Your card duly received and we were all glad to hear from you, D. especially. Enclosed you will find a letter from her which she is very anxious for you to answer. Mrs. Pike and I both ordered books from Mr. McKnight at Columbus and are perfectly delighted with them. Mrs. Spahr has ordered one too. We are all about as usual, some three or four sick. We have fifty-two women at present. Hope you are well and prospering in the Lord's work. Will be pleased to hear from you often. With much love, I am sincerely yours, BELLE MAGEE, Matron State Penitentiary. * * * * * Pittsburg, Kan., April 18, 1898. My Dear Mother Wheaton: Your kind letter just received. God bless you for your kind, sympathetic heart. I have often thought of and prayed for you. I still feel that God will open the way for me to re-enter the prison work. I am trusting Him. He is my all and in all. I hear occasionally from the boys at Fort Madison. God has used you marvelously. May you be spared long to tell to those around what a dear Saviour you have found. Your son in the gospel, C. S. LASLETT, Former Chaplain Fort Madison, Iowa. Eph. 3:18-21. * * * * * Anamosa Penitentiary. Anamosa, Iowa, Oct. 5, 1899. Dear Mother Wheaton: At last we have your handkerchiefs finished, and can send to you. The girls did not get those tiny slippers finished in time to have them at the turnkey's office the evening before you went away, so will enclose them now. They are very small, but we know you will appreciate the motive rather than the result. They are all doing nicely and I feel quite encouraged with the present outlook. I trust that you are better and that your general health may remain good for years of usefulness yet in life. With best wishes from myself and my father, the Deputy Warden, I am sincerely yours, MRS. ANGIE M. WATERMAN, Matron. * * * * * Kansas State Penitentiary. Lansing, Kan., Oct. 5, 1899. Dear Mother Wheaton: