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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Heroines of Mormondom - The Second Book of the Noble Women's Lives Series - -Author: Various - -Release Date: February 1, 2016 [EBook #51097] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HEROINES OF MORMONDOM *** - - - - -Produced by the Mormon Texts Project -(http://mormontextsproject.org), with thanks to Rachel -Helps and Villate Brown McKitrick for proofreading. - - - - - - -</pre> - - - - -<h1>HEROINES OF -<br> -"MORMONDOM," -</h1> -<p class="centered">THE SECOND BOOK OF THE -<br> -NOBLE WOMEN'S LIVES SERIES -</p> -<p class="centered">SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. -</p> -<p class="centered">PUBLISHED AT THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE. -</p> -<p class="centered">1884. -</p> - - -<h2><a name="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE. -</h2> -<p>IT affords us much pleasure to be able to present a second book of -the "NOBLE WOMEN'S LIVES SERIES" to the public. It will, we feel -confident, prove no less interesting than its predecessor, and the -lessons conveyed by the articles herein contained will doubtless be as -instructive to its readers as any ever given. -</p> -<p>The remarkable events here recorded are worthy of perusal and -remembrance by all the youth among this people, as they will tend -to strengthen faith in and love for the gospel for which noble men -and women have suffered so much. The names, too, of such heroines as -these, the sketches of whose lives we herewith give, should be held -in honorable remembrance among this people, for no age or nation can -present us with more illustrious examples of female faith, heroism and -devotion. -</p> -<p>We trust that this little work may find its way in the homes of all -the Saints and prove a blessing to all who scan its pages. This is the -earnest desire of -</p> -<p class="right">THE PUBLISHERS. -</p> - - -<h2>CONTENTS. -</h2> -<h3>A NOBLE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE. -</h3> -<p class="centered"><a href="#nwCHAPTERI">Chapter I. -</a></p> -<p class="centered"><a href="#nwCHAPTERII">Chapter II. -</a></p> -<p class="centered"><a href="#nwCHAPTERIII">Chapter III. -</a></p> -<h3>A REMARKABLE LIFE. -</h3> -<p class="centered"><a href="#CHAPTERI">Chapter I. -</a></p> -<p class="centered"><a href="#CHAPTERII">Chapter II. -</a></p> -<p class="centered"><a href="#CHAPTERIII">Chapter III. -</a></p> -<p class="centered"><a href="#CHAPTERIV">Chapter IV. -</a></p> -<p class="centered"><a href="#CHAPTERV">Chapter V. -</a></p> -<p class="centered"><a href="#CHAPTERVI">Chapter VI. -</a></p> -<h3>A HEROINE OF HAUN'S MILL MASSACRE. -</h3> -<p class="centered"><a href="#haun">Chapter I. -</a></p> - - -<h2><a name="ANOBLEWOMAN'SEXPERIENCE"></a>A NOBLE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE. -</h2> - - -<h2><a name="nwCHAPTERI"></a>CHAPTER I. -</h2> -<p>Hyrum Smith, the Patriarch, married Jerusha Barden, November 2, 1826. -They had six children, viz: Lovina, Mary, John, Hyrum, Jerusha and -Sarah. Mary died when very young, and her mother died soon after the -birth of her daughter, Sarah. Hyrum, the second son, died in Nauvoo, -in 1842, aged eight years. The Patriarch married his second wife, -Mary Fielding, in the year 1837, she entering upon the important duty -of stepmother to five children, which task she performed, under the -most trying and afflictive circumstances, with unwavering fidelity. -She had two children, Joseph and Martha. Thus, you see, Hyrum Smith, -the Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was -really a polygamist many years before the revelation on celestial -marriage was written, though, perhaps, about the time it was given to -the Prophet Joseph Smith; but not exactly in the sense in which the -word is generally used, for both his wives were not living together -on the earth; still they were both alive, for the spirit never dies, -and they were both his wives—the mothers of his children. Marriage is -ordained of God, and when performed by the authority of His Priesthood, -is an ordinance of the everlasting gospel and is not, therefore, merely -a legal contract, but pertains to time and all eternity to come, -therefore it is written in the Bible, "What God hath joined together -let no man put asunder." -</p> -<p>There are a great many men who feel very bitter against the Latter-day -Saints, and especially against the doctrine of plural marriage, who -have married one or more wives after the death of their first, that, -had their marriages been solemnized in the manner God has prescribed -and by His authority, they themselves would be polygamists, for they, -as we, firmly believe in the immortality of the soul, professing to -be Christians and looking forward to the time when they will meet, in -the spirit world, their <em>wives</em> and the loved ones that are dead. We -can imagine the awkward situation of a man, not believing in polygamy, -meeting two or more wives, with their children, in the spirit world, -each of them claiming him as husband and father. "But," says one, "how -will it be with a woman who marries another husband after the death of -her first?" She will be the wife of the one to whom she was married -for time and eternity. But if God did not "join them together," and -they were only married by mutual consent until death parted them, their -contract, or partnership ends with death, and there remains but one way -for those who died without the knowledge of the gospel to be united -together for eternity. That is, for their living relatives or friends -to attend to the ordinances of the gospel for them. "For, in the -resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage;" therefore -marriage ordinances must be attended to here in the flesh. Hyrum Smith, -however, was a polygamist before his death, he having had several women -sealed to him by his brother, Joseph, some of whom are now living. -</p> -<p>At the death of the Patriarch, June 27th, 1844, the care of the family -fell upon his widow, Mary Smith. Besides the children there were two -old ladies named respectively, Hannah Grinnels, who had been in the -family many years, and Margaret Brysen. There was also a younger one, -named Jane Wilson, who was troubled with fits and otherwise afflicted, -and was, therefore, very dependent, and an old man, named George Mills, -who had also been in the family eleven years, and was almost entirely -blind and very crabbed. These and others, some of whom had been taken -care of by the Patriarch out of charity, were members of the family -and remained with them until after they arrived in the valley. "Old -George," as he was sometimes called, had been a soldier in the British -army, had never learned to read or write, and often acted upon impulse -more than from the promptings of reason, which made it difficult, -sometimes, to get along with him; but because he had been in the family -so long—through the troubles of Missouri and Illinois—and had lost -his eye-sight from the effects of brain fever and inflammation, caused -by taking cold while in the pineries getting out timbers for the temple -at Nauvoo, Widow Smith bore patiently all his peculiarities up to the -time of her death. Besides those I have mentioned, Mercy R. Thompson, -sister to Widow Smith, and her daughter, and Elder James Lawson were -also members of the family. -</p> -<p>On or about the 8th of September, 1846, the family, with others, were -driven out of Nauvoo by the threats of the mob, and encamped on the -banks of the Mississippi River, just below Montrose. There they were -compelled to remain two or three days, in view of their comfortable -homes just across the river, unable to travel for the want of teams, -while the men were preparing to defend the city against the attack -of the mob. They were thus under the necessity of witnessing the -commencement of the memorable "Battle of Nauvoo;" but, before the -cannonading ceased, they succeeded in moving out a few miles, away from -the dreadful sound of it, where they remained until they obtained, by -the change of property at a great sacrifice, teams and an outfit for -the journey through Iowa to the Winter Quarters of the Saints, now -Florence, Nebraska. Arriving at that point late in the Fall, they were -obliged to turn out their work animals to pick their living through -the Winter, during which some of their cattle, and eleven out of their -thirteen horses died, leaving them very destitute of teams in the -Spring. -</p> -<p>In the Fall of 1847, Widow Smith and her brother, Joseph Fielding, made -a trip into Missouri, with two teams, to purchase provisions for the -family. Joseph, her son, accompanied them as teamster; he was then nine -years of age. The team he drove consisted of two yokes of oxen, one -yoke being young and only partially broke, which, with the fact that -the roads were very bad with the Fall rains, full of stumps in places, -sometimes hilly, and that he drove to St. Joseph, Missouri, and back, a -distance of about three hundred miles, without meeting with one serious -accident, proves that he must have been a fair teamster for a boy at -his age. -</p> -<p>At St. Joseph they purchased corn and other necessaries, getting their -corn ground at Savannah, on their return journey. Wheat flour was -a luxury beyond their reach, and one seldom enjoyed by many of the -Latter-day Saints in those days. On their journey homeward they camped -one evening at the edge of a small prairie, or open flat, surrounded -by woods, where a large herd of cattle, on their way to market, was -being pastured for the night, and turned out their teams, as usual, to -graze. In the morning their best yoke of cattle was missing, at which -they were greatly surprised, this being the first time their cattle -had separated. Brother Fielding and Joseph at once started in search, -over the prairie, through the tall, wet grass, in the woods, far and -near, until they were almost exhausted with fatigue and hunger, and -saturated to the skin; but their search was vain. Joseph returned first -to the wagons, towards mid-day, and found his mother engaged in prayer. -Brother Fielding arrived soon after, and they sat down to breakfast, -which had long been waiting. -</p> -<p>"Now," said Widow Smith, "while you are eating I will go down towards -the river and see if I can find the cattle." -</p> -<p>Brother Fielding remarked, "I think it is useless for you to start out -to hunt the cattle; I have inquired of all the herdsmen and at every -house for miles, and I believe they have been driven off." Joseph -was evidently of the same opinion, still he had more faith in his -mother finding them, if they could be found, than he had either in -his uncle or himself. He knew that she had been praying to the Lord -for assistance, and he felt almost sure that the Lord would hear her -prayers. Doubtless he would have felt quite sure had he not been so -disheartened by the apparently thorough but fruitless search of the -morning. He felt, however to follow her example: he prayed that his -mother might be guided to the cattle, and exercised all the faith -he could muster, striving hard to feel confident that she would be -successful. As she was following the little stream, directly in the -course she had taken on leaving the wagons, one of the drovers rode up -on the opposite side and said, "Madam, I saw your cattle this morning -over in those woods," pointing almost directly opposite to the course -she was taking. She paid no attention to him, but passed right on. He -repeated his information; still she did not heed him. He then rode -off hurriedly, and, in a few moments, with his companions, began to -gather up their cattle and start them on the road towards St. Joseph. -She had not gone far when she came upon a small ravine filled with -tall willows and brush; but not tall enough to be seen above the high -grass of the prairie. In a dense cluster of these willows she found -the oxen so entangled in the brush, and fastened by means of withes, -that it was with great difficulty that she extricated them from their -entanglement. This was evidently the work of these honest (?) drovers, -who so hurriedly disappeared—seeing they could not turn her from her -course—perhaps in search of estray honesty, which it is to be hoped -they found. -</p> -<p>This circumstance made an indelible impression upon the mind of the -lad, Joseph. He had witnessed many evidences of God's mercy, in answer -to prayer, before; but none that seemed to strike him so forcibly as -this. Young as he was, he realized his mother's anxiety to emigrate -with her family to the valley in the Spring, and their dependence -upon their teams to perform that journey, which, to him, seemed a -formidable, if not an impossible, undertaking in their impoverished -circumstances. It was this that made him so disheartened and sorrowful -when he feared that the cattle would never be found. Besides, it seemed -to him that he could not bear to see such a loss and disappointment -come upon his mother, whose life he had known, from his earliest -recollection, had been a life of toil and struggle for the maintenance -and welfare of her family. His joy, therefore, as he looked through -tears of gratitude to God for His kind mercy extended to the "widow and -the fatherless" may be imagined, as he ran to meet his mother driving -the oxen towards the wagons. -</p> - - -<h2><a name="nwCHAPTERII"></a>CHAPTER II. -</h2> -<p>Joseph was herd-boy. One bright morning sometime in the Fall of 1847, -in company with his herd-boy companions, whose names were Alden -Burdick, (almost a young man, and very sober and steady), Thomas -Burdick, cousin to Alden, about Joseph's size, but somewhat older, -and Isaac Blocksome, younger, he started out with his cattle as usual -for the herd grounds, some two miles from Winter Quarters. They had -two horses, both belonging to the Burdicks, and a pet jack belonging -to Joseph. Their herd that day comprised not only the cows and young -stock, but the work oxen, which for some cause were unemployed. -</p> -<p>Alden proposed to take a trip on foot through the hazel, and gather -nuts for the party, and by the "lower road" meet the boys at the spring -on the herd ground, while they drove the herd by the "upper road" which -was free from brush. This arrangement just suited Joseph and Thomas, -for they were very fond of a little sport, and his absence would afford -them full scope; while his presence served as an extinguisher upon -the exuberance of their mirth. Joseph rode Alden's bay mare, a very -fine animal; Thomas, his father's black pony, and Isaac the pet Jack. -This Jack had deformed or crooked fore-legs, and was very knowing in -his way; so "Ike" and the Jack were the subjects chosen by Joseph and -Thomas for their sport. They would tickle "Jackie," and plague him, he -would kick up, stick his head down, hump up his back and run, while -Isaac struggled in vain to guide or hold him by the bridle reins, for -like the rest of his tribe he was very headstrong when abused. No harm -or even offense to Isaac was intended; but they carried their fun too -far; Isaac was offended, and returned home on foot, turning loose the -Jack with the bridle on. We will not try to excuse Joseph and Thomas in -this rudeness to Isaac, for although they were well-meaning boys, it -was no doubt very wrong to carry their frolics so far as to offend or -hurt the feelings of their playmate, and especially as he was younger -than they; but in justice to them it is fair to say they were heartily -sorry when they found they had given such sore offense. -</p> -<p>When Joseph and Thomas arrived at the spring they set down their dinner -pails by it, mounted their horses again, and began to amuse themselves -by running short races, jumping ditches and riding about. They would -not have done this had Alden been there. They had not even done such a -thing before, although the same opportunity had not been wanting; but -for some reason—ever fond of frolic and mischief—they were more than -usually so this morning. It is said that not even a "sparrow falls to -the ground" without God's notice, is it unreasonable to suppose that He -saw these boys? And as He overrules the actions of even the wicked, and -causes their "wrath to praise Him;" would it be inconsistent to suppose -that the Lord overruled the frolics of these mischievous, but not -wicked boys on this occasion for good, perhaps for their deliverance -and salvation? We shall see. -</p> -<p>While they were riding about and the cattle were feeding down the -little spring creek toward a point of the hill that jutted out into the -little valley about half a mile distant, the "leaders" being about half -way to it, a gang of Indians on horseback, painted, their hair daubed -with white clay, stripped to the skin, suddenly appeared from behind -the hill, whooping and charging at full speed toward them. Now, had -these boys turned out their horses, as under other circumstances they -should, and no doubt would, have done, they and the cattle would have -been an easy prey to the Indians, the boys themselves being completely -at their mercy, such mercy, as might be expected from a thieving band -of savages. In an instant, Thomas put his pony under full run for home, -crying at the top of his voice, "Indians, Indians!" At the same instant -Joseph set out at full speed for the head of the herd, with a view to -save them if possible. -</p> -<p>He only could tell the multitude of his thoughts in that single moment. -Boy as he was, he made a desperate resolve. His mother, his brother and -sisters and their dependence upon their cattle for transportation to -the Valley in the Spring, occupied his thoughts and nerved him to meet -the Indians half-way, and risk his life to save the cattle from being -driven off by them. At the moment that he reached the foremost of the -herd, the Indians, with terrific yells reached the same spot, which -frightened the cattle so, that with the almost superhuman effort of the -little boy to head them in the right direction, and at the same time -to elude the grasp of the Indians, in an instant they were all on the -stampede towards home. Here the Indians divided, the foremost passing -by Joseph in hot pursuit of Thomas, who by this time had reached the -brow of the hill on the upper road leading to town, but he was on foot. -He had left his pony, knowing the Indians could outrun—and perhaps -would overtake him. And thinking they would be satisfied with only the -horse, and by leaving that he could make good his escape. -</p> -<p>Joseph's horse was fleeter on foot, besides, he was determined to -sell what he had to, at the dearest possible rate. The rest of the -Indians of the first gang, about half a dozen, endeavored to capture -him; but in a miraculous manner he eluded them contriving to keep -the cattle headed in the direction of the lower road towards home, -until he reached the head of the spring. Here the Indians who pursued -Thomas—excepting the one in possession of Thomas' horse, which he had -captured and was leading away towards the point—met him, turning his -horse around the spring and down the course of the stream, the whole -gang of Indians in full chase. He could outrun them, and had he now, -freed from the herd, been in the direction of home he could have made -his escape; but as he reached a point opposite the hill from whence the -Indians came, he was met by another gang who had crossed the stream for -that purpose; again turning his horse. Making a circuit, he once more -got started towards home. His faithful animal began to lose breath and -flag. He could still, however, keep out of the reach of his pursuers; -but now the hindmost in the down race began to file in before him, as -he had turned about, by forming a platoon and veering to the right or -left in front, as he endeavored to pass, they obstructed his course, -so that those behind overtook him just as he once more reached the -spring. Riding up on either side, one Indian fiercely took him by the -right arm, another by the left leg, while a third was prepared to close -in and secure his horse. Having forced his reins from his grip, they -raised him from the saddle, slackened speed till his horse ran from -under him, then dashed him to the ground among their horses' feet while -running at great speed. He was considerably stunned by the fall, but -fortunately escaped further injury, notwithstanding, perhaps a dozen -horses passed over him. As he rose to his feet, several men were in -sight on the top of the hill, with pitchforks in their hands at the -sight of whom the Indians fled in the direction they had come. These -men had been alarmed by Thomas' cry of Indians, while on their way to -the hay fields, and reached the place in time to see Joseph's horse -captured and another incident which was rather amusing. The Jack, -which did not stampede with the cattle, had strayed off alone toward -the point of the hill, still wearing his bridle. An old Indian with -some corn in a buckskin sack was trying to catch him; but "Jackie" did -not fancy Mr. Indian, although not afraid of him, and so would wheel -from him as he would attempt to take hold of the bridle. As the men -appeared, the Indian made a desperate lunge to catch the Jack, but was -kicked over, and his corn spilt on the ground. The Indian jumped up -and took to his heels, and "Jackie" deliberately ate up his corn. By -this time the cattle were scattered off in the brush lining the lower -road, still heading towards town. The men with the pitchforks soon -disappeared from the hill continuing on to the hay-fields, and Joseph -found himself alone, affording him a good opportunity to reflect on -his escape and situation. The truth is, his own thoughts made him more -afraid than did the Indians. What if they should return to complete -their task, which he had been instrumental in so signally defeating? -They would evidently show him no mercy. They had tried to trample him -to death with their horses, and what could he do on foot and alone? -It would take him a long time to gather up the cattle, from among -the brush. The Indians might return any moment, there was nothing to -prevent them doing so. These were his thoughts; he concluded therefore -that time was precious, and that he would follow the example, now, of -Thomas, and "make tracks" for home. When he arrived the people had -gathered in the old bowery, and were busy organizing two companies, -one of foot and the other of horsemen, to pursue the Indians. All was -excitement, his mother and the family were almost distracted, supposing -he had been killed or captured by the Indians. Thomas had told the -whole story so far as he knew it, the supposition was therefore -inevitable; judge, therefore, of the happy surprise of his mother and -sisters on seeing him, not only alive, but uninjured. Their tears of -joy were even more copious than those of grief a moment before. -</p> -<p>But Joseph's sorrow had not yet begun. He and Thomas returned with -the company of armed men on foot to hunt for the cattle, while the -horsemen were to pursue the Indians, if possible, to recover the -horses. When they arrived again at the spring no sign of the cattle -could be seen; even the dinner pails had been taken away. On looking -around, the saddle blanket from the horse Joseph rode was found near -the spring. Was this evidence that the Indians had returned as Joseph -had suspected? And had they, after all, succeeded in driving off the -cattle? These were the questions which arose. All that day did they -hunt, but in vain, to find any further trace of them; and as they -finally gave up the search and bent their weary steps towards home, all -hope of success seemingly fled. Joseph could no longer suppress the -heavy weight of grief that filled his heart, and he gave vent to it in -bitter tears, and wished he had been a man. -</p> -<p>It is said, "calms succeed storms," "and one extreme follows another," -etc. Certainly joy followed closely on the heels of grief more than -once this day, for when Joseph and Thomas reached home, to their -surprise and unspeakable joy, they found all their cattle safely -corraled in their yards where they had been all the afternoon. Alden, -it seems, reached the herd ground just after Joseph had left. He -found the cattle straying off in the wrong direction unherded, and he -could find no trace of the boys or horses, although he discovered the -dinner pails at the spring as usual. When he had thoroughly satisfied -himself by observations that all was not right, and perhaps something -very serious was the matter, he came to the conclusion to take the -dinner pails, gather up the cattle and go home, which he did by the -lower road, reaching home some time after the company had left by the -upper road in search of them. He of course learned the particulars of -the whole affair, and must have felt thankful that he had escaped. A -messenger was sent to notify the company of the safety of the cattle, -but for some reason he did not overtake them. -</p> -<p>In the Spring of 1847, George Mills was fitted out with a team and went -in the company of President Young as one of the Pioneers to the Valley; -and soon, a portion of the family in the care of Brother James Lawson, -emigrated from "Winter Quarters," arriving in the Valley that Fall. -</p> -<p>In the Spring of 1848, a tremendous effort was made by the Saints to -emigrate to the Valley on a grand scale. No one was more anxious than -Widow Smith; but to accomplish it seemed an impossibility. She still -had a large and comparatively helpless family. Her two sons, John and -Joseph, mere boys, being her only support; the men folks, as they were -called, Brothers J. Lawson and G. Mills being in the Valley with the -teams they had taken. Without teams sufficient to draw the number of -wagons necessary to haul provisions and outfit for the family, and -without means to purchase, or friends who were in circumstances to -assist, she determined to make the attempt, and trust in the Lord for -the issue. Accordingly every nerve was strained, and every available -object was brought into requisition. "Jackie" was traded off for -provisions; cows and calves were yoked up, two wagons lashed together, -and team barely sufficient to draw one was hitched on to them, and in -this manner they rolled out from Winter Quarters some time in May. -After a series of the most amusing and trying circumstances, such -as sticking in the mud, doubling teams up all the little hills and -crashing at ungovernable speed down the opposite sides, breaking wagon -tongues and reaches, upsetting, and vainly endeavoring to control wild -steers, heifers and unbroken cows, they finally succeeded in reaching -the Elk Horn, where the companies were being organized for the plains. -</p> -<p>Here, Widow Smith reported herself to President Kimball, as having -"started for the Valley." Meantime, she had left no stone unturned or -problem untried, which promised assistance in effecting the necessary -of preparations for the journey. She had done to her utmost, and still -the way looked dark and impossible. -</p> -<p>President Kimball consigned her to Captain ——'s fifty. The captain was -present; said he, -</p> -<p>"Widow Smith, how many wagons have you?" -</p> -<p>"Seven." -</p> -<p>"How many yokes of oxen have you?" -</p> -<p>"Four," and so many cows and calves. -</p> -<p>"Well," says the captain, "Widow Smith, it is folly for you to start -in this manner; you never can make the journey, and if you try it, you -will be a burden upon the company the whole way. My advice to you is, -go back to Winter Quarters and wait till you can get help." -</p> -<p>This speech aroused the indignation of Joseph, who stood by and heard -it; he thought it was poor consolation to his mother who was struggling -so hard, even against hope as it were, for her deliverance; and if he -had been a little older it is possible that he would have said some -very harsh things to the captain; but as it was, he busied himself with -his thoughts and bit his lips. -</p> -<p>Widow Smith calmly replied, "Father ——" (he was an aged man,) "I will -beat you to the Valley and will ask no help from you either!" -</p> -<p>This seemed to nettle the old gentleman, for he was high metal. It is -possible that he never forgot this prediction, and that it influenced -his conduct towards her more or less from that time forth as long as he -lived, and especially during the journey. -</p> -<p>While the companies were lying at Elk Horn, Widow Smith sent back to -Winter Quarters, and by the blessing of God, succeeded in buying on -credit, and hiring for the journey, several yokes of oxen from brethren -who were not able to emigrate that year, (among these brethren one -Brother Rogers was ever gratefully remembered by the family). When -the companies were ready to start, Widow Smith and her family were -somewhat better prepared for the journey and rolled out with lighter -hearts and better prospects than favored their egress from Winter -Quarters. But Joseph often wished that his mother had been consigned -to some other company, for although everything seemed to move along -pleasantly, his ears were frequently saluted with expressions which -seemed to be prompted by feelings of disappointment and regret at his -mother's prosperity and success—expressions which, it seemed to him, -were made expressly for his ear. To this, however, he paid as little -regard as it was possible for a boy of his temperament to do. One cause -for annoyance was the fact that his mother would not permit him to -stand guard at nights the same as a man or his older brother John, when -the Captain required it. She was willing for him to herd in the day -time and do his duty in everything that seemed to her in reason could -be required of him; but, as he was only ten years of age, she did not -consider him old enough to do guard duty at nights to protect the camp -from Indians, stampedes, etc., therefore, when the captain required him -to stand guard, Widow Smith objected. He was, therefore, frequently -sneered at as being "petted by his mother," which was a sore trial to -him. -</p> - - -<h2><a name="nwCHAPTERIII"></a>CHAPTER III. -</h2> -<p>One day the company overtook President Kimball's company, which was -traveling ahead of them; this was somewhere near the north fork of the -Platte River. Jane Wilson, who has been mentioned as being a member -of the family of Widow Smith, and as being troubled with fits, etc., -and withal very fond of snuff, started ahead to overtake her mother, -who was in the family of Bishop N. K. Whitney, in President Kimball's -company, supposing both companies would camp together, and she could -easily return to her own camp in the evening. But, early in the -afternoon, our captain ordered a halt, and camped for that night and -the next day. This move, unfortunately, compelled poor Jane to continue -on with her mother in the preceding company. -</p> -<p>Towards evening the captain took a position in the center of the corral -formed by the wagons, and called the company together, and then cried -out: -</p> -<p>"Is all right in the camp? Is all right in the camp?" -</p> -<p>Not supposing for a moment that anything was wrong, no one replied. -He repeated the question again and again, each time increasing his -vehemence, until some began to feel alarmed. Old "Uncle Tommie" -Harrington replied in good English style, "Nout's the matter wi me; -nout's the matter wi me;" and one after another replied, "Nothing is -the matter with me," until it came to Widow Smith, at which, in a -towering rage, the captain exclaimed, "All's right in the camp, and a -poor woman lost!" -</p> -<p>Widow Smith replied, "She is not lost; she is with her mother, and as -safe as I am." -</p> -<p>At which the captain lost all control of his temper, and fairly -screamed out, "I rebuke you, Widow Smith, in the name of the Lord!" -pouring forth a tirade of abuse upon her. Nothing would pacify him till -she proposed to send her son John ahead to find Jane. It was almost -dark, and he would doubtless have to travel until nearly midnight -before he would overtake the company; but he started, alone and -unarmed, in an unknown region, an Indian country, infested by hordes of -hungry wolves, ravenous for the dead cattle strewn here and there along -the road, which drew them in such numbers that their howlings awakened -the echoes of the night, making it hideous