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Show Innocence Abroad. Commuuicaled.J Among the conference visitors to Provo came a fair and innocent school ma'am from one of the inter-counties. In this city lives relatives whom she had never seen, so that a visit to them was made a part of the programme ; and, accordingly, after a short stop-off at Provo, the rural beauty proceeded on her way to the metropolis, where she arrived the night before last and where in all her. life she had never before been. . It may also be stated, to show the unsophisticated condition con-dition of her mind, that the railway train which brought her hither, was the first she had ever seen. On her arrival at the Utah Central depot, a hackman was summoned and directed to drive to No. State Road, where the pedagogic maiden fully anticipated finding an uncle : but, alas! the uncle had recently removed re-moved to a farm five miles out in the valley, and this sad mischance was not discovered till the hackman had driven off. There was she, a stranger in a strange city, puzzled to know what to do, and night coming on. However, Providence Provi-dence or the Fates furnished her an advisor ad-visor in the person of a sensible woman, who counseled her to go to a hotel, get a room, lock the door, go to bed, sleep till morning and then again take up her search for her relations. The advice was acted upon and she started back for the center of town. On the way she caught sight of a dentist's sign, bearing the name of a dear old friend. KushinS up to, the door, with hope once more eb-bing eb-bing high, the unlurkv hpV,! knocked; no response. She called her friend's name aloud; echo was all she heard. Again, disappointed and downcast, down-cast, she proceeded to one of the citv hotels, where, on her arrival, she laid her case before the gentlemanly landlord, land-lord, whom a . moment comprehended her dilemma, and at once conducted her to one ofthe best rooms in the house. Remembering the advice of the aforfe-' mentioned sensible female, this fair and unsophisticated country cousin immediately imme-diately locked the door and-sat up all night watching the key yL!-nBT ruffian SaIlant a la tbe James Brothers, should break in and uCf xier away, xnere she sat, or stood, conjuring m her mind all sorts of horrible night-maresin reality; all the abduction stories she had ever read were pictured so vivid y m her mind that she passed a 2Sf Aiug, dreadinT lest EJfc m lhe sUence darkness should break m her room and either rob nmrder or abduct heraway. The weTr hours of night dragged slowly along but morning finally dawned, and w?th the pat randf Hsht the hooYmam! pale and... weary escaped from her torture and in a few hours was folded in the loving embrace of Sfafityfrelatives- Xt i3 6afe to saTthat this first night's experience in Salt Lake SJT48 an a2nizing and a never-to-be- rSnrnr6- tte Scbo01 returned home a somewhat wiser girl. |