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Show '(v TG ,VOL I. Heber, Wasatch County, Utah, Monday, b BYRANTTO HIS WIFE. The following lines frofri an uncomfound upon iJBryaiitV pleted poem-wa- s table, written several years after the death of his wife. ' The morn hath not the glory that it wore, Nor doth the day so beautifully die, Since I can call thee to my side no more, To gaze upon the sky. Tor thy dear hand, with each return of v I spring, sought in sunny nooks the flowers sheave: I seek them still, and sorrowfully bring The choicest to thy grave. From where I Jieard,. , sit alone is sometimes ... .. , From the groat world, a whisper of . my name, v Joined, haply, to some kind, commending word, By those whose praise is fame. And then, as if I thought thou still wert I nigh, turn me, half forgetting thou art dead. To read the gentle gladness in thine eye, That only I might have read. turn, but see thee not;hefore mine eyes The image of a hillside mound appear. Where all of thee that passed not to I the skie Was laid ..with bitters tears. : ... And I, wluge thoughts go back to happier days; That fled with theewould gladly n ow resign i im ember 8, 1890, No. 12. All that the world can give of fame and praise. For one sweet look of thine. T H E FOOL OF THE FA M I LY. - 4 A rich Chinese lady had a foolish son, for whom she had taken a wilefrom a cultured family. When he was about N to pay the etc visit 1 3 h s brides parents his mother instructed him how to behave and what to say, lor she was very anxi us that his mental deficiency should not be discovered. She. tried to forecast the quest. ens that would be put to him, and provide him with answers that would satisfy the questioner, and at the same time forestall Murtherquestioning. As he carried a costly fan on which -- a landscape was painted, she thought that guests, . dis- posed to be affable, would ask what scene was thereon represented, and so she taught him to respond to that question by saying, Oh that is only a Then, as he was to ride ancy sketch. a firn mule, she thought the gentlemen would be sure to comment upon its excellent conditi on, and to enquire its price; st she drilled her son in repfying with courteous humility, The animal is nothing more than a good beast of burden, icand cn cur iaim, ;nd net worthy your attention. When the young man arrived at the door of his host, the first to greet him who was his prospective mother-in-Jaw- , 'politely inquired. after the health of his mother, He.promptly responded, sa ing, The animal is nothing more than a good beast of burden, reared on pur -- . -- -- |