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Show -! 74. - y- 2.J. of the Women of SAtT - Kditori.l: Twenty Four Years. Sixty Years Of Wedded Life. Editorial Notes. usta Poktrv: Two Little Herd " Cro'cheron. ReOections Libbie. A Joyce Desert. Blooms 'Again Si manthaT: Brjmhall. Boys-Aug- ' 'lightened Idly we gazed on the valley fir down, While echoed around us the whistles so shrill Of U. P. and Denver in race for the town. Long before dinner we emptied our pail$, Thomrhth-s-pf 'hours ere th? r.int-w- okl down, Then homeward we hurried with songs and with ' ' tales, Two little herd boys, barefooted and brown. Qver the dry lake that shone in the sun, y Down by the Jordan, the rushes and slough; Wild fowl flew up out of reach of our gun, ; ?-- - jofieswejpiem few. , Still we were happy, for glowing and bright The sun as it sank, threw its rays from the west, And the windows of home answered back all alight, And beckoned us there to a welcome and rest. The coasting and skating! We bovs were not . cold Though keen blew the wind and the icicles v grew, Till back by the fireside and stories are told Then.Billy.'twas cold.with the chores yet to do. O, heavy in keeping, the burden and strife! The riches and honors, they chain us around, ; They flush and then fade. The best' hours of ' . - : hfe -----7 -T Were for two little playmates, barefooted and .' brown. ' j Aprd 30, 1S96. Augusta Joyce Crociieron. ' 7'7 - REFLECTIONS. Our labors are finished ..our; prayers have been " , : answered And homeward all joyous we go It' will cheer the fond hearts of our aged parents And little we'll heed the fall of the snow. But our floWers are tender from warm beds they're ' x takeii, - The cold, chilly winds they never have known; ' ' " wuuuiiij; uver who joy ana wiui God speeded our journey by sea and by land, When nearly approaching the city of promise, A.cold, chilly cloud o'er shadowed our band. ere aroused on account of our flowers, Sj tei iir.so priceless.rare jewels from heaven, We nestled them closer,but felt a foreboding, Of as towaids us the cloud was fast ill-fat- w e, driven. " Kind friends full of joy ne'er thinking of evil, Warmly greeted us 'ere. we arrived at our home: But'could we forget the cloud tha.t hung o'er us, 1 he sorrow that seemed to awa.it us at home? O no 'twas the cold chilly winds of December. ' That stole from our garland And QHf th fairest of all; bowed rtAwn when u- mraf t3 were - thought to be happy, And humbly we bowed to the Maker of alb For the Gardener was ready to gather the flowers He had given us to cherish and keen for awhile And our hearts were sore grieved when he firmly . demanded ' . - all Nations, .7 ,896, No. of our in need 2. infiueiKc. together with other States and Territories who went there-fothe purpose of dc vising methods best adapted to fiiither the cause, and to petition Congress to grant them a six teentlf amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It. was a time when never were the Delegates interviewed with greater zest than on the present occasion, .but mind you, (we attribute these to our) state afTairslii7dlTbTrto" charged condition-iourselves. - Many of the Presidents of State associations .said to me, they were paid for coming to the convention i( only, they could report to their State association, that Utah women were independent and free' as the third star on the 'flag of one Union indicates. They acknowledge they are possessed with the prejudices of the pxst to such an extent that they feared we were not socially free. I told them it would have been utterly impossible to have obtained political freedom unless our social influence had asserted itself &c. During one conversation I had with some of the ladies about Utah's social condition a. Mrs. Haskell walked across the parlor to where we were and asked pardon for the intrusion, but said she-have bjen listening to your conversation and desire to introduce myself. Lam so interested' in Utah that I desire to hear more of her peop'e,- for while I reside in Montana, I know little of vour true status: It was she who was the nominee for the Office of Attorney Gene ral of the State of Montana but was defeated by Mr. Haskell her