Show vexel problem involved in Ibis Mormon Mor-mon question than you can keep dog from sticking his nose against u hedgehog hedge-hog rolld up In a ball and lying in his line of ravel Speaking of a hedgehog reminds us of the illustration the Mormon problem that the noted war correspondent Phil Robinson gives by a reference to the hedgehog and as there has been much that transpired during tbe past week which bears > witness wit-ness to the happiness of EobmsonJs illustration we quote if 1 The problem reminds me of a hedgehog But as the hedgehog may not be famiiUrto my American icadets let me explain The bedgehoe then U a ama 1 animal witta very eattlc iln closely ta all over with sir ng ahirp tpinea A rural life Is all its Joy in titbit and i harscter It assimilates a mehlit 10 the Mormon peasant being in offeune useful industrious prolific and urge y forzlv6rou But when cuuted It Is otherwise For the hedgehog If closely pursued takes hold of its ears with Its bind paws and tucking Its nose into its stomach rolls itself into a perfect ball The spines J 4 fl thus stand out straight and in every direction direc-tion equally Nor tens defended docs it shun the public eye Ou the contrary it lies fnl ll IIu r ht1 middle 1 1 out In the full sunlight in the middle of the sidewalk or the dusty highroad a challenge chal-lenge to tho inquisitive attention of every passing dog and you can no mon keep a dog from going this of t-his way to reconnoitre the queerlooking object tnaa you can keep necdics away nom Iqidstouo They do nut all behave the rs me way to it though The inuttoubcadea dogs el aYI1 wn by It and contemplate eft vacantly and go away alter bit in a kind of K brown study The illly ones smell It too close and go off down the road la a streak of dttt and yelp The experienced doge suin it It aid rot on Only that hedgehog again they far The mMlcliKi prick their nraea and late their temper and then prick their noses worse and loso their temp rs more The pu py bark tt It r mOldy receding every time by the recoil of hU own bark till it barks Itself into the opposite ditch But the hedgehog lies peacefully still as round and as spiny as ever in the middle of the 1 nlf Ji Jg ooa highroad AH the dogs arc much the same to it borne roll it a little one way and some little the other It gets duty or it gets wet But there It lies as inscrutable pur zliogand odious to passing dogs as ever Uy and by when it Is dark and everybody gI i ft fllri 1 li has got tired of poking it and sniffing It and wondering at it the hedgehog will quietly unroll itself and creep away to some ta eluded spot betwixt orchard and cornfield and n notc from the highways of men and their dogs I We cant say how many mutton headed dogs there were among the G A R folks that sat down by this Mormon Mor-mon hedgehog and viewed it quietly and went off in a brown study nor can we say how many experienced dogs sniffed at it and passed on for those were actions one would scarcely notice but we have an idea that hero were great many silly ones I wno have disappeared in a streak of yelp and some dust of some malicious ones who pricked their noses and lost their tempera and that will doubtless repeat the operation And we may expect presently to hear om the puppies who will bark at it remotely re-motely and eventually find themselves in the ditch But the hedgehog will be here just the same until it chooses to unroll itself and move oIL In other I words whatever is evil in Mormonism the people themselves will make right The dogs wit not accomplish it Their II barking will be vain 1 j |