| Show E D ITO pul PLY A TRUE DOMESTIC PLEASURE IN iz these degenerate days marriage Is Is I 1 becoming an object of terror instead of being a condition of h hope opel promise and d delightful ea 1 gh taul anticipation to young C people of both sexes the cares and constraints of matrimony are ill III suited to the reckless spirit of the a age ae 0 e the tile thirst for pleasure and the ampa impatience of restraint which are charac charae characteristics terl teri tics bics of tilo the period this is a bad lad sign the scarcity of marriages in any state is an evidence of its deene deane and when tills this is not caused by hard times is proof of that moral decay which culminates in social death an exchange says nays it is cited as a remarkable fact in statistics that in massachusetts th 0 number of marriages is declining in and the number of divorces increasing creasing ilithe inghels IS years year between an and d 1878 notwithstanding the fact that thene there lias has been a large increase of population the number of marriages lias has not kept pace with it there boing being 1240 1840 persons married in the state in 1860 isto and but in 1878 while the number of divorces has increased from in 1860 1880 to in 1878 or from 1 in 51 to 1 in 21 1 massachusetts is not singular in this increase of evil and decrease of good other states exhibit a similar la r a deplorable condition and the thoughtful are wondering ring what can bo be tho the cause eduse of tha the growing distaste for matrimonial ob obligations ll 11 actions at ions lons in this connection we note with pleasure tho the following article in the golden gozden adge age which we commend to th the e notice of our young friends as containing a principle well worthy of their consideration mutual labor responsibility and success in life help more than anything else with true tt lection to bind husbands and wives together and establish and perpetuate truo true 11 pleasure it is the happiest and most virtuous state of society in which the huab husband and and wife set out together to ether ethen make ther their property together 3 and with perfect sympathy 0 of f soul boul graduate all their expenses plans cal cai cu lations and desires with refer reference ence to their present means and to their futura future and common interest nothing delights man more than to enter the neat little ji atle tenement oath of th e young people who within perhaps two or three years without any resources but their own knowledge of indus try have joined heart and hand and engage to share together the responsibilities duties interests interests trials and pleasures of life the in industrious dust rious wife is cheerfully employing her hands in domestic duties putting u t tin her house in order or mending fl 9 her husbands clothe or preparing the tho dinner while perhaps the little darling sits prattling on the bloor or lies sleeping in the tile cradle and everything see seems ms preparing to welcome the ciappi happiest at of husban husbands ds and the best of fathers when lie he shall come home ionic from his toll toil to enjoy the sweets of his little paradise this is the tile true domestic pleasure health contentment love jove abundance and bright prospects are all here but athas ii has become a prevalent pr evalen t sentiment thava man must acquire misfortune his fortune before he marries that the wife must have no sympathy nor share with him in the pursuit of it in which most of the pleasure truly consists and the young mar ried people must et out with as large and expensive an establishment as is becoming those who have been wedded for 20 years this is very unhappy it fills the community with bachelors who are waiting walting to make their fortune fortunes endangering eiring virtue promoting vice it destroys the tiie true economy and de design of the domestic institution and it promotes otes inefficiency among females who m are expecting P to bo be taken up by fortune an and passively sustained without any care or concern on their part par t and thus many a wife I 1 lex omes emes as a gentleman tieman n once remarked not a helpmate but a helpert hel peat T THE HE PERFECT STATE the twe new york times says mys in the perfect state there will be no unmarried people who have arrived at the age of complete maturity would tho times leave its readers to infer that the perfect state is utah the tho above is from a kansas ya paper the has bouc touched on a rl afi y S tiu true e principle lna ina in a perfect state of society ety acty there will bo be an opportunity for every person of marria marriageable q cable age to enter the matrimonial condition but in that state virtue not vice will be the rule men will be nit fit fitas as well as women for the duties responsibilities and purity of domestic life in the present social condition a large number of men are unfit as well as disinclined inclined dis for the marital relation impure vicious and brutal males ought not to be entrusted with the power that matrimony gives over virtuous gentle and trusting womanhood mormon Bl ormon marriage opens the way for all women to be wives and that without throwing themselves away on worthless men when permitted to demonstrate its reformatory powers ra 1 it t will wili V ili ill prove its ef efficacy fleacy in hl preparing fie