[excerpt] [2]…I often wonder why some people were ever permitted to be born into the world. They never seem to have a kind thought or do a good act. Their lives are all wrong. Why did a good God create so much evil and so little that is really good in the human race? For a great many years my life was almost blasted by the loss of my friends, so many of them called at once was a great shock to me, but as the years come and go I have learned to live again for others, and to feel that it is good to have known such as they were, even if they are lost, for a time… [excerpt] [4] I was greatly rejoiced with the result of the recent Presidential election, as I do not think we have outgrown the Republican party yet. It is too soon to cast aside the veterans who saved the Union, and give a revengeful and half conceived foe the opportunity to govern us, even when they are sugar coated with Temperance. I believe in Prohibition principles, but not in the party. They offered to sell themselves too cheap, for a little political power, to suit me. I have never found that temperance organizations could be trusted very far. It is a subject that you can never be quite sure that your best friend will not turn traitor [inserted: to] and disappoint you on...