unselfish in its nature as

A TROUBLOUS TIME.

as the melody of angels' voices, or Our welcome by nearly all was a
the enrapturing anthem sung by the most pleasant and agreeable one till
THE present appears to be a gen-
"morning stars," when they "shout- we reached the humble home of a
ed for joy
over a newly-made brother who was alone a member eral time of trouble and perplexity
world." Every deed or act of life of the Church. His wife and large among the Saints. Their afflictions
towards another should be as family were outside of the fold, are not confined to those immediate-
are though they endured our presence.ly imposed upon them by their ene-
mies who seek their overthrow. The
trouble and sorrow thus heaped upon
them are grievous enough, but they
by no means stand alone. There
appears to be a prevalent sinister
unseen influence at work seeking
everywhere for vulnerable or assail-
able points and making the most of
opportunities. Nearly every family
of standing has its own perplexity,
and each is more or less apt to con-
sider its own case among the most
discouraging. In numerous instances
the only relief that occurs consists
simply of a change in the nature of
were not marked after the manner the affliction, and the causes of grief
of the mother. These conditions and annoyance are generally of a
never lent much aid towards making kind that carries them beyond the
the conversation very spirited and control of those whom they afflict.
usually our departure would be
hastened in consequence of such
uncongenial feelings.

the works of God for man, Perhaps but few Elders have ever
wherein He has created all things been at the house who did not notice
for the happiness, glory, immor- upon their approach, the woman
tality and eternal life of man; all with the corners of her mouth drawn
that can possibly contribute to the down and an old bonnet pulled over
gratification of his present and the the eyes as if condemnation was
glory of his future. His words and fixed upon her brow and she could
works are all for the possession and not look us in the face.
enjoyment of life by others. When To be affable and pleasant was one
this becomes the all-absorbing mo- of our principal mottoes, and though
tive of man towards his fellow-man, gloomily repulsed in this instance
there will be no unhallowed and ac- the same rule was adopted but with
cursed fruits of selfisnness to blight very poor effect. Thus we would
the power of love, or mar the fellow-spend our time talking to the man
ship of man with man, nor man with and what members of the family

his Maker.

To think alone of me and mine
As worthy of God's blessing,
Prevents the kindly act I owe-
The law of love transgressing.
To think and act for thee and thine,
I owe the duty to each brother;
As I would have them do to me,

So I must do unto each other.
Unlawful self the rule defies,

Makes man despise his neighbor; By which he owns he loves not God; For good of others will not labor. S. W. R.

BLOOD GUILTINESS.
THE fate of those who besmear

Never would we depart from the house without commenting upon the peculiarity of some people and a dread reference would be made to the acts of our female friend.

We would wonder and wonder what so affected the woman, but never could tell what it was.

Some people inclined to mental morbidity may be disposed to think that this pretty general situation is necessarily a token of divine displeasure. On the contrary it may be the expression of infinite love. In every affair of life it is desirable that the Saints should preserve selfpoise and control, and not permit themselves to be overwhelmed with excitement and disconsolate fear. It was a year later when a second They should be constantly on their their hands with a righteous man's visit was made to this place and guard, and under all circumstances blood should be held up for warning while in a confidential chat with keep in mind that alarm and faith whenever known. If we knew the the man of the house he told the do not dwell together in the same immediate effects upon those who cause of his wife's actions. Said breast, being the antipodes of each participate in such deeds a chapter he: "Brother W.; my wife's grand-other. By pursuing this course they of horrors would be presented that father, named Rice, was one of the will gain by the experience through would reach down and claim charity mob that killed Joseph Smith. which they pass, bitter and unpalatin a most legitimate form. Very soon after he was employed on able though it may be at the time. As to who constituted the mob a steamboat; while riding along one that killed Joseph it is possible that calm day he very strangely fell from our system of proselyting alone can the boat and notwithstanding the develop. Sometimes we hear of men efforts made to rescue him he was living who make a vain boast to drowned. The circumstance was appease the sentiment of a commun- somewhat mysterious to all who enants "The Word of the Lord to ity that they "assisted to kill Joe witnessed it." Smith," and at other times the circumstance comes down through posterity. An instance of the latter

