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have all combined to abolish the idiosyncrasies 

 that, for many years, made the ^^peculiar people" 

 a favorite mark for jesters and alleged hu- 

 morists. 



I found Salt Lake a beautiful city, beauti- 

 fully placed, with wide, airy streets, an air of 

 thrift and business, but, above all, scrupulously 

 clean. I do not know anywhere of so clean a 

 great city. Down each side of the main streets 

 runs a little thread of water fresh from the moun- 

 tains, and the streets are swept — one might almost 

 say mopped — daily. 



Of course, among your first objects of interest 

 will be the Temple and the Tabernacle. The 

 former you may not enter. None but Mormons 

 in good standing are admitted to this sacred place, 

 but you may admire its noble proportions, its 

 architectural excellence, from every viewpoint, 

 and wonder at its history. When Brigham 

 Young set his foot down and said, ^^Here we will 

 build a new Zion," one of the first things to be 

 done was to select a site for the great Temple. For 

 forty years the building went on, never hurried 



