The Red Cloud chief., 1888-04-20

uaS SyStem. lOVc-a0nul
ling, heart-polluting one, but there it i
embruiting and Supplying. There life, lik
q plant that feels upward for the sunshin
and strikes its sensitive spirc against tn
under side of q reekIng stone, is doubles
back upon itself and turns helplessly abou
in the darkness and the filth. Youth il
muddied through all its feelings by prccep
and example, and becomes q hone-hating
liquor-loving, lustful, profane and ignOran
phaze. Over it and about it forever brood.
q thick and heating atmosphere, impure
animal, numbing to the brain, quickcning t
passion, through which their way seem,
hopeless.
At the heart Mormonism is criminal
Masonry. The Priesthood, which is all power
full, constitutes this body, and ceremonies
are passed through and oaths taken tina,
arc frightful in aim and import. The out
lying limbs Of this grave Thcocracy are
cloaked with religion, and by its binding,
p~ersuading agency sustenance and power
are forced back through the arteries "a
the false and lccherous heart. Cords OF
superstition, fear, awe, and q poor mis-.
guided faith, bind these extremitics to the
knavish, priestiy body, which in Utah has
thirty thousand members within its oath
linked chain. This is Vcrmonism: 6 white
slavery, a fabric of injustice and deceit. A
thousand stains spot its history, u thousand
signs breathe over 1t, and through it triclie
.cn thousand tears. Its history can never
be told; much of it is not for decent ears;
God alone shall wholly treasure it up
against the future in His all-preserving
silence.
Thu MORROW after the ball broke DIM
ly; q mist, in whish the mountains stood
waste deep as in q sea of milk, lay heavily
upon the world. The air seemed cloggcd
and scarcely respirable, q strange thing
among the Utah mountains. When Elchard
woke Trean's father was tramping up and
down the narrow porch; he could not
breathe when lying down, he said. He had
heard of the murder at the dance, too, and
was restless and stifled. Trean had not
been there; he was glad of that; neither
had she been with the rest to greet the
Prophet at his coming, and he shook his
head with trouble.
After an oppressive breakfast Elchard
out, and with q suffocating sense
the slope and sat down among the
pines. The sun was q blearcd spot above
him, and only for a few yards about could
he distinctly seen. 1t was easier
breathing there. however, and he fell to
thinking of his uncared for affairs. and how
he must try and 60 on when morning came
again; then Of this sad and beautiful girl
in the mist below him. Would she al
go onward in the mist-that other
mist which was felt and visible only to the
spirit and to what an end! He rose up in
her future so came upon him,
stepped forward as if he would go to
her, when suddenly she stood before him in
he path.
How soft her form-lines in the mist!
How wide and startled her eyes! She
paused as if to turn bask.
Don't 60. Trean :" he said. unconsciously
extending his hand in an appealing way.
Stay with me; don't go back into the
Il didn't know You was here: / was going
urther up the mountain. l mustn't stay
she said. with q kind of faltering
,asp.
He came close to her, his face burning
White. ''Treanw he SAID, and that was all, |
nut all that might ever be said of love was
Oaxing and pleading and %thrObbing in the
vord. A sweep of color ran over her neck |
md face, and she seemed struggling to 20
,ack.
''You mustn't; you don't know; I'm not
It: it might cost you your life =" she painted, |
back.
''It's costing you yours, Trean ~ and his
and was upon hers and both were tremb-
ing. Don't leave me, Trean. You arc good
beautiful. Let me thank YOU here
rhere We are alone OR your kindness and
Let me give you my love, Trcan!
nnn't thRnyrv ~ from vvnvr l,~1svr, lo~sA -.,A
&c away!'
'She stood for a moment like one intoxi-
ated, swaying upon his words. her eyes
oftiy dilated. her bosom heaving. Suddenly
leaned toward him with an indescribable
lurmur OF pleasure and slipped down with
er cheek upon his hands where they folded
yer her own. and hung there. For an
lstant he felt her tears running over his
ands and her lips kissing them, then she
rOke away and ran blindly downward into
mist and was lost TO his sight.
For q long time he stood still where she
left him, for the whole mountain seemed
} beat like a soft pulse, the air seemed
weet, and the mist was but q halo about
m. Then. with deep breath, like one who
IS drained a delicious cup, he turned and
'ent up the mountain path much as one
owes who is young and jocund and with
1t disease.
After a time he emerged from the mist
I'D stood alone upon the mountain side
18th the white sea all below him. Then in
Re silence and sunshine a loneliness that
as q kline of doubt and fear came Over
m. Might this not prove q symbol Of the
lture! Would she ever rise above the
heavy medium in which she had