In these times it will be found

profitable for afflicted Latter-day Saints to peruse and ponder upon the revelation beginning upon page 425 of the Book of Doctrine and Cov

Joseph, the Prophet, while in LiberAnd this to me was the explana- ty Jail, Clay County, Missouri, March tion of what we could not solve. Our 1839." In it some of the most appresence tended to arouse the feel-palling situations to which mortals that may never have been mentioned ings of the woman against us because could be subjected are enumerated was found by the writer while in of a failure to accept the truth, but and graphically described. Joseph the State of Alabama. The fate of the fate of her grandparent would was informed that, if he should be the individual who was guilty of thrust itself before her and a forced called to endure them, "All these shedding a prophet's blood was not respect in silence was given us, things shall give you experience as startling as some recorded, but While not a strict application yet and shall be for thy good. The Son the circumstances attending the one that can be applied, we quote, bringing of it to light were quite "The sins of the fathers shall be interesting. visited upon the children to the third or fourth generation.”

Late in the fall of 1886 we took a trip in an old field that had furnished some honest souls, but who had not been able to obey the command to gather.

E. S. WRIGHT.

of Man hath descended below them

all; art thou greater than He?"

"After tribulation cometh the blessing," ," and after the Saints have passed through the narrows and the day star of peace shall arise, how Bismarck was lately made a Doc-intensely they will enjoy the change. tor of Divinity. The transition will come.

A CURIOUS ADVENTURE. among his acquaintances, a sense of for thought, I sprang from the bed duty to the public impelled me to do so.

SOME years since a man was arrested in one of the country settlements of this Territory on rather a grave charge, and pending the action of the grand jury was imprisoned in the county jail, a not very secure structure, from which he soon contrived to effect his escape. He left no clue to the course he had taken, and after a brief search, hope of capturing him was abandoned and it was believed by his acquaintances that he had left the Territory.

Some weeks afterward the writer happened to be traveling in one of the southern counties of the Territory, and stopped in a town in which a mill was in course of construction, when, to his surprise, he noticed the culprit engaged upon the building,in company with a large number of other men there employed.

and, clutching him by throat, forced him backward upon the lounge Taking the Bishop by the arm where I held him until I feared if I and starting towards where the man did not slacken my grip on his windwas employed, I said, "Come and pipe he never would regain his be convinced!" but the fellow, who breath. Accordingly I loosened my had also recognized me, was evi- hold, when to my surprise, after dently in no mood for being inter- gasping once or twice, he cried out viewed, for as we approached him "Mother!"

he dropped his tools and hastily When excited a person thinks
made his way out of town. Even quickly. I did upon that occasion.
with this evidence of guilt before The truth flashed upon my mind in
him, the Bishop refused to believe
that the man was the criminal he
was represented to be, or at least to
act upon the suggestion offered to
have him placed under arrest and
communicate with the officers of the
county whence he had escaped.

an instant that it was the wrong person I was choking. The voice was too boyish for the robust man whom I had imagined I had in my grasp; and besides the latter would not be likely to call for maternal assistance if it were he. A glance at Having business with the justice the bed clothes which I had noticed of the peace in the place during the piled upon the lounge when I enday, I called his attention to the tered the room, but which were now character of the man who had found tumbled partially upon the floor,and refuge in the settlement, but he too the scantily clothed form of the perfailed to realize the necessity for im- son I was holding down, satisfied mediate action in having him ar- me that whoever he was he must rested. However, as the refugee have been reposing upon that failed to put in an appearance dur-lounge during the earlier part of the ing the afternoon, the justice of the night. Then, fearing the household might be aroused by his screams, I shut off his wind again long enough to command him to be still and make no noise, piled the bed clothes upon him while his eyes remained closed, and slipped back into bed, to ponder upon the scene in which I had just been an actor. When the ludicrousness of the situation presented itself fully before my mind, t could hardly control my inclination to laugh.

