The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-06-27

Wlen man uOeS us uuCy ." r. -,
family, there can reasonably DO Dut httle
complaint on the part oil any sens'oie "o-
man.
A man may be good end industrious, may
be an excellent mechanic ana IN many th'hgs
dilligent man, as is the case with num-
ber with whom am acquainted, yet to go
his house and ask, shave you Pig IN your
pen?n "No, have nothing to Iced pig
with. cannot keep one." Sit down to his
table and he has not mouthtul OF meat
from one weeks end to weeks end. unless
he buys little. "Have you cow?" "No
| have nothing to feed cow; l cannot
hire PASTURE and were l to hire one driv-
en- to grass as far as the herd boys go, she
would not give milk enough to pay the herd
bill" | have been in worse places than this
and kept cow.
l have taught the brethren how to live
upon less thar $4, Ss3 or even So a day tor
the support of small family, and when
men complain that they live here upon bread
alone, they do not reflect, as is their impera-
tive duty, that they do not know how to pro-
vide for themselves. Years pass away, one
after another, and see more and more that
there are but very few men and women
that reeven capable Of taking care OF them
selves temporarily.
HARD BREAD AND ILL-BREEDING.
You will see women, if their husbands
have got fifty cents, who must buy crackers
with it, or something ce. Johnny, Susan,
Betsy and Billy come along and want
cracker, and the first you know the crackers
are all in the hands of the children, who
are out of doors playing with them, break
ing them up, wasting and scattering them
| abroad. will leave it to you, sisters, 1t
some of you do not act in this manner
When children crumble up the bread, what
do you do with it? You throw it into the fire.
learned my wife in the first place what the
swill-pail was made for, and said to her, do
not let one crumb or kernel of anything be
wasted, but put it into the swill-pail, and
when night came | had something to feed
the tdg With. But often out of doors go the
pieces of brad and meat, or if half gull OF
corn should he Oh tAe floor, it is swept out
of doors, OF more frequsa4ly into the tire to
be wasted.
WHAT THE SAINTS COULD DO If THEY KEW
HOW.
1t is just so with some people here. Ev-
cry facility is in the possession of this peo-
pie for living in the very best manner, if they
would only learn how and practice upon that
knowledge. How muei, DO yen have to pay
for your cows running on the range, or for
the use of lot? Nothing. How much
rent do you pay for your land ? Not any.
What hinders you from raising something
to feed COW? Nothing. Who hinders
you from planting your garden with corn,
and saving the suckers and tho fodder =
Who hinders you from raising carrots, par
ships, squaslles, &C., to feed a cow with
through the winter? This you can do on
littie more than quarter of an acre but
will you do it? No, many of you will not.
Does any one hinder you? No, and yet
some of you complain tlst yo4 live poorly,
and lay the blame upon me aid Bro. Elm
ball and Bro. Wells and those meI who Glc=
tate the public works.
We pay the public hands higher wages
thas, they earn, and if they are obliged to
live On bs;eed alone from day to day, it is for
want Of ECONOMY and proper management
Am to blame2 &c. VIII l milk your
COWS for you? No. Viii hwy butter for
YOU? No. We will give 'yoI ali thatt is
bropght in on tithing, and when We haze
done that you may calculate to do without
or make your own butter. l know families
that milk one COW for eight or ten in the
family, aEd yet have butter Oh the table all
the time sRd occasionally sell little
Others have six or Aglt cows and seldom
have any butter in the hoaAe; they do not
take care of what they have.
asked Esquire Walker why he aia not
put good floor in his house and put some
windows in He replied: 81 have been
thinking ! would for several years. Friend
Young haze o good deal of money and
property OH haad, ~i4G ! think of going to
Nauvoo to invest seyera, A12qsand dollars"
state this to show you that soIn1 PEOPLE do
not know what to do with what thsy L&ye.
You may see some little girls around the
stsacts with their mothers skirts on or their
Your husband. Gay you calico, but you do
not know what to &C with it. 1t is to be
carefully worn until the last Thread il worn
out, and then put into the rag bag to I0ake
paper with.
BRIGHAMS TONsORIAL AND PEDAL ECONOMY.
Some men do not know what to do with
their means. You may take the poorest me-
chanic here. and Cne who has nothing but
bread to eat, and you may see him paying
half dollar or dollar for a neal of victuals
at the Globe. You may see Che barber shops
crowded with our poor mechanics, who pay
from three to five dollars a quarter for being
shaved. | bought a razor when [ began to
shave, that cost 81 cents, and used it for
fifteen years. Some black their boots so
that they will not last more than two or
three months. keep my boots we'll oiled
| wear them two or three years, and then give
them to the poor.
Nearly al! who grumble about their poor
and scanty fare, would be rich if they only
did as / do. Take care Of your articles of
food, Of your clothing, of your boots and
hats, and you will have plenty. And let the
women take care of what is taken into the
house. If you do not 60 now and prepare
for the day of trouble, you will be sorry, and
will lament and mourn.
MILLENNIUM C2MING--IF THE COMET DON'T
ARRIVE FIRST.
/ now want 20 tell you the feeling Cf seve-
raj in this community: 81 do not want to
build good house, because l si,aI, have to
move away by and bye; our enemies will
come and possess it. l do not want to lay
up corn, because our enemies will come and
take from me-" If this people will do as
they are told, will live in their religion, walk
humbly before their God, snd deal justly
with each other, we will make you One pro-
mise in the name of Israel's God, that you
will never be driven from these mountains.
AGd instead of mobs coming here to break
open yoar granaries, they will come to this
people bringing their gold and their silver
and their fine things, ss.d plead with them
for something to eat.
told you last Sabbath that if this people
had not stepped forward to help the poor last
fall, you would have seen harder times in
1857 than you did in 1855 and 1856.
Let us keep in favor of the Lord and be
his friends, live 20 cur covenants, love the
Lord and walk uprightly ia all oyr acts and
dealings, so that we will not be afraid to
have them scanned by the Lord and his an