The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-05-19

pretty cottage Tor her, and ntted. 10 up
with the best that money could buy. In
other things, however, she found that
her influence oter the man she called
husband was very slight. After six
months of married life, the opinions so
confidently expressed in her honeymoon
were greatly modified.
Phillip cares no more for me than he
would for Kitten" she declared pet
ulantly. IF talk to him half an hour
without stopping to take breath, he
never hears one word. / have half a
mind to ask President Young for di-
vorce."
"why don't your" inquired her friend
Myra, to whom these complaints were
addressed.
"Well, you see, with oil his faults.
Philip isn't bit mean about money.
don't know any other man who would
be likely to buy me such house as this;
and as for dresses, you know yourself
that half the girls in the city are ready
to die with envy when they see mine:
I have not showed you his last present"
Ruth tripped into the next room,
and came ont with an inlaid box IN her
hand.
He gave me this on my birthday,
she said, opening 1t, and displaying
gold watch and chain and pair OF brace
lets of elegant workmanship.
did You ever see anything 10 per-
feotly lovely In your life? l showed
them TO Milly Allen yesterday, and she
looked ready to cry. She was married
the same week I was, and is wearing
her old things yet, and has to live in the
house with two of the other wives, and
they order her around as If she was. o lit
tie girl. But then, Milly never did
have any spirit. She couldn't speak
for herself, no matter how badly she was
treated"
Brother Allen treats her we'll enough
himself, doesn't hep"
That depends On what you call coed
treatment. He isn't cross to her, but
| he tells her he cant afford another house
and it's no use talking about it. You
see, the troubls is, he was sealed 10
Milly and Sarah Spencer on the same
day, and Sarah happens to be the ia
vorite. She's got place of her own,
and new things, and he spends half OF
his time with her, which Is about all
that could be expected OF man with six
| wives"
"I'm sorry for Milly," Myra said.
/
| her, and she deserves O good husband. !"
"Well, I'm sorry for her too, Of course
| but she ought to have had more sense.
When man marries two girls on the
same day, one OF them is going TO be
neglected-anybody knows that / told
Milly how il would be, but she didn I
believe me-"
'After all, Ruth, I think you ought to
/ 4. ~ IL
fine house and fine clothes, and your
husband spends half his time with you.
| What more can you ask"
81 want him to spend more than half
| his time with me, and to act as il he
cared for me-" and then, to her friends
/ surprise, Ruth buried her face In her
hands and began to sob.
Meanwhile, in the home that only Q
/ few months ago was so peaceful and
happy, an evil spirit sat enthroned.
/ The first wife, after q season of apathetic
| despair, woke 10 full sense of her
misery; and bitter jealousy for the girl
who stood between her and her hus-
band seemed to change her whole nature.
She might get over it all in time, 30
she told herself, if every alternate week
did not bring Philip back TO the house;
/
voice, knowing all tho time that the
tenderness which he tried to show to
warb her would be lavished on another
her outraged love refused would be
given to that dark-eyed girl, whom she
hated, with vindictiveness, that frigh
tened her when she stopped to reason
| about her feelings.
/ fhax kbak "a
who rebels against poligamy il possessed
by devils. / feel as though had . le-
gion of them in nv heart"
This was Jessie's confession to Helen
WoodfGrd. In reply to Jessie, Mrs.
WOodford said, with strange, far-away
look in her eyes:
81 felt just as you do once, long ago
but got over It,"
"And how?'
''By outliving my love for my hus-
band. As long as loved hin suffered
suffered the torments of hell. You
know the house IN which he used 10
keep two of his wives. At night. when
he was staying there, used to walk
the floor of the room until it seemed
that must go mad unless could es-
cape from the place-from everything.
| 40CA L NOulu Out 1ukO blc ekEcoi
and go to that house. / would walk
round and round it, feeling as though ]
could tear the walls down with my bare
hands, growing every minute more like
one possessed with devils, Until my boy,
missing me, would come IN search oi
me and lead me home"
81 know how you felt" Jessie's eyes
cleaned, and she set her teeth.
'"Ten years from now you viii lool
back and wonder that you ever could
have suffered as you do TO day for such
a cause. I wonder at myself. To-day
my husband is nothing to me. h
comes home sometimes-1 believe
have seen him twice during the pas
year-but his coming or going affects
me no more than it does the walls of thu
house. From ''The Fate of Madame Ii
Tour" by Mrs. A. G. Paddock.