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Show PRESIDE.1T VOl'SU'g BIRTBDAVi To-day President Brigham Young ia seventy-one year3 of age, having been born on June 1st, 1&01. Amoog the many eventful years of hia life, the one jutclod has not been the least eventful. event-ful. During it a cunningly planned effort was made not only to strike at hid life, but at the very existence of 1 the prosperous colooy so successfully built up during the last quarter of a : century under his leadership. With 1 that attempt and its results bo far, the public are too familiar to require further fur-ther comment at this time. That his enemies were foiled in their malevolent I designs, all who honor the great and good man who has for nearly thirty years led the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will rejoice at; and will wish him on this his natal day, as wc do heartily and honestly, ' Many happy returns of the day." We have do desire to write, nor ia there any necessity for writing, a eulogy on his actions in tho past; they speak for him, and the results of his wisdom can be seen all around us; but we sincerely hope hU life may be prolonged many years to see the continued fruition of his noble labors. |