| Show f 42 ISLINGTON LIVERPOOL I 1 1 july 14 1870 f dear iero bro geo Q cannon it has been my intention to write a short abort synopsis of our travels bince since leaving our beloved home which took place on the of may we myself und my son seymour B made a short stay at philadelphia visiting two or three families of our acquaintance I 1 trust with some good results thence we proceeded to new york and visited long island where we held two meetings after which we returned to new kew yori york city on the of may we embarked for liverpool on the steamer oda idaho capt price where we landed june jae 5 here we tarried six days thence we proceeded to manchester where we held heid three meetings that conference is small email compared with what it once was and the saints are very scattering thence proceeded we wei to birmingham where we remained one week held six meetings and visited the saints in their different localities filling up the interstices of time to the best possible advantage after finishing our labors there we proceeded to the renowned metropolis of the world london where we tarried another week visiting and holding meetings every evening while there we resorted to westminster abbey where we witnessed pomp arrogance and cruelty in statuary and paintings and saw and walked over the tombs of kings who murdered their wives and queens who burnt he heretic ig in that place london is is presented the wonderful contrast of human condition royalty and grandeur on the one hand and poverty and misery in the most hideous forms on the other in the mean time we have visited the saints at their different places of residence eaten at their tables and shared their scanty lodgings their hospitality has been extended to us with the greatest possible apparent cheerfulness and all have regretted that they have not had something better for their in much u ch esteemed visitors and friends from zion it would be difficult to pro properly perly perls represent in every particular the condition of the saints in old england so far as we have traveled we have found them uniformly or poor a almost most without exception buethe but they are also meek for the most part but ut for or hurting their saintly feelings we a should ouid have found it sacrilege to eat or lodge with them yet their faith and ours also was that god would bless them in an extraordinary manner with at least as much in return as they bestowed upon us while at home we had often heard of the hard faro fare of the saints in the old world bui but this song was sung like the casting up of dollars and cents and when we had canvassed it over in our reflections it passed ilko liko a dream out of our memory but after having traveled among the saints and witnessed their hard fare and hard work and the consequent privations which they pass through it will be to me hereafter something more than a dream so far as I 1 can recollect we have not seen a family of saints who are owners of landor who live under their own roof being poor they consequently rent the poorest houses that are possibly ly habitable in order to curtail their expenses they are generally located in the back of the cities where they have no yards or vacant ground in the rear or in front of their residences they are strangers to their nearest neighbors and their neighbors are strangers to them having no associations in the tho farming having districts as we have in our beloved mountain home consequently they have no friends to visit in the remote country nor have they in the towns in which they live the result is many of the saints in the old world have no associations ciati ons with any but one another and opportunities for such association only occur once a week at their public meetings when they must sing and pray j anch and aud preach and do up all their visiting in the little tle tie space of time which is allot ed them during one portion of the sabbath for oil on the sunday morning their preparations for meeting are attended with the same drawbacks as with other people frequently they have a great distance to walk to meeting many of the tho young sisters are in service such frequently have to leave the meetings ere ero they close and it is not uncommon for a brother and his bis family to have to i leave in order to be ready to fulfill fulfil their engagements for forthe the ensuing week A certain portion of the saints drop into the breth rens houses on a 8 sunday anday evening I 1 aster asten echi anz for a short abort va vianit ill kil and find I 1 sometimes before meeting in our traveling among them this in part no doubt has been in consequence of the presence of strange visitors from utah whom they had the curiosity and desire to see and to hear taik talk their desires as a general thing to be gathered to utah are intense so much so that when we have made any general remark in relation to their removing to zion whether wilether in our visits or in public catig congregations legations it has excited their attention a aten to n more than any other subject that t we could P possibly 0 s s ably introduce it is no wonder that tb t his this t people desire to break or have broken for them the chains of bondage which hitherto have bound them down in slavery in the old world even the poor without the knowledge of the gospel as we all know have