Show MORMONS TEACH A LE LESSON cle cleveland veland leader it would seem that wo we have boca been shown only the sordid and ugly side of the mormons cormons Mor mons A nev boy and altogether charming view of them appears in the dispatches tolling of the plans to erect a monument to t the gulls of salt lake the mornion mormon pioneers plo noera in utah when about to gather their first crops in lie fall of 18 1848 48 were anguished lahod to see bee great swarms of locusts sweep down upon their fields and begin the destruction of every green thing the settlers had raised with patient labor halting tho the devastation was beyond their powers power but relief came and from a quarter not in the least expected immense flocks of at gulls how flow in from the islets of the lake and attacked the insect enemies of the crops they saved the grain the monument is to be at once a commemoration of those days of severe orde ordeals alg and an expression of 0 gratitude io to the gulls these strange and marvelously graceful creatures have held a position almost sacred in the minds of the mormons cormons Mor mons the memorial will serve to keep alive this feeling as well as to assure the protection which the birds so richly earned furthermore the rest of the country is to denow that the mormon Is quite as capable of a fine sentiment and perhaps of an appreciation of mans helpers which others have been slow to develop it might be an excellent thing if other communities were to experience the travail of those pioneers of 17 47 the potting of the harmless winged foresters would cease and the hedges would be sweeter with the songs of the thrush and cardinal nor would we longer see a kind ol of millinery that is a record of death the mormons cormons are teaching a lesson well worth while |