made as hight at 7.50 per day and my wife $4 Sundays my sun
7.50 and my 2 oldes girls 1.25 but my regler wegers is 3.60 fore
8 hours work. me and my family makes one hundred three darlers
and 60 cents every ten days. it don cost no more to live here
than it do thir, except house rent i pay 12 a month fore rent
sence i have rote you everything look closely and tell me what
you think is best. i am able to farm without asking any man fore
enything on a credit i can not in joy this place let me tell you
this is a large place Say Jef thornton, and William Penn taken
dinner with us last Sunday and we taken a car ride over the city
in the evening we taken the town in and all so the great Jake
era. they left Sunday night for Akron. Allso Juf griear spent the
day with me few days ago give my love to all the Surounding
friends

By By

PHILADELPHIA, PA., Oct. 7, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ I take this method of thanking you for yours early
responding and the glorious effect of the treatment. Oh. I do
feel so fine. Dr. the treatment reach me almost ready to move I
am now housekeeping again I like it so much better than rooming.
Well Dr. with the aid of God I am making very good I make $75 per
month. I am carrying enough insurance to pay me $20 per week if I
am not able to be on duty. I don't have to work hard, dont have
to mister every little white boy comes along I havent heard a
white man call a colored a nigger you no now--since I been in the
state of Pa. I can ride in the electric street and steam cars any
where I get a seat. I dont care to mix with white what I mean I
am not crazy about being with white folks, but if I have to pay
the same fare I have learn to want the same acomidation. and if
you are first in a place here shoping you dont have to wait until
the white folks get thro tradeing yet amid all this I shall ever
love the good old South and I am praying that God may give every
well wisher a chance to be a man regardless of his color, and if
my going to the front would bring about such conditions I am
ready any day--well Dr. I dont want to worry you but read between
lines; and maybe you can see a little sense in my weak statement
the kids are in school every day I have only two and I gues