Elders of Jamestown, North Dakota

358 IMPROVEMENT ERA enough, at the start, to secure it under him. His hair stood up in the wind, or rather fell back over his head. His face was leprous with terror. His eyes, now shut tight, now staring like a spectre's, almost flew out of their sockets. To move was certain death. To sit still, it might be, was death also. But he held on. At the first stopping he scrambled off like one possessed, and searched for another place. There was just time for him to get on the front platform of the blind baggage, immediately behind the engine, in the midst of a crowd of ill-smelling Indians in red blankets. Some trainmen, passing, held up a lantern and wondered at his scared countenance. Then the black demon plunged again into the night. But here was a fresh peril. He could stand the smell of his neighbors. The fear of them did not smite his heart. But great floods of sparks from the smoke stack rained upon him — into his face and on his hair and clothes, each one of them burning hot as from the flames of Tartarus. This pitiless hail of red cinders he stood for hours. He had constantly to shift his position, much to the annoyance of the bucks and the amusement of the squaws, till in the long run he was driven to seek shelter under one of the women's blankets. (To be Continued)

President John L. Herrick, of the Western States mission, writes from Denver, Colorado, December 7: "It may be of rather unusual interest to those who read the missionary news to know that upon a recent visit of the writer at Jamestown, North Dakota, where no one has yet been converted, the Church building that was hired the occasion, to for hold conference in, was filled to overflowing, and the principal newspaper of the town printed a column article about the meeting and the work of the Latter-day Saints in that section. The group of elders laboring at Jamestown is given: Left to right, E. C. Cook, Dingle, Idaho; Conference President A. A. Rose, Midway; W .R. Hoover, Provo, Utah; front, J. S. Esplin, Orderville, Utah,