The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-16

age, and one of them was placed IL
charge other aunt, q Mormon devotee
who took her of to dwell in the regior
where the refugees had found Their
Canaan.
| She well remembers the three
months journey from Council Bluff
in an ox-cart and the songs of the
saints when the salt Lake scenes burst
upon their vision. The father soou
followed with the rest of the family
and they were all speedily absorbed
into the Mormon community of Salt
Lake City.
One daughter, whom the interest OF
this narrative now follows, became 10
her sixteenth year beautiful and we'll
developed maiden. That. I believe,
is rather an advanced age for even an
attractive Mormon girl 10 reach with
out being "sealed. if not married; bit
in fact. this little English woman,
though strictly trained in the faith,
had made up her mind that she would
never marry a married man. The
farthst she could consent to 20 would
be not to resist husbands further
marriage, should he desire such. But
she was in no hurry to be married
and even required that Der "sealing'
should be preceded by some of that
romance which the elders call "infatua.
ton" One might imagine that in
the Utah of thirty years ago it would
have been unlikely that any fit prince
would penetrate the plains and dis.
cover this Dornroechen of Deseret.
Yet he came and a story of strange
wanderings lay behind him also. He
was a London boy. born ust fifty
years ago, whose sole inheritance was q
fair education and fine enthusiasm.
Possessed with lougings to see classic
lands, he apprenticed himself as q
sailor. and managed to see great
deal of the eastern world, but at
length he had to serve out the rem
nant of his apprenticeship under q
ship chandler at Hull.
This was dismal drudgery for q
youth with mental horizon. While
dragging his truck, laden with ship
stores, to the docks one day, he there
saw a man preaching ON the wharf to
small group, and paused to listen.
1t was a Mormon missionary; not only
was he a man of talent, but he had
tidiDgs for a poor dreaming drudge
more substantial than those commonly
brought by peripatetic preachers.
He told those toilers beside tie
rough north seas of land to which
he would lead them, where beyond q
western wilderness and a western
Jordan the emile of Paradise was re-
newed and any eye that has rested
upon the scene that opened on mine
that day-the vast foreground of fruit.
full fields of waving corn, the gold-dap-
pied meadows stretching to the blue
waters of an inland sea, mirror OF tint.
ed clouds and many-colored noun.
tains, will know that, however poetic
the preacher might have been, his
picture could only have been an made
quate sketch of the actual land of milk
and honey to which he invited them.
During the remainder OF his apprent.
i.eship our young sailor pulled his
truck about the streets and docks of
Hull right cheerily, for his eyes were
filled with glorious visions gathered
like sunset splendors about the closing
day of his servitude-in his land of
promise more glorious dawn.
When at length be was his own
man he earned his passage to New
York and thence set out for Utah Oh
foot. When he reached the great
lakes he managed to pay his way on
boats which work to Chicago thence
walked to the frontiers thence worked
his way with q merchant train across
the plains.
Thirty-two years ago he entered
Salt Lake City, with no resources but
the enterprise of youth, and q hope
that made melody in his brave heart.
When, three years later, he reached
his majority, he was already one of
the substantial men of Utah, and on
the high road to the wealth he after
ward acquired. He became the chos-
en- and trusted messenger between the
Mormon colony and the gentle world.
to make purchases and transact bust
ness for all.
While as yet there was no railway,
he made twenty-four journeys, gener-
ally on horse. back, across the plains to
the Missouri river, though there was
danger from robbers and Indians. He
was especially loved by Brigham
Young. And il was this young
Englishman who fell in love with and