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Juvenile Instructor VOL. 6. SALT LAKE CITY, SATURDAY, MARCH i, 1871. NO. 5. THIE J J± Or TJ J± tt. BELOW we have a picture of a Jaguar springing from regular open marks. The thighs and legs are marked full the brancli of a tree on a band of wild horses passing with black spots ; the breast and belly are whitish ; evidently with the intention of fastening the tail not so long as the underneath, body ; the upper part marked itself on the back of one of them. Once secure in that with black spots, the lower with smaller ones." position the affrighted You may notice that horse will, no doubt, fall this description agrees an easy prey to its sharp with the appearance of. teeth and strong claws. the animal as shown in Tt is said, that this is a our engraving. Alto- very common way for the gether it is not very un- Jaguar to secure its food, like the wild cats of the as it climbs with ease, Rocky Mountains, and the pampas of South though cons i d e r a b 1 y America where it is larger and of a different found, abou n d with shade of color. In char- herds of countless wild acter and form, both ani- horses, who when thus mals are like the rest of attacked are no match the creatures of the cat vigorous for this savage creature. tribe, and agile, with no extra flesh, but The Jaguar is by many seemingly composed of called the Ounce, whilst, bone, nerve, muscle and from its fierce and des- sinew. Though many tructive nature, it is animals, on which they sometimes styled the prey excel them in fleet- tiger or panther of the ness, in consequence of New World. It i s a having longer and more native of the warmest slender limbs, there are regions of South Amer- none which approach ica. In size it is as large them in the power of as a wolf, though some leaping and bounding. have been noticed that The Jaguar in appear- were much larg e r. It ance very much resem- lives solely on prey, bles the Leopard, the which not only consists Panther and the Cheetah. of the larger domes t i c careful ob- quadrupeds, as the horse A not over and ox, but on smaller server would easily mis- other; wild animals, as well as take the one for the tortoises, birds, lish and they are in fact all four large, savage, spoiled eats, naturalist, and Its appearance has been but the oven the furrier knows thus jlescr i b e d:—"I t s ground color is a pale brownish yellow, variegated on the that they are four distinct species. spots the skin. upper parts of the body with streaks and irregular oblong There is, however, a difference in the on are more like rosettes spots of black ; the top of the back being marked with Those on the body of the Jaguar long uninterrupted stripes, and the sides with rows of than spots. The black markings of tlio leopard and pi sk iJet t^>£< JTJYEITILB I1TSTBTJCTOR. 37 needed revelation from the Lord to guide thern in the soul, professing to be Christians and looking forward to right course. Without it they would be confused; for the time when they will meet in the Spirit world their the leading elders of the Church joined in denouncing wives and the loved ones thit are dead. We can imagine Hi Joseph as a fallen prophet; and how could the people the awkward situation of a man, not believing in poly- decide who were the servants of God unless He, by His gamy, meeting two or more wives with their children in Spirit, told them? In his history Brother Brigham de- the Spirit world, each of them claiming him as hus- scribes one scene, which occurred at this time, in which band and father! "But," says one, "how will it be with he was a prominent actor. It clearly exhibits the condi- a woman who marries another husband after the death of tion of feeling which prevailed among the men who had her first? She will be the wife of the one to whom she been most intimately connected with the Prophet. We was married for time and eternity. But if God did not give it in President Young's own language: "join them together," and they were only married by their contract "On a certain occasion several of the Twelve, the witnesses mutual consent until "death parted them," to the Book of Mormon, and others of the Authorities of the or partnership ends with death, and there remains but of the Temple. Toe Church, held a council in the upper room one way for those who died without the knowledge of the question before them was to ascertain how the Prophet Joseph gospel to be united together for eternity. That is, for could be deposed, and David Whitraer, appointed President of the Church. Pather John Smith, brother Heber C. Kim- their living relatives or friends to attend to the ordinan- ball and others were present, who were opposed to such mea- ces of the gospel for them. "For in the resurrection they sures. I rose up, and in a plain and forcible manner told neither marry nor are given in marriage ;" therefore, them that Joseph was a Prophet, and I knew it, and that they flesh. might rail and slander him as much as they pleased, they marriage ordinances must be attended to here in the could not destroy the appointment of the Prophet of God, they Hyrum Smith, however, was a polygamist before his could only destroy their authority, cut the thread that own death, he having had several women sealed to him by his bound them to the Prophet and to God, and sink themselves are living. to hell. Many were highly enraged at my decided opposition brother Joseph, some of whom now pugilist) was so to their measures, and Jacob Bump (an old At the death of the Patriarch, June 27th, 1844, the care exasperated that he eould not be still. Some of the brethren of the family fell upon his widow, Mary Smith. Besides near him put their hands on him, and requested him to be saying, children there were an old lady, named Hannah quiet ; but he writhed and twisted his arms and body the I told him if he ano- "How can I keep my hands otf that man?" Griunels, who had been in the family many years ; any relief he might lay them on. thought it would give him ther old lady named Margaret Brysen; and a younger one, This meeting was broken up without the apostates being able troubled with fits and to unite on any decided measures of opposition. This was a named Jane Wilson, who was crisis when earth and hell seemed leagued to overthrow the otherwise afflicted, and was, therefore, very dependent; The knees of many of the Prophet and Church of God. and an old man named George Mills, who had also been strongest men in the Church faltered." in the family eleven years, almost entirely blind and very (To be continued.) 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 [For the Juvenile Instructor. in the valley. "Old George," as he was sometimes called, i^EOonjijEiaTioisrs. had been a soldier in the British army, never had learned to read or write; and, therefore, often acted upon impulse which made it HYRUM Smith, the Patriarch, married Jerusha Barden, more than from the promptings of reason, along with him; but because he Nov. 2, 1826. They had six children, viz. Lovina, difficult sometimes to get Mary, John, Hyrum, Jerusha and Sarah. Mary died very had been in the family so long—through the troubles of the efl'ect young, and her mother died soon after the birth of her Missouri and Illinois, and had lost his eye-sight, taking cold daughter Sarah. Hyrum, the second son, died in Nauvoo of brain fever and inflammation, caused by timbers for the temple in 1842, aged eight years. The Patriarch married his while in the pineries, getting out his peculiari- second wife, Mary Fielding, in the year 1837, she enter- at Nauvoo; widow Smith bore patiently all have ing upon the important duty of step-mother to five chil- ties up to the time of her death. Besides those I sister to widow Smith, dren, which task she performed under the most trying mentioned, Mercy R. Thompson, Lawson were also and afflictive circumstances with unwavering fidelity. and her daughter, and Elder James She had two children, Joseph and Martha. Thus you see, members of the family. Hyrum Smith the Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ On or about the 8th of September, 1.84G, the family, with of Latter-day Saints, was really a polygamist, many years others, were driven out of Nauvoo by the threats of the before the revelation on Celestial marriage was written, mob, and camped on the banks of the Mississippi river re- it given to the Pro- Montrose. There they were compelled to though perhaps about the time was % just below phet Joseph Smith, not exactly in the sense in which the main two or three days, in view of their comfortable for the want of word is generally used, for both his wives were not living home just across the river, unable to travel defend the together on the earth, still they were both alive, for the teams, while the men-folks were preparing to Spirit never dies, and they were both his wives, the city against the attack of the mob.
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