Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-04

10 rejoice AT HdNlHB tic pbhNbN ~
seeing the nag raised that was spokei
of by Isaiah the prophet, Hoping e
participate on the day Of jubilee viii
comrades and friends" After 50 years
the memory that dominated his MIND
was, a little incident which enabled hin
to show his love for his country's flag
Here IS the record Of woman; 81
drove an OK team about half the way
Waded streams and helped kill snakes.
One can almost feel the fatigue and
the lurking danger, which was the
lot Of that brave woman, for weeks
and weeks.
Here is a report Of how they prao-
tised surgery on the PLAINS
81 had my thy badly broken. Was
ret by Luke Johnson"
This Is more pathetic than a whole
essay on famine, and was written by 6
woman who was only IS years old when
she crossed the plains:
"The first dress had after coming
here was made from flour sacks color
cd with melon leaves"
True to the ruling passion Of her sex
tho good old soul retained as the most
vivid memory OF the strenuous days
The kind OF dress she was Obliged to
wear and In this there IS delicate
humor intermlngled with the pathos.
one sturdy heart but trembling hand
inscribed the following;
81 have been in all the indian wars
that there has been IN Utah and | have
always been a minute man"
What a proud record that U.s.
To be ready at any moment
TO spring TO the defense oil
friends and home, and yet the lives un-
consciously perhaps have deeper
meaning even than that.
In that remarkable band were men
who could make adobies or volins with
equal skill as is testified to here
81 helped TO make the first dobles
(abobe) for the first fort also made
a violin in 1Si7."
Here is a sentence that Is enough to
set ones stomach 70 gnawlng, ana
bring to his minds eye the long, gaunt
form Of famine:
81 suffered many prlyatlons and Nv
ed on thistle roots and sego lilies for
six months"
II is doubtful that the monarch who
ate grass with the cattle had any
harder tire OF 1t than that
Some OF these men were trusted SER
wants OF Uncle Sam as one Of them re-
cords:
II was one Of the first three to carry
the United States mail to the Missouri
river"
How, like a patriarch Of inyineible
faith does this sound, written by one
over 50 years old;
ITO fear God, live rlghteously and
walk humbly is the whole duty OF
man."
One Of the most prominent Of the
pioneers, who was loved for his cour-
age, Industry and patience, wrote the
one line, eloquent in Its breyity:
"A very hard Journey"
A hard journey for such as he would
be an impossible journey for thousands.
How pathetic II is 10 read In an al
most illegible hand
My memory Is very bad and my
ayesight Is almost gone"
II is on a parallel with this;
II can hardly see the line above me"
And this:
II should like to attend the jubilee,
but am too feeble"
II brings to mind the words OF Prem
tiss:
"Remorseless time, fierce spirit Of the
glass and scythe. what power can stay
him in his silent course or move his
iron heart TO pity? He lays his pallId
hand on the strong man, and the
naughty form is fallen and the flashing
eye Is dim"
IL must have been a naturally poetic
nature that could retain in the memory
for 30 years so pretty picture with
which Il had associated the great beasts
Of the plains, as Is indicated In the
following curiously spelled words
IL can't rember mulch aboute the
planes but / know that we had a Hard
time in Glttin' here to Salt Lake. |
cane rember how seeing Crate Hurds
Of Buffalow they looked Like Crate
Big seader trees on the Hills Glad too
the valy lived on roots for a long time,
Had know shoes for three years and
winter II | was yonug | would take
Part In your OK frames"
II the imagination wants a theme
from which TO draw pictures of pitiful
suffering and the woes that attend the
sundering of family ties here 1t Is from
the pen Of one Of the heroines
II was in all the missionary movings
IN my youth. My mother died in con-
~ 1uence OF the hardshlps. My father
was in the Crooked River battle when
David Patton was shot"
And thus from one broken
line 20 another their story
II felt rather than read. 1t tells OF Joy
and sorrow. hope ana despair. poverty
AMI rlehcS. health and disease. life and
deathin fine It we'll nigh runs the gam
" OF human experience The young and
unthinking may smile as they try 10
read those odd lines some OF which
we're written without any reference %
grammar or spelling, but TO the
thoughtful they will appeal strongly In
the grave and solemn spirit that lies
AZ their foundation. Those aged hands
had worn out their strength in shaping
Che course Of rivers, not in writing es.
says. They were made to construct
hrldcos and mills, not sentences. In
btarning or the duty Of life there are
two signal roles for man TO play. Eth.
er the making or the writing OF history.
These men stand pre-eminent as the
makers OF history. II their sons write
II equally as well. the deeds OF both
Will be given TO Immortality.
AZ the time Of the jubilee there were
living, Of tho original band Of i4S. who
entered the valey on July a. the fol-
lowing named: Wilford Woodruff. Jo-
spph Ephfrt GpOrra kEardfa a. .or,ro "