The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-01-19
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THE MoRMON'S DAUGHTER.
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TRH MEHrINo.

- ZN cyphers, stands out
heavy with the invis-
%A0(ESnx ible future. Looking
back at last we zee
that hour distinct -
"'sAsa ship's spar thrust
up INTO the dawn, and how II shot shadow
cf hesm Of light through all the bubble
hours that one by one rose after iti
& 10 Paul Elchard, though he did not know
Il, such an hour had come Riding along
mountain road where the world, Just back
Of the peaks that face Great Salt Lake, rolls
eastward fold on fold toward the Weber
river, he was overtaken by the sunset. In
. great flush It lay over the ridge-tops and
vast shelves Of land, while among the
Wasatch peaks to the west where it seemed
falling the royal col0rs were splashed half
way mp 20 the zenith. He touched his horse
with the spur to quicken him. but the sum-
mer light fingers a long time in the lumi-
nous Utah air after the sun sinks, and in q
moment the impulse Of haste lapsed from
his consciousness and he went forward
looking soberly and half dreamily about,
him. sa,s. .o-s
On all sides and near and far the land
scape seemed to rise and pile away with
ridge, and spur. and 1nountain-heaps, lone
y, desolate, and still On the left the land
follow the rugged road, in moment he was
riding toward q valley with here and there
Q little farm on either hand. Poor patches
Of four or Ave acres Of sand and gravel
they wore, where the sage brush had been
cleared away, with n hut In the midst, and
sparingly fed with water from unreliable
fvulets. Dirty, half clad children swarmed
about the doors, with one and two and some
times three wives ut every threshold, or
digging in the sterile garden patches; an
old cart, q pig-pe q mule dragging plow
among the stones or browsing in the brush,
and over all the spirit Of want, Of penury,
and isolation.
II can not conceive" mused the young
horseman, with look that was half GEN.
sure and half pity on his comely face, s'why
these people should try to wiring Mvei-
hood from such wretched region. Surely
they must starve in soul and body from the
year's beginning to its endW
The query was natural one, and the i'm
preston touching this peoples fate, borne
out thousand fold by hitter fact. But he
could not know, nor ~sn any other single
soul save that Fountain of Sense who ID the
Soul Of all, the material poverty Of these
Mormon homes, the shriveled hearts, the
numbed, and dwarfed, and want-pinched
lives among these mountain wastes. But
shsy were not there from choice; the
Church, structure Of tyranny not often
eQualed In the worlds long Life, had sent
them thither; had allotted them these
Grabbed strips Of Zion whereon to toll
nay tithes, and die in every sense, that the
vaileyu might be filed, with voters, the
lands kept out Of unbeliever's hands, and
that men In the forefront and at the
esntsrs Of this huge infamy might hold
position and live in afiuence.
Presently, - he passed down the slope,
ths settle ment thickened little with sort
of descending graduation in the scale Of OBJ
vicus poverty, until at the heart Of the little
valley, whore water seemed more abundant,
there were small sweeps Of vivid green,
here and there stunted orchard with q
ioG house among the trees, and by times
nlmosta suggestion Of thrift. But over it
III still brooded the atmosphere Of isolation,
and al the human figures and surround
tnR bespoke cowed and bhghted race Of
women, ignorant children and q coarse and
lunjpish community Of men. Lifting his
eyes the young man saw half-mile farther
down the valley sort Of village about q
Mormon meeth9-house, the Bishop's rather
pretSutious residence, and q few long low
stouss built Of sun-dried brick The strag-
giing dwellings were mainly Of hewn logs,
VITA an occasional one constructed Of adobe
andplastered on the outside or painted red
and striped with white in imitation Of brick,
but al mean Of size, and always beside
or surrounded by sort Of garden or mimic
taFn. These the wife or wives worked,
with babes about them, while the older chill
dren hsrded sheep upon the mountain aides
eg Watched the cattle browsing in the hol-
Iowa the man In large part were simply
- A-uarr uuvosa tuHAp ntvpxO
many Wore well-meaning, but most Of them
kaasdrained the numbing upas-cup Of po-
Hgamy and were morally and physically de-
bauched and undone.
Just ct the skirt Of the village cool
mouthsd canyon opened gradually into the
valley. Through It creek Of water, clear
end cold from chssm-springs and melting
snow upon the peaks, came leaping and
tuubling forward from the mountains.
Crossing the bridge that spanned it the
!. road became two, one turning across the
valley, the other making downward through
the town.. Pausing there with indecisiou
eur sidee at last dismountad, sprang over
~ a6uce, and crossed tiny meadow to .
houDe nat stood among the trees. He wa
I'm fellow, blond-headed, with mobile
pheasant face and clear decisive step.
TAe place was such pretty one he could
not Ghoooe but look about him. On thu
rieht ~ : garden snd on the left LITTLE
orchard, while In front were rows Of cotton
WOOD and locust tress. Close IN front Of ths
house, which was Of hswn logs and rather
laRGe, were walks and beds Of flowers, ani
k1oQmine vines clAmbered round and ovel
tka1o1IS ard made . green nst Of the mar
i ~ ~ ground of perhaps d0sen acres
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