Show brigham young not long since wo we spent a few months in salt lake city and its surroundings we can truly say outside of the institution of polygamy there is much about the mormon people to admire with few exceptions they are a kindhearted kind hearted industrious flu fiu gal people we spent considerable erable time among them rode through their settlements stopped over nights at their house houses talked with all classes and in all ali alli ways and will truly say we never found a family more wrapped up in a parent tha thau U the tile mormons cormons are in brigham young bigham biggham makes them an excellent ruler deals honestly and kindly with them there is not a mormon in salt lake but can leave there with all their effects any time if they wish they are the most frugal and industrious people in the united states brigham is very much so himself and teaches it it is gald gaid not so much as a crust of bread is wasted about his household he has but to say the word and it is executed with cheerfulness and alacrity he is the idol of his people ile he lives in plain but good style he dr dresses estes respectably in a business suit with no jewelry but a watch and chain he is a man that weighs about two hundred and twenty pounds about fi 11 we so feet ten stout built rather an arbitrary arbitha ry voice very large neck and posse possessed of as much force of character in his way as any man alive he is a native of vermont and seventy two years old Is well preserved and bids fair to live a long time can walk around town and do business as readily as most men in the prime of ilfe lire we heard 11 him I 1 in preach several times HI nis i sermons if they can be called such are simply good advice on all matters matter S of life save have now and then when he gets a little vexed at mormon la dies diesl extravagance in dress when h he e goes oes for them rough shod we ve heard him tell of the mormon troubles when they lived in this county sl he told of some eighteen being killed hilled one day and arid his helping to bury them he said persecution had proved the richest endowment the they y ever had the bernable bernabie Ta will seat reat people e 0 on on one occasion we saw it filled it is 13 feet long and feet wide built in the form of an eglip ellipsis ia there is a gallery forty feet wide all round except where the organ stands they have the tile fourth largest organ in the world it cot cost is 30 feet wide about the same depth and 57 feet high it was built in the church mostly by mormon labor and s skill kill they are building a temple that will cost ten million dollars it is a granite structure the walls are up about eight feet above the surface of the ground the streets are very wide and a stream or of cleal cleas water runs on both sides of near nearly nearis y all of them there are plenty of fine shade shado trees along the walks there lias has been a world of labor performed by the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons and that country snows shows many signs of dearly bought frugal comfort kanbas kansas city chronicle april 14 |