and disturbing the slumbers -of the camps. -</p> -<p>That night was spent by Widow Smith in prayer and anguish for the -safety of her son; but the next day John returned all safe, and -reported that he had found Jane all right with her mother. Widow -Smith's fears for his safety, although perhaps unnecessary, were not -groundless, as his account of his night's trip proved. The wolves -growled and glared at him as he passed along, not caring even to get -out of the road for him; their eyes gleaming like balls of fire through -the darkness on every hand; but they did not molest him; still, the -task was one that would have made a timid person shudder and shrink -from its performance. -</p> -<p>Another circumstance occurred, while camped at this place, which had -a wonderful influence, some time afterwards, upon Captain ——'s mind. -There was a party of the brethren started out on a hunting expedition -for the day. A boy, that was driving team for Widow Smith, but little -larger than Joseph, although several years his senior, accompanied -them, riding with the captain in his carriage, which they took along -to carry their game in. This boy (he is now a man, and no doubt a good -Latter-day Saint) was a very great favorite of the captain's; and -was often cited by him as a worthy example for Joseph, as he stood -guard, and was very obliging and obedient to him. During the day the -captain left him in charge of his carriage and team, while he went some -distance away in search of game, charging W—— not to leave the spot -until he returned. Soon after the captain got out of sight, W—— drove -off in pursuit of some of the brethren in another direction, and when -he overtook them, strange to say, he told a most foolish and flimsy -story, which aroused their suspicion. They charged him with falsehood, -but he unwisely stuck to his story. It was this: "Captain —— had sent -him to tell them to drive the game down to a certain point, so that he -(the captain) might have a shot as well as they." Having done this he -started back to his post, expecting to get there, of course, before the -captain returned. But unfortunately for his good reputation with the -captain, he was too late. The captain had returned, but the carriage -was gone, not knowing the reason he doubtless became alarmed, as he -immediately started in search, instead of waiting to see if it would -return. He missed connection, and was subjected to a tedious tramp and -great anxiety, until he fell in with those brethren, who related the -strange interview they had had with W—— and the mystery was explained. -Returning again, there he found the carriage and W—— all right, looking -innocent and dutiful, little suspecting that the captain knew all, -and the storm that was about to burst upon his devoted head. But like -a thunder-clap the storm came. At first W—— affected bewilderment, -putting on an air of injured innocence, but soon gave way before the -avalanche of wrath hurled upon him. Poor fellow! he had destroyed the -captain's confidence in him, and would he ever regain it? The reader -can readily imagine this would be a difficult matter. Sometime after -this, the captain went out from camp with his carriage to gather -saleratus, and on the way overtook Joseph on foot. To Joseph's utter -astonishment, the captain stopped and invited him to ride. There was -another brother in the carriage with him. As they went along the -captain told this story, and concluded by saying, "Now, Joseph, since -W—— has betrayed my confidence so that I dare not trust him any more, -you shall take his place. I don't believe you will deceive me." Joseph, -in the best manner he possibly could, declined the honor proffered to -him. -</p> -<p>Passing over from the Platte to the Sweetwater, the cattle suffered -extremely from the heat, the drought, and the scarcity of feed, being -compelled to browse on dry rabbit brush, sage brush, weeds and such -feed as they could find, all of which had been well picked over by -the preceding companies. Captain ——'s company being one of the last, -still keeping along, frequently in sight of, and sometimes camping with -President Kimball's company which was very large. One day as they were -moving along slowly through the hot sand and dust, the sun pouring down -with excessive heat, toward noon one of Widow Smith's best oxen laid -down in the yoke, rolled over on his side, and stiffened out his legs -spasmodically, evidently in the throes of death. The unanimous opinion -was that he was poisoned. All the hindmost teams of course stopped, the -people coming forward to know what was the matter. In a short time the -captain, who was in advance of the company, perceiving that something -was wrong, came to the spot. -</p> -<p>Perhaps no one supposed for a moment that the ox would ever recover. -The captain's first words on seeing him, were: -</p> -<p>"He is dead, there is no use working with him; we'll have to fix up -some way to take the Widow along, I told her she would be a burden upon -the company." -</p> -<p>Meantime Widow Smith had been searching for a bottle of consecrated -oil in one of the wagons, and now came forward with it, and asked her -brother, Joseph Fielding, and the other brethren, to administer to -the ox, thinking the Lord would raise him up. They did so, pouring a -portion of the oil on the top of his head, between and back of the -horns, and all laid hands upon him, and one prayed, administering the -ordinance as they would have done to a human being that was sick. Can -you guess the result? In a moment he gathered his legs under him, and -at the first word arose to his feet, and traveled right off as well as -ever. He was not even unyoked from his mate. The captain, it may well -be supposed, now heartily regretted his hasty conclusions and unhappy -expressions. They had not gone very far when another and exactly -similar circumstance occurred. This time also it was one of her best -oxen, the loss of either would have effectually crippled one team, -as they had no cattle to spare. But the Lord mercifully heard their -prayers, and recognized the holy ordinance of anointing and prayer, and -the authority of the Priesthood when applied in behalf of even a poor -dumb brute! Sincere gratitude from more than one heart in that family, -went up unto the Lord that day for His visible interposition in their -behalf. At or near a place called Rattlesnake Bend, on the Sweetwater, -one of Widow Smith's oxen died of sheer old age, and consequent -poverty. He had been comparatively useless for some time, merely -carrying his end of the yoke without being of any further service in -the team; he was therefore no great loss. -</p> -<p>At the last crossing of the Sweetwater, Widow Smith was met by James -Lawson, with a span of horses and a wagon, from the Valley. This -enabled her to unload one wagon, and send it, with the best team, back -to Winter Quarters to assist another family the next season. Elder -Joel Terry returned with the team. At this place the captain was very -unfortunate; several of his best cattle and a valuable mule laid down -and died, supposed to have been caused by eating poisonous weeds. -There was no one in the camp who did not feel a lively sympathy for -the Captain, he took it to heart very much. He was under the necessity -of obtaining help, and Widow Smith was the first to offer it to him, -but he refused to accept of it from her hands. Joseph sympathized with -him, and would gladly have done anything in his power to aid him; but -here again, it is painful to say, he repulsed his sympathy and chilled -his heart and feelings more and more by insinuating to others, in his -presence, that Widow Smith had poisoned his cattle! Saying, "Why should -my cattle, and nobody's else, die in this manner? There is more than a -chance about this. It was well planned," etc., expressly for his ear. -This last thrust was the severing blow. Joseph resolved, some day, to -demand satisfaction not only for this, but for every other indignity he -had heaped upon his mother. -</p> -<p>On the 22nd of September, 1848, Captain—'s fifty crossed over the -"Big Mountain," when they had the first glimpse of Salt Lake Valley. -It was a beautiful day. Fleecy clouds hung round over the summits of -the highest mountains, casting their shadows down the valley beneath, -heightening, by contrast, the golden hue of the sun's rays which fell -through the openings upon the dry bunchgrass and sage-bush plains, -gilding them with fairy brightness, and making the arid desert to -seem like an enchanted spot. Every heart rejoiced and with lingering -fondness, wistfully gazed from the summit of the mountain upon the -western side of the valley revealed to view—the goal of their -wearisome journey. The ascent from the east was gradual, but long and -fatiguing for the teams; it was in the afternoon, therefore, when they -reached the top. The descent to the west was far more precipitous and -abrupt. They were obliged to rough-lock the hind wheels of the wagons, -and, as they were not needed, the forward cattle were turned loose -to be driven to the foot of the mountain or to camp, the "wheelers" -only being retained on the wagons. Desirous of shortening the next -day's journey as much as possible—as that was to bring them into the -Valley—they drove on till a late hour in the night, over very rough -roads much of the way, and skirted with oak brush and groves of trees. -They finally camped near the eastern foot of the "Little Mountain." -During this night's drive several of Widow Smith's cows—that had been -turned loose from the teams—were lost in the brush. Early next morning -John returned on horseback to hunt for them, their service in the teams -being necessary to proceed. -</p> -<p>At an earlier hour than usual the Captain gave orders for the company -to start—knowing well the circumstances of the Widow, and that -she would be obliged to remain till John returned with the lost -cattle—accordingly the company rolled out, leaving her and her family -alone. It was fortunate that Brother James Lawson was with them, for -he knew the road, and if necessary, could pilot them down the canyon -in the night. Joseph thought of his mother's prediction at Elk Horn, -and so did the Captain, and he was determined that he would win this -point, although he had lost all the others, and prove her prediction -false. "I will beat you to the Valley, and ask no help from you -either," rang in Joseph's ears; he could not reconcile these words -with possibility, though he knew his mother always told the truth, -but how could this come true? Hours, to him, seemed like days as they -waited, hour after hour, for John to return. All this time the company -was slowly tugging away up the mountain, lifting at the wheels, geeing -and hawing, twisting along a few steps, then blocking the wheels for -the cattle to rest and take breath, now doubling a team, and now a -crowd rushing to stop a wagon, too heavy for the exhausted team, and -prevent its rolling backward down the hill, dragging the cattle along -with it. While in this condition, to heighten the distress and balk -the teams, a cloud, as it were, burst over their heads, sending down -the rain in torrents, as it seldom rains in this country, throwing the -company into utter confusion. The cattle refused to pull, would not -face the beating storm, and to save the wagons from crashing down the -mountain, upsetting, etc., they were obliged to unhitch them, and block -all the wheels. While the teamsters sought shelter, the storm drove -the cattle in every direction through the brush and into the ravines, -and into every nook they could find, so that when it subsided it was a -day's work to find them, and get them together. Meantime Widow Smith's -cattle—except those lost—were tied to the wagons, and were safe. In a -few moments after the storm, John brought up those which had been lost, -and they hitched up, making as early a start as they usually did in the -mornings, rolled up the mountain, passing the company in their confused -situation, and feeling that every tie had been sundered that bound them -to the captain, continued on to the Valley, and arrived at "Old Fort," -about ten o'clock on the night of the 23rd of September, all well and -thankful. The next morning was Sabbath, the whole family went to the -bowery to meeting. Presidents Young and Kimball preached. This was the -first time that Joseph had ever heard them, to his recollection, in -public; and he exclaimed to himself: "These are the men of God, who -are gathering the Saints to the Valley." This was a meeting long to be -remembered by those present. President Young spoke as though he felt: -"Now, God's people are free," and the way of their deliverance had been -wrought out. That evening Captain —— and his company arrived; dusty and -weary, too late for the excellent meetings and the day of sweet rest -enjoyed by the Widow and her family. Once more, in silver tones, rang -through Joseph's ears. "Father ——, I will beat you to the Valley, and -will ask no help from you either!" J. F. S. -</p> - - -<h2><a name="AREMARKABLELIFE"></a>A REMARKABLE LIFE. -</h2> -<p class="centered">BY "HOMESPUN". -</p> - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTERI"></a>CHAPTER I. -</h2> -<p>Many of the noblest lives have been lived in obscurity and in poverty. -Nobility and virtue are never dependent upon surroundings. And when you -have read the simple little chronicle which I am about to relate, I -think you will agree with me that even though humble and retiring, the -subject of this sketch was one of nature's own heroines. -</p> -<p>In a little cottage in Bravon, Lees-Mersem, England, lived an old lady -named Harris. She was given to study although very meagrely educated. -She was feeble and sat a great deal of her time poring over her Bible. -</p> -<p>One day her granddaughter came to visit her, bringing her little -daughter, Mary, with her. The old lady had been reading her Bible, and -as her daughter came in she said: -</p> -<p>"My dear, I have been reading some of the great prophecies concerning -the last days, and I feel sure that either you or yours will live to -see many of them fulfilled." -</p> -<p>"Not so, grandmother," answered the woman, whose name was Mrs. Dunster, -"thou wast always visionary; put by such thoughts. Our religion's good -enough for the like of us." -</p> -<p>The old lady arose, unheeding her granddaughter's warm reply, and -placing her hands on the little girl's head, said solemnly: -</p> -<p>"Here's Mary; she shall grow up and wander away from you all and break -her bread in different nations." -</p> -<p>The solemnity of her great-grandmother's manner and the peculiar spirit -that accompanied the words made a vivid impression on the little girl's -mind. How well that strange prophecy has been fulfilled you and I, my -reader, can tell hereafter. -</p> -<p>The little girl, whose name was Mary Dunster, and who was born in -Lympne, Kent, December 26, 1818, grew up and when sixteen years of age -was asked in marriage by William Chittenden, who was a laborer on an -adjoining farm. She did not feel very willing, but the young man urged -her so warmly that she hesitated before refusing him. She had always -had an irresistible desire to go to America, where many emigrants were -then going from England. -</p> -<p>At last she consented to be his wife on one condition: that he would -take her to America. Very bravely promised the lover, but not until -forty-two years afterwards did he fulfill that promise. -</p> -<p>After they were married they settled down to work and lived, William as -farm laborer, in Lympne for four years. Two children were born to them -in this place, Mary Ann, born June 15, 1836, and Henry, born August 18, -1838. -</p> -<p>Four years after their marriage, at which time the introduction of -convicts into Australia was prohibited and the government of England -offered good inducement to skilled laborers to settle up the country, -William Chittenden concluded to go to Australia. Previous to this time -the English convicts, who were under life sentence, had been sent -down to Australia, landing generally at Botany Bay. These convicts -were brought down and sold as life slaves to those freeholders who -were willing and able to purchase their labor. Sometimes they escaped -from their masters and made their way into the interior of the -country. These escaped convicts herded together in small parties or -bands, and are called "bush-rangers." They have now become a powerful -tribe, fierce, vindictive and unlawful. They resemble very nearly, in -occupation and temperament, the wild Bedouins of Asia and the wild -tribes of Arabs or Berbers of northern Africa. -</p> -<p>Between the years of 1840 and 1850, England transported many skilled -laborers and artizans to Australia to build up and colonize her -possessions in the southern seas. Numbers of the husband's countrymen -were going down to the "new country," and he resolved to go too. -Mary objected; she wanted to go to America. I think, between you -and me, that she used sometimes to remind her husband sharply of -his unfulfilled promise. But his was a calm, kind, but essentially -self-willed disposition, that listened good-naturedly to all Mary might -and did say, but was no whit moved thereby to give up his own way. And -so, after much controversy, the removal to Australia was decided upon -and accomplished. -</p> -<p>The young couple had determined to engage a farm on shares, and so -went, immediately upon their arrival, to a country part near Botany -Bay. Here they remained a short time and then went up to Camden, which -is about one hundred miles from Sydney. William took a farm and then -commenced a long career of farming in Australia. Most of their children -were born there. -</p> -<p>And now let me tell you something of the character of this same Mary, -ere I relate to you two strange dreams which she had while living at -Camden. -</p> -<p>She was a medium-sized, well-built woman, with kind, gray eyes and -a pleasant but firm mouth. Her step was quick, and her manner was -full of warm-hearted simplicity. She it was who ruled the children, -administering with firm justice the rod of correction. Her husband -contented himself by controlling his wife, leaving the whole of the -remainder of the domestic regimen entirely in her hands. She was never -disobeyed by her children. But withal "father" was a tenderer name -to their large flock of girls than was "mother." But with all her -firmness, she was far too womanly to possess one grain of obstinacy. -When it was her duty to yield she could do so gracefully. With these -qualities Mary united a sound business capacity, economy, thrift -and extreme cleanliness. She was, and always has been, a remarkably -healthy woman. With these gifts she had something of the visionary or -semi-prophetic character of her great-grandmother Harris. -</p> -<p>She has been a dreamer, and her dreams have been of a prophetic -character. Most of them require no interpretation, but are simple -forecasts, as it were, of the future. -</p> -<p>One dream, which was indelibly impressed upon her mind, occurred to -her just before the birth of her eighth daughter, Elizabeth. It was as -follows: -</p> -<p>She dreamed she had to travel a long way. At last she reached a stately -white building, with projecting buttresses and towers. Going up the -broad steps she entered a room filled with beautiful books. Seeing a -door ajar, she walked into the adjoining room. There sat twelve men -around a large table, and each man held a pen. They were looking up as -though awaiting some message from above. She drew back, so as not to -attract attention, when a voice said distinctly to her: "You will have -to come here to be married." The thought passed through her mind, "I -<em>am</em> married and why, therefore, should I come here to be married?" -</p> -<p>She went on out of the building and walked through the streets of the -city that were near the building. The streets were straight and clean, -with little streams of water running down under the shade-trees that -bordered the foot-paths. Everything was clean and beautiful to look -upon. Footbridges spanned the little streams, and the houses were clean -and comfortable. She saw just ahead of her a woman driving a cow, with -whom she felt a desire to speak, but before she could reach her, the -woman had gone in at one of the gates. She walked on, pleased with all -she saw. Raising her eyes she saw in the distance, coming to the city, -what looked like an immense flock of sheep. But as they came nearer she -saw they were people, all clothed in white raiment. They passed by and -went on to the white building. "Ah!" thought Mary, "if I was there now, -that I might know what it all meant!" But she felt compelled to go the -other way. And so the dream ended. -</p> -<p>When she awoke she related the strange episode to her husband and told -him she believed her coming confinement would prove fatal. She thought -the beautiful place she had seen could only be in heaven, as she had -never seen anything like it upon the earth. William comforted her, but -the spirit of the dream never left her. -</p> -<p>However her little babe was born and she resumed her household duties. -</p> - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTERII"></a>CHAPTER II. -</h2> -<p>Two years passed away, and ere they are passed let us stop a moment and -see a little of this new country which lies away on the opposite side -of the earth from America. -</p> -<p>Australia, as you may all see, my readers, by getting out your -geographies, is in the Pacific Ocean, down in the tropics and lying -south-east of Asia. It is generally called a continent; but it looks -very small, does it not, compared to Asia or either of the Americas? -Now, look down on the south-east coast of this little continent and you -will see Botany Bay and the city of Sydney lying close together. Look a -little to the south-west of Sydney and you will find Goulburn. Camden, -which is a comparatively new town, is not marked on the old maps, lies -between Sydney and Goulburn. -</p> -<p>This region you will find marked as the "gold region." But gold was not -discovered until 1857, eleven years after the Chittendens settled in -their new home. -</p> -<p>The country in New South Wales is good for farming and grazing; with -the exception that it is subject to extremes of drouth and floods. -There are no high mountain ranges, and very few rivers. There is no -snow there, and the Winter season is a rainy season instead of being -cold and freezing like our Winters. There are trees in that country -which shed their bark instead of their leaves. I shall speak of these -trees and the uses to which their bark is put further on. Then, there -grows a native cherry, which has the pit on the outside, and the fruit -inside. Wouldn't that be queer? -</p> -<p>There are many precious stones found in this country, and also -considerable gold; but the discovery of gold failed to excite William -Chittenden, or turn him from the even tenor of his way. -</p> -<p>On the 15th of April, 1853, a son was born to the Chittendens, who was -christened William John, but who only lived a few weeks. -</p> -<p>Some time after his death Mary dreamed that she was lying in her bed -asleep. It was, as you might say, a dream within a dream. As she lay -sleeping two men, each carrying a satchel in one hand and a cane in the -other, came to the foot of her bed. She dreamed then that she awoke -from her dream and looked earnestly at these two men; so earnestly that -their faces were indelibly fixed upon her memory. One of them held out -to her a little book. -</p> -<p>"What is the use of my taking the book?" she thought within herself, "I -cannot read a line, for I have never learned to read." Then, after a -moment's hesitation, she thought, "Why, I can take it and my children -can read it to me." So she took the book. -</p> -<p>One of the men said these remarkable words to her: -</p> -<p>"We are clothed upon with power to preach to the people." -</p> -<p>She awoke in reality then, with those strange words thrilling her with -a new power she had never felt before. She roused her husband up and -related her dream, and he replied kindly to her. -</p> -<p>They had now been married eighteen years and Mary had borne seven girls -and two boys; neither of the two boys, however, had lived but a short -time. The farm upon which they lived had been rented, or leased, from -a large land-owner named McArthur, for twenty-one years. This McArthur -owned some thousands of acres of farming and grazing land in this -region, which was leased in farms of various proportions. -</p> -<p>The Chittendens' farm consisted of two hundred acres, and was mostly -farming land. The terms upon which they leased it were very similar to -others in that country. For the first five years they paid sixpence an -acre. After that it was ten shillings an acre. -</p> -<p>William put up the house in which they lived, and an odd house it was, -too. First he took a number of poles, or uprights, which he placed in -the earth at regular distances. With these he made the framework of -his house. Between these uprights were placed smaller poles. Then he -took fine willows and wove them, or turned them round the center, or -smaller pole, resting the ends on the larger poles. In and out went -these willows, something the same way as you will see willow fences -here. Then he made a thick mud and well covered the whole, inside and -out. Next came a good plaster of lime and sand, and finally all was -whitewashed. The roof was made with rafters laid across the top. Now -came in this bark about which I told you. Going up to the forests which -were found on the near hillsides, the bark was cut in the lengths -wanted at the top and bottom of the tree; then with a sharp knife split -on two sides, upon which it peeled off in thick, straight slabs. It was -then nailed on in the place of shingles, each one overlapping the under -one. Then the floor was nailed down with wooden pegs, "adzed" off and -finally smoothed with a jack-plane. -</p> -<p>In this manner one large sitting-room, two bedrooms, a dairy and a -kitchen, detached from the main building, were built; to which was -afterwards added a long porch to the front of the house, which faced -east, the rooms all being built in a row. -</p> -<p>Mary cooked upon a brick oven, which was built upon a little standard -just between the kitchen and the house. -</p> -<p>Large fire-places were built in the kitchen and sitting-room. The one -in the kitchen, being big enough to take three immense logs, which -would burn steadily for a whole week. -</p> -<p>The dairy was well furnished with pans, pails, etc. -</p> - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTERIII"></a>CHAPTER III. -</h2> -<p>In 1853, William decided to take a trip up to Sydney to sell a load of -grain, bringing back with him, if he succeeded as he wished, a load of -freight for some settlement or town near his home. There was a great -demand for wheat now as many hundreds of emigrants had rushed into the -great gold country. William left the farm to be managed by his prudent -little wife and started out on his hundred mile trip. How little did he -dream of the result of this journey! On his arrival in Sydney after the -disposal of his wheat, he walked out to see an old friend named William -Andrews who lived in the suburbs of the town. Here he passed the time -until evening when Mr. Andrews remarked, "I say, Chittenden, I've got -some brothers come from America, and I am going up to see them. Would -you like to go along?" -</p> -<p>"Oh, yes," replied William, "I didn't know you had any brothers in -America!" -</p> -<p>And so, arm in arm, they entered the little room where several men sat -at a table, or pulpit with a strange book in their hands and strange -words upon their lips. Here William heard the sound of the everlasting -gospel for the first time. -</p> -<p>From the first William felt the truth contained in the words of the -Elders although he knew little or nothing concerning them. -</p> -<p>On their way home Mr. Andrews explained to him that these men were his -brothers, being brothers in the covenant of Christ. -</p> -<p>"And Chittenden," he added, "if any of them go down your way, you'll -give them dinner and a bed, won't you, for I know you can?" -</p> -<p>"Oh, as to that," replied William, "I wouldn't turn a beggar from my -door, if he was hungry or wanted a roof to cover him." -</p> -<p>William procured a load of freight for a man in Goulburn (one hundred -miles further south than Camden) and started on his return trip. His -mind was often upon the things he had heard, and he wondered what it -all meant. The Elders to whom he had listened were Brothers Farnham, -Eldredge, Graham and Fleming, Brother Farnham having charge. They were -the second company of Elders ever sent to Australia. -</p> -<p>After the departure of William Chittenden, a council was held by the -Elders and it was decided that Brothers Fleming and John Eldredge -should go up to Camden and the surrounding district. At the last -moment however, Elder Fleming was desired to remain in Sydney by -Brother Farnham and Elder Graham was sent in his place. I mention this -circumstance as it was closely connected with one of Mary's dreams. -When William reached his home, he told Mary about these strange men. -</p> -<p>"What did you think of them William?" -</p> -<p>"Well Mary if they don't speak the truth then I never heard it spoken." -And then he went down to Goulburn with his freight. -</p> -<p>One lovely day in summer two dusty, tired, hungry men each with a -satchel and a walking-cane in their hands, stopped at the wide open -door of the Chittenden farm-house. And what saw Mary, when she came to -the porch? With a queer throb, she saw in her door the very man who -came to her bedside in her dream. She even noticed the low-cut vest -showing the white shirt underneath. But as he stepped inside, and her -eye fell upon his companion, she saw <em>he</em> was not the second one of her -dream, although he too carried a cane and satchel. She invited them -within, and the first one said, -</p> -<p>"We are come, madam, to preach the gospel." -</p> -<p>The words, almost identical with those of her dream. Giving her their -names, he whose name was Eldredge explained to her that they traveled -up from Sydney, and in all the hundred miles, they had found no one -willing to give them food and shelter. -</p> -<p>Mary bustled around and prepared dinner for her guests. When evening -drew near, Brother Eldredge remarked, -</p> -<p>"Mrs Chittenden, can you let us remain here over night?" -</p> -<p>"Oh," said Mary, "I am afraid I have no place to put you!" -</p> -<p>"Well you can let us sit up by your fireside, and that is better than -lying on the ground as we have done lately!" -</p> -<p>And then Mary assured them that she would do the best she could for -them. So a bed was spread out on the floor of the sitting-room, and -here the foot-sore Elders were glad to rest their bodies. -</p> -<p>The principles and doctrines of these men fell deep into Mary's heart, -and like her husband she felt they spoke the truths of heaven. -</p> -<p>One evening in conversation with them, Mary told Brother Eldredge -that she had seen him before in a dream. But, she added, you were -accompanied by another man, not Mr. Graham. -</p> -<p>"Ah well, that might have been. You may have seen Brother Fleming for -he was coming with me, but Brother Farnham altered the appointments at -the last moment!" -</p> -<p>And it proved so. When Mary afterwards saw Brother Fleming she -recognized him as the second one of her dream. -</p> -<p>The Elders were not idle because they had found a comfortable resting -place, but traveled about seeking to get opportunities of spreading -the gospel. One family named Davis, whose farm (rented from McArthur) -joined the Chittenden's, listened with pleased interest to these new -doctrines. In the course of two weeks after the arrival of the Elders, -William Chittenden came home, and expressed a gladness in his heart to -find the Elders at his home. He immediately fixed up a bedroom near the -sitting-room for the use of the Elders. Weeks went into months, and -still the Chittendens were not baptized. -</p> -<p>The Elders made Camden their head-quarters, but went about through -the surrounding country, meeting, however, with very little success. -William