Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-18
NO. 222.

1 his former home for dinner when he came into town on business.
 On one of these trips he found his wife hanging distractedlyover the cradle ofher baby who was in the worst stages of malignant disorder. AS the house was not in holiday trim, and no one had mnch time to devote to him, he thought he would make his visit
 brief, but as he turned to go out his wife said: s~
 "You will surely stay with us tonight The doctor says the baby cannot live till morning" -- s1&
 "on, it's not so bad as that, Ihope; doc-
 tors don't know everything, and to me the little fellow seems to be getting better. Any how, l must go back. Jane would be fright ened to death if I should leave her alone on the ranch. Besides I have promised to take her to a dance to night
 He went, and the wife and mother was left alone with the little sufferer. Jane was duly escorted to the dance, but while the husband was paying her this attention his youngest born was struggling in the agonies of death, and when morning came the bereaved mother sat alone beside little waxen figure, whose tossing and moanfngs were ended forever. And yet the man who furnished. the exhibi- tion of utter heartlessness was no worse nat urally than his fellows. Perhaps if he had been told, ten years before, that he would spend the night at a dance while his child lay dying, he would have said: stIs thy ser want dog, that he should do this thing?'' ! A friend of ours who had been devoted wife for many years, and who had borne all manner of i'll l-treatment from her husband and his second wife, was driven at length, by the tortures she endured, to attempt suiside. It happened that she took an overdose of the poison that she hoped would end her misery, and the attempt was unsuccessful. While she was at deaths door from the affect of the poison, her husband cursed and reviled hnr Ga-. be able to totter about the house, he told her with an oath that he wanted her to make sure work of it the next time, and that he wished she was dead and out of the way. "And yet" said the unhappy wife, ''no woman ever had 8 kinder husband than he was during the first twelve years of our mar ried life, and even after we came to Utah he was never unkind to me until he became in- fatuated with that girl. Then as Mormonism not only gave him the privilege of marrying her, but made it his duty to do so, he began
 to regard me in the light of an obstacle to his happiness, though heaven knows prov ed how far I set his happiness above my own when consented to the marriage"
 "I believe my husband was one of the best men living when I married him." So said the first wife of Mormon Apostle. 1T know that he loved me above everything on
 earth, and nothing but the baleful influences
 of MormonisR could have made him what he
 is now. He was one of the few sincere fana-
 tics who upheld Brigham Young's
 claims after the death of Joseph, and
 Young's word was the same
 to him as the voice of the Almighty. So when
 he was told to take another wife, he felt that
 he had received & command from heaven that
 he dared not disobey. know his sufferings
 were almost equal to mine on the dreadful
 night that preceded his marriