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Show X0r THE BIIMT.STMPE. A Emmy lias been going Unrounds Un-rounds of tbe press to the effect that fift-en converts to "Mormonlsm" secretly returned from Utah to Pennsylvania, ragged, poverty stricken and disgusted and with wceful tales about having to live in a narro'v spot between high mountains moun-tains where the sun rarely penetrated, penetrat-ed, and similar strange conditions. We know nothing about thelndl-iduaIssaiJ thelndl-iduaIssaiJ to have suffered this experience nor of their coming or their departure. They may be myths of some Ingenious newspaper reporter, and may be discontented and unreliable real! tin. TheXew York Evening Sun does not seem to lake much stock In their kind, and thus expresses itsopli.ion concerning concern-ing them: "The grit and toil that have gone to the creation of Utah by tbe Mormons are attested by the return, ragged and penniless, of fifteen Pcimsylvanlans who.rcnwH ed thither less than a year ago. The land, they say, was fertile, bnt they couldn't stand It all the same. The Mormons that triumphed over nature wero made of sterner stuff." |