Being in conversation with the Bishop, who was superintending the work, at the time of making the discovery, I exclaimed, "What in the world is that fellow doing here?" The Bishop, true to his Yankee instinct, answered my query by ask-peace began to feel that he ought to ing if I knew the man, and when have acted with promptness on the I assured him I did, gave his name, first suggestion. Accordingly, after told of the crime with which he was dark in the evening, in company charged and of his escape from the with the constable, he called at the county jail, he shook his head in- Bishop's house where I was staying credulously. "You are mistaken," and asked what I would recommend he said; "this man's name is Rich-in the emergency. While we were ardson. I have only known him for talking a boy came in and reported a few weeks, since he came here, that Richardson was just then peerbut in that time he has shown him- ing through the window at us, but self to be a first-rate fellow and a he managed to escape before the perfect genius. He is boarding at officers could get outside, and though I had been lying awake fully an my house, and is able to turn his diligent search was made for him hour thinking of the episode and hand to almost anything. He has that night it was unavailing. wondering who the young man mended clocks and done tinkering Learning from the Bishop's wife could be whom I had choked, for I for the people, finished up the car- that a coat, vest and watch belong-was under the impression the Bishop penter work on my house, and now, ing to her boarder were in the house, as you see, he is working as a masou, I ventured the opinion that he and he seems to be equally clever at might remain secreted in the vicinieverything. In fact he is quite a ty until after I had left, to recover preacher as well; he gave us a dis-them or possibly attempt to do so course of about two hours' length on during the night, and remarked tha Sunday last, and it had a good many practical ideas in it. He may resemble the man you speak of, but I assure you he is quite a different person."

if I heard him about the house I
would get up. The members of the
Bishop's household slept up-stairs,
but I was shown to bed in a room on
the lower floor, on entering which, in
addition to the bed I was to occupy,
I noticed a lounge with a pile of bed
clothes upon it, but nothing more.

had no son at home, when I saw him rise to a sitting posture on the lounge, and look around the room as if in quest of his assailant, an act which convinced me that he had not observed me retire to bed after loosing my hold upon his throat, and that he had probably been too thoroughly frightened to open his eyes before. I could discern his head from where I lay, while he sat up, but I doubted whether he saw me, as I lay quite still. After satisfying his curiosity he again lay down, and when morning dawned and I arose and dressed myself, he was sound asleep.

I could perceive that the Bishop was thoroughly captivated with his ingenious boarder, and it was not much to be wondered at, for he was During the night I was aroused intelligent and rather prepossessing, from my peaceful slumber by a slight and really very expert in various noise, and on opening my eyes I lines as a workman; but rude as it could plainly discern by the light of On emerging from the house I might seem to shatter the Bishop's the full moon which shone through found my hostess already astir, lookidol by undeceiving him as to the the windows a human figure stand- ing in vain through the chicken man's character, and ungenerous to ing at the foot of my bed. Taking coops and other outhouses for her prevent a man from making his way it for granted it was the fugitive, missing boarder. I inquired who among strangers when ostracised and, without stopping a moment my room-mate was, and she hur

riedly answered, "Oh, that is my grandson, and I forgot to tell you last night that he walks in his sleep!"

convicted of murder in the second the First District Court of murder in degree, asking that Governor West the second degree, and sentenced to issue a pardon in his favor. seven years' imprisonment. It has Harbeen represented to me that this man rington was convicted of being one is paying a certain amount of money I told her I had already made the of the leaders in the Eureka lynch- for the purpose of securing his pardiscovery, but not until I had used ing affair, early in July, 1886, when don, and that certain lawyers have him rather roughly, in the belief a man named Fischer was taken out represented to him that they could secure a pardon for him for a certain that it was her boarder I was deal- of jail and hanged by a mob. The amount of money-amount uning with, and that force was neces- affair created considerable excite-known to me. sary. With concern depicted on ment at the time, from the fact that her countenance. the good old lady there was considerable doubt as to entered the bedroom and aroused the the justice of Fischer's punishment. youth to learn how he fared, when as well as condemnation of the he awoke with a start and ex-method by which his death was claimed, “Oh, grandma, that Rich-brought about. At the trial in Provo ardson came here last night and the case was stubbornly fought, and almost choked me to death!" resulted in the conviction of several “No,” said the lady; "you mistake; of the lynchers, who were sentenced it was Brother L who choked to various terms of imprisonment. you, and he supposed you were The application for executive clemRichardson." He felt so abashed ency is as follows: on learning of this fact that he "To His Excellency Caleb W. West, avoided my presence during the remainder of my stay in the settlement.

