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my dear mother.' She mentioned a discourse delivered by Joseph, after his return from Washington, in which he said. that he had done all that could be done on earth to obtain justice for their wrongs; but they were all, from the President to the judge, determined not to grant justice. 'But,' said he, 'keep good courage, these cases recorded in heaven, and I going to lay them before highest court in heaven.' Little did I then think he was so soon to leave us, to take the case up himself. And don't you think this case is now being tried? * * * I feel that the Lord will let Brother Brigham take the people away. Here in this city. Here in this city lay my dead, my husband and children, and if so be the rest of my children go with you (and I would to God they may all go), they will not go without me; and if I go I want my bones brought back, in case I die away, and deposited with my husband and children."

President Brigham Young remarked: "Mother Smith proposes a thing which rejoices my heart. She will go with us. I can answer for the authorities of the Church;

we want her and her children to go with us; and I pledge myself in behalf of the authorities of the Church, that while we have anything they shall share with us. * * * I say, in the name of the Latter-day Saints, we will supply her wants. Joseph once said, with outstretched arms,

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'If I fall in battle in Missouri, I want you to bring my bones back and deposit them in that sepulchre. I command you to do it in the name of the Lord.' And I pledge myself, if Mother Smith goes with us, and I outlive her, I will do my best to bring her bones back again and deposit them with her children, and I want to know if this people are willing to enter into a covenant to do the same." (Unanimous vote.) He continued: "We are determined also to use every means in our power to do all that Joseph told us; and we will petition Sister Emma (the prophet's wife) to let us deposit the remains. of Joseph according as he commanded us; and if she will not consent to it our garments clear."

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IN Walkertown, Canada, a woman, Miss Roether, is superintendent of the jail, and a very favorable report of the Bruce County jail has been rendered by the Ontario prison inspector.

THE street-cleaning and sprinkling business of Newburgh has been conducted with profit and success for the past seventeen years by a women. She employs twenty men, but does her own collecting and superintends the work.

A GOLD brick worth $230,000 will be exhibited at the World's Fair by Montana.

"We must be gentle now we are gentlemen."

SHAKESPEARE.

"Manners are not idle, but the fruit
Of noble nature and of loyal mind."
TENNYSON.

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues and pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts."-EMERSON.

"Manners are often too much neglected; they are most important to men, no less than to women; manners are the shadows to virtues." REV. SIDNEY SMITH.

"MANNER," says Samuel Smiles, "is one of the principal external graces of character. It is the ornament of action, and often makes the commonest office beautiful by the way in which it performs them.

"It is a happy way of doing things, adorning even the smallest details of life and contributing to render it as a whole agreeable and pleasant. Manner is not so frivolous or unimportant as some may think it to be; for it tends greatly to facilitate the business of life, as well as to sweeten and soften social intercourse. 'Virtue itself,' says Bishop Middleton, 'offends when coupled with a forbidding manner.'

"Manner has a good deal to do with the estimation in which men are held by the world, and has often more influence in the government of others than qualities of much greater depth and substance. A manner at once gracious and cordial is among the greatest aids to success, and many there are who fail for want of it; for a great deal depends upon first

usually favorable or otherwise according to man's courteousness and civility. While rudeness and shut gruffness bar doors and hearts, kindness and propriety of behavior, in which good manners consist, act as an open sesame everywhere; doors unbar before them, and they are a passport to the hearts of everybody, young and old. There is a common saying that 'Manners make the man;' but this is not so true as that Man makes the manners.' A man may be gruff, and even rude, and yet be good at heart and of sterling character; yet he would doubtless be a much more agreeable and probably a more useful man, were he to exhibit that suavity of disposition. and courtesy of manner which always gives a finish to the true gentleman.

"A man's manner, to a certain extent, indicates his character. It is the external exponent of his inner nature. It indicates his taste, his feelings, and his temper, as well as the society to which he has been accustomed. There is a conventional manner, which is of very little importance; but the natural manner, the outcome of natural gifts, improved by careful self-culture, signifies a great deal.

"Grace of manner is inspired by sentiment, which is a source of no slight enjoyment to a cultivated mind. Viewed

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light, sentiment is of almost as much importance as talents and acquirements, while it is even more influential in giving the direction to a man's taste and character.

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some degree of self restraint in society a person may be found almost insufferable. For want of self-restraint many people are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, rendering success impossible

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a single exercise of judgment; but a union of both is requisite to the existence of anything which deserves the name. Webster defines it as a nice perception, critical discernment. Taste views things not merely as they are in themselves, but as they are or are not adapted to the objects with which they are associated and the surrounding circumstances; and sentiment is defined as thought prompted by feeling; sensibility, decision. formed by deliberation or reasoning. Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others. It not only teaches politeness and courtesy, but gives insight and unfolds wisdom, and may almost be regarded as the crowning grace of humanity.

