note to go to the Goodyear Hotel.  I wrote to Matt and told her if she became the murderer of her child that a fearful judgement was in store for her.  I also wrote to Will and told him to marry Matt or I would expose him.  Will’s father got the letter, as it was directed to Medicine Lodge.  His father came down to see me, weeping as if his heart would break; told me of the trouble this boy had given him; said that he was preparing to marry another girl and could not marry Matt; but that he had forwarded the letter to Will, as he had gone to Wichita.  Will and Matt got their letters at the same time and were filled with terror.  Both came back to Medicine Lodge and in a few months poor Matt was the mother of a little girl.  Her mother, sent for me.  I stayed until the little angel died.  From the time Matt looked on the face of the little one she loved it with all the intensity of a true mother and grieved so when it died.  In a few hours I went to the grave-yard With the little coffin.  This Will or his father never spoke to me again.  He married the other girl.  In a few years father and son were both killed.  The sister of Will, who also treated me coldly, wrote me a letter and told me to tell Matt it would have been a blessing if he had married her.  That he loved her the best and that she felt quite differently towards me.

          Timelywarning to our girls and boys.

I was going down to a neighbor’s one dark night.  I heard voices, as if some parties were sitting by the roadside.  I went into the neighbor’s house and got a lantern.  I came up to these parties, they were a young man of Medicine Lodge and a young lady visiting there.  I told them that such actions would lead to mischief.  Told the young boy to act towards a girl as he would wish his sister treated.  Told the girl that ruin would be her fate and she hid her face and soon both of them ran down the alley.  I knew they would think that I would expose them, so I wrote a letter to the young man and told him the injustice to himself and the girl, that would follow such actions, told him that no one would hear it from me.  That it was not my desire to expose them only to warn and prevent trouble.  That young man is in Medicine Lodge now and is a good friend of mine.

I often see actions, especially with the young, that I know will end in heartaches and woes.  I get these parties out of hearing of others and speak to them.  So often in traveling I see silly girls being led astray by men who for a vile purpose will fawn and flatter.  I never let such a thing pass my eye now without a little wholesome condemnation:  “Thou shall not in any wise suffer sin upon thy brother but shall rebuke him.”

          Someof my trials with Mr. Brubaker of Peoria.