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Show two, as formerly, and we were now in a sorrowful condition. Children crying for bread and parents not able to supply them. ''We traveled on as best we could; hungry and weary, we came to a spring in a small grove of timber. We stopped our cart and happened to look up into a tree and saw a large sage hen . I took out my old gun and shot it and had enough for several good meals, and thus the Lord had blessed us above the remainder of our brethren and sisters. We traveled on until nearly sun down, when we came to a small creek, where we intended to camp for the night, but soon as we stopped, here came a large band of Indians, men, women, and children. To be continued. Wrl nn for Th e Union. HANDCART EXPERIENCE When Mrs. Wilson was found she told the following story concerning the troubles she had passed through during her absence from the train. She saw some wagon tracks turn off from the main road and supposed they would come to the road again thinking that it was a cutoff. She followed those tracks until she lost her way entirely, and wandered on until late at night, when she found some men camped in a tent, who had a number ot horses herding. They gave her something to eat, and while she was eating they talked all manner of meanness and what they would do with her, until she was nearly scared to death. They were drinking and gambling. Finally Fi-nally one young man made signs to her and got her to go out and he soon followed her. He put her on a horse with him and rode off with her quite a distance and put her on a road that led to another camp where, he told her, she would be safe, and she would also be much nearer the road and also quite a distance on her journey. She took his advice and found the place as j described and also kind people who fed her and kept her until they could see the train from where they were -camped and then put her on the road. Thus the Lord had perserved her, fed her and returned her safely to her family. She arrived safely in Salt Lake City with her family, and .lived principally in that place V until iher death, which occured about the year 1893, she being over 90 years of age . As we arrived one evening on the Platte, near Fort Laramie, the cap-tain cap-tain called a meeting of all the people and told us our true condition, that our provisions were very low, and asked us if we were willing to go on half rations. One man rose v up and said he was glad that the captain had asked this of us, as he knew the Lord would bless the half to us and we would feel better than we would on full rations. But I " knew he had been begging all the way, for the Captain to give him a little more flour, and his rations -never lasted from one ration to another, and as the Captain had been very liberal to him, I was of the opinion that he thought this liberality liber-ality would continue, but he was mistaken this time. We agreed that as our provisions were so very short it would be better to make the very best we could of the little we had left. So at the next days rationing we received a pint of flour for two of us instead of one for a days ration, and a very small amount of bacon. We travled on and came to a very large bed of the kind of cactus generally gen-erally kown as prickley pear, and and we tried many ways to cook them so we could eat them. Some took the last morsel of bacon they had, peeled the prickly pears and fried them, others peeled and boiled them, while others placed in the fire and roasted them, but all to no purpose. pur-pose. Some did eat a very little of th em, but it was a failure in general. Our next days ration came, one pint of flour for two of us, per day, as before, and by this time we were all hungrey indeed, and we were all alike, and there was too little provisions pro-visions in camp to give any between ration days. At our next ration day there was little, indeed, in the wagons, wag-ons, and so we received one pint of flour for four of us a day, instead of |