, 1875-02-28

exhausted on the Force bill, when that meas
ure reaches the Senate.
ANN ELIZA IN CLOVER.
ANN ELIZA, Of Utah, has got in one between
the Prophets eyes, and there will be rejoicing
all through the Prophets dominions. 1t Will
be remembered that BRIGHAM, the Prophet,
did not do the handsome thing by Ann ELIZA.
He took her to his bed and board IN her
ca1low days, had her duly numbered and
stored away in the house, as pawnbroker
lays away his marked package. It Is to'oe
presumed that they read and sang together,
converted upon pleasant topics, laid plans Tor
the future, and that the willy and
smooth-tongued BRIGHAM persuaded the
credu1ous and fond ANN ELIZA that
the other twenty-nine wives were poor plck-
incs and of little account; that she Was the
bright particular star; that they were two
souls with but single thought, TWO
hearts that beat as one, etc. But BY
aud by the Prophets ardor cooled. The
flame upon Ann E11zA's altar began to burn
feebler and feebler, until at last it went out
altogether. Then the Prophet came to see
her no more She no more found console
ton upon his manly breast. When she ap-
pealed for the love ho had pledged to her, he
reearded her coldly, sometimes threntened her
with vengeance. But ANN ELIZA was girl
Of spirit, and talked back. Then he cut of
her pin-money, and kept her On short rations.
He took away her carriage, and she had to
foot it, He staid away from hor altogether,
and she had to saw the wood: make the fires,
bring in the water, and do all the chores
which the Prophet should have done. More
than that, when she was sitting at the httice,
wearily watching and waiting, hoping against
hope that her BRIGHAM might yet be touched
with pity and. come back to her,
and light the flame anew upon the altar, the
old sinner would drive by with some Of the
other wives, and they would turn up their
noses at the deserted favorite Of the Seraglio,
| and make it uncomfortable for her in those
pleasant little ways with which women are so
| well acquainted. She had no new spring
bonnet, knew nothing of the latest modes,
could only look into the windows OF the dry
goods stores with the sharp pang of knowing
| that none of these things were for
i her, and with the added wretchedness,
porhapg, Of seeing the other wives
inside, shopping, and charging the purchases
to Br1oHAM The children had to stop their
dancing-lessons and piano practice. She her
self Was rapidly coming down to bread and
| water and single change Of calico. But
ANN ELIZA was woman Of spirit. She
made one more proposition to him, giving
him @ last opportunity to rclight the flame on
the altar, and he answered her with scorn and
contumely, and threatened the vengeance OF
Heaven, aud the Church, and himself upon
her if she didn't quit her nonsense.
s'Hel hath no fury like woman
scorned." ANN ELIZA rose up ike WILLIAM
A1rEs, rose out OF the ashes Of her desola-
ton. burst the seals with which he had
ce,nented her to the house of YOUNG, hoisted
the black flag, and exercised that proudest
prerogative and inalienable brthright OF
every American woman, by suing to be d.
vorced from the Prophet Of the Latter-Day
Saints and the Vicegerent of the only
Church Ordinarily, ANN ELIZA would have
had little sympathy, because she undoubtedly
knew, when the venerable reprobate told
| her his love, that he had told
the same story to twenty-nine others, more or
less that she was only getting one-thirt1eth
| Of him, perhaps even less, and one-thir1eth
| Of an octogenarian is Of little consequence.
She knew when she took the Prophet for bet
ter or worse that there was nothing better
! about it; On the other hand, that it was all
worse. Under the circumstances, however,
she has had general sympathy. "The man
who would lay his hand upon woman save
| in kindness is unworthy the privileges Of an
American citizen is one OF the sublime moral
tiles Of the stage, and the American people
acted accordingly in her case. They thronged
her lectures ard listened to her tale Of woe
and her denunciation of Bn1GHAAt's perfdy
/ with sympathizing hearts. ANN Eliza has
bided her time, and now comes the Court
and decides that BRIGHAM must pay 1000
lawyer's fees and $1,000 alimony. 1t is
rather handsome thing. It may not bene-
fit Ann ELIZA much, for the Ut:h 1nw-
ycrs have peculiar grabbing tendency,
but still it takes $12,5M from the
fat purse Of the Prophet, and, if the twenty
nine other wives should follow the example
of ANN ELIZA, it will cost the old gentleman
S36s,50 That some of them will do so is
quite probable. ANN ELIZA having found the
way the. leads out of the harem, and Left the
door open, there can be little doubt that
those WHO are not too old to travel will pack
up before long, take s9,5o0, and go West
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OHURCH AND STATE IN GERMANY.
The complete secularization of marriage in
Germany is E great step towards the goal tc
which the Empire is hastening,-the COM
plete divorce of Church and State. Former
", the religious ceremony was esseninl to :
marriage, and the civil ceremony was op
j. tional The present law exactly reverse: