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Show Citizen, Press, Review - Wed., Oct. 8, 1986 - Page 14 tefejBWV i George helps Madge deliver her baby Chapter 38 The great tabernacle tctis filled with waves of sound as the "aniens" of the congregation burst out. 't he shout of men going into battle was no more stirring than the (losing worth of thix memorable eon-- , ference....Acipiainled though I am with displays of Oriental fanaticism anil western revivalism. I set this Mormon enthusiasm on one side, as being altogether of a different character; for it not only astonishes by its fervor, but commands respect by its sincere sobriety.... The wry simplicity of this great gathering of country folk was striking in the extreme, and significant from first to last of a power that should hardly be trifled with by sentimental legislation. -- Phil Robinson of the New York World, describing (General Conference in the Tabernacle after passage of the Edmunds Hill in 18H2 Madge was the first to go into labor. With Priscilla and Stella to care for her, no one anticipated any problems. The three women were comfortable in Ben's stone hideaway near a small stream that meandered towards the Green River. Ben and Flat Nose George kept the women supplied with meat, mostly deer and elk, and lump coal from a nearby vein that surfaced in the edge of a cliff. While the three women shared the cabin, Ben and Flat Nose George lived in a canvas tepee the Indian had made from materials provided by John Jex. "I didn't think it would hurt so much," Madge moaned when she had been in labor well past the mid-day mark. Priscilla and Stella were getting worried. Ben was still in the hills, barely more than a boy, there was little he could do anyway. "Get George," Madge cried, limp and relaxed after another siege of labor. Her black hair was damp with perspiration. "Can't have a man in the cabin while you're in this condition," Priscilla said nervously. Two kettles of water had already boiled away. The fire to keep the water boiling had created so much heat that the cabin's only window was wide open, even with the snow falling outside. "Maybe he's got more of that painkiller, the firewater," Madge gasped as a new wave of pains cut off her breath. Without waiting for Priscilla to say anything, Stella rushed out the door to find Flat Nose George. The was in the tepee, crouched cross-legge- d in front of the fire, staring blankly into the flames. When Stella told him Madge was in labor and wanted some firewater, he said he didn't have any but had something that would be better for her. Removing a leather pouch from his saddle bag, he followed Stella to the cabin. Taking a quick look at Madge, George moved to the stove and sprinkled some light green leaves and stems into the boiling water. A minute later he poured some of the brew into a cup, cooled it with some cold water, and took it over to Madge, who was between labor pains. Propping her head up with his arm, George began pouring the steaming brew into her mouth. No sooner had he begun than Madge began coughing and spitting the drink all over her bedclothes. "What are you trying to do, poison me?" she screamed., "Drink," was Flat Nose George's only reaction, bringing the cup back to her lips. "Too bitter," she said, trying to push the cup away. But he was stronger than she was. Finally she gave in to his persistence, holding her breath while she swallowed several times. George put the cup down when she began a new wave of labor pains. "Time to have baby," he said to Priscilla. "Excellent observation," she said sarcastically. "Time to have baby," he repeated, as if he expected Priscilla to do something she wasn't already doing. "What do you want me to do?" Priscilla asked, irritated at being told what to do by a man, and an Indian at that. This was woman's work. "Can't have baby here," George said. "Well, she's not going outside to have it in the snow. Is that what you make your squaws do?" "Don't mean outside," he said, realizing the white women were content to let Madge just lie there on the mattress until she pushed the baby out. "Baby needs help," he said, getting up and heading for the door. Neither Stella nor Priscilla said anything. Madge was writhing in pain. A minute later George returned with a rope and tied one end to a pinion rafter. He grabbed a large piece of kindling wood, which he tied crossways through the rope with three half-hitch- about five feet off the floor. Then he turned to Priscilla and Stella. "Madge too tired," he said. "Can't push hard. Mother Earth must help. Priscilla and Stella had no idea what George was talking I 0 when he abo. took Madge bv H help her to her feet $ M hurried alongside to helnr though they didn't know T! George wanted to do J responded to his confident seemed so sure that Mother could help, whatever that r Upon reaching the danelJ George got Madge to grab 2 with both hands and haS ;! knees barely touching the floor "Get down on floor andhelnh. out," he said to Priscilla understood. By Mother I helping, he meant gravity Madge now hanging in an position, the force of gravity J ,)0 help pull the baby down pJ!: dropped to her knees i Madge's nightgown. George rP ' to a chair to watch. "f: "It's coming!" pr;t screamed She was leani c ward, both arms under iL Stella was on her knees f side. When Priscilla straight up, still on her knees, holding a blue baby. Stella ny quickly, tying off the umbilical and cutting it with a knife The began to cry. Madge let g0 0 stick and collapsed to the C exhausted and relieved. Geor, Stella helped her back to J mattress while Priscilla wiped baby clean and wrapped it j! blanket. "It's a boy," Priscilla ; i placing the infant in his mothfp arms. "What are you going to nap,i him?" Stella asked. "George," Madge said weakh looking up at the Indian. Flat Nose George was grinning, (To be continued) Storm Testament V: Background of events By LEE NELSON Storm Testament V takes place in the Utah Territory in the 1880's when the U.S. Congress, federal judges, appointed governors, U.S. marshals and their deputies, the Salt Lake Tribune, and even the President of the United States are determined to crush the Mormon Church, with polygamy as the central issue. Polygamist Dan Storm and others find their families being torn apart in what they see as a one-side- d and unfair conflict. With Mormon Church leaders on the run, wives being forced to testify against husbands, good men going to jail without bail, foreign immigrants being refused U.S. citizenship and the vote, and the Mormon people themselves unable to agree on the issue of polygamy, this is a story of tragic proportions as everyone, Mormon and gentile, plays the great Utah guessing game of trying to figure out who is really married to whom. While Dan Storm is off to Canada looking for a more peaceful home for his family, his youngest son, Ben, heads into Utah's west desert, devastated by his inability to stand up to law officers who have arrested his polygamist brother, Sam, and taken Sam's first wife, Kathryn, into custody. Unavoidable events bring Ben into new confrontations with law officers, this time fighting back and winning - ending up with a following of three pregnant plural wives and an outlaw Indian named Flat Nose George. The women are running from the law to avoid being forced to testify in court against their husbands. Ben takes them to a remote hideaway in the rugged mountains of east-centr- Utah, while his brother, Sam, is convicted of polygamy and sent to the federal prison in Detroit, Mich. Following an intense con-frontation with one of the guards, Sam joins forces with Mormon patriarch, Moroni Hess, who uses a seer stone to engineer a daring escape from the prison. Meanwhile, back in the rugged mountains of eastern Utah, Madge, the homliest of the pregnant plural wives, goes into labor. There are complications. Flat Nose George comes to the rescue by applying primitive midwifery skills of the Ute Indians. That's where this story begins... Pageant Orchestra presents symphony The first of a series of four sym-phonies by the Pageant of the Arts Symphony Orchestra will be presented Monday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pleasant Grove Junior High School Auditorium. 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