The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-05
QUEEN OF HIS HEART.

But youth and beauty don't last always,
and about 1866 Brigham began to banker
Tor new deal. Emmaline became desper.
ate. She applied TO Mary Ann Angel,
the frat vile for help TO prevent another
marriage, but the latter was long past Ia.
king any interest In such things. After
two or three trials with rather common
wives, who did not please him more than
n few months, Brigham's affections twin.
ed around Amelia Folsom, and There
they have chung ever since, save for few
aide disturbances, moot noted Of which
was the AlimoniouS Ann Eliza. Emme-
line was literally heRrt.brokep, and, 10
add 10 her troubles, she had to bear the
feproaches and taunts OF those abe had
once displaced. She took 10 opium for
consolation, and died In the summer Of
1915 perfect wreck-a confirmed "mor.
phine drunkardv
| think Il was about q week after the
burial OF Emmeline (she was buried with
surprising Indifference to details and ap.
pearances) that we had large party Of
excursiouists from the East. They all
called on Brigham and paid their most
profound respects, and were positively in.
dignant at some Of us resident Gentiles
for the war we made on the hierarchy.
One lady took me to task very severely,
and atterWard sent me a clipping from
an Eastern paper, with her able defense
Of Brigham therein. like 10 hear E,s-
tern people apologize for polygamy-es.
pecially ladies. They go about it 80 log.
ically, andit sounds 80 natural. But
this is depression, and aboxe-all things
| am determined not to preach.
AMELIA's RULE.
Well, Amelia became the recognized
Queen Of the Harem in 1866, and has
ruled the old fellow ever since. It IL hin.
ted that she knows loo much, and that he
would have liked TO "shake" her, but
did not dare. All the style Of all the
other wives put together wouldn't equal
hers. She has had an elegant palace
built for her sole self across the atreet
from the main hennery, and generally
lives more like the vile Of millionaire
than did any Of her predecessors. Brig
ham has had four or five tlirtations since
1856, and had married time or two, but
none Of them amounted 10 anything. IL
would appear that Ann Eliza rather
thought she could supercede Amelia, and
did hold her own we'll for a few months,
butthe other soon knocked her clear out
Of the ring, Hence these tears. Marga.
ret Van Colt, one Of the latest, is good
woman, and a mother, too, and il il said
this last circumstance irritates Amelia
more than anything else. She has not
been at all reticent in her insinuations
about "that Womans baby" but nobody
believes such charges; the character Of
Margaret is too well established. Saint
and Gentle are willing to swear that her
little girl is honestly entitled to the
TWO HuNDREDrH PART oF.THAT BIG e.
TATE.
But there was one woman, Selma Ur.
senbach, who, could Brigham have won
her would have made it lively for Anne.
liza. She was the sister OF Octave Ursen.
bach, famous in Utah as the architect
who designed the big organ in the Nor.
mon Tabernacle. Brigham was in love
for the thirtieth time, and his love was
warm-warmer than his youthful pas.
sion in geometrical progression. Sell.
ma was young, beautiful Swiss lady.
She played on all musical Instrument,
and spoke the purest French. Brigham
made himself perfect dandy for her
sake. She smiled on a young fellow,
and Brigham sen: him away on mia.
sion. Then Selma got disgusted, apos.
tatized from the Church, and went back
to Switzerland. But if Brigham Young
could have lived out his days, as nature
intended, he might in turn have set
aside Amelia and gone on with the fifth
generation Of wives" in the old style,
as when in his prime his affection was
a towering annual or temi.annual, bloc.
ming anew every spring and fall, and
clinging 10 new supports each time.