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most singular of all to be a stranger in one’s father’s house, where 
the countenances of the youngest of 'the flock are unfamiliar. 
Mrs. B. is a person, the very first impression of whom will 
be that of her superiority, both mentally and morally, over most 
others; and we feel that if the mother in this Indian country must 
commit her child to another’s care, she acted wisely in giving it to 
her charge. Mrs. B. is seeking the boon of health in this 
change of residence. 
13 tk. — One day here is like every other, save in an occasional 
change of faces around us, as the new comers arrive to take the 
places of others just leaving. We wrote, read, and walked out 
into the woods, or took a longer walk upon the prairie. The 
woods near here were full of gooseberries and grape vines. Bit¬ 
ter-sweet and running roses wound their tendrils upon the branches, 
and climbed high among the trees. The red berries of the bitter¬ 
sweet were still hanging on the vines. We have tried to call upon 
an Indian family to-day. We followed the trail through the woods, 
succeeded in getting over a high fence which enclosed a large cul¬ 
tivated field in which the house stands, but found no one at home. 
14:tk .— We have been expecting the doctor to-day to take us to 
Lawrence. After such a journey as this, westward, one will be content 
with bare comforts, and humble abodes, where there is quiet, and one 
feels it is really home. There is truly “ no place like home.” At 
evening some gentlemen, in from Lawrence, reported our house cut 
down, and the workmen ordered to stop building, by Dr. Wood, a 
man notorious for the disturbances he has occasioned in Lawrence. 
15th. — Doctor arrived at the mission in the early evening, and 
corroborates the statement of the others. During his temporary 
absence from Lawrence, on the 13th, Dr. Wood and other choice 
spirits, armed with revolvers, went up to the house, and, after com¬ 
manding the workmen to leave, commenced to cut off the timbers 
with an axe. The workmen, save the gentleman who had the 
work in charge, ceased their labor, saying they would do so until 
the doctor’s return. These pro-slavery men were determined he 
should have no house there, although, for a long time, he had held 
the claim by another building; but, in his absence from the terri¬ 
tory, one of these men attempted to “jump the claim.” The next 