pie ra paring rj n g t the h D way for a perfect state of f society by providing every virtuous woman with the opportunity op for union with a good cantlion and honorable or ableman man it ft will lay jay the axe at the root of the tile tree of a social evil whose branches shadow the tile whole civilized world and whose fruit is worse than tile tiie the apples of sodom bein not only ashes to the mouth but po poisonous ody and arid deadly to th the tho 0 social utah is not the tile perfect state by any means but it contain contains sw within thin its borders a system which when fully established according to its spirit and intent will pave the way towards that perfect state which lias has been the dream of the poet the theme of the sage and the vision the seer for ages now it has to meo mee meet t the prejudice of the bigot the ridicule of the tho foolish the tumult popular clamor the outcries of press an and d pulpit an and the force of law pr and d custom it is hampered by the pass passions ions lons of men and women and hindered by the misconceptions and mistakes of its own advocates it is struggling in a cramped and sphere with all the tile disadvantages anything which appears to be under the sun but it is a of a divine plant and contains in itself vital force th atwill chatwill that wili will outlive all untoward blasts and survive all unfavorable conditions and under fostering fosterling care of the tile hand that planted it will grow in into to a tree beauty whose blossoms and will perfume and heal society and whose fruit will be as the bearings of the tree of life editors ma may y sneer about the utah state but imperfect lm berfect as it is now it has within it the promise and potency of future development into a social order that will wiil command the admiration of all good people and the a approbation probation and communion of the eternal eternal powers FISH WE vve are in receipt of a communication from professor barfoot curator of the deseret Desere fc museum on th the e subject i act of offish nish fish culture which we give below and to which we dra draw w the attention of those who feel interested in the subject we consider it one of great importance and trust that it will not be allowed to fade out of the public mind in consequence of the death of the gentleman referred to in the letter we shall be pleased to publish communications on this subject provided they are bri brief ef a aud and nd to th the c point and we hope our lends friends fit fir will avail themselves of the information possessed by the talented manager of the museum whose scie scle scientific 11 eifle at attainments should ree receive eive elve 1 general appreciation editors deseret dear sir since the death of the hon albert P rock Bock wood there ha has been a vacancy in the office of fish commissioner in tins this territory communications have therefore been forwarded to me under the tile direction of prof spencer F baird president of theu theus S fish commission com mis at washington D C these communications I 1 have referd referred ed to hon ron john it wind winder er president of the deseret agricultural and manufacturing fac turing society of this territory by whose authority the late mr rockwood acted the reason of my having been appointed ad interim is 1 8 probably my acquaintance with some of the who have visited this city and our museum from time to time but as there are many persons in the territory who are interested in fish culture some of whom have personally perso nally applied lied to me for information F shii shil 1 be pleased please 4 to receive com on i and to reply to them by letter or through 11 gh the columns of the news if agreeable to you therease Ther there eare are arc many parts arts of these valleys fully adapted to fish culture in many places upon a small scale in others upon one of magnitude the first essentials are a good spring of clear water situated at a point sufficiently elevated to obtain at least three thra feet fact fall to the Il hatching latchin house this sp spring r in should be e protected from s surface water incident to showers of rain 1 and it should also be kept clear 0 of f sedimentary matter as this tills would be liable to cover the eggs and destroy them there til ere ero are many little things to be attended to which can be explained in future communications cat ions lons if you deem the suba subject act of sufficient public interest to notice it in the columns of your widely circulated journal I 1 have the honor to be I 1 yours respectfully jos L BA BARFOOT curator museum march 10 1880 isso 4 M 1 A PIOUS FRAUD EXPOSED tim THE Al lerald herald of this morning contains a letter from mount blount pleasant sanpete Sali sall pete county in reference to a person named J D mcmillan who has obtained some notoriety here and in the east in consequence of his adopts adoption on of the lyford meth method od 0 of f obtaining fame and money under false pretenses it will be remembered bared d that lyford a methodist preacher temporarily sojourning sojo provo several years ago took a trip to the eastern states tor for the purpose of making a raise raised armed r rth with th the usual weapons of his class of christian highwaymen high t way men a subscription list a collection and a lying tongue and clad glad in armor of