Show EDITORS DRAWER MY MANY stories are told to illustrate the sublime perseverance and unsurpassable assur assurance knee of book boob agents and lightning rod vendors adors an instance la in point A book peddler called at the residence of bishop thomas B R cutler citler in lent lehi utah county he wanted ranted to sell him a book but discovered covered that the bishop was in the penitentiary serving a term for unlawful cohabitation under the edmunds raw law all right sala he I 1 PU ill gothere and see hire him and get his subscription sure enoich the fellow appeared at the pen to the inexpressible disgust of brother cutter cutler who brought th the interview to as speedy a termination as practicable EVERY public speaker of experience has hais in his time perpetrated some egg regious blunders in the haste of bf utterance one of the most stupendous and steep ever me made by the writer was in the town of sheffield england in the early part of 1884 1864 just about a quarter of a century tur kince the subject under treatment was the gathering of the elect in the latter days predicted by the ancient prophets I 1 in showing that isaiah where he speaks of the lords house being established in the last days ia ht the tops of the must have had reference to the latter day saints the acte speaker entered upon a description iou of the elevated location of f utah exclaiming with much fervor that its altitude was over miles above the level of the sea it to is needless to state that this surprising announcement no caused the audience to be lighted up with a smile of considerable sid erable width to correspond with the height of the mistake THE xau nauvoo oo 00 independent of dec bec 28 1888 contained the following 1 A W beach of salt lake city utah spent several days the latter part of last week in this clay city the gentleman claims to have been tle the first male child bomin bom in salt lake city his father rufus beach built the house at present owned and occupied by mr chris buegger Bm egger on street where he conducted a small am H store ind and the travelers inn during the reign of the mormons cormons in the city brother beach at present resides at eagle rock idaho on debeni december he was met ln in salt jt lake laje city by a re representative preset dative atthe NEWS who inquired concerning his eastern trip of which hogale he gave an account as follows i I 1 left salt lake city on nov 26 20 1 1888 traveling on thie the ad D R 0 railway for a visit to my iny mot mothers matheri heri relatives at burlington iowa I 1 stayed there afew a few weeks and on 04 the of december made a trip to nauvoo illinois I 1 called on t P kimball esq F sq to whom I 1 made myself known and stated that I 1 had come caule to see the former home of the latter dy day saints he ae received me very kindly and invited me to make ny my home at his fa house during my stay in nauvoo I 1 was waa pleased to accept his hospitality and after answering his inquiries regarding garding rt utah and her people he ordered his buggy and took me for acrive we went to what used too to be my father lf haw house now known as 0 beachik Bea chiB 8 tavern ar or travelers Tra velera inn ap which Is becu occupied by st a german and his family here y said mr kimball to me iwas was our headquarters at the time of the battle between the mormons cormons and the mob when the latter attacked and threatened to destroy us we took articles from my foundry and made them like cannons these were stationed in that corner corners w pointing to a spot scot about of a mile from my fathers father s house hoube and there chete continued mr with wit h our gup guns we made ready for business you know we vve meant me antto to defend ourselves from the mob awhile rW while hile in that corner comet on that d asty afy my brother hyrum kimball came to me and add here fin give me that gun and you get ln in that buggy and go to the temple after cartridges I 1 went as directed and on returning with ith the cartridge I 1 saw hyrum with his head and face al motet most covered with blood he was ramming a bullet home ih the glin sidd said 1 I hyrum for gods sake get in the buggy and go back to the housed house III no I 1 jouit 11 was waa his reply IOU stay here adl an i give them h 1 1 yet he had been hit by el a musket ball which had plowed ri a furrow farrow from his big forehead over W 0 thu the back of his head right in the corner comer was where captain anderson was killed he was over by the black blacksmith mith shop and was doing his duty like the braveman that he was I 1 W when hen a cannon ball fired by the mob struck and killed him after the narration of these and nd other instances we drove away balso I 1 ateo conversed with quite a number of people in nauvoo of several of these I 1 asked the question fuestion Ue stion what was the cause of the lat ter day saints saint being driven from nauvoo jealousy was the reply they made to me the anti gormong mormons kne knew that if the mormons cormons were left alone they would soon control the otate elections they would build up h a large and beautiful ciar and nauvoo nauva would become the state capital we have bae found out diat since those days daya thit that the latter day saints were lied about that it was not ft for their bad behavior they were driven from their homes but that it was because of jealousy they were so prosperous and united we want you people to come back and build up this country for w we can cannot not do it we believe you people must have left a curse upon this place for nothing prospers here now ial major bidamon was one on of thase upon whom I 1 called and he expressed hini himself as phased to meet me I 1 asked him what do you JW know about the Mormon nsf 81 1 1 I know 11 said he that they ahre are the most honest upright ands bused people that I 1 ever saw ff 11 1 mojor mior bidamon what about the statements