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Show ineuceu; luiuler and louder it be- came ami sakiii umst all the aseni- I ' blage joined in the sing-sung yninl- ! grunt, lullaby. Each sung is difler- j mil. The loader was a young man ! from one ut' the reservatiuns who ; seemed to take delight, as is their eus Loin, in presenting something dtlli- cult. Alter the sacrament wasad-i wasad-i ministered by Indians the congre-' congre-' gation followed the speaker in his . travcls.imong the civilized tribes, wlien Kishop Ward interpreted, they smiled and gave expression of delight in hearing from their brethren. Notwithstanding the severe weather in tiie evening the house was auin tilled with happy faces. To one inclined to a gloomy, troubled, sorrowing spirit, a good lesson is given by the Indian who, uu tier most any and all ci reum -stances, is cheerful. Some time since one of the boys from a neighboring reservation borrowed u horse from this village without permission, rode it to the station and turned it loose. He was subsequently arrested, and in default of bail was placed in Box l Elder prison. His father was put to considerable trouble, and when he had to pay attorney's fees for explaining the law he exclaimed: ''White man's laws no good, don't need any lawyer to explain Indian laws." The Indian stands preeminently pre-eminently aheadofhis white brother broth-er on this point. Instead of an inexhaustible quantity of uninterpreted uninter-preted and unexecuted laws Mr. Indian has a sin. pie and effectual code which all understand and know the consequences of disobedience. disobedi-ence. At the ineeiing ppokon of, something some-thing like eight persons arose voluntarily vol-untarily and bore testimony to the blessings of the Gospel, two speaking speak-ing in comparatively good English. Some had quit tobacco, some had conquered the appetite for liquor, while others were trying to control their evil propensities in other directions. A N IN D I A N 71 L L AGE. Notes Aliout Washakie, In Northern Nor-thern liox Elder. SOME OF Till! DATIVES' PECULIARITIES. A Correspondent Visits Their Homos and Tells of Their Meetings Hod-els Hod-els of Cheerfulness. Washakie is a Mormon Indian village situated in Malad Valley, some thirty -five miles north of Brigharn City. The following communication com-munication over the signature 'A. K." (no doubt from our old friend Andrew Kimball) appeared in the News this week. It contains con-tains a number of odd things about the village which are not generally known, by the people in our county, therefore we reproduce" the article almost entire. Ed. After the heavy snow fall of lat Saturday night, and before Sunday school time, two of the boys were out with horse and drag malting paths through the deep snow. Shortly after 10 o'clock, when the bell Tang, the meeting house, a good-sized, co nmodious building, was well filled with happy Indians. Fully sixty were called to order by their young Indian superintendent. The exercises consisted of singing from the Sunday school hymn books, recitations, Indian songs, readings, testimonies and speaking in English hy some of ihe -buys. A little time vr;is occupied by their "Chelokec" friend, us they termed your correspondent; they welcome ;i visitor from any source, but seem to be p:irticul;irly interi'sled in hearing from their Lamanilc brethren of other lands. A call was made at tlie homes nf some of the dark people on our way to dinner. They are rapidly approaching civilization ; most all live in bouses, use stove and furniture ami dress much the same as their white neighbors. Tlie women are particularly fond of a red shawl, tablecloth, bedspread, or some other highly eclored wrap, while the head is generally tied up in a red handkerchief one great advantage over the modern ntyles used hy our white sisters, since a person- silting behind can see ovrr them. Tlie men arc aspiring to ; dress like their white brethren and tlie young fix up quite "dude- j Hed."' I At 2 p. in., when meeting was I called to order by P.islmp W ard, and a nod to the singing leader was given jis a signal to commence, aj peculiar humming- noise like a dis-tamt, dis-tamt, approaching storm com-1 |