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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
--OF THE--
Nebraska Yearly Meeting
--or--
Freewill Baptists.

A. D. WILLIAMS. D. D., Chairman, Kenesaw,
Rev. EDWARD ROOT, Assistant, Weeping Water,
G. W. KNAPP, B. D. See. and Treas. Kenesaw.
Rev. WM. MARKS. Hon. B. F. ISAMAN.

--OFFICE OF--

THE WESTERN FREE BAPTIST.

Kenesaw, Nebraska, Feb. 26 1887

Prof. Bessey:-

Dear Sir,

If the enclosed clips
[?]ing represents you correctly, I fear
you are laboring under some mistake.
There are two distinct "works"
here, each frequently called " Tumble
Weed", but I believe neither of them
are the Amarantus alba.

Yours very truly,

A. D. Williams.

TUMBLE WEED.--A common Eastern weed, according to Prof. C. E. Bessey, is modified by climate on the Western plains and prairies into a compact plant, whose stout, curving branches give it an approximately spherical form, and which is called "tumble-weed" from the fact that when the stem is broken near the ground by the Autumn gales the upper part goes rolling and tumbling before the wind, often for miles. In the East the species Amarantus albus [italicized], is a straggling herb, remaining rooted long after its death at the close of the season.