The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1870-11-17
MAN WITH TWENTY WIVES.
A Mormon Romance.
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The morning on which Reginald
Gloverson was to leave Great Salt Lake
City with mule train dawned beauti-
fully.
Reginald Gloverson was young and
thrifty Mormon, with an interesting
family of twenty young and handsome
! wives.
His unions had never been blessed
with children. AS often as once year
he used to go to Omaha, in Nebraska,
with mule train, for goods: but
although he had performed the perilous
journey many times with entire safety,
lis heart was strangely sad on this
particular morning, and filed with
| gloomy forebodings.
The time for his departure had arrived
the high spirited mules were at the door,
impatiently champing their bits. The
Mormon stood sadly among his weeping
wives.
dearest ones,' he said, ~ am singu.
larly sad at heart this morning; but do
not let this depress you. The journey
is a peri.ous one, but-pshaw! l have
always come back safely heretofore, and
why should fear: Besides, l know
that every night, as lie down on the
broad, starit prairie, your bright faces
will come to me in my dreams and make
my siumber 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,
Mollie, with your cheeks 50 downy; and
you, Betsey, with your-with your
that is to say, Susan, with your and tho
other thirteen of you, each SO good and
beautiful, will come to me in sweet
will you not, dearestists?'
"Our own," they lovingly chimed,
1--WE willy"
"And so FAREWELL" clied Reginald
Come to my arms, my own:' he said,
"that is as many of you as can do it
conveniently at once, for must
away"
lie folded several of them to his throb-
biug breast, and drove sadly away.
But he had not gone far when the
trace of the off hind mule became
unhitched. Dismounting, he essayed
to adjust the trace; but ere he had fairly
commenced the task the mule, a singu-
larly refractory animal, snorted wildly
and kicked Reginald frightfully in tie
stomach. He arose with difficulty and
tottered feebly towards his mo theirs
house, which was near by, falling dead
in her yard, with the remark, Dear
mother, I've come home to d!e!'
$50 / see,' she said; "where's the
mules?'
Alas! Reginald Gloverson could give
no answer. In vain the heart.stricken
) mother threw herself upon his mani
mate form, crying, ooh, my SONNY
son!-only tell me where the mules are
) and then you may die ycu want to-
In vain--in vain! Reginald haC
passed on.
CHAPTER lI.-FCNERAL TRAPIINGS
The mules were never found.
Reginald's heart-broken mother tool
the body homeito her unfortunate som!
widows. But before her arrival, sh,
indiscreetly sent a boy to burst the new
Q gently to the afflicted wives, which h'
y did by informing them in hoars'
whisper, that their "old man had gon'
in"
The wives felt very badly, indeed.
"He was devoted to me sobbe'
Emily"
: "And to me,n said Maria.
r "Yes' said Emily, che thought con
il siderable Of you, but not so much as h.
n n did Of me-"
W II say he did,"
e "And say he didn't
= He did!'
n "He didn't"
RS "Don't look at mo with your squin
= eyes,"
T. T. "Don't shake your red head at me-"
), Sisters" said the black-haired Hen
rietta cease this unseemly wranglins