Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-24
Poiygamous Marriages.
How they Are HIads-The Records of
 Double CouFtship

How they Are Mads-The Records of a
 Double ConTtshIp
 [SaIt Lake Letter in Chicago NewS.I
 The superintendent of the great co-opsra- tive store has told me how he contracted 6 polygamous marriage, and ! will try to re- peaa his story as nearly as 1 can just as he oaye it to me It is after dinner in the old Townsend House and in the very same room occupied by Arternus Ward many years ago The superintendent sits in an armchair and talks while I lean forward interested more than can tell Our cigars are unlit.
 ssYou have asked," he says, ''about the courtship for second marriage, and wheth CT the suitor works over his old love letters, improves on his old methods, and whether. being & married man himself, he proceeds more boldly, or in the light of new ahec- ton bIushes, stammers and hesltates as in bis callow days. We'll, am going to tell yod my own experience. :"
 He is an Englishman, and I pass the clar ct tug, which he lifts and then begins
 7'You see, was Mormon in England be- fore I came here. In fact, l was born g Mormon. In 1866. when quite a lad, came to Salt Lake City and got position in the stores Brigham Young took 8 fancy to me and advanced me very rapidly, and in few years was cashier, ct salary of one hun met my first wife, herself the child of po- lyesmous marriage and stanch believer in polyeamy. After a short conrtship, in which there was romance enough to make It inter esting we were married. You can readily understand that at the time I was more in terested in making myself 8 position than in anything else. I don't mind saying that I was, if not opposed to polygamy, at least not an advocate of it, and never deemed it & possibility that I would marry second wife. We had two children and my wife did do everything to aid me and to make our homo happy. She was successful, too, and have never forgotten it either.
 ssOne evening we were at party, and saw there the prettiest and most attractive girl I sverisaw in my life. I YVES dead struck upon her before knew it, and went around trying to get an introduction to her. didn't succeed, but finally came to my wife and asked who that girl was. She says: That's Mayor of Salt Lake, We'll says I, T want an introduction to her. My wife says She's my eldest and best friend. I will se- cure you the introduction She did, and Miss Wells made such an impression on me as no woman had ever done before.
 e.But it didn't stop. We didn't see each other for some days, but I was really very much distressed, and she was, too, for few days afterwards. Mrs. Wells herself, one of five wives, and Belle's mother, came to the store to see me. sWhat's the matter with you and Belle ? says she. told her noth- ing that knew or. wen, en0'8 61ck ana wants to see you All right says I, T will go and see her. Iwent up to the house aad found Bslle in bed, very pale and sick look ing. Now, you could have got bets of 2 thousand to one right here in Salt Lake that Belle Wells would never marry in polygamy. She was opposed to it.
 s'What did you say to Belle 7'' I asked.
 t'Wsll, forget exactly. said: You sent for me- No, didn't send for you. she replied. Well, you wanted me to come, said T. Yes, I did, very much, she replied, and in less than ten minutes we had arranged to be married. n
 sHow did you ask the question ?''
 ssI really don't remember. but said If she wanted to try it, why. was willing. So went down stairsn--
 Ibid you go into the ecstacies of newly en- gagged Iovers-kiss each other shyly and then ferventIy, and that good sort of thing ?" ''Now, you never mind went down stairs and met General Wells and said tc him, General, if you gre willing I'm going to marry Belle. All right says he; you can have her or any other daughter I've got, or as many of them as you want I only want one of them, says l. You had better