Show BLOOD guiltiness THE fete fate of those who besmear their hands with a righteous mans blood bad should be held up for warning whenever known if we knew the immediate effects upon those who participate in such deeds a chapter oi of horrors would be presented that would reach down and claim charl charity y in a most legitimate form As to who constituted the mob 1 that killed joseph it is possible that our system of alone can dev develop eipp sometimes we hear of men living who make a vain bout boast to appease the sentiment of a community that they assisted I 1 to kill joe smith and at other times the cir comstance cam stance comes down through posterity an instance of the latter cihat mv may never have been mentioned vas found by the writer while in vl e state of alabama the fate of the individual who was guilty of shedding a prophets blood was not 88 0 startling ling as some recorded but wp circumstances attending the be bringing of it to light were quite Iya ute in the fell fall of 1886 we took a t OP rt ila iaan an old field that haa furnished fonie honest souls but who had not batu able to obey the command to aher our welcome by newly nearly all was a most pleasant and agreeable one till we reached the humble home of a brother who was alone a member of the church his wife and large family were outside of the fold fola though they ahey endured our presence i perhaps but few elders have ever been at the house who did not notice upon their approach the woman roman with the corners of her mouth drawn down and an old bonnet pulled over the eyes as if condensation conden mation hiis was fixed upon her brow a and nd she could not look k us in the face to be affable and pleasant was one of our principal mottoes and though gloomily repulsed in this instance the same rule was adopted but with very poor effect thus we would spend our time talking to the man and what members of 0 the fam family v were not n parked marked after after the manner of the mother these conditions I 1 never lent much aid towards making the con conversation vermon very spirited and usually our departure would ie be hastened in consequence q of such su h uncongenial feelings I 1 never would woul d we depart from the house without commenting upon the peculiarity of some soine people and a dread fd reference would be made to the acts of our female friend we would wonder and wonder what so affected the woman b never could tell what it was it was waa a year later when a second visit was made to th this place and while in a confidential chat with the man of the house be told the cause of his eifes actions said be brother W nay my fifles grandfather named place bice was one of the mob that killed joseph smith very won soon after he be was employed on a steamboat while riding along one calm day he very strangely fell from the boat and notwithstanding the efforts effort milde made to rescue hira him he was mas drowned the circumstance was somewhat somei bat mysterious to all who it and this to me wm was the eaph ellana ep lana tion of what we could not solve our presence tended to arouse the feelings of the woman against again ua bemuse because of a failure to accept the truth but the fate of her grandparent would thrust itself before bea 0 re her herand and a forced respect in silence allence was given us while notia neta strict application yet one that can be applied we quote the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children to the third or fourth generation E 8 sr |