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Show -- 18- appearance. At school, however, she progressed rapidly, and was a favorite with her playmates; but at night, she kept theliousehold wako with her memorizing ballads and impro- vising meaningless rhymes.' lhus time passed visits of the eldtst sou on; the from Boston continued as regular as ever, and - it came to his ears .that little Hephzibah was to, bo the heiress of the treasures and jewels of his dead motherj.it nettled, him sorely, for he -,had plead.in vain to obtain them for his wife. TTJa father wmill .np.w.r rrmspnt thai, nnv rmn should ever possess them save those of his own - blood, and so he had thought his - daughter would some day inherit them, "Why not?" he said to himself, "it is the proper thing, and . 1 11 ! .1 .1 TI. ... in mo uireci Jiue.U ixv ujuiu. uui utar me thought that the youngest son's daughter should ever wear his mother's jewels. He was too haughty to do more than barely recognize his br6therrand as fur the wife and children, beZ never deigned to notice them. One summer when he came as usual he brought with him his son Elisha, who, not knowing his aristocratic father's aversion to the villagers, romped and played with his country cousins. o was delighted, and inadvertently graild-fathe- r said to hisson one day when he happened to see him with little Hephzibah, "That boy had better marry ni3 coumu uepoziuau ana iaKe possession here when he's of age." 4lMy son marry that country cousin of his? NeverLI would disown him. Let her marry one of her own class.' "Thi3 quite enraged the old Major who knew full well that her father wasmuch more'' honorable and generous than his citv brother:l and not only so, but that the "younzer CJ miinli txuttar Ajmili tLn ',, !f rn a u o urnvu uvuu BUil B VHIU ' cio nf luumr luuu u a .i .i Oiner .i , : j me ijul auu t,: uaugmer-iu-mwthe leiuper is Xoo "She for and he good replied, rose, your son, for now I remember who his mother was." between the two, and Angry', words followed d afterwards-reconcileto each they were never other. Little Elisha did nocomprehend jyhj I . -- God's blessings upon her. Sister "Felt expressed herself as being satisfied with the Primaries of Sanpete Stake, and her visit to them. Ourumanly little driver,FreddieSwalberg,-o- f Gunnison, did all that he could to speed us on our journey.Hejtookexcellent care of our a meeting. team, and never-missed Earnestly praying that our heavenly Father will bless the Primaries in Zion, and Hi who" spend time, means, and labor for the advance- -' ment of our precious children. We remain, i..H K lf.xa ALldsex, Stake Prcsid en tr Sarah Metcalf, Secretary, Gunnison, June 11th, 1889. j NOTES AND NEWS. e . . to be contlnued. l - - VISIT TO PRIMARIES. On the 6th of May, Sister Helena Madsen, President of the Primaries of Saripete, d by Sister Louie B. Felt, President of accom-panie- theCentralBoard -- fe.-imar- y Associa- tions, Counselor Lucy .Berglund, and Stake Secretary Sarah Metcalf, started to visit the Primaries of this Stake, holding the first meeting in Gunnison. There are 18 Primaries in the Stake, which have been holding meetings continuously, except where sickness hindered. The meetings were exceedingly well attended- noiauiy in r ouniam ureen. ... Ihe... children in their.. exercises andbehavior mamfest excellent" progress; their -- cjneneralemgji star-bespangl- -- -- nymphs of which she is always talking and "Her ways are shiftless" she dreaming." would invariably add, "and that is what the world will never overlook" But the matter rested there, and the child grew more unlike other igirlsj . ... j.1 ......;...-- r. aoul apprehensions ciaie about the future, and while ehe was left to her n fancies, and grandpas cunou3Jstorie, oia nouse ana grounds to ramble with tne precious charges ' 1 'il-- . t bister Hulda Crlljorth, President of the luiuueu ub iuu. cuu i,uiwu uui. an uiiMimi isi i cated child of nature, with a mind so rich in, Indianola Primary, furnishes a remarkable in that, nil the parth stance in the Primary cause. of glory for her, and the She lives four miles from the meeting houses heavens,- - were mysteries she never cared to in fact she lives in Utah County, "about a mge have explained, but only to gaze on and wor- - over the boundary. T : bhe takes a team and wagon and snip irom a aistance, . juitue she dreamed that up in a few short years, life would reveal itself in the children on the way, and oftengathers has held ... three weeks. ' In the evenincr. the Primary children, surrounded the bedroom window and sang some of their beautiful Bongs. Sister Robinson was moved to tears, and yet she could not "refrain from, joining in with the children in their praises to God, as she has done so for fully nines years or more. After the singing, many of the children crowded around her Ved, to press her hand and ask -- sometimes say, speaking of the fanciful child, "ITonlizihah has no more idea of eat met nnA 1 witnessed one touching, little episode on our visit -- to Sprm g- - City- .