sighed for american freedom but when we come to preach to them the liberties of the gospel and the sweetness of that association which mingles their hearts together how painful ia la the thought to them that they are and still must be separated from those they love and to mingle in whose society they desire above all things still the saints do not complain to my knowledge their scanty earnings in this his bis country are insufficient as us a general thing to feed them leaving out of the question their fuel their clothing and their house rent how I 1 have asked ican can they live it has occurred to me that the lord has done and does magnify and increase their stock of provisions as he gave the prophet power to increase the stock of meal and the oil of the poor widow in ancient israel I 1 was so impressed that this was a reality that I 1 imade made a public publican announcement no before the congregation to that efrece effect I 1 asked one brother to state to me his finances his hia income his wages he had four persons to sustain he informed me that his wages on the average amounted to twelve shillings per week out of this thisie he paid six shillings and sixpence for rent leaving five and sixpence to purchase coal eoal light bread I 1 meat butter sugar and other things his wife wire informed me that she went a week previously to the market and purchased with the above sum bum provisions wb which leh ieh lasted them five live days four persons persona for fur five days would be equal to one person for twenty days and if we reckon after the english Engli bli sil fashion of liv living 1 it would be eighty meals of victuals victia 11 purchased purchased for five and sixpence whether it is admitted that this was sufficient or not it is what they subsisted on dod and out of it she had treated some of her friends ourselves among arnono the rest it may be said that this was vas an extraordinary instance there are more families among the saints in england so far as my knowledge extends that are worse off than those that are better off than this there are many in the different conference conferences 8 that we have visited so far who are so poor that our bret brethren hren kren who preside in ferend different lif places have informed us that the brethren and sisters would have been very glad to see us but they could not afford to set anything before us and have anything for themselves consequently their feelings were less hurt to ignore us than they would have been to receive a visit from us under such circumstances cum curn stances itis it is common to set something before our friends when they visit they are sometimes fatigued and hungry but such hospitality is impracticable among the saints who are so poor this made our hearts ache in our visiting tings sin in the conferences we have been received by the various presidents with great kindness they have taken every pains to answer all our questions and anti walk or ride with us I 1 as the case might be to our appointments or to visit the saints or the places of public resort and I 1 am happy to say that these presidents all that we have seen and the elders who are laboring with them are straightforward upright and virtuous men and as a general thing as the saying ig Is anyone night might tie to them with safety we behave have hawe not lot seen all the elders and presidents yet ret and probably shall not but we ahall shall take another tour visiting three or four conferences before wo we leave for home of the missionaries who are laboring in n this field the following we have visited more or less elders wm W manchester lot smith birmingham bir lewis shurtliff Shuit liff and geo rom eom 0 igl ney his successor london george H peterson and george groo notting iam lam I frank H hydo and geo G by water his successor sheffield andrew andraw shumway liverpool these with elders levi garrett george H knowlden 0 shumway jr W H pidcock thos Elchard sons M price nephi pratt thos thoa rodgers rod Eod gerr gera M B skipp shipp A degay deway 6 taylor E R P F heis lsen lse ise n le an nJohn john tuddenham W farr J M ferriu H 0 spencer J S richards H B clemons demons karl 0 maeser lewis M grant bishop david brinton and any others whom I 1 have seen and may not remember I 1 ean can with confidence affirm so far as my knowledge extend extends have honored their ministry and mi mission in their respective places and callings ings according to the ability which the lord has given them in giving this brief notice of my brethren the elders gen generally brally I 1 must not omit the man who stands as fair upon the records of the british mission as any other that has ever visited these islands I 1 mean albert carrington his career in this mission was commenced carried on and consummated without a drawback or blemish so far as my knowledge extends of any reports or suggestions of any of the saints during any of our brief travels through the conferences brother ons course in the british isles has been geard pure ure without exception so far as I 1 have heard reported and he stands today to day as high in the affections of the people as any other man that has ever presided in this country he returned to utah his bis beloved home in the mountains with the prayers and blessings of the humble saints in europe his prudence his straightforward