The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-09-17 00:00:00

ST ARTIMUS WAND.

Th. morning en wbieh Reginald lijoe.r..a woo
to leave Great Salt lAbs City with • mule-train, dawned
beastifully.
Regivald Oloy.rson 'sae • young and thrifty Mormon,
with an inter...tiny family of it.. nty young and hand-
saw. Islets His oolong had never been blamed •iih
gh3dren. As erten as once a year he noel
to go to nemilte, in Nebraska, with mule-train for
goods: but .Ithongh he had terformed ti. rath-r perilous
Jour..., many trines with entity sal. ty, his heart was
strang•ly sad on this partsular moroiog, and 1111.4 with
igleosgy forebodings.
Ties tiros for his deportees had arrived. The
bleb-spirited male. were at tbe door, impatiently champ.
lug their bits. Th. Homo.. stood sadly &along his
weeping wives. _

"riss7sreet -Ones," Is said, " am singularly sad as
heart this morning: but do not Ist this dopress you.
The j-nroey is a perilous one, but—pshaw ! I lisee
&wisp corm bask safsly as herstofore, sod why should
I fear? Besides, I know that every sight, m 1 by
down on the broad star-IN prairie, your toight fame
Will male torn. in my dresms, and looks my sharobers
sweet and gentle. You, Emily, with your nold blue
oyes; and )ovi, Henrietta, with your splendid blast
hair; and you, Nelly, with your hair .0 brightly,
beautifully golden; And you, Betsy, with your wines
ved lips—far more delicious, though, than any wine I
ever tested—and you, Mori., wish leer winsome voice;
and you, damn, with your—with your—tb •t is so my,
atom. with your-- mod this other thirteen a you,
each no good and beaugful, will come to me in sweet
drums, wiil you not flesreststs
. . . . .

'Our own," y lovliilp chimed, "we will I"
"And to farewell l" ere I Reginald. "Come to my
mom, my own I" be s.id ; "tb.t io ao many or yuu a.
I son do it conveniently at onoe, for mis4 aw.y."
He foiled aeveral of them to his throbbing heart, and
ewe sadly away.
Bet he bad not gate far when the tram of the oft
bind mole became unhitched. Dismounting, be essayed
to adjust the tree.; but ere be had fair y oototnitocod
the task, ths mule, a slagnlsrly refractory animal,
snorted wildly, and kielod Reginald frigbutally in the
yilemosti. He arose with dilliculty, and tottered feebly
lowarNs• his mother's house, whish wa. near by, tolling
deed in her y.rd wilt ths remark, Dar motimr, Iv.
ionv, how- an die r
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"So I m,." al.e +aid ; " where'r the mule, r
Alas! Reginald Olowirson couli give no answer. In
vain the heart.striokvil mother threw herself upon his
inanimate form, raying, "Oh, my son -my sun I only
141 mo where the mules are, and than you may die it
ni want to."

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In vele —in vain I Reined bed pereed on.
The molws grew° newer found.

li.ltoald. bevrtbrokeu their to sir the bAdy
bar uolortan.te per'. widows. But before ber arrives
she indiscreetly sent a boy tiu boat the nerve fleetly to
the sfaieted once., whish he did by iefornaios them,
la a hoar.' whisper, that their "old moo had voila"
The eives felt way ls idly indeed,
"Hi was deco's& be use." sobbed Entity.
" ADA to me," said Malta.
Yea," east TAM y. "lie theitaht considerably of you,
bat not so much as he did of me."
" I say be did 1"
"And I say be didn't!"
" He did 1"
" He didn't!"

" ii:miVieoli at ets, with your squint eyes r
" Don't shake your riot head at we in
"Sete s r said tho blask•hairrid Henrietta, "cease
this uessetuly wrangling. 1, as his first wife, shall
strew Sowers On l!illfilavF "

"No you woos t, aid Busse. "I, se hie last wife,
shall efrew flowers on hie grave. It'e soy busineu to
optsors I"

