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struggle for composure, the smile on the lips when the heart is sobbing, the warm hand-clasp and fervent "God bless you," the longing to know if we shall ever meet again in life. Such experiences are as chains and links bind

ing together in strong links the people as one; and surely we should be as one, for are we not of one household, one faith, one God?

Our home is on wheels again, and our little company is on the move and, like poor little Jo, must keep moving to reach our destination at the appointed time. Our first camp is in a pretty place some fifteen miles from Mesa.

TEACH him to live unto God and unto thee, and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

UNCERTAINTY.

ANNIE LAURITZEN.

WHO knoweth what a day may bring,
Joy or sorrow, mirth or woe?
Today we laugh, today we sing,
What cometh tomorrow we do not know.

Today we may rejoice and laugh,
Unmindful of the gath'ring cloud;
The cup of mirth we gaily quaff-
Tomorrow sink beneath the shroud.

E'en in the morning we may be
As happy as the larks that soar
High in the air, so blithe and free-
And in the evening be no more.

Today we mount on wings of fame
High in the realms of social light;
Tomorrow fall in sin and shame,
With all our hopes a hapless blight.
Today we may have wealth and friends,
Be well respected and esteemed;
Tomorrow all our glory ends,
And all is dark where splendor gleamed.

Oh, let us ever prayerful be,
That God may be to us a friend,
While crossing o'er life's troubled sea,
That we may safely reach the end.

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This position will make him once So long as Bismarck shall prove to more a striking public figure. It is be working for the public welfare, he the purity of the outline. But the front face was almost caracatural. One sees a poor forehead, narrow at the temple, eyes set close to each other, hanging eyelids, brows raised high above the

is certain of obtaining support from some of the anti-governmental elements in the Chamber. If, on the other hand, his course is dictated by a spirit of revenge against the Emperor, who retired him from the head of the min | bridge of the nose and falling rapidly

istry, or of jealousy against those who towards the corners of the eyes; a long took his place, he will greatly mar the aquiline nose, wide at the nostrils and former lustre of his fame and handicap ❘ of no width at the bridge; a wide this opportunity to exert his talent and lower face and falling pouch cheeks. usefulness. I fancy she must have suffered most because her pride was humiliated when her sixteen years of triumph ended.

A ST. Louis lady who has recently been traveling abroad, gives in a letter to a friend this description of the exEmpress of Germany, whose unfriendly reception in Paris has created such comment:

"She is short, plain, stout, and, indeed, buxom, and looked jolly as she alighted (from the train) and shook hands with the members of the two embassies who awaited her. She wore her widow's crepe bonnet and veil. There is much in her countenance to remind one of Queen Victoria. The physiognomy gives the impression of sturdy strength of mind and high thought. Nevertheless she has a retreating chin and a poorly formed mouth. The nose is commonplace and turned up. Where her strength lies is in the compact, well-developed forehead and brow. I saw her since walking on the Quay Voltaire. There infinite depths of sorrow expressed on the plain face."

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"The hair almost snowy was very beautiful and was becomingly dressed, it went well with her blanched complexion. She had to be almost lifted out of the train and walked only with the aid of two sticks."

A RECENT letter from Rome says, "The Pope sees that the future belongs Like all cultured to democracy. Italians he has a great admiration for America, and is a close student of our system of government. He is convinced that the United States will furnish the ultimate form of social excellence, as well as ecclesiastical perfection. He believes in the development of new world ideas, and that they will ultimately triumph over those of the old world. Possessing in common with the educated of his own countrymen a strongly marked historic sense, Leo XIII. knows how to distinguish between the intellectual and social currents. And believes that the ten

The same letter contains a pen portrait of the Empress Eugenie, which says, "I was never more shocked in my life than when the train stopped and Empress Eugenie faced around to get out. There is still in the profile something of the old Eugenie who wielded the sceptre of fashion, although a twisted and sunken mouth spoils ❘ popular party in France.

dency in Europe is towards democracy, and that republican institutions are the predestined goal of European nations. In his character as Pontiff he dare not declare his convictions, but it is evident that he is striving to bring the church in unison with the JOHN RUSKIN is said to be a singularly insignificant looking man, with large blue eyes and a full white beard, and is extremely sensitive as regards | is just such a boy as his mother de

QUEEN MARGHARITA in her capacity as a representative of true womanhood, as well as the popular Queen of Italy, has many pleasant things written of her, among them the latest is that while visiting the Professional school in Rome, it occurred to her that this school was the fittest place in which to teach girls cooking. In reply to her majesty the superintendent quietly remarked that the funds necessary for providing the means of this additional instruction were not available for this year at least. A few days later all the apparatus needful for instruction in the culinary art were sent to the institution as "a gift from the Queen Margharita."

If this story be true Margharita is a woman who would command loyalty in any realm.

THE first of May was observed as labor day throughout our country and in England; 60,000 London workmen met at Hyde Park, passing resolutions in favor of the eight-hour day. This movement inaugurated in May last has gained largely in strength. The Socialists having failed to obtain control of this movement have decided to start a rival one.

A NIECE of Count Tolstoi has devoted two years of constant study and hard work to a transcription of his recent book, "War and Peace," into raised characters for the use of blind people.

candid they are the less he cares for them. "I like to be flattered both by pen and pencil, so it is done prettily and in good taste," he said recently to a correspondent. He is now seventyone, and is dreaming away the evening of his life in tranquil retirement. Mentally he is said to be a veritable "sensitive plant." On bright days he is buoyant and elastic, but on dull days he is moody and misanthropic. His two great aversions are tobacco and stupid people. So profound is his objection to the weed, that all his friends who indulge in it have to be fumigated and scent themselves before approaching him. Like Carlyle he is utterly intolerant of stupid people, and has a short emphatic way of handling bores, which effectually prevents them from intruding on him more than once. His only dissipation is chess, to which he devotes several hours of masterful playing daily. He lives alone, as he divorced his wife, so that she could marry the artist Millais.

