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Show ii i wiiM.a 1 1 win am wiwwm ipi 1 r 1 From Mudopolis. A Corrcspondant Write- from TLi3 Burg in the ?lud, and Expond3 en Various Subject3. The Sunday School. Review Bay J)ay schools, Etc. - MUDOPOLIS VS. CHF.STEK. corrrv!on'tcrce to the KB(ilhTKK: l '.i'i Tou Rkuis i kk:-Perhaps your readers would like, to read some of my jottings as a penpatetic convas-sers convas-sers for statistics, educational and otherwise. I arrived here as the present Terminus Ter-minus of the S. P. V. Ry. on Saturday Satur-day evening, and determined a stay at the house of that "prince of the Globe" once a favored restaurant in Salt Lake in the palmy days of yore. Have I found the time honored ccniviality of mine host, and bis excellent housewife unimpared pro vcrbially in observing the Sabbath, I bent my way to the Sunday School, it happened to be what was termed term-ed a REVIEW PA V. From Jan. 1879 the date of the re-organization under the present Stiperintcndency, the house was decorated dec-orated with some beautiful scriptual charts, an array of Sunday School literature at once pleasing, profitable and should be a sufficient inducement induce-ment to the old and young who were so fittingly invited to spend an hour of a Sabbath, reading the promiscuous promis-cuous books without reference to the Sunday School, or a scholar therein. there-in. Some of those recent publications publica-tions from the Juvenile office. The Contributor "the Historical Record" are thera loc reading, experience ate. The total of the funds received and escpluded in the S. S. interest amounting to nearly $175.00 in the period named and to date was a pleasing reminder of the joy, hilarity hilar-ity etc. that the Sunday School Children must have enjoyed around Christmas trees and from rewards of Merit etc. A NEW FEATURE. It was the day to declare the ballots bal-lots cast by the scholars the previous Sunday, for the' best behaved boy and girl in the Sunday School.it was all expectancy qui vive, and a modest mod-est expression of joy as two sisters were counted equal, one boy eclipsed eclip-sed them all, it was pleasing to see the little misses Acord receive a beautiful card favorably endorsed by the Supenntendency. How far this "copying after the world" is approvablc I leave the critics to decide, it was a pleasing occasion. ; THE DISTRICT SCHOOL. ( Monday morning was to be the inauguration . ol the new school teacher, Young Mr. Don Thoman-der, Thoman-der, of Ephraim, aged 20 years, a self persistant,educated, young man, the trustees and people had disposed dispos-ed of the former pedagogue, a new one was to be tried The salary is ample, $110. for a 10 weeks term, the education of the teacher ample, but there exsists an overflowing j ex cuberance behavior that is hoped the young aspirant of pedagogic honors may be able to cope with. I bade farewell to the hospitality of mine host. My Note Book replenished, replen-ished, and I wended my way .to the yet imperfect depot at straateSpring City, for Ephraim and beypnd. j RV MAGNATES. , j were aboard, at best never very communicative, yet not knowing my bent on news they opened out a little as to the future of the R. G.W. for 1 89 1. j We shall extend 16 miles south of Janti this year and there stop fpr awh:le, this will give us the key for the whole southern trade. I But why not push on to .Salina pt least? We cannot, our immense outlays at "soldier"makeit absolute to concentrate our means and forte there. But may it not be possible some other competitor may corfie rushing and pass you i at WilUw Creek, and thus secure the southern trade. No, we think not, if you mean the U. P. we know her status, Iter apparent Anti-progressivcness, ler mixed condition at Chester, that e have no fear, besides we have t' e key to the situation in San Pel:, Jevier and south. Besides a sense of gratitude to 11 , the initial road to Manti, wou 1 prompt the Ephraim and Manti pe -pie to facilitate heir enterprise, ft by weighty mouetary chains are tht not bound to our car, which dot 1 not propose to b a rnodera jagge naut. Looi at our crowded condition d passengers and freight, our tariff o charges, our accomodating passen ger rates, it seems to me the nios obtuse could see on which side tht paternal slice of bread is butterei on. Here Manti is reached at tin famous Bench House I am registered, regis-tered, but for this purpose I am. Wh.t I Am. |