• You shan't, no liar.!" said Hearbitta.
"You bet I will I" said Susan, witti $ tear-suffused
eheek.
" Well, as for me," said the prasileal Betsy, "I slat
in the strew, much; bit I shall ride at the head of the
lener•l preeerwion
Not ills. been introduced to myself, you won't,"
mid ib. gollendiaired Melly ,• "that's my Toshio°.
Tau b.t your boneet.strinp it
"Children," aaid litrminalies mother, "00* mist do
mesas you know, on tie day ef the funeral; and
bow many pookei•handkerehers will it take to go round?
Heal. you and Nally ought to make one do between
you.
Di tear her eyes out if sbe perpetrates a sob on my
bandkereber I"
"''ear danghler•in-law," said Reginald's mother,
'' how unseemly is this anger. Males is five hundroe
dollars • span, and every Identical 111,110 in, poor It ,y
bid, h. been trobblvd up by the red man. I knee
when my Kvgivald staggered ,n, o the cloor•yard that he
Was on Ow die ; but if I'd only thutk to ask him about
them mule. ere his gentle spirit took Lab., it would
have be•st foor theisaod dollars in our pockets, and no
%awake Simi.« tow teal tears, but you've never
Veil a parent's feelin'a."
"It s_ar or..r-isht," sobbed Maria. " Don't blame no r

Ti,. roared wooed off in a eery pleasant manner,
nothing occurring to mar the harmony of the oceacon.
By• harpy thought of Reginaid's mother the wines
trallt.d to the grave twenty a-breact, which tendered
that part of the oereinony thoroughly impartial.
• • • • •

That night, the twenty wives, with heavy besets,
sought their tweary respective oottehes—Regicalg would
C. Ver mom linger all night in bliss/el repose in thiwe
twenty respective noun, es—lieginsiers heed gru..l4 .4•••‘
more press the twenty reepective pillowu of those twenty
sespee.tive coneliee—never, mower mot,
• • • •

In another hoes., not insny leagues front the hoses of
senarniog, a grriy-Itair.d wum.a was weeping passion-
ately.
"H. died," she cried. "he died witbnat cigar:eying%
In any respect, whale i hoot moles wont to!"
Two years we suppos4 to el.p-s between the third
sad ("firth chapters of this origi•sl America& romance,
• • • • •

A manly Mormon, one evening, at the son was pre.
rring to set among a select apartment of gold and
crimson aloud@ in the western hnris di—although for
that matter the ion has a right to "est" where it wank
to, and so, I may add, has a hen—a manly *ninon. I
nay, tapped gently at the door of he 1:11•121i011 of the
lat- Reginald Obverse...
'li thin the home of lb. widow Olovereon r the
Mormon baked.
" It la," said fitican.
"And bow many Is there of eh* r he inceired.
"Them le about twenty of her, including me,"
aturteimely returned the Lair Susan.
." Can It.. her r
Y.. 0 eon."

" Madam," beadily said. addresaing the twenty dis-
eonsolate widows, "1 bays seen part of you bob,.!
And &though I hare already twenty-dye wives, whom I
vowel and tenderly care for. I out truly say that I
meter felt lee, 's holy thrill till I saw thee Be mine—
be mine I" be reollia-lastioally eried ; "and we will show
the world a striking illentratioe of the beauty and truth
Oi the noble bum, only • rad de.l mon to—
" 'Twenty,ae souls with a elnule thought,
Tmmty-one hearts that heat ss one.' "

They were unitstl, they •erti I
Osiale reader, does not the natal of this romance
show that- doss it mot in feet, show that bootees
many there miy be of a pang widow wonted ; or,
rather, dose it not show that, whatever number of per-
moos one woman may cassia of—well sever mind erliat
it shows. Only this writing Mormoo romaaos Is
soisfodog to the hardiest You try it Lod see.

PHYSICAL Itircougog or Tins.—Barnellintee—
oftoo, often Malted. wo wolell holm—Tilos koloP sit*
peritate is its train. We learn that vim "does sot
pay. We dissever by degrees that the sin is ler lass
sweet, than we fancied, and that it costs mush dearer
illum we bid bergaiood for. We grow better calcula-
tors Uses we wan ; a. relict !son profoundly; we
Inlsasitr• and more amerstoly. Occasionally, so
doubt, "Tim." operates through • nobler dm of
biasses.. The observation of life shows us the
extensive misery wrought by all wrotg doing; we And
those wooed se whom we lose better than ourselves ;
andaffestion sal philanthropy gradualljuistigats us into
virtue sirt erilf-destial. Growing genes aids the opera.
!loss of dull mensibillty ; as b come less passionate end
*.roe Si oar nerves become less irrimble ; a. drop our
animosities as memory failing manes to remind ..if tho
oillences which .roused them, and as a calmer judg-
ment enables us to Meastits thole offemoos more justly; we
are less willing to imenutit minim or neglect duties,
or lacer soadmonation for the sake of worldly advisors-
monk as we dimo.or bow little happiness the* advent*.
ovens brings vie' and as we reflect for bow short a
• da. eau hope to enjoy it. But, through all sod
to she law, the plysiesl Pilule/re of "Tim." epos
our testily freisse is Ms beat ally of it. mornl itduenor
on oar •bassestee and our intolligenos. Time bring,
mellowness to man much se It brings beauty io ruins
—by the operation of decay. We melt sad fads into
lb* paths and the good, jest as pramme and
tetepl•-• Grumble into the pieturesque.— armlet',
Meresiee.

