improving in his profession but being unfamil-
iar with our educational system, has had a great many
difficulties to content with at first, from which he
has extricated himself very creditably in a great measure.
There seem to be many evil influences bearing upon
the young people all through Parowan Stake, which
is to be accounted for to some extent by the dairy
business which takes the young people into the
mountains a great portion of the year, during
which time they seem to be left without guidance
or restraint. Our teachers have a hard time of it
in such neighborhoods.
, at . left for
Cedar, Tuesday, Febr. 7, in the morning and addressed
a large congregation at the in the evening.
Next day, Febr. 8. attended the Stake Academy, Bro.
, Principal, with Miss ,
Assistant. Bro. McCarty is a very efficient teacher, of a
College training, and a splendid disciplinarian. I had
some misgivings as to his spiritual standing as he
is the offspring of an apostate family, but have
been mostly agreeably disappointed. Bro. McCarty has
had the difficult problem to solve, to build up a
school that had been going down to the very verge of