Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-07
rwENrY-E1vE PER GENT OF soRRow.
The Woes of "a Man Who Loses His Wife
and has Three Left.
rChicapo Timaal

and has Three Left.
[Chicago Times.]
Melancholy news came from Salt Lake City
by way of Washington few days ago. Del.
egate Cannon has experienced sad loss; %
per cent. of his domestic happiness has been
blasted; the angel of death has entered his fam.
lily quadrangle and left it triangle; she to
whom he gave the quarter part of his heart
and whom he endowed with so much as she
could manage to get one-fOurth of all his
worldly goods, has deceased; his better quar-.
ter has gone forth. Under some circumstan.
ces Mr.. Cannon would be entitled to the sym.
pathy Of all the peopls in the United
States, but 1t is useless to give him
more sympathy thau he needs in
view of the nature of his disaster it would
perhaps be sufficient for one-fourth of the
people of the United States to sympathize
with him. He has still three helpmeets to
console MIN; three pairs of ears into which he
can pour his woes; three hearts that bleed with
HIS three bosoms racked with pain at his be.
reavement.
II is idle to inquire whether the amount OF
mans affection is fixed, like the wages fund
and the larger the number of persons entitled
to draw upon it the smaller the share of each
or whether the heart rises equal to every emer
gency and beats with quadrupled intensity
when there are four hearts for it to beat in
unison with. 1t isa beautiful thought thai
| five hearts can beat as one. But per
| haps they do not; it may be that only two
beat in unison at time, and that where five
are linken together the combinations are var
| led like the chords on a piano. It is pleas
anter to believe that the powers of the mascu.
upon it, and that the late Mrs. Cannon had nc
less of her husbands affections because there
| were three more Mrs. Cannons, and that the
| three surviving Mrs. Cannons get no larger
| dividends of their mutual husbands love and
| tenderness because there is one less wife tC
present her coupons. 1t is pleasanter tG
| believe that the amount of interest shows
no diminution with the increase in thu
number of the matrimonial bonds
| 1t has long been admitted that happiness wai
| to be found in the matrimonial condition, be
cause he who had wife found all his sor
| rows divided in half and all his joys mutt
piled by two. But this interesting mathe
| NAUTICAL calculation of the advantages of mar
ried life was made on the narrow basis of thu
| one wife which is all that niggarilly civil
zation allows man. What must be the hap
piness of the husband of four wives? All hi
! joys are multiplied fve-fold and all his sor
rows discounted 80 per cent.
Mr.. Cannon's reply to the dispatch announc
i
wellspring of fondness in the Delegates heart
| 'sTell the children for my sake to bear up
It isn't clear whether he refers here to thu
children of the late Mrs. Cannon, or of tn
surviving Mrs. Cannons. "Can not show tot
much respect for her worth, but avoid every
| thing like painful impression ON tn,
children" As the children have yet tire,
| mothers living, the latter seems Oversee
licitous on their account, but this is natu
raj; being the husband of four women a
once must develop the tender side of a mans
| character beyond anything that a monographs
can understand. Again, he directs that tn
children have company constantly; "the!
must not yield to grief" As to the funeral
the husband wishes everything done up neatl.
and pleasantly; there is no reason why Their
should be anything mournful about the death
of one wife when man has three left, ani
he directs that there shall be ''no gloom.
| trappings at the funeral; no black clotl
about the coffin. Make it of natural wood
mountain wood. if possib::e vanished ant
| comely." What could more tender and con
siderate than that? The husband of one wife
| may think he loves her some, but he isn't il
any kind of practice; it is not reasonable tx
expect much of him; it takes husband o
four wives to show what happens when tn
fountains of the deep in mans nature ar
broken up and even the loftiest SUBMITS of hi
hoinor ORC oovorod with tho do1uoo IF his q