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coming directly home, not carousing around in the streets as many of his age do in Cities, Chicago is not behind in this point, it is noted for its great numbers of children many of them bad ones too - Very little or no desire to go to places of amusements -- but lectures and such things wide awake to -- he detests Tobacco in any way (I must throw in my opinion that it not a damper on any young mans character yet as I tell brother Tom it may have a tendency to lead to other habits deleterious to them) by the way Tom both smokes and chews --. Gabling as we learn from various ways is the chief enjoyment - employment I should have said of a great majority that have gone there men after toiling hard for months will go to San Francisco or Sacramento and there loose their all -- we have no apprehension for he would be fearful he would be, looser -- "From misty morn to dusky eve," work, work, try, try again and like the poor Swiss boy who through the Alpine village passed bearing Excellsior on his banner -- he too has climd the rugged height of the Sirria Nevada Mountains, Exsellsior written on his track -- He has left Nevada by this time -- his intentions