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Show on district conferences. George Hamlin recited "New Century Sonnets." There were adresses on Sunday school NTS IN SESSION IN SALT LAKE work by President Smith, President J CITY. A. H. Lund and Apostle F. M. Lyman. The benediction was delivered by Thousand People Attend John B. Maiben. srteen IF K of the Seventy-fourt- h n Opening Session SECOND DAYS SESSION. Conference of the Church h Latter-daof Jesus Christ of k Despite the fact that rain was fallSaints, ing, fully 5,000 people were In attend-, Iance at each cession of ccnferouee on In the One of the largest crowds Monday. Tho weather, however, kept rt attended the many away. No direct reference was church the of K.tory fourth made to the Smoot case, although r, fling sessions of the seventy of several of the Church the of conference au.il a speakers mentioned the 1 I latter-daSaints of Christ of the outside world to as opposition j. on Sunday. The aes- - (j,e jiormons. S, it iJike City I in tho forenoon, but tho on0 B, ,ns began (ajni? features was the was In the afternoon. appPaj to the young men to remain to Ui.'gost crowd Inch of firm in the faith. The til 11 mi the throngs filled every presidents o: In the tabernacle, the newly organized stakes In Salt lui, n. jjlah'e space the Assembly hall, where an r.ake, William Mcl arhtan. Nepbi L ocou- - Morris and Richard W. Wt .rw'TfiOw meeting was held, and Young, and I Elias s. Kimball, president of the now a large space on the grounds. tk .Several statements were made Riaekfoot stake, all representing the refer-younger element of the Mormon peo bich were generally taken as and tho case, Smoot ! encos to the 1resldont Jo-ttmony given there by Smith to tho effect that he ONFERENCE CROWDS THAT GIRL of JOHNSONS By JZAJV K.AT& LVDLlM, Autur Iitanl Aecordlnt la the Is Act Office of the tAI m Cirri Xrra SU. at Cenmw la tlx Ynr 1M br Street A Smith, LibrerUa of Centred, at Wethmiloa, D. C. . y y n 1 CHAPTER III Continued. That night his comrades at the tavern had told him of this; they taunted blm with It; they laughed at the girt They did not like her not on of them. Narrow natures dislike and distrust that which they cannot understand. Toung Green also had aroused his fears. Green had an education; he had asked where the girl obtained her education, therefore she must he waa have an education. assured of this. He kicked the book contemptuously, and muttered, under his breath, an oath against young Green. If ever he came there again it would be a sorry day fer him. To-nig- By and by young Green left him and went up to the house for a drink. Johnson was not the only silent one that day. His daughter listened mutely to the young mans conversation. If anything she waa even more listless than usual, though a strange color tinged her cheeks as he talked. He left tho promised book with her; he had not forgotten It, he said, but bad been unable to take It before. For a moment her face glowed with pleasure and the silken lashes lifted swiftly, but fell ere their eyes could meet. She thanked him in a few simple words In her low, sweet voice; then her gaze wandered away to the hazy He mountain top in the distance. left In a few minutes, deeply disappointed In her, and yet strangely interested and puzzled. Had be mistaken her? Was she Incapable of the thought he believed she possessed? Had she not, after all, the ambition to be more than an untaught village girl? Did her thought end with the blue line of the mountains and the hamlets scattered along their sides? he him; Dolores dlbappolnted thought her so much better than she had proved herself, and yet under It all there was a sting In the thought which he did not understand, student of character as he was. She was positively stupid, he said Yet her face shows such regretfully. Dolores said nothing. He A sadden frenzy seized him. stooped and snatched the book from sttph'K. the ground. It was an old astronomy. 1 .intended to continue marriage rolaShe had been reading the book, for In the she preferred It to any of her mothbona with his plural wives. E. Taylor I mistake to say tho younger Mormons er's books, and wheu young Green .opining prayer Elder Joseph In which the are not following In the f ieps of saw It the day he was there he was gave thanks for the way had defended their fathers. lie urged all young much surprised, and promised to take church of the president at men and women to stand fast for a volume on the subject the next time f-principles of the faith, both he went that way. thir rollon and abroad. She thanked him, and it wan the Apostle A. O. Woodruff spoke In the Smith, who presided, president first time she had thanked any one was Zion That was since Betsy Glenn died. 4e aa address in which he urged forenoon. declaring that Saints to he firm In prospering despite her enemies. Dr, two weeks before, and he had not tbal Latter-da- y B. Young said the greatest come again as he