Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-13
UTAH AND THE MORMONS.

COnGreqdtiOnalist as follows: Several days late
! ly spent by the writer in Salt Lake have al
forded fresh and interesting view of the mat
ter as it appears from this standpoint OF the
Mormon Mecca At the Sunday service. the
| tabernacle, which will seat 13,OOO when filled,
was not occupied at all in the galleries. though
they were formerly well filled. The addresses
were shaped especially for the benefit of the
nom Mormon hearers, of whom there must
have been at least 200 present, seated in front,
| by themselves, as usual. One of the speakers,
| the Superintendent of Mormon schools for the
county, argued at great length the reasonable
ness of a new revelation to Joseph Smith, and
both the addresses had about them good deal
of the assumption that the doctrines preached
must be true, because /, the speaker say so.
| The praying was, to very large extent, slml-
lar to that in evangelical churches, though there
was once or twice more direct supplication
that all the world may be converted to Nor
monism. The (Mormons) men and women,
were seated to themselves, and the babies and
| little children, of whom there were good
number present, cried vigorously, keeping up,
sometimes, a sharp competition with the choir
| Bread and water are distributed to the entire
congregation every Sabbath as communion
service, those who do the preaching stopping
to allow the announcements and the short
prayers, but going forward with their address,
rs while the elements are being distributed.
On Sabbath mornings Mormon Sabbath-schools
are held in all the ward schOol-houses OF the
city, and the same buildings are used for local
meetings in theevening Since the passage of
the Edmunds bill, the Mormons are somewhat
more reserved in their intercourse with others,
though heretofore they have done their trading
almost wholly at shops kept by their own peO-
ple The non-Mormon population OF the city
is between four and five thousand. out of
twenty thousand in all, with Congregational,
Presbyterian, Methodist and two Episcopal
churches. 1t is a mistake to suppose that po-
lygamy, as bad as it is, is the worst and most
dangerous feature of the Mormon church.
The offense is one of which only about one
tenth part of the people are guilty. The in
fallibilty accorded to the Mormon church and
it's priesthood, is the thing most to be feared
and hardest to uproot; and polygamy rests
upon this. A lady of our party meeting
married daughter of Brigham Young, drew
from her the frank statement: that, like other
women, she should shrink instinctively from
such step as her husbands taking a second
wife, but added that she should submit with
out protest, as the church requires it. Herels
the keynote to this bondage of pOlygamy, but
contact with the outside world is beginning to
he felt, and polygamy is looked on with de-
creasing disfavor among the young people, as
GOOD MANNERs.-Genuin politeness is
delightful qualification, and one well worth
cultivating. All cannot possess it in the very
highest degree because it is natural gift, but
all are capable Of attaining to something not far
removed from perfection. We may say, how
ever, that there are two kinds of politeness
the natural and the artificial. The natural is
the peculiar gift of the well-bOrn. 1t is, so to
speak, part of their patrimony or real estate,
and is entitled upon them by birth. To this
class of persons polteness is no effort 1t is'
as before stated, natural and inherent. Now,
the generality of people cannot be said to pos
sess that quality naturally. To those it IS the
result of training, and, like other things, must
be obtained by instruction, and by the obser-
vance and imitation OF good models. we
purpose to give few general hints as to what
is required for foundation before the en-
deavor to attain to this quality is commenced.
Good temper is absolutely necessary. With
out this, little or nothing. can be done; but
with it and moderately good understand
ing. applied conscientiously to the purpose,
success is pretty certain. Presence of mind
| is also essential, so that one is not taken by
surprise, and thus answer unthinkingly. Have
| all your energies, your powers of speech, at
your command, and be able to engage in gay
and sprightly conversation without overstep-
ping the bounds of prOpriety. When you can
do this you are making rapid progress in your
study Joined to presence of mind, you should
have a quick sense of propriety. When you
are about to speak, think; and if your words
would be likely to hurt the feelings of any one
present, even in the slightest degree; If they
might cause a reticent nature one pang, they
should be left unspoken. 1t is always impo-
lite to hurt by our manner OF speech the feel
ings or passions of those with whom we con-
verse. This rule holds good in all classes OF
society-is subject to no exception.
How LONG BEES thought would
satisfy myself in regard to the life of the bee
in the height of the working season. l had
stand of the little black bees of the genuine
stingers, and on the morning of May 30 killed
the queen, and by carefully looking through
their hive found one black drOne and deS-
troyed that in the evening Of the same day
| put in a cell fora yellow queen on the second
of June. She was Matched out, and there were
a few yellow bees in the hive on the 3Oth, in
Just twenty-one days from the time the eggs
were deposited. On July 7, a few yellow bees
were to he seen playing around the hive, and
on the 18th day of July, just fourteen days
from the time the yellow bees were hatched
out, a few were seen at work with the black
bees Now any one can see that if the yellow
bees hatched in twenty lone days, the last black
bees were all out by the thirtieth of June, and
if the yellow bees went to work on the twelfth
of July, the last of the black bees must have
gone to work on the fourth of July, making
fourteen days from the time they were hatched,
unless one will 60 to work sooner than the
other. This stand contained nothing but
black bees when the black queen was destroyed,
on the eighteenth of July. Just forty-nine days
from the time the black queen was destroyed,
there was not a black bee to be seen about the
hive. I opened it. Not one was to be seen
inside Now l know that bees will live longer
at any other season Of the year, and thought
this would be a good chance to test the height
of the working season. The hive was exam-
ined every day during the whole time, SO that
no mistaFe might be made. From this it Will
he seen that the life time of the honey-Dee, IN
the busiest working season, is but four weeks
or twenty-eight days.
WHY 1900 Is Not LEAP 1ear.-The year
1900, although it is divisible by four without
remainder, is not Il leap year, and 1t comes
about in this way: Under the ''Julian period,
the solar year was considered to consist OF
365 DAYS and quarter of day but as the
actual or civil year could not be made to iu-
cude a quarter of day, all additional day
was inserted in the calendar every fourth
year to make up four lost quarters, and this
is the 10Th Of February But the Julian meth
cd of intercalulatiOn made the year too long
by eleven minutes and ten and one-third Sec
onds. This put the calendar ahead of solar
time one day in 129 years ; so to balance this,
in the adjustment of the calendar known as
the ''Gregorian," after Pope Gregory NIII,
now universally adopted in Christian countries
except Russia, one of the leap years is drop
ped at the close of every century, except when