Show DOWN IS IN DIXIE pleasant T ta willow creek and salina A sen slide mini wanted foi OT bernor of or utah special corres correspondence of the world 1 SALT LAKE CITY juno june etil in ill our hostesses lio house at mayfield I 1 saw for the first time the ordinary floor covering of the country through which we subsequently sue bently traveled a rag carpet it 7 t is probably probably common all over the wor world t d but it was quito quite new to me I 1 discussed its composition one day with her mother and her ber daughter this streak ak liere here is jimmys old pants and that darker one is a military overcoat this is dandys daddys plush vest this bit of the pattern no mother your old jacket back dont y you remember and so on through the ahli carpet every stripe in it lind an association and the story of ortho tile whole wag was pretty nearly the story of their entire lives in the country for it took us seven years to get just this one strip of carpet we anic folks much you 0 it sec see fit to tear up 1 like i ke alje phrase hirase fit to tear up ill and woner wonder when in the opinion of this frugal people anything does become suitable for destruction but it is hardly destruction after all to turn old clothes into carpets and tho the processes proc process essis is as simple as in fact identical with ordinary hand weaving tho T to cloth is simply shredded into very vary narrow strips and each strip is is treated in the loom just if it were ordinary yarn the result being by a judicious alteration te of tints a very pleasant looking and very durable rag rugs arc are also made on a foundation of very coarse canvas by drawing very narrow shreds of rag through the spaces of the canvas fastening them on the reverse side sift and cutting them off to a it uniform daile pile on oil the upper in ono one cottage at salina I 1 remember seeing inga a rug of this kind in which the girl had drawn her own pattern and worked in the colors with a distinct appreciation of real artistic effect an industrial exhibition for such products would I 1 have nea no doubt bring to light a great many out of the way handicrafts which these emigrant nt people have brou glit with them from the dit different Terent parti of E europe drope and with which they try to adorn their simple homes for one no thing the man mall who peddles the unmitigated horrors in ill the way of pictures which t tho ic poor people have been persuaded to buy and liang jiang up ought to be hunted bownas down as if ho lie were a horse thief they arc are enough to throw back civilization half a century besides good pictures that is 13 to say pleasantly colored copies of well known works of art are now produced in europe at any rate for 6 gorlo or 10 pence apiece and there is no reason why people should have bad pictures simply because they are poor to resume resu in e our travels 1 soon after leaving mayfield cultivation ti dies out and for twelve miles mile mileson sor or so the rabbit brush and gr greensward e basward divide the land between them but few flower and these all dwarfed varieties attest tho the poverty of the soil the tile mountains however do their best to redeem the landscape and the scenery as desolate dacso scenery is very line the rancis that have on cither either hand rolled along in unbroken series of monotonous contour n now ow break up tip into every conceivable variety of feim mimicking architecture or rather multiplying multiply in its types and piling bluffs bluff s pierced with caves upon terraces and pinnacles upon battlements causeways like that in ill echo canyon slant down their slopes and other vestiges of a terrific aqueous action abound next to talis riot of rock comes a long series of low hills gray red and yellow utterly destitute of vegetation and so smooth that it looks as if the tile place lace were ft a mountain yard where sture nature made her mountains and had collected all her materials about lier her in ill separate convenient mounds before beginning to mix up andruse and fuse in places they were richly spangled with mica giving an appearance of sparkling trickling water to the barren slopes on the other side of the valley the mountains discountenancing such frivol I 1 ties had settled down into solid bottomed masses of immense bulk the largest mountains in superficial acreage I 1 had bad seen all the journey and densely cedar cd with gunnison in sight across the valley we reached willow creek a pleasant diversion of water and foliage in the dreary landscape land cape and an eventful spot in tho the last indian di anwar war for among these willows here tho the navajos cavajos made a stand to dispute d s u te the mormons cormons Mor mons pursuit of icar th their plundered stock and held the creek too all the day and so out on to the monotonous greensward levels again an indians camp firo fire among the cedars the only sign of a living thing and avei over another divide and so into the sevier valley valle y the river river is is seen flowing along alone the central depression with the rea red mound settlement on the other side of the stream and salina is on this side of it lying on ahead fy i salina 13 is one of those places it is is very haril hard to catch you see it first about seven miles off and after traveling towards it foran for an hour and a half find you still have eight miles or so to go appearances are very deceptive in ill this country as those people delight in saying to newcomers new comers and the following story is punctually told at every opportunity to illustrate it A couple of Britis hers of course Britis hers bers started off from their hotel to walk over to that mountain there just to get an appetite for break breakfast faist about dinner time one of them gave ave up tip and came back leaving his obstinate friend to hunt bunt the mountain by