said he would, but the faith, declaring the Lord would Seymour came from for him, feeling sure that watched she opposition professing the for following reward his people he would hoop his promise to her, feelChristians. and truth, cyUavrs of righteousness President John O. McQuanle of the ing stiangely glad when she thought in lebn. Apwtla Francis M. Lyman spoke states mission told of the dis- of him. She had perfect faith In him. eastern mmor, favor of "multiplying and replenishing Her father's face was lurid as he Hi the earth." He declared that all couragements he and his snatched the book from tho ground. encountered when they started their fflws ftjiata know when President Joseph work In New York and other cities His small eyes, close set, were full of brute cruelty; the velrs of his Is God speaking F. Smith speaks, He said, whatever else had been1 ac- forehead were swollen. In his hands, no makes Lord tho and through him, used to wielding the heavy hammer, complished. it was certain Mormon-Ismistakes. Eider Brigham IL Roberts the book was a toy; his fingers and was well advertised being tho warned the Genltles not to reject a deal was of thK interest closed over It, and In an instant It arousing great e n, 'word. clean lay la shreds at her feet. elders should He said live the For a moment she did not comprejonitiiDuring the forenoon President John lives, since they were representatives hend what had been done; she looked if vrk n. Winder made a reminiscent of tne church, and urged the memand President Anthon H. Lutrd bers In Utah to do the same to make from the book to him and back again. T. Then she arose; her face was white, Easter and the resurrection, a on converts and and her eyes flashed. She looked at good Impression A large part of the address of Elder nthors. him, and he cowered befora her. She Roberts In the afternoon was devoted W. Ivins of was tall and stately; he had never bePresident Anthony subject of Easter, and the Im Juarez stake reported on the condi- fore appreciated her dignity. Now he e sdw to t He made an tions in Mexico. lie said there are appreciated It to the full. The book port? mortality of the soul. the was the dearest thing In the world to dental reference to Dr. W. M. Pa-- i now 2,700 Mormons In Mexico, and 'olonles grown having rapidly strrc 4 her; he could have wounded her In recent sermons attacking part prospered. no other way. moke t jj, uoojt 0f Mormon. Our relations with the Mexican Mechanically he gatherel up the he are government satisfactory, scattered fragments and as she held of out "We polisaid. keep entirely Overflow Meeting. for them he gave them hand out her In ties and are allowed to live peace. to her without a word, without even Apostle Hyrum Smith presided at Thank God for that! Play tt A overflow meeting la the Assembly Speaking of the church in general, glancing at her. For the time ahe declared tho members numbered was more than his daughter; her he ,er ihaJL ITie place was packed. moro than they did thirty years eyes were on his face, and her spirit 50,000 I Ty nut i,e meeting opened with prayer by 0gOi tjja they weie stronger In ruled his. Then they strayed away jjiwioph Christensen. Short addresses p,e faith than ever, to the mountain top veiled in haze. wore ma'e Pratt, president Nephi The fire died out of her eyes; her by heir f et the lorthwestern states mission; haads, mecnanlcally holding the torn leaves of her book, fell listlessly at As4 Woodruff, president of the north her side; her shadow lay long and eraslatos mission, and Josoph E. behind her. dark president of the California There was a sense of mystery about her which her father could not underXf Golden Kimball said his heart stand; he shrank from it and from wa filled with a protest against the her, and passed away up the dark iniquities of the world that he had difficulty In restraining himself. (Resident David H. Cannon of the I BL George temple and Joseph W. Me-- 1 Inexperience in nls new duties, and ton-!M- -- ! - r. Rob-inao- mis-tBu- it n , i M c . President Angus M. Cannon, In de- 8tke followed. President Ellas 8. Kimball of the raring the benediction, prayed that al- people of the world would learn to now Blackfoot stake declared his fi a fetter llghL and that the church goo(j plac0 t0 jlve sr--i : aught thrive despite all opposition. Output of Minerals for 1902. Outside, Rulon 8. Wells and others aike to the crowds on the grounds The geological survey will soon Isnear the bureau of Information. sue Its report on mineral resources frr 1902, showing that that year, for tho third time, the total value of the comI. Sunday School Conference. mercial mineral products of the UnitBO pi i The tabernacle waa crowded at the ed States exceeded 11,000,000,00. The e. eferonce of the Deseret Sunday exact figures for 1902 were 11,260.639.-415- , l Union Sunday evening. It Is imftt' 1 which, compared with 11.086,594.