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Nes. Ilsowir Olt ENOtlea IlligrOST.—The
es she'd read was wonderful. all about thorn 11111• P when
sorties rid to go all over England, with nothink on
Ist • bit of bine paint, as muot 'ace been eltilly woik.
I should say, with 'Bethink to lir noon hut acorns and
wigwams, as I do not baton' Gould 'aye kip' If. and
soul together. sure, who'd bo a king and quer, I
can't thick for the may as they did need to treat em
wee downright shameful. e.'sakin' on 'em to bits in
bat les, end a•shooting on 'ern in the eye with a harrow,
let oloos esitlo' off their 'irk am I think it was Charles
tit. Twelfth. Not as them kings were t••• 11 a/mot
&either. it, wee • dusty lot with their wives and their
b. autim, astu trealdn' 'em worry hod, es one 'ad six
on
•• lot great sad sae off one tarter the other.
Colawil I did pity them prioese as woo smothered I
quit. °°^l by their own aria in dm Tower, as Pr are
as M. 1.4 have been a blaek.'airted willis, as they
do my was boro with teeth the mills• " Kin,' John the
Third, asw" • ileum, tyrant, se lost all ix things at
wrila an ho took to 'art that deep sa to dio as It;
as MUM • foolish rt, worry ssgrawathe, th• row
sa 'sorrel to POO, Yrs. Symms, as 'ad the
begirt out off the hook with& whole fumily'r
her P 4, %the WI forth'.'; mod never
will I believe as than shirt. woo worth the money. Oa
twelve and dopers • Pier is a long pries. We ••I"°
'are been thee frightful high •• pet• kit of decent print
to I. 'ad under tearoom" or • ; but sal was •
grin', I does beliove • wore •bout that ere good
Wes, as did ought to be mhamed of 'herself s-
cuttle off parties and should like to know 'ow
she'd 'ave liked it 'ormlf. • old 5.1; sod r for adayin'
as Queen Wietoria is like her, why it'. a doworight
torol,. Not, law bl.-as me. to think about poor Cog
0. orri bein that mad and 'bet up, like any other poor
&gaged nestis, and obligstod for to 'awe a Itereit ove.
se wee es one see, ea cortoinlY did not moo,
natural for to tern 'gin 'is own father; but who.
eau you •1010. from • 'sr who would turn on
wife? As rye 'mud my dear mother ofitsa tslk shoot
Queen Ctsrolias, s• tried for to 1,4'4 open the doers of
Westminster Abbey. and would 'awe dose it too, if
'adn't hor for the L-rd Moyor 'ell 'or bark; as its •
=err is all Loades•wson't swims% with gore, thy.'.'
aghtite for 'or body to peas rseldo Bar, a. one
young man were abet r was poor "pile egla •
484 body 'as in daraM she ad 'or ksls,trO aiatikely

that ere Regent hawu a beauty, he was, for to dad
fault with • • if. iirratiy as WV* • Reiman, no ouldn't
be la•ful quren. l'eu este in my &Onion It would be as
•.11 not to '..• SO teeny of them %Aar., 0,014., a.
raking' up all Ulla b)fgoors as 'ad better be bygones,
and slut pl. assist for to as in pilot about your 0111
relations, ita, in course, agTanslfalbe, la, tho' distant;
and well I remember aloe, ea waa a kind.'arted old
soul. and did te• to bring •ne apples and parliament,
but, I to thankful for to say, nevi r went mad, nor none
alit ens macula., as may do worry well fur soyal
familia. be; would'at suit nat.—Prow TA. Broadway
for October.

