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Show A STRUGGLING QUAKZilLSJ. I Tho fjilowing extract from a lefter alleged to have been written by a Quaker lady of this city, has been going the rounds of tho press fjr some time, bitched to the statement that it was handed to President Hayes among other matter lo inlluence him agiinBt Governor Emery: I r ad i'.h much inlo-est the persistont tlliirta for tho redemption and iny I say, tbe ?tilvt.tion of Utah. I dure not di'l oq the horrors that tbU fanaticism hns cuuitd. My husband ami I cmo t t'tsh in '71 as missiona-iej. Wo worked in the milling camps with much sausf-ic-lio'u My husband widtJiieU h'n tielJ worked altoKlbtr with tho Morm ns. Wtiat w5 tho rc-ult? He became bt-wiM bt-wiM red I am too stubborn t say con vt-rud. 1 sin iuft to slrufdjltj alono wit" t littln one?, xbiltt ha batks in tbe :iink-s of a young wif. 1 sometime-tin sometime-tin riR missionaries uao do not bi rig lor this beaibon people. 1 he cull md ti. baiter alotia can sa thorn Ttiis it) strange talk for a Fne d (Quaker), but wild Emury reiniciK over us, Cannua repro-seutuft repro-seutuft u?, and oung w.vt-s haunting lis, I dou'l ltd very Lhris'.ianlifco an The poor dear creature! From our heart we pity her. ''Left to struggle aloue with five little ones." How, why dos she want to struggle with tho tu? Ia it because they are a hard crew, or merely to give them exercise? Hut whatever the e-uie there is no o:ca?ion for her Strugs in.: a!one with t ie viiungatcrr. If it is absolutely necessary ne-cessary that liny be struggled with all the wife - bunted, hoart broken Quaker?&3 has to d.i ia to call in some ol the Qtighhora or let it be known what ia wanttd, when there will be ?uch a rush of assistance as will not o.jly astonish her, but give the youth fnl five turh a sfmpgling exercise as t if y nevtr iwlre experienced. The "back" is goo-i, Dd unless we are mistaken we have beard something like it belore. but come lo think the matter over, it is just barely xiil!e that no such heart broken Quakeress missionary as ii represented by thb letter actually ex 6s; and ia 'o poa-iUt: 'ha the 1 .-iter was penned by tome hunky b tck on Second ath s'rtet, 1 |