made fiade by ymer elder stevenson and others othere who were here altti ith mm him and recently published in the amaer ax they are true said the tnador em emphatically ph a ti ca ily ev everyone e r yo n e 0 of f th them em I 1 did alli all 1 I could hr fr your people and we wa want at you to bome 0 back iback here 1 T the lie maj or is in rather poor health he remarked if I 1 live till theard the ard 3rd of batt 1 WO nine years old As s I 1 arosa arose to take le leave a ve of him he took toa me by the hand and sald said od bless you give my kind regards begird to your people 11 1 I also visited what is known in nauvoo as the old mormon burying I 1 aground ground il it is in bad condition many headstones having been broken down by stock which has 1 been peen allowed to t pasture on oh the place I 1 enjoyed my whole trip east bast it ft being the first I 1 have made there I 1 did not fall fail to embrace the many opportunities tuni ties of bearing toy ray humble testimony to the divinity of the gospel P 61 as revealed through lih rough the prophet iro phet jeseph smith and taught by the of jesua je christ of lat wady ter oay saints while I 1 was as at my fathers place I 1 discovered in the possession possess ibn of mr bruegger who occupied ie hb house uie an old painting of the nauvoo temple it is as you see exhibit exhibiting hig the pac boot about 28 by 28 idd inches hes avery good painting 1 though it has become al slightly lightly dimmed and dusty b by time I 1 purchased it froan them and shall preserve it as a valuable relic of nau abo jays dap I 1 shall have it cleaned up tip and varnished and put ut it in anew frame when it will look very weh mr beach left for flor ahls 14 home in egleson Eagle Bock k on the morning of new year day 4 THE IbI following lowing incident of missionary experience had lieen been handed to the editor chile while labor laboring as a missionary in new england in 1876 I 1 made the acquaintance of an aged widow lady in the city of salem maw mass who became so ip much impressed with the doctrines s re revealed baled through tigh joseph tile f seer that she was on the point of df embracing embr embracing acin g them por for some ye years ars she had been associated with a certain tain religious society in that city some of df th the e members of which bere iere 6 vory very much opposed to her becoming a mormon 11 one of these these was an aft ordal ordained fied elder of the society who paid repeated visits to the widow seeking bown to dissuade her from embracing mormonism 1 I upon one arthee or thee visite he expressed an ar wi wish to meet that mormon in 11 her he r presence presets and by b vanquishing win aim in 16 a discussion show to her taid s of his teachings II 11 swab but birta 6 youth while he be was somewhat noted locale for his fa rinSa rity with the bible and his hi controversial powers hence he was bwy boastful of his ability to disi Adame A meeting bei between Weon him and myself WO arranged to take pwe at the ado widows house the began ea ly by hit his talking taking ii a large amily bible fro from inthe the centre table and opening tt lt on his lap with a great nourish he turned to the he book of and spent about an hour in elucidating in his way KB its mysteries what he said had not the most remote bearing on the truth or oi falsity of any doctrines I 1 had bad taught to the wido wand 1 I remained silent as did she his object tsugu I 1 surmised i was to th impress her he r with the fact that he was so learned in bible mysteries that I 1 could not possibly rival him in that regard and that she should therefore be in I 1 fluen ced by him film and not by me at length he broached the subject ot 0 I 1 mormonism ll 11 in substantially th the following language addressed to me I 1 I 1 mormonism is no new hew thing to me but I 1 know it is false 7 7 know that there have been do rela dons from heaven since the yew testament given 9 he wd said this with marked and solemn emphasis and then continued now m tell you how I 1 kaow this over thirty years ago when I 1 was a young man living with my fatness fathers family t two wo mormon motil elders stayed all night with us they preached reached sinY to us and A t went and prayed to the lord to reveal tonie to toe whether or noi not the book of mormon was true and the lord revealed revea Zed to me thit that te it was fave famely fc ve 1 he ae laid great grat stress on his closing declaration knowing enough of the rell religion gion he was contending against to realize that of all the arguments its advocates votes ad use theli their solemn testimony of a personal knowledge of id A truth obtained by revelation is one of the most difficult to resist I 1 and his big purpose was to strike me in advance with what he deemed my awn best I 1 weapon but elder aid I 1 quietly you just said mid that there haab bad been en i no reVel revelations revelation atio ns from heaven since thid now new testament abw then could you have had one showing the book of mormon to be false instantly the fatal nature of the blunder he had hadi male nale flashed across the mind of bf my would be in qu teher the infernal machine he had constructed for iby my had fiad exploded in his own hands bands he was ut buterly erly crushed I 1 have never seen a person more completely aver overcome with confusion he could not utter i reply and made no attempt to do so ao soon anger predominated over chagrin and he demanded of f I 1 1 the widow give me my batill hati she handed to him his big headgear head howl gear arid and without another word he stalked butof the house amazement sat upon the face of the wl dowat the denouement odthe interview it seemed to show her the hypocrisy of one of her cli chofen osell religious counselors coun and of his fiela in warring against the truth I 1 soon after baptized her and within a yeat sho she a resident of utah |