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Show Z'el event Mhm YOL. 1. NO. line !(is and get ivetn Qonian have I;cr own tri SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE, 3. jusband.I ger. 7 : 2. PlilCE 1880. CENTS. 10 tak- order to avoid a scandal in Zion. It bishop, and all her other deficiencies ardent but brief, his legal wife was overbalanced by her en very ill, but was not thought dan- did leak out, however, and one of the were ho probably 70 mother and Let every happy voife to inculcate the principles of gerously so by any of the family, and women said in hearing of the narrator ability reads these lines give her sympathy , the divine ordinance , as taught by reve- the lover and the bride elect repaired that nothing in her life ever gave her prayers and efforts to free her sisters lation. And this is not a solitary ex- to Salt Lake and were scaled in the as much satisfaction as thinking of them standing at midnight in the pourfrom this degrading bondage. Let all ample, for even in a comparatively Endowment House. After returning home, a grand feast ing rain. And yet ordinarily this wothe zvomanhood of the country stand short residence in Utah, the writer has and has was made in honor of the occasion, man was very similar instances. mated for them. There is a power in met with several The father of our country in his and neighbors and friends were bidden been known to do numberless humane combined enlightened sentiment and symAnother incifarewell address to the American peo- from near and far to do honor to the and charitable deeds. of the dent same order comes to us which While the festivities were in pathy, before every form of injus- ple said substantially, that upon the event. from a source whose reliability cannot tice and cruelty must finally go dozen. general intelligence of the people rests progress one blunt old lady remarked : A very prominent Bro. B does it not seem a little be questioned. Harriet Beecher Stowe. the perpetuity of our American instiwho Mormon had several wives was And we believe that this out of place to have this affair take tutions. all over our place while sister Jane is so ill, what if courting a young girl with whom he sentiment prevails y Education in Utah. Well, sister, was seemed completely infatuated. A prl land, that every loyal citizen who has she should die ? the welfare of his country at heart is the reply of the tender husband, it is companion of one of his first wifes Tis education forms the common mind, said to her one day, Does it Just as the twig is bent the trees inclined,' fully convinced that the education of rather rough on Jane that she cant children faIs an aphorism received by all men. the masses is in reality one of the join us, but we thought best to have not grieve your mother to see your The want of education subjects the in- strongest foundations of a republican the party now, because if Jane should ther paying so much attention to On the dividual to the dictation of domineer- form of government, and that he is a die, you know we couldnt very well mentioning the girls name. it affords the was have a party right after a funeral contrary, reply, ing spirits, especially when such dom- nations worst enemy that would keep The poor old woman died a few days her the greatest delight. You know ination presumes to rule in the name the people in ignorance. In this .Territory, while we would afterwards, but the husband of her how another plural wife of fathers has of religion, because men are generally for a number of years, moved by religious impulses and re- not undervalue any of the agencies youth and the father of her ten child- been the favorite ren was present neither at her death or and has had everything her own way, spect authority exercised in that sacred employed in bringing men from darkness into light, we must frankly say burial, he was on a wedding journey now she is getting her turn. It rejoices name. his new wife. Her last words mother beyond measure to know that Knowledge is power and the want that it is our delibeiate and matured with of it engenders weakness and subserv- judgment, that as a missionary agency were: An eternity of happiness could she is now herself experiencing the for the tortures I tortures that she made others suffer. iency. It has often been said that education must be used as the right not recompense me arm of successful work. Consequent- have endured in this last week, to say And our informant says that this old Ignorance is the mother of devotion, this is certainly true in regard to super- ly we hold that the great missionary nothing of what I went through before lady who took such delnjht in the knowledge that the other was getting years of polygamy. stitious devotion to a delusive system work in Utah of the churches of in twenty-fiv- e The daughter of this woman said to her turn, was a lovelv and amiable of professed revelation taught by a de- America is to establish schools and hereof, polygamy is re-- character, when not controlled by the signing priesthood, such as holds maintain teachers; until the Territory the narrator n for the death of my mother, pious influences of the divine supremacy in Utah. It is the province shall itself become awake to the im- sponsible father commenced courting that nance. of Education to dispel this darkness portance of establishing a system of That girl she fell ill, and Death struck h and dissipate this devotion and free and universal education. superstition from the minds of the church in Utah which does not main- the evening of the wedding party. masses, especially of the youth of this tain schools that shall in a measure be And yet there are people who1 profess free to those who appreciate their to believe that this system has been Territory. Literary societies are always ben- The Mormon priesthood has always benefits, but who are not able to sup- ordered by God cial. "Women hao special need Another incident