Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
A REMINDER OF UTAH.


While I was eating my dinner noticed
buckskin riding gloves embroidered in col
ored silks. / have pair almost exactly
like them at home, sent me from Utah by a
friend, and was, of course, surprised to see
anything of the sort here. NY surprise in
creased when. asking the old woman in re-
gard to them, she replied: II brung 'em
FUN Salt Lake City,"
Isuppose 1 must have looked impolitely
astonished and inquisitive, for she chuckled
softly and said: "Ye didn't low I'd ever
bin so fur frum home, did ye? Well, 1 bin
thar, an lived in Tennessee fer two yer,
too. Ayfter Biddy's paw died lived hyer
for nigh six yer. 1 wuz a only chile an
this yer fahm was mine You'll say did mt
hev no call to may no mo, and didn't,
but er man come up hyer from Tennessee,
an he fairly pestered me till tuck i'm.
His name was Sively," alluding to him in
the same impersonal way in which she had
mentioned her first venture.
A HARD TIME OF IT.
ST msyr'd him au' we rented out this
Crops wuz bad, an to cap all, thet man
had to git fever and lay fiat er his back
fer six months. Bidy an me made the crop
thet yer. Biddy was fo'teen, an fine,
well-growed gal.
"TIme he got up en- ter creepin' round
ergin he got terrible tuck up 18th some new
preachers It come thru. I'VE represent the
church Nv our Lawd NV Latter Dry Saints
sez the preacher ez bold ez brass fust time I
byrd i'm preach.
"'Thet's no mo- ner less then sayin' Nor
min, sez I ter Sively, ez we wuz goin' home.
We jawed about tibet business back en- fo'th
IL -
they called themsefs, come en- talk ter me
an tell whut fine kentry Youtaw wuz, en-
whut fine relligin' the Latter Day Saints
wuz, en- how they ed the last wurd fom
Gawd, an all that, an nary wurd bout
havin' morn one wife. They needn't do
thet, they sed, less'n they pleased ter.
SHE WAS DOUBTFUL.
"'Huh. sez 1, I'D like ter see ther ole
onery man thet wouldn't please ter-but the
wimmin-air yer so pottickler ter git ther
cornsint?'
"Well, 1 was all broke down with chills,
an hard work. an Sively lowed we'd be
rich out ther an cud make a lady outen
Biddy-he wuz alwuz powerful sot on Biddy
an tn eend ont all wuz that we went.
I'm boun' ter say them Mormins done ez
they said bout lenden' Nv us money ter start
weth an agriculcha'l Instruments an sich,
an we done we'll, though never did git
back my strength.
"When we'd bin thar risin' two years
Sively come from church one Sunday evenin'
an said they wuz layin' off ter make i'm a
deacon er elder er sich, an tibet fu'thermo'
they he'd picked out man fer Biddy.
TO MARRY HER sTEP-PAw.
'I wuz plumb 'shamed ter say word gin
that, Ter she wus turned II year, an we
slwuz said t home thet er gal Z wuzn't
mayr'd by 15, er didn't hev her pegs set
fur't by thet time, wuzzent gonter git no.
body" 4 jis sez I hate ter hev her take a
Mormin; wish't she cud er he'd one er ther
boys ter home. Who air they talkin' bout
fer her?'
''He looked t. ther io' an outer TIL win
der like sheep-killin' dawg. They wuz q
amin erseal her ter me- be SEE, kinder
co's'e an husky like.
'Ye ole houn' hollered; 'ye ole houn,
don't ye know I'd kill We fust? This yer's
why ye drug me an my darter out hyar, ez
it7'
II skeered i'm an he looked far ter back
out. but I wux weak an sick, an fell q
trimlin' and shakin' an o hollerin' like
tn hy-strikes.
"'shet mp. he ses, tn nsighbors y hyur
ye.'
TALKED OF suIorDH.
'Esighbers.' I hellsrsd, we ainf got