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now, before the thousands of M?ineys? & Sthe?, degraded ~ ignorant~sensual should outnumber out vote out influence there and this village. It was comparatively easy to start things right here now. What would it be when in a few years there were four or five thousand souls here. He said as the storm prevented others? he was talking only to menfolks; and he told them their duty pretty plainly I thought. They must have cold times at Dunbarton this winter. I pity the old horse. Perhaps though your father allows him a blanket when it is so very cold. Are you not glad you live in a more genial climate? Do you not wish you lived still further south say here. I do think Ettie, that this right here is about the finest climate I have ever known anything about. It is incomparably so for nine months in the year say from Oct. 1st to June 1st, and usually perhaps half the rest of the time. There is one exception, though to the winter ~the mud, ~that however is probably no means as bad as in Ohio. There is nothing quite equal to the warm rich sunny haze of the winter days here. The New England Indian Summer weather is only an imitation of it. It is weather with which both 'Waubun' and Shawandasee' might be satisfied see Hiawatha. Merrick Brigham at Bloomington. What is his business? Address &c.? I go to see him? Perhaps Uncle Elmer call at Elyria on his way out. Of course he can ~and must ~write and tell him so. Exactly on the main best through route. Great Lake Shore Line ~most convenient stopping place on it; through tickets ~stop over,