The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24

gave rise to the proverbial PULL and
come in" The chimney was all on The
outside, and composed of Stats, and
plassered inside and out with mud. as
was the daubing of the house
asked the good woman who came &c
the door to look at the ''furTingers." as
she termed u.s. who lived there and She
replied, Squire Johnson"
The house certainly lid not ccr1uort
with a squire house, as [ had learned
1t in England, for squire there must
be a person of $500 as his yearly in
come, neither did his 3quireship, as he
came in sight, clad as mis- wife was. in
| butternut jeans; in fat, the apparel
OF the entire family was of the same
material even to the squires suspen-
ders; he was jolly, snoi naturel and
barefooted
At his peculiar call. With J canEo:
forget or initiate, he called an ,n,laenss
quantity Of hogs, shoets and piSgies
VINO came running FROM The timber
from under the house ana crooks ana
crannies, everywhere, Tor TIE nnnu meal
OF ears of corn, which lie :a~veI item
from well filed corne-a
hospitality was eV!leaceG iE every
word and act of the squics and his lady
L never saw chickens quicker dis
patched and potted in the bak., kettle
on the Widespreading hearth. Blu: The
pones of corn bread, moldpl and put tc
bake in bake kettle live Goals u1-
derneath and on the Id we're q reyel-
alton to me. and when told Ito sit up. -
which We did on our rawhide-seate1
chairs. we fell to with an appetite and
a gufsto that was surprising to us all
and pleasing to our entertainers From
That time to this l have ever enjoyed
corn bread and chicken thus prepared.
The whistle Of the steamer called us
aboard, as the stage of the river would
justify Us moving for st. Louis. As ]
grasped the hand of this backwoods-
man he looked me squarely in the eve.
asked where's your folks. [ said in
England, and why have you come all
this way alone?" he asked. I answered
to see NauVoo- and Joseph Smith: he
smiled, laughed and stamped, amused
and full Of wonder that one so young
Should come 50 far and alone for IAN
ldee, and as the boat snorted out he
waived his palmleaf hat and shouted:
Good luck, anyhow"
How can / train my uniournalistir
pen to describe st. Louis, it's streets, its
towering houses, its myriads of the
then IeVlathan steamboats, lying at its
wharVes, the colored race. the multi
tude of men, horses and drays, that GO
to make a city's hurry and hustle? How
new, how strange to my foreign eyes,
But / must not linger, the ultimate is
yet ahead. The winter of 1S41 found me
an unwilling citizen of Alton Ills, and
as soon as spring broke the barriers of |
winter, l was again afioat, ascending J
the river, stradning eyes and nerves to !
eaten a first glimpse of the sometimes |
called City of Joseph
At last the talismanfc word was ut
tered, the boat ceased it's pulsations |
and tied up" to allow the passengers
to land.
At last I stood on what to me was
sacred soil, the only one of a nuner-
Gus family, thousands of miles inter
Vening between me and home, poor,
penniless and apparently frieSdIess. I
pushed my search for the ''one man.
Joseph Smith, and at last I had my de-
sire. Al tall, finely developed man was
pointed out as the man. 1 sought his
peculiar handshake, peculiar from its
broad palm thrust up to the thumb
thus giving hearty grip, thrilled and
my whole person.
My little education found me emplov-
nent in the school room till one joseph
Home, dealer in flax, pelts and hides,
sole leather and ta1low, offered me a
elerkShip dispensing those conmodi-
les; this was the beginning of nv
,lerking for many years thereafter. AT
he feet Of this Gamaliel, Joseph
Smith, learned the rudiments of this
'eligion of the. west. From him .
earned the popularity of the here and
he great hereafter, as he expounded
t over the dead body of King Toilet.
from him / learned pure and undefilesI
democracy and became a. proud and en-
hussastic eanvasser for his presidency
# the United States, with Sydney Rig
Ion for the vice presidency
His Views Of the Government and
'oiicy" is lying before me as [ write.
Srieved then at their non-acceptance.
To my surprise [ heard the names of
many called to form a new nucleus in
he Rocky mountains. Surprised be-
ause supposed permanently was ;
tamped on everything in Nauvoo as
ar as we were concerned. Yet wher
he martyrdoTn of Joseph and Hyrum
ecame accomplished fact, a cry was !
cit Get thee up into the mountains
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