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Show -- y.y WO MA N ' S 130' And our constant prayers are that" your austrewn Tutniial days of life may lead with flowers of fairest hue and sweetest fragrance and fruits of eternal tlavor, springing from the seeds sown by your arduous and glorious toil on earth. Your life work we accept as an example worthy' of emulation by all pontemnoraries and posterity ,: and long may you: yet- remain with ulas ajbeaconarnipg - we find you holding the pp I v'Tu'l i rtp' v the lj.it- 'ii rTv n! leader " of v. i 1V ; j "" t e.r-- d ay SakU .Worn en A ssoci a tions. Fro rn t he .time- our lato lamented Prist., lirigkaiii- in reorganiz-- . Young, called upon you.taas?kt i i i i' ii la mg uie.vc enaniamc-un- As an organi - Z'-- r into-path- v . a societies, you have been unfaltering and untiring in your labors until' all Zion is one vast 7 r 77 T ' m a p origan czaiUnJ Yijh I ji :$fe V r.o r j letituie: jkm danger, - ' andara' High A.ssocintionsaiwortfanrz -- for th9-.pritual cultnreuid the general iii- structum orrnogirYer-ginluto the important of and holy positions . . o .. .. I 'ft nood. now can jvcc: j ni :ue me vaiue oi your which counsel iriven. numberless words se " like the circling "waves from a pebble cast into the middle of a great pea, 'widen and enlarge until they touch the shore of posterity.' And - - B.; Salt" Lake Ci tv? Jan 1 a 9th" .", 18S4. Pratt. . . I the truth. - " 1 rnESi;NDi a : LATiiiior "Vhiall. is'ast world. family,yjnfiairea hecTmiing the terror ;' In the midst of ous' of the wicked r'. ' its-fe- et, - : Though with "Deceit "Party-zeal- " and G reed, "a nil all their horde.are vigorously work-in- g to rolj the women and all the truest Saints of their most sacred righ ts as jneLatter-day American boru citizens, we pray you may yet see the fuliilkneut of the promiso which has been revealed-t- you fromheaven,Hhat iu- -vestigatiou;impiiry, truth and knowledge and their adherents will gain the victory, because are stars of brilliant they flame and shine for the true hfirsf this favored laud of Joseph-- ' 'thr-r- c ndj no eat! -r ha' f hip t'ur fn?? may pw nnd wrod"i; Iboy move us en at every clip, And row then own crafts under.'' f- " In:conciusion,J)eloyed chief of the sister- hood of the Saint?,- permit usjhis night anew to reassure you of our most earnest tion in'all your lab iu tlie interest of humanity, of our qn in vour co-ope- ra w:vr-tn-fai- th dinv. numerous c!iarigej,LtJ.i.epri)graaime, -- the people, some- of them,-- were soon enji4iejriuxva "VeTiad cheerfully made the saciifice and He had accepted it. As fast as was convenient-on- e Plai D." 1 f. - x We- ?ai)r anLMes.tach-other-ao- tl to us the spirit of the martyred family after another returned to. the city and other places that had been vacaterl. The conclusion wa? in my case that Martha Knight Kimball and I should remain awhile' in the southern settlements, ! wa3 moved to Provo and stayed there until; September. The door-yard- s wem full of tall grass and the fruit trees wern loaded with beautiful peaches and apples. Sbter Vilate (that blessed woman, a mother to us all, when I think of her my heart swells with. gratitude) would give' Bro. Kimball no Ieace until he sent for me to return to the fam- - Sarah Ann, Lucy, Mary II. and myself oc cupied tne house that had been built tor the eldest son William. I felt that I could dc more good at spinning and weaving fur those who needed it most, as ail depended on their own labor for clothing. In the. evenings we. pared the fruit to dry.- - Ve spent the fall and winter very pleasantly, four wives in one house, with little children. This will seem like an a no ma-- ' ly to our Gentile friends. "Early in the spring Howard Egan was sent back to St. Louis to buy groceries and real necessaries for family use. I gathered $5.00 and pent back for carpet warp. .Mary Kimball and I bad made the first rag carpet made in the city. When the warm spring weather came we "thinned out'and I went to live in the wth Ward, on the lot formerly owned by iiosea Cashing, an -- adopted son wf Bro. Kimball's. remained in Springville My son Oliver-hathere' IIe went freighting toLower California, rand during his"absence his wife cor- - i rnbal 1; f.o:le.-se-ir .When, the win ter his, exijense.. gathered onm 4s h- -i Htnteiou? family. Huldah B. and Harriet S.' wcre in t!;; same liouse Avith me and ou'r 'children. came-BrorK- r-- We--enjoye- ourselves and lived very harmonious" and quiet together. Jn the spring we were to be again separated. My little son' Joseph-wi-H then eight years old. His father baptizecHiinh He bought a house and lot for me in the lGth Ward, near to my brother's, Bimick B.IIunt-ington- , and on the 7th of April he sent foi- me to go to his private room and gave me a bless- ing and told me to write it ami it should be fulfilled, which I 'have realised to the letter. When he had said all ho wished, to me'r I said. Jho. Kimball, wdien I make this move I shall have moved twenty-on- e times by your reqI shall consider I am of age and uest,-and wish to remain in the 16th Ward for the fu- -- - " ... to-da- -- af-tei'-M- responded with my eldest son George, who held out great inducements for .Oliver to take his family and go back to'St. Louis. Mur-am- Pgo into, business with him.in tw wo.1pU fac. tory, . I henext spring he went East vifh Esquire n ells who was going to Eoglaad on a mission. His w,fe was anxious he should go back, for she had lost her faith iu the Gospel. My agonxotsoul could not be told or written when he lefrr have never