| Show An Icelanders Letter I 2 Intorofltlnf ItoniH of tho Foot North Homo NotOH to Andre iToiiHoii Moutlon of MonnonM I In i Montana IUNNACK Montana Aucust Hili iMll li I really nloylnt for me to read the account of Ihe missionary wotk that U being done hero In this stake I believe thai somewhat nbout ecn Ironlldallo and 5mm ago lot of people front Utah went Into tug I hole Ilailn In Ucav erheid county between twenty and thirty mile north eat t from lUnnack and I think thai tome young Mormon people among them Up litre It appeals 1 ap-peals to me that R food many ol those who are Mormons and come here to work have tu a certain extent made and done a good million In many caM mil In moil case In fact f l Mormons are tough I for In one Inilance a man had a Mormon who It I tonicwrul Lime on one leg to herd hecp for him for lome live years altoslher hattie hid left and cone home to Spanlili fork Utah While ho wit gone tha man hind some nilihap with his sheep end new herders very I emily every month Speaking alraut this matter he once mule this remark In the presence of a good litany In Itan ninth I would not swap Johns lame leg lor alt the herders In Montana 1201 I > car able cattlemin In this neighborhood us ho had several men working I for him hail to leave his ranch tar some lime Ilelore starling he one j ila 1 began by asking one ol Ml men whether he was n Mormon and then one alter another All made some ex cowl they had been Mormons were not thcnuelves bat their parents had been J tic Finally ho reached one Are you not a Mormon Yes ald the moan uiiat is that 10 you I ama Mormon and hope I shall I be Then Ill II let you know what lila tome to-me said 1 the boss I have to go oil I on some business I for some lime and I want you to lake charge of ever > thlng while I Ant gone and > ou get ably centi more a day 11111 1 come back again1 I could relate several mue luUnces 1 like their but this Is enough late 1 by the NLUS that Ilrother Andrew I An-drew Icnioii will probably xm be In Europe Unhls Hip lie will I probably I rolb pl Iceland which Is 1 my native land 1 haie several gooil friend that land whom I want to point out to him on the cast coal I do not know who they I arc hut If he comes on Scldli Fjord Sellhls Jorth I ha wilt meet sill many tout the Wcituianna Isles Veitnun tight and they know most of tne people win ue In Spanish Fork II he comes to Vcstman Ucne Ihe Ucslminna Isles the pilot llannes Jolituon has a lint i led sister In bpaniin Fork and Is an oIl < I playmate of mine and dear to me as a t brother First I and foremost of all on those Is I I units Is Ur Tliorstcinn Johnson lie I Is a highly educated man af extraordinary Intelligence and broad and liberal views lie has been from the lint a staunch and faithful Irlend lunar people peo-ple and always In the put stood up for Inr rcl wX demanded and protected their tight and today he Is Ire moil respected I man In that community and ranks amonz the 1 Ur lrrln t hl loremoit men In the whole I Und He Is a sell made mm a iKior but honesl l I mansion He has at least on oneoc canton contradicted a villificatlon that I appeared oneol the pipers about our tuple When I was a poor pircmicis K I r fss Co hl omcless and crippled boy he took me and gave me the Instruction In the ling Ilih tongue that enables me to write this sketch and the pupil Is never above hit master lie speaks Danish as well as his native tongue as also rench I and German lelias 1 not had mail I opportunity oppor-tunity to talk English but he Is I an ex cellcnt English scholar On those Islands any one can poltt Ilrother jcnion out Ihe place called 111 I mont wneic the first persons I who embraced em-braced the Gospel I In Icelard were bay hued They can alsashu hlnialed e 1 of rode or rather a bluff on an lila called Ilirey 1 where when hllecn years old 1 fell over down Into a mats of big boulders over eighty led below it duet Indeed appear Impoinble I that a tls nun M ho falls into a solid mits of 1 rocks eighty feel fallran live and be able I I to do most all kind ol walk yet thai lls Ihe case will mr and Icon I cully prove It nol only by thin people In those lites but by people In Spanish Fork Moil lcot people I mine seaport towns ol Iceland talk good 1 Danish I Among other curiosities that Hrotlicr lemon ought lu tee If he goes to those lilosara llundudsmaima I lIelhr I The Hundredmens Conch where one nun died people themselves when pirates Irora Algeria came to the Islands about I the I latter elf ol el the seventeenth I ceo I taco as alto l a their In a rock calicj Ihorlaugargcrdis Hilda where ictcMl hundred Ihelllches oaths same occasion I The chief wonder of these Isles Is Ihe Isle Sulujiker which 1koJot Us name Irom tbe abundance ol the Solon tccte that have made U their home It Is four i iquaie and stands on lour legs as a table It stands over three hundred feet above the tea w lien Il I Is highel ADd under Iho cenlor 01 II thin wa II over nnely feel doel and lis thou II about one lounh or An nllIsh mile rach Id nol tar IrulII square I IlIlnk JIolber Erich 1111011 and Iljarnl U Sielnon In I Soanih Fork hans < llIlIod 10 tIm lop 0111 nrolher Jenon hould come 10 nekj3ylk there ore 10 Intllllatollonds ur nuoc Juhn TholSlolnon thin suit of hr Thoulein Johnsoll And Johll Ar 111 lon bull huotm thin Weslmanll Inians I Ihlilk also th31 tao brolhen brunt there old frlellds 01 minI 1IlOl and lOad hiluullrr one alno im I lteykjovile l rIJvU llJnui Juiluuunui II thin I cihilor of huahalil lila roverllmonl ocean also kllUWI our through Dr I T Johnson and my caries pomlcncc to his paper 1 urile this to thin NLWS in as tu be lure utah It will reach Iliolher Jeiiaon Ilitate Idlers I know not whrrL to address to As undoubtedly ho comes toCoptn haeen I would like for hint lu call at tlio ollico of blue Icelandic Literary buclclyund ask hum Mr Valor Gulinun elH t aM on He I Is a close relative I ill llr tiler lljilnnr lljarnason In Spanish lark 1 Mr Vallsr Gudnitindso < was the nun pointed l hy Iho government ol lie n mark to uccumpIIY the seven unJrcd I > eais old l Vellum l I lalcziuolc to the rd eJ WoildsTatr In Chicago where thong count of the discovery of America ly it IttUrlckion Is chronicled Ho gait t ih thaw to llrolher t Jenion not only Ilia ellum but others I over MX 01 bundled eais old One ls In Ihe Royal Library and the olher In the Arnlo Magncin 01 e 11 1 They h conla n the complete lou I n ol the I Icttindlc It public cmnl I wer written about thirty v cams previous to Icelai I housIng her Independince an i n vii which look place Mtlealler A D may The Worlds Fair ew I give a lill discrlptkm of those Velhfus sent thtlt contents In the DrsuKkT I News I have now lying before me n viillnic printed vertablm Ct lit M In ifer im ollho law elliimi nrh I ills redly a great book The tamoiH Cermsn Iru i femur Konrad r Maurir has uiiiten masterly essays on It In Kncilopatip let VlMenichafbn und Kunibe QuelleneulIltOeand therpnbllrmlim < it 1 has never been translated Into English but II circumstances nllow and 1 ilo not die tom some csrset I hope II wlI1l Iw hIde Jcnion should II he comes to Iceland not tall to lill Thlngioli one of the motl famous pUna hllho woOd lulls TllORUtlklOK |
