Show the following letter hassent was sent to be read at the kelsey reunion held lit in tooele thoele by tile the daughters of the pioneers two weeks ago but arrived to lale lae and we now take pleasure in publishing the same i IN MEMORY OF MY PARENTS MRS MARGARET A when I 1 look back to rny my childhood days think of 0 the circumstances of the utah pioneers of the fort fortitude luide with which they bore their poverty privations privation eions and unfavorable situation in a barren semiarid semi arid desert like place the unpromising condition condition of tile the soil from which they had to make a lively hood for or themselves and their families added to these conditions were the never ending fear ear of 0 tile the indians though strangely enough the trouble from the Itil indians laris were few in view view 0 the small number of white settlers and the many tribes of indians roving over the country A country by every law of original settlement they justly claimed as their own country the coming of the white man was wan an infringement on their rights then came the grasshopper and cricket invasion taking the scanty crops entailing linga a semi starvation period I 1 can just vaguely remember I 1 the time in 1893 when we came to washington to the new courty of stevens Stev eos I 1 it I 1 is s spoken of yet as the hard times therb were rail roads tel telegraph C lines and many other modern conveniences but the financial condition were at low tide there were not the actual privations known to the utah pioneers and there was a lack of 16 iii uda ep t ze t R awa e r 0 and a 1 general general upheaval of social and political conditions then was tile the time I 1 learned to an p 4 ua t WK preci ia c I 1 a ate t e a and n d r reverence e v e re i 3 c e m my y p parents a r en t to sympathize with their religious principles my memory of my lather father eli B kelsey he was a very remarkable man remarkable for his toughness and power of endurance also his powers of oi observation memory and knowledge of men and the bild he was exceedingly industrious a hard worker very persevering with great Rp application replication he was a leading spirit in an the community he was an empire builder he left his foot prints on oil the history pages of tooele thoele city and utah in general he was a conscientious sagacious intellectual scholar critic and business man he possessed a large broad humane statesmanship with a nice sense of justice which is essential to goodness above ill all he was a good kind father for my dear mother I 1 feel no words can pay a just tribute to her memory she as was that best of all things a good mother a good pure woman sordid sadid selfishness was not congenial to her but rather she sought for or the higher nobler and better things of life industrious dust rious and generous of spirit and strength to a fault coming from scotland an anex inexperienced er young gid to live among strangers in a strange land in a part of 0 that thai land where material comfort was unknown In known such a triangle of environments must have tried her soul to the limit nothing but her faith and belief in her church could have sustained her to all I 1 have attained as a christ christian lan woman a good mother faith hope and fortitude fort iture in hours of sarrow and misfortune fort tine prayerful gratitude erali tude for blessings bestowed I 1 owe to the example of 0 my saintly mother I 1 to prove there is nothing new under the sun frescoe paintings of women in the cretan crelan palaces of about 2000 B C it is shown that the ladies of that time pin pinched c hed in their waists wore v ore elaborate coiffures coif fures ures shoes with high heels and hi vats which might have c come OM C rota roin a new york hit thop in ahe U S senate senaie on the ad of if july senator myers ol of montana desired retired the consideration of a resolution toque reque sting president wilson to call upon the nation to gausis one minute each day to pray for success success in the war but the resolution was blocked by senator thomas of colorado who said maids let aspray as we work and work whether 2 we pray or not nol still the motto of the suited states slates s IN GOD awe TRUST I 1 ban johnson president of althe t he A acae er lean ican baseball leabu h j loun AM 1 wa arp 1 wa M u W e ball eq equipment m tit Is s oemga ein 1 9 collected for shipment through the medium of the red cross to germany for the use of american war prisoners held in t that h a t c country 0 U n t r y the red ros cave r ri rf f notice that german authorities r att ae had agreed to the plan iia speaking at the annual ment exercises of the hahnemann M medical edical college in philadelphia ladelphia hi jeannette rankin U S representative from montana bitterly condemned the educational system in the united states terming it a woeful failure allure our schoos schools have failed miserably she said there is evidence of thi this s in the fact that men 1 in he service of the united states cannot read military orders written in ae 16 english language one ol of the biggest reasons for the present scarcity of doctors doctor is that most of the medical colleges in the country refuse to adroit woman but america is now awak awaking lilg to her many delinquencies and itis our duty to open all schools to both p 1 sexes we say bayol ol a person who knows how to do the right thing or oj take advantage of his opportunities that he Is up to lo snuff p this expression hs but little sense in it when we associate it with the powdered tobacco that people put in their noses nose it wines comes from an old word Sn sniffen to smell it originally ment not only to detect odors by means of the nose gosei but in a note more general way to scent a thing 0 01 find it out by keen sense ol of discern M abc acc accordingly d up t a means up to a high standard ol of discernment or the ability tos bosceni ceni out or follow a clue atac at fc y the definition nation of 0 the word honeymoon is thus given in n a very old book among the northen nations of europe it was an ancient pr practice to 10 newly married couples to drink mead a kind 0 wine made from honey for thirty days after marriage hence the term honey month or honeymoon attila the hunes said to lye hive drunk so much mead at hi his s wedding feast that he died from the effects of it look on the side for or it is a sad misfortune to have a fretful disposition it takes lakes the fragrance out of life and leaves only weeds where a cheerful disposition would make flowers to 0 bloom the habit of fretting fretti nR is one that grows last fast and the best way to overcome it is to tj look on the cheerful side of 0 things |