-85ti mated that fully 10,000 persons n, wbr In 1901, shows a gain of 16.2 per vo bt we proaont. cent. The fuels Increased 126.667,743, six The presiding officer was President or 6 per rent. Every variety of fuel Joseph . Smith. Music was furnished Increased In value except anthracite Iff the Jurcnllo and adult choirs of eoal, which showed a decrease In Granite stake, under the direction of quantity of I3 3150 long tons, and fttfesRor Evan Stephens. Every In value of ?3ii.3:v,434. Tho metallic and sake waa represented, as well as the products Increased f 123.992,325. J50.072.0S9. tho products California, northwestern states and To these should be added estimates of eogt born states missions. unspecified products. Including build b shorn After the reading of statistics on lng, molding and other mineral prod school work, the names of the ucts valued at 11,000,000. laluabl'1 oC0r were Presented by the gen- Hearat Wins a Point in Fight on Coal Bocretary, George D. Pyper, and h. It Trust sustained. They aro as follows: Tho case of the Interstate commerce t TlntoDdent, Joseph F. Smith; first commission vs. Baird, commonly ly Id superintendent, George Rey-- r known as the anthracite coal ease, dds; second assistant superintend-J- . was decided by the supreme court of M. Tanner; general secretary, the United States Monday In favor George D. Typer; business manager, of the contentlona of the commission, A. Morton. These officers and the the decision of the United States board of twenty-fivmembers aro the court for the southern district of sumo as last year This is New York being reversed. Vf. D. Owen read an edltoral In the the esao Instituted before the commls w gpri' Juvenile Instructor by President Jo-i- slon by W. U. Hearst of New York, by the discrimination in uih F. Smith, dealing with stake or- - who alleged which reached the railroad companies at t$ lUzattons. J. W. Sununerhays spoke anthracite coal mines In Pennsylvania irse i 1 non-metalt- c - Su-us- e of-- ', C clr-su- it e g I- i grouty Is' Sfl , rt lnl'' When er. I1 -- Corruption Is declared to be known la Japaneao politics. floor forr S h'1, tho Japanese one divorce place for every four marriages. or Tho proportionate circulation In Japan Is shout tho as In this country. Among L lJt! t un- ' -- 'e Japanese soldiers aro fed on rice, r ted Huh. dried seaweed and plckh'd i. can( tf t 'a b - a iln t that Is almost universal given Jrk r hi J i pa n. cvcpi In tho navy, where can', t tons of mi at nr nerved, Sid. tiers J allowed meat when oil campaign, oil' a L t V'l taroly fat It. tep i a S'1 l low le' Shoe Polish Causes Deatl of Ohio Men. City Chemist Kichmnler and Coro nor Stors of Toledo, Ohio, sft'r careful analysis, have decided that V S. Rader, who died suddenly on Sun day morning. March 2nd, and whoso death was attributed to cVnrottes nn diint ItuT, was poisoned by nltro-hcnr- i rotitalnod In the shoe polii'i which le used on the cloth top of his slioi s The poison Is deadly, and of tho forty eight cares if such pelHotiinn record ed, there has boun hut one recovery. Nltra-Bcnzo- l Over and over, mingled with the memory of the black mare and bar rider, the words were driven In dully, as though by the strokes of a hammer even, distinct, deafening, most terrible to the girl in the darknoas. "Kf ever thet young feller kema hyar agen etll be a sorry day fer hem!" HE SAVED THE OWU Icemane Wonderful Story That Hla Friends Doubt. An iceman told n story the other evening, a story which he Bays la the truth and nothing but the truth. It was a new departure for an Iceman, relating facts, but he stands ready to An vouch for It. i j He was going to a pond a morning or two ago, rather early, and to got to A Neighborly Gift the scene of his labors was obliged to "Et hev been so dry I 'lowed xnebby pass up a railroad track. His attenther gyardtng hyar dednt mount ter tion was attracted by a peculiar objoct much, bein' as ye air up so high, so 1 Jutting from a little pool where ice brlnged ye some strawbrtes outen had formed, and he stopped to examour gyardlng, Dolores." ine It It moved, and closer Inspec"Thank you; our garden didn't tion proved It to be a little owl, which Dolores said, In some manner had become frozen amount to much, In the Ice. at looked her She neighbor gravely. The Iceman swears that the owl without a sign of interest In her face; she spoke in her usual listless man- made several distinct signals of disner; but under the Ustnessness and tress, and he, of course, waa In duty apparent carelessness was the con- bound to render all needod assistance. sciousness like a sharp sword, that A strong pull failed to separate the the gift was the forerunner of some- feet and Ice, so he dug out the bird thing to follow else than her pleasure, with the help of his knife. The owl She emptied the berries out of the was unable to walk, and be carried it basket Into a dish and stood regard home, where medical aid was given. The bird was all right In a day or lng them. Mrs. Smith said afterward