Show the I 1 ne mormon empire lured by the thrilling stories of its ast beauty john steven mcgroarty 16 writing to the los angeles times paints a glowing word ord picture of utah the mormon empire mr mcgroarty expresses himself in most beautiful terms in his description of utah scenic wonders onders and in his tribute to the b builders ul iders of this empire our pioneers I 1 when I 1 had a loan from god and va as on my way to the old blue hills bills I 1 i of home in penns penn s woods were ere I 1 as bom born he wrote 1 I spent a few of my golden store of time in utah it Is 13 a place here I 1 had aften longed to be the great mor I 1 mon men empire the vast beauty ot of aich with aith its thrilling story had lured and fascinated me tin biot I 1 in his majestic manned of writing mr mcgroarty tells of the wonders c zion with its stupendous temples and gleaming domes of the red city that bryce the ae scot found in a ceat great C eat bash gash in the wasatch hills at last he said 1 I I have crossed its domain from end to end and an n abed ed in the overwhelming i 1 tion of what it mea means to be an ameri amerl i can utah alone and by itself he calls a greater country in every ra way than all europe put together and yet utah Is only a small part of america realizing all this the very I 1 stars on the flag take on a brighter lory and its crimson stripes a deep er flame name i traversing travers ing utah mr mcgroarty s first thought as of the erst he could not get his mind off oft them and all they had endured to reach the promised land lind its it exodus before which that of israeal itself would seem to pale toa into insignificance quoting the late judge goodwin Oo odwin at one time editor of the salt lake tri bune the following tribute is paid tl the tle e mormon pioneers the exodus to italy was to a land of sunshine native fruits and flow ers the march of xenophone immortal band was a march of fighting men back to their homes the exodus of the pilgrims pilgrim was to a new wid wd of unmeasured possibilities but the ex odus to utah was a march out of de edair to a destination or the unresponsive spon sive breast of a desert the utah pioneers had been tossed out of civilization into the wilderness ild erness and on the outer gate of that civilization a flaming sword of hate had been placed which turned every way ay against them all ties of the past had been sundered they were so poor that list their utmost hope was to secure the merest necessities of I 1 fe it if cvek a dream ot of anything like comfort or luxuries came to them they made a grave in their hearts for that dream and buried it that it might no longer vex them H when three quarters of a century after mr mcgroarty visited utah he lie saw green fields on the banks of shining rivers villages among the tress planned by strong pioneer hands he walked the thronged streets of salt lake city and saw the stately capital capitol of the empire that had risen from their faith out of desert sands men mert and romen who had buried within w their hearts dreams dream of comfort and luxury had hid lived on to meet the resurrection of those dreams dream stra smiling smiting fields and flower flam ij gardens in the desolation of a wilderness derr ss which they had literally made to blossom as a rose As a most wonderful story of human faith mr mcgroarty tells of the monument of the sea gulls a sculptured word record of that faith erecter ertic tea from enduring stone and bronze la in the beautiful garder gardens s of the taberna Ta beroa ce cle in salt lake city he de describes the promised land of israel as A land of corn com and wine ith with muk milk and sweet with honey A land in which a man would rejoice but to greet the weary wear hearts the tired eyes and the aching bodies of the mormon pioneers was a vast stretch of desolation and i vet they accepted it even gladly they lighted their camp fires upon the arid wastes and lifted up thair voices in wild grateful hymna hymns of balse ise to god amid the un welcoming and inhospitable hills of what he heroic role stuff they must have been made not to hae bae been disheartened thy gazed upon that inhospitable scene I 1 one lone scraggy tree in that ast desolation to greet their ees how perfect must have been their faith as thy accepted without a murmur the of their leader brigham young when he said this is the place I 1 how doea does the inake charnier charm t asks a writer la to the popular science monthly thata one of the questions ft eve re aiwas alwa diled ourse our hes am anti now an english doctor tell tells us one of the secrets tale the case of the cobra fir in stance it Is a veri venomous lake snake yet the Is I 1 not harmed then ha bitten by one tl TI e ecret secret lies in the fact that tie tl e charmer ch ariner I 1 milks tle tl e cobra before he lie allows himself to be bitten lie tie malic maks tile cobra b ti 0 into a piece of meat thereby expelling two of the ID in its polson g eland land lien hen the charmer allows the bite hini immediately thereafter there is t not enough poison left in the gland giand to do uny tiny hami hat to I 1 the next step the charmer ch ariner I 1 makel a k e a the snake bite a fowl while bite he lie squeezes the remaining drop drops of potion poison out of the nake snake alanl the fowl foai dies and aad the charm charme wini wins the th confidence of his audience aud leace |