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long to a lower order of society than their fair companions. Brigham owns and runs the theater. He believes in a “personal government,” and caters for the amusement of his people. The performance was over before eleven o’clock, and I picked my way through the mud back to the hotel without the slightest feeling of danger, for the streets of Salt Lake are safer in the darkest night than are those of most cities of half its size.
To morrow I must see the institutions, call on the Mormon prophet and the elders, an account of which will be found in my next letter.
W.P.F.