Governor of Utah Territory:

"We, the undersigned, residents of the State of Colorado, hereby certify that we know John T. Harrington, who was convicted about the month of July, 1886, in a court in the Territory of Utah, for the is now in the Penitentiary of Utah lynching of one Fischer, and who Territory under the sentence imposed on him resulting from said conviction. We know said John T. Harrington as a resident of Gilpin County, Colorado, for some six years, from about the year 1878 to 1885, and we know him to be a young man of good reputation. He was a miner by occupation; was industrious, truthful and peaceable; in brief, was a good citizen during his residence in said Gilpin County,

The justice of the peace and constable were up early looking for the fugitive and discovered him just as day was breaking making his way out of town. He was arrested, brought back and lodged in a cellar, where at a later hour, in company with the Bishop I interviewed him. The Ingenuity for which he was noted was displayed in the defense which he made when he was reproached for having deceived the people among whom he had found refuge,as to his name and character. "I gave you," he said, "my name as Richard Richardson, which 18 The signers of this document are strictly true. My name is Richard, Alvin Wood, attorney-general of and my father's name was Richard, | Colorado; J. M. D. Linsay, ex-disso I am Richard, Richard's son.”

Colorado."

"I am not personally aware of these facts, but state them as they are stated to me, and I am sure that no pardon should be granted (if it is being at all favorably considered by you)until the matter is fully investiUnder the circumstances, I gated. respectfully enter this my protest against any pardon until such investigation is had. FRANK H. DYER. U. S. Marshal." The money referred to was $100 which had been placed in Warden Pratt's hands by Harrington, with instructions that it be paid to his atttorney, Geo. Sutherland, of Provo, when the pardon was secured. The attorney's attention was called to the Marshal's protest, and the following reply was made: "Caleb W. West, Esq., Governor,

"My Dear Sir-With reference to

the statement contained in Marshal Dyer's letter to the effect that a certain sum of money has been placed in the hands of the Warden at the Penitentiary to be paid to lawyers in event of a pardon being granted to John T. Harrington, I have to say: About eight or nine months ago Harrington asked me to make an I told him that I would do so, but effort to procure a pardon for him. that he must pay me $100 to cover expenses in working on the case. He agreed to write to friends in Colorado to procure the amount, and I immediately entered upon the work of getting recommendations from trict attorney of the First Judicial jurors who tried the case when he The sheriff of the distant county District of Colorado; G. C. Snyder, was convicted, many of whom I from whose custody the prisoner had mayor of Black Hawk, and quite went to see personally; getting petitions from Colorado, etc., I made one escaped, soon arrived and took his a number of officials and promior two trips to Ogden and elseman back with him, and in course nent men of Gilpin County, Colo- where in his behalf. About two of time he stood his trial, was con- rado. Recommendations for clem- months ago I received a letter from victed, and served a term in the peni-ency came from Judge Henderson, Harrington, or some one on his betentiary. Since that time he has who presided at the trial, and Og-ceived and had been placed in the half, saying the $100 had been reled a reformed life and to a great den Hiles. A statement that they hands of the warden and would be extent established a character for believe the ends of justice to have paid to me when the work was comhimself which I have no desire to been served was signed by six out pleted. I paid little attention to this, injure by mentioning his real name. of the twelve jurors who convicted and if I made any reply I do not remember what it was. It was the Should he read this sketch he will Harrington. The six jurors are Jo- definite understanding all along, doubtless readily recognize the part however, between Harrington and he played in the circumstances narmyself that this money was to be rated, but the encounter I had with paid to me for expenses, and in any event. I saw Harrington today and the somnambulist and the mutual he admitted this to be the case, and misunderstanding alluded to will paid the money to me. Neither Mr. probably be new to him. Thurman nor I is to receive anything whatever contingent upon the pardon. I refer you to Mr. Pratt, warden of the 'l'en.'