"Want of respect for the feelings of others usually originates in selfishness, and issues in hardness and repulsiveness in manners. It may not proceed from malignity so much as from want of sympathy and want of delicacy a want of that perception of and attention to those little and

apparently trifling things by which pleasure is given and pain occasioned to others. Without

gentleness; while others who may be much less gifted make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity and self control. It may be said that people succeed in life quite as much by their temper as by their talents. We may show our disregard of others in various impolite ways, as, for instance, by neglect of propriety in dress, by absence of cleanliness, or by indulging in repulsive habits. The slovenly, dirty person, by rendering himself physically disagreeable, sets the tastes and feelings of others at defiance, and is rude and uncivil, only under another form.. Good manners are usually sup posed to be the peculiar characteristic of persons gently born and bred, and of persons moving in the higher rather than in the lower spheres of sociey, and this is no doubt to a great extent true, because of the more favorable surroundings of the former in early life; but there is no reason why the poorest classes should not practice good manners towards each other as well as the richest. One may be polite and gentle with very little money in his purse. Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing. Is the humblest of the fine arts, yet is so

useful and pleasure giving that it might be ranked among the humanities. The French, and Germans, of even the humblest classes, are gracious in manner, complaisant, cordial and well bred. A great deal of the success of manner consists in tact, and it is because women, on the whole, have greater tact than men that they prove its most influential teachers. They have more self-restraint than men, and are naturally more gracious and polite. They possess an intuitive. quickness and readiness of action, have a keener insight into character, and exhibit exhibit greater discrimination and address. In matters of social detail aptness and dexterity come to them like nature, and hence well-mannered men usually receive their best culture by mixing in the society. of gentle and adroit women. Tact is an intuitive art of manner which carries one through a difficulty better than either talent or knowledge. Talent is power,

tact is skill; talent makes a man respectable, tact makes him respected. Talent knows what to do, tact knows how to do it. Talent is wealth, tact is ready money. While grace of manner, politeness of behavior, elegance of demeanor, and all the arts that contribute to make life pleasant and beautiful, worthy of cultivation, it must not be at the expense of more solid and enduring qualities of honesy, sincerity and truthfulness. The fountain of beauty must be in the

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heart more than in the eye, and if it do not tend to produce beautiful life and noble practice. it will prove of very little avail. While the cultivation of grace is not to be neglected, it should never be forgotten that there is something far higher and nobler to be aimed at, greater than pleasure, greater than art, greater than wealth, greater than power, greater than intellect, greater than genius, and that is purity and excellence of character. Without a solid, sterling basis of individual goodness, all the grace, elegance and art in the world. would fail to save or to elevate a people."

We have quoted copiously from this great writer, feeling sure that his words would have more weight than anything that our feeble pen could frame on this intensely important and interesting subject. And now I think I hear a bevy of bright, fun-loving girls, comely in fɔrm and feature, as our innocent girls are, who are not quite sure of the ways of polite society, yet anxious to learn, asking us to give some good rules for

INTRODUCTION,

for on approaching the charmed. circle of what is termed society. every timid young girl senses a degree of self-distrust very painful and embarassing. She is anxious to do "just right," and do it all with an easy grace like one accustomed to it. That is a right feeling, and with a few rules firmly fixed in her memory, by

observing how others do, and being careful, not too conscious of self, however, thinking that others are making her their special study, she will never appear very awkward in any place. It is my humble opinion that in all mixed companies our girls cannot be too careful of the liberty they give others in introducing them to new acquaintance. There are many people whom we are obliged to meet whom we do not care to know, and it is, or should be, in the power of every girl to protect herself from undesirable acquaintances. But in companies where all are known. to be of good character, among those known as good Latter-day Saints, we should not be too reserved and require a formal introduction before exchanging the common civilities of the occasion; sitting in silent reserve, maintaining a "I am better than thou" expression and attitude, but wear a pleasant expression, and appear willing to enter into conversation with those present.

To introducing persons who are mutually unknown is to undertake a serious responsibility, and to certify to each the respectability of the other. Never undertake this responsibility without in the first place asking yourself whether the persons are likely to be agreeable to each other; nor, in the second place, without ascertaining whether it will be acceptable to both parties. to become acquainted. First. Always introduce the gentleman

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to the lady, never the lady to the gentleman. The chivalry of etiquette assumes that the lady is invariably the superior in right of her sex, and that the gentleman is honored in the introduction. This rule is to be observed even when the social rank of the gentleman is higher than that of the lady. Second. Where the are the same, always present the inferior to the superior, the younger to the older. Third. Never present a gentleman to a lady without first asking her permission to do so. In introducing a gentleman to a lady, address her first as, for instance, "Miss Wilson, permit me to make you acquainted with Mr. Davis;" or, "Miss Leslie, allow me to present Mr. Wilkins;" also if one lady is married, the other single, present the single lady to the matron "Miss Thompson, let me introduce you to Mrs. McKee." It is in good taste to mention the name of the town or city to which either may belong, as, "Mr. Stephenson, of Boston,' "Mr. Warren, of Chicago." In introducing a foreigner, it is proper to present him as, "Mr. Howard, from England," "Mr. Dupont, from France." In introducing one of your own countrymen, recently returned from a distant part of the world, make him known as "Mr. Edwards just from Germany;" or if one or the other is going on a mission or visit to any country, it is well to say, "Mr. Miner, who soon starts on a visit, mission, etc.,