Show HAM AND EGGS tire moral and ana poetical leitem ions le ad to nil An appetite for the universal western dinner special correspondence chlio of the world I 1 CONCLUDED in ili the botany too there was a dist met alteration an crup eruption tion oatho composite daisy form of flower being conspicuous and timber disappearing q in ili a piece of bog land with mineral discolored water oozing ill up through the sods I 1 found 0 severa several ut marsh plants for which I 1 do not know the names in ili ll every evert one was gone to tile conference except a pretty girl in one house who had chargo of f a flock of eb children ildren and who resisted sis ted our entreaties for hospitality with a 1 d determination caterin i nation that would woul leavo lave been moro more becom becoming to an uglier person and one nd 0 old I 1 lady a dy left under the protection ofa of a big blind dog and a little bobtailed bobtail cd calf slie site received us its with the simple courtesy universal ilg to the territory showed us where to put our horses and where the lucerne was wm stacked and apologized to its for having nothing better than eggs an and d ham bain to offer us I 1 fancy nothing better than eggs and ham I 1 to my mind there is nothing in all traveling so delightful as these e eggs and ham bam interruptions they do 30 duty for meals not N L ot only is tile viand so agreeable but its odo odor r when cooking creates an ill appetite what a moral there is here 1 we have lave all heard odthe of the beauty of the lesson that those flowers teach us forth their sweetest fr fragrance W iian cru lied but I 1 thin c the tile conduct of eggs and ham hain that thus create an appetite in order to increase mans mails pleasure in their consumption is attended with circumstances of good tas taste that arc are very pleasing As we ive left manti behind us the wag wagons ons coming into conference got fewer and fewer and arid soon we jot found und ourselves out alone upon lipon the broad levels odthe of the valley with nothing ing to keep us company but a low range of barren hills that did their best to break the monotony of tile landscape in places the ground was white with desperate patches of the saline ealine efflorescence with which agriculture in ill this territory was so long on at war and resembling sem se bling in app appearance e aranca taste and effects the tile reh of the plains here as in india irrigation is is the only known artidore arti auti dote and once wash it out of the soil and get crops growing and the enemy retires but as oon eoon as cultivation ceases or irrigation slackens tile white infection creeps over the ground again and if undisturbed for a year resumes sum espos possession assion how unrelenting is is nature ili in her conflict with man i wo we passed some warm springs spring s a few miles from Manti but the water though slightly saline is inodorous and on W the patches which they water I 1 saw the wild flax growing as ifft if it enjoyed the temperature and the soil r then six mile creek a ale pleasant a s little ravine crossed by bv a rustic bridge which gives waier water for a large tract of land and so to sterling a settlement as yet in its cradle and curiously illustrative odthe of the beginning of things in rural utah one ono man and his one wife up on the hillside hill side doing cometh something i ng to tile water one cock and one h hen 1 I peck ing together in ill monogamous sympathy one dog sitting at the door of a one roomed log lint everything was in the adan and eve stage of society primeval in the adelon of time there were one ono or two ether other abodes but every everybody bod y else was at conference the tile pair on the hill had probably no wagon and the Sterli sterling Dg wagon lian had no room for them so acu calion and pyrrha had bad the earth to themselves and the rooster stalked before his mate as if lie was tile first inventor of posterity but much of this country is going goin zi to come collie under the plough in time for there is a future with some children in it there is a schoolhouse school house an ail instance of forethought which gratified me the country now becomes undulating remaining for the most pa part rt a sterile looking aoki rig waste of green wood ad but having an almost continuous thread of cultivation running along the center of the valley which a few miles later on suddenly widens into a great field of several thousand acres on the other side kide of which we find mayfield the hills meanwhile had assumed the most singular character they were rounded and bald some gray same SOMO yellow some red |