
          about the future prospects 
of the concern. The people attached 
to it think that it must go on, 
but outsiders think that the 
legislature will not appropriate. 
The Democratic papers run it 
down. The past management gives 
them plenty of capital & the chief 
trouble about their charges is that 
they are true. On the other hand 
the Republican papers say but 
little in its favor. It is a one 
horse concern anyway. You 
may think it queer that I mention 
politics as associated with a 
college, but politics pervade everything 
here. It breaks up families 
& people dont visit their neighbors 
if they go to "tother [the other] church."

It may be that the ague hints 
make me a little snarly, so I'll 
stop. I only heartily wish I was 
out of it.

As ever truly 
George Thurber
        