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Show 1W 3 & VOLUME III. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 15, 1891 ANECDOTES OF THE DEAF. TIIOl'tillTS .MY ISKKOKfc I was mistaken, and I am very grateful to (i )d for scudiwg me miica knowledge. ; WAS KDLt'ATKD. at home, I thought that I the oii-deaf and dumb in the world, before 1 seen any other one. When WIIKX h :ii ston' d strangers , in my father's some'imes used to run my rusher and folhw her, for tj ft ar they would kill mt1. Soon, after, I was told that all the people would dii soon; iny impression was that they all would gatner together in my fat he-lot, and fall on the ground to be killed by some one, anil I was veiy much afraid that it would hurt me. Sunday, I teased my sister to g ) wiili me to pick some strawberries, but she looked soberly at me and said we must not jro any where. I ihouirit that she had the headache. Another Sunda , I asked my mother to iet me S!v, hut she refused her conm', t :er fore J. thought that all the p oplc had ihe headache once in six day so I called Sunday "headache." When I was ilr t told that 0 id was in heaven, I thought he was a nun who made people and animals in h'n glas home. I aked my sister-in-lait Oot would kill me, if I shcu d go up to him. I thought Oud took the coffins out of the graves in the night, and carried them up to his glasshouse, and laid tbemon benches. Af er a long while one evening I went to meeting and saw the preacher pointing his linger to a p'cture which was hung on the walls. I thought it was the picture ol Ood, and the good people who livt-- in heaven. Some ol mv fr'unds told me that the world would be destroyed in spring by lire. 1 wasveiy much afraid and wished to know how to do right, because my frierds said tlmtthe wicked would go to hell. The "lightning appeared with lire. thought it was Ood that s'jot the people .1 hid iu the corner of my bed room. IJefore coining to the Institution, it siemcd to be bt yond human power tlrit I could ever be id ucatcd by any one in the world, but hou-e- hi: 1'i.aci: or mv kdi ew tiox. This institution h, no doubt, the happiest, place for the deaf and dumb to obtain an education without being the b st hunesick, evm if they are faraway from their beloved friends. Tfie few years of my scholarship have been the happii-sof my whole life. How happy I feel in having an ed-neat ion which enables me to enjoy so much of the beauty of nature, ar.d adorn the wisdom and goodness of our all bountiful Crer.tor. How different my present thoughts are from those which I had in a state of ignor-arcWhen I look back to it I think and fed that I have Just emerged from a ravage state. With a gorjd education, I truly do rot re- gard mv dfafness as a deprivation, find 1 am very grateful to those who ray for mv education, to the. teachers, and especially to (Jod, audi know how to pity other deaf and dumb per-- I sons who have none. Here we are under the care of o many friends who i I ' t e. fre-ouent- ' , ' ' w I R we dearly love, and farewell to the familiar spot where we have often spent hours of unmingkd pleasure, never to return here as pupils. 1 shall n member all heie with love and respect in my future life, but I do not thir.k I shall ever meet with more happiness iu any other place than that now enjoy in scholarship. if, K. iu the Import of the Amrrtcian Asvlum. which I I s 1 NUMBER I lv attend us with a father's or mother's care, and we live together peacefully in unity like brotheis and siders. Sulliclent ar.d ex rcise are given to u when out of school. Sermons and lecturers we hear deliver-- I ed to us in which we enjoy hL'h priMost of the pupils have vileges. amu-en- u a irri f, at charge A NEW SIGN LANGUAGE. gang of iborers were relaying the track of thj I'iue s'reet electric line, and in chanreof one squad was a hurley Irishman who walked to and fro picket: up small stones, ('uriou to know tne pebbles aud why le gatheied not move the big stores, a bystander asked him why he can led his haudful A 1 little rocks. "Thim's me ordthers," was the prompt reply. "Does the company tell you to pick of up all the small stOLes?" "No, no, no, ye don't understand me. Them's me instructors. Se me now," and as lie said the v.ord he thew one of theitbbhsat a stooping aborrr( striking him sharply in the side. The man looked up, and as he caught the eye of the boss another pebble struck two feet to his lelt, Without a word he began diirgii'g his pick into the macadam where the pebble fell. "Now, do ye underhand me?" re- their marked the boss, getting ready to hit appcararce, character and manners another laborer. since they came here, and after the "Arc the men deal?" he was asked completion of the pupil's education, "Are they dafe? Not a bit of it." they feel themselves esteemed and "Then why don't you talk to them ." d as whore to go abroad useful necdt any "Talk to them, i i' ? It's a f jii?e ime I Hut am sure that I,d havetryin' to make them see the im n and women school daysare, by far the happiest, pint. Them's KyetaliaiH every mothso tnat most of them do not like to er's son o'tlicm St. houis Post b :.ve scho 1. The full time of the Dispatch. educa ion of some of us is very near, ami our names will cease to be enWhen in ihe course of a man's rolled amomr those wiio attend school. everythlnir he touches It is a painful thought, ns tne part- - experience nirr.s to uold, th n is the time in his f I ai'-is irg with tlirg always, but that his heart is liable to life's am inclined to think that the term ol turn tojourney stone. Kxchange. school is particularly so. Adieus i undergone in ; i ! i ; will be veiv hard to sav to all whom ;--j si itsriciiti; roic im: i:a.ij: |