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Show UTAH. By C. C. Goodwin, in the Educational Review. The fairest picture ever hung' in a rustic frame. Long ago it was the fashion to say that Utah was simply n-desert Those who said it did not know the ways of nature. IWhere she had cached great treasures, what more natural than that she should place hei guafds over them? So in the long ago she upheaved her mountains, giving" them a majestic but solemn look, to awe the curious comer. She spread out her valleys and, that their wealth might not be known, carpeted them with the gray serge of the desert. So through the ages, no one dreamed of the treasures in her mountains, or how her valleys might be transformed. Rut the pioneers came at last. Save the warmth of the summer air and the smile of the sunbeams, there was no sign of welcome awaiting them, and the desert silence wrapped them 'round like a winding sheet. But they knelt upon the desert ground and gav6 thanks for the mercies that were theirs. Tt. was the first prayer e'verrheard-in Utah. 'Then,' rising, they ang a-praise service. It - r was-thc first music that ever rangicmtpn 'the air of -Utah. ' -' Then thgy went to work and (toiled on until 4he'.blooni '-flecl- from their faces and their hands grew gnarled. So they filled their measures of life's duties and passed on. i Rut in the meantime the frown of the desert H grew less and less repellant and in places was 'H replaced by smiles ; and as in compensation H for the youth that had fled and to cover the H face that had become seamed with toil and B care, rare flowers began to appear where only ' the serge of the desert had been. H In the meantime, too, the sullen mountains opened their treasure chambers and poured forth their wonders. H Then it was clear why at first they ha 1 I stationed their sentinels of desolation and I cold and snow on watch. It was to hold V those treasures inviolate until the coining of il those who could use them wisely. ' Then rare structures began to appear in. the I valleys, further and further awav the- desert receded. Now from the heights such' pictures pic-tures can be seen in their rustic frames a might have been painted by angel hands with brushes dipped in sunbeams. And -if the stranger will set out from Salt Lake and go either north or south he will be greeted witli such views as he never saw before of fruitful fields and thriving hamlets, all watched over by overhanging, glorified mountains, so filled with sunlight, the songs of birds, and bloom of flowers and fruit trees, that he will admit the enchantment, and acknowledge that every blessing of God seems to be in Utah and that the moving pictures flashed before and around him must have been painted by im- , mortal hands with dyes taken from the fouia-tains fouia-tains where light and love and glories tin-spoakable tin-spoakable are brewed. , |