Oq • • • I enclose you a check for $15.00 which will put you 

 straight until Nellie is ready to send you money ... I am 

 on a half salary now & hardly know how things are going to 

 turn out. No news yet from New York. I think Nellie can 

 carry you through & I have relegated you to her for the pres- 

 ent. I intended sending you your report which is excellent. 

 You scored a "1" all around. If you could win a prize of $ 5 0.00 

 you could enter Chicago university & work your way through 

 a postgraduate course. I had a talk with Dr Harper on the 

 subject. He says there are many ways a young man can get 

 through there. A special course in Biology & Chemistry would 

 be splendid if it can be managed. 



Nellie & Grace have gone back to work. . . . 



Yesterday Ray Henry, Willie Worf & young Pixley ran 

 away taking money from their parents. They are going to 

 Texas & thence to Cuba. If they can be of any use there, they 

 had better go. We will hardly miss them here, unless that the 

 mischief they have been doing will cease to exist. . . . 



Against the general depression, there always stood Grace's 

 buoyancy. This is an example: 



... I hope for Papa's sake that the Board will send him, as I 

 don't think he will be content anywhere else. I don't think 

 we need worry though; as long as we can buy a barrel of flour 

 we won't starve. If Papa does not get anything to do we can 

 all pitch in & do a little anyway. I think we ought all to try & 

 work this summer don't you? Don't tell Papa this, but if he 

 has nothing better to do by June, Alf & I will get married 

 & instead of going to housekeeping will pay them $40.00 a 

 month for board & that will help out quite a little. . . . Oh, 

 we will get along all right so don't worry; we can dig in a 

 sewer if we can't do anything better!!! So tra la & good- 

 bye. . . . 



In March, the father sent this wise advice to his son. The 

 instance needs recording, for whatever the mentally atrophy- 

 ing effects of father's religious dogmatisms, they were offset 

 by such stimulants as this. Ignorant of the self-disciplines con- 

 tained in the boy's reclaimed ledger, the father wrote: 



I am forwarding some pamphlets from Washington. ... I 



