Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-01-19

| ARTEMAS WARD AT SALT LANE" My desire
was TO exhibit my CRATE show IN salt Lake Olty,
so | called on Brigham Young, the CRATE mogull
amung the mOrmuns and aXd his permlshnn to
pitch my tent and onfurl my banner to the Jentle
breczis. He lookt at me in an austcer manner
for a few minnits and Sed
sDo YOU bleeve in solomon, Saint Paul, the
immaculateness of the Mormin Church and the
Latter-day Revelashuns?'
Sez |, line on itr | make it pint to git
along plesent, tho don't know what under the
Son the old Teller was drivin at. He scd mite
show.
sYou air marrd man, Mister Young | be-
leeve 9 sez |, preparin to rite him sum free par
ses.
L hev eighty wives, Mister ward l scrtainly
am married
'Ilow do you like it as far as you hcv got?'
sed |.
He scd mddn and aycd me wouldn't like
to see his famerly, to which | repHde that |
wouldn't mind minglin with The fair Seeks "
barskin in the wnnin smiles OF his lntefrestlh
wives. He accordingly took me to his Scareum.
| The house is powerful big, " in a exceedingly
| large room was his wtes and children whlch
larst was squlkn and hollerin enuH to take the
roof rite oil the house. The wmin was OF all
sizes and ages. Sum was pretty X sum was plane
sum was helthy and sum was on the wayne
which is verses tho sch was not my ntenshuns'
as don't prove of putteng verses IN lroze runs,
tho if occashun requires can Jerk rom ekal
to any of them Atlantic Monthly lelers'
MY wives Mister Ward sed Iung.
sYour sarvant marms sed ]. rs | sot down in
a cheer which q red-heded female brawt to me-
Besides these wives you see here, Mister
Ward sed Yung, 4 hev eighty more in varis
parts Of this cousccreted land which air Sealed
to me-
Which? scz l. gittn up x starein at him,
Sealed sir sealed.
where bowts? sez |.
81 eed, sir. that they were sealed! lie spoke
in a traggcrdy voice.
'Will thay probly continncr on in that style TO
any CRATE extent, SIR aXed.
Sir sed he, turniu AS red as blled bcPt'
don't YOU know that the rules of onr Church Is
that |, the Profit, may hev as meny wives as
wants?
'Jes so,' | sed. You air old pie, ain t your
Them as is Sealed to me--that is to say, to be
mine when wants um-air at present my sper-
/ retoal wives sed Mister Yung.
Long may thay waveY sez |, seen shood
git into skrape ef dident look out. 4
In private conversashun with BrIghamH
lcrnt the follerin fax: 1t takes him six WeekTto
kiss his wives He don't do it only once a Bere
Il seq it is worst nor ceauln house. lie doh
pretend to know his children thare is so many OF
um, tho thay all know hjm. lie sez abou4every
child he meats calls him Par, he takes u for
granted it is so. His wives air ver eXpehsiv.
They alters want suthn, q il he duzcnt buy 1t
for um thay set the house in an uproar. lie sez
he don't hev mnts piece. His wives hts amung
themselves so much that he has bilt litin room
for thare speshul benefit Il when OF en- sit into
a row he has um turned loose into that place,
WHARF the dispoot is settled accordin to the rooies
OF the London prize ring. Sumlimes they abooz
hissef iudividooly, Thay hev pullid the most of
his hare out at the roots Il he wares meny hor'
rible skar upon his body, indked with mop han
dies aud room.sticks, and sich. Occashunly
thay git mad and soald him with bilin hot water.
When he got eny waze cranky they'd shut him
up in dark closit, previsy whippin him arter
the stile of muthers when thare offspring gifts
onruly Sumtmes when he went in swmmin
thay'd go to the bank Of the Lake steal all his
Close, thereby compellin him to sneek home by
a sircootous rowt, dresst in the Skanderlous
style of the Greek Saiv. | find that the keers
of a marrid life way hcvy onto me-, sed the
Profit, x sumtmes | wish Ide renamed singel.'
left the Profit aud sarlid for the tarvern."