Flu Lire.—Not to epeak of the eggs that n
alto-
pettier escape fruct'lleetion. it Is certain th.t the
young Geh win n hatched are destro)ed in myri.cle. It
'son.. the business of one kind of fish to prey upon
i another kind. It has been estimated a the solemn that
lan its nateral state , sly one egg in a thousand ever
I arrives at the stage of a table fish ; and, U that propori
m
I thin bolds good as to • coparatively well protected
Itch Ike the salmon, what pm we say of egg. dropped
in the raving waters of the sea? These may fall in
millions, but they fall only to be hot. Hundred, of
ihonsonds of them are
those that fulfil the conditions mews ary for their
ultimate development into Lb, sseriah in countless
quantities, while the n. w.horn fish fill • prey to
millions of enemies who are ever on tie watch for them,
sod who inatinctively know the places where and the
Dealions when they are to be Nand. We have an
Hemel* of this in the =se of the young salmon.
When Mennonite anive for the first time at the .e.,
'they have, so soon as they reach the salt water, to I
I run the gauntlets thron‘h a horde of hungry
I enemies who, with a fine instinct, know that
for • few weeks of the spring time they can
count on having a daily banquet of !tonna llalmoni
So far as this valuable lith is concerned, the loss upon
the eggs, whisk in the natural way of breeding is
enormous, as. be greatly redueed by artificial spawning.
At the 'ammonia. Id salmon-nurseries the per centime
of unit* Ifni eggs is emnparativelly small ; and, a. all the
I fah that are hatched out ere protected for ate year, and
half of them for • period of two years, the per omnsit•
of the young which is deetroyed has been largely
reduced. But In the ma such protaetios, either to eggs
I or to young, is hopelme, and the multiplying power of
all iloinu. would reclaim to be even greater than it is
it the Ghee, power is to he multiplied in the future In
the mow ratio as It has been in the peal --Afocetifiest's
Megrogine.
Alan AIraSTATIA OW PRIEM PRAYS{ BOONS.—
Sines my old Prayer Book was new how =any times
have all the Ames of life who= it epitomises fulfilled
themselves for people whom I have known I wonder ;
11.61 would not he an uninett native list to make out some
day. Sapporo yoo were to put the rune qusation to
%ourself, and set seriously about producing the answer,
lat • lei-ure moment, when there is nothing new or
lamming on hand, and the Let Paris fashions are only
o yen clays old; no that you have got over 0.8
meat of hut week, and ore not yet 10ve1y...1 in that of
the week alter neat. My memory ranged Over many
years, sod yours =or only • few; but the chiming of
"the old clock on the slain" would have plenty of
meaning for on if you li•tened to it with your pretty
Prayer Book in your hand. I used my old book at your
baptism, my dear; and though I have
occasion to profit by that surreptitious study which I
have before alluded to, I have "emitted" at a good
many weddings, and heard many blithe utterance@ of
that "I will, whisb perhaps has never, in any phut' of
society, meant quite lid mach as it ought, but which
certainly meant a great deal more formerly than it
does now. With all the alterations and improvement&
of modern timm extended pretty lavishly to the Book
•.f Common Prayer, why do they not improve the
Warriace Service in ascendance with the 'drapes of the
age, and sty "till death or divorce do us part?" The,
mean it; why don't they say it? When so very mash
more then is ra anti.. said upon every other ooeosion,
it eeVills peculiarly hand that lam should besold upon
this. I will on •my new book at your wedding ; and
between this time and that auspicious hour—after
whioh I rowans,. I had better for ever boll my poem—
@appose you were to study that lovely tortolembelliand•
silver "Church Service" of yours, and make up your
intud how numb real meaning lbws is in the words you
have to my, and to what extent you really intend to
abide by it, What awful words they are, when one
thinks about them in eeroo.t lan I how str.nge it seems
' to me that women should be found to soy them so
glibly, and to think their sewn the easiest and
Pleasantest thing in the world to observe and raise!
When tLey do not obwrve and realise it, ti.ey blame
the men, of coarse ; sod no doubt they are very much to
blame. I f..r one, ghoul I never dream of defending
'hem ; but I think there is another view of the matter
which people are rather ant to ovetlook, when
'incompatibility, " chronic discontent, and very real
fakery —oat, jost decently veiled from the world in
most instances, is some not veiled at all--are in quo..
tom. It is not surprising to one who mord. those
thing. in the piaci I olio raiser and attitude of an outaider
that such uncomfoitable concequenceo should ensile,
when the extraordinary motives which lead to trarrh.ge
are conedered—rnotivm, I mean, even elites from the
