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cold, and he is in a little “ snake ” cabin, where the wind creeps 
in at every crevice, playing hide-and-seek with the papers pasted 
on the walls. The house has but one room, beside a little attL, 
which is used for kitchen, dining-room, bed-room, sick-room, and 
general receiving-room. Worn out with Mr. C.’s long illness, and 
that of her little daughter, the lady, who has watched over him 
with a mother’s gentleness, is also ill. I send to Mr. G. to come 
to our house if he can be brought; and soon a carriage drives up 
with the shadow, pale and ethereal, which sickness has left of Mr. 
0., wrapped up in coats to the number of three, with comforters 
and other articles to keep the cold from striking his attenuated 
frame. He says, in his own peculiar way, “ I thought, Mrs. K., 
I would never be here again; but it is delightful, and I feel better 
now.” 
The sun was shining pleasantly in at the windows, the fire was 
crackling in the stove, spreading a genial w r armth throughout the 
room, and, seated in the nice large rocker drawn up before it, Mr. 
C. could look out upon the beautiful country miles east and south, 
and, in his enthusiastic love of nature, would forget his own ills. 
It was pleasant to see the effect of physical comfort. Now, with 
outward cheerfulness, came inner strength and courage. Naturally 
of very slender constitution, with too much mental power for the 
physical, with energy and inherent love for freedom and justice, 
Mr. C. has, in working for the cause here, gone beyond his 
strength, and pays the penalty in a wasted frame and general 
prostration. There has been a good deal of sickness in the coun¬ 
try this fall, — slow fever and chills. They prevail mostly in the 
low grounds near the rivers. We hear from some settlements, 
especially from those south on the Neosho, that sickness has laid 
its heavy hand on the strongest, and scarcely any have escaped 
the paralyzing blow. So far as we can learn, exposures, either 
necessary or unavoidable, have been the cause. 
The colony at Hampden has suffered most deplorably. The 
facts, as given me by one of the residents, are these : There were 
one hundred members of the colony, men, women and children, 
when they arrived in the territory. When the town site was laid 
off, there were over sixty men to receive their apportionment of 
