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Show THE BOX ELDER ' vb ek.udam city, utah. IMPRESSIONS OF UTAH CJCZ'tt By JOE LONuKORNF o!i! 2 an ea' mntry where the manners, , cus- - and ideals are the product of insular race, during a developim.it of an institution-- - j P nllt mg to two thousand years a i.ad its beginnings in pagan appr, xxhic!' ... and where, ,i,p d.fi long afo, o.rv m i"1 and tlm-- e institutions of things, a of less re or from the ideals are . -- c- country been )1!tliat has hand of to a lone, is still barely touched by wger it "as th ud compare 11 pie. ltl idea! wonh broken ,d idol to the mere newness fact that the new people the hand a people said by some to be pe"ph. a peculiar is a hiss and a byword letliat their nr;, name this and other lands, of people the of good mam dwell beside the to unworthy le counted of the eastern mltured and people collided still finds scope for greater e, the stranger If the (like and stranger comparison. cnatum the same faith as this peculiar ,(hi - not of doubts as to the wis-e he may hate serious himself them, or that the among trusting Is Utah a veritable ax good as n presented. with milk and dragons, or a land flowing social these pariahs turn a desert C Could a state in which decent build or up a garden, J in ad when is ad h i Nephi Andersons Home, Bear River City. 'liuii unlike au thing in the old land. We do not a hio.id flat stretch of treeless country with the word valley. We have, of course, great tntxlies of flat land, but they are not bounded by lunges of loity mountains as are the valley-plain- s of Utah hour magnificent climate is something to he wou-hrx- d at by anyone coming from a land where you an wise it in the finest weather you take an with you when you go out for a walk, and xxiuie the fir-- t ipiestion you ask your neighbor on lipping into the stieet m the morning is Will it hup line today, think you' His reply will probhe "Ask me again tomorrow. ably In most summers, prayers are offered in all the i Inn lies for the kind of weather they want, but liaxxn't got Mostly it is for fair weather, but this In announcing such an m it is rain they want - Teach Day, we would almost invariably xx nt mit the words, in brackets, "(Weather permitting I." and the sky, and the barometer, and the vveathtr reports would he watched, as tin fats fni day approached, with an anxious solicitude p it l v cly pathetic din ic i' no need for any undue anxiety about tin weather on Teach Day here, and this is really wonderful to me he heat is somewhat oppressive, though, and, no doubt, accounts in a measure for the unduly style of xlrcss which is prevalent here. find it difficult to believe that rt .ill v, I shall .i""ciatc uni-hixl- la -- x a- -i iixxx-pap- 1 uncon-xuition- i The Science of max dwell? Box-makin- Do men gather figs off thorns, or Other doubts of less definite Wtr. but none the less formidable because f. ill at times crowd upon the mind to puz-l!- t mans will and almost make him bear those ills he has, Jn fly to others which he knows not of. ' .uch a stranger xxas the writer, when a little Hear ago he ventiued into this country and tirst time beheld "the mountains of Eph- - f'es off thistles? in-.- K r a ins did 39 llrst Pjn lns nf the deepest impression those same great ranges of e the land. Their towering (pi'tc me, was by which tracer crags have a majesty indescrib-i- s ea,N 'le nlonl',1S as the day are almost terrible as ju" they frown "vson,bre glooi hut once touched by the ,v, 111 smile tono and 11 ;J4s tj uresistable in its charm. irV& vr . sv-.T- ?; Sn"'' 'nlt 'n cven'nf? they as one s,u and watches the wonder SeemK to reCC' 6 on i rwriff rea 12es f-- x It ley lifted their vencr-- 1 ',lne(liction of a departing .t t sunset and twilight are 11 1,1 k ah'!1 are soni' rea th and t0 sl,ort thing of a surprise, too. comparative flatness are On t! Bripl an", for Fruit. |