The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-11-11
.t, = ulletin.
-fHE MAN WITH TWEEN
T WIVES
A Mormon RoEace.


A Mormon RoEaee.
CuAPrRs l.--rHE MoRMoN's DEPARrURE
Ths morning on which Reginald Glo~-
erson was 70 leave Great Salt Lake city
With 4 mule train dswned beautifully.
Reginald Gloverson was 10, Dung and thrill
a. Mormon, with an interesting family OF
txsnsy young and handsome wives.
His unions had never been blessed with
children. A. often - once year ne used
70 20 10 Omaha, 10 Nebraska, with mule
train, for goods but although he bed per-
formed the perilou: journey many times
sad on this particular morning. and filed
with gloomy forcbodings. al
The time for his departure had arrived
the bighspirited mules we're at the door.
impatiently champing their bits. The Nor.
mon stood sadly among his weeping wives.
Dearest ones he,said, ~ am singular
ly sad at heart this morning; but do not |
let this deprcss you. The journey is u
perilous one, but-pshaw have always |
come back safely heretofore, and why |
should / fear2 Besides know that every |
night, ~ lie down on the broad, starlit |
prairie, yourbright faces will como 10 mo
IN my dreams and make my slumbers sweet
and gentle. You, Emily with your mild
blue eyes and you, Henrietta, with your
splendid black hair and you, Nellie, with
your hair so brightly, beautifully golden.
and you, Mollic, with your cheeks so downy;
and you, Betsy, with your-with your
that is to say, Susan with your-and the
other thirteen Of you, each so good and
beauti. al, will come to mo in sweet dreams
will you not dearcstestsf
.Our own" they lovingly chimcd, two
will y
and 90 farewell T. cried Reginald.
Come 70 my arms my own y be said,
"that is ~ many Of you rs can do |; con-
veniently at once, for I must away
Ho folded several Of them 10 his throb-
bling breast and drove sadly away.
But he had not gone far when the trace
OF the OF hind mule became unhitched.
Dismoan,ing, he esayed to adjust the
task the ale, . singularly refractory an
imal, saoeeed wildly and kicked Reginald
frghtfully IN the stomach. He arose with
difficulty and tottered feebly towards his
mothers house, which was near by, fsl.
ling dssd ia her yard, with the remark,
Dear mother, I've come home 10 disp
80 SEQ she said where's the mules ?
Alss Reginald Gloverson could give no
answer. In vain the heart-stricken moth
sr threw hershif upon his inanins,e form,
crying, "Oh, my SONNY sonl-only tell
me where the mules arr, and then you
may die IL you want TO-"
In vain-in vain Reginald had passed
on.
CHAPTER ll.-1usERAL TRAPPISos.
The mules were never found.
Reginald's heart broken mother took the
body home 10 her unfortunate sons Wild
ows. But before her ARRIVAL, she indis-
crcc,ly sent n boy 10 burst the news gently
10 the afflicted wives, which he did by in
forming them, in q hoarsoe whisper that
their "old man had gone in
The wives fel, very badly, indeed.
"He was devoted TO me, sobbcd Emily.
"And TO me" said Maria.
"ies, said Emily, che thought consid-
erable Of you, but not 50 much as he did Of
me-
II say no did !,
And say he didn't"
'sHe didr
lie didn'tr
Don't look at me with your squirt
eyer -
Don't shake your red head at me ~
"Sisters,' said the black-hai.ed Henri
eta, cease this unscemly wrangling. I, ms
his trst wife, shall strew flowers on his
grave"
"Noyou WON'T" said Susan. II, his
last wife, shall strsw flowers on his grave.
It's my business TO strew"
You shan't-so there T. said Henrietta.
You bet will, said Susan, with tear
sutfused cheek.
We'll, as for me-" said the prac,ica
Betsy, ~ Amt on the strew, much, but
shall ride q, the head Of the funeral pro-
eession."
mot five been introduced TO myself
you won't said the golden.haired Nelly,
that's my position. You bet your bon.
net-strings on il :"
"Children," SAID Reignsld's mother,
"you must do some crying, you know on
the day OF the funeral and how many
Pocket-handkerchiefs will 1t tike to &c
round BE ~, you and Nelly ought tC
make one do between you"
Il u tear her eyes out IL she perpe,rate.
Aso6 on my handkerchief said Nelly.
Dear dsughters-n-law, said Regi
maids mott er, show unseemingly Il this
anger. Mules is Ave hundred a span, and
every Identical mule my poor boy had ha,
been gobbled up by the red man. l knew
when my Reginald staggered into the door
ynra that he was on the die, but If I'd only
hunk 10 ask him about them mules 'er,
his gentle spirit took its AigLs. IL would
have been four thousand dollars in ON,
pockets. and no mistake. Excuse these rea
tears: you've never felt u parents feel
ings."
Its an over sight" sobbed Maria. I'D
not blame usr'
CHAPTER lll-pUsr TO DUST.
The funeral passed of in very plea
ant manner, nothing occurred to mar Il
harmony Of the occasion. By hapI
thought Of Reginald's mother, the wiz,
walked TO the grave twenty abreast whic
rendered that part OF the ceremony tho
oughly impartial.
That night the twenty wives, with heav
hearts sought their twenty respscti,
couches.
In another house not many league. fro,