Show appleton eolo coa new SALT lare LAKE olty city dec 27 ibi 7 editors deseret i I 1 notice irl ill the local column 01 o 0 your issue of the 11 4 th insl insi n h leit ietter letter ter from irom t rom a correspondent whose anly object appers appears to be to advocate thes this great value of appleton Apple ton tou coa cua new luew american cesia cesla in any auy library public or private and nud aud to predent present to the citizens of th chister ister lster is ter tor the great advantages of subscribing scribing for it ii la is not my intent tion at this time timo to u enter into an argument regarding its general genera merits or to discuss the question if it Is or is not the most valuable acquit acquisition po possible isible to make to a good solid library which ybur correspondent claims in its ita favor al although thought F con eon contend his statements are open to argument my ol 01 object 14 act is simply toasa the he writer and thiv th people of this territory generally if it they are aro pre prepared pared to support a work which maliciously mallel odly falsifies the falth faith falth faith and anav eab earthe the far greater portion of gli aur g and fol folsoi sli eli tr traduce a and ano maligns maligas the characta r 1 of their most maat honored ddn oid oia leaden f 1 again fa yie Is ita tp introduce su au h a work into our homes with such high alif put children childre ii to fretuge peruse and atu study dy fr fram v im s with the under standing 14 a ke reu 11 ll ablah able work orr ork upon all alf upon which it treats that my assertions aret sustained Au stained b by y the facts will say that since alnee reading my lewis encomium of this ibis J I 1 I 1 haye aye ave ca carefully examined pd the articles therein beaded i headed 1 mormons Mor monr mons fJ joseph oseph smith and brigham young the th first I 1 nind find to b be 0 a tissue of falsehoods by direct statement or implication from beginning soend to end ahad the 0 others th ers are not much better the whole tenor and spirit of p the arst named article is to Q prove oab the book of mormon a sl fraud and that who belleve believe in it are outlaws vagabonds and assassins it elaborately reproduces rep reduces the old spaulding story ifie the whole of which has nas long since been exploded and dispi disproved oved I 1 it makes th tha direct statement that the three witnesses to the book of marm on hwi dg monism in after years avowed falsify of their testimony 11 1 1 hundred hundreds of bf living witti witnesses 1 esses know that tha this statement is 19 utterly false RR s ia is piso pigo another that in 1838 joseph smith had persuaded several women to td cohabit with him calling his spiritual frit it a lao loo that polygamy r repent repeatedly ut the bok bak of mormon hild maliciously malici m misquotes mis quotes notes v es from the booe boulom Bo olof ulof df doctrine and nd covenants anu and other church works to ustain their arguments to endeavoring to explain the doc doe fijn rhines s believed in by the latter day aliu milu tatt taft becomes considerably confuted fo tod d amongst other things it that ilabe the mormon church teaches that joseph amith is now cow the tho god or this generation in the artic article locin lecin on president brig haab young it there states that he grand arc are archee hees bees of tho secret order waa wua of Da canites the tory of this fabulous order being the usual style in the arti oia oie ria A on the 4 Mor mons 11 fany other instances Instance El might be given of the which has lias dictated tat these articles but ut I 1 fear tear to make this of too great length my aly simple question is are we as latter day bitin saints ts prepared to accept arld and patronize a work that thus maliciously cisro pre pie present plesent sent mf 1 bruford A 1 gambling extraordinary Eitra eltra ordina ry A little game has been played in lob loa angeles which is an immense advance upon the primitive card tactics depicted depict td by bret harte hutto in his short shorb card dard celestial sharper for something i over a month past a heavy p poker oker game has haa been going on in the card room attached to one of our popular saloons an unprecedented run of luck settled settle eattle settle tle d upon the barl bari banner berg herg of the experts g who were running the game inthe in the interest of the saloon management or at leest least in the interest est of those thoad who controlled the ca card eard id room of the saloon A number of the most experienced card sharps in los angeles set themselves sel bel vets vety veis to unravel the mystery and fd tro turning the tide lido of fickle fortune i he other liay vay still the luck stayed with the house and the confraternity were worsted to the tune tutie of 1500 now a professional gam gem gambier gambler tiler filer is prepared to eni munter encounter a pretty severe run of bad luck but here was something that put the sagacity of the iho oldest of them at odds 1 strange pass Ing inga strange i ts that no outsider could under any circumstances win a game in that room roam try they ever so hard bard but so it was at last two took pos of the apartment ostensibly for ply play and I 1 locked oe ked the doors they at once began a 0 diligent search of the premises 48 anu and dd unearthed a regul regular kir hir system of wire telegraphy by the aid of which a stool who saw the cards of the telegraphed their ahir hands to the n manipulators of the skin game A flood of light was poured in the th mysterious rtin run of or luck I 1 find and curses curbes both loud and deep filled the modest apartment ident W we understand that those W who ha have bave been fleeced have aken taken aker legai legal advice and that every efery means meana will be tried to recover the ihn modify los tos ano dnn Ann elef W 2 |