grand treason against truth—mercenary marriage.
lova can be quite as Moho:pia= sod alinost as con-
tem,dible • entice u money if it a, rings from mere
penoeal edmirs• ion, or, salt does in lamentably frequent
inetsooolll, from gratified vanity. If • woman will marry
a man measly bemuse he is handsome, or clone, or
agreeable, or elf three, without the abeam& oonsidera-
Woo whether he powwow* =oh qualities as entitle him
to the honour and obedience of a twine endowed with
°question° • and intellect, I 16,14 do not See bow she is
to 'reverence her hatband." You wall find in your
pretty Prayer Book that women are exhorted to moth
reverent*, and that it is an Integral portion of the
obligation which they =att. Audit is one of those
obligations which has the disagnemble quality of making
itself felt in the breach of it very keenly. There ane
. several others *et forth in your pretty Prayer Book
witch are soundly Moduli( in troth and in their
primitive intention, hot wtich have lost their form by
general consent, and with= I should only write myself
down an me by attempting to urge noon your attention.
For instance, the prowinea wide by ap neon at the
baotiim of infanta, amid which inveriebly resolve them-
selves into muse end spoons in silver or elestreoplote.
seeordies to corcumstanees, or extend, in estretne eases,
to the eaertion of "interest" in adult life, and sob...
quint testamentary attentioes, but are wholly diverted
from any opiritual responsibility whatever; and yet
the amoumption of the sponsorial office is invested
with much gravity, end an •tnuent of impressivenees I
&ad iteration which really looks es it it meant something I
at one time, ore, if the compilers—poor d.-ar old things!
actual', thought no. You haws • godchild. I know—
poor Fanny Mastermen'a little girl. What • sweet
obild she is, and how nicely she dances! Her courtesy
is pv5,031106, and her carriage everything bar epos dear
mother, who knew the importers= at each things well,
could possibly hays wished • but only fancy your inquir
log into Peony's punotellity in saying her orators,
tanking hie repeat tbs Creed and Tea eommandmente,
and taking her to poor dear Dr. Tall, when be holds one
of shoes fatignin confirmations. at which young people
renegues the world, previoue to receiving the Sacrament,
coming out of the whoa-room. and being presented at
Coert. Ti,. Confirmation *melee is another Pens in the
*oaten= of your pretty prays, book which there Is sot
mush use in talking shoat. Of course you did not
renounos the world on your own behalf when you were
confirmed any mor• than youtsponsore renounced it for
you at your baptism i ; and of suer= the i-unlt knows
yva have not renounced it, and are Do far from being
supposed to have done en, that the due observance of
the ceremony is regarded 11111 billet d'euirm into its
mreuits and privilege& And yet there must have
I been • time when there was something in this observance,
for molly the words of it are very colamo.
.Extraets
are troubbsome: read it, my dear name, road 16 It is
there, shut in by the 'olden moos and Grown of thorns
of my pretty prayer book, and by the tortoiseshell and
silver of yours • very grave, very imperative bet
boPPlllnollo asdleldi as anyone may see who glans=
at it. and from it at welety.—Fiona Tittakps' Afacesise,
PINALB SISITOWL- Inooogimous as the assimiatioe
of the sex with the sextonship seem., female sextons
were and are by no means unconinton—especislly in
London churches is whit= the burial-marries has
long °nand to be beer& In the reign of George 11.,
the question of the legal eligibility el females to =rye
the oaks was raised and settled. A money occur-
Mg in the sextoeship of St. Botolph, Aldierwate, two
candidates solicited the colas of the parishioner.—
• man named Olive. and a woman named Sarah Bly.
The latter polled two hundred and nine votes to her
opponent's hundred and ninety six, forty female house.
hollers voting for the representative of their sex. Not
=doled with this result, Olive went to law, and the
jadges had to decide upon two points—tinily, whether
a woman could be elected sexton; and 'soundly,
whether women could =he part in the eleetion. That
women had held Alm of greater consequence was •
fact not to be gaineayed—one lady having offiAated as
workhouse governor, another as beeper of the gate-
house, • Lady Paskingtos Its I served as returning.
"Mose. and the famous Clountees of Pembroke, Dorset,
and Montgomery eat on the mai= bench a. heiteditery
olteriff of W stmoroland. With them precedents is
feminine commit, before them, the court
derided against Olive on the fret point ; and for the
see ead held that, as the °Moe did not oonoern the
oohing, or the as,. and inspection of the morals of the
parishioners, there was no reason to exclude women
front voting at each elections, providiog they psidshorals
and poor rstea.—Chatetere's Journal.