| Show I helped to ral the United State nag an nn l n peak i c alf I feel fee tp to 0 rejoice at having the tho privilege o ot of fI the II that van WM spoke pOke of or liy Uy the prophet Hoping loping t tI to I 1 on the day of jubilee with comrades t and friends friend After CO W years year the memory that hat I dominated ids hili mind which enabled hint him Has nR ft a t little Incident to show holl lit Ills love loe for tor his flag Hero Is la the record of a 1 woman J 1 drove an ox me team about halt half the way waded streams dreams and helped kill One can CM almost feel the tho fatigue ta nm and the lurking danger which vim th the lot of oC that t bravo brave woman for tor well weeps rind fInd weeks Here is Ie a I report ot of how they the tiled surgery iy on an the tM plains I h had d my thy badly broken Was ret crt by ty f Luke uk Johnson This li Is more mor pathetic than o n whole tit Hl ay r on an famine tamine mid and was rah written by a woman who was wall only 15 16 jears cars old when she Eha crossed o the plains The first dress dross 1 had hall after coming h here e VM was m made mado do from Hour flour wicks hacks color colored colorI ed I with melon molon loaves True to tho the ruling passion of oC her sex sl the good goal old ohI soul Boul retained as ns the most vivid memory of tho the strenuous days the kind of ot drew dress she sho was d to reM and In this thin there Is n a d humor Intermingled l with the th pathos Ono One sturdy tul Y heart but trembling hand Inscribed the following I have been Le n In all the Indian wars wara that flint there has hOB bran been 1 In Utah and I have hae always been a minute man What a 1 proud record that Is IsTo IsTo IsTo To IK b I ready at nt any moment of to spring to the defense deene friends and horn homo and yet the lire lives un unconsciously consciously JY perhaps have a 1 deeper meaning even titan than that In that remarkable band were men who could make malto or violins with equal skill as Is testified to here I J helped to make tho the first for tor the first tort fort I also abo made madea a IL violin In Sti Hero Is a sentence that Is If enough nough to and set get ones stomach to gnawing bring b to his hla minds eye the long lOllS gaunt form torm of oC famine I suffered Buffered many privations and liv lived ed on thistle roots and ana sego Mlles lilies for tor six months ll It Is 11 doubtful that the monarch who Iho ate ato grass Braes with the cattle had any harder battier of oC It than that Some of oC there men were truB ser eer servants of ot Uncle Sam as one ono ot oI them re records reo records cords I was one ono of oC tho the first three to carry the United d States mall to the tho Missouri river Aver i How like a patriarch of oC faith does this sound written writ ten by ono over o r 80 years old To tear fear God live lino righteously and walk humbly Is le the whole duty of ot man manOne manOne One of oC the tho most prominent of the pioneers who was loved lod for his cour hire fige Industry and patience wrote the theono theone ono one line eloquent In lt its brevity A very cry hard hord Journey A hard journey for Cor such sich M as l he would t be an Impossible Journey for tor thousands How pathetic It Is to read la in an al almost almo a most mo t Illegible hand My memory Is very ver bad and my eyesight Is almost gone gOM It Is on a parallel with this I can hardly ly see the line liDO above me And this I should like to attend the Jubilee but I 1 am nm too feeble It brings to mind the tho words of oC Pren Remorseless time fierce spirit of oC the s and scythe what whal power can stay ata I him In his tile silent course or move moe his hl Iron heart to pity He lie lays hie pallid hand on 0 the 10 tho strong man and the he haughty form COrm Is i 1 fallen and the Hashing eje Ue Is dim Win dimIt WinIt It 11 must have hae b bean on a naturally poetic nature T that could retain In the memory rot for W to years yearn so FO pretty retty ft n picture with It had hall associated the great beast t of the tho plains as nil is 19 Indicated In the tha following allowing curiously spelled words I I cant rember mulch mutch about the I planes but I 1 know that we had hud a 11 Hard tune In Gittin here to Salt Lake I I cane rember how hoe ho seeing Grate Grale flunk of QC they looked Ilke Orate Grate j BIg reader seader trees on the too the tho valy aly lived lIell on roots r for tor a 11 long time I I Had H lI know shoes for three years and t I Winter If I Was ivas vas I would take part Jart in n your our ox s sIt If lf the imagination wants n a theme thome tram train which to draw pictures of ot pitiful suffering fluttering and the woes that attend the of ot family ties here It Is III from the pen Ion of ot one of ot the heroines I 1 was Ill In all tho the missionary moving In Jn my youth My Iy mother died tiled In con of oC the hardships My Ir father was In the Crooked Ulver elver tattle battle hen ohen David Davitt Patton Was ns hot shot And lId thus from Crom one broken line to another their etory In Is I felt rather than read It tells fella of ot Joy and terror hope hop an end 1 despair poverty and health enith and amt disease life and fine one It II well nigh nth runs the gam gamut tit lit of human experience exp The young and unthinking may Inay smile mlle as nil they the try to read odd add 01 1 lines line some omo of oC which ere fre re written rIUn without any an reference U to to or spelling spell In but to the thoughtful they will strongly In Inthe Inthe Inthe the grave and solemn spirit that lies lIs it tt their foundation Those Tho aged a hands had worn out their strength In la shaping the rouse our of rivers not In writing cs es essays says They rhey were made to construct and mills mill II not sentences In beaming barning ort oft the duty luty of oC life there are aretO two tO signal roles for man to play pIn sr III the or the writing of at history These men stand preeminent as ns tha the makers of hl hIAr try If it their sons onn write It equally eQuall ns as well the deeds of oC both wIll b be given Riven to 10 Immortality At It 1 the time ol of 1 the Jubilee there ther were tre of the Hit original band of 0 ply who the ya ley on n July JuK M t the f I named woodruff Jo J Ibert George 0 tl org W 11 V Drown Perr lerr Perry Decker Deck r Voting sung Stephen H It Oo Charley Cartes Shumway Andrew Shurn 8 William P 1 Vane Van r c A AA P FUA D y 0 o t man Horace lIo e Thornton Stephen Kl t y James 14 Stewart Tet N 1 Thomas Thomos P ard Aaron Arran F P Farr Conrad Klemmen Hen teneen cn en Walker Charles A Harper Woodward duard John AV W Norton Dorton orton Lyman Iman Curtis John John 8 S Glen at Gleason n son on Norman Nom Taylor Talor T lor Ore Clr n Flake a II faithful colored olo 1 smart of ot ott the t e Joseph Smith Since 18 7 the ranks rank of this little nJ have ha tare b been n thinned out Mill still morOn more mor On One Gee by 11 one Uie they 1 are urt to 10 lh Ih the r of two Ike t le yean eurl until now nw there th re i ithan ae roO less than thin ft a 1 do dozen dOlen en l M N Kendall ww th the last on one to cro crows ro s 1 the mystic planes 1 to his 1118 on th U ether r Me side Bie Fue Rt e long lone lon they will all be ber beTer Ter r thole thoi therl while on this side there will win raman ns as n long as tithe time endures the monuments of ot their and Is lon JOIn and th their lr ro dean to the hest will those thole two NO with lIh their 1811 records erds rt that the fact that thu those men were eW 00 Nl a portion of 01 the f orM history m n the hI fact face ta of mother th tn la trine trim with nut words on tweets of fl iota nl rr t |