and his wife, with their oldest daughter were ready to be -baptized, as were the Davis'. But almost a year after the arrival of -the brethren was allowed to slip by without the baptisms having been -performed. -</p> -<p>I want to stop and tell you a little about the worldly condition of -this couple, as well as mention a detail or two more about the country -they were living in before I go on with my story. -</p> -<p>They had brought their two hundred acres under good cultivation; they -had a large fruit garden back of the house, in which grew the most -delicious peaches, plums and cherries. The country is so adapted -to fruit that peach-stones thrown out near running water would be -fruit-bearing-trees in three years. There were no apples, but such -quantities of tropical fruits. Grapes, melons, figs, lemons and oranges -were so plentiful and so cheap that William would not spend time to -grow them. A sixpence (12 cents) would buy enough of these fruits to -load a man down. -</p> -<p>They had four horses, one wagon, a dray and a light spring cart, six -cows and many calves, plenty of pigs and droves of chickens, turkeys -and geese. -</p> -<p>The large granary to the south of the house groaned with its wealth of -wheat corn, barley and oats. -</p> -<p>And while I am speaking of wheat I am minded to give a description of -the way adopted to preserve wheat in that country. Mr. McArthur, the -owner of all these thousands of acres, received from his tenants a -share of the wheat grown. This he stored up as there was little or no -sale for it until drought years, when it commanded a good price. -</p> -<p>After the three years drought which occurred there prior to 1853, -William and his wife went to this Mr. McArthur to get wheat. He had dug -a very large vault or cellar, and this had been well cemented, top, -bottom and sides. Here the wheat had been stored for twelve years when -the Chittendens went to get theirs. The wheat was perfectly sound and -sweet. Over the vault a store-house had been built, and the door to it -was near the top of the cellar. -</p> -<p>You can see that our kind friends were well-to-do, and had every -prospect ahead for success and prosperity. -</p> -<p>In the Spring of '54, the Davis family and the Chittendens decided to -be baptized. Rumors, and false reports had been rapidly spread about -the Latter-day Saints, and their enemies sprang up like magic. Many -sarcastic and insulting remarks were made about the "dipping" (as the -baptism was called) of the two families. Mr. McArthur was a bitter -enemy to the new sect. -</p> -<p>One day the Davises were over to Chittenden's and remarked they were -going to be baptized the following Monday in the river near their -house. William decided to come over with his family on the same day. So -on the 24 of April 1854 William and Mary were baptized by John Eldredge -in Camden, Australia. From the moment of their baptism until now no -faltering or doubt has ever been in the hearts of these true Saints. In -the evening of the same day, the girls were all baptized by the Elders -into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. -</p> -<p>The gospel once having been received the spirit of "gathering" soon -follows. And with Mary, who had always wished to go to America, how -much more intense that spirit was now! -</p> -<p>As she sat and listened to the Elder's description of Zion being -built up in the bleak mountains, of the pretty streets lined with -shade-trees, and watered by swift-running streamlets she turned to her -husband and told him that this must be the place of her dream. -</p> -<p>William was a very quiet, determined man, who could not be turned from -the way he had chosen. -</p> -<p>The days, when through the long summer evenings, they all sat and -listened to the various principles and the new and lovely doctrines -unfolded one by one, by the Elders, like the petals of a glorious -flower, were the very happiest Mary and her family ever knew. Poor -Mary! They were the light which shone over her dreary oncoming future, -sometimes brightly, sometimes faintly, but always shining over the -wretched, darksome road of the next twenty years. -</p> -<p>One little circumstance, which will illustrate Mary's simple but -powerful faith will perhaps be worth mentioning and may strengthen some -other one's faith. Just before the birth of her eighth girl, which -occurred in the Fall after their baptism, she felt low and miserable, -scarcely sick enough to be in bed, but too ill to work. One evening -Bro. Eldredge was talking to her and said that if she had any sickness -or bodily ill, it was her privilege as it was of any member of the -Church, to call upon the Elders to administer to her, and then if she -exercised faith, it would leave her. Mary had never read a word in her -life, and so this came to her as a new and very precious truth. -</p> -<p>"Well, Bro. Eldredge, if I can be ministered to and get well, I want to -now," said Mary. -</p> -<p>So the ordinance was performed, and she was indeed instantly healed. -From that day for many months she never felt one moment of illness. And -she says to me to-day in her simple quaint way, -</p> -<p>"I have never been ministered to in my life since, that I did not get -better." -</p> -<p>Ever since the arrival of the Elders, the Chittendens had opened their -house for them to hold meetings in on Sundays. No other place had ever -been obtained, so that the meetings of the Saints, or those who were -friendly to them, were still held in Mary's cosy sitting-room. -</p> -<p>On the 1st of Nov. 1854, Mary had another daughter whom they named -Alice. In two weeks she was up and able to be about the house. The -Sunday on which the baby was two weeks old, the family had taken -dinner, the things had been washed and set away, and all sat in the -dining or sitting-room talking of gathering to Zion. -</p> -<p>They had eight girls now, and it would take quite a sum of money to -emigrate them all to Utah. So thinking to increase their means a -trifle, Mary had taken a little motherless boy, about seven years old, -his father paying a certain amount a week for his board. This was money -and they would never miss his board as they raised everything which -they consumed. This little boy was very troublesome and mischievous. He -was very fond of playing out in the hired men's bedroom which was over -the granary. -</p> -<p>On the Sunday of which I am speaking, he was out in the men's room, and -there found some matches. He thought he'd have some rare fun then, so -out he ran, matches in hand, and made what he called a "pretty fire," -right down close to the pig pens. He watched it burn up, quietly at -first, and then—whew!—here is a jolly little breeze catches up the -flame, and carries it bravely up right on to the roof of the pig-pen. -Then how it did sputter, and crackle, and leap. The boy was old enough -to see by that time, that something more than a bit of mischief would -grow out of that tiny flame. It spread over the pens like a living -thing. Frightened now, he sped away, down to the nearest farm-house, -running in and shouting to the gentleman, Mr. Root who lived there, "I -didn't set the pig-styes on fire; I struck a match, and it blowed." -</p> -<p>Mr. Root hitched up his horse to his water-budge, a cask on wheels -which he carried water from a lake near the Chittendens' house, -and started on the run for the scene of the boy's wickedness. The -Chittendens saw him pass their door running to the lagoon or lake. -"I'll declare," said Mary, "is Mr. Root going for water on Sunday? I -never knew him to do such a thing before!" -</p> -<p>Just then Eliza ran in and said, "Father, the shed is full of smoke." -</p> -<p>She had been down to gather eggs from the shed. -</p> -<p>The barn, pig-styes, cow sheds, granary, poultry houses and stacks were -all at the back of the house and about six rods away. -</p> -<p>At last, William got up to go down to the shed to see what was the -matter. -</p> -<p>When he looked out of the back door, what a sight met his eyes—the -whole yard in flames! Others had seen the fire, for the farm-house -faced the public-road, and people were all passing there on their road -to Chapel. But no one except Mr. Root ever offered a hand of help. -</p> -<p>"Oh," said they, "it's those d—d Mormons, let them burn up and go to -h—." -</p> -<p>The whole family rushed down to the fire and tried to stop its progress -but all to no avail. The pigs could not be driven out, and were -literally roasted alive. The barn, sheds, pens and every combustible -thing went down before the relentless flames. Farm implements of every -description, even the grain to the amount of hundreds of bushels, were -burned. The flames swept towards the house. Then how they worked. -Everything movable was got out, and the roof was torn off; and the men -commenced pouring water on the walls to save them. -</p> -<p>"Alas for the rarity of Christian charity." If a few brave men had -given help when the fire was first discovered, much might have been -saved. But when it was all over, and Bro. Eldredge and William had -thrown themselves on the ground completely exhausted, and the only -Christian who had helped them, Mr. Root, had gone home in the same -condition, Mary sat outdoors with a few of her household goods broken -and scattered around her, her two weeks' old babe wailing in her arms, -and all that was left of their comfortable home, the empty, blackened, -smoking walls of the house looming up in twilight fast falling around -her! Hundreds of cart loads of burnt grain were carted away for the -next few days and buried. How many bright hopes and happy plans were -buried at the same time, only the future would tell! The roof was -speedily put on again, and things inside made as comfortable as might -be. -</p> -<p>Bro. Eldredge still advised going out to Utah with what means they -could scrape up, but William would only shake his head despondently and -say, "I don't see how I can do it." -</p> -<p>Mary urged all she dared, for she knew the Elders were about to leave -for home. It was no use. The only answer she got was, "not now, Mary, -not now." -</p> -<p>He found an opportunity about that time of going up into the country a -hundred miles with some freight. While he was away a gentleman came to -the farm-house and wished to buy the goodwill of the farm. -</p> -<p>You will remember William had rented it for twenty-one years. About -fourteen years of the lease had expired. The improvements, etc., -always went with the lease. So when this gentleman offered to pay -three hundred pounds ($1,400) for the remainder of the lease, or the -"good-will," as it is termed in that country, Mary thought it a very -fortunate thing. -</p> -<p>The loss by fire had exceeded three hundred and fifty pounds, or about -sixteen or seventeen hundred dollars of our money; and Mary thought if -she could sell the lease of the farm, then they could sell what stock -and personal property was left them, that making perhaps another two -hundred pounds, which might get them all to America. So she sold it; -knowing, however, that the bargain would not be legal unless ratified -by her husband. She hoped, though, that he would see things as she did. -When William reached home Mary told him what she had done. -</p> -<p>"Humph; I suppose you know it's of no use unless I give my word, too?" -</p> -<p>"Oh, yes," said Mary, sorry to know her husband was so annoyed, "you -can, of course, upset it all." -</p> -<p>Then she explained all her hopes and plans to him. How they could -raise five hundred and fifty pounds, and then they could surely get to -America with that tidy sum. "And you know, too, you promised years ago -to take me to America." -</p> -<p>"And reach there," objected William, "with a big family of little -children, and not a shilling to buy 'em bread with. Nice plan, that!" -</p> -<p>In vain she argued and plead. William was not to be moved. No one could -blame him for not being guided by his wife's advice. Albeit she was a -prudent, far-seeing, wise little woman, whose advice had always been -proved to be of the best; still the man leads the woman, not woman the -man. -</p> -<p>But when Brothers Eldredge and Graham counseled him to return with -them, it was quite a different matter. They were over him in the -Priesthood and had a right to his obedience, even as he exacted -obedience from his wife and family. However he still refused, simply -saying, "I don't see how I can go just now, Brother Eldredge!" -</p> -<p>And so the time passed on, and the Elders left Australia without the -Chittendens. The Davis family, who were baptized at the same time as -was William and his wife, accompanied the Elders, and part of the same -family are now residing in Minersville, Utah. -</p> -<p>Here then was the grand mistake of William's life. He did not see it -then, nor for years after, but the time came when he wished in the -agony of his soul that he had gone to Utah when told to do so, even -if he had reached there without one penny to buy a crust of bread on -his arrival! Their girls were all with them and unmarried and they -could have brought their family unbroken to Utah. But instead of that -twenty-three years after they came with the merest remnant of their -once large family, leaving almost all their loved ones behind them, and -married to enemies of this work. -</p> -<p>Is not this a grand lesson for our young Elders? How easy it is to -fancy that our own wisdom, especially about our private affairs, is -better than any one's else! But when the voice of God speaks through -His servants and says, "Do thou so!" woe to the man who turns from that -and works out his own will in direct opposition. Let this sink deep -into your hearts, my young readers, and remember always, God knoweth -best! -</p> - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTERIV"></a>CHAPTER IV. -</h2> -<p>Although William was annoyed at the step his wife had taken, he -concluded to let matters go as they were. However, much to Mary's -chagrin, he took a farm close by, and tried to make another start. -Nothing seemed to go right. -</p> -<p>On the 24th of July, 1850, Mary gave birth to another daughter, to whom -they gave the name of Rachel. The next year another company of Elders -came down from Utah under the leadership of Brother Stewart. These -also made their stopping place, while in that part of the country, at -the home of the Chittendens. But if the Elders met with little success -during their former mission, this time seemed a complete failure. No -one could be found to give them a moment's hearing. One Brother Doudle -came up near Camden, and used every endeavor to gain a foot-hold. -Instead of kindness he met with cruelty; and in place of bread they -threw him a stone. For two days he traveled and could find neither a -place to sit down, a crust to eat nor a thing to drink. -</p> -<p>When he got back to the Chittendens, he walked wearily in, and Mary's -daughter, Jane, bustled around to get him something to eat. "No," said -he, "don't cook me a thing. I want nothing but a piece of bread and a -drink of water." -</p> -<p>She hastily set what he required before him, and after he had eaten he -said, "Sister Jane, you shall receive the blessing for this. I have not -broken my fast since I left your house until now. I have had to sleep -out under the forest trees. I am now fully satisfied there is no place -to be had to hold meeting. I thought as I was leaving the city, shall I -shake the dust off my feet as a testimony against this people? No, no; -I will leave it all in the hands of God!" -</p> -<p>The bitter prejudice of people around Camden grew worse and worse. At -last the word went out that all the missionaries were to return to Utah -immediately. This was in 1857, when Johnson's army was advancing upon -Utah. -</p> -<p>Before leaving Camden, the Elders prophesied openly that trouble should -fall heavily upon the people who had refused them even a hearing. From -that time until the "Mormon" missionaries returned and opened the door -of mercy, there was not one stalk of grain raised in the whole district -of Camden, and people had been unable to obtain a living. -</p> -<p>With what earnest prayers did Mary seek to persuade her husband to go -along too! And the Elders counseled him to return with them. But no, -he could not feel to go with his helpless family and have little or -nothing to support them when he arrived in America. So the last Elder -bade them good-by and turned away from their door. Alas! eighteen years -passed away before they ever heard another Elder's voice. -</p> -<p>William was like his wife, unable to read one word, and all that he -knew of this gospel had been taught him orally by the missionaries. He -was also very young in the faith, and had not learned the great lesson -of obedience nor dreamed its mighty weight in this Church. For this -reason God was merciful to him, and did not deprive him of the light -of the gospel, but taught him the painful but necessary lesson through -much and long tribulation. And his children, although scattered and -living most of them in Australia, retain the love of the truth in their -hearts. -</p> -<p>After the Elders had been recalled, Mary commenced to feel a great -brooding darkness settle down over her. In the day she could throw -it off, but when night closed her labors and laid her at rest, the -darkness would fold around her like a garment. She was anything but -a nervous, imaginative woman, and this terrible darkness grew into -something tangible to her husband as well as to herself. At last he -listened to her and decided to once more sell out and get away. -</p> -<p>Two more girls were born to Mary before leaving Camden vicinity. One, -Caroline, was born May 10, 1858, the other, Louisa, was born June 25, -1860. Mary had then eleven girls, her two sons having died in infancy. -The older girls were very much disappointed that neither of the last -two were boys. Especially was this the case when Louisa was born; -their chagrin being expressed so loudly that it reached their mother's -ears. She was a trifle disappointed herself, but when she heard their -comments she was really sad and cast down. The feeling could not be -shaken off until the next day; when as she lay dozing, a voice plainly -said to her: "You shall have a son, and he shall grow up and be a great -comfort to you in your old age." As usual she related the circumstance -to her husband and he fully believed in it. He thought he would try -"sluicing" for gold in some of the mining camps. The process called -"sluicing gold," or washing it, is as follows: A box about a foot wide -and two feet long, is fitted with several little boards or slats, about -an inch high, across the bottom. This is to make the water ripple -over. Into this box the sand is shoveled, and the water washes away -the dirt leaving tiny nuggets of gold in the bottom of the box. This -is of course in the regions where gold is found plentifully. Rocks are -broken up and shoveled in, and often are richer than the sand. But this -"sluicing" process is a slow one, so much of the finer portions of gold -being washed away. If quicksilver was used to gather the tiny shining -metal, it would prove much more profitable, but quicksilver itself is -expensive. -</p> -<p>So William sold out, and they started up to a place called Lemon Flat -in the early Spring of '61. All of a sudden severe rains set in; the -country was flooded, and the soft soil became actually impassable. -Insomuch so that the family were obliged to relinquish the idea of -going to Lemon Flat and turned aside to go to another mining camp -called Gunderoo. -</p> -<p>While going to Gunderoo the day they reached the outskirts of the town, -was a very tiresome one for all. Mary had a light, one-seated carriage, -a great deal like the one horse delivery carts in Salt Lake City. -She often got out and walked for exercise. In the latter part of the -afternoon, the wagon, followed by the girls and their father, walking, -pushed ahead to reach the summit of the hills overlooking Gunderoo, -or the "gap" as it was called, there to pitch their tents and prepare -supper. -</p> -<p>Mary, walking near the cart, began to feel a curious weakness creep -over her. No pain, only a weakness in every joint. Alarmed at the -long absence of their mother, two of the oldest girls hurried back, -and found her seated by the roadside unable to proceed another step. -They assisted her to rise, and half carried her up the hill to the -tents. She whispered to them to put her in bed in the cart where she -always slept. They did so. But she grew weaker and weaker. She would -faint entirely away, then slowly come back, and wonder feebly what was -the matter, and why they all stood around so. Then faint away again, -and so on all night. At last Jane remembered her mother had a little -consecrated oil packed away, and she searched among the boxes till she -found it. They administered to her then, and she revived some. But -begged to be taken away from that place. -</p> -<p>Her husband felt she might die if he did not comply with her wish, so -they started immediately for Yass river. They were traveling along, -when Mary's horse gave out. She was obliged then to wait for her -husband to return, and get her. She felt much better, and thought she -could get out and walk about a little. So she directed the young man -who drove her cart to let down the shafts. She got out, but the moment -she went to rest her feet on the ground, she fell to the earth. The -young man assisted her into the cart again, and then for three months -she never stood upon her feet. There was no pain whatever, only an -extreme weakness. -</p> -<p>While camping on the Yass river the next evening, Mary had a dream -which when related sounds like the history of her life for the -following twenty years; so true is it in every particular. -</p> -<p>She dreamed that she saw herself and her family, traveling, struggling -and trying to get a start again. Everything seemed to go against her -husband. Sickness came, and she saw herself the only one able to be out -of bed. Deadly sickness too, but she was promised that there should -be no death. Things seemed to grow blacker and blacker. At last, -starvation approached and she saw them all without a morsel of food to -eat; everything sold for food, even their clothes. Then when the last -remnant of property had been taken from them, the tide turned. She -was told they should at last go to Goulburn, where they would break -land, and prosperity should once more visit them, and that they should -finally reach Zion. The dream was terrible in its reality. She awoke -trembling and sobbing, and awaking her husband she told him she had -been having a fearful dream. -</p> -<p>"I would rather," she added, "have my head severed from my body this -minute, than go through what I have dreamed this night." -</p> -<p>"Well, wife," answered William, "let us hope it is nothing but a dream." -</p> -<p>She related it to him, but he felt too confident in his own strength to -believe such a dream as that. It gradually faded from Mary's mind as -such things will do, but now and then some circumstance would recall it -to her mind with all the vividness of reality. -</p> -<p>While camping on the Yass, a stranger came to William and asked him -for his daughter Maria, who was then only fourteen years old. William -replied that Maria was nothing but a child, and he was an utter -stranger, so he could not for a moment think of consenting. Three -nights after this, the man stole the girl away, and when morning came -and the father discovered the loss, he was almost frantic with grief. -He was a most devoted and affectionate father, and he was fairly beside -himself with his daughter's disappearance. He spent money like water. -Advertised, went from place to place, searched and hired others to -search with him, for the missing girl. It was of no use. She was never -found. -</p> -<p>While searching for her four of his horses wandered away, and only one -ever returned. Then, finally giving up in despair, he hired horses and -went to Yass city. Arriving there William obtained work for a man named -Gallager, at putting up a barn. -</p> -<p>They had been settled but a short time when the baby was prostrated -with colonial fever. Mary did all she could, but the child grew worse. -Four months went by and still there was no improvement. At last Mary -persuaded her husband to get a doctor. The doctor came and told the -mother there was one chance in a hundred of the baby's life. No signs -of life seemed left in the little body, but he ordered her to put a -strong mustard poultice over the stomach. "If it raises a blister," -said he, "she will live. If not, she is dead." -</p> -<p>Into Mary's mind there suddenly flashed her dream. "Sickness, but no -death." Well, then, her baby should live. -</p> -<p>A short time after the doctor's departure, Mrs. Gallager, a neighbor, -came into the tent, and said, "Mrs. Chittenden, let me hold the child." -</p> -<p>"No, Mrs. Gallager, thank you, I would rather hold her." -</p> -<p>The woman bustled about and got a tea-kettle of water upon the stove. -</p> -<p>"What are you doing," asked Mary. -</p> -<p>"Getting a bit of hot water. The child is dead, so we will want some -water hot." -</p> -<p>"She will not die, Mrs. Gallager. She is going to live." -</p> -<p>"Why, woman, she is dead now! Her finger nails are black!" -</p> -<p>"No, she is not dead," persisted the mother. Who knows the great power -and faith of a mother? -</p> -<p>Within a few hours the child's breathing became audible. Her recovery -was very slow. And while she still lay weak and ill, William was -stricken down by the same complaint. He grew rapidly worse. He too -lay ill for several months. He was in a very critical condition, but -whenever able to speak he would tell Mary not to bring a doctor, for -he should recover without one. The turn for the better came at last, -and as soon as he was able to get about a little, they determined to -go to Lemon Flat. Their first idea in going to Lemon Flat had been -to homestead, or "free select" land, as it is called in Australia. -However, they were far too poor now to do this, so William got odd jobs -to do. He scraped all he could together, and bought a horse for fifteen -pounds. But shortly afterwards, he heard of one of his lost animals -about eighteen miles up the country, so he made a trip up to find the -animal. Arriving at the place, he heard that a Chinaman had just gone -to another camp, on the horse. That night he tethered his horse out, -and next morning at daybreak went out as usual for him, and behold, he, -too, had disappeared, not leaving a track of a hoof to guide anyone -in a search for him. So William was at last obliged to trudge wearily -home, eighteen miles, carrying his saddle on his back. -</p> -<p>And thus one year dragged heavily by. While here Jane was married to -John Carter, and Ellen to a Grecian man named Nicolas Carco. Also, just -as they were leaving Lemon Flat, Eliza married a Mr. Griffin. -</p> -<p>Now they determined to go once more to Gunderoo to try what could be -done there. The reason why William wished to go to Gunderoo was, that -no matter what came or went, wages could be made by a man in "sluicing -gold." Now the family were almost destitute. After their arrival in -Lemon, and for months, most of the children lay sick with the colonial -fever. -</p> - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTERV"></a>CHAPTER V. -</h2> -<p>Between three or four years had passed since they left Camden (over -eight years since the last missionary left Australia), and the -Chittendens were much poorer than they were when they left. -</p> -<p>For many years Mary had been in the habit of going about to her -neighbors, nursing them during confinement. This was a necessity of the -country, one woman going to another, as there were no regular nurses to -be had. She became acquainted in her labors with a Doctor Haley, the -best physician in Goulburn. He always, after the first time when she -nursed under him, sent for her. This practice put many an odd pound -into her pocket. Her husband was far from idle, however. With his -disposition he could never be so. He took charge of the estate of a -gentleman named Massy, who was absent in Ireland for eighteen months on -business. -</p> -<p>As soon as he was released from this situation, where he had earned -some money and a good portion of grain, he rented a farm. With anxious -hope and honest labor he seeded down twenty acres with the grain he had -on hand. -</p> -<p>He who sendeth the rains, withholdeth them at His pleasure! For two -years there was a complete drouth visited the country. William walked -over his field and could not, at the end of the season, pluck one -single armful of grain. -</p> -<p>While living in this place the promised son was born to Mary, and once -again her prophetic dream was realized. He was born May 28, 1865, -and William named him Hyrum. When the baby was two years old, little -Alice came home from school, and said she felt very sick. As long as -there was a second penny in the house, no matter where they were, or -what their circumstances, these good parents had kept their children -at school. Without education themselves, no effort was spared to give -their children the great blessing they had so missed. -</p> -<p>Alice came home, quite sick at her stomach, and her mother felt alarmed -at once, for her children were regularly and simply fed, and when -anything of the kind happened to them she knew it was of an uncommon -and serious nature. -</p> -<p>Jane had returned to her mother's house, while her husband was up the -country on a mining expedition. She had a young baby eleven months old. -</p> -<p>When the doctor came next day he pronounced Alice's case one of the -most violent scarlet fever. Next day Jane and Rachel came down, and -the next day Louisa and Caroline fell ill with the dreadful disease. -Jane had the fever so violently that Mary was obliged to wean the baby. -Everyone in the family was now ill but herself, and she with a baby -two weeks old. For eleven long weeks the anxious mother never had her -clothes off, but to change them. The disease was of such a violent -type that not one human being had courage or had humanity enough to -enter the door. Alone and utterly unaided she went from one bedside to -another administering food and medicine. The physician was the only one -who ever visited her, and at the times when he came (twice a day) to -attend to them, she would sit down long enough to take up her infant -and give it the breast. -</p> -<p>Three months of sickness, toil and suffering, then the fever spent -itself, and Mary could begin to realize their condition financially. -Something must be done, for funds were very, very low. -</p> -<p>There was a sudden excitement about this time at a place called Mack's -Reef, which was three miles from Gunderoo. Gold was found in quartz, -and was very rich indeed, at this new camp. William decided to go. So -investing their last cent to purchase a simple crushing-mill, and to -take themselves out, the Chittendens went to Mack's Reef. -</p> -<p>Misfortune was too well acquainted with them now to be driven away, so -she curled herself up in the crushing-mill, and behold it failed to do -its work. It lost both the gold and the quicksilver. -</p> -<p>Matters were now getting desperate. Food was wanted. Strain and -economize as she might, Mary could not make things hold out much -longer. The pennies followed the shillings, until when the last -half-penny had to be taken for flour, William looked at Mary and said, -"Mary, what are we coming to? Must our children starve?" -</p> -<p>"No, William, please God! But do you remember my dream? You may not -believe it, but I know it was a true dream. Oh, William, why did we not -go to Zion when we were told? Surely our sufferings could not be more -than they are here. Here, take these clothes, they are things that I -can spare; you will have to sell them for bread." -</p> -<p>And so it went. Garment followed garment, and yet there seemed no -chance of earning a penny. Finally, there were no more clothes; -everything was sold. -</p> -<p>Then William took his gun, and went to the woods. But after a very -short time that, too, failed and they were starving. -</p> -<p>That night, when the little children were put hungry to bed, William -walked the floor in the agony of his