Show A FATHERS SELF SACRIFICE in a southern settlement of utah an englishman of good education had bad laid laid a foundation for a home and moderate competence after years of toll and industry in which his own wife assisted him with faithful faitha ua perseverance among their large family there were two boys aged respectively six and eight years who were stricken by the hand of of providence with ode one of the saddest losses which could befall a human being unless it were relieved by an education the loss of hearing bearing the fond fd Bp arents looked with pity 1 t y on their speechless children 1 n and sighed to think of their helpless condition in life the tears sprang to their eyes whenever they thought of their want of an education which alone coped open the way for communication muni cation between the parents and children whose very misfortune but served to render them still dearer to the authors of their being not only would an education be a benefit to them mentally and morally but ant it would also train them to habits of iadus industry try so that when grown up they could be independent and self supporting sup DortIng arting 0 tor for such is the power of idt intelligence I 1 over the mind la 14 that direction moved by these reflections the be to 4 a icae of his little proper property and go where his deaf and dumb ch children dren could get their education hearing of a school of the kind in salt lake city the devoted father broke up his home and sold his homestead removing to the metropolis of the territory with his whole family trusting to find a means of support there he put t his little boys in the deaf mute bu department ep artmont of the university but the want of an institution put pui it out of his bis power to make them attend regularly the little boys would play truant for weeks together roaming the streets at their own pleasure while the lond father believed they were learning their A B C at the juniver university ver sity once he found them on market street during school hours and undertook to bring them to school regularly every morning but being a poor man with a family dependent upon him for support has been in despair over the situation he longs to entrust his boys to the watchful care of an institution while he himself sets about the task of supporting his family with a light heart but this is impossible under ider the circumstances it would happen that in stormy weather or when the roads were very bad for pedestrians he was obliged to keep them at home and at other times owing to their carelessness out of doors would catch a severe cold or other forslof sickness and then their arreg flarity at school would interfere seri sen bously with their progress pro pre eress agress to make matters worse the fathers little money is almost gone though he has been trying to support himself by doing all sorts of work is however scarce and with a wife having an all infant in her arms he scarcely knows how to kee keey Y t the he wolf from the door after having 1 I made such a heroic sacrifice for the sake of bf his two helpless young ones this is a sad commentary upon the want of an institution for the I 1 deaf in utah for which the unhappy state of affairs here is the only excuse and it is to be sincerely hoped that congress will generously take steps in behalf of the territory in ane meantime will somebody be kind enough to give the father a place where he can earn his own living and give ive bread to his family he will turn his is hand to almost anything and is not afraid of work please ad address ress HENRY 0 WHITE university of deseret |