competitor.. This created quite a ripple of laughter iu the audience, a's also in. the introduction of Miss Yates calling her Mrs. Yates, she objected to king called Mrs. and Miss Anthony "no we ' r ; - ' . -- . ' " 1 d We yield up our darling.our beautiful child. And thus our return to our home was made gloomy By the cold hand of death that welcomed us all And Fate had decreed the reception long talked X j,of Should be to us only a burial pall. January, 1896.. s- n We knew to our homes uV again would be'wel-- . coined, By our kiridred and friends who have been to us true.. - 1 - The labor was finished we were sent forth to do, Oiir fears 0 m forty-thre- e yard ) carefully remove every rock from the way. For the Master has sMd if thy .labor is faithful, Thy reward will be sure at tlie close of the day. So our hearts were e'er happy, our burdens were gladness, Gathering water cress close by the trail And hunting- the birds nests far up in the ' . x boughs. " And while our herd wandered over the hill, ''''' were planted and they An ...wj Billy, I'm thinking of when we were boys, Days that seemed made all of trouble and care, Come back in memory laden with joys Glowing with pictures all happy and fair, Up the long canyon w ith whip and with pail Gathering flowers we followed the cows, 15, .We have labored so hard, to prune well the vine- TWO LITTLE HERD BOYS. . sultry skies MAY In their infancy there with others they've grown. y Min-erv- UTAH. CITY, nurtured, . , V! VIV 'ion and the Rights of the Women LAKK Beneath Visit to Washington Sarah A. Huyer; Ladies' Meeting L. I). Alder. Birthday A. Elvira V. S. A. Meeting Harrison. Tarty Cassie C. Newman. U. V. T. CKIlis R. Shipp. .Miss Barton's Relief Work CI a ira Barton. V. Snow.. Mrs. brown's Letter. The Book Of Mormon M. E. K. Mn Memoriam.' Ohitu- aries. Mrs. Chapman-Catt- . Notes And News. W. S. A. Nettie Hunt. Conference Of The N. A. W.S. A. bemi-oionthl- -- .. The Rights Vol.. S ' j . V - . Linr.iE. - , x VISIT TO WASHINGTON. Having been asked to give rstrlf don't covet the title" ' Spk ir-yAunt Susan" quickly responded witty Miss on Yates which brought down. tlie house, Another reason xwhy it was deemed wise to send delegates at the present time was to evidence our prpgressiveness in uniting our voice with the rest of the States and Ter-- " rirorieV in the hope that ere long every. State 111 the Union will concede to woman this right, and inasmuch as this body of women had advertised their intention of devoting one session to Utah in welcoming and congratulating her people in the gallant fl ght they had made to engraft this principle in her constitution it was deemed necessary by the President, of the Utah V. S. A. and the - State executive - cnimittee"to; our apsend Delegates Expressing and of their, recognition' preciation Miss Shaw's address of to to respond as you alread)1 -- know ourSenator Frank J. Cannon w'asHhe first speaker to respond to Miss Shaw's address'owelcome and was followed by Mrs. C. K. Allen, myself and MrsrFr S. "Ricliards who read a In.Paper which was replete with valuable formation relative to our present position and what had led to it from the Kdmunds-Tucke- r law down to the present time. The Washington papers made favorable comment of our speeches. Jt was remarked by Miss Sha.w that there never was a time yvheh we received so little opposition as at the . a short sketch of my trip to Washington, I "do so with pleasure, hoping the samewill not be t!ninteresJjng,7thougb I .danptdo this because of my fitness by nature to tell it with precision and amplitude as one tersed in descriptive lore, but will give a few of my observations and conditjons as we met them. The object iu going as you are all well aware was to attend a Woman's Suffrage Convention, and while it might seem a useless expenditure of time' and ' money considering that Utah is now a State with universal political equality, guaranteed to all her citizens, without regard to race, color or sex; yet it was deemed expedient:and also a matter of justice due the National W7 S. A. to meet with them as on former occasions, not now as formerly to solicit their influence ill our behalf, but that they were k 1 - -' . |