mind. "My God!" groaned the -wretched man, "must my children starve before my very eyes? In my pride -I fancied my family would be better in my hands than in the hands of -their Almighty Father! Oh, that I had listened to counsel! Now my -family are fast leaving my roof, and we that are left are starving. -Starving in a land of plenty!" -</p> -<p>God listened to the prayers of His humbled son, and he was enabled to -get a little something to eat. But the lesson was not over yet. -</p> -<p>Mary had obtained a situation as nurse and this helped them. William -thought he would go up to Goulburn, a large inland town, where he felt -sure he would find some employment. Accordingly he left the family with -Mary, but of course in very wretched circumstances. It was the best -that he could do, so Mary was satisfied to be left. -</p> -<p>The trip to Goulburn was made in the old spring cart, which had been -left of the wreck of their comfortable traveling outfit. The horse, -which William had just found previous to starting, was one of the four -he had lost on the Yass river. The poor thing had been so abused that -it was almost worthless. In fact, it had no money value, for in that -country where good stock was comparatively cheap he had tried again -and again before leaving Mack's Reef to sell the horse and the cart, -or either alone, in order to get flour for his starving family, but no -purchaser could be found. -</p> -<p>So he went up to Goulburn and took odd jobs as he could get them. When -he had been gone some few months, a company of prospecters brought in -a new machine to crush the quartz. This fanned the dead embers of hope -in every one's breast, and even Mary thought if she could get William -to come down and try his quartz in this new mill, they would succeed at -last. -</p> -<p>But how to get word to him? He was at Goulburn, eighteen miles away. -There was no mail, and she had not a vestige of anything to pay for -sending word to him. She was very weak too from lack of food. But every -one around her was so confident of the grand success about to be made, -that she resolved to try to walk up to Goulburn. Accordingly, she set -out leaving the baby at home with the girls, and walked feebly towards -Goulburn. She was about half-way there when she came to a river. This -was forded by teams, but across it had been thrown a plank, and a -poor one it was, too. Mary looked at the foaming water, and then at -the rotten plank, and felt it would be an impossibility almost to go -across. Still, she must get over, so she started; but she had only got -a little way out before her head began to reel, she was weak and faint, -and about to fall, when she had sense remaining to lay flat down on the -plank, and wait for strength. As she prayed for strength and help she -heard a horse's hoofs behind her, and a gentleman on horseback dashed -into the stream. He rode up to her and said, -</p> -<p>"Madam, permit me to help you. Let me take your hand and I will ride -close by the board, and thus get you across all right." -</p> -<p>"Oh sir, you are very kind," answered Mary as she arose thanking God -that He had heard her prayer. -</p> -<p>"Where are you going, madam? Pardon me, I do not ask from idle -curiosity." -</p> -<p>"To Goulburn, sir to my husband." -</p> -<p>"I was wondering as I came along, to see a woman on this lonely road. -You surely do not expect to reach Goulburn to-night?" -</p> -<p>"I thought sir, I would go as far as I could, then lie down and rest -until I could go further." -</p> -<p>"Well my poor woman, good-by! and success attend you on your journey." -</p> -<p>"Many thanks, kind sir, may God reward your kind act." And so he rode -on. -</p> -<p>Mary went on some distance, and began to feel that she could go no -farther. Suddenly she saw a woman approaching her. Wondering, the two -women at last met, and the stranger said to Mary, -</p> -<p>"Are you the woman a gentleman on horseback assisted across the river?" -</p> -<p>"Yes ma'am." -</p> -<p>"Then you are to come with me. He has paid us for your supper and -lodging to-night. Also, he paid me to come out and meet you and show -you the way." -</p> -<p>"Thank God! I am almost worn out. What was the gentleman's name, -please?" -</p> -<p>"That I can't tell. But here's our house. Come, get your supper, it is -waiting." -</p> -<p>And thus was her humble prayer answered, and a friend raised up to her -in her sore need. -</p> -<p>The next day Mary reached Goulburn, and she and her husband returned -the following day in the cart, to Mack's Reef. But after reaching -the Reef, William found it would require quite a sum of money to do -anything with his quartz, so at last abandoning everything, he left the -Reef in disgust. The poor old horse died shortly after that, and thus -they only had the cart remaining. The harvest time was approaching, -and William had the rent to pay on the farm he had taken, and which -had failed so dismally. So he went to the owner and offered to harvest -out the amount. The offer was accepted, and he went harvesting the -remainder of the season. -</p> -<p>Meantime, Mary had been sent for, to nurse a lady who lived a few miles -out from Gunderoo. So, not liking to lose so good an opportunity of -making a bit of money, she weaned her ten month's old baby, and left -him at home with the girls. She was engaged for a month, receiving a -pound a week, about twenty dollars a month, for her services. -</p> -<p>When she returned, she found her husband at home. "You know, William, -I told you my dream would surely be fulfilled. Are you not willing to -admit that so far it has come true every word?" -</p> -<p>"Well yes, Mary, but what then?" -</p> -<p>"Then, in my dream we were to lose everything before the turn would -come, and we should commence to prosper. We've nothing left now but the -spring cart. Give that, as it is too poor to sell, to Isaac Norris. -Then let us go to Goulburn, and once more try farming. You know we must -break land there." -</p> -<p>"Thou art like a woman. If we part with the cart, how, pray, shall we -get to Goulburn." "Why, William, have I not brought home four pounds? -That will move us to Goulburn. Come husband, let us get away from -here." At length William consented; the spring cart was given to their -son-in-law, Isaac Norris, and the whole family moved up to Goulburn. -Their daughter Alice was soon after married to a Mr. Larkum, and had -one child named Lavinia by him. The girl was treated very badly, and at -last gave the child to her mother to raise. Mary has never since been -separated from this child, but has reared her as her own. Four or five -years passed away, William farming and Mary nursing at times. William -did the farming for a widow lady named Day, who kept a lodging-house -about four miles out from Goulburn. She was a very fine, active, -kind-hearted woman, and for the next ten years, was a true friend to -the Chittendens. In fact, the best friend they ever had in Australia. -Mary used often to go up to her house, when not out nursing, for a -week at a time to assist the widow with her work. Goulburn is a very -large, handsome, inland town in Australia, situated in the midst of a -rich farming district. On one side of the town, away to the left, was -a large hill, covered with fine timber. The Chittendens had rented a -small house about four miles out from Goulburn. -</p> -<p>About five years after their coming to Goulburn, Mary had another -dream. A personage came to her and began talking to her of her affairs. -This personage said to her among other things: -</p> -<p>"You shall take a farm, on the opposite side of the road to where you -now live. And, after, you shall prosper exceedingly. Then you shall -take money, constantly, from this side of the road, and you shall be -blessed, insomuch that you shall soon go to Zion thereafter." When she -awoke, she told the dream to her husband. Shortly after this a rumor -reached them that a certain man named Grimson was about to give up -his farm, which he rented from a gentleman named Gibson. This surely -must be the place of her dream, for was it not across the road from -them? And so she talked to her husband about the matter. But he had no -sympathy nor hope to give her on the subject. -</p> -<p>"Mary how can you think of such a thing? What could I do with a farm? I -haven't a tool nor an animal to use. It is impossible. So don't talk of -it." -</p> -<p>But Mary was far from satisfied. However, she knew her husband too well -to urge the matter, when he spoke as he had done. And further, in a -very short time after the farm was vacated, it was re-let to another -person. Mary was thus forced to give it up. A month or so slipped by, -and one night Mary dreamed the same dream, in relation to the farm -across the road. She thought, however, she would not mention it to her -husband. In a week or so, they again heard the farm was to let, as the -family was dissatisfied. Then Mary made bold to tell her husband of the -repetition of the dream, and beg him to try and take it. -</p> -<p>"Why do you keep urging me about that farm, Mary? I have not one thing -to do with. I tell you it is impossible." -</p> -<p>And again disappointed, Mary thought she would say no more about -the matter. That day she was going up to spend a week at Mrs. Day's -assisting her in her housework and cleaning. After she arrived there, -she prepared breakfast, and she and Mrs. Day sat down to eat. As they -were talking, Mrs. Day said, "Why doesn't Mr. Chittenden take that farm -of Gibson's? I hear it is again vacant. He is a good farmer, and could -easily attend to that as well as look after mine." -</p> -<p>"He would like to do so, no doubt, but he thinks he could not on -account of having nothing to do with, no teams nor machines, nor in -fact anything." -</p> -<p>"Well, if that's where the trouble lies, I'll tell you what I'll do. He -shall have the use of my horses and plows and all the farm machines for -nothing, and I will furnish him seed grain for the first year, and he -can let me have it back after he gets a start." -</p> -<p>"Oh Mrs. Day, you are too good to us." -</p> -<p>"Not a bit of it. I would do more than that to keep you in the country. -You know that I could not possibly live without your help," replied the -lady, laughingly. -</p> -<p>Mary could hardly contain herself for joy. And when night came, she -begged to be allowed to go home that night, as she could not wait a -whole week before telling her husband the good news. -</p> -<p>Accordingly she hurried home that night and told her husband what Mrs. -Day had said. -</p> -<p>"Mary," said William, "if Mrs. Day tells me the same as she tells you, -I'll take Gibson's farm." -</p> -<p>So early the next morning they started on their errand. The farm house -opposite them was vacant, and as they passed Mary asked herself, -tremblingly, if they should be sufficiently blessed to live there. Mrs. -Day greeted them very kindly and told them they were just in time for -breakfast. -</p> -<p>"Thank you, Mrs. Day; but Mary has been telling me you spoke to her -about our taking Gibson's farm." -</p> -<p>"So I did, Chittenden; and I tell you if you'll take the farm, keeping -mine too, mind, you shall have the use of my team, wagon and farm -implements. Besides, I will lend you your seed grain for the first -year, and you can return it afterwards." -</p> -<p>"Well, Mrs. Day, if you are so kind as that, all I can do is to thank -you and accept the offer. I will go right on to Mr. Gibson at once and -make the bargain." -</p> -<p>Mr. Gibson was quite pleased to have William take the farm. That same -week the family moved across the road, and Mary felt like a new woman. -</p> -<p>During all these fifteen years you may be sure Mary and William had -often talked of the religion that was so dear to both. Their daughters, -although they had, perforce, married those outside the Church, were -staunch "Mormons," and are to this day. -</p> -<p>One day William met Mr. Gibson who said, "I have been thinking, -William, you can open a gate on the other side of the road, opposite -your own door, and make a bit of a road to the woods, and you can take -toll from the gate. You know you live on the public turnpike from -Goulburn, and this toll road would be a good thing to the Goulburn -people." -</p> -<p>"How much could you allow me, sir?" -</p> -<p>"Five shillings from every pound. Then your children could attend the -gate." -</p> -<p>"Very well, I will do so, and am very grateful to you for the -privilege." -</p> -<p>"Well, mother," said William soon after, as he entered the house, "your -money is coming from the other side of the road." -</p> -<p>And when he had laughingly told her how, she said she felt more like -crying than laughing, she was so grateful to God. -</p> - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTERVI"></a>CHAPTER VI. -</h2> -<p>The story of prosperity is so much easier to tell, and in truth is so -much shorter than the tale of adversity and suffering, that we may -well hasten over the remaining five years of their waiting in that -far-distant land. -</p> -<p>Everything prospered. But about the second year William's health -commenced to break down. Gradually he became more and more incapable of -work, until at last, one day, he came in and throwing himself down, he -exclaimed, "Mary, I have done my last day's work." It was even so. But -God did not fail them. -</p> -<p>In 1875, two men came up to the door, and asked for food and shelter. -When they announced themselves as Elders from Utah, Mary's hands were -outstretched and her heart filled with great joy, even as her eyes ran -over with happy tears. -</p> -<p>The Elders were Jacob Miller of Farmington, and David Cluff of Provo, -since dead. A month or two afterwards, Elder Charles Burton and John M. -Young of Salt Lake City, also were warmly welcomed at the farm. -</p> -<p>William's illness was Bright's disease of the kidneys, and he was -slowly dying. -</p> -<p>They left Sydney on the 7th of April, 1877, for Utah, six souls in all, -William and Mary, their children Caroline, Louise and Hyrum, with the -one grandchild, Lavinia. -</p> -<p>On their arrival they went at once to Provo. William had much more to -bear of poverty and suffering, than any one could have dreamed, even -after their arrival here. Mary went out washing to eke out their store, -(they had barely ten dollars left,) and the two girls got positions in -the factory. -</p> -<p>Within a year, Caroline married Eleazer Jones, and Louisa married -Abraham Wild. The last named couple live near their mother now. -</p> -<p>Caroline has moved with her husband to Arizona. Mary's eldest daughter, -Mary Ann Mayberry, also came with her husband and family to Utah in -1879. -</p> -<p>I would not linger if I could on the severe suffering, and painful -death of William, just twelve months from the day they left home. -</p> -<p>When the sad day came on which he left them all, in spite of his awful -agony, he called his only boy Hyrum, who was then thirteen years old, -and stretching out the thin, wasted hands he blessed him fervently, and -said, "You are going to be a good boy to your mother, I think?" -</p> -<p>"Yes, father, I will," answered the lad, manfully. -</p> -<p>"My boy, I can do nothing, no work in the Temple for her, nor for -myself; I have got to go." -</p> -<p>"If you have got to go, father," tremblingly said the boy, "I will do -all that lies in my power." -</p> -<p>"Remember mother, Hyrum, she has been good to us, and worked hard for -us all her days." Then again he blessed him, and soon the peaceful end -came, and the poor aching frame was at rest. -</p> -<p>A year or two of hard, constant work at the wash tub passed away, and -one night the personage who had visited Mary before came to her in a -dream and said: -</p> -<p>"Mary, the time has now come for you to go and do the work for -yourself and your husband. If you will go, you shall soon have a home -afterwards." -</p> -<p>Here was a command and a promise. Hyrum had shot up and was a tall, -quiet-mannered young man, and had gone out on a surveying expedition, -carrying chains for the men, to earn some money. His great ambition was -to get a home for his mother. -</p> -<p>On his return from the surveying expedition he put nearly $100.00 into -his mother's hands. A day or two after he said, "Mother I would like to -go down to St. George and do Father's work; you know I promised him to -do it as soon as I could, and this is the first money I have ever had. -I am sixteen years old, and if the Bishop thinks I am worthy, I would -like to go." -</p> -<p>Mary quickly told her dream, which she had hesitated mentioning, -fearing he would not like it, but he believed it. -</p> -<p>"Mother, I will go this very night," he said when she had concluded her -story, "and see what the Bishop says." -</p> -<p>So down he went, and Bishop Booth very willingly told him to go, and he -felt pleased to give the necessary recommends. -</p> -<p>They went and had a most glorious time, and on her return Mary went to -washing again. But mark! In less than one year from that time they had -bargained for a place, and got two little rooms built upon it. -</p> -<p>If you come to Provo, go and see dear old Sister Chittenden; she is -sixty-six years old, and quite a hearty, happy little woman yet. -</p> -<p>She meditatively pushes aside her neat, black lace cap from her ear, -with her finger, as I ask what to say to you in farewell, and with mild -but tearful eyes, says: -</p> -<p>"Tell them for me, always to be obedient to the counsel of those who -are over them; and obey the whisperings of God, trusting to Him for the -result! And then, God bless them all! Amen." -</p> - - -<h2><a name="haun"></a>A HEROINE OF HAUN'S MILL MASSACRE. -</h2> -<p>The name of Sister Amanda, or Mrs. Warren Smith, is well known to the -Latter-day Saints. She has had a most eventful life, and the terrible -tragedy of Haun's Mill, in Caldwell county, when her husband and son -were killed, and another son wounded, have made her name familiar to -all who have read the history of the mobbings and drivings in the State -of Missouri. Mrs. Smith was born in Becket, Birkshire Co., Mass., Feb. -22, 1809. Her parents were Ezekiel and Fanny Barnes; she was one of a -family of ten children. Her grandfather, on her mother's side, James -Johnson, came from Scotland in an early day, and in the revolutionary -war held the office of general; he was a great and brave man. Sister -Smith says that her father left Massachusetts when she was quite young -and went up to Ohio, and settled in Amherst, Lorain county, where the -family endured all the privations and hardships incident to a new -country. The following is her own narrative: -</p> -<p>"At eighteen years of age I was married to Warren Smith; we had plenty -of this world's goods and lived comfortable and happily together, -nothing of particular interest transpiring until Sidney Rigdon and -Orson Hyde came to our neighborhood preaching Campbellism. I was -converted and baptized by Sidney Rigdon; my husband did not like it, -yet gave his permission. I was at that time the mother of two children. -Soon after my conversion to the Campbellite faith, Simeon D. Carter -came preaching the everlasting gospel, and on the 1st day of April, -1831, he baptized me into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day -Saints, of which I have ever since been a member. My husband was -baptized shortly after and we were united in our faith. -</p> -<p>"We sold out our property in Amherst and went to Kirtland, and bought -a place west of the Temple, on the Chagrin river, where we enjoyed -ourselves in the society of the Saints, but after the failure of the -Kirtland bank and other troubles in that place, in consequence of our -enemies, we lost all our property except enough to fit up teams, etc., -to take us to Missouri. We started in the Spring of 1838, and bade -farewell to the land of our fathers and our home to go and dwell with -the Saints in what then seemed a far-off place. -</p> -<p>"There were several families of us and we traveled on without much -difficulty until we came to Caldwell county, Missouri. One day as we -were going on as usual, minding our own business, we were stopped by a -mob of armed men, who told us if we went another step they would kill -us all. They commenced plundering, taking our guns from our wagons, -which we had brought, as we were going into a new country, and after -thus robbing us took us back five miles, placed a guard around us, and -kept us there in that way three days, and then let us go. We journeyed -on ten miles further, though our hearts were heavy and we knew not what -might happen next. Then we arrived at a little town of about eight or -ten houses, a grist and saw mill belonging to the Saints. We stopped -there to camp for the night. A little before sunset a mob of three -hundred armed men came upon us. Our brethren halloed for the women and -children to run for the woods, while they (the men) ran into an old -blacksmith shop. -</p> -<p>"They feared, if men, women and children were in one place, the mob -would rush upon them and kill them all together. The mob fired before -the women had time to start from the camp. The men took off their hats -and swung them and cried for quarter, until they were shot down; the -mob paid no attention to their entreaties, but fired alternately. I -took my little girls (my boys I could not find) and ran for the woods. -The mob encircled us on all sides, excepting the bank of the creek, so -I ran down the bank and crossed the mill pond on a plank, ran up the -hill on the other side into the bushes; and the bullets whistled by me -like hailstones, and cut down the bushes on all sides of me. One girl -was wounded by my side, and she fell over a log; her clothes happened -to hang over the log in sight of the mob, and they fired at them, -supposing that it was her body, and after all was still our people cut -out of that log twenty bullets. -</p> -<p>"When the mob had done firing they began to howl, and one would have -thought a horde of demons had escaped from the lower regions. They -plundered our goods, what we had left, they took possession of our -horses and wagons, and drove away, howling like so many demons. After -they had gone I came down to behold the awful scene of slaughter, and, -oh! what a horrible sight! My husband and one of my sons, ten years -old, lay lifeless upon the ground, and another son, six years old, -wounded and bleeding, his hip all shot to pieces; and the ground all -around was covered with the dead and dying. Three little boys had crept -under the blacksmith's bellows; one of them received three wounds; he -lived three weeks, suffering all the time incessantly, and at last -died. He was not mine, the other two were mine. One of whom had his -brains all shot out, the other his hip shot to pieces." This last was -Alma Smith, who lives at Coalville, and who still carries the bullets -of the mob in his body, but was healed by the power of God through -the careful nursing and earnest faith of his mother. "My husband was -nearly stripped of his clothes before he was quite dead; he had on a -new pair of calf-skin boots, and they were taken off him by one whom -they designated as Bill Mann, who afterward made his brags that he -'pulled a d—d Mormon's boots off his feet while he was kicking.' -It was at sunset when the mob left and we crawled back to see and -comprehend the extent of our misery. The very dogs seemed filled with -rage, howling over their dead masters, and the cattle caught the scent -of innocent blood, and bellowed. A dozen helpless widows grieving for -the loss of their husbands, and thirty or forty orphaned or fatherless -children were screaming and crying for their fathers, who lay cold and -insensible around them. The groans of the wounded and dying rent the -air. All this combined was enough to melt the heart of anything but a -Missouri mobocrat. There were fifteen killed and ten wounded, two of -whom died the next day." -</p> -<p>"As I returned from the woods, where I had fled for safety, to the -scene of slaughter, I found the sister who started with me lying in a -pool of blood. She had fainted, but was only shot through the hand. -Further on was Father McBride, an aged, white-haired revolutionary -soldier; his murderer had literally cut him to pieces with an old -corn-cutter. His hands had been split down when he raised them in -supplication for mercy. Then one of the mob cleft open his head with -the same weapon, and the veteran who had fought for the freedom of -his country in the glorious days of the past, was numbered with the -martyrs. My eldest son, Willard, took my wounded boy upon his back -and bore him to our tent. The entire hip bone, joint and all were -shot away. We laid little Alma upon our bed and examined the wound. I -was among the dead and dying: I knew not what to do. I was there all -that long dreadful night with my dead and my wounded, and none but -God as physician and help. I knew not but at any moment the mob might -return to complete their dreadful work. In the extremity of my agony -I cried unto the Lord, 'O, Thou who hearest the prayers of the widow -and fatherless, what shall I do? Thou knowest my inexperience, Thou -seest my poor, wounded boy, what shall I do? Heavenly Father, direct -me!' And I was directed as if by a voice speaking to me. Our fire was -smouldering; we had been burning the shaggy bark of hickory logs. The -voice told me to take those ashes and make a solution, then saturate a -cloth with it and put it right into the wound. It was painful, but my -little boy was too near dead to heed the pain much. Again and again I -saturated the cloth and put it into the hole from which the hip joint -had been plowed out, and each time mashed flesh and splinters of bone -came away with the cloth, and the wound became white and clean. I had -obeyed the voice that directed me, and having done this, prayed again -to the Lord to be instructed further; and was answered as distinctly -as though a physician had been standing by speaking to me. A slippery -elm tree was near by, and I was told to make a poultice of the roots of -the slippery elm and fill the wound with it. My boy Willard procured -the slippery elm from the roots of the tree; I made the poultice and -applied it. The wound was so large it took a quarter of a yard of linen -to cover it. After I had properly dressed the wound, I found vent to -my feelings in tears for the first time, and resigned myself to the -anguish of the hour. All through the night I heard the groans of the -sufferers, and once in the dark we groped our way over the heap of dead -in the blacksmith shop, to try to soothe the wants of those who had -been mortally wounded, and who lay so helpless among the slain. -</p> -<p>"Next morning Brother Joseph Young came to the scene of bloodshed and -massacre. 'What shall be done with the dead?' he asked. There was no -time to bury them, the mob was coming on us; there were no men left to -dig the graves. 'Do anything, Brother Joseph,' I said, 'except to leave -their bodies to the fiends who have killed them.' Close by was a deep, -dry well. Into this the bodies were hurried, sixteen or seventeen in -number. No burial service, no customary rites could be performed. All -were thrown into the well except my murdered boy, Sardius. When Brother -Young was assisting to carry him on a board to the well, he laid down -the corpse and declared he could not throw that boy into the horrible, -dark, cold grave. He could not perform the last office for one so young -and interesting, who had been so foully murdered, and so my martyred -son was left unburied. 'Oh, they have left my Sardius unburied in the -sun,' I cried, and ran and covered his body with a sheet. He lay there -until the next day, and then I, his own mother, horrible to relate, -assisted by his elder brother, Willard, went back and threw him into -this rude vault with the others, and covered them as well as we could -with straw and earth. -</p> -<p>"After disposing of the dead the best that we could, we commended -their bodies to God and felt that He would take care of them, and of -those whose lives were spared. I had plenty to do to take care of my -little orphaned children, and could not stop to think or dwell upon -the awful occurrence. My poor, wounded boy demanded constant care, and -for three months I never left him night or day. The next day the mob -came back and told us we must leave the State, or they would kill us -all. It was cold weather; they had taken away our horses and robbed us -of our clothing; the men who had survived the massacre were wounded; -our people in other parts of the State were passing through similar -persecutions, and we knew not what to do. -</p> -<p>"I told them they might kill me and my children in welcome. They sent -to us messages from time to time, that if we did not leave the State -they would come and make a breakfast of us. We sisters used to have -little prayer meetings, and we had mighty faith; the power of God was -manifested in the healing of the sick and wounded. The mob told us we -must stop these meetings, if we did not they would kill every man, -woman and child. We were quiet and did not trouble anyone. We got our -own wood, we did our own milling, but in spite of all our efforts to be -at peace, they would not allow us to remain in the State of Missouri. -I arranged everything, fixed up my poor, wounded boy, and on the first -day of February started, without any money, on my journey towards the -State of Illinois; I drove my own team and slept out of doors. I had -four small children, and we suffered much from cold, hunger and fatigue. -</p> -<p>"I once asked one of the mob what they intended when they came upon our -camp; he answered they intended to 'kill everything that breathed.' I -felt the loss of my husband greatly, but rejoiced that he died a martyr -to the cause of truth. He went full of faith and in hope of a glorious -resurrection. As for myself I had unshaken confidence in God through it -all. -</p> -<p>"In the year 1839 I married again, to a man bearing the same name -as my deceased husband (Warren Smith), though they were not in the -least related. He was also a blacksmith and our circumstances were -prosperous. By this marriage I had three children. Amanda Malvina, who -died in Nauvoo; also Warren Barnes and Sarah Marinda, who are still -living, the former at American Fork and is counselor to the Bishop, the -latter at Hyde Park. -</p> -<p>"I enjoyed the privilege of seeing the Temple finished, and of -receiving therein the blessing of holy ordinances. Willard, my -first-born son, also had his endowments in that Temple, and came out -among the first who left there; was one of the Mormon Battalion, who -were called to go to Mexico while we were <em>en route</em> to find a resting -place for the Saints. Willard is now, and has been for several years -past, President of Morgan Stake." -</p> -<p>During the time they lived in Nauvoo, President Joseph organized a -Relief Society. Sister Smith became a member of its first organization -and greatly rejoiced in the benevolent work; much good was accomplished -by it. -</p> -<p>In July, 1847, they started from Nauvoo intending to go with the Saints -to the Rocky Mountains, but for the want of sufficient means for so -long a journey they were compelled to stop in Iowa. They remained until -the year 1850, when they took up their line of march for Salt Lake -City, arriving on the 18th of September, safe and well. Shortly after -arriving in this city, her husband, who had been for some time dilatory -in his duties, apostatized from the faith, and they separated. She took -the children with her and provided for herself. -</p> -<p>On the 24th of January, 1854, a number of ladies met together to -consider the importance of organizing a society for the purpose of -making clothes for the Indians and other charitable work, which was -properly organized Feb. 9th. Sister Smith was one of the officers of -the society, which resulted in much temporal good being accomplished. -</p> -<p>In consequence of the many hardships she endured through the -persecutions in Missouri which were heaped upon her and her family by -a relentless mob, her health was undermined, and as years increased, -infirmities settled upon her which rendered her unable to retain the -position she had held in the Relief Society. She was honorably released -and will ever be remembered by the Bishop and his counselors and the -members of the Ward for her benevolence and self-denial in ministering -to the unfortunate. -</p> -<p>Sister Smith has much to rejoice over even in her present affliction, -for she has raised her family in the principles of the gospel of Christ -and the fear of God, and they remain true and steadfast to the faith -of the latter-day work. A good woman, who has reared to manhood and -womanhood a large family almost without a father's help, is certainly -worthy of commendation and must have great satisfaction in her life and -labor. She has been for more than fifty years a member of the Church of -Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. -</p> -<p>There are very few now living who have a record of more than half a -century in the Church. Sister Smith has endeared herself to a very -large number of the Latter-day Saints, who are ever ready to do her -honor for her faith, integrity and the many estimable qualities which -have beautified and adorned her life. -</p> -<p>Her testimony of the massacre at Haun's mill, in Missouri, is that of -an eye witness and participator. Indeed she might with all propriety -be termed the heroine of that fearful tragedy, for her sublimity of -courage surpassed that of ordinary mortals. God was with her in His -power in her hour of severe trouble and she was indeed a host in -herself. In conclusion we would say may heaven's choicest blessings -rest upon her the remainder of her days here upon the earth, and her -heart be filled with joy and peace continually and may she continue -to bear a faithful testimony to the truth, and live until she has -accomplished all she has ever anticipated for the living and the dead. -E. B. