The Press., 1895-03-14


 to their final haven From the shores of the Mississippi to the western slopes of the Rocky mountains they had strug- gied on with censtaDey almost unpar- alleled in history. The savage man and the savage beast, hunger, thirst, fatigue and disease, every impeachment which nature could place in the way, had all been overcome with Anglo Saxon tenaci. ty.- Yet the long journey and the accu- mulated terPors had shaken theh hearts of the stoutest among them. There was not one who did not sink upon his knees in heartfelt prayer when they saw the broad valley of Utah bathed in the sun- light beneath them and learned from the lips of their leader that this was the promised land, and that these virgin acres were to be theirs forevermore.
 Young speedily proved himself to be 8 skillful administrator as we'll as res olute chief. Maps were drawn s,and charts prepared in which the future city was sketched out. All around farms were apportioned and allotted ill pro. portion to the standing of each individ- ualf The tradcsman was put to hisstTade and the artisan to his calling. In the town streets and squares sprang up as if by magic. In the country there were draining and hedging planting and clearing, until the next summer saw the whole country golden with the wheat crop, Everything prospered in the strange settlement. Above all, the great temple which they had erected in the center of the city grew ever taller and larger. From the first blush of dawn until the closing of the twilight the chatter of the hammer and the rasp of the saw were never absent from the monument which the immigrants erect ed to Him who had led them safe through many dangers.
 The two castaways, John Terrier and the little girl who had shared his for tunes and had been adopted as his daugh- ter, accompanied the Mormons to the end of their great pilgrimage. Little Lucy Terrier was borne along pleasantly enough ill Elder Stangerson' wagon, a retreat which she shared with the AIor- mons three wives and with his son, headstrong, forward boy of 12. Having rallied, with the elasticity of childhood, from the shock caused hy her mothers death, she soon became a pet wl1h the women and reconcilcd herself 10 this new life il her moving canvas covered home. In the meantime, Terrier, having recovered from his privations, distin- guished himself as a useful guidesand an interchangeable hunter. So rapidly did he gain the esteem of his new compan ions that when they reached the end of their wanderings it was unanimously agreed that he should be provided with as large and as fertile tract.of land as any of the settlers, with the exception of Young himself and of Stangerson, Kimball, Johnston and Drebber, who were the four principal elders.
 On the farm thus acquired John Fer rier built himself substantial loghonse, which received so many additions in succeeding years that it grew into a roolny villa. He was man of \ prae- tioal turn of mind, keen in his dealings, skillful with his hands. His iron con-. stitution enabled him to work morniraR and evening at improving and tiiling his lands. Hence it came about that his farm and all that belonged t6 him pros pered exceedingly. In three years he was better off than his neighbors, in six he was we'll to do, in nine he was rfuil, and in twelve there were not half ddzen men in the whole of Salt Ilal1e City who could compare with him; From the great inland sea to the distant NV gakCh mountains there was no nan1e better known than that of John Terrier
 There was one way, aud only dIiq, in which he Offended the eusoepti bili itiesiof ,aiists. Fl . arguIllel ','
 suasion could eyer indnce him to setl = female establish hment after the mann1 tof his companions. He never gave Teas9ns for this persistent refusal, but cont ed himself by resolute1y and inflexib1y d- herring to his determination. There y Are some who accused him of lukeWa armlaess in his adopted religion and others who put it down to greed of wealth and Te- Iuctance to incur expense. Others, again, spoke of some early love affair ana of fair haired girl who had pined away on the shores of the Atlantic: Whatever the reason, Terrier remained strictly cel- ibate. In every other respect he cOn4 ! formed to the religion of the young set clement and gained the name of being an orthodox and straight walking man. Lucy Terrier grew up within the log house and assisted her adopted father in all his undertakings. The keen air of the mountains and the balsamio otEor of the pine trees took the place of nurse and mother to the young girl. As year suc- ceeded to year she grew taller and stronger, her cheek more ruddy and her step more elastic. Many wayfarer upon the highroad which ran by Terriers farm felt long forgotten thoughts revive in his mind as he watched her 1.-the, girlish figure tripping through the wheatfelds or met her mounted upon her fathers mustang and 11aIagfng it with all the ease and graee<of a true child of the west. So the bud blossom ed into a flower, and the year which saw her father the richest of the farmers left her as fair specimen of American girlhood as could be found in the whole Pacific slope.