Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-12

Written Cor iho NFw4
Very beautiful, very inspiring to The
Christian, Is The idea OF O spiritual life
a bright existence IN stare where the
wrinkles and indmiues OF age can
never creep upon the SOU; where no
consciousness OF a sure end aud that,
perhaps, near at hand, can trammel
ones desire 90 progress, Huerc knowl'
edge and experience are realities mat
may accumulate through never ending
ages. where zoe pure BOO heart shall s.c
God, uuiempied forever by evil, and
where the tender heart need never hes,'
tate 10 bestov ils lull wealth. Of affection,
Tor neither death nor change eau snatch
away the object OF its love
Some there are who, it may be, dis.
believe lie beyond the tomb, but 10
such "a, believe corobonliye evidence
Of their faith is always acceptable aud
interesting. Il IS with this idea that ]
give the following strange and some
what grotcsque experience Of a fellow
lownsmin
Il hardly can Dc called an adventure.
but, TO tine writer, seems quite as thrill
ing as reality, aud can testify 90 i1e
uuthlu.ness. the quiet. uHostenlaliuus
honor OF tuis man and woman who uc
clare, 100 wu.ls OF suocmc5s, that the
following is rue:
Brother and Sister Morrill, were re-
turning lJ Their home 10 southern llh
from % TRIP 90 salt Lake, where ihey mad
lust been sealed 20 each other iu the
Lufd'3 House 10 was lu the latter end
ui February 1874 aud les tlc days were
shot, they drove well into 'hc night that
they might the more speedily reach
their destination. Every evening the
faithful mules logged ON, never turning
aside or stopping except at the command
ct their driver. Upon iuis occasion the
mlu aBl hts wife had, ss usual, tucked
lugmsrlvts well under the wagon cover.
90 keep out the bitter cold. leaving the
Team 90 PICK their way alone. Suddenly
q. Nas noticed that they turned aside.
Brother NJ looked out They were
travelling close by bend in the Sewer
river near what is now known as Aurora,
but then called Willow Bend. about five
miles south OF SJlina. Sewer county.
Ata short distance from the river bank
aud lust ahead of our travellers, was Sc u
a camp fire, somewhat sm1u.deFing, and
surrounded by about ten or dozen
| campers. These were very loqulciuus
and merry, aud strangely unmiuliul OF
| the sharp singing frost Being q
stranger aud diUiant, Brother ~. did
nor Iliu them but decided 20 camp just
aUaJc the team bad turned out lt was
500 cold. however. that having merely
tended 90 the latter he and bis wife rs-
tired without masking fire, drawing the
wagon cover we'll down TO keep OUT the
/ intense cold,
There they lay 40 night listening to
| the rcyelry, the conversation, the jest,
| the shout, the laughter OF the merry
/ makers, wondering how they could be
so comfortable in such a frosty night
/ with nothing TO warm them but a
| smoldcrng camp fire. Now they would
! catch sounds that bespoke the English
| tongue spoken by white men; then they
] would hear q doggere that betrayed the
! Indian voice and speech, Here came "a
| horrmlu, singing gaily a song of which
/ the listeners could distinctly hear every
word and note, and, flying swiftly past
/ them, rode down 10 the rivers bank and
seemed 10 he accommodating the d.s-
| lance. There came sounds OF white
| men driving herds of cattle, the shout
| ing of the drivers and the plllcr of the
] animals h10a upon the hard, rough.
frozen ground being perfectly distinct
aud natural
The night was thus passing with every
| sound of merHmcnt and evidence OF
/ active, vigorous llr. The two were
interested listeners almost the whole
night aud even the mules siguiIsI their
interest and attention 0y their wn,Uny.
ing, n1lteu'iun iu their food, and SOME.
times Hy their frightened efforts TO break
] away
AZ last. toward 900 H.GE, ,1c two igll
/ asleep aud we've awakened uy lle heavy
uit'ug of wagons as y several pairs
might have ueen coupled together and
each pair nl wagons pulled Uy several
! teams, The shout ul iIe driver. the
crack Of the whip and tIe loud rafting
| of the heavy wagons over the rough.
frozen road awakened Brother VI. and
thnkug that perhaps his wagon wls 90
the way he spnng up and looked on, 10
apologize
But, lul nothing was there but the
frozen river and the willows ON .s
bank the bright sun aud lhe clelEcalm,
blue skNl
Aaouahel Ore examined his environ.
mcnis, hul tlur was no little heap OF
gsAe, 60 sul ~ that even camp fire had
been made, 400 crushed el1ds in the road
nor ON tbg roadside Co leIi tllt mere Boo
passed herds of cattle, hustmen aud
loaded wagons not sign Ui human
footsteps rHyg.y or even uf recent
existence The now covered ground
exhibited 900 trace og mark. aud J3 doe
night had been gloui.ass aud crisp the
snow had NOT oygsiald any new made
track
Had these been mere phlntous iu
Brother Ms huiu2 MS Wile and even
Dds mules bad shared ihe delus.0n
What then, were the phlnloms thus
both seen and heJrI' What could Do
mean those strange, unrgl, beings
| whose actions seemed yet So real that
tlg listeners nIi never dreamed of 8ny-
thing but that they were morJIs Ike
themselves, as they .ay listening 10 their
performances thrdu. bout the night
As Brother NJ. stopped 900 Monroe the
following night nis hostess informed
nm that the night of lHU strange ruycIry
was, as near as sine could remember tHe
anniversary OF the assassination ul a
certain young acquaintance of hers who
had been despatched ly Indians 900 the
uei.huorNaol Vt Nulry Bend. aud
suggested that what Bother 81 had
seen aua heard was, perhaps. weird
celebration q. .hll event
Brother NJ says tlAt certain he rs