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Heroines of Mormondom - The Second Book of the Noble Women's Lives Series - -Author: Various - -Release Date: February 1, 2016 [EBook #51097] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HEROINES OF MORMONDOM *** - - - - -Produced by the Mormon Texts Project -(http://mormontextsproject.org), with thanks to Rachel -Helps and Villate Brown McKitrick for proofreading. - - - - - - - - -HEROINES OF - -"MORMONDOM," - -THE SECOND BOOK OF THE - -NOBLE WOMEN'S LIVES SERIES - -SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. - -PUBLISHED AT THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE. - -1884. - - - -PREFACE. - -IT affords us much pleasure to be able to present a second book of -the "NOBLE WOMEN'S LIVES SERIES" to the public. It will, we feel -confident, prove no less interesting than its predecessor, and the -lessons conveyed by the articles herein contained will doubtless be as -instructive to its readers as any ever given. - -The remarkable events here recorded are worthy of perusal and -remembrance by all the youth among this people, as they will tend -to strengthen faith in and love for the gospel for which noble men -and women have suffered so much. The names, too, of such heroines as -these, the sketches of whose lives we herewith give, should be held -in honorable remembrance among this people, for no age or nation can -present us with more illustrious examples of female faith, heroism and -devotion. - -We trust that this little work may find its way in the homes of all -the Saints and prove a blessing to all who scan its pages. This is the -earnest desire of - - THE PUBLISHERS. - - - -CONTENTS. - -A NOBLE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE. - -Chapter I. - -Chapter II. - -Chapter III. - -A REMARKABLE LIFE. - -Chapter I. - -Chapter II. - -Chapter III. - -Chapter IV. - -Chapter V. - -Chapter VI. - -A HEROINE OF HAUN'S MILL MASSACRE. - -Chapter I. - - - -A NOBLE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE. - - - -CHAPTER I. - -Hyrum Smith, the Patriarch, married Jerusha Barden, November 2, 1826. -They had six children, viz: Lovina, Mary, John, Hyrum, Jerusha and -Sarah. Mary died when very young, and her mother died soon after the -birth of her daughter, Sarah. Hyrum, the second son, died in Nauvoo, -in 1842, aged eight years. The Patriarch married his second wife, -Mary Fielding, in the year 1837, she entering upon the important duty -of stepmother to five children, which task she performed, under the -most trying and afflictive circumstances, with unwavering fidelity. -She had two children, Joseph and Martha. Thus, you see, Hyrum Smith, -the Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was -really a polygamist many years before the revelation on celestial -marriage was written, though, perhaps, about the time it was given to -the Prophet Joseph Smith; but not exactly in the sense in which the -word is generally used, for both his wives were not living together -on the earth; still they were both alive, for the spirit never dies, -and they were both his wives--the mothers of his children. Marriage is -ordained of God, and when performed by the authority of His Priesthood, -is an ordinance of the everlasting gospel and is not, therefore, merely -a legal contract, but pertains to time and all eternity to come, -therefore it is written in the Bible, "What God hath joined together -let no man put asunder." - -There are a great many men who feel very bitter against the Latter-day -Saints, and especially against the doctrine of plural marriage, who -have married one or more wives after the death of their first, that, -had their marriages been solemnized in the manner God has prescribed -and by His authority, they themselves would be polygamists, for they, -as we, firmly believe in the immortality of the soul, professing to -be Christians and looking forward to the time when they will meet, in -the spirit world, their _wives_ and the loved ones that are dead. We -can imagine the awkward situation of a man, not believing in polygamy, -meeting two or more wives, with their children, in the spirit world, -each of them claiming him as husband and father. "But," says one, "how -will it be with a woman who marries another husband after the death of -her first?" She will be the wife of the one to whom she was married -for time and eternity. But if God did not "join them together," and -they were only married by mutual consent until death parted them, their -contract, or partnership ends with death, and there remains but one way -for those who died without the knowledge of the gospel to be united -together for eternity. That is, for their living relatives or friends -to attend to the ordinances of the gospel for them. "For, in the -resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage;" therefore -marriage ordinances must be attended to here in the flesh. Hyrum Smith, -however, was a polygamist before his death, he having had several women -sealed to him by his brother, Joseph, some of whom are now living. - -At the death of the Patriarch, June 27th, 1844, the care of the family -fell upon his widow, Mary Smith. Besides the children there were two -old ladies named respectively, Hannah Grinnels, who had been in the -family many years, and Margaret Brysen. There was also a younger one, -named Jane Wilson, who was troubled with fits and otherwise afflicted, -and was, therefore, very dependent, and an old man, named George Mills, -who had also been in the family eleven years, and was almost entirely -blind and very crabbed. These and others, some of whom had been taken -care of by the Patriarch out of charity, were members of the family -and remained with them until after they arrived in the valley. "Old -George," as he was sometimes called, had been a soldier in the British -army, had never learned to read or write, and often acted upon impulse -more than from the promptings of reason, which made it difficult, -sometimes, to get along with him; but because he had been in the family -so long--through the troubles of Missouri and Illinois--and had lost -his eye-sight from the effects of brain fever and inflammation, caused -by taking cold while in the pineries getting out timbers for the temple -at Nauvoo, Widow Smith bore patiently all his peculiarities up to the -time of her death. Besides those I have mentioned, Mercy R. Thompson, -sister to Widow Smith, and her daughter, and Elder James Lawson were -also members of the family. - -On or about the 8th of September, 1846, the family, with others, were -driven out of Nauvoo by the threats of the mob, and encamped on the -banks of the Mississippi River, just below Montrose. There they were -compelled to remain two or three days, in view of their comfortable -homes just across the river, unable to travel for the want of teams, -while the men were preparing to defend the city against the attack -of the mob. They were thus under the necessity of witnessing the -commencement of the memorable "Battle of Nauvoo;" but, before the -cannonading ceased, they succeeded in moving out a few miles, away from -the dreadful sound of it, where they remained until they obtained, by -the change of property at a great sacrifice, teams and an outfit for -the journey through Iowa to the Winter Quarters of the Saints, now -Florence, Nebraska. Arriving at that point late in the Fall, they were -obliged to turn out their work animals to pick their living through -the Winter, during which some of their cattle, and eleven out of their -thirteen horses died, leaving them very destitute of teams in the -Spring. - -In the Fall of 1847, Widow Smith and her brother, Joseph Fielding, made -a trip into Missouri, with two teams, to purchase provisions for the -family. Joseph, her son, accompanied them as teamster; he was then nine -years of age. The team he drove consisted of two yokes of oxen, one -yoke being young and only partially broke, which, with the fact that -the roads were very bad with the Fall rains, full of stumps in places, -sometimes hilly, and that he drove to St. Joseph, Missouri, and back, a -distance of about three hundred miles, without meeting with one serious -accident, proves that he must have been a fair teamster for a boy at -his age. - -At St. Joseph they purchased corn and other necessaries, getting their -corn ground at Savannah, on their return journey. Wheat flour was -a luxury beyond their reach, and one seldom enjoyed by many of the -Latter-day Saints in those days. On their journey homeward they camped -one evening at the edge of a small prairie, or open flat, surrounded -by woods, where a large herd of cattle, on their way to market, was -being pastured for the night, and turned out their teams, as usual, to -graze. In the morning their best yoke of cattle was missing, at which -they were greatly surprised, this being the first time their cattle -had separated. Brother Fielding and Joseph at once started in search, -over the prairie, through the tall, wet grass, in the woods, far and -near, until they were almost exhausted with fatigue and hunger, and -saturated to the skin; but their search was vain. Joseph returned first -to the wagons, towards mid-day, and found his mother engaged in prayer. -Brother Fielding arrived soon after, and they sat down to breakfast, -which had long been waiting. - -"Now," said Widow Smith, "while you are eating I will go down towards -the river and see if I can find the cattle." - -Brother Fielding remarked, "I think it is useless for you to start out -to hunt the cattle; I have inquired of all the herdsmen and at every -house for miles, and I believe they have been driven off." Joseph -was evidently of the same opinion, still he had more faith in his -mother finding them, if they could be found, than he had either in -his uncle or himself. He knew that she had been praying to the Lord -for assistance, and he felt almost sure that the Lord would hear her -prayers. Doubtless he would have felt quite sure had he not been so -disheartened by the apparently thorough but fruitless search of the -morning. He felt, however to follow her example: he prayed that his -mother might be guided to the cattle, and exercised all the faith -he could muster, striving hard to feel confident that she would be -successful. As she was following the little stream, directly in the -course she had taken on leaving the wagons, one of the drovers rode up -on the opposite side and said, "Madam, I saw your cattle this morning -over in those woods," pointing almost directly opposite to the course -she was taking. She paid no attention to him, but passed right on. He -repeated his information; still she did not heed him. He then rode -off hurriedly, and, in a few moments, with his companions, began to -gather up their cattle and start them on the road towards St. Joseph. -She had not gone far when she came upon a small ravine filled with -tall willows and brush; but not tall enough to be seen above the high -grass of the prairie. In a dense cluster of these willows she found -the oxen so entangled in the brush, and fastened by means of withes, -that it was with great difficulty that she extricated them from their -entanglement. This was evidently the work of these honest (?) drovers, -who so hurriedly disappeared--seeing they could not turn her from her -course--perhaps in search of estray honesty, which it is to be hoped -they found. - -This circumstance made an indelible impression upon the mind of the -lad, Joseph. He had witnessed many evidences of God's mercy, in answer -to prayer, before; but none that seemed to strike him so forcibly as -this. Young as he was, he realized his mother's anxiety to emigrate -with her family to the valley in the Spring, and their dependence -upon their teams to perform that journey, which, to him, seemed a -formidable, if not an impossible, undertaking in their impoverished -circumstances. It was this that made him so disheartened and sorrowful -when he feared that the cattle would never be found. Besides, it seemed -to him that he could not bear to see such a loss and disappointment -come upon his mother, whose life he had known, from his earliest -recollection, had been a life of toil and struggle for the maintenance -and welfare of her family. His joy, therefore, as he looked through -tears of gratitude to God for His kind mercy extended to the "widow and -the fatherless" may be imagined, as he ran to meet his mother driving -the oxen towards the wagons. - - - -CHAPTER II. - -Joseph was herd-boy. One bright morning sometime in the Fall of 1847, -in company with his herd-boy companions, whose names were Alden -Burdick, (almost a young man, and very sober and steady), Thomas -Burdick, cousin to Alden, about Joseph's size, but somewhat older, -and Isaac Blocksome, younger, he started out with his cattle as usual -for the herd grounds, some two miles from Winter Quarters. They had -two horses, both belonging to the Burdicks, and a pet jack belonging -to Joseph. Their herd that day comprised not only the cows and young -stock, but the work oxen, which for some cause were unemployed. - -Alden proposed to take a trip on foot through the hazel, and gather -nuts for the party, and by the "lower road" meet the boys at the spring -on the herd ground, while they drove the herd by the "upper road" which -was free from brush. This arrangement just suited Joseph and Thomas, -for they were very fond of a little sport, and his absence would afford -them full scope; while his presence served as an extinguisher upon -the exuberance of their mirth. Joseph rode Alden's bay mare, a very -fine animal; Thomas, his father's black pony, and Isaac the pet Jack. -This Jack had deformed or crooked fore-legs, and was very knowing in -his way; so "Ike" and the Jack were the subjects chosen by Joseph and -Thomas for their sport. They would tickle "Jackie," and plague him, he -would kick up, stick his head down, hump up his back and run, while -Isaac struggled in vain to guide or hold him by the bridle reins, for -like the rest of his tribe he was very headstrong when abused. No harm -or even offense to Isaac was intended; but they carried their fun too -far; Isaac was offended, and returned home on foot, turning loose the -Jack with the bridle on. We will not try to excuse Joseph and Thomas in -this rudeness to Isaac, for although they were well-meaning boys, it -was no doubt very wrong to carry their frolics so far as to offend or -hurt the feelings of their playmate, and especially as he was younger -than they; but in justice to them it is fair to say they were heartily -sorry when they found they had given such sore offense. - -When Joseph and Thomas arrived at the spring they set down their dinner -pails by it, mounted their horses again, and began to amuse themselves -by running short races, jumping ditches and riding about. They would -not have done this had Alden been there. They had not even done such a -thing before, although the same opportunity had not been wanting; but -for some reason--ever fond of frolic and mischief--they were more than -usually so this morning. It is said that not even a "sparrow falls to -the ground" without God's notice, is it unreasonable to suppose that He -saw these boys? And as He overrules the actions of even the wicked, and -causes their "wrath to praise Him;" would it be inconsistent to suppose -that the Lord overruled the frolics of these mischievous, but not -wicked boys on this occasion for good, perhaps for their deliverance -and salvation? We shall see. - -While they were riding about and the cattle were feeding down the -little spring creek toward a point of the hill that jutted out into the -little valley about half a mile distant, the "leaders" being about half -way to it, a gang of Indians on horseback, painted, their hair daubed -with white clay, stripped to the skin, suddenly appeared from behind -the hill, whooping and charging at full speed toward them. Now, had -these boys turned out their horses, as under other circumstances they -should, and no doubt would, have done, they and the cattle would have -been an easy prey to the Indians, the boys themselves being completely -at their mercy, such mercy, as might be expected from a thieving band -of savages. In an instant, Thomas put his pony under full run for home, -crying at the top of his voice, "Indians, Indians!" At the same instant -Joseph set out at full speed for the head of the herd, with a view to -save them if possible. - -He only could tell the multitude of his thoughts in that single moment. -Boy as he was, he made a desperate resolve. His mother, his brother and -sisters and their dependence upon their cattle for transportation to -the Valley in the Spring, occupied his thoughts and nerved him to meet -the Indians half-way, and risk his life to save the cattle from being -driven off by them. At the moment that he reached the foremost of the -herd, the Indians, with terrific yells reached the same spot, which -frightened the cattle so, that with the almost superhuman effort of the -little boy to head them in the right direction, and at the same time -to elude the grasp of the Indians, in an instant they were all on the -stampede towards home. Here the Indians divided, the foremost passing -by Joseph in hot pursuit of Thomas, who by this time had reached the -brow of the hill on the upper road leading to town, but he was on foot. -He had left his pony, knowing the Indians could outrun--and perhaps -would overtake him. And thinking they would be satisfied with only the -horse, and by leaving that he could make good his escape. - -Joseph's horse was fleeter on foot, besides, he was determined to -sell what he had to, at the dearest possible rate. The rest of the -Indians of the first gang, about half a dozen, endeavored to capture -him; but in a miraculous manner he eluded them contriving to keep -the cattle headed in the direction of the lower road towards home, -until he reached the head of the spring. Here the Indians who pursued -Thomas--excepting the one in possession of Thomas' horse, which he had -captured and was leading away towards the point--met him, turning his -horse around the spring and down the course of the stream, the whole -gang of Indians in full chase. He could outrun them, and had he now, -freed from the herd, been in the direction of home he could have made -his escape; but as he reached a point opposite the hill from whence the -Indians came, he was met by another gang who had crossed the stream for -that purpose; again turning his horse. Making a circuit, he once more -got started towards home. His faithful animal began to lose breath and -flag. He could still, however, keep out of the reach of his pursuers; -but now the hindmost in the down race began to file in before him, as -he had turned about, by forming a platoon and veering to the right or -left in front, as he endeavored to pass, they obstructed his course, -so that those behind overtook him just as he once more reached the -spring. Riding up on either side, one Indian fiercely took him by the -right arm, another by the left leg, while a third was prepared to close -in and secure his horse. Having forced his reins from his grip, they -raised him from the saddle, slackened speed till his horse ran from -under him, then dashed him to the ground among their horses' feet while -running at great speed. He was considerably stunned by the fall, but -fortunately escaped further injury, notwithstanding, perhaps a dozen -horses passed over him. As he rose to his feet, several men were in -sight on the top of the hill, with pitchforks in their hands at the -sight of whom the Indians fled in the direction they had come. These -men had been alarmed by Thomas' cry of Indians, while on their way to -the hay fields, and reached the place in time to see Joseph's horse -captured and another incident which was rather amusing. The Jack, -which did not stampede with the cattle, had strayed off alone toward -the point of the hill, still wearing his bridle. An old Indian with -some corn in a buckskin sack was trying to catch him; but "Jackie" did -not fancy Mr. Indian, although not afraid of him, and so would wheel -from him as he would attempt to take hold of the bridle. As the men -appeared, the Indian made a desperate lunge to catch the Jack, but was -kicked over, and his corn spilt on the ground. The Indian jumped up -and took to his heels, and "Jackie" deliberately ate up his corn. By -this time the cattle were scattered off in the brush lining the lower -road, still heading towards town. The men with the pitchforks soon -disappeared from the hill continuing on to the hay-fields, and Joseph -found himself alone, affording him a good opportunity to reflect on -his escape and situation. The truth is, his own thoughts made him more -afraid than did the Indians. What if they should return to complete -their task, which he had been instrumental in so signally defeating? -They would evidently show him no mercy. They had tried to trample him -to death with their horses, and what could he do on foot and alone? -It would take him a long time to gather up the cattle, from among -the brush. The Indians might return any moment, there was nothing to -prevent them doing so. These were his thoughts; he concluded therefore -that time was precious, and that he would follow the example, now, of -Thomas, and "make tracks" for home. When he arrived the people had -gathered in the old bowery, and were busy organizing two companies, -one of foot and the other of horsemen, to pursue the Indians. All was -excitement, his mother and the family were almost distracted, supposing -he had been killed or captured by the Indians. Thomas had told the -whole story so far as he knew it, the supposition was therefore -inevitable; judge, therefore, of the happy surprise of his mother and -sisters on seeing him, not only alive, but uninjured. Their tears of -joy were even more copious than those of grief a moment before. - -But Joseph's sorrow had not yet begun. He and Thomas returned with -the company of armed men on foot to hunt for the cattle, while the -horsemen were to pursue the Indians, if possible, to recover the -horses. When they arrived again at the spring no sign of the cattle -could be seen; even the dinner pails had been taken away. On looking -around, the saddle blanket from the horse Joseph rode was found near -the spring. Was this evidence that the Indians had returned as Joseph -had suspected? And had they, after all, succeeded in driving off the -cattle? These were the questions which arose. All that day did they -hunt, but in vain, to find any further trace of them; and as they -finally gave up the search and bent their weary steps towards home, all -hope of success seemingly fled. Joseph could no longer suppress the -heavy weight of grief that filled his heart, and he gave vent to it in -bitter tears, and wished he had been a man. - -It is said, "calms succeed storms," "and one extreme follows another," -etc. Certainly joy followed closely on the heels of grief more than -once this day, for when Joseph and Thomas reached home, to their -surprise and unspeakable joy, they found all their cattle safely -corraled in their yards where they had been all the afternoon. Alden, -it seems, reached the herd ground just after Joseph had left. He -found the cattle straying off in the wrong direction unherded, and he -could find no trace of the boys or horses, although he discovered the -dinner pails at the spring as usual. When he had thoroughly satisfied -himself by observations that all was not right, and perhaps something -very serious was the matter, he came to the conclusion to take the -dinner pails, gather up the cattle and go home, which he did by the -lower road, reaching home some time after the company had left by the -upper road in search of them. He of course learned the particulars of -the whole affair, and must have felt thankful that he had escaped. A -messenger was sent to notify the company of the safety of the cattle, -but for some reason he did not overtake them. - -In the Spring of 1847, George Mills was fitted out with a team and went -in the company of President Young as one of the Pioneers to the Valley; -and soon, a portion of the family in the care of Brother James Lawson, -emigrated from "Winter Quarters," arriving in the Valley that Fall. - -In the Spring of 1848, a tremendous effort was made by the Saints to -emigrate to the Valley on a grand scale. No one was more anxious than -Widow Smith; but to accomplish it seemed an impossibility. She still -had a large and comparatively helpless family. Her two sons, John and -Joseph, mere boys, being her only support; the men folks, as they were -called, Brothers J. Lawson and G. Mills being in the Valley with the -teams they had taken. Without teams sufficient to draw the number of -wagons necessary to haul provisions and outfit for the family, and -without means to purchase, or friends who were in circumstances to -assist, she determined to make the attempt, and trust in the Lord for -the issue. Accordingly every nerve was strained, and every available -object was brought into requisition. "Jackie" was traded off for -provisions; cows and calves were yoked up, two wagons lashed together, -and team barely sufficient to draw one was hitched on to them, and in -this manner they rolled out from Winter Quarters some time in May. -After a series of the most amusing and trying circumstances, such -as sticking in the mud, doubling teams up all the little hills and -crashing at ungovernable speed down the opposite sides, breaking wagon -tongues and reaches, upsetting, and vainly endeavoring to control wild -steers, heifers and unbroken cows, they finally succeeded in reaching -the Elk Horn, where the companies were being organized for the plains. - -Here, Widow Smith reported herself to President Kimball, as having -"started for the Valley." Meantime, she had left no stone unturned or -problem untried, which promised assistance in effecting the necessary -of preparations for the journey. She had done to her utmost, and still -the way looked dark and impossible. - -President Kimball consigned her to Captain ----'s fifty. The captain was -present; said he, - -"Widow Smith, how many wagons have you?" - -"Seven." - -"How many yokes of oxen have you?" - -"Four," and so many cows and calves. - -"Well," says the captain, "Widow Smith, it is folly for you to start -in this manner; you never can make the journey, and if you try it, you -will be a burden upon the company the whole way. My advice to you is, -go back to Winter Quarters and wait till you can get help." - -This speech aroused the indignation of Joseph, who stood by and heard -it; he thought it was poor consolation to his mother who was struggling -so hard, even against hope as it were, for her deliverance; and if he -had been a little older it is possible that he would have said some -very harsh things to the captain; but as it was, he busied himself with -his thoughts and bit his lips. - -Widow Smith calmly replied, "Father ----" (he was an aged man,) "I will -beat you to the Valley and will ask no help from you either!" - -This seemed to nettle the old gentleman, for he was high metal. It is -possible that he never forgot this prediction, and that it influenced -his conduct towards her more or less from that time forth as long as he -lived, and especially during the journey. - -While the companies were lying at Elk Horn, Widow Smith sent back to -Winter Quarters, and by the blessing of God, succeeded in buying on -credit, and hiring for the journey, several yokes of oxen from brethren -who were not able to emigrate that year, (among these brethren one -Brother Rogers was ever gratefully remembered by the family). When -the companies were ready to start, Widow Smith and her family were -somewhat better prepared for the journey and rolled out with lighter -hearts and better prospects than favored their egress from Winter -Quarters. But Joseph often wished that his mother had been consigned -to some other company, for although everything seemed to move along -pleasantly, his ears were frequently saluted with expressions which -seemed to be prompted by feelings of disappointment and regret at his -mother's prosperity and success--expressions which, it seemed to him, -were made expressly for his ear. To this, however, he paid as little -regard as it was possible for a boy of his temperament to do. One cause -for annoyance was the fact that his mother would not permit him to -stand guard at nights the same as a man or his older brother John, when -the Captain required it. She was willing for him to herd in the day -time and do his duty in everything that seemed to her in reason could -be required of him; but, as he was only ten years of age, she did not -consider him old enough to do guard duty at nights to protect the camp -from Indians, stampedes, etc., therefore, when the captain required him -to stand guard, Widow Smith objected. He was, therefore, frequently -sneered at as being "petted by his mother," which was a sore trial to -him. - - - -CHAPTER III. - -One day the company overtook President Kimball's company, which was -traveling ahead of them; this was somewhere near the north fork of the -Platte River. Jane Wilson, who has been mentioned as being a member -of the family of Widow Smith, and as being troubled with fits, etc., -and withal very fond of snuff, started ahead to overtake her mother, -who was in the family of Bishop N. K. Whitney, in President Kimball's -company, supposing both companies would camp together, and she could -easily return to her own camp in the evening. But, early in the -afternoon, our captain ordered a halt, and camped for that night and -the next day. This move, unfortunately, compelled poor Jane to continue -on with her mother in the preceding company. - -Towards evening the captain took a position in the center of the corral -formed by the wagons, and called the company together, and then cried -out: - -"Is all right in the camp? Is all right in the camp?" - -Not supposing for a moment that anything was wrong, no one replied. -He repeated the question again and again, each time increasing his -vehemence, until some began to feel alarmed. Old "Uncle Tommie" -Harrington replied in good English style, "Nout's the matter wi me; -nout's the matter wi me;" and one after another replied, "Nothing is -the matter with me," until it came to Widow Smith, at which, in a -towering rage, the captain exclaimed, "All's right in the camp, and a -poor woman lost!" - -Widow Smith replied, "She is not lost; she is with her mother, and as -safe as I am." - -At which the captain lost all control of his temper, and fairly -screamed out, "I rebuke you, Widow Smith, in the name of the Lord!" -pouring