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one. After being stuffed, it will be sent to Boston. A lady 
from Maine, who has been located on the hill west of us for a 
week or two, calls to say they have concluded to leave Kansas. 
Her husband is much pleased with the country, but the mills do 
not supply all the lumber people want just now, and he thinks he 
can’t wait. A good deal of lumber has been sawed, but as we 
remember that the claims for ten miles around Lawrence are all 
taken, and that they depend upon the mill here for lumber, we 
can easily see that there must be a scarcity, and that each person 
must be content with little for the time being. 
13 th.- —I attended a Sabbath school to-day, four miles out on 
the California road. There were quite a number of children pres¬ 
ent, with some older persons. Some little English girls were very 
bright and interesting. The family at whose house the school was 
held are from Ohio. They are such good people that one feels 
it in their presence, and sincerity and unselfishness are manifested 
in their actions. They have long been earnest workers in the 
cause of humanity— have “fed the hungry, clothed the naked,” 
and given the “ cup of cold water ” to the fainting soul. I at¬ 
tempted to hear a class of girls, whose ages varied from fourteen 
to eighteen, recite. They were all from the West, and mostly from 
Missouri. Sor^e of them were bright, quick girls, but with one 
or two I puzzled my brain to know how to ask questions simply 
enough to be understood. They had no ideas of their own exist¬ 
ence or of God. 
14^. — The thunder roils in deafening peals, reverberating 
across the hills, and the lightnings are one continual Hash. There 
is not a moment that the forked, angry lightnings do not dart 
chain-like in every and all directions, making the whole country 
as light as noon-day. Objects miles distant are as clearly seen 
as by the sun’s light. The rains come down a pouring, tumultu¬ 
ous flood, and the winds blow wildly, threatening to overturn 
everything before them. The house being so unfinished, the 
saddle-boards not yet on the roof, the staging still standing 
around it, with crockery covering tables in the dining-room, and 
no back door, my presence was needed in several places at the 
same moment. While attempting to move my bed so the rains 