G. C. L.

WANTS A PARDON.

ON Monday, Dec. 31, there were filed in the office of Secretary Hall, the papers in the matter of the application of John T. Harrington,

seph Hatch, W. P. Bennett, Lewis
S. Robinson, T. E. Thurman, Al-
len House, and C. H. Karren.

The document was placed in the
hands of the Governor several days
ago.
Learning of this, Marshal
Dyer submitted the following pro-
test:
"To His Excellency, Governor Caleb
W. West:

"Sir-I am informed that there is
now a petition on file with you, ask-
ing for the pardon of one John T.
Harrington, who was convicted in

"Trusting the foregoing will be sufficient by way of explanation, I am Very truly yours, GEORGE SUTHERLAND.” Thus far the Governor has taken no action in the matter. The ex

planation of Mr. Sutherland dis- be lighted up with a smile of con- most covered with blood. He was penses with the idea that a pardon siderable width, to correspond with ramming a bullet home in the gun. can be bought, though the sum the height of the mistake. Said I, Hyrum, for God's sake get named, $100, is too small to even in the buggy and go back to the suggest such a proceeding. But THE Nauvoo Independent of Dec. house.' "No, I won't," was his there are other considerations, some 28, 1888, contained the following: reply, "I'll stay here an 1 give them of them of a grave nature, con"A. W. Beach, of Salt Lake City, | h-1 yet." He had been hit by a nected with the circumstances of Utah, spent several days the latter musket ball, which had plowed a the lynching, which require that part of last week in this city. The furrow from his forehead over to a careful investigation be made as gentleman claims to have been the the back of his head. to whether the ends of justice have first male child born in Salt Lake been served to an extent to punish City. His father, Rufus Beach, Harrington for the part he took in built the house at present owned and the affair, and to have an effect in occupied by Mr. Chris. Bruegger, deterring others similarly inclined on Mulholland street, where he confrom endeavoring to wreak sum-ducted a small store and the "Travmary vengeance upon offenders. elers' Inn' during the reign of the The Governor will doubtless give Mormons in the city." all these matters proper consideration before he reaches a conclusion.

"Right in the corner was where Captain Anderson was killed. He was over by the blacksmith shop, and was doing his duty like the brave man that he was when cannon ball fired by the mob struck and killed him."

a

After the narration of these and Brother Beach at present resides other instances we drove away. at Eagle Rock, Idaho. On Decem- I also conversed with quite a number 31st he was met in Salt Lake ber of people in Nauvoo. Of sevHenry Clews, the great banker, is City by a representative of the NEWS, eral of these I asked the question, a small and very nervous man. "What was the cause of the Latter-day Saints being driven from Nauvoo?"

EDITOR'S DRAWER,

MANY stories are told to illustrate the sublime perseverance and unsurpassable assurance of book agents and lightning rod vendors. An instance in point: A book peddler called at the residence of Bishop Thomas R. Cutler, in Lehi, Utah County. He wanted to sell him a book, but discovered that the Bishop was in the penitentiary serving a term for unlawful cohabitation under the Edmunds law. "All right," said he, "I'll go there and see him and get his subscription." Sure enough the fellow appeared at the "pen," to the inexpressible disgust of Brother Cutler, who brought the interview to as speedy a termination as practicable.

who inquired concerning his eastern
trip, of which he gave an account as
follows:

I left Salt Lake City on Nov. 26, "Jealousy," was the reply they 1888, traveling on the D. & R. G. made to me. "The anti-Mormons Railway, for a visit to my mother's knew that if the Mormons were relatives at Burlington, Iowa. I left alone they would soon control stayed there a few weeks, and on the the state elections; they would build 20th of December made a trip to up a large and beautiful city, and Nauvoo, Illinois. I called on F. Nauvoo would become the State Kimball, Esq., to whom I made my-capital. We have found out since self known, and stated that I had those days that the Latter-day come to see the former home of the Saints were lied about; that it was Latter-day Saints. He received me not for their bad behavior they were very kindly, and invited me to make | driven from their homes, but that it my home at his house during my was because of jealousy, they were stay in Nauvoo. I was pleased to accept his hospitality, and, after answering his inquiries regarding Utah and her people, he ordered his buggy and took me for a drive.

so prosperous and united. We want you people to come back and build up this country, for we cannot do it. We believe you people must have left a curse upon this place, for nothing prospers here now."

"I know," said he, "that they are the most honest, upright, and abused people that I ever saw."

"Major Bidamon," said I, "what about the statements made by Elder Stevenson and others who were here with him, and recently published in the DESERET NEWS?”

We went to what used to be my father's house, now known as Major Bidamon was one of those "Beach's Tavern," or "Travelers' upon whom I called, and he exEVERY public speaker of experi- Inn," which is occupied by a pressed himself as pleased to meet ence has in his time perpetrated German and his family. "Here," me. I asked him, "What do you some eggregious blunders, in the said Mr. Kimball to me, "was our know about the Mormons?'" haste of utterance. One of the most headquarters at the time of the battle stupendous and steep ever made by between the Mormons and the the writer was in the town of Shef-mob, when the latter attacked and field, England, in the early part of threatened to destroy us. We took 1864, just about a quarter of a cen-articles from my foundry and made tury since. The subject under treat- them like cannons. These were ment was the gathering of the elect stationed in that corner," pointing in the latter days, predicted by the to a spot about a quarter of a mile ancient prophets. In showing that from my father's house, "and there, Isaiah, where he speaks of the continued Mr. Kimball, "with our Lord's house being established in guns we made ready for business. the last days in the tops of the You know we meant to defend ourmountains, must have had refer-selves from the mob. ence to the Latter-day Saints, the "While in that corner on that day speaker entered upon a description my brother, Hyrum Kimball, came of the elevated location of Utah, to me and said, 'Here, Fin, give me exclaiming, with much fervor, that that gun, and you get in that buggy its altitude was over 4000 miles above and go to the Temple after cartthe level of the sea. It is needless ridges.' I went as directed, and on to state that this surprising an- returning with the cartridges I saw Give my kind regards to your peonouncement caused the audience to Hyrum with his head and face al-ple."

"They are true," said the major, emphatically, "everyone of them. I did all I could for your people, and we want you to come back here."

The major is in rather poor health. He remarked, "If I live till the 3rd of February next I will be ninetynine years old." As I arose to take leave of him, he took me by the hand and said, "God bless you.

the most remote bearing on the truth
or falsity of any doctrines I had
taught to the widow, and I remained
silent, as did she. His object, I sur-
mised, was to impress her with the
fact that he was so learned in
Bible mysteries that I could not
possibly rival him in that regard;
and that she should therefore be in-
fluenced by him and not by me.

CURRENT EVENTS.

Presidential Pardons. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The President has granted pardons in the cases of A.G.Green, Jonah Richardson, J. H. Byington, Wm. Severn and Sidney Weeks. These persons, with the exception of Weeks, were convicted in the district courts of Idaho of unlawful cohabitation. Weeks was convicted of adultery.

I also visited what is known in Book of Daniel and spent about an interview. It seemed to show her Nauvoo as the "old Mormon bury-hour in elucidating, in his way, its the hypocrisy of one of her chosen ing ground." It is in bad condition, mysteries. What he said had not religious counselors, and of his helpinany headstones having been lessness in warring against the truth. broken down by stock, which has I soon after baptized her, and within been allowed to pasture on the place. a year she became a resident of Utah. I enjoyed my whole trip east, it being the first I have made there. I did not fail to embrace the many opportunities of bearing my humble testimony to the divinity of the Gospel as revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith and taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While I was at my father's place I discovered, in the possession of Mr. Bruegger, who occupied the house, an old painting of the Nauvoo Temple. It is, as you see (exhibiting the pucture, about 28 by 28 inches), a very good painting, though it has become slightly dimmed and dusty by time. I purchased it from them, and shall preserve it as a valuable relic of Nauvoo Jays. I shall have it cleaned up and varnished, and put it in a new frame, when it will look very well.