came to our knowl-- 1 stood opposed to education, except port them, is necessarily and unavoidfd tncin, because they do not come under the surveillance of an ably limited in her means of acquiring edge a short time ago which shows in contact with the sharply defined hierarchy, whose principal a hold on the people and of extending with whattholy and benign influences the celestial system surrounds the opinions of others, as men do in aim is at the ex- her influence in society. And yet it must not be thought for women, and how sweet and heavenly business. The societies that be pense of the masses, and whose policy Anclder formod arc ils llumevou5 as may is constantly guided by the axiom, a moment that we advocate sectarian !t renders their dispositions. t,0 olass. that Ignorance is the mother of de- schools, that is schools that Teach or who had three wives thought it his c3 1,1 1,torature' AU ore familiar to take a fourth. The three' Even votion. prince of promulgate the tenets of any particu- duty modern autocrats, the recognized- head lar system of religion or sect. But let w and leader of the dominant church in there be light, and the light will chase nu Utah is the general superintendent of away darkness and superstition from lestializing spouse and his new affinity, posed of twelve members. Each all the schools in the Territory, thus the minds of thousands of the deluded who was a stranger in Zion, having selects, some poet to be studied, combining two lucrative offices, as well and vicious. Let there be independent come in by a recent emigration. Their hliey mcet Mt the several houses , , as keeping the supervision of all edu- schools established, which shall be lib- first act was to secrete all the eatables i. v. i, llrt . s or d1 i 7 b in an so when in that cational matters in the hands of the eral place, government, and though they 1,8 01 ler scected author, t,)11!1 Church authorities. In Salt Lake City may be under the auspices and control the bride and groom returned from the followed by an informal con- there is but one single teacher em- of denominational organizations, yet long and fatiguing ceremonies at the - versation upon the relative merits ployed in Mormon schools who is not they can be free from sectarian bias, Endowment house, there was no supIn this way, a devotee at the shrine of the Mormon like those already established in this per prepaied for them, nor any indica- - of the different poets. prophet, and perhaps this is the only Territory, and which arc under the tions that they would receive any tern- - during one winter, all would become There fiimiU,u. wit, floast. twelve exception in all Utah. To be a good direction of denomifiations whose love poral refreshment whatever. poets was . has eat to demonliberal education been Mormon is a far better recommenda- of in the absolutely nothing Vl, ( 1 ltl,. ,mo ' ler . S(Jciety . tion for a teacher than to be a fine strated by many years of successful house, and neither Mary, Susan nor , come within our Eliza could be coaxed or threatened to Diana. experience, scholar or a competent instructor. To work. To he continued. was for this the nonAt last the study, of Shake-plusse- d produce anything. give one example of the competency husband took his bride to the speare only. A play was selected of the Mormon teachers and the status house of a compassionate neighbor, by the society, and the characters of their schools. The writer came in The Beauties of Polygamy. who regaled them with a comfortable assigned by fie contact with a young girl of nearly officer to sixteen , who had graduated from one There is a certain settlement not meal, and with whom they spent a difrcnt nemblr8 next .... c ; of the schools in another settlement, many miles from Salt Lake City, pleasant evening, not going home im-L study oil the part or as she expressed it, she quit because where lives a bishop, who was the til nearly midnight. Upon arriving leaders made this society ex- the teacher couldnt learn her any more. saintly husband of two wives, but be- there, they found the doors securely She read pretty fluently, but ' without ing desirous of still higher celestial barred, and no amount of knocking ceedingly interesting to readers and knowing the name of a single punctu- glory, he determined to take another, could get them opened, and after vain- listeners. The objectionable lanation mark except the full stop, had a young girl of seventeen years of age ly endeavoring to obtain an entrance, guage that occurs in this author can studied rithmetic to division and a whose salvation he wished to insure. standing in the pouring rain for nearly easily be omitted, and sometimes little jography. Her proficiency in He had a large .family by each of his half an hour, they repaired again to other words ingeniously substituted. the latter branch may be imagined by two wives, and his youngest child was their neighbor who provided them with A sonata, a song and even a of her asking the writer if New York was several months older than the girl he comfortable quarters for that night, and will increase the coffee, in England? And yet this girl is natur- wanted to make the third. She did and the next day the elder found fr The Teacher. ally bright and intelligent, and is now not object, because the bishop was said another home for his young wife. ulo was a scene in that family, but attending one of the mission schools to be a man of considerable means, and There old man promised to forgive the inThe attention of of this city, where she is making rapid had the reputation of being good to the himself if to and the bride, dignity others is. directed progress. The teacher in this instance his familv. in women would other it was the daughter of the presiding keep quiet, card on 8th page During his courtship which was To the Women of America: kind-hearte- d, to-da- 1 ordi-Whe- ! ever-watchf- ul to-day.t- - I 1 ( 15 out-of-the-w- 1 I I 1, ' fohe |