Show only in salt lake city could such a scene be as was seen last sunday in the latter day saints great tabernacle roth both forenoon and afternoon every emery seat in that great building was filled and hundreds of people were I 1 standing up mid and continued to do so all during each service not only was the tabernacle crowded to the doors but in the afternoon overflowing meetings were held in the large assembly hall and a nd to in front of the Ini formation bureau but although the sight was a grand one it was not new twice a year or at every general conference the same scene has been repeated for many years and no doubt will continue for many years to come it is at these religious gatherings that helps to make the Latt erday saints the most united intelligent and progressive gres sive people in the world for at these conferences they meet and are taught the principles of union progression pro grei and general advancement along the lines of religious moral and temporal improvement I 1 but these gatherings presents another important phase that cannot be passed over in their going to salt lake city the people take much of their wealth with them that is elpe expended edwith with the merchants there a sum that no man can compute but at the last general conference may have amounted to three hundred thousand dollars all told fold the conference gatherings gather ings have materially helped to build up the salt lake merchants from the beginning to the decrement det rement of our own home country merchants and of course the people generally and what have we received in return ou church leaders lampooned and abused by some of the salt lake city papers in in sucha such a manner that few men has hag ll il er becia abused ed tas as tacy eyt ave been w and that is putting it very mild now dont you know that we country comons mormons Mor Mo mons are getting tired of seeing and hearing our leaders getting such abuse by some of the salt lake press while we are feeding and building up the very men that is the cause of all this abuse and we want wan it sto pj d and until itis it is stopped many ot of us would that our general conferences would be held in some other city in utah than thaia salt lake city at least that is the way we are beginning to personally feel about the matter the instances of the effect of imagination in illness are numerous numerous here js is a very curious one dr crawford a Bal baltimore Balti moie physician had a troublesome patient a man who had taken it into hs his head that he was slowly dying of a liver complaint when he had bad nothing at all the matter with him biz barring the delusion the doctor sent him trave traveling ag andee and be soon forget his disease altogether but unfortunately una tely he had no sooner returned home in the best of health than news came of the death of his twin brother from liver he was thereupon seized with the fan fancy cy thir he i too fas was dead like ills his brother of liver complaint dr crawford was sent for and after hearing the story merely remarked oh yes he is dead sure enough and probably his liver was the death of him as he expected it would be however I 1 will soon ascertain that by opening the body before putrefaction sits sets in bring me a carving knifel I 1 the knife was soon in the doctors hands and he stepped towards the hypochondriac but before he could commence his postmortem post mortem examination the dead alive jumped up shouting Mur murder derl dashed out of the room and out of the the house and made across county he ran till he tan ran him sell ou out tand and fell from exhaustion finding Jia ding noody followed him as soon as he was able he returned to the house and though he lived some years he was wa never heard to coro dom plau plair hu his liver ever aka I 1 1 |