himself after dining he lie took a couple of horses and rode out after ins w friend and towards evening came up with him just as ho lie was taking off his shoes and stockings by the side of a ditch II allol r said the bo horseman arse what on oll earth are you doing jack doing Doin ff replied the sulkily cant you see I 1 am taking off my boots to wade this infernal river diverl Ili Ri verl exclaimed liis friend what river that thing is only a two foot ditch daresay was the dogged response it looks only a two foot loot ditch but you cant trust anything in this beastly country appearances fire arc so ducep the tive but we caught salina at last for we managed to head it up tip into a cul de sac of the mountains and overtook it about sundown A few years ago the settlement was de populated for black hawk made a swoop at it from liis his eyrie among the cedars on oil the overlooking hills and after killing a few of the peo people compelled the survivors to fly northward where the militia was mustering for the defense of the valley it was in this war that th alie e federal officers commanding the post ost at salt lake city acting under ser the orders of general sherman refused to help the settlers telling them in a telegram of twenty words to help themselves tho the country therefore remembers with considerable bitterness the three years campaign against a most formidable combination of indians when they lost so many lives when two cou counties n had to be entirely abandoned many scattered catt ered settlements broken up an immense immense loss of property and stock suffered nor is that bitterness much allayed by th the 0 lapse sf of time as the government though it lias passed the territorial ac accounts counts has not refunded a cent of the million and a quarter dollars authorized for the war by the governor of the time it is a pity that a grudge should be allowed to survive from 1 rom such shabby reasons the territory would be very glad of the money just now if only to finish the salt lake university building which governor murray by an ar baitary veto impossible in any other part of america lias has prevented the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons from proceeding wab this official by themay the way is another perfectly unnecessary source 0 of f local soreness both gentiles and mormons cormons Mor mons arc are agreed that he be is not 1 a I good man for his place he has neither the courage nor the intelligence to be independent and it is mast most mischievous to federal int interests e res ats to it have a v a in utah uta h at t the 10 i present time a person in in authority au authority thorit y who not only keeps himself studiously ignorant of the vast maj majority rity of tho the people but publicly joins a stupid handful of people three or four sectarian ministers a poor venal journalist and half a dozen apostate men and women in eilif vilifying y the cormons mormons Mor Alor mons if governor murray was replaced by a 1 sen densille siLle man there would be a very material alteration in the mutual attitude of gentile and mormon ormon an alteration which all the more intelligent gentiles would heartily welcome at salina I 1 met an apostate mormon who had deserted the acl religion algion because ho lie had grown to disbelieve in it but who had ret retained thel thales cles ms all his respect et for the leaders of the church and the g general ajl eral body of mormons cormons Mor mons he ile is still a 1 polygamist ay adist that is to say having married two wives he lie continued to treat them honorably as wives with me was an Apost leone of the most deservedly popular elders of the church and it was capital al entertainment bertain ment to hear licar the apostate and the apostle exchanging their jokes at each others expense 1 was shown at this house by the way an emigration loan receipt the emigrant a nt his wife and three children had been brought out in t the h c old wagon days at 50 a head lead some fifteen years later when he had become well to do and after he be had apo apostatized he lie repaid the band and some 50 extra as interest the tito loan ticket stipulated for 10 per cent per annum but as lie said it was deoul only cormons mormons Mor mons who would have let hinn run un on oil so long I 1 and then have let him off so mu much ck of the interest my host bos t was hi himself imor an interesting knaup man f for he be had been with the saints ever since the stormy days of kirtland and had known josebell joseph smith personal personally 11 y ah ali sir he e was a noble man 1 said the eld old fellow among other out of the way items ho he told me about the founder of his faith waa li his ls predilection for athletic exercises aises and find games of all till kinds how A he lie used to challenge strangers to wrestle and bo be ve very r y wroth when as ila happened P bened once ta the i e stranger threw him over a counter of a shop sho and how bow lie used to play baseball with the boys in the tile streets of nauvoo this trait of joseph smiths character I 1 have never seen noticed by liis his biographers but it ia is quite noteworthy as also I 1 think is the extraordinary tra fascination which liis 1118 personal appearance fo for lie was a very handsome man of the sir robert peel type seems to bave exercised over his contemporaries when speaking of them I 1 lind find that ono one and all will glanco glance from the other aspect of hs his life to this that lie was a noble man in other respects besides my hosts having known the Pro prophet at Ellet kirtland ad and subsequently became evanic personally acquainted with black hawk at tit salina I 1 remember my visit to this house louse for here for time I 1 had to perform my ablution and wid toilet out of doors and nd here forthe for the first time I 1 shared a bed avith an apostle |