Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-05-02

That's easy enough. I've already
had some talk with Brother Edwards.
Yo1 leave thia TO me. III arrange
matters
Wen. there's 10 hurry. I'll think
about il. III let you know" said the
bishop, rising; and SO the conference
came to an end.
As they walked around the corner
OF the barn. the bishops wife was
Just coming out OF the barn door with
her apron fun Of eggs she had been
gathering from the hay NOW, and her
black eyes were swapping.
That night, after the children had
retired for the night, the bishop and
his wife sat by the ireside alone and
talked
simon" said the bishops wife,
Yes, Betsy"
What did those fellows want to-
day.
They wanted 80 = me on some
church matters" And the bishop had
3 sudden and severe 1T OF coughing.
Church matters" shifted Betsy;
and I'll warrant their poor wives
were at home chopping ~sagebrush 10
cook with. They'd better be tending
TO their own business"
There was a long silence.
simon"
Yes, Betsy"
Il saw that niece Of John Edwards
that's just come over from Wales, in
tabernacle last Sunday"
lis that soE"
Eyes. and / don't think / ever saw
a homlier INT In all my life, o
one that looked more ~disagreeable and
hateful"
Another long silence.
Say, Simon"
"Yes. Betsy"
I've just been thinking Of the old
home In Tennessee. Do you rcmem
Der how il looked the day we We're
married.
why, yes" spoke up the bishop,
with sudden interest. of course / do.
1t was in May, and the trees"
MAY you goose, Ii IA in June,
and the trees had been in leaf for
weeks. and mothers hollyhocks were
remember the school teacher who used
10 want to walk home with ms from
church and the compliment he paid
me that day."
Yes, said you was the fairest flower
Of all Ha! Ha! What was bis name:
Summers"
"Oh, no How forgetful you are!
That was the name Of the young law
yer from Nashville l threw over be-
cause 1 liked you better"
You'd better have married him. He
made a big fortune, they say"
Ridiculous. He wasn't as tall as l
am by half an inch, and as conceited
as sin. Most any girl would have pre-
ferred you, even If we did have TO live
In a log cabin at first"
That was as neat a log cabin as
there was in the county, If / did build
it myself" said the bishop proudly.
"Yes, and. Simon, don't you know
that l sometimes think IL was & great
mistake for us TO come TO Utah, at all.
We could have been good Mormons
there just as we'll"
The conversation was reaching a
point the bishop always lodged. He
rose, stretched his arms, yawned aud
said:
We'll, we can go back there some
time and see the folks-when we get
rich. It's late. We must go to bed.
I've a big days work for tomorrow"
During the next two or three months
the bishop and his counselOrs were
often seer together but they seemed
10 make no Roadway TO get the bish-
op to take another wife. One day he
received a letter from Brother Brig
ham Young, requesting him to call
and talk 0Var matrarS Of fmpprra moo
at the earliest moment, when he could
make IL convenient to visit Salt Lake
City Betsy seemed strangely averse
TO his making the trip, but after many
delays he went. He was closeted with
Brother Brigham for several hours,
and when he returned to his home in
the broad valley by the lake he was
strangely silent and meditative for
several days. Betsy asked no ques-
tons, but seemed TO be expecting
something to happen-and 1t did
One morning, as the family was
gathered about the breakfast table the
bishop had asked a blessing, he lean
back in his chair, and said solemnly:
Wife, last night l had a revelation
from the Lord"
"Indeedr'
yes; an angel appeared 10 me in a
vision and foretold the future, and
gave me a message to the living"
What Is it?' asked Betsy meekly.
cit was-ahem-revealed to me by
the angel that 1 had not been walk
ing as / should before this people:
that I have been guilty Of q sinful