shed many " " as the fountain was broken Biuee, up." boardetl with me and i taught ! t-- ars m.tle boy Joseph, cue out of nine children, aud v ' ture." . r : KATE FIELD AND HER LECTURE. - d -- ; - , -- 7 Lord-throug- ' -- ma-'- - Johnson's: in Springvillc lamily in until the peace and:good; feelings President Brigham word of ..the.. the Saints return to Younsr w;i3 that their homes. I had watched for the smoke .of our. lovely city, which we" had so cheerfully resigned to its fate: for we were determined to lay it in allies rather than leave our homes and the fruits of our toil to faljJnto the bands of our enemies, who, not content with driving us from the borders of. civilization, -- had followed God had us into our mountain retreat. with his all. these labors poetic effu sions Hash through the interstices of your work which is a grateful assurance ta us that the oil of life has not yet burned low, but, like the wise virgin, you keep your lamp trimmed and burning, awaiting the coming of the Great . liridegrooDi. The journey to Palestine, which by permis- sion you participated in, was an important eiwch in the world's historv. which it little an- preeiates, but we who know rejoice in. and are proud that a woman assisted in that great labor of love for truth's, sake. The mighty pdw-c.- r of endurance you displayed in that extensive journey, and your long life of incessant ac- tivityis a monument of the divine truth of the word of wisdom, which teaches to be temperate in all things, and the value of system and order in all the duties of Jife. 'We congratulate you that your lifi has been permitted to so nearly span "the eta between the planting of the Jast dispensation and the final victory of truth over error. We know the day of victory is near at our door and we earn estly pray,if it be the will of providencethat your lays may not he ended until truth and are firmly planted upon the neck of error. -Z ,- -- kimball " We remained at Bishop Aaron 4 one-hlrrhonT- lep - -- 1 11 Si-te- rs it "seemed pro- piiet, wno-- e ueaui we commemoraccci on-- that. acred spot, wm there jui-- took cogniziuce.jf- "TTuFHacreif honor- to. him. Several years after -- I. visitaHhe sacred f. pot. and the pile of stones xremained nearly "as we left them." : """I remained in the 17th Ward until the ap' proach of winter,, my labors were blest, I had a good garden, as Bro. Campkin remarked, 1 "had the bestTrbjrthat hlid ever been produced on the lot. During aH this time, however; I never neglected any calls to visit the sick, the dying, and the dead.. I always took: great pains in preparing the dead beautifully ; for-their'final rest, remembering what the Prophet Joseph Smith had said, "dress yoiir frieiuls a though they were going into the best of company." Never leave them with any part of , their clothing incomplete. I have no fear to meet the many that 1 have helped to lay away. , 7 - KiLKin gSuajiShe June I " of-wi- 1 -of e A VENERABLE WOMAN. 1 your indefatigable spirit'of organizing does not toi'Avith:the'yfiiith"l5"ironrhuTeaciie8 down to cull the tender buds, fresh from the mater n al bosom?,; to form the Pri nrary A ssociations, where the .ccVls of tnuh are sown. in- virgin FoilTalrd the twig is bent as it is desired to grow. Anl tluis the cycle oi organization, as a wheel within the greater wheel of the Priest-- 1 rw T" noou, is completed, autiiio one in all Zaon who responds to the call need stand alone without the pale of organization. Thus the bond of . everlasting Jo yes as warp of.the web into which we.arejiUjtfoyj tli.C'.-TtrT- : jfe . On - g wifehoml-andjimlhs- lived. -- pi - I oung arid "my self. toncltided.tp'Fpehd-''a-por---tion of that 5olemn.da.y- on Ensign Peak and made the summit, prepared ourselves with re-- freshment, then rested ourselves, took our din- ner and then built an altar of stone, carried .altar we" knelt and of- and piled up, arouii4-ihanl thanks that Ile'.l: yer.r;pniyrrtt)-('Jo(bad raie7ljLipLUi444itf the Gospel bad beiurestored to the earth, and that we had been of the few that had received "Y ojt. faithfil , v yet s PriestessfT and watchwoman on ttic towers oi Aion, guuung and directing all to our Celestial Home. k providing fur the temporal wants oi the'poor, hut the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement 1 KXrO NE NT. ; To show how little Bostonian3 'know, about Mormons and their public buildings, we republish the following from the Woman's Journal,1 but which first appeared in the Boston Travel- .".""' ler: Miss Kate Field repeated her lecture, "An Evening with Dickens," in Salt Lake City, for the benefit of the Mormon Hospital. She spoke in the "Social Hall," a Mormon building, dedicated by Brigham Young,and is prob- ably the tirst Gentile who ever stood on its plat- form. Her audience were alrnost exclusively Mormon, attentive, but unresponsive. .'"Just before the lecture began Governor Murray entered, and his entrance. created considerable remark, the lines are so strongly drawn there be-tween "Saint" and Gentile. Vhcn questioned to a3 why he came, Governor Murray replied: "I wanted to show my. respect for Miss Field, and I thoiightwhereverfhe could afford to go I suort every Ihiug the could. .loreover, I wish to Ju Utah that is compatible government." w ith loyalty to Pretty napkins for trays and fruit dishes are of cream-colore- d momiercloth, with designs of ' grapes, peaches, plunis and apples, minded with their leaves. The work is either in Kensington or etching style; and the napkins are unisned with a border ot drawn worK ana ed Aipe, ; "'. .. , ; . |