she looked as though she were trying two and now, says the Iceman, It refuses to leave and will eat only from hla hand. The Iceman has related this bird story to all who will listen to him and becomes very Indignant tt bis veracity la Questioned. Tauatoo Gazette. possibilities. He waa walking slowly down the narrow path to the shop, his hands clasped behind him, his fair head bent slightly forward. Dolores was watching him, but he did not know it. He never guessed of the wistful brown eyes following him down the stubbly path. Bess whlruied shrilly when he came in sight. She was restless and snappish, but when he mounted and rode out of the shop she grew gentle again. As he rode away Johnson called after him that she must have gone some distance without her shoe, for her foot was tender. Dolores watched him with her far seeing eyes as he rode up the mountain, then her gaze went down to the shop. Her father was standing in the doorway also watching the rider. He had forgotten his pipe; his face In the hazy sunlight was full of sullen hatred, and be looked capable of committing almost any act. His muttered threat oi the previous evening returned to her clearly and distinctly. Her eyes widened with nameless fear. She looked up the mountain again to where tee black mare was bearing her rider proudly along the yellow thread of road; she was no longer listless; her face was whlto, her Ups Quivering with excitement CHAPTER VI. Steptadder a Treasurs. German housewives have a step-laddcontrivance which, If universally adoptod, would do much In the way of tho elevation of mankind this Is not a pun and the diminution of the use of strong language. The ladder Is built CD the plan of the ordinary household article, except that at the top tt has a platform which enables the hausfrou to step from the front toward the wall, and within comfortable reachof ing distance upon anything which she Is working. Every one knows that many of our ordinary Dolores Watched Him. to discover If they might be tetch-ed- . In reality the girl did not even see them. She waa wondering vaguely what the woman would say about the mare. That ahe bad come for some purpose outside of br!ng.ng the fruit was clear to her. She waited with a tinkles heart and strained eara for what the woman would say. She knew well that something must follow. That It was In regard to the mare of young Green she . ad not a doubt Perhaps the suspicion In regard to the guilty Perhaps party bad become a facL this woman had come to tell her perhaps atcplad-der- having s, the brae at the baok to preserve the equilibrium, keep the worker standing on the top at a distance from the wall, and the higher the ladder the Is greater the In- cline of the brace and the further the woman at the top is ont from the point she wishes to reaeh. This Is not only Inconvenient but dangerous, for there la always a chance of a fall. From the top of the German ladder, and from the step below, Is a double s and adplatform, held with bra-ejustable, ao that It can be folded In when not In use. When the platform la In place the housewife or maid havbeing climbed the ladder to the step the forward upon low the top, steps lower platform, which brings her out over the grave at the back. In the place where she would be on the lad der proper If she were using the ordiThe nary household Inconvenience. a little out carried is upper platform further. Standing comfortably upon the section below, well toward the well, ahe has her pall of water before her upon platform No. 2 and can do her work without effort. (To be continued.) HABIT IN READING PAPERS. CHAPTER V. Almost Every Person Has One Part He Turns to First Whose Waa the Deed? Dolores waa waiting for something Very old persons," said an observto happen. A vague terror possessed er, "nearly always, on unfolding their her; ahe could not have defined it newspaper, turn to the column of had ahe tried; she did not try. Young Deaths. This is because, In the first Green's face seemed to haunt her. place, they are most likely to find She watened her father continually news of their friends there than In while be waa In the bouse, for a sort the column of Marriages, or any of fascination waa upon her, and she other part of the paper, and because, could not keep Her eyes from his face. in the second place, they are InterestShe could not explain the terror ed In death they have It much In that possessed her, but her whole their minds. listless nature was aroused. She was "Young girls tern first to the soci"A Tooth for a Tooth." differenb and her life was somehow ety news and weddings, and after that artificial teeth were created Before how. knew not she difforenb to the fashions. Young men of the deficiencies had to be made good by to The slow days passed, It seemed sort, turn first to tho healthy, open-ai- r article, so body snatchers ravher, with even more slowness than sporting news, while boys universally the real cemeteriea at nlgbL