- 1 heir - rresident, Emma Eobinson, had been bedfast for two or AVe 7 treeeJbacLjiQiiM fine-spu- OUT OT1 of the Primary Associations. . d ; "hlfCSftd - state,-riorthe-heir breathed freely again, for he was gone where" he could no more trouble him about worldly affairs. Inwardly he congratulated himself that the "coast was clear "; alth6ugh he made some pretensions to a desire to help the widow and lighten her load of care. ... ..The widow reallythought that in consideration of the circumstances, the uncle would take Hephzibah, to Boston and educate herr ..but. ,no such offer was made, nor any,. hint of such a thing given. The very next morning after his brother's funeral, the rich merchant bade them all good-byceremoniously, and 1 without a word of consolation, left for fus own luxurious home, knowing too that they were entitled to a support at Jeast, from the estate, he had charge of. ' nrnsnPrPrl find m-oatl- ff visit, and feel that the knowledge of God and His ways, is increasing" with our children,. His gifts and blessings are "bestowed upon them in rich abundance. There is a strong icaredr forthepaternal looms of the family, therefore the eldest son had full sway after his youngest brother's -- He had --- death. always been --annoyed iibou his large family, and living "so near the old home, he feared hi? influence, but now he thera as if th ey were conscious of air she, said. She dwelt a3 much in a world of her own, as did her aged ran3father3d-T'theyr.suiteeach other admirably. Out of doors a3 well as in, she enjoyed every nook and corner. The orchard resounded with her sweet voice in merry song and laughter, ad there was not a s ware e, -e- ' lt-ar- we . . ers ' - 7-Th- ner-jnoin- a -- . Hephzibah, and persisted in being m ber com pany, and begged his lather to leave him in thecoun try; because he should be unhappjrif lm mint trn hfiok to Boston Without his fftvnritA His girl cousin, however, was not' -- xousm. nearly so fond of him, in fact, she loved to play by herself, and ransack old. closets and rrarrets.-o- r wherever there were old thinesr for which she seemed to have an unbounded passion. She would sit for hours together among ,1n,-.m- "one "old enough to render much assistance in the way of help or support, was more than ever engrossed with the cares of life. Alas! how heavyalFsuch burdens on women. The widow left so : utterly dependent, with, took ten children tin 'her burden heroicallrand never ialtcrcd. Some said "The children's rich uncle will provide for them," but. Mrs. H. always an' swered '"No! we do not want his money; but if I were a man with power to act, I would see robbed they had their own, of which he has them." And this was true, for the eldest brother taking advantage of the old Major's. I idio3yncracie3, naa manageu tuuuiaiu uuoacBSiuu of all his ready means, and used it ih his own business and then represented that he sup ported his father, and consequently all there was worth claiming belonged to him alone. One of the sons had died while quite young'; another gone, ihey knew not hither, for he, never wrote nor sent one word to comfort his aged father; and the third lived a gay bachelor Neither of these life in the city of Boston. looking4o-her-malntenanc- 5 ""hii&theFS . . A 1 1 1 m ( - -- " too-seldo- the current of Hephzibah's life.. Her a settlement of father died suddenlyrwitnnut M . P n 'PL any sort lor his large iamny. xuc wiuuncu mother - with- - three younger children,- and not al 1 By the way, Indianola being so isolated, the people greatly appreciate the . visits of missionaries " . Sister Felt's kind encouragement, seemed to llh into the hearts of those who listened to Eer. They appreciated her visit very, much. Little-VerFelt, who accompanied her, added to the enjoyment of each meeting, with a ' sweet recitation. We were received .with the greatest kind--- " went-- :We - ness - and - cordiality-wherever-her. nil , semi-annu- mpptins with only those she brought with a thousand glowing transports, and alas! in all its cold and hard realities as well; but so it " proved. r Ere long an event transpired that changed untidy" was her mother's idea of the child's , Alice Stone Blackwell, edits Ihe Woman's Column, No. 3, Park Street, Boston, Mass. It is a weekly and but twentv-fiv- e cents a vear.' v .j Every woman ordained to preach the gospel, by any church or ecclesiastical organiza-tion- j is a legally .suikbliLpfirsonioperformithe marriage ceremony. - May 20th, the House of the Connecticut Legislature passed the bill giving women the right to vote on the question of the sale of liquors. A.rocIaxnatTon .was issued by Governor Warren, of Wyoming Territory, for an of delegates to a Constitutional Convenelec-tio- n tion to meet September 8. " Mme. Carnot, as the first lady of France, is as popular as she is beautiful; but both she and her husbanaVCount CarnotnheresTdenf ol France, never use their titles.. She gays, . !93itlecan: le higher than that-of-Prfts- Mtit of the French Republic because that name :Amoiig all the competitors for. the first prized the schools of San Francisco, it was won by a May Ayers. The prize was to the Paris exhibition and return. She has sailed wiffiher 'mother for Europe, fromTNewr York; en i oute. Chicago This is quite a victory for the girls, and proves ieueaLeu-as.inn thnt, wi; wmw tho VMW UlUiUO Ul """"I girls are not inferior to the brains of boys. t girliss yisit: A. hm |