The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-25

that way. [ want you to offer a prayer
for me that may be saved from that.
I'm so fraid."
Have no more fear, Mrs. SadTer, &"
he exclaimed selemnly- You won't
strangeI I viii ask the Lord for you.
and this evil will not come upon you.
You need not have any fear.
"Kneel down you he exclaimed,
turning upon the assembled neighbors
ar relatives, while he pushed his
wl.tte hair back from his forehead.
Let US pray that this woman be al
lowed to pass away in peace
BY dint of phraseOlogy and his pro-
found faith, he succeeded in inducing
a feeling of peace and quiet in all of
his hearers, and the sick woman list
ering, sank into restful stupor. from
which all agony of mind had wholly
disappeared. When the physical at
mosphere of the room had been thus
reorganized he ceased and retired. In
a few moments a slight cOmmOtiOn in
the sick chamber denoted that the end
had come. Several neighbOrs came out,
and one said, well, it is all over, Mr.
White She is dead
''She didn't strange. did she?" he
exclaimed, with great assurance.
NO said the other, ''the Lord
granted her request"
I knew she wouldn't" ne replied.
Prayer is always answered
The poor. the blind. the insane and
sufferers of all sorts are objects Of his
keenest sympathies. Evidences of it
flashes out at the most unexpected mo-
ments-Ioud. rough ordinations,
which. however, contain a note so
tender and suggestive as to defy trans
Iation.
one day, in passing the local poor
/ farm, he came upon "a man beating a
/ poor idiot with a whip. It was beside
/ a wOodpile and the demented one was
/ crying. In a moment Mr.. White had
+ lcaped out of his conveyance, Ieaped
/ over the fence and confronted the
l amazed attendant with an uplifted
arm.
Not another lick!'' he fairly shouted
/ what do you mean by striking an
/ fdfot?"
why" exclaimed the attendant, =
want him to carry in the wood, and he
won't do it."
1T is not his place to bring in the
wood. He isn't put here for that. He's
put here to be taken care of. III see
/ about this"
The man endeavored to explain that
some work must be done by the in
mates and that this one was refrac-
/ tory. The only way he had OF making
( him. understand was by whipping him
Not another word the old man
i clustered, overawing the country hire
/ ling who knew him well. III see tC
this" and after soaring the man sc
/ badly that whips were thereafter care
! fully concealed. he proceeded to the
/ county court house Court was not In
; session. and only the clerk was present
/ when he came tramping down thC
aisle, and stood before the latter with
/ his right hand UpIifted in the position
/ of one about to make oath
/ The clerk knew we'll enough the re-
/ naarkabIe characteristics of his guest
/ whose actions we're only too often in
! expIicable from the ground point OF
/ policy and convention Without add
! he got out ink and paper, and Mr.
. White began:
/ 4 saw" he said. ''in the yard of the
/ county farm, a poor, helpless idiot put
I in that institution by this county to be
cared for. being beaten with a COW
/ hide by Mark Sheffeis, who IS an at
/ tendant there, because he did not I'm
/ deTstand enough 10 carry in wood
/ which the people are hired to do
/ Think of It." he went on, quite forget
/ ting he was speaking for diCtatiOn, and
( going of into a most searching ar
/ raignment Of the entire system il
/ which such brutality could occur. The
/ community quietly followed in a defer
/ entail way putting down such salient
. features as he had time to write
When he was through he ventuTed t
/ lift his voice in protest
: You know. Mr.. White" he said
+ ''Sheffels is a member Of our party
/ and was appoint. by US. OF course
now: it's too bad ,uat this thing should
/ have happened. and he ought TO b,
! dropped but if You are going to make
+ public matter of il in this way, II
may hurt us IN the election mex
month
The old patriarch gazed at him al
most without comprehension Of SC
] petty a view.
] What he exclaimed. What's
/ that got to do with it? Do you want
/ the Democratic party to starve the
poor and beat the insane?"
/ TIE opposition was rather hattened
/ by the reply, and left the old gentle
man to storm out. He had purified the
] political atmosphere, as if by lightning
and within the month following the Of
/ Tending attendant was dropped.
Politics, however, have long known
\ his influence If very similar way
/ There was a time when he was the
| chief political figure in the county and
! possessed the gift of Oratory beyond all
/ his fellow-citizens. Men came miles to
/ hear him, and he took occasion to voice
\ his views on every important issue TT
was his custom to have printed, at his
! own expense, a few placards announc-