breaking the aged was their wocL Every morning the turn to thla page first. The actor, of dead to extract red sun arose out of a veil of haze course, reads the dramatic columns, up the Jaws of the for Inserdentists to to sell teeth their valfrom the mountain beyond the and the writer the book reviews, but tion In live men's mouths. An army ley; every evening he sank behind neither of these departments, I fancy of there ghouls followed Welllngtoa's the gray peaks In the west does any part of the disinterested army. They were licensed as sutlers, Nothing happened after all; life public consult first of all. but once night tell, out came their nipwaa stage ant; the sun arose and sot; pom-poua of "The gentleman elderly pers and they prowled over the batthe haze burg more derse and thick editorials the reads appearance tlefield extracting the teeth of the over the mountain peaks. No rain while his corpulenb cheerful dead or dying. first, fell; nothing bapponed. Nothing hap- wife reads the recipes on the 'housepened until Borne clergymen read hold' Human Head Grown In Wood. page. acroaa floated rumor One day the to toe what of the wills dead, as an altar In the Grant's the Toslng the mountain that young Greens have been remembered with Pass (Oregon) lodgeroom Is an charities in breed the one the choicest cf mare, Or stump, lta top shaped Ilk There are many people who country, valued at what seemed to boiiuosts. and the scandals the read the a human head. Even the features crimes, the simple villagers a fabulous sum, a as Poets, accldects first shocking grew there naturally, and except for a discovwas had gone lame. And this at not the read will newspaper little carving to Improve one eye, no ered the mcrnlrg after she was shod rule, More Listless Than Usuual. Record. alteration was necessary after a woodPhiladelphia all," hank heavy with the shaciows of the by Johnson. man discovered tho curio In the midst To most of the villagers this fact of Early Christians. pines that swayed In the faint breeze, meant of the forest. A right ear la the only Advantages had one the That nothing. of There la even a and again silence fell around her. la a story tolling lotter lacking feature. Bishop anything to do with the other never asked who old beard represented by a whlta fungus recently lady dear entered their heads. They had no CHAPTER IV. waa Solomon was that it how him growth. cause for suspicion. But to Dolores so many wivee not the rumor came like a blow. It soem-e- allowed to have The Mare. Burglar's "Fitted" Coat fashto her In a atrango, faraway have come again, " said young ion that this was what she had been freen, laughing. expecting. This was why the kindly of the the in stood doorway He Into mare by the blue eyes were always looking forbop, bolding the black bers, and the pleasant, face was bridle. thoughts. Johnson had been altticg on a ever In her were on her father when Her eyes bwocfc outside of tho shop, smoking a was told by one of the news the man the As young spoke day pipe. Into be arose and advanced toward the neighbors. A tall was driven the meres hoof and she was dead mare. so soon?" be lame. Tbo hostler had found It when "Another thoe he examlred her hoof, which was not queried, shortly. the young roan, lightly. until tho m lining following the day "Yes." said Come, Grcen was ut the settlement. It was "Her right shoe tbla time. a hard blow to the young man, the Boss; eome, my girl!" as There was a sudden, sullen glow on speaker said, for he had thought as though she were a of her much bellows took the as be face Johnsons to and blew the fire Into a fierce blaze. woman. Conjecture was rife as Suspicion egraph home for money and didn't To escape observance from th poHe laid the Iron on the fire and rais- who had dune the deed. housebreaker has rested particularly in one direction, have the price of a Marconi." lice tho up ed the hammer. He and the upii!on waa pretty well his coat fitted with loops Into which Young Green began tc talk. 8trategy. but the young man would he slips his assortment of thluvcs Imspoke of the dry weather and the hard founded, It's lucky I'm a dentist, chuckled plements. could bn no doubt roads; he told tho news of the town wait until (here the tall student, and of the trial that was to come off And here the story et dod. as "Why so?" asked the friend. had listened Dolores w'ho silently, had thief Improved Freight Facilities. cf a notorious horse last nlglit every time 1 kissed "Well, no her, one her waa noticing habit, IVss. A train of eighty cars will to modern stial aUmnptlng been caught Wtien the old move 3,600 tonsof freight as against lhtet.ed In sullen The memory of her father's words Clnra she rr anted. Tho blacksmith 1 I train of a the other day returned to her with man came down told him was tuor the 943 tons of a allonoe between tho blow of tVe a force she could cot account for. ly trlcg to pull a tooth. decade ago. a odd-lookin- g d 1 e r |