Mr. Beach left for his home in Eagle Rock on the morning of New Year's day.

THE following incident of missionary experience has been handed to the editor:

At length he broached the subject of "Mormonism," in substantially the following language, addressed to me: "Mormonism' is no new thing to me. But I know it is false. know that there have been no revelations from heaven since the New Testament was given.”

He said this with marked and solemn emphasis, and then continued: "Now I'll tell you how I know this. Over thirty years ago, when I was a young man, living with my father's family, two 'Mormon' Elders stayed all night with us. They preached 'Mormonism' to us, and I went and prayed to the Lord to reveal to me whether or not the Book of Mormon was true. And the Lord revealed to me that it was false!”

truth, obtained by revelation, is one
of the most difficult to resist; and his
purpose was to strike me in advance
with what he deemed my own best
weapon.

Statehood.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. There were more than a quorum of Senators present.

Among the petitiens and memorials presented and referred were the following: By Edmunds, from a branch of the Woman's Board of Salt Lake City, a remonstration against any action of Congress looking to the admission of Utah as a state. Edmunds said he was happy to think there was not much danger of such action this session.

He laid great stress on his closing CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-Col. C. Broaddeclaration, knowing enough of the water, of Montana, is in the city While laboring as a missionary in religion he was contending against and has received word from SenNew England in 1876 I made the to realize that of all the arguments ator Mitchell, of Oregon, that Monacquaintance of an aged widow lady its advocates use, their solemn testi-tana and all the other territories in the city of Salem, Mass., who be-mony of a personal knowledge of its except Utah and New Mexico will came so much impressed with the likely be admitted at this session. doctrines revealed through Joseph the Seer that she was on the point of embracing them. For some years she had been associated with a certain religious society in that city, some of the members of which were very much opposed to her becoming a "Mormon." One of these was an ordained elder of the society, who paid repeated visits to the widow, seeking to dissuade her from embracing "Mormonism." Upon one of these visits he expressed an ardent wish to "meet that 'Mormon" in her presence, and, by vanquishing him in a discussion, show to her the shallowness of his teachings.

"But Elder -" said I quietly, "you just said that there had been no revelations from heaven since the New Testament was given; how then could you have had one, showing the Book of Mormon to be false?”

Instantly the fatal nature of the blunder he had made flashed across the mind of my would-be vanquisher. The infernal machine he had constructed for my destruction had exploded in his own hands. He was utterly crushed. I have never I was but a youth, while he was seen a person more completely oversomewhat noted locally for his fa- come with confusion. He could not miliarity with the Bible and his utter a reply and made no attempt controversial powers; hence he was to do so. Soon anger predominated very boastful of his ability to dis-over chagrin, and he demanded of comfit me. A meeting between him the widow: and myself was arranged to take place at the widow's house. The interview began by his taking a large family Bible from the centre table, and opening it on his lap with a great flourish. He turned to the

"Give me my hat!"

She handed to him his head-gear, and without another word he stalked out of the house.

Amazement sat upon the face of the widow at the denouement of the

Colored Catholics. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The national convention of colored Catholics, composed of delegates from nearly all of the colored Catholic churches and societies throughout the country, began its session this morning in St. Augustin's colored Catholic church in this city. Every seat in the church was occupied when at 10:30 o'clock Father Talton of Quincy, Ill., the only colored Catholic priest in the United States, began the celebration of solemn high mass. Immediately in front, and beneath the pulpit, sat His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, who delivered the sermon. He was clad in the scarlet robe of his office. At the conclusion of the sermon the cardinal welcomed the delegates. This gathering, said he, will mark an era in the history of the colored people of the United States, for never before had the colored Catholics of the country met in convention. He trusted that the deliberations of the convention would be marked by