forth a tirade of abuse upon her. Nothing would pacify him till -she proposed to send her son John ahead to find Jane. It was almost -dark, and he would doubtless have to travel until nearly midnight -before he would overtake the company; but he started, alone and -unarmed, in an unknown region, an Indian country, infested by hordes of -hungry wolves, ravenous for the dead cattle strewn here and there along -the road, which drew them in such numbers that their howlings awakened -the echoes of the night, making it hideous and disturbing the slumbers -of the camps. - -That night was spent by Widow Smith in prayer and anguish for the -safety of her son; but the next day John returned all safe, and -reported that he had found Jane all right with her mother. Widow -Smith's fears for his safety, although perhaps unnecessary, were not -groundless, as his account of his night's trip proved. The wolves -growled and glared at him as he passed along, not caring even to get -out of the road for him; their eyes gleaming like balls of fire through -the darkness on every hand; but they did not molest him; still, the -task was one that would have made a timid person shudder and shrink -from its performance. - -Another circumstance occurred, while camped at this place, which had -a wonderful influence, some time afterwards, upon Captain ----'s mind. -There was a party of the brethren started out on a hunting expedition -for the day. A boy, that was driving team for Widow Smith, but little -larger than Joseph, although several years his senior, accompanied -them, riding with the captain in his carriage, which they took along -to carry their game in. This boy (he is now a man, and no doubt a good -Latter-day Saint) was a very great favorite of the captain's; and -was often cited by him as a worthy example for Joseph, as he stood -guard, and was very obliging and obedient to him. During the day the -captain left him in charge of his carriage and team, while he went some -distance away in search of game, charging W---- not to leave the spot -until he returned. Soon after the captain got out of sight, W---- drove -off in pursuit of some of the brethren in another direction, and when -he overtook them, strange to say, he told a most foolish and flimsy -story, which aroused their suspicion. They charged him with falsehood, -but he unwisely stuck to his story. It was this: "Captain ---- had sent -him to tell them to drive the game down to a certain point, so that he -(the captain) might have a shot as well as they." Having done this he -started back to his post, expecting to get there, of course, before the -captain returned. But unfortunately for his good reputation with the -captain, he was too late. The captain had returned, but the carriage -was gone, not knowing the reason he doubtless became alarmed, as he -immediately started in search, instead of waiting to see if it would -return. He missed connection, and was subjected to a tedious tramp and -great anxiety, until he fell in with those brethren, who related the -strange interview they had had with W---- and the mystery was explained. -Returning again, there he found the carriage and W---- all right, looking -innocent and dutiful, little suspecting that the captain knew all, -and the storm that was about to burst upon his devoted head. But like -a thunder-clap the storm came. At first W---- affected bewilderment, -putting on an air of injured innocence, but soon gave way before the -avalanche of wrath hurled upon him. Poor fellow! he had destroyed the -captain's confidence in him, and would he ever regain it? The reader -can readily imagine this would be a difficult matter. Sometime after -this, the captain went out from camp with his carriage to gather -saleratus, and on the way overtook Joseph on foot. To Joseph's utter -astonishment, the captain stopped and invited him to ride. There was -another brother in the carriage with him. As they went along the -captain told this story, and concluded by saying, "Now, Joseph, since -W---- has betrayed my confidence so that I dare not trust him any more, -you shall take his place. I don't believe you will deceive me." Joseph, -in the best manner he possibly could, declined the honor proffered to -him. - -Passing over from the Platte to the Sweetwater, the cattle suffered -extremely from the heat, the drought, and the scarcity of feed, being -compelled to browse on dry rabbit brush, sage brush, weeds and such -feed as they could find, all of which had been well picked over by -the preceding companies. Captain ----'s company being one of the last, -still keeping along, frequently in sight of, and sometimes camping with -President Kimball's company which was very large. One day as they were -moving along slowly through the hot sand and dust, the sun pouring down -with excessive heat, toward noon one of Widow Smith's best oxen laid -down in the yoke, rolled over on his side, and stiffened out his legs -spasmodically, evidently in the throes of death. The unanimous opinion -was that he was poisoned. All the hindmost teams of course stopped, the -people coming forward to know what was the matter. In a short time the -captain, who was in advance of the company, perceiving that something -was wrong, came to the spot. - -Perhaps no one supposed for a moment that the ox would ever recover. -The captain's first words on seeing him, were: - -"He is dead, there is no use working with him; we'll have to fix up -some way to take the Widow along, I told her she would be a burden upon -the company." - -Meantime Widow Smith had been searching for a bottle of consecrated -oil in one of the wagons, and now came forward with it, and asked her -brother, Joseph Fielding, and the other brethren, to administer to -the ox, thinking the Lord would raise him up. They did so, pouring a -portion of the oil on the top of his head, between and back of the -horns, and all laid hands upon him, and one prayed, administering the -ordinance as they would have done to a human being that was sick. Can -you guess the result? In a moment he gathered his legs under him, and -at the first word arose to his feet, and traveled right off as well as -ever. He was not even unyoked from his mate. The captain, it may well -be supposed, now heartily regretted his hasty conclusions and unhappy -expressions. They had not gone very far when another and exactly -similar circumstance occurred. This time also it was one of her best -oxen, the loss of either would have effectually crippled one team, -as they had no cattle to spare. But the Lord mercifully heard their -prayers, and recognized the holy ordinance of anointing and prayer, and -the authority of the Priesthood when applied in behalf of even a poor -dumb brute! Sincere gratitude from more than one heart in that family, -went up unto the Lord that day for His visible interposition in their -behalf. At or near a place called Rattlesnake Bend, on the Sweetwater, -one of Widow Smith's oxen died of sheer old age, and consequent -poverty. He had been comparatively useless for some time, merely -carrying his end of the yoke without being of any further service in -the team; he was therefore no great loss. - -At the last crossing of the Sweetwater, Widow Smith was met by James -Lawson, with a span of horses and a wagon, from the Valley. This -enabled her to unload one wagon, and send it, with the best team, back -to Winter Quarters to assist another family the next season. Elder -Joel Terry returned with the team. At this place the captain was very -unfortunate; several of his best cattle and a valuable mule laid down -and died, supposed to have been caused by eating poisonous weeds. -There was no one in the camp who did not feel a lively sympathy for -the Captain, he took it to heart very much. He was under the necessity -of obtaining help, and Widow Smith was the first to offer it to him, -but he refused to accept of it from her hands. Joseph sympathized with -him, and would gladly have done anything in his power to aid him; but -here again, it is painful to say, he repulsed his sympathy and chilled -his heart and feelings more and more by insinuating to others, in his -presence, that Widow Smith had poisoned his cattle! Saying, "Why should -my cattle, and nobody's else, die in this manner? There is more than a -chance about this. It was well planned," etc., expressly for his ear. -This last thrust was the severing blow. Joseph resolved, some day, to -demand satisfaction not only for this, but for every other indignity he -had heaped upon his mother. - -On the 22nd of September, 1848, Captain--'s fifty crossed over the -"Big Mountain," when they had the first glimpse of Salt Lake Valley. -It was a beautiful day. Fleecy clouds hung round over the summits of -the highest mountains, casting their shadows down the valley beneath, -heightening, by contrast, the golden hue of the sun's rays which fell -through the openings upon the dry bunchgrass and sage-bush plains, -gilding them with fairy brightness, and making the arid desert to -seem like an enchanted spot. Every heart rejoiced and with lingering -fondness, wistfully gazed from the summit of the mountain upon the -western side of the valley revealed to view--the goal of their -wearisome journey. The ascent from the east was gradual, but long and -fatiguing for the teams; it was in the afternoon, therefore, when they -reached the top. The descent to the west was far more precipitous and -abrupt. They were obliged to rough-lock the hind wheels of the wagons, -and, as they were not needed, the forward cattle were turned loose -to be driven to the foot of the mountain or to camp, the "wheelers" -only being retained on the wagons. Desirous of shortening the next -day's journey as much as possible--as that was to bring them into the -Valley--they drove on till a late hour in the night, over very rough -roads much of the way, and skirted with oak brush and groves of trees. -They finally camped near the eastern foot of the "Little Mountain." -During this night's drive several of Widow Smith's cows--that had been -turned loose from the teams--were lost in the brush. Early next morning -John returned on horseback to hunt for them, their service in the teams -being necessary to proceed. - -At an earlier hour than usual the Captain gave orders for the company -to start--knowing well the circumstances of the Widow, and that -she would be obliged to remain till John returned with the lost -cattle--accordingly the company rolled out, leaving her and her family -alone. It was fortunate that Brother James Lawson was with them, for -he knew the road, and if necessary, could pilot them down the canyon -in the night. Joseph thought of his mother's prediction at Elk Horn, -and so did the Captain, and he was determined that he would win this -point, although he had lost all the others, and prove her prediction -false. "I will beat you to the Valley, and ask no help from you -either," rang in Joseph's ears; he could not reconcile these words -with possibility, though he knew his mother always told the truth, -but how could this come true? Hours, to him, seemed like days as they -waited, hour after hour, for John to return. All this time the company -was slowly tugging away up the mountain, lifting at the wheels, geeing -and hawing, twisting along a few steps, then blocking the wheels for -the cattle to rest and take breath, now doubling a team, and now a -crowd rushing to stop a wagon, too heavy for the exhausted team, and -prevent its rolling backward down the hill, dragging the cattle along -with it. While in this condition, to heighten the distress and balk -the teams, a cloud, as it were, burst over their heads, sending down -the rain in torrents, as it seldom rains in this country, throwing the -company into utter confusion. The cattle refused to pull, would not -face the beating storm, and to save the wagons from crashing down the -mountain, upsetting, etc., they were obliged to unhitch them, and block -all the wheels. While the teamsters sought shelter, the storm drove -the cattle in every direction through the brush and into the ravines, -and into every nook they could find, so that when it subsided it was a -day's work to find them, and get them together. Meantime Widow Smith's -cattle--except those lost--were tied to the wagons, and were safe. In a -few moments after the storm, John brought up those which had been lost, -and they hitched up, making as early a start as they usually did in the -mornings, rolled up the mountain, passing the company in their confused -situation, and feeling that every tie had been sundered that bound them -to the captain, continued on to the Valley, and arrived at "Old Fort," -about ten o'clock on the night of the 23rd of September, all well and -thankful. The next morning was Sabbath, the whole family went to the -bowery to meeting. Presidents Young and Kimball preached. This was the -first time that Joseph had ever heard them, to his recollection, in -public; and he exclaimed to himself: "These are the men of God, who -are gathering the Saints to the Valley." This was a meeting long to be -remembered by those present. President Young spoke as though he felt: -"Now, God's people are free," and the way of their deliverance had been -wrought out. That evening Captain ---- and his company arrived; dusty and -weary, too late for the excellent meetings and the day of sweet rest -enjoyed by the Widow and her family. Once more, in silver tones, rang -through Joseph's ears. "Father ----, I will beat you to the Valley, and -will ask no help from you either!" J. F. S. - - - -A REMARKABLE LIFE. - -BY "HOMESPUN". - - - -CHAPTER I. - -Many of the noblest lives have been lived in obscurity and in poverty. -Nobility and virtue are never dependent upon surroundings. And when you -have read the simple little chronicle which I am about to relate, I -think you will agree with me that even though humble and retiring, the -subject of this sketch was one of nature's own heroines. - -In a little cottage in Bravon, Lees-Mersem, England, lived an old lady -named Harris. She was given to study although very meagrely educated. -She was feeble and sat a great deal of her time poring over her Bible. - -One day her granddaughter came to visit her, bringing her little -daughter, Mary, with her. The old lady had been reading her Bible, and -as her daughter came in she said: - -"My dear, I have been reading some of the great prophecies concerning -the last days, and I feel sure that either you or yours will live to -see many of them fulfilled." - -"Not so, grandmother," answered the woman, whose name was Mrs. Dunster, -"thou wast always visionary; put by such thoughts. Our religion's good -enough for the like of us." - -The old lady arose, unheeding her granddaughter's warm reply, and -placing her hands on the little girl's head, said solemnly: - -"Here's Mary; she shall grow up and wander away from you all and break -her bread in different nations." - -The solemnity of her great-grandmother's manner and the peculiar spirit -that accompanied the words made a vivid impression on the little girl's -mind. How well that strange prophecy has been fulfilled you and I, my -reader, can tell hereafter. - -The little girl, whose name was Mary Dunster, and who was born in -Lympne, Kent, December 26, 1818, grew up and when sixteen years of age -was asked in marriage by William Chittenden, who was a laborer on an -adjoining farm. She did not feel very willing, but the young man urged -her so warmly that she hesitated before refusing him. She had always -had an irresistible desire to go to America, where many emigrants were -then going from England. - -At last she consented to be his wife on one condition: that he would -take her to America. Very bravely promised the lover, but not until -forty-two years afterwards did he fulfill that promise. - -After they were married they settled down to work and lived, William as -farm laborer, in Lympne for four years. Two children were born to them -in this place, Mary Ann, born June 15, 1836, and Henry, born August 18, -1838. - -Four years after their marriage, at which time the introduction of -convicts into Australia was prohibited and the government of England -offered good inducement to skilled laborers to settle up the country, -William Chittenden concluded to go to Australia. Previous to this time -the English convicts, who were under life sentence, had been sent -down to Australia, landing generally at Botany Bay. These convicts -were brought down and sold as life slaves to those freeholders who -were willing and able to purchase their labor. Sometimes they escaped -from their masters and made their way into the interior of the -country. These escaped convicts herded together in small parties or -bands, and are called "bush-rangers." They have now become a powerful -tribe, fierce, vindictive and unlawful. They resemble very nearly, in -occupation and temperament, the wild Bedouins of Asia and the wild -tribes of Arabs or Berbers of northern Africa. - -Between the years of 1840 and 1850, England transported many skilled -laborers and artizans to Australia to build up and colonize her -possessions in the southern seas. Numbers of the husband's countrymen -were going down to the "new country," and he resolved to go too. -Mary objected; she wanted to go to America. I think, between you -and me, that she used sometimes to remind her husband sharply of -his unfulfilled promise. But his was a calm, kind, but essentially -self-willed disposition, that listened good-naturedly to all Mary might -and did say, but was no whit moved thereby to give up his own way. And -so, after much controversy, the removal to Australia was decided upon -and accomplished. - -The young couple had determined to engage a farm on shares, and so -went, immediately upon their arrival, to a country part near Botany -Bay. Here they remained a short time and then went up to Camden, which -is about one hundred miles from Sydney. William took a farm and then -commenced a long career of farming in Australia. Most of their children -were born there. - -And now let me tell you something of the character of this same Mary, -ere I relate to you two strange dreams which she had while living at -Camden. - -She was a medium-sized, well-built woman, with kind, gray eyes and -a pleasant but firm mouth. Her step was quick, and her manner was -full of warm-hearted simplicity. She it was who ruled the children, -administering with firm justice the rod of correction. Her husband -contented himself by controlling his wife, leaving the whole of the -remainder of the domestic regimen entirely in her hands. She was never -disobeyed by her children. But withal "father" was a tenderer name -to their large flock of girls than was "mother." But with all her -firmness, she was far too womanly to possess one grain of obstinacy. -When it was her duty to yield she could do so gracefully. With these -qualities Mary united a sound business capacity, economy, thrift -and extreme cleanliness. She was, and always has been, a remarkably -healthy woman. With these gifts she had something of the visionary or -semi-prophetic character of her great-grandmother Harris. - -She has been a dreamer, and her dreams have been of a prophetic -character. Most of them require no interpretation, but are simple -forecasts, as it were, of the future. - -One dream, which was indelibly impressed upon her mind, occurred to -her just before the birth of her eighth daughter, Elizabeth. It was as -follows: - -She dreamed she had to travel a long way. At last she reached a stately -white building, with projecting buttresses and towers. Going up the -broad steps she entered a room filled with beautiful books. Seeing a -door ajar, she walked into the adjoining room. There sat twelve men -around a large table, and each man held a pen. They were looking up as -though awaiting some message from above. She drew back, so as not to -attract attention, when a voice said distinctly to her: "You will have -to come here to be married." The thought passed through her mind, "I -_am_ married and why, therefore, should I come here to be married?" - -She went on out of the building and walked through the streets of the -city that were near the building. The streets were straight and clean, -with little streams of water running down under the shade-trees that -bordered the foot-paths. Everything was clean and beautiful to look -upon. Footbridges spanned the little streams, and the houses were clean -and comfortable. She saw just ahead of her a woman driving a cow, with -whom she felt a desire to speak, but before she could reach her, the -woman had gone in at one of the gates. She walked on, pleased with all -she saw. Raising her eyes she saw in the distance, coming to the city, -what looked like an immense flock of sheep. But as they came nearer she -saw they were people, all clothed in white raiment. They passed by and -went on to the white building. "Ah!" thought Mary, "if I was there now, -that I might know what it all meant!" But she felt compelled to go the -other way. And so the dream ended. - -When she awoke she related the strange episode to her husband and told -him she believed her coming confinement would prove fatal. She thought -the beautiful place she had seen could only be in heaven, as she had -never seen anything like it upon the earth. William comforted her, but -the spirit of the dream never left her. - -However her little babe was born and she resumed her household duties. - - - -CHAPTER II. - -Two years passed away, and ere they are passed let us stop a moment and -see a little of this new country which lies away on the opposite side -of the earth from America. - -Australia, as you may all see, my readers, by getting out your -geographies, is in the Pacific Ocean, down in the tropics and lying -south-east of Asia. It is generally called a continent; but it looks -very small, does it not, compared to Asia or either of the Americas? -Now, look down on the south-east coast of this little continent and you -will see Botany Bay and the city of Sydney lying close together. Look a -little to the south-west of Sydney and you will find Goulburn. Camden, -which is a comparatively new town, is not marked on the old maps, lies -between Sydney and Goulburn. - -This region you will find marked as the "gold region." But gold was not -discovered until 1857, eleven years after the Chittendens settled in -their new home. - -The country in New South Wales is good for farming and grazing; with -the exception that it is subject to extremes of drouth and floods. -There are no high mountain ranges, and very few rivers. There is no -snow there, and the Winter season is a rainy season instead of being -cold and freezing like our Winters. There are trees in that country -which shed their bark instead of their leaves. I shall speak of these -trees and the uses to which their bark is put further on. Then, there -grows a native cherry, which has the pit on the outside, and the fruit -inside. Wouldn't that be queer? - -There are many precious stones found in this country, and also -considerable gold; but the discovery of gold failed to excite William -Chittenden, or turn him from the even tenor of his way. - -On the 15th of April, 1853, a son was born to the Chittendens, who was -christened William John, but who only lived a few weeks. - -Some time after his death Mary dreamed that she was lying in her bed -asleep. It was, as you might say, a dream within a dream. As she lay -sleeping two men, each carrying a satchel in one hand and a cane in the -other, came to the foot of her bed. She dreamed then that she awoke -from her dream and looked earnestly at these two men; so earnestly that -their faces were indelibly fixed upon her memory. One of them held out -to her a little book. - -"What is the use of my taking the book?" she thought within herself, "I -cannot read a line, for I have never learned to read." Then, after a -moment's hesitation, she thought, "Why, I can take it and my children -can read it to me." So she took the book. - -One of the men said these remarkable words to her: - -"We are clothed upon with power to preach to the people." - -She awoke in reality then, with those strange words thrilling her with -a new power she had never felt before. She roused her husband up and -related her dream, and he replied kindly to her. - -They had now been married eighteen years and Mary had borne seven girls -and two boys; neither of the two boys, however, had lived but a short -time. The farm upon which they lived had been rented, or leased, from -a large land-owner named McArthur, for twenty-one years. This McArthur -owned some thousands of acres of farming and grazing land in this -region, which was leased in farms of various proportions. - -The Chittendens' farm consisted of two hundred acres, and was mostly -farming land. The terms upon which they leased it were very similar to -others in that country. For the first five years they paid sixpence an -acre. After that it was ten shillings an acre. - -William put up the house in which they lived, and an odd house it was, -too. First he took a number of poles, or uprights, which he placed in -the earth at regular distances. With these he made the framework of -his house. Between these uprights were placed smaller poles. Then he -took fine willows and wove them, or turned them round the center, or -smaller pole, resting the ends on the larger poles. In and out went -these willows, something the same way as you will see willow fences -here. Then he made a thick mud and well covered the whole, inside and -out. Next came a good plaster of lime and sand, and finally all was -whitewashed. The roof was made with rafters laid across the top. Now -came in this bark about which I told you. Going up to the forests which -were found on the near hillsides, the bark was cut in the lengths -wanted at the top and bottom of the tree; then with a sharp knife split -on two sides, upon which it peeled off in thick, straight slabs. It was -then nailed on in the place of shingles, each one overlapping the under -one. Then the floor was nailed down with wooden pegs, "adzed" off and -finally smoothed with a jack-plane. - -In this manner one large sitting-room, two bedrooms, a dairy and a -kitchen, detached from the main building, were built; to which was -afterwards added a long porch to the front of the house, which faced -east, the rooms all being built in a row. - -Mary cooked upon a brick oven, which was built upon a little standard -just between the kitchen and the house. - -Large fire-places were built in the kitchen and sitting-room. The one -in the kitchen, being big enough to take three immense logs, which -would burn steadily for a whole week. - -The dairy was well furnished with pans, pails, etc. - - - -CHAPTER III. - -In 1853, William decided to take a trip up to Sydney to sell a load of -grain, bringing back with him, if he succeeded as he wished, a load of -freight for some settlement or town near his home. There was a great -demand for wheat now as many hundreds of emigrants had rushed into the -great gold country. William left the farm to be managed by his prudent -little wife and started out on his hundred mile trip. How little did he -dream of the result of this journey! On his arrival in Sydney after the -disposal of his wheat, he walked out to see an old friend named William -Andrews who lived in the suburbs of the town. Here he passed the time -until evening when Mr. Andrews remarked, "I say, Chittenden, I've got -some brothers come from America, and I am going up to see them. Would -you like to go along?" - -"Oh, yes," replied William, "I didn't know you had any brothers in -America!" - -And so, arm in arm, they entered the little room where several men sat -at a table, or pulpit with a strange book in their hands and strange -words upon their lips. Here William heard the sound of the everlasting -gospel for the first time. - -From the first William felt the truth contained in the words of the -Elders although he knew little or nothing concerning them. - -On their way home Mr. Andrews explained to him that these men were his -brothers, being brothers in the covenant of Christ. - -"And Chittenden," he added, "if any of them go down your way, you'll -give them dinner and a bed, won't you, for I know you can?" - -"Oh, as to that," replied William, "I wouldn't turn a beggar from my -door, if he was hungry or wanted a roof to cover him." - -William procured a load of freight for a man in Goulburn (one hundred -miles further south than Camden) and started on his return trip. His -mind was often upon the things he had heard, and he wondered what it -all meant. The Elders to whom he had listened were Brothers Farnham, -Eldredge, Graham and Fleming, Brother Farnham having charge. They were -the second company of Elders ever sent to Australia. - -After the departure of William Chittenden, a council was held by the -Elders and it was decided that Brothers Fleming and John Eldredge -should go up to Camden and the surrounding district. At the last -moment however, Elder Fleming was desired to remain in Sydney by -Brother Farnham and Elder Graham was sent in his place. I mention this -circumstance as it was closely connected with one of Mary's dreams. -When William reached his home, he told Mary about these strange men. - -"What did you think of them William?" - -"Well Mary if they don't speak the truth then I never heard it spoken." -And then he went down to Goulburn with his freight. - -One lovely day in summer two dusty, tired, hungry men each with a -satchel and a walking-cane in their hands, stopped at the wide open -door of the Chittenden farm-house. And what saw Mary, when she came to -the porch? With a queer throb, she saw in her door the very man who -came to her bedside in her dream. She even noticed the low-cut vest -showing the white shirt underneath. But as he stepped inside, and her -eye fell upon his companion, she saw _he_ was not the second one of her -dream, although he too carried a cane and satchel. She invited them -within, and the first one said, - -"We are come, madam, to preach the gospel." - -The words, almost identical with those of her dream. Giving her their -names, he whose name was Eldredge explained to her that they traveled -up from Sydney, and in all the hundred miles, they had found no one -willing to give them food and shelter. - -Mary bustled around and prepared dinner for her guests. When evening -drew near, Brother Eldredge remarked, - -"Mrs Chittenden, can you let us remain here over night?" - -"Oh," said Mary, "I am afraid I have no place to put you!" - -"Well you can let us sit up by your fireside, and that is better than -lying on the ground as we have done lately!" - -And then Mary assured them that she would do the best she could for -them. So a bed was spread out on the floor of the sitting-room, and -here the foot-sore Elders were glad to rest their bodies. - -The principles and doctrines of these men fell deep into Mary's heart, -and like her husband she felt they spoke the truths of heaven. - -One evening in conversation with them, Mary told Brother Eldredge -that she had seen him before in a dream. But, she added, you were -accompanied by another man, not Mr. Graham. - -"Ah well, that might have been. You may have seen Brother Fleming for -he was coming with me, but Brother Farnham altered the appointments at -the last moment!" - -And it proved so. When Mary afterwards saw Brother Fleming she -recognized him as the second one of her dream. - -The Elders were not idle because they had found a comfortable resting -place, but traveled about seeking to get opportunities of spreading -the gospel. One family named Davis, whose farm (rented from McArthur) -joined the Chittenden's, listened with pleased interest to these new -doctrines. In the course of two weeks after the arrival of the Elders, -William Chittenden came home, and expressed a gladness in his heart to -find the Elders at his home. He immediately fixed up a bedroom near the -sitting-room for the use of the Elders. Weeks went into months, and -still the Chittendens were not baptized. - -The Elders made Camden their head-quarters, but went about through -the surrounding country, meeting, however, with very little success. -William and his wife, with their oldest daughter were ready to be -baptized, as were the Davis'. But almost a year after the arrival of -the brethren was allowed to slip by without the baptisms having been -performed. - -I want to stop