Show AN explanation springville SPRING VILLE june in a letter of mine hastily complied ed altogether from memory of letters ot of my son on charles D evans jr his tat let term being two miles mile distant at ache be time in the custody of his hi wife air error occurs which inadvertently oon con voys the idea that the climate oil mate of the tb southern states engenders disease and 1 that few elders elden return without some ista kne justice to the facto demand that I 1 should state that the error ardem aro in making an application of his red f marks which I 1 had find on close ex arnina aioo tio a refer altogether to a certain loozl locality to the climate in general genera the president of the southern states matt mla sion alon in a letter addressed to my son BOA 1 under date of may corrects my ray statements thus for which he has nay my warmest thanks in examining the records we find the names of eight hundred and sixty who have been bee 31 and are now no laboring in the southern Seu thern states slates mission and out of that number eight deatha four from natural causes and four martyred me marty arty red do you not think this a wonderful on record re I 1 beg mr editor to assume the entire responsibility of my own mistake iu as it was an error in memorizing my son ons phraseology A most cursory glance at my letter will show that climate is not treated by me topically but mentioned merely incidentally in common with the general narrative of travel etc I 1 further state that in nearly all of my sonis son Is letters he speaks in the highest terms of prates of the hospitality of the people of the southern states be never having passed a single nigh t in the open air nor having pone gone without a single meal yours CHARLES D EVANS |