| Show I l rj i lk i 4 Mill ij N m IM IN m l 01 ij L 3J4 li I I V I A Local Heroine p i it k I 441 1 I I mil I I I I I I II L O 11 f1l J t I il t 11 j RM717 CJtA1TtJrt n I 1 d 1 I I I 4 L 0 ILI I I f o F The morning breaks the shadows lee I V j I Lo Klons standard Is unfurled l 1 I f f The I tgr a brighter I day OJ 11 Majestic rises on tho world I HI J Thus softly sang Mrs Annie Lorhe a 1 ti I 4 1 I cook In merry England as she prepared I II i i I I if t I pared her holiday puddings and geese Ili ft 1 l f I I j and spread and cut bread and butter I I I llp i for breakfast 11 I Its a pretty l cheerful song jou are I Qatr 1 I I singing Mrs Loehe you did not harp I har-p j me knocking I suppose said a young I t I woman at her elbow I Why bless you nol I Anything the matter Miss Carnts that you come to I the kitchen so early asked the cook I 1 I Nothing I only little I Alice didnt I rest I t well I In the night anti she li sleeping t I this morning I thought best not to I dliturb her so came to ask yoU not toy to-y I i send her porridge up until half past I eight1 IghtAll All right Mlsl Carnes cant jou sit OP 11 down a minute as your baby Is I asleep I v i and floes not need you I have often 11 11 11 i thought I should like to speak with I Nti you on a particular subject you seem 1 t Ii I i so friendly towards me i Miss Carnes took the proffered seat 1 1 Rn3dilga I i I and luld 1 Why shouldnt no be friendly friend-ly I Mrs Loche We both need friend i ship frin rome sourcro do we not I Ili I I I You appear like myself to be alone III L41 the world Jf i Sd I Wa Miss Carries until I I jjj I I I I found > Hew friends and good one the 5 I kindest and truest I have ever known i I I never feel alone now I should like In Ilk I to Introduce you to some of those good i friends of mine A f I Thank you Mrs Loche I should I I I 11 I ii t 1 P like to meet any of your friends If I I f 11 they are as pleasant as yourself I aln 1 1 i 11 sure I should be pleased with them 1 ii I LJ MIIh on go With me this evening i t I And sea Same of them Thru will be 0 1 I t 4 a lot oC them gathered not cry far 0 I l tram bore will Yllll can you KU with I 1 i mer Red Mrs loche with much 4 tin Motion t N l I 4 I think I might relII1 Mlas 11 Carnes but what Is I the oecaalon I I Well It is I Christmas eve IOU 1 know said Mrs Loche and one of I ja my It rlends I a wisp and greatminded man Is I going to talk about our Saviors 4 life and kindred subjects I know you I t would like to hear him I Ohl Im afraid not Mrs Loche exclaimed 1i ii 4 ex-claimed the young woman I dont care to listen to any minister I ever I heard talk Ij t Hut you never heard this one you jJ11 might Ilk him lie Is I not like our 1111t 1111 JL ministers here he has something new IL to tell or It sounds new although It Is il I i u8 i I I I the very same Gospel l that our Savior I q i taught when lie was on the earth I f Does he tell something now Afro 1 RC II Mp if V Loche and Mist Carnes started t up 4 f J I from the chair and grasped the hand of t 4 trom astonished cook Something new I 8M1 i 1 In the way of religion I It may be I 1 I nhat I am nailing fort will 1 go with i ob r InMLJ 1 I I Inmost evening Mrs Molls and now i 41 I must go back to the nursery And I 19 I I I with that the governess and nurse hastened 11 has-tened to her morning duties 1 1 Towards noon the post brought a letter 11 let-ter for Miss Carnes She put the chll I 1 1 1 1 I dren In It way to ntnuae hmlv 01 I V and Went to the window to read the I 11 4i M following I I My Dear Miss 1It will I ln be one I 1 R C j year day after tomorrow slno You 1I I went away Now I must tell jou the 1 I If I I I happenings Your window garden I still flourish but not SO well 94 when I 11 1 1 I i you wero hero to look to It I cant I I i spend so much time on It as you did V The dean and Mis Crlsto never ceased 7 to console each Other and xhp never t 1 Ili put on anything but black till the 19 11A N r ek of November Then she wore grey I I I and a sIngle spray oC while ruftebudm t and rle with the dan over to the I 1 vicarage to see Ills cousin the old I vicar Your mold Tilly Kiss the day appointed this time Is I New Years Instead 0 In-stead of Christmas when Mis Crlslo 4 will jear her royal purple After that I cant you come home to us I know they would all he glad to t welcome you It back and