SINNERS AND SAINTS A TOUR ACROSS THE STATES, AND ROUND THEM WITH THREE MONTHS AMONG THE MORMONS BY PHIL ROBINSON AUTHOR OF "IN MY INDIAN GARDEN," "UNDER THE PUNKAH," "NOAH'S ARK,'" ETC., ETC. NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION LONDON 1892 Inscribed, WITH AUTHOR'S GRATITUDE, TO A FRIEND, JOHN STUART DOWNING. CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I. FROM NEW YORK TO CHICAGO. By the Pennsylvania Limited--Her Majesty's swine--Glimpses of Africa and India--"Eligible sites for Kingdoms"--The Phoenix city--Street scenes--From pig to pork--The Sparrow line--Chicago Mountain--Melancholy merry-makers. CHAPTER II. FROM CHICAGO TO DENVER. Fathers of Waters--"Rich Lands lie Flat"--The Misery River--Council Bluffs--A "Live" town, sir--Two murders: a contrast--Omaha--The immorality of "writing up"--On the prairies--The modesty of "Wish-ton-Wish"--The antelope's tower of refuge--Out of Nebraska into Colorado--Man-eating Tiger. CHAPTER III. IN LEADVILLE. The South Park line--Oscar Wilde on sunflowers as food--In a wash-hand basin--Anti-Vigilance Committees--Leadville the city of the carbonates--"Busted" millionaires--The philosophy of thick boots--Colorado miners--National competition in lions--Abuse of the terms "gentleman" and "lady"--Up at the mines--Under the pine-trees. CHAPTER IV. FROM LEADVILLE TO SALT LAKE CITY. What is the conductor of a Pullman car?--Cannibalism fatal to lasting friendships--Starving Peter to feed Paul--Connexion between Irish cookery and Parnellism--Americans not smokers--In Denver--"The Queen City of the Plains"--Over the Rockies--Pride in a cow, and what came of it--Sage-brush--Would ostriches pay in the West?--Echo Canyon--The Mormons' fortifications--Great Salt Lake in sight. CHAPTER V. THE CITY OF THE HONEY-BEE. Zion--Deseret--A City Of Two Peoples--"Work" the watch-word of Mormonism--A few facts to the credit of the Saints--The text of the Edmunds Bill--In the Mormon Tabernacle--The closing scene of the Conference. CHAPTER VI. LEGISLATION AGAINST PLURALITY. A people under a ban--What the Mormon men think of the Anti-Polygamy Bill--And what the Mormon women say of polygamy--Puzzling confidences--Practical plurality a very dull affair--But theoretically a hedge-hog problem--Matrimonial eccentricities--The fashionable milliner fatal to plurality--Absurdity of comparing Moslem polygamy with Mormon plurality--Are the women of Utah happy?--Their enthusiasm for Women's Rights. CHAPTER VII. SUA SI BONA NORINT. A Special Correspondent's lot--Hypothecated wits--The Daughters of Zion--Their modest demeanour--Under the banner of Woman's Rights--The discoverer discovered--Turning the tables--"By Jove, sir, you shall have mustard with your beefsteak!" CHAPTER VIII. COULD THE MORMONS FIGHT?