and tell you a little about the worldly condition of -this couple, as well as mention a detail or two more about the country -they were living in before I go on with my story. - -They had brought their two hundred acres under good cultivation; they -had a large fruit garden back of the house, in which grew the most -delicious peaches, plums and cherries. The country is so adapted -to fruit that peach-stones thrown out near running water would be -fruit-bearing-trees in three years. There were no apples, but such -quantities of tropical fruits. Grapes, melons, figs, lemons and oranges -were so plentiful and so cheap that William would not spend time to -grow them. A sixpence (12 cents) would buy enough of these fruits to -load a man down. - -They had four horses, one wagon, a dray and a light spring cart, six -cows and many calves, plenty of pigs and droves of chickens, turkeys -and geese. - -The large granary to the south of the house groaned with its wealth of -wheat corn, barley and oats. - -And while I am speaking of wheat I am minded to give a description of -the way adopted to preserve wheat in that country. Mr. McArthur, the -owner of all these thousands of acres, received from his tenants a -share of the wheat grown. This he stored up as there was little or no -sale for it until drought years, when it commanded a good price. - -After the three years drought which occurred there prior to 1853, -William and his wife went to this Mr. McArthur to get wheat. He had dug -a very large vault or cellar, and this had been well cemented, top, -bottom and sides. Here the wheat had been stored for twelve years when -the Chittendens went to get theirs. The wheat was perfectly sound and -sweet. Over the vault a store-house had been built, and the door to it -was near the top of the cellar. - -You can see that our kind friends were well-to-do, and had every -prospect ahead for success and prosperity. - -In the Spring of '54, the Davis family and the Chittendens decided to -be baptized. Rumors, and false reports had been rapidly spread about -the Latter-day Saints, and their enemies sprang up like magic. Many -sarcastic and insulting remarks were made about the "dipping" (as the -baptism was called) of the two families. Mr. McArthur was a bitter -enemy to the new sect. - -One day the Davises were over to Chittenden's and remarked they were -going to be baptized the following Monday in the river near their -house. William decided to come over with his family on the same day. So -on the 24 of April 1854 William and Mary were baptized by John Eldredge -in Camden, Australia. From the moment of their baptism until now no -faltering or doubt has ever been in the hearts of these true Saints. In -the evening of the same day, the girls were all baptized by the Elders -into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. - -The gospel once having been received the spirit of "gathering" soon -follows. And with Mary, who had always wished to go to America, how -much more intense that spirit was now! - -As she sat and listened to the Elder's description of Zion being -built up in the bleak mountains, of the pretty streets lined with -shade-trees, and watered by swift-running streamlets she turned to her -husband and told him that this must be the place of her dream. - -William was a very quiet, determined man, who could not be turned from -the way he had chosen. - -The days, when through the long summer evenings, they all sat and -listened to the various principles and the new and lovely doctrines -unfolded one by one, by the Elders, like the petals of a glorious -flower, were the very happiest Mary and her family ever knew. Poor -Mary! They were the light which shone over her dreary oncoming future, -sometimes brightly, sometimes faintly, but always shining over the -wretched, darksome road of the next twenty years. - -One little circumstance, which will illustrate Mary's simple but -powerful faith will perhaps be worth mentioning and may strengthen some -other one's faith. Just before the birth of her eighth girl, which -occurred in the Fall after their baptism, she felt low and miserable, -scarcely sick enough to be in bed, but too ill to work. One evening -Bro. Eldredge was talking to her and said that if she had any sickness -or bodily ill, it was her privilege as it was of any member of the -Church, to call upon the Elders to administer to her, and then if she -exercised faith, it would leave her. Mary had never read a word in her -life, and so this came to her as a new and very precious truth. - -"Well, Bro. Eldredge, if I can be ministered to and get well, I want to -now," said Mary. - -So the ordinance was performed, and she was indeed instantly healed. -From that day for many months she never felt one moment of illness. And -she says to me to-day in her simple quaint way, - -"I have never been ministered to in my life since, that I did not get -better." - -Ever since the arrival of the Elders, the Chittendens had opened their -house for them to hold meetings in on Sundays. No other place had ever -been obtained, so that the meetings of the Saints, or those who were -friendly to them, were still held in Mary's cosy sitting-room. - -On the 1st of Nov. 1854, Mary had another daughter whom they named -Alice. In two weeks she was up and able to be about the house. The -Sunday on which the baby was two weeks old, the family had taken -dinner, the things had been washed and set away, and all sat in the -dining or sitting-room talking of gathering to Zion. - -They had eight girls now, and it would take quite a sum of money to -emigrate them all to Utah. So thinking to increase their means a -trifle, Mary had taken a little motherless boy, about seven years old, -his father paying a certain amount a week for his board. This was money -and they would never miss his board as they raised everything which -they consumed. This little boy was very troublesome and mischievous. He -was very fond of playing out in the hired men's bedroom which was over -the granary. - -On the Sunday of which I am speaking, he was out in the men's room, and -there found some matches. He thought he'd have some rare fun then, so -out he ran, matches in hand, and made what he called a "pretty fire," -right down close to the pig pens. He watched it burn up, quietly at -first, and then--whew!--here is a jolly little breeze catches up the -flame, and carries it bravely up right on to the roof of the pig-pen. -Then how it did sputter, and crackle, and leap. The boy was old enough -to see by that time, that something more than a bit of mischief would -grow out of that tiny flame. It spread over the pens like a living -thing. Frightened now, he sped away, down to the nearest farm-house, -running in and shouting to the gentleman, Mr. Root who lived there, "I -didn't set the pig-styes on fire; I struck a match, and it blowed." - -Mr. Root hitched up his horse to his water-budge, a cask on wheels -which he carried water from a lake near the Chittendens' house, -and started on the run for the scene of the boy's wickedness. The -Chittendens saw him pass their door running to the lagoon or lake. -"I'll declare," said Mary, "is Mr. Root going for water on Sunday? I -never knew him to do such a thing before!" - -Just then Eliza ran in and said, "Father, the shed is full of smoke." - -She had been down to gather eggs from the shed. - -The barn, pig-styes, cow sheds, granary, poultry houses and stacks were -all at the back of the house and about six rods away. - -At last, William got up to go down to the shed to see what was the -matter. - -When he looked out of the back door, what a sight met his eyes--the -whole yard in flames! Others had seen the fire, for the farm-house -faced the public-road, and people were all passing there on their road -to Chapel. But no one except Mr. Root ever offered a hand of help. - -"Oh," said they, "it's those d--d Mormons, let them burn up and go to -h--." - -The whole family rushed down to the fire and tried to stop its progress -but all to no avail. The pigs could not be driven out, and were -literally roasted alive. The barn, sheds, pens and every combustible -thing went down before the relentless flames. Farm implements of every -description, even the grain to the amount of hundreds of bushels, were -burned. The flames swept towards the house. Then how they worked. -Everything movable was got out, and the roof was torn off; and the men -commenced pouring water on the walls to save them. - -"Alas for the rarity of Christian charity." If a few brave men had -given help when the fire was first discovered, much might have been -saved. But when it was all over, and Bro. Eldredge and William had -thrown themselves on the ground completely exhausted, and the only -Christian who had helped them, Mr. Root, had gone home in the same -condition, Mary sat outdoors with a few of her household goods broken -and scattered around her, her two weeks' old babe wailing in her arms, -and all that was left of their comfortable home, the empty, blackened, -smoking walls of the house looming up in twilight fast falling around -her! Hundreds of cart loads of burnt grain were carted away for the -next few days and buried. How many bright hopes and happy plans were -buried at the same time, only the future would tell! The roof was -speedily put on again, and things inside made as comfortable as might -be. - -Bro. Eldredge still advised going out to Utah with what means they -could scrape up, but William would only shake his head despondently and -say, "I don't see how I can do it." - -Mary urged all she dared, for she knew the Elders were about to leave -for home. It was no use. The only answer she got was, "not now, Mary, -not now." - -He found an opportunity about that time of going up into the country a -hundred miles with some freight. While he was away a gentleman came to -the farm-house and wished to buy the goodwill of the farm. - -You will remember William had rented it for twenty-one years. About -fourteen years of the lease had expired. The improvements, etc., -always went with the lease. So when this gentleman offered to pay -three hundred pounds ($1,400) for the remainder of the lease, or the -"good-will," as it is termed in that country, Mary thought it a very -fortunate thing. - -The loss by fire had exceeded three hundred and fifty pounds, or about -sixteen or seventeen hundred dollars of our money; and Mary thought if -she could sell the lease of the farm, then they could sell what stock -and personal property was left them, that making perhaps another two -hundred pounds, which might get them all to America. So she sold it; -knowing, however, that the bargain would not be legal unless ratified -by her husband. She hoped, though, that he would see things as she did. -When William reached home Mary told him what she had done. - -"Humph; I suppose you know it's of no use unless I give my word, too?" - -"Oh, yes," said Mary, sorry to know her husband was so annoyed, "you -can, of course, upset it all." - -Then she explained all her hopes and plans to him. How they could -raise five hundred and fifty pounds, and then they could surely get to -America with that tidy sum. "And you know, too, you promised years ago -to take me to America." - -"And reach there," objected William, "with a big family of little -children, and not a shilling to buy 'em bread with. Nice plan, that!" - -In vain she argued and plead. William was not to be moved. No one could -blame him for not being guided by his wife's advice. Albeit she was a -prudent, far-seeing, wise little woman, whose advice had always been -proved to be of the best; still the man leads the woman, not woman the -man. - -But when Brothers Eldredge and Graham counseled him to return with -them, it was quite a different matter. They were over him in the -Priesthood and had a right to his obedience, even as he exacted -obedience from his wife and family. However he still refused, simply -saying, "I don't see how I can go just now, Brother Eldredge!" - -And so the time passed on, and the Elders left Australia without the -Chittendens. The Davis family, who were baptized at the same time as -was William and his wife, accompanied the Elders, and part of the same -family are now residing in Minersville, Utah. - -Here then was the grand mistake of William's life. He did not see it -then, nor for years after, but the time came when he wished in the -agony of his soul that he had gone to Utah when told to do so, even -if he had reached there without one penny to buy a crust of bread on -his arrival! Their girls were all with them and unmarried and they -could have brought their family unbroken to Utah. But instead of that -twenty-three years after they came with the merest remnant of their -once large family, leaving almost all their loved ones behind them, and -married to enemies of this work. - -Is not this a grand lesson for our young Elders? How easy it is to -fancy that our own wisdom, especially about our private affairs, is -better than any one's else! But when the voice of God speaks through -His servants and says, "Do thou so!" woe to the man who turns from that -and works out his own will in direct opposition. Let this sink deep -into your hearts, my young readers, and remember always, God knoweth -best! - - - -CHAPTER IV. - -Although William was annoyed at the step his wife had taken, he -concluded to let matters go as they were. However, much to Mary's -chagrin, he took a farm close by, and tried to make another start. -Nothing seemed to go right. - -On the 24th of July, 1850, Mary gave birth to another daughter, to whom -they gave the name of Rachel. The next year another company of Elders -came down from Utah under the leadership of Brother Stewart. These -also made their stopping place, while in that part of the country, at -the home of the Chittendens. But if the Elders met with little success -during their former mission, this time seemed a complete failure. No -one could be found to give them a moment's hearing. One Brother Doudle -came up near Camden, and used every endeavor to gain a foot-hold. -Instead of kindness he met with cruelty; and in place of bread they -threw him a stone. For two days he traveled and could find neither a -place to sit down, a crust to eat nor a thing to drink. - -When he got back to the Chittendens, he walked wearily in, and Mary's -daughter, Jane, bustled around to get him something to eat. "No," said -he, "don't cook me a thing. I want nothing but a piece of bread and a -drink of water." - -She hastily set what he required before him, and after he had eaten he -said, "Sister Jane, you shall receive the blessing for this. I have not -broken my fast since I left your house until now. I have had to sleep -out under the forest trees. I am now fully satisfied there is no place -to be had to hold meeting. I thought as I was leaving the city, shall I -shake the dust off my feet as a testimony against this people? No, no; -I will leave it all in the hands of God!" - -The bitter prejudice of people around Camden grew worse and worse. At -last the word went out that all the missionaries were to return to Utah -immediately. This was in 1857, when Johnson's army was advancing upon -Utah. - -Before leaving Camden, the Elders prophesied openly that trouble should -fall heavily upon the people who had refused them even a hearing. From -that time until the "Mormon" missionaries returned and opened the door -of mercy, there was not one stalk of grain raised in the whole district -of Camden, and people had been unable to obtain a living. - -With what earnest prayers did Mary seek to persuade her husband to go -along too! And the Elders counseled him to return with them. But no, -he could not feel to go with his helpless family and have little or -nothing to support them when he arrived in America. So the last Elder -bade them good-by and turned away from their door. Alas! eighteen years -passed away before they ever heard another Elder's voice. - -William was like his wife, unable to read one word, and all that he -knew of this gospel had been taught him orally by the missionaries. He -was also very young in the faith, and had not learned the great lesson -of obedience nor dreamed its mighty weight in this Church. For this -reason God was merciful to him, and did not deprive him of the light -of the gospel, but taught him the painful but necessary lesson through -much and long tribulation. And his children, although scattered and -living most of them in Australia, retain the love of the truth in their -hearts. - -After the Elders had been recalled, Mary commenced to feel a great -brooding darkness settle down over her. In the day she could throw -it off, but when night closed her labors and laid her at rest, the -darkness would fold around her like a garment. She was anything but -a nervous, imaginative woman, and this terrible darkness grew into -something tangible to her husband as well as to herself. At last he -listened to her and decided to once more sell out and get away. - -Two more girls were born to Mary before leaving Camden vicinity. One, -Caroline, was born May 10, 1858, the other, Louisa, was born June 25, -1860. Mary had then eleven girls, her two sons having died in infancy. -The older girls were very much disappointed that neither of the last -two were boys. Especially was this the case when Louisa was born; -their chagrin being expressed so loudly that it reached their mother's -ears. She was a trifle disappointed herself, but when she heard their -comments she was really sad and cast down. The feeling could not be -shaken off until the next day; when as she lay dozing, a voice plainly -said to her: "You shall have a son, and he shall grow up and be a great -comfort to you in your old age." As usual she related the circumstance -to her husband and he fully believed in it. He thought he would try -"sluicing" for gold in some of the mining camps. The process called -"sluicing gold," or washing it, is as follows: A box about a foot wide -and two feet long, is fitted with several little boards or slats, about -an inch high, across the bottom. This is to make the water ripple -over. Into this box the sand is shoveled, and the water washes away -the dirt leaving tiny nuggets of gold in the bottom of the box. This -is of course in the regions where gold is found plentifully. Rocks are -broken up and shoveled in, and often are richer than the sand. But this -"sluicing" process is a slow one, so much of the finer portions of gold -being washed away. If quicksilver was used to gather the tiny shining -metal, it would prove much more profitable, but quicksilver itself is -expensive. - -So William sold out, and they started up to a place called Lemon Flat -in the early Spring of '61. All of a sudden severe rains set in; the -country was flooded, and the soft soil became actually impassable. -Insomuch so that the family were obliged to relinquish the idea of -going to Lemon Flat and turned aside to go to another mining camp -called Gunderoo. - -While going to Gunderoo the day they reached the outskirts of the town, -was a very tiresome one for all. Mary had a light, one-seated carriage, -a great deal like the one horse delivery carts in Salt Lake City. -She often got out and walked for exercise. In the latter part of the -afternoon, the wagon, followed by the girls and their father, walking, -pushed ahead to reach the summit of the hills overlooking Gunderoo, -or the "gap" as it was called, there to pitch their tents and prepare -supper. - -Mary, walking near the cart, began to feel a curious weakness creep -over her. No pain, only a weakness in every joint. Alarmed at the -long absence of their mother, two of the oldest girls hurried back, -and found her seated by the roadside unable to proceed another step. -They assisted her to rise, and half carried her up the hill to the -tents. She whispered to them to put her in bed in the cart where she -always slept. They did so. But she grew weaker and weaker. She would -faint entirely away, then slowly come back, and wonder feebly what was -the matter, and why they all stood around so. Then faint away again, -and so on all night. At last Jane remembered her mother had a little -consecrated oil packed away, and she searched among the boxes till she -found it. They administered to her then, and she revived some. But -begged to be taken away from that place. - -Her husband felt she might die if he did not comply with her wish, so -they started immediately for Yass river. They were traveling along, -when Mary's horse gave out. She was obliged then to wait for her -husband to return, and get her. She felt much better, and thought she -could get out and walk about a little. So she directed the young man -who drove her cart to let down the shafts. She got out, but the moment -she went to rest her feet on the ground, she fell to the earth. The -young man assisted her into the cart again, and then for three months -she never stood upon her feet. There was no pain whatever, only an -extreme weakness. - -While camping on the Yass river the next evening, Mary had a dream -which when related sounds like the history of her life for the -following twenty years; so true is it in every particular. - -She dreamed that she saw herself and her family, traveling, struggling -and trying to get a start again. Everything seemed to go against her -husband. Sickness came, and she saw herself the only one able to be out -of bed. Deadly sickness too, but she was promised that there should -be no death. Things seemed to grow blacker and blacker. At last, -starvation approached and she saw them all without a morsel of food to -eat; everything sold for food, even their clothes. Then when the last -remnant of property had been taken from them, the tide turned. She -was told they should at last go to Goulburn, where they would break -land, and prosperity should once more visit them, and that they should -finally reach Zion. The dream was terrible in its reality. She awoke -trembling and sobbing, and awaking her husband she told him she had -been having a fearful dream. - -"I would rather," she added, "have my head severed from my body this -minute, than go through what I have dreamed this night." - -"Well, wife," answered William, "let us hope it is nothing but a dream." - -She related it to him, but he felt too confident in his own strength to -believe such a dream as that. It gradually faded from Mary's mind as -such things will do, but now and then some circumstance would recall it -to her mind with all the vividness of reality. - -While camping on the Yass, a stranger came to William and asked him -for his daughter Maria, who was then only fourteen years old. William -replied that Maria was nothing but a child, and he was an utter -stranger, so he could not for a moment think of consenting. Three -nights after this, the man stole the girl away, and when morning came -and the father discovered the loss, he was almost frantic with grief. -He was a most devoted and affectionate father, and he was fairly beside -himself with his daughter's disappearance. He spent money like water. -Advertised, went from place to place, searched and hired others to -search with him, for the missing girl. It was of no use. She was never -found. - -While searching for her four of his horses wandered away, and only one -ever returned. Then, finally giving up in despair, he hired horses and -went to Yass city. Arriving there William obtained work for a man named -Gallager, at putting up a barn. - -They had been settled but a short time when the baby was prostrated -with colonial fever. Mary did all she could, but the child grew worse. -Four months went by and still there was no improvement. At last Mary -persuaded her husband to get a doctor. The doctor came and told the -mother there was one chance in a hundred of the baby's life. No signs -of life seemed left in the little body, but he ordered her to put a -strong mustard poultice over the stomach. "If it raises a blister," -said he, "she will live. If not, she is dead." - -Into Mary's mind there suddenly flashed her dream. "Sickness, but no -death." Well, then, her baby should live. - -A short time after the doctor's departure, Mrs. Gallager, a neighbor, -came into the tent, and said, "Mrs. Chittenden, let me hold the child." - -"No, Mrs. Gallager, thank you, I would rather hold her." - -The woman bustled about and got a tea-kettle of water upon the stove. - -"What are you doing," asked Mary. - -"Getting a bit of hot water. The child is dead, so we will want some -water hot." - -"She will not die, Mrs. Gallager. She is going to live." - -"Why, woman, she is dead now! Her finger nails are black!" - -"No, she is not dead," persisted the mother. Who knows the great power -and faith of a mother? - -Within a few hours the child's breathing became audible. Her recovery -was very slow. And while she still lay weak and ill, William was -stricken down by the same complaint. He grew rapidly worse. He too -lay ill for several months. He was in a very critical condition, but -whenever able to speak he would tell Mary not to bring a doctor, for -he should recover without one. The turn for the better came at last, -and as soon as he was able to get about a little, they determined to -go to Lemon Flat. Their first idea in going to Lemon Flat had been -to homestead, or "free select" land, as it is called in Australia. -However, they were far too poor now to do this, so William got odd jobs -to do. He scraped all he could together, and bought a horse for fifteen -pounds. But shortly afterwards, he heard of one of his lost animals -about eighteen miles up the country, so he made a trip up to find the -animal. Arriving at the place, he heard that a Chinaman had just gone -to another camp, on the horse. That night he tethered his horse out, -and next morning at daybreak went out as usual for him, and behold, he, -too, had disappeared, not leaving a track of a hoof to guide anyone -in a search for him. So William was at last obliged to trudge wearily -home, eighteen miles, carrying his saddle on his back. - -And thus one year dragged heavily by. While here Jane was married to -John Carter, and Ellen to a Grecian man named Nicolas Carco. Also, just -as they were leaving Lemon Flat, Eliza married a Mr. Griffin. - -Now they determined to go once more to Gunderoo to try what could be -done there. The reason why William wished to go to Gunderoo was, that -no matter what came or went, wages could be made by a man in "sluicing -gold." Now the family were almost destitute. After their arrival in -Lemon, and for months, most of the children lay sick with the colonial -fever. - - - -CHAPTER V. - -Between three or four years had passed since they left Camden (over -eight years since the last missionary left Australia), and the -Chittendens were much poorer than they were when they left. - -For many years Mary had been in the habit of going about to her -neighbors, nursing them during confinement. This was a necessity of the -country, one woman going to another, as there were no regular nurses to -be had. She became acquainted in her labors with a Doctor Haley, the -best physician in Goulburn. He always, after the first time when she -nursed under him, sent for her. This practice put many an odd pound -into her pocket. Her husband was far from idle, however. With his -disposition he could never be so. He took charge of the estate of a -gentleman named Massy, who was absent in Ireland for eighteen months on -business. - -As soon as he was released from this situation, where he had earned -some money and a good portion of grain, he rented a farm. With anxious -hope and honest labor he seeded down twenty acres with the grain he had -on hand. - -He who sendeth the rains, withholdeth them at His pleasure! For two -years there was a complete drouth visited the country. William walked -over his field and could not, at the end of the season, pluck one -single armful of grain. - -While living in this place the promised son was born to Mary, and once -again her prophetic dream was realized. He was born May 28, 1865, -and William named him Hyrum. When the baby was two years old, little -Alice came home from school, and said she felt very sick. As long as -there was a second penny in the house, no matter where they were, or -what their circumstances, these good parents had kept their children -at school. Without education themselves, no effort was spared to give -their children the great blessing they had so missed. - -Alice came home, quite sick at her stomach, and her mother felt alarmed -at once, for her children were regularly and simply fed, and when -anything of the kind happened to them she knew it was of an uncommon -and serious nature. - -Jane had returned to her mother's house, while her husband was up the -country on a mining expedition. She had a young baby eleven months old. - -When the doctor came next day he pronounced Alice's case one of the -most violent scarlet fever. Next day Jane and Rachel came down, and -the next day Louisa and Caroline fell ill with the dreadful disease. -Jane had the fever so violently that Mary was obliged to wean the baby. -Everyone in the family was now ill but herself, and she with a baby -two weeks old. For eleven long weeks the anxious mother never had her -clothes off, but to change them. The disease was of such a violent -type that not one human being had courage or had humanity enough to -enter the door. Alone and utterly unaided she went from one bedside to -another administering food and medicine. The physician was the only one -who ever visited her, and at the times when he came (twice a day) to -attend to them, she would sit down long enough to take up her infant -and give it the breast. - -Three months of sickness, toil and suffering, then the fever spent -itself, and Mary could begin to realize their condition financially. -Something must be done, for funds were very, very low. - -There was a sudden excitement about this time at a place called Mack's -Reef, which was three miles from Gunderoo. Gold was found in quartz, -and was very rich indeed, at this new camp. William decided to go. So -investing their last cent to purchase a simple crushing-mill, and to -take themselves out, the Chittendens went to Mack's Reef. - -Misfortune was too well acquainted with them now to be driven away, so -she curled herself up in the crushing-mill, and behold it failed to do -its work. It lost both the gold and the quicksilver. - -Matters were now getting desperate. Food was wanted. Strain and -economize as she might, Mary could not make things hold out much -longer. The pennies followed the shillings, until when the last -half-penny had to be taken for flour, William looked at Mary and said, -"Mary, what are we coming to? Must our children starve?" - -"No, William, please God! But do you remember my dream? You may not -believe it, but I know it was a true dream. Oh, William, why did we not -go to Zion when we were told? Surely our sufferings could not be more -than they are here. Here, take these clothes, they are things that I -can spare; you will have to sell them for bread." - -And so it went. Garment followed garment, and yet there seemed no -chance of earning a penny. Finally, there were no more clothes; -everything was sold. - -Then William took his gun, and went to the woods. But after a very -short time that, too, failed and they were starving. - -That night, when the little children were put hungry to bed, William -walked the floor in the agony of his mind. "My God!" groaned the -wretched man, "must my children starve before my very eyes? In my pride -I fancied my family would be better in my hands than in the hands of -their Almighty Father! Oh, that I had listened to counsel! Now my -family are fast leaving my roof, and we that are left are starving. -Starving in a land of plenty!" - -God listened to the prayers of His humbled son, and he was enabled to -get a little something to eat. But the lesson was not over yet. - -Mary had obtained a situation as nurse and this helped them. William -thought he would go up to Goulburn, a large inland town, where he felt -sure he would find some employment. Accordingly he left the family with -Mary, but of course in very wretched circumstances. It was the best -that he could do, so Mary was satisfied to be left. - -The trip to Goulburn was made in the old spring cart, which had been -left of the wreck of their comfortable traveling outfit. The horse, -which William had just found previous to starting, was