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Show I ; i iH President Joseph f. Smith Tells Idaho Sunday ! School Children That He Is the Husband 9of Five j j Wives and Father of Forty-Three Children' l! Special to Tho Tribune. MALAD, Ida., Juno 23. The quarterly conference of tho Malad stake Df Zlon, which convened here Saturday and Sunday, Sun-day, was made notable by the alttnd-anco alttnd-anco of President Joseph F. Smith, Seymour Sey-mour B. Young and President Anthon Lund. Saturday sessions, to which the public wero admitted, wore hejrt. at the tabernacle taber-nacle morning and afternoon, m the evening, a priesthood meeting whs held, and Sunday morning a Sunday-school conference was held, at which President Smith Instructed (?)' the children, idling idl-ing them, among other inteicslhv? mat-ters. mat-ters. 'that he lovod little children; that he had five wives and forty-lhrei children, chil-dren, but that tho chMdicn were not all as Bmall as they worn pictured, as ho had many grandchildren, and hoped to have hundreds and thousands more. The tabernacle was packed with a mass of believing saints and curlouit sinners sin-ners at the afternoon session, when President Smith spake as one having au. thorlty on "Baptism for tho Dead." Wandering from hip subject ho t-ald. with emphasis: "Mormoniom has grown and Is firmly cstabllwiu.-d in tliu "I'n.'ltd Stales from tho borders of Canada to those of Mexico, from this Pacific tn the Atlantic, and this in spite of tho bitterest bitter-est unceasing porsocutlon," President Lund and Seymour B. Young followed Joseph F. In short exhortations itilll in which they "endorsed evor ward'1 I 111 I 1 spoken by him. In tmstalning tho efft 1 liil ccrs of tho churzh the usual unnnlmitj itliill in tho showing of hands was in evl llfnl dencc. illhH The conference concluded in the even nl)fl Ing with a conjoint session of the Y. i HIIIH M. I. and Y. M. associations. lillll President Smith was accompanied h jlllil one of the "live," a sweet-faced, but inllll whlle-halred lady, apparently about hall 41 ul his age. Although no opon mention wad llll'l made of the doctrino of plural marriage, Inilll yet he who reads between the Unci 'tililtl might easily7 decipher the "go ye and dd t lllll likewise" Implied 'liilll |