Show written for this paper FAMINE I 1 FAMINE I 1 FAMINE I 1 DEEP CREEK october 29 1893 the first famine we have any account ofia of is recorded in the chapter of genesie Gene elp in the bible it to la a pity that the day and year were not recorded it would have been more satisfying if they bad been given As it IB it to la a great strain atrain to imagine juet how long ago it basteen baa bas been we are told you know that it in ia a great fault of the bible ou on the whole that it has left out so co many dates I 1 am afraid that it would not be admitted in the third jadi judicial cial court as evidence with the dates out but with us we will take it as it is the book of genesis is in full of thrilling ac eurAs acci ants of the famine that raged in the land of canaan and egypt and thereabouts perhaps it would be as well these theae hard bard times fo for r us to turn to the good old book and read about josephs frugality how he be saved his fathers father Is house bouse with many of the children of israel from starvation it would be well to read ti 0 chapter from the to the verses verges and ask ourselves oure elves will we be like joseph or will we be like the people of canaan we have had many years of plenty but who has breadstuff enouen in the house for one month who has enough for one year who has enough for two bearo yearb who has enough tor for the hard winter that to is just now coming since adam lost his hia place in the garden of eden and was driven out to earn his bis broad bread by the sweat of his face am he and his descendants have had bad a hard time of it to make ends meet there have been famines all the time somewhere among some of his bis children let us look at the situation now all europe increasing their armament taking their able bodied men for the ranks leaving the old MOD men the crip cripples the women and children to till the soil oil let war once begin there and we will see how soon they will cry across the ocean for breaul I 1 how soon they will come and bring their gold silver and precious things to exchange for our breadstuff I 1 the time for these things to ha happen apen oan can not be prolonged much longer when men prepare to fight as ali all europe has baa for these many years the time to la not far off when they will not only seek for a chance but will have it when that time does come woo woe to those that are not prepared with their breaul bread they will surely suffer the lasi as years crop has been estimated for the worlds supply cupply and on september first there was not broad bread enough tor for the worlds supply for ten ted months who wants to do without for the other two months you have had a good crop in utah this year but should grasshoppers or crickets come next dext year who among you have broad bread to last you two years wheat that now BOW is selling so cheap will bring all the money the holder will want we have no joseph jaseph now neither have we a brigham Brig bam and if he did live he could not control the market as an he be did in the past days the demand and the supply would govern now and it would take all your money and posses possessions sious to keep from starvation we have plenty of good advice the same as we have always had about storing up food why will we not heed it the world a last year crop arop to ie esti estimate mat ed at bushels bhart the whole of the human family are not go lug log without bread for the two mout mouthed hh short but it will come in places let not utah be one of these places I 1 A famine is a hard thing deliver me from any more of it we have had bad our share at least all I 1 want and no children to cry for or bread either when cheo we were at att pleasant valley in the winter of 1858 69 59 the roads across the desert became impassable tot wagons and all we got was by pack and they vere but few and far between our flour gave out we took the sack each down into which we had put what had bad been left on the plates that was wag intended for the indians indiana when they came this was sorted each meaer meal until all was eaten then we cut the mules milled rations lug ial these theme consisted of chopped mill swee sweepings piDge this was baked without salt or yeast powder it was tough at first but gradually it be c ame me swett and that too was but a small email quantity no sugar or coffee a few ew bare of chocolate and that soon gave out too we brought up an old given out ox that had bad crossed the plains in one of major and russell flusa elPa Is teams that season and killed him by this time everything was gone but the old ox meat and that we ate without suit we boiled it and we could have washed our shirts in the soup it if we could have spared them from our backs long enough for all the grease that came out of the meat ask any doctor what effect that kind of diet would have on a man ona and yott yo will find out how bow we fared we got so BO weak that we knew that we had bad to change so BO we roasted the remains of the ox in the be ashes on wig this we lived three weeks no more famine for ud since that time flour has rated high with will say we have heard famine talked ever since we came cam to the valley so 80 you have and that kind of talk has saved us in the post past from famine save your wheat rings in my ears and it to is a welcome ring still may it ring in your ears until you have provided yourselves and your families for the winter for the next year yes for two years yeam wheat will keep money will not as there are ara so lauy ways to spend it lot let the labori laboring tig man the mechanic let every man purchase enough breadstuff to do da him while wheat to is cheap it il will be b a moneymaking money making scheme and a good investment the people of utah should be more mor interested in wheat than silver with wheat you can get the silver the allver will be mined by men that will not produce wheat but wheat they will have to have lot let every man maim curtail bis big expenses cut the theaters theater short cut the drinking short leave off the luxuries supply the decat sitiel and for a while with the savings of each week purchase a sack of hour flour until you have enough tor for one year at least to the farmer save your wheat it will be worth more than 60 50 cents per bushel before another crop do as st luke said aid tear down your barns and build greater ones so you will have room to store your fruits of the earth on you rests the responsibility of a famine let there be bonel none H J FAUST |