214 E+ah Sunday December 6, 1914. Clear and pleasant with it's breeze. +2° Jerome got up very early and started the engine. This was the first opportunity we have had for a run in the past few weeks. I suppose that the bat- terin felt the need of a little bracer after this starva- tion. They are a great help and we do not half appreciate our light until we get in to the house and have to put up with the dim and wretchedly sm- lude lamps x After a walk up the road I went to the house and cleaned up for dinner x The meal was, as is usu- al with these Sunday affairs, a feast. About seven o'clock Jerome by train went to the island for the night while I remained at Etah in order to make a supply of bread. Elk and his camping pals arrived at nine. Butte had left them at Cape Parry having sent a note to me con- cerning the trip to Hennipit x Peter's household broke this year ice and everything as it was wet. 150 lbs of sugar for us was spilt and a bundle of sweaters and shirts was so wet that the colored yarnes ran x According to Peter England, France and Russia have decided to back Japan against the U.S. (I do not believe that), Secretary Bryan has resigned, an army of 300,000 volunteers was raised in two weeks, and the Mexican rebels have combined with the revolutionists to clean up the U.S. ! !! I ha heard pity bad but I suspect that Peter's feeling against th is true in the [illegible]