Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-05-09

SO when their home fell prey TO the
destructive element, Elders Cor.
bott aud Jones, and others who could
use cprpUutcrs' tools, turned in and
helped those Of their outside friends
who Ind offered assistance aud finished
up the house, and found them moved
In, aud very thankful. had already
cent them some funds, but on my ar.
rival there | found that they had tx.
pended most Of the money In buying
beds and bedding and furniture 10
make the Elders another "htadquar-
ten" Some foolish fellow told them,
the burning was "heaveDly retribu-
ton for entertaining the ElderH," but
the results do not show this 10 be the
cnge. That same poor fellow was him.
sell dying OF the grip when | was
there. Two. years provlousI had
administered to n member OF this
iamily,-a little grandson, whom the
doctors gave up to die OF scrofula, and
from that time he began To recover.
He ran up TO me on this last visit, ns
well n boy NJ ever bfeathed, and his
father aud mother who had been quite
hitter against our people were
awaiting favorable weather TO
be baptized, and are now
and advocates-thus fulfilling pre-.
dlction which felt TO make when |
first visited them. From here | went
10 Missouri, ana visited some parties,
among whom the Elders had labored
last year, but did not Ind any ready
for baptism, OF In fact, willing 10 con.
verse very much ou the Gospel.
Secinrian religion coils IT, f0lls
around It's members, anG de.
msnds such close aud rigid
discipline, that some feel always con.
demned to have listened b anything
outside their own creed. sun, I was
well treated through personal friend
ship, but could mako no advance 10
speak OF our matters Of doctrine.
Thence Travelled on the Chicago &
Rock leland railroad 10 Bcllevillo,
Kansas, where I found PRECEDENT o.
w. Porter and eight other Elders.
New fields have been OPENED up In
this--the IowG-confetcncu. Head
quarters have been moved from COun-
ell Bluffs TO Bellevllle, and many were
investigating with n view TO Joining
the Church. Intelligent ladies and
gentlemen attended orr series Of i've
meetings In the Opera House here,nud
the addresses seemed 10 impress them
quite mvorably. learned that threats
had been made TO mob Us
during conference, but not the
slightest demonstration was made
In that direction, during any Of our
meetings | met Que very nice gentle
man NJ the hotel after the meetings on
suuday-he having ATTENDED the three
held on that day-nud In conversation
With him and the host Ji the hotel,
they both expressed themselves adj
miringly ~ our people, aud Of thelr
successful Efforts IN the West 10 com.
bat the elements anu bring the prairie
under cultivation. One OF them com.
mon.od ON the statements Of President
Eliot, and Of somc other leading people
who had been 10 Utah aud showed
through the press what the latter.dsy
Saints had accomplished. Tie hOst Of
the hotel--a MIR. PalmeT-sAiJ, 81
knew Brigham Young well.' ! said,
"wherog" "ln Ciucinnatti," he 10.
flied. ~ knew the Mormous when |
they had to cross the river, |
and they had 10 walt till II |
ffoze over, too. II ever any |
people were outraged, those people |
were, and have often thought that
set OF people who go out In that wild
county where the government, Offered
5000 for the first bushel OF corn, aud
make Territory and build up settle.
ments, and make II possible 10 live
there for other people, could not be
bad community"
Much more Ia the same strain was
said during our Interview, and could
see that prejudice was gradually CIV. |
Ing way to more thoughtful and com.
mon sense view OF our cause. tray.
eled for some little time making my |
Journey from Kansas into Nebraska,
on the Union Pacific railroad, thence
10 Chicago on the Milwaukee and st.
Paul, a very excellent line, thonce on |
Michigan Central to Buffalo, aud nom |
Buffalo 10 New York on the famous on
pire train 1855 miles In $50 minutes. This |
train h now run on the New York |
Central railroad, and In Intended TO |
compete with the other two great lines |
to Chicago, the n. AZ o. and the Penn.
sylyania, both Of which make excellent |
time and are elegantly equipped. In
fact, no one need complain now Of the |
accommodations In travelling oil, ne any !
Of tue greht highways. II IL only IN |
the remote country places where the
travelling makes One "tired.D There |
being no competition and the traffic |
being largely OF class that does rot |
demand anything but the rudest modes |
Of travel, any kind Of car propelled
by steam Is better than TO take u
lumber wagon or ego atoot," ~ most |
people DO. They walk, simply because
where there are no railroads running |
Immediately past their farms and |
letting them Off at convenient places,
they can 40 quicker than with u
team over such roads as they make, |
or rather suffer to 20 unmade. And
on foot, they can go across fields, |
Jump fences and creeks, and then
make better time than even GU horse
back, by the road, which In usually |
muddy, rough, crooked, billy and some.
times miry enough TO endhnger the
rider. Our Utah canyons are park
pleasure drives compared with most OF |
those have seen. A driver who can
take four persons with brisk team six
miles In two hours, Ia regarded ~ a
"Johu" for swiitncss, and really Is apt |
10 hurt his team, owing TO the very |
steep hills. | fancy this was the reason
no many ancients walked. 1t was tho
easiest way to travel, when railroading
was unknown.
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