Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-01
CELESTIAL MARRIAGE.
ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THE EFFECTS
OF THE BlIGHTlNG RELATION
An Old Woman Turned Out Doors TO Make
Room for a Younger.
Fum the salt Lake Tribune.

From the Salt Lake Tribune.
There has come to this Office letter
from Heber City, or near thereto, the
writer of which has felt the bhghtlng
curse which has ever attended the prop
aOandism of the Mormon religion. Her
story is told simply and ingenlously,
and while devoid Of all romance, never
theless tells too we'll Of cruelty and
hardsbips from her husbands devotion
10 that bestial doctrine Of the church.
Thirty-nine wears ago this October, the
couple were married. Living happily IN
England, they we're content and sur
rounded with warm friends. His occa-
patton was one which, while never able
TO place them in aftluent circumstances,
vet furnished the table with all the nee
essaries OF life and a goOdly portion OF
Injuries. Seized and controlled BY the
degrading principles OF the Church OF
the Latter-Day Saints, inculcated by one
of the Jesuitical missionaries sent abroad,
he announced his fealty to the Mormon
church and prepared forthwith to emf
crate to this land. In 1873 the little
flmily arrived here and started lie
anew. From the moment OF embark
ment he was fated to become a tyrant
and she a prosecuted old woman, turned
out of home and eking out an existence
as only the feble ones in ablect poverty
know how. His devotion to the church
seemed TO extirpate all fOndness for his
companion, and in course OF time moth
ing was left to evince his married rela-
tion save the history OF the fact.
Ten wears ago, at the age Of SO, he took
10 himself polygamOus wife, whom he
fondlad over and in whose younger
wears he took delight. At this period
his first wife's cup OF bitterness was MI,
ed. From her early love OF childhood
she had.ever chung 10 him whose only ana
LEGAL wife she was, enduring and suffer
ing. waiting and hoping, until life was
eclipsed with the dark shadows OF utter
and heartless desertion. Old and feeble,
she saw him to whom she had chung for
over a score OF years smiling on a
Younger wife and layishing all that
money and a tender solicitude could
suggest, while she, heartbroken and
crushed, was turned away from his side
10 satisfy the sO-called, GOd-given doc
trine of lust and misery. To such an
extent il the garb OF righteousness
thrown over a mess of seething corrup
ton 10 render its exterior fair.
All home extinct. the deserted woman,
who now lacked but four years OF meas
uring up to three score and ten, closed
the door on the state OF concublnage
and went among enemies TO gain a i've
lihoOd, and what livelihood Old and
decfepit, abused and tOrmented, a woman
of SO wears advanced in life, among enc
mics most vindictive, cruel, fanatic and
harsh, to gain each day a few cents TO
keep her blood warm and IN motion
Her message to Us presents suggestive
appearance. Scarcely letter Is found
on its pages but too plainly shows fear
and intense nervousness. II am work
ing and SUFFERING she writes, with
rhumatism, and am that nervous that
| can hardly write, and have none to do
il for me-" Then follows some ques-
tions asking for advice as regards the fu-
ture Her scanty earnings forbid the
saving OF any money, while her mcreas-
ing DAYS bring fesbleness and sickness
in a like proportion. Her husband is
aaundantly able 10 provide, and she
saws, please let me know ii there is
any way | can get living OF him. He
has a good farm-has plenty. He has a
homestead and no one it. My husband
was made citizen before Judge Me
Kean and his name is -.
Il am told that am outsider. j will
not be able To work much longer, and
have no home. | should like 10 see you
hut / cannot 20 from here alone, for
have cot sickly and nervous, and money
is So hard to get. ! have two daughters.
One Is married 10 -, living in -,
| 90 there i'm the winter. The other is |
married 10 the Justice of the peace of !
-. About two years ago he took |
second wife, and is not providing for my |
daughter very well. She wants TO know /
if the law will give her the children.
She has four, the oldest a girl eight years
old, and the youngest 10 months. un
derstand that my husband has willed all
his property to the concubine and her
son. Can he 10 il, MY husband, the
girles and myself made the place. Please
excuse me, Tor ] am not hit to write, with |
nv nerves, iOr have been badly used .
or treated. An answer to this will con- !
fer a great blessing on your humble ser
want
This letter was answered from this Of
fee, and permission asked to use her |
letter if there should be occasion. Her |
reply is:
"Your kind letter come to hand on |
the 18th. aud | have no objections to /
your publishing it but do not mention
NV name. as | am here alone, none but |
myself and my dog. We are all. The
Mormon~ are all around me, and might /
be turned out doors, or something done |
10 the little have You can publish it /
il YOU think well Of il, but do not put /
nv name 20 il. MANY of the people are |
sorry for me, and SAYS 1t is not right; /
but they are kept down so with the /
power Of the priesthood that they can
not act for themselves.
"My husband has given me eighty .
pounds OF flour entire. He says he will |
give me sack when he comes from the /
mill. That is all he has given me for /
three wears. He saws he is afraid OF the |
law giving him and the rest OF the pO- /
lygamiSts trouble.
IL will leave here at the end OF this /
month for - To spend the winter. /
Then would like to 90 down and see /
YOU, and | could tell you good many .
things of how | have been treated. /
am So discouraged, nervous, heart-bro- .
ken, that | am not able 10 leave here .
without some one with me, but when | .
20 to - will try and go to salt /
Lake.
Such is the history of another dupe, /
and such is the experience Of the vast /
majority i'm those relations where the /
hottest, brightest and purest motive is .
prostituted to the fendish, animal pas /
sions of bruteS, and are called by its .
icrutious advocates, celestial mar ?
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