one of the four -he had lost on the Yass river. The poor thing had been so abused that -it was almost worthless. In fact, it had no money value, for in that -country where good stock was comparatively cheap he had tried again -and again before leaving Mack's Reef to sell the horse and the cart, -or either alone, in order to get flour for his starving family, but no -purchaser could be found. - -So he went up to Goulburn and took odd jobs as he could get them. When -he had been gone some few months, a company of prospecters brought in -a new machine to crush the quartz. This fanned the dead embers of hope -in every one's breast, and even Mary thought if she could get William -to come down and try his quartz in this new mill, they would succeed at -last. - -But how to get word to him? He was at Goulburn, eighteen miles away. -There was no mail, and she had not a vestige of anything to pay for -sending word to him. She was very weak too from lack of food. But every -one around her was so confident of the grand success about to be made, -that she resolved to try to walk up to Goulburn. Accordingly, she set -out leaving the baby at home with the girls, and walked feebly towards -Goulburn. She was about half-way there when she came to a river. This -was forded by teams, but across it had been thrown a plank, and a -poor one it was, too. Mary looked at the foaming water, and then at -the rotten plank, and felt it would be an impossibility almost to go -across. Still, she must get over, so she started; but she had only got -a little way out before her head began to reel, she was weak and faint, -and about to fall, when she had sense remaining to lay flat down on the -plank, and wait for strength. As she prayed for strength and help she -heard a horse's hoofs behind her, and a gentleman on horseback dashed -into the stream. He rode up to her and said, - -"Madam, permit me to help you. Let me take your hand and I will ride -close by the board, and thus get you across all right." - -"Oh sir, you are very kind," answered Mary as she arose thanking God -that He had heard her prayer. - -"Where are you going, madam? Pardon me, I do not ask from idle -curiosity." - -"To Goulburn, sir to my husband." - -"I was wondering as I came along, to see a woman on this lonely road. -You surely do not expect to reach Goulburn to-night?" - -"I thought sir, I would go as far as I could, then lie down and rest -until I could go further." - -"Well my poor woman, good-by! and success attend you on your journey." - -"Many thanks, kind sir, may God reward your kind act." And so he rode -on. - -Mary went on some distance, and began to feel that she could go no -farther. Suddenly she saw a woman approaching her. Wondering, the two -women at last met, and the stranger said to Mary, - -"Are you the woman a gentleman on horseback assisted across the river?" - -"Yes ma'am." - -"Then you are to come with me. He has paid us for your supper and -lodging to-night. Also, he paid me to come out and meet you and show -you the way." - -"Thank God! I am almost worn out. What was the gentleman's name, -please?" - -"That I can't tell. But here's our house. Come, get your supper, it is -waiting." - -And thus was her humble prayer answered, and a friend raised up to her -in her sore need. - -The next day Mary reached Goulburn, and she and her husband returned -the following day in the cart, to Mack's Reef. But after reaching -the Reef, William found it would require quite a sum of money to do -anything with his quartz, so at last abandoning everything, he left the -Reef in disgust. The poor old horse died shortly after that, and thus -they only had the cart remaining. The harvest time was approaching, -and William had the rent to pay on the farm he had taken, and which -had failed so dismally. So he went to the owner and offered to harvest -out the amount. The offer was accepted, and he went harvesting the -remainder of the season. - -Meantime, Mary had been sent for, to nurse a lady who lived a few miles -out from Gunderoo. So, not liking to lose so good an opportunity of -making a bit of money, she weaned her ten month's old baby, and left -him at home with the girls. She was engaged for a month, receiving a -pound a week, about twenty dollars a month, for her services. - -When she returned, she found her husband at home. "You know, William, -I told you my dream would surely be fulfilled. Are you not willing to -admit that so far it has come true every word?" - -"Well yes, Mary, but what then?" - -"Then, in my dream we were to lose everything before the turn would -come, and we should commence to prosper. We've nothing left now but the -spring cart. Give that, as it is too poor to sell, to Isaac Norris. -Then let us go to Goulburn, and once more try farming. You know we must -break land there." - -"Thou art like a woman. If we part with the cart, how, pray, shall we -get to Goulburn." "Why, William, have I not brought home four pounds? -That will move us to Goulburn. Come husband, let us get away from -here." At length William consented; the spring cart was given to their -son-in-law, Isaac Norris, and the whole family moved up to Goulburn. -Their daughter Alice was soon after married to a Mr. Larkum, and had -one child named Lavinia by him. The girl was treated very badly, and at -last gave the child to her mother to raise. Mary has never since been -separated from this child, but has reared her as her own. Four or five -years passed away, William farming and Mary nursing at times. William -did the farming for a widow lady named Day, who kept a lodging-house -about four miles out from Goulburn. She was a very fine, active, -kind-hearted woman, and for the next ten years, was a true friend to -the Chittendens. In fact, the best friend they ever had in Australia. -Mary used often to go up to her house, when not out nursing, for a -week at a time to assist the widow with her work. Goulburn is a very -large, handsome, inland town in Australia, situated in the midst of a -rich farming district. On one side of the town, away to the left, was -a large hill, covered with fine timber. The Chittendens had rented a -small house about four miles out from Goulburn. - -About five years after their coming to Goulburn, Mary had another -dream. A personage came to her and began talking to her of her affairs. -This personage said to her among other things: - -"You shall take a farm, on the opposite side of the road to where you -now live. And, after, you shall prosper exceedingly. Then you shall -take money, constantly, from this side of the road, and you shall be -blessed, insomuch that you shall soon go to Zion thereafter." When she -awoke, she told the dream to her husband. Shortly after this a rumor -reached them that a certain man named Grimson was about to give up -his farm, which he rented from a gentleman named Gibson. This surely -must be the place of her dream, for was it not across the road from -them? And so she talked to her husband about the matter. But he had no -sympathy nor hope to give her on the subject. - -"Mary how can you think of such a thing? What could I do with a farm? I -haven't a tool nor an animal to use. It is impossible. So don't talk of -it." - -But Mary was far from satisfied. However, she knew her husband too well -to urge the matter, when he spoke as he had done. And further, in a -very short time after the farm was vacated, it was re-let to another -person. Mary was thus forced to give it up. A month or so slipped by, -and one night Mary dreamed the same dream, in relation to the farm -across the road. She thought, however, she would not mention it to her -husband. In a week or so, they again heard the farm was to let, as the -family was dissatisfied. Then Mary made bold to tell her husband of the -repetition of the dream, and beg him to try and take it. - -"Why do you keep urging me about that farm, Mary? I have not one thing -to do with. I tell you it is impossible." - -And again disappointed, Mary thought she would say no more about -the matter. That day she was going up to spend a week at Mrs. Day's -assisting her in her housework and cleaning. After she arrived there, -she prepared breakfast, and she and Mrs. Day sat down to eat. As they -were talking, Mrs. Day said, "Why doesn't Mr. Chittenden take that farm -of Gibson's? I hear it is again vacant. He is a good farmer, and could -easily attend to that as well as look after mine." - -"He would like to do so, no doubt, but he thinks he could not on -account of having nothing to do with, no teams nor machines, nor in -fact anything." - -"Well, if that's where the trouble lies, I'll tell you what I'll do. He -shall have the use of my horses and plows and all the farm machines for -nothing, and I will furnish him seed grain for the first year, and he -can let me have it back after he gets a start." - -"Oh Mrs. Day, you are too good to us." - -"Not a bit of it. I would do more than that to keep you in the country. -You know that I could not possibly live without your help," replied the -lady, laughingly. - -Mary could hardly contain herself for joy. And when night came, she -begged to be allowed to go home that night, as she could not wait a -whole week before telling her husband the good news. - -Accordingly she hurried home that night and told her husband what Mrs. -Day had said. - -"Mary," said William, "if Mrs. Day tells me the same as she tells you, -I'll take Gibson's farm." - -So early the next morning they started on their errand. The farm house -opposite them was vacant, and as they passed Mary asked herself, -tremblingly, if they should be sufficiently blessed to live there. Mrs. -Day greeted them very kindly and told them they were just in time for -breakfast. - -"Thank you, Mrs. Day; but Mary has been telling me you spoke to her -about our taking Gibson's farm." - -"So I did, Chittenden; and I tell you if you'll take the farm, keeping -mine too, mind, you shall have the use of my team, wagon and farm -implements. Besides, I will lend you your seed grain for the first -year, and you can return it afterwards." - -"Well, Mrs. Day, if you are so kind as that, all I can do is to thank -you and accept the offer. I will go right on to Mr. Gibson at once and -make the bargain." - -Mr. Gibson was quite pleased to have William take the farm. That same -week the family moved across the road, and Mary felt like a new woman. - -During all these fifteen years you may be sure Mary and William had -often talked of the religion that was so dear to both. Their daughters, -although they had, perforce, married those outside the Church, were -staunch "Mormons," and are to this day. - -One day William met Mr. Gibson who said, "I have been thinking, -William, you can open a gate on the other side of the road, opposite -your own door, and make a bit of a road to the woods, and you can take -toll from the gate. You know you live on the public turnpike from -Goulburn, and this toll road would be a good thing to the Goulburn -people." - -"How much could you allow me, sir?" - -"Five shillings from every pound. Then your children could attend the -gate." - -"Very well, I will do so, and am very grateful to you for the -privilege." - -"Well, mother," said William soon after, as he entered the house, "your -money is coming from the other side of the road." - -And when he had laughingly told her how, she said she felt more like -crying than laughing, she was so grateful to God. - - - -CHAPTER VI. - -The story of prosperity is so much easier to tell, and in truth is so -much shorter than the tale of adversity and suffering, that we may -well hasten over the remaining five years of their waiting in that -far-distant land. - -Everything prospered. But about the second year William's health -commenced to break down. Gradually he became more and more incapable of -work, until at last, one day, he came in and throwing himself down, he -exclaimed, "Mary, I have done my last day's work." It was even so. But -God did not fail them. - -In 1875, two men came up to the door, and asked for food and shelter. -When they announced themselves as Elders from Utah, Mary's hands were -outstretched and her heart filled with great joy, even as her eyes ran -over with happy tears. - -The Elders were Jacob Miller of Farmington, and David Cluff of Provo, -since dead. A month or two afterwards, Elder Charles Burton and John M. -Young of Salt Lake City, also were warmly welcomed at the farm. - -William's illness was Bright's disease of the kidneys, and he was -slowly dying. - -They left Sydney on the 7th of April, 1877, for Utah, six souls in all, -William and Mary, their children Caroline, Louise and Hyrum, with the -one grandchild, Lavinia. - -On their arrival they went at once to Provo. William had much more to -bear of poverty and suffering, than any one could have dreamed, even -after their arrival here. Mary went out washing to eke out their store, -(they had barely ten dollars left,) and the two girls got positions in -the factory. - -Within a year, Caroline married Eleazer Jones, and Louisa married -Abraham Wild. The last named couple live near their mother now. - -Caroline has moved with her husband to Arizona. Mary's eldest daughter, -Mary Ann Mayberry, also came with her husband and family to Utah in -1879. - -I would not linger if I could on the severe suffering, and painful -death of William, just twelve months from the day they left home. - -When the sad day came on which he left them all, in spite of his awful -agony, he called his only boy Hyrum, who was then thirteen years old, -and stretching out the thin, wasted hands he blessed him fervently, and -said, "You are going to be a good boy to your mother, I think?" - -"Yes, father, I will," answered the lad, manfully. - -"My boy, I can do nothing, no work in the Temple for her, nor for -myself; I have got to go." - -"If you have got to go, father," tremblingly said the boy, "I will do -all that lies in my power." - -"Remember mother, Hyrum, she has been good to us, and worked hard for -us all her days." Then again he blessed him, and soon the peaceful end -came, and the poor aching frame was at rest. - -A year or two of hard, constant work at the wash tub passed away, and -one night the personage who had visited Mary before came to her in a -dream and said: - -"Mary, the time has now come for you to go and do the work for -yourself and your husband. If you will go, you shall soon have a home -afterwards." - -Here was a command and a promise. Hyrum had shot up and was a tall, -quiet-mannered young man, and had gone out on a surveying expedition, -carrying chains for the men, to earn some money. His great ambition was -to get a home for his mother. - -On his return from the surveying expedition he put nearly $100.00 into -his mother's hands. A day or two after he said, "Mother I would like to -go down to St. George and do Father's work; you know I promised him to -do it as soon as I could, and this is the first money I have ever had. -I am sixteen years old, and if the Bishop thinks I am worthy, I would -like to go." - -Mary quickly told her dream, which she had hesitated mentioning, -fearing he would not like it, but he believed it. - -"Mother, I will go this very night," he said when she had concluded her -story, "and see what the Bishop says." - -So down he went, and Bishop Booth very willingly told him to go, and he -felt pleased to give the necessary recommends. - -They went and had a most glorious time, and on her return Mary went to -washing again. But mark! In less than one year from that time they had -bargained for a place, and got two little rooms built upon it. - -If you come to Provo, go and see dear old Sister Chittenden; she is -sixty-six years old, and quite a hearty, happy little woman yet. - -She meditatively pushes aside her neat, black lace cap from her ear, -with her finger, as I ask what to say to you in farewell, and with mild -but tearful eyes, says: - -"Tell them for me, always to be obedient to the counsel of those who -are over them; and obey the whisperings of God, trusting to Him for the -result! And then, God bless them all! Amen." - - - -A HEROINE OF HAUN'S MILL MASSACRE. - -The name of Sister Amanda, or Mrs. Warren Smith, is well known to the -Latter-day Saints. She has had a most eventful life, and the terrible -tragedy of Haun's Mill, in Caldwell county, when her husband and son -were killed, and another son wounded, have made her name familiar to -all who have read the history of the mobbings and drivings in the State -of Missouri. Mrs. Smith was born in Becket, Birkshire Co., Mass., Feb. -22, 1809. Her parents were Ezekiel and Fanny Barnes; she was one of a -family of ten children. Her grandfather, on her mother's side, James -Johnson, came from Scotland in an early day, and in the revolutionary -war held the office of general; he was a great and brave man. Sister -Smith says that her father left Massachusetts when she was quite young -and went up to Ohio, and settled in Amherst, Lorain county, where the -family endured all the privations and hardships incident to a new -country. The following is her own narrative: - -"At eighteen years of age I was married to Warren Smith; we had plenty -of this world's goods and lived comfortable and happily together, -nothing of particular interest transpiring until Sidney Rigdon and -Orson Hyde came to our neighborhood preaching Campbellism. I was -converted and baptized by Sidney Rigdon; my husband did not like it, -yet gave his permission. I was at that time the mother of two children. -Soon after my conversion to the Campbellite faith, Simeon D. Carter -came preaching the everlasting gospel, and on the 1st day of April, -1831, he baptized me into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day -Saints, of which I have ever since been a member. My husband was -baptized shortly after and we were united in our faith. - -"We sold out our property in Amherst and went to Kirtland, and bought -a place west of the Temple, on the Chagrin river, where we enjoyed -ourselves in the society of the Saints, but after the failure of the -Kirtland bank and other troubles in that place, in consequence of our -enemies, we lost all our property except enough to fit up teams, etc., -to take us to Missouri. We started in the Spring of 1838, and bade -farewell to the land of our fathers and our home to go and dwell with -the Saints in what then seemed a far-off place. - -"There were several families of us and we traveled on without much -difficulty until we came to Caldwell county, Missouri. One day as we -were going on as usual, minding our own business, we were stopped by a -mob of armed men, who told us if we went another step they would kill -us all. They commenced plundering, taking our guns from our wagons, -which we had brought, as we were going into a new country, and after -thus robbing us took us back five miles, placed a guard around us, and -kept us there in that way three days, and then let us go. We journeyed -on ten miles further, though our hearts were heavy and we knew not what -might happen next. Then we arrived at a little town of about eight or -ten houses, a grist and saw mill belonging to the Saints. We stopped -there to camp for the night. A little before sunset a mob of three -hundred armed men came upon us. Our brethren halloed for the women and -children to run for the woods, while they (the men) ran into an old -blacksmith shop. - -"They feared, if men, women and children were in one place, the mob -would rush upon them and kill them all together. The mob fired before -the women had time to start from the camp. The men took off their hats -and swung them and cried for quarter, until they were shot down; the -mob paid no attention to their entreaties, but fired alternately. I -took my little girls (my boys I could not find) and ran for the woods. -The mob encircled us on all sides, excepting the bank of the creek, so -I ran down the bank and crossed the mill pond on a plank, ran up the -hill on the other side into the bushes; and the bullets whistled by me -like hailstones, and cut down the bushes on all sides of me. One girl -was wounded by my side, and she fell over a log; her clothes happened -to hang over the log in sight of the mob, and they fired at them, -supposing that it was her body, and after all was still our people cut -out of that log twenty bullets. - -"When the mob had done firing they began to howl, and one would have -thought a horde of demons had escaped from the lower regions. They -plundered our goods, what we had left, they took possession of our -horses and wagons, and drove away, howling like so many demons. After -they had gone I came down to behold the awful scene of slaughter, and, -oh! what a horrible sight! My husband and one of my sons, ten years -old, lay lifeless upon the ground, and another son, six years old, -wounded and bleeding, his hip all shot to pieces; and the ground all -around was covered with the dead and dying. Three little boys had crept -under the blacksmith's bellows; one of them received three wounds; he -lived three weeks, suffering all the time incessantly, and at last -died. He was not mine, the other two were mine. One of whom had his -brains all shot out, the other his hip shot to pieces." This last was -Alma Smith, who lives at Coalville, and who still carries the bullets -of the mob in his body, but was healed by the power of God through -the careful nursing and earnest faith of his mother. "My husband was -nearly stripped of his clothes before he was quite dead; he had on a -new pair of calf-skin boots, and they were taken off him by one whom -they designated as Bill Mann, who afterward made his brags that he -'pulled a d--d Mormon's boots off his feet while he was kicking.' -It was at sunset when the mob left and we crawled back to see and -comprehend the extent of our misery. The very dogs seemed filled with -rage, howling over their dead masters, and the cattle caught the scent -of innocent blood, and bellowed. A dozen helpless widows grieving for -the loss of their husbands, and thirty or forty orphaned or fatherless -children were screaming and crying for their fathers, who lay cold and -insensible around them. The groans of the wounded and dying rent the -air. All this combined was enough to melt the heart of anything but a -Missouri mobocrat. There were fifteen killed and ten wounded, two of -whom died the next day." - -"As I returned from the woods, where I had fled for safety, to the -scene of slaughter, I found the sister who started with me lying in a -pool of blood. She had fainted, but was only shot through the hand. -Further on was Father McBride, an aged, white-haired revolutionary -soldier; his murderer had literally cut him to pieces with an old -corn-cutter. His hands had been split down when he raised them in -supplication for mercy. Then one of the mob cleft open his head with -the same weapon, and the veteran who had fought for the freedom of -his country in the glorious days of the past, was numbered with the -martyrs. My eldest son, Willard, took my wounded boy upon his back -and bore him to our tent. The entire hip bone, joint and all were -shot away. We laid little Alma upon our bed and examined the wound. I -was among the dead and dying: I knew not what to do. I was there all -that long dreadful night with my dead and my wounded, and none but -God as physician and help. I knew not but at any moment the mob might -return to complete their dreadful work. In the extremity of my agony -I cried unto the Lord, 'O, Thou who hearest the prayers of the widow -and fatherless, what shall I do? Thou knowest my inexperience, Thou -seest my poor, wounded boy, what shall I do? Heavenly Father, direct -me!' And I was directed as if by a voice speaking to me. Our fire was -smouldering; we had been burning the shaggy bark of hickory logs. The -voice told me to take those ashes and make a solution, then saturate a -cloth with it and put it right into the wound. It was painful, but my -little boy was too near dead to heed the pain much. Again and again I -saturated the cloth and put it into the hole from which the hip joint -had been plowed out, and each time mashed flesh and splinters of bone -came away with the cloth, and the wound became white and clean. I had -obeyed the voice that directed me, and having done this, prayed again -to the Lord to be instructed further; and was answered as distinctly -as though a physician had been standing by speaking to me. A slippery -elm tree was near by, and I was told to make a poultice of the roots of -the slippery elm and fill the wound with it. My boy Willard procured -the slippery elm from the roots of the tree; I made the poultice and -applied it. The wound was so large it took a quarter of a yard of linen -to cover it. After I had properly dressed the wound, I found vent to -my feelings in tears for the first time, and resigned myself to the -anguish of the hour. All through the night I heard the groans of the -sufferers, and once in the dark we groped our way over the heap of dead -in the blacksmith shop, to try to soothe the wants of those who had -been mortally wounded, and who lay so helpless among the slain. - -"Next morning Brother Joseph Young came to the scene of bloodshed and -massacre. 'What shall be done with the dead?' he asked. There was no -time to bury them, the mob was coming on us; there were no men left to -dig the graves. 'Do anything, Brother Joseph,' I said, 'except to leave -their bodies to the fiends who have killed them.' Close by was a deep, -dry well. Into this the bodies were hurried, sixteen or seventeen in -number. No burial service, no customary rites could be performed. All -were thrown into the well except my murdered boy, Sardius. When Brother -Young was assisting to carry him on a board to the well, he laid down -the corpse and declared he could not throw that boy into the horrible, -dark, cold grave. He could not perform the last office for one so young -and interesting, who had been so foully murdered, and so my martyred -son was left unburied. 'Oh, they have left my Sardius unburied in the -sun,' I cried, and ran and covered his body with a sheet. He lay there -until the next day, and then I, his own mother, horrible to relate, -assisted by his elder brother, Willard, went back and threw him into -this rude vault with the others, and covered them as well as we could -with straw and earth. - -"After disposing of the dead the best that we could, we commended -their bodies to God and felt that He would take care of them, and of -those whose lives were spared. I had plenty to do to take care of my -little orphaned children, and could not stop to think or dwell upon -the awful occurrence. My poor, wounded boy demanded constant care, and -for three months I never left him night or day. The next day the mob -came back and told us we must leave the State, or they would kill us -all. It was cold weather; they had taken away our horses and robbed us -of our clothing; the men who had survived the massacre were wounded; -our people in other parts of the State were passing through similar -persecutions, and we knew not what to do. - -"I told them they might kill me and my children in welcome. They sent -to us messages from time to time, that if we did not leave the State -they would come and make a breakfast of us. We sisters used to have -little prayer meetings, and we had mighty faith; the power of God was -manifested in the healing of the sick and wounded. The mob told us we -must stop these meetings, if we did not they would kill every man, -woman and child. We were quiet and did not trouble anyone. We got our -own wood, we did our own milling, but in spite of all our efforts to be -at peace, they would not allow us to remain in the State of Missouri. -I arranged everything, fixed up my poor, wounded boy, and on the first -day of February started, without any money, on my journey towards the -State of Illinois; I drove my own team and slept out of doors. I had -four small children, and we suffered much from cold, hunger and fatigue. - -"I once asked one of the mob what they intended when they came upon our -camp; he answered they intended to 'kill everything that breathed.' I -felt the loss of my husband greatly, but rejoiced that he died a martyr -to the cause of truth. He went full of faith and in hope of a glorious -resurrection. As for myself I had unshaken confidence in God through it -all. - -"In the year 1839 I married again, to a man bearing the same name -as my deceased husband (Warren Smith), though they were not in the -least related. He was also a blacksmith and our circumstances were -prosperous. By this marriage I had three children. Amanda Malvina, who -died in Nauvoo; also Warren Barnes and Sarah Marinda, who are still -living, the former at American Fork and is counselor to the Bishop, the -latter at Hyde Park. - -"I enjoyed the privilege of seeing the Temple finished, and of -receiving therein the blessing of holy ordinances. Willard, my -first-born son, also had his endowments in that Temple, and came out -among the first who left there; was one of the Mormon Battalion, who -were called to go to Mexico while we were _en route_ to find a resting -place for the Saints. Willard is now, and has been for several years -past, President of Morgan Stake." - -During the time they lived in Nauvoo, President Joseph organized a -Relief Society. Sister Smith became a member of its first organization -and greatly rejoiced in the benevolent work; much good was accomplished -by it. - -In July, 1847, they started from Nauvoo intending to go with the Saints -to the Rocky Mountains, but for the want of sufficient means for so -long a journey they were compelled to stop in Iowa. They remained until -the year 1850, when they took up their line of march for Salt Lake -City, arriving on the 18th of September, safe and well. Shortly after -arriving in this city, her husband, who had been for some time dilatory -in his duties, apostatized from the faith, and they separated. She took -the children with her and provided for herself. - -On the 24th of January, 1854, a number of ladies met together to -consider the importance of organizing a society for the purpose of -making clothes for the Indians and other charitable work, which was -properly organized Feb. 9th. Sister Smith was one of the officers of -the society, which resulted in much temporal good being accomplished. - -In consequence of the many hardships she endured through the -persecutions in Missouri which were heaped upon her and her family by -a relentless mob, her health was undermined, and as years increased, -infirmities settled upon her which rendered her unable to retain the -position she had held in the Relief Society. She was honorably released -and will ever be remembered by the Bishop and his counselors and the -members of the Ward for her benevolence and self-denial in ministering -to the unfortunate. - -Sister Smith has much to rejoice over even in her present affliction, -for she has raised her family in the principles of the gospel of Christ -and the fear of God, and they remain true and steadfast to the faith -of the latter-day work. A good woman, who has reared to manhood and -womanhood a large family almost without a father's help, is certainly -worthy of commendation and must have great satisfaction in her life and -labor. She has been for more than fifty years a member of the Church of -Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. - -There are very few now living who have a record of more than half a -century in the Church. Sister Smith has endeared herself to a very -large number of the Latter-day Saints, who are ever ready to do her -honor for her faith, integrity and the many estimable qualities which -have beautified and adorned her life. - -Her testimony of the massacre at Haun's mill, in Missouri, is that of -an eye witness and participator. Indeed she might with all propriety -be termed the heroine of that fearful tragedy, for her sublimity of -courage surpassed that of ordinary mortals. God was with her in His -power in her hour of severe trouble and she was indeed a host in -herself. In conclusion we would say may heaven's choicest blessings -rest upon her the remainder of her days here upon the earth, and her -heart be filled with joy and peace continually and may she continue -to bear a faithful testimony to the truth, and live until she has -accomplished all she has ever anticipated for the living and the dead. -E. B. 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