much tried, are really worthy conscientious people with as few failings perhaps as the generality of people; I have no fears of getting my pay sometimes: - there are people here that have known them more than twenty years. Doubtless I shall explore some new field next fall, what, and where I do not know. Last week I took a trip to Chicago, a city in Illinois 60 miles from this of 30 thousand people where fifteen years ago there was not a house: the man lives here who built the post house a Capt. in M.S. services have command at the fort there. It is a city on the edge of a large prairie, built on both sides of a river for a mile and a half, also on the shore of the lake, very low as flat as a table; there can be no cellars in the place for two feet below the surface it is all water which rests on a firm bed of clay. It is muddy, filthy, unpleasant in appearance but full of business, all sorts of enterprise - the greatest wheat market in the world. Mr. Hopkins went to attend a convention I went with him ostensibly for the pleasure of the excursion but I wanted to find out what prospect I might have there to teach: one of our teachers is there in a private school, she thinks I could succeed well to open a school there talks some of returning herself if she does I can have her school, she makes more than I do