A UTAH LECTURER'S STORY The following story is told by a Utah lecturer now in the eastern states who is trying to put Utah right in the eyes of the It is told to illustrate the horrible forbidding false and silly stories that are about Utah by the Robert M. D. S. E. Hans Maria Senator Frank J. Cannon and These people in their lectures to those in the dark cast predict that the Mormons are preparing to do something These lectures vividly illustrate just how the Mormons are going to do In the year 1865 a family named Forest lived in East The members of this family were and three grown up three daughters and three small grand The children belonged to a a widow of one of the Forest boys who was wounded at Gettysburg and died from his wounds after he wlas brought The father and the remaining two sons were also soldiers of the war of the and remained by the stars and stripes till its close in Forest and his sons were home on furloughs many times during the and on each trip home they brought with them some gun The Forest farm was a large covered with pine stumps and the owner wanted this powder to blow the stumps The powder thus brought home they put in a keg and when Forest returned home at the close of the war he brought with him enough powder to fill that As the powder so much resembled black sand it could be easily mistaken for such and being so dangerous in its nature Forest decided to secret it somewhere out of all This was in In June the same year there was a training or a soldiers' reunion at the a small country village three miles from where the Forest family All of the Forest family attended the except the widow and her three The little girls were four and eight and the boy six years of The mother decided to make a little home for the She invited Pierce's 1 two Seward's three and two of making a little party of ten of the brightest little boys and girls in East Smithfield Soon after the children arrived at the Forest house it began to which compelled the children to play in the While the mother was preparing a dinner for the little the children decided to explore the The little Forest boy procured a candle and lit it and not being able to find a candlestick on the pantry shelf he took the lighted candle without On arriving in the garret the ten little tots began to ransack everything In a remote corner they discovered a kig with a piece of old carpet on it over which had been placed a small square board and three common The children soon removed the the board and the old carpet and found what they supposed to be a keg with black The little boy was tired holding the candle so he stuck it into the black The flame of the candle was five inches above The children continued to play and every minute the blaze of the candle crept nearer the black In another part of the old garret the oldest Forest girl found the board and the trestles that her father was laid on before he was put in his To make the gloom of the garret more she told the other children in minute detail of her father's his his and While the horrible Mormon Danite candle was nearing the black it was only four inches above These ten little idols of the hearts and the household who had so recently come from the great unknown eternity of the little dreamed that they were so close to entrance to the dark and grim mysteries of the coming untold for the Mormon destroying angel flame was nearing the black It was only three inches The father fathers of this little of group had withstood fire and powder and grape death and ru They had waded through blood as were at Fair Bull R Gettysburg and the Wilderness' were having such a good tie at the th fa he buds tree close to pearly gates of the the New New for the Mormon hierarchy was nearing the black It was only two inches above There was a knot hole in the old garret where two little wrens came and built a cute little While the mother wren sat on the nest and D. D of Salt Lake would sit in the knot hole and chirp in soothing accents to his little wife to be patient and keep the eggs He would also scold all the cats and dogs he saw out in the It did not occur to his little bird brain that there might kirk in the keg of black sand in that dim lighted garret a more deadly foe than all the cats and dogs in for the secret Mormon endowment oath flame was slyly creeping toward the black it was now only one inch In the midst of life we are in the good book comes like a thief in the The pale horse and the great terror that lurks about our homes at midnight and stalks through the earth at is no of He gathers in all kinds and the the beautiful and the innocent as well as the the and the The mother in the kitchen had just finished preparing a banquet for the young innocents in the Just as she came to the stair door to call the the slow Smoot investigation flame that was started by Paden and John L. Leilich reached the black sand and went It was learned afterwards that Forest hid the keg of powder in the The above is a sample of the stories that emissaries of Salt Lake Tribune and the Salt Lake Ministerial Association are telling the people of the east to injure They tell that the Mormon candle is slowly burning down to the explosion and it will soon reach and when the explosion it will be found that the through the balance of political power will have possession of the United and the only thing that can snuff out this candle before it the black sand Kearns and his For a com P detail and a vivid Cant Cannon 7 n or the Robert p. p. Yours