MRS. BURNETT will shortly return to this country and finish two stories and a play that have been deferred by the illness and death of her son Lionel, who died in Germany the past winter.

This son was not the original of Little Lord Fauntleroy as is sometimes supposed, but another son Vivian, a boy of fifteen is the one.

Mrs. Burnett lives in Washington, and Vivian is one of the most popular pupils of the Franklin school there. Miss Morgan, his teacher, says, "He

his personal appearance. He is quoted as saying, he is dissatisfied with all his

portraits, and that the truer and more

scribes in her charming story, but he dislikes very much the notoriety that has brought him into prominence and

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wishes most heartily that he could ap- might count her as one of the persons
pear simply as other boys do.
who took an interest in him for him-
self alone.

"I would so much rather people
would take an interest in me for just
what I am, than to be constantly
pointed out as Little Lord Fauntle-
roy," he says frequently to Miss
Morgan.

On one occasion Mrs. T., a friend of Miss Morgan, got into a crowded street car and was offered a seat by a boy whose courteous manner and pleas ing face attracted her instantly. While she looked at him, hoping inwardly that her own boy was always as polite, she listened to a conversation he was having with a lady near whom he was standing and overheard him say:

"They all took their meals at a restaurant."

"May I ask," inquired Mrs. T., "who took their meals at a restaurant?"

"Oh," said the boy, "it's in a book I've been reading, called 'Looking Backward.'”

"You don't mean to say you have been reading that book?" asked Mrs. T.

"Yes, I have, and I enjoyed it very
much," he replied; "but I must say I
only picked it up because I could not
find anything else at the time."

A short conversation followed, in
which the boy proved as intelligent as
he was polite. When he left the car
the lady with whom he had been talk-
ing turned to Mrs. T., and asked:
"Do you know who that is?"
"No."

"Well, he is Mrs. Burnett's son
Vivian, the hero of Little Lord
Fauntleroy."

ON April 10th, a convention was held in Washington, D. C., celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the American patent system. The report of this gathering, which was lengthy and of great interest, brought to light many statistics of importance concerning the history of invention in

our country.

One fact has been established, and that is, that there is no sex in invention, for many of the weaker sex have invented not only dish-washing machines, washing machines, and baby coaches; but have been the original designers of appliances testing masculine skill and ranking with them in intricate mechanism. Articles of such usefulness in daily life, that the world having gained them could not do without them.

Since Mary Reis led the way in 1800, 10,000 patents have been issued to women. The first ice-cream freezer was the invention of a woman.

Mrs. Mary E. Walton lived near the elevated railroad in New York City, the noise of the wheels jarred upon her nerves and she patented a discovery to deaden the noise of car wheels. Afterwards she went to England, and startled the world with a bottoms of great ships could be exdeep sea telescope with which the amined without being lifted on the dry docks.

A Massachusetts girl planned the complex machine which makes paper bags. A New Jersey girl found a way of turning out horse shoes by machingan, she sent word to Vivian that he | cattle on trains is the invention of a ery. The arrangement for feeding

When Mrs. T. next saw Miss Mor

New York farmer's wife. The device by which a patient on a hospital bed raises and lowers himself was of a woman's contriving. A New York woman holds a patent on a street sweeper, and an Ohio woman can con

vert a barrel of oil into 10,000 feet of gas.

Mrs. Mary Dent Baker has invented a fire escape that has proved effective in saving many lives, and so on the list could be lengthened ad infinitum.

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OUR SUNDAY CHAPTER.

EARLY MIRACLES.

O. B. HUNTINGTON.

E have descended from nations that knew nothing of the gospel, or the ordinances of either the greater or lesser Priesthood. At the time of Christ and His Apostles on the earth, our fathers were barbarians in the northern Hive of Europe, as it has been called in history. These peoples were probably Israelites dropped by the way when the Ten Tribes were being taken off to their present home.

So our fathers back for thousands of years, had not the blood of the Saints and Prophets upon their hands else we would be as the Jews and Romans are today.

We, having been begotten, nurtured and raised in all the errors, traditions, bigotry and evil habits transmitted to us from many generations, it is no wonder that it is difficult for us to comprehend much of God and Godliness when we first hear the gospel.

No wonder that people were frightened at the very idea of God and angels appearing to Joseph Smith, seeing that we had been told for hundreds of years that there should be no more visitations or messages from heaven; and when Joseph Smith said to mankind that he had seen God and His son Jesus, had seen angels-had re

ceived authority and power from Jehovah to preach the same gospel that Jesus Christ preached, and had power to do the works that Jesus did, viz., to heal the sick, cause the lame to walk, open the eyes of the blind, etc., the Christian world went wild over such new ideas, they actually went mad and have never got over it.

Soon after Kirtland was designated as a place of gathering for the Saints, and Joseph Smith had located there, his new doctrines, or rather the gospel which Jesus and His Apostles taught, turned the minds of some towards the truth at the first sound, and some were attracted to it by only the report of the truth.

The following is an instance: Luke Johnson's father and mother lived at Hiram, 40 miles from Kirtland, and had heard of the fact that there was a Prophet at Kirtland and that he could perform miracles, heal the sick, etc.

Mrs. Johnson believed the report and asked her husband to hitch up the team and take her to Kirtland that she might get Joseph Smith to heal her She had a stiff arm and had not combed her hair nor put food to her mouth with it for a very long time. Everybody that knew her, knew that she was a cripple.

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