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some of them stated to me last night that they were affraid they could not keep the school up.  Business is very slack here and they say thy cant get any thing to do, and some of them keep their children at home because they are to poor to send them, and pay 10 cents a week for their schooling.  I think myself, that many of them are very destitute and that it is quite difficult for them to live, without paying anything for schooling, and many of them suffer at home for the want of the money which they use for the sake of sending their children to school.

I have to pay for my own washing and mending out of the 25 Dollars a month and have helped them to several things which was necessary for the advancement of the school, yet I fear the school will not last long, unless the Bureau does something more for them.  The disloyal people, are averse to the school, and many of them are doing all they can to break it up.  the majority of the people here, would be glad to see it closed, and some of them have threatened to mob me if I did not leave the place, tho no one has attempted it yet.