Show THEY FOOLED CHURCH OFFICIALS rc rl J hi iisd f I i Jl I 1 I 1 i 1 j PresfdehCSnow Erf rained a Couple of f Practical Jokers Unawares on Sunday Last President Snow had a couple of visitors visi-tors on Sunday morning last That they were personages of Importance was indicated by their flowing robes their long pigtails and their bronze complexions Only one of lhem could talk English however sufficiently to make hlmsolf understood and he it was who Interpreted to his fellow traveler tho gist of tho conversation that followed fol-lowed their entrance to the office of the president The Chinaman who had ac I oulred a very fair knowledge l of the English language gave the president to understand that ho and his companion were on their way from China to Washington Wash-ington where they were going ns special spe-cial envoys of some kind and as they had heard much of the Mormon people and their modes of life they wished to see for themselves Just how matters were going In Zion and therefore had taken the liberty of calling on the heads or the church as they did not care to take anything second hand 1 e very interesting chat probably of half an hours duration followed the visitor who had n knowledge of the English language explaining things to his apparently less fortunate fellow and after glancing curiously around the apartment as though they expected lc ace somuthlng different from that which they had run across elsewhere fhey expressed their thanks jyd Ipft both bowing themselves out as they passed the threshold There were present at the Interview It Is said besides President Snow Joseph Jo-seph l Smith and IL 1 Clawson As the distinguished visitors left the latter lat-ter gentleman was somewhat surprised to receive a rather severe joke In the rib given by the man who had remained re-mained mute during the interview This Is said to have rather startled tho bl hop but as he thought such leave taking might be a pvppcr caper in China he managed to forgive the visitor visi-tor torThe lrThe The Incident Avas almost forgotten when 3 short time thereafter there walked Into the presidents once B Morris Young and Josh Davis in American Amer-ican dress and then only was i discovered discov-ered that the supposed brother olllclaln of LI Hung Chang were these two well known Salt Lakers Davis doing the Interviewing and Young playing the listening lis-tening part as the various facts connected con-nected with the church and its teachings teach-ings were explained to them The members of the household were rather Incredulous at first but finally gave in when they Acre assured by Mr Young who If a soninlaw of the president that they wore actually the two supposed sup-posed officials who had been so pleasingly pleas-ingly I entertained Surprise then gave place to mirth and when J dawned upon all that the day was April 1st much laughter followed In which the president himself heartily Joined |