bf shame proof im created considerable interest as doughty methodist champion had braved the mormons cormons Mor mons in stronghold I 1 wi th a bible bibie in one and apostol in the other he this story with much effect in places and the dollars and rolled in to his great satisfaction wh when en this iuen lUeB mcmillan lillan came utah and learned of Ly fords success he be adopted the same tactics he also took an eastern tour and anion anlon among the presbyterians rians plagiary iced ize d I 1 t the 0 methodist maneu mancU vre with the simple difre ditre difference rence of a bible in one pocket and a pistol in other as the necessary ments for presbyterian practice among the utah mormons cormons Mor Alor mons the story of his bersee persecutions unions bravery and wonderful success 11 has been harped upon in the public p prints mt again again and again and it has been n represented that not only had this dauntless young minister to brave the fury of the I 1 local fecal priesthood but that bri abrl am young and a band of apostles went specially to sanpete to arouse the populace against 0 him the facts are that the whole story was baseless it had not the merit even of invention it was a miserable copy of Ly fords fabrication it was scarcely worth denying but in consequence of its frequent repetition mcmillan men MeB lillan was requested by some of the people of sanpete to correct it as lie lle jc cw that he had been treated the utmost kindness and consideration and had received encouragement coura gement rather than hostility from prominent men in the county he promised to do his best to rectify the statements which he acknowledged to be untrue but has never done so in a way to meet the public eye the letter all of which except the first paragraph we copy from the Jl jyerald erald coming from a non mor mon source ought to have the ef feet of disabusing abusing dis the minds of persons who might not credit a similar refutation from a Bl mormon ormon source we will only add further in this tills connection that the tiie stories that have been circulated with regard to alleged t indignities on a presbyterian preacher at brigham city cita are of the ame same s same character as is those repeated about his confrere in sanpete San pete they are we pious falsehoods concocted for the F purpose of arousing sympathy as a lever ever wherewith toll to raise the wind J I 1 or in other words draw money from tee pockets of the simple here is the letton letter MOUNT PLEASANT march 1880 editors gd herald r ald s i I 1 myself am afree afree thinker and bear no enmity to any roli reil religion ian and gon pon consider sider that every one has as much right to his opinion as I 1 have to m mine i 1 I 1 ne I 1 lia iia had d been a member of the M mormon 0 annon church until I 1 studied more closely all religious views when I 1 came to the conclusion I 1 could govern myself without them and there are other members of the same opinion in this place we built us an independent hall at the cost of 1457 1437 50 in 1874 in I 1 the bhe spring of 1875 llev rev mcmillan all ali came mine along and as our school was at that time in a very avery poor condition with very incompetent teachers I 1 as foreman with the consent of the balance sold the hall to mcmillan for 1000 on condition that he should start and keep a good school there he engaged miss bliss snow daughter of judge snow of salt lake city a very good and competent teacher and put the hall in goo order dorder the result was that not only the liberals but a good number of the I 1 mormons cormons rent sent cent their children there with but little exertion on his part but his bravery his being threatened 3 his danger his carrying cf weapons is is all a humbug I 1 have lived in mount pleasant ton ten years since I 1 left the church and have farmed divided water associated with this people all the tile time and have always been treated with res resi i peet have always had my share of water and in fact no man has ever interfered with me or denied me my rights in lu the least degree and any man of any denomination is abhat law abiding citizen can live just as Us secure in mount blount pleasant as anywhere in the united states ansi aw and more so so if bic Ble mcmillan Millan carried half a pound of lead and any concealed weapons he never had occasion to do so neither has he shown his brave bravery soy in doing so if anybody wished to do him liim any harm there have been many chances for doing 1 so but ut he has been treated with respect t more than b ho desti derti deserves erves judging ing by his publication as this is second time he has bragged of his revolver it is true that when lie he first came here lie he was tendered the tile meetinghouse to preach in and ho he did s so but no threats were made or conspiracy formed against him save what originated in els eis lis his imagination nor kor did lie he there mention his revolver or his lead itis it is true that bri brigham briham ham young voun youn was waa liere here once since and ana told the saints not to send their children to that school and said it had bad cons consequences u en ees ces but as he presided over t the 3 saints I 1 think lie had a perfect right to do so if he isle isic mcmillan abillan wants to boast of bravery lie ho had better go to central |