course his pure examples and fatherly counsel to all the saints in this mission have won for him the highest eulogies that can be conferred upon him in the estimation of his brethren and I 1 believe that his hie successor brother horace S eldredge will take a course that will be equally commendable and satisfactory to the saints over whom hels heib he is called to preside the lord being my helper and guiding gulding me safely home I 1 intend that my humble efforts in behalf of the gather ing of the european saints shall be renewed with all the energy and influence that god may bestow upon me anti and I 1 shall feel feet thank thankful ful fal to find any degree of success inthis direction as the re uit of my humble efforts I 1 am yours truly in the bonds of dessem bled friendship gospel peace and good will jos YOUNG SEN 0 o MANTI july editor deseret news dear bro during this last week we have had horne tome very refreshing showers which will help our pasture lands and our corn and potato crops very much yesterday we had one of the most severe thunder storms that we have experienced for years during the storm a young man belonging to this place by the name of john wilkinson came home from the pasture where he had been for a span of horses to dusome do some work he was riding one and on coming to his own door he got off and ran into the house to get out of the stor storm m leaving both horses standing at the door doo r he had no more than got into the house when a flash of lightning came and struck both horses killing them in an instant the young man feels thankful for such a miraculous escape yet it is quite a loss to him as it was all the team ho he had howey hower Ho r bisho bishop pal moffitt very kindly took steps today to day to secure him another team by donation respectfully JAMES C BROWN BEAVER july 1880 editor deseret news dear brother in your weekly issue of the dinst I 1 notice a communication signed J M pierce springville Spring ville treating on the subject of worms on apple trees with all due dae deference to the writer whilst I 1 admire some of hib hia views there are others that seem to me might with profit to fruit growers be improved upon the idea that worms and especially apple tree worms always seer sees the shade is not correct how often do we see them ensconced in their webs on the tops of the tallest branches where the foliage is killed and nathn nothing but a thin web to shield them from the scorching rays of the sun and yet they thrive and multiply year after year until the tree if not killed becomes entirely useless or perhaps bears a few shriveled dwarf apples thia this I 1 have observed both in america and in europe while it is admitted that all worms and other insects that prey upon fruit trees are more or less gas a rule those that seek entire exclusiveness f om the sun are the tho most inoffensive but to this rule there are doubtless some exceptions much of the damage done by worms is owing owin to the carelessness of dista if they would take the trouble to examine their trees often while they are young during the growing and und nd destroy the and other insects that collect upon them and the webs weba containing eggs they would have but little trouble comparatively speaking when the trees got older it is too often the case that the worms are then considered too small to so e worthy of notice the result is the nail nall foxes spoil the vines V k very good remedy for those shade peking worms and even for others is blue vitriol dissolved in water or lye made of wood ashes put on with a syringe in ft a sr or a watering pot ot it may suit some very well to go into an orchard with ax in hand and chop large limbs right and left but this method would not suit me unless I 1 wanted to clean the ground for other purposes every horticulturist knows that an apple tree wants wanta a broad open to top p to bear good large fruit such heavy he avy pruning would serl berl seriously asly injure the tree and in order to keep beep up an equilibrium between the top an and the roots the roots would also have to be correspondingly pruned I 1 am aware that the most of our fruit trees are planted entirely too thickly not only in view of getting a great many on a small piece of ground but with the mistaken notion that they will not grow as large here as in the states in this there is no real loss for before the trees begin to crowd each other they usually pay for themselves several times over in their fruit in most if not all orchards there will be more or less good as well as inferior fruit from the fact that varieties are selected that the purchaser knows to be good in some particular locality perhaps in his boyhood but the soil and climate of his present residence residences is ls so different that they prove almost worthless the remedy is plain and not very difficult your trees are too thick you want to thin them and some of those fine budded trees are located where you do not want them and some bome of those inferior trees where you want the best if you do not understand grafting get some man who does to cut a quantity of scions from that nice fruited tree or trees as the case may be and at the proper time graft them into the tree that bears the inferior eror fruit if your trees are 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