Show A CUSTOM MORE HONORED D tf THE BREACH THAN THAIN IN THE observance there are sonic some of the of which excite our unqualified ad admiration albeit like many others eithe ath ungodly world 0 eide we ard afla unable ble rt 11 7 to ta asprec appreciate 1 1 ate all the their I 1 ir inherent virtues por of stance it I 1 must be em in antly anu cnn danave to placidity or of igind and equanimity of tem temper per to have somebody ele do ones thinking for ajit t hav some heavenly im proceed bing consider and dictate what we shall sell our wheat and barley for to tell us ivi whether we shall let our produce lie he nod and rt lit rather than sell to uncle abrahams nt inions or the ungodly Gent gentiles lles 0 or through ough apostles bishops and teachers instruct ITS jast how many potatoes we shall cook for far di deiner f uner then again it must be a stater of supreme felicity tending to a delightfully indifferent 1 ij c ho pun we vow row to be fiolli time tillie to time informed that tha t out our temporal happiness and eternal salvation require us its to indulge in connubial joy of another wille wife still like many another poor mortal I 1 there are times when we are entirely too exactly to assee see it f in that th it light ityl js aft we in inte tended adad to say a word bout about a another institution which seems to ile be in vogue here E every very now and then once or twice it a year we hear bear of what we termed 1 drives in the various parts orthe of the territory at these times energetic 9 betic and fleet v vaqueros ros ride over the country and collect all the horses and c cattle attle which roam the hills and valleys n the vicinity of the drive 5 the farmers and entert interested sted assemble at the t he appointed rendezvous and select out their stock kock for branding or other di dispose k now NAM thus far even evea our obtuse intellect in 1 lct can see some good in all al I 1 this but when we aye are credibly informed that I 1 all tile the unclaimed branded or not stock Is at once taked taken possession of by the briw tec in trust marked with the church brand and driven to other parts parta of agthe the territory to entire to the benefit efrie said church it does strike us that t drive is liable to very great abuse and individual wrong for instance if a chap happens ns in some of the abati abstruse use rite of the while ascending from the lower f th the e higher flights of the mysteries of ai tenille ir if at such a time a saint should ao break his leg or albeit his neck and be unable to attend the I drive AWAY goes hw his live stock ahik his cattle hie baij hora and I 1 his ds ans s or ir if again in rip Uirl language MM me bag marrilda mar rieda a fe a not unlikely event land of many mothers inlaw i in law and cankat cufr CN athe Ct fr he forsooth gobbles lip hp lw lid ox or his pony polly and lie he ass littie re ome course 4 now we have heard 4 a good many complaints about the way in which these arac are conducted and aad thought we with the poor f folks who awn W W bereft by this peculiar tithing of their property but not no ataul the thing gnaws bomea home to us do we bialy hot the whole beauty 0 of the thing balong as the saints sainte atef J allow their cattle to ile be thus impounded for tile the benefit of the church it is to ay very much like we the tithing business busin 84 none or of our mr particular concern but bat nena our own stock is thus bodily curried off ami baw with th the church mark under th wity of ft a custom whose heaverly bea vinly character we do not fully appreciate 61 ANich is time most newly mildly but per anly to tg that this thin thing 9 wont dat are aft informed that tb itt at one of these KO fine horses belonging to 7 AU a duly bridei brn dei wilh wil lh their marks were ere lw 0 UP n brand gjek Mf cem and report myel wy oly boffl to Fill fillmore mare aith ith other allf alleged ged church p property oita obtained ined we suppose stipp we remember W learma aring billy birch the fai camons liolis california minstrel once complaining ori orf the ho stage that lie had been arrested tried convicted and sent I 1 to the D penitentiary just for walking off with a little piece of ropp rope an and d subsequently adding as a matter of very little littie importance that there was waa a mule atti attached ched to the other end 11 A corporation which li tile the church claims to be has been defined to be ia I a thing without a body to be kicked or it a soul to be dam damned lied 11 but we opine there is enough personality about some of its chief mi mn min n or lowly owl v stewards to be prevented from I 1 I 1 taking other peoples property even though hough they claim to do doit it by virtue of a custom of the church of jesus christ of latter my day on earth or by order of a council of most holy men |