Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-07-28

| est returned home at the close OF the
war he brought with him enough pow
| der to fill that keg AS the powder so
much resembled black sand it could
be easily mistaken for such and being
so dangerous in its nature Mr.. Forest
decided to secret it somewhere out
Of all danger. This was in April, 1865.
In June the same year there was a
training or a soldiers reunion at the
Center, a small country village three
miles from where the Forest family
lived All of the Forest family at
tended the training" except the
young widow and her three children.
The little girls were four and eight
and the boy six years of age. The
mother decided to make a little home
party for the children. She invited
Mr.. Pierces two children, Mr. Sc
wards three and two of Mr. Camp
bells, making little party of ten
of the brightest little boys and girls
in East Smithfield township. Soon
after the children arrived at the For
est house it began to rain, which COM
PEELED the children to play in the
house. While the mother was prepar-
ing a dinner for the little party, the
children decided to explore the garnet.
die and lit it and not being able to
find a candlestick on the pantry shelf
he took the lighted candle without it,
On arriving in the garnet the ten lit
tie tots began to ransack everything
) there. In a remote corner they dis
, covered a keg with piece Of old car
pet on it over which had been placed
a small square board and three COM
mon bricks. The children soon re-
{ moved the brick, the board and the old
carpet and found what they supposed
to be a keg filled with black sand.
The little boy was tired holding the
, candle so he stuck it into the black
e sand. The flame of the candle was
S five inches above it. The children
2 continued to play and every minute
the blaze of the candle crept nearer
Il the black sand. In another corner of
|. the old garnet the Oldest Forest girl
v found the board and the trestles that
). her father was laid on before he was
q put in his coffin.
G To make the gloom of the garnet
= more fearsome, she told the other chill
g dren in minute detail of her fathers
wounds, his sickness, his death, and
burial. While the horrible Mormon
DANTE candle was nearing the black
SAND. IneSe ten nttle IDOLS or the
hearts and the households who had so
recently come from the great unknown
v eternity of the past, little dreamed
q that they were so close to entrance to
+ the dark and grim mysteries of the
t coming untold ages, for the Mormon
= destroying angel flame was nearing
O the black sand. 1t was only three
f inches away. The father and grand
fathers of this little group of children
!, had withstood fire and smoke, DOW
der and bullets, grape and canister,
@ death and eternity They had waded
+ through blood as it were at Fair Oaks,
o Bull Run, Gettysburg and the Wilder
=, ness. The children who were having
such a good time at the Center, little
thought that the promising young buds
4 of their family tree were so close to
the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem,
:. for the Mormon hierarchy blaze was
!, nearing the black sand. 1t was only
4 two inches above it.
a There was knot hole in the old
4 garrett where two little wrens came
t and built cute little nest. While the
S little mother wren sat on the nest and
= incubated, the little father wren
e would sit in the knot hole and chirp
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