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headed "Earth's Holocaust" do do tell me what holocaust means. The author was a bystander the materials used for the flame were newspapers magazine badges of illustrious families & sovereignities, from the worm-eaten instrument signed by William the Conqueror down to Victoria. Time-honored rubish first - Purple robes, crowns, globes & scepters - rapidly came Father Mother's ? rolling over the prairie all the liquors of the world medicines burned save Homeopathy Politicians deprived of bread from loss of office threwin their teeth, being false Ladies flung in gowns & petticoats to assume the good manners duties offices etc. of the other sex. All weapons & munitions of war melted like wax. The greatest shout - when all instruments of death like the gallows become first black then a red coal, then ashes. Next came marriage ceremonies, bales of paper money & coin, day books, deeds, ledgers, libraries, the labor of lexicographers commentators encyclopedists poets, lastly the Bible, which instead of being blackened into tinder only assumed a more darrling whiteness. Mid the great conflagration, a dark visaged stranger exultingly said there is one thing forgotten without - which all is just nothing at all, though they burn the earth itself to a cinder, unless they burn the human heart it will be the old world still etc. etc, I cannot give you much idea of the play of the author's genius, but it was a splendid article. "O would the gift the giver gives us" etc. etc. then we'd pratice on the golden rule & be happy because better. I have thought of Bell in her loneliness. How does she like Minnesota? Anna dear writes me rather often she seems to have a desirable situation. You must write by littles at your quiet leisure & send me on the reception of this a closely filled sheet. Every city, neighborhood & home item. By the way your new house, I speak a room for me. My love to all ? friends & do favor me in my loneliness with an early reply.

                                                                                   With love yrs. Elizabeth Doe.