none more than hool t thll AitLnv0 114 boy cl A I I I I I IdIss Carn s folded her letter and put iffv it earefully i away lying to helself 11 1 1 1 will walt until nil is I over then I will write to her and learn bow I should 4 be received I I t a The evening rome nnd Mrs Iorhe i t I i and Miss Como went forth to see and i I hear the friend or friends of the former I 11 I I There hall 9 a large gathering for a I I small boll and the wle and great 11 I I i minded man Mrs Ixxhe had Spoken if who dlscouised on the life of lito III I I Savior and kindred subjects wa I r ApOlI orson Pratt from Atnrlea 11 I J lie fhoucil the necessity for th i I I Il i Christ aton Fed later t wrought the necessity out I by for Jesus the i restoration of the Gospel In these latter days 1111 It had 1 be n taken from nalong I men hecause oC the hardness oC their I hearts lie then mod a Striking little J IraUon of the lmllorUy betueen the 10 life and death oC the Savior f I and those of Job Smiththe latter day Iropltt I it and rInsed with n powerful testimony I I to the fact that the keys and Power of I the Holy IrleUhnod were again de livered to men upon earth for the salvation I sal-vation of Clod children as hi ancient i I Um How did TOII like my friends loll naked Mrs Liche of Miss Carnes its J I they walked homo together I 11 more than liked It I win con i a I lnced I of Its truth renllcd Mips Carnes If you ore nllllng Mrs Iochi I 1 we will be more than mends from this I time ont we will be sisters as I hntui I you adlrosi some of jour friends thl I I I Onllll if 1 Will wej cried Mrs Ix > cho Jo > fully i Then I my dear Miss I Carnes > ou will be baptised1 I I shall Just an soon as there H I an I opportunity t replied Miss Carnes with I t great d0chilon Tit keys that Ken Umnn spoke oC and explained no fully or what I have hn listening 10 lor I njiout ever Flncc the death of my father I fath-er eleven Years ago On tile lOornlng I oC the iliad Nw Tear 18 < 9 Mrs Loche had the privilege privil-ege of isinrtlng her Young friend to the waters edge nhere the Elders were In readiness to receive them with other Who amo for tlm like purpose oC being lnttltpd Into tit Church oC I 1 Tu a Christ oC IAUrlay Sallits Whot name asked the Ildr oC Mr Ixiche I men Carried said that lady Nol replied her companion Emi Ir Crlsto I After the baptlsma find confirmations I which Were fill attended to at the time i Instead of the latter King deferred n I I t hey went home Mrs Ioche soldi I thought YOur name wa 111n I Carne 0 I So I has beer to Van and must lie I still at leant for a 1m wpondod her friend Tmlly never returned to her Aunt Catharines home At the same hour In which she was taking upon herself the responsibility of a Latterday I Point her aunt was pledging the marriage mar-riage Nona with Dean Campbell This i I she learned afterward In correspondence H J correspond-ence with Charley I and her aunt alto I 0I She tried to teach them both tho Aftni tlful new lessons she was learnrng and I rejolcln In Charley accepted of her testimony and became canvlnced of Its truth after a time but her aunt never would barken to hr 1 explanations much to her grief The dawning O tho New Yr IBM found Tmlly In Utah She accepted aMmo a-Mmo In the family of a wlaolv named Wilbur whersho was very happy be cause she could be f UP Cut Ulster f Wllbcr luid eight children and ns they llcd too far from a settlement to have the younger once attend any cif tho small schools lat were taught at that early day Emily took delight In teaching them all at home In the evening all would sit around the fire and sing songs and hymns and Emily would teach them lessons she a learned In the old world whllo the mother J or patched In I which Emily would also JoIn when the lessons wonld permit > The Wilber girl would he knllllng stockings or darning them And the boys would perhaps be shelling corn for hominy mending n plr of ahoeo or braiding a buckskin whlp lash The latter tasg had Just been coplt oil one evening hY Alvin the eldest Pon when the Isna wr also nnlpbI All hal stage to prepare for bed and word ahout to kneel In i so ZVeIsf = 1A A their regular lamtl prayer when hy some unprmedllld movemnt at the band Alvin brought Ibo whiplash Sharply acres Kmllys Shoulders She dropped the hook ell wu still holding and uttered a slight cry of paln and astonishment Alvin who was Meet with a large warm 1 manly heart but was always bashful before girls forgot his hashfulm then In tilt onddn regret that sozetl 1 bin for his carelessness anti dropping the whip caught Emily In hill arms and actually kissed her upturned Star tied face two or three times In his apology anxiety to make good his well meant True Emily wan no longer a child abe Wan wenlynve now and Alvin wag twpntYHn lut that did not teidid hinder her being moved to tear by such an unlooked for plso3e > Then was 1 tun t at consternation fell ulorethe whole household Sister Wll iotl tl li tier wits first to break the spell I and collect her senses She toolt Emily from her 811 embrace Into br own and said caressingly Dont mind It dear Alvin would not have done that on purpose for anything And then put tlnf her mouth 10 Emilys ear she whispered Olood will come of that accident ac-cident you see If It does not Sister Wllber was right Tlie Ice I once broken a loving and hpy courtship went Steadily and rapidly on between Alvin and Emily He possessed the Instinctive tenderness and kind sympathetic sym-pathetic nature which she required to make life Sweet and satisfactory to herr and her soul responded Joyfully to all the fund and endearing messages I gained from his Their marriage tool place In the sumMer mer anti was a very perfect one Twenty years of happy wedded life nbtwlthstandlng all the difficulties met with t In Utahs early days had passed for them when Alvin was asked by the author Hen of the Church to take a mission to England Ho cheerfully real IKinded and a might be expected he visited the old horn of hli wife In her native land Letters of Introduction Introduc-tion written by Imlly own band Informed In-formed her aunt and the dean both of whom were still living what relationship rela-tionship Elder I Wilber bore to them Hut they were r coolly pole to him nothing more 10 was not offered the slightest encouragement to refer In lgltt encurgmnt any nay to the religion which had taken Emily to America And when he would have hinted something concerning It he nun given distinctly to understand that Such hllll were hot Agreeable to the dean and hu lady They did however how-ever ask him to call again If ho could Jut before leaving England for home lie found It In his way to > comply with the request and was rewarded for so doing by being in t on R led with a strong trunk which I he wan nskpii I to deliver to his wife with cordial remembrance from hr aunt Catharine Catha-rine rineI was Hearing the winter bell dare of 1BT3 1 when Alvin reached his blessed Utah home and was received with overwhelming tokens tok-ens of love and Joy by tits wife and children The trunk which came the day tolol Ing his own arrival wa Opened with great decorum i beCoe the whol 10uhoI0 on Christmas There was no little surprise expressed when I lynx found to contain the splendid golden trousseau which had been prepared for Emily so many year ago Not a thing hail ever been removed re-moved from the complete outfit It was Just as perfect O when Emily had looked It over so coldly twentysix years berate Em can near It to be married In cant she mn cried Mary the second daughter Im dont want to near It I thanksl said that Young lady decisive ly I blushing profusely at mention of an occasion for which a certain theo tortoni Iahr In Sunday school wa anxious Ut ho houhl name a dot It WOUld suit o Iralfa girl the best sold Loche a jounger son of this family Pratt wouldnt 1100 look glorl OU4 In those things Xo answered Pratt they are too fine for this country but mother You could sell them to that CalifornK the atrlcnl troup and get every one of jour girls a suitable Mailing outfit for a quarter of nhat they would pay You for this nne11 Doy walnt too load for mI dlrl mnnHnnl Well tem for n1 when 1 det maWII gold baby Alvin brightly for he CIIty admld tile plpndor oC what ho ow 1Iplold and t1 that udl richem houhl 1 I kept In I the Cml I Jut alhou h his early hough the lulne for the future was the rourc surCe oC IIlerablo merriment In the house hold tile time for which his request was made was decidedly too tit In the future to retcle countenance The the al 111bed U110 got the trousseau and tile Wllber family melvid many bless ings from the sale of what tiles nlnaVs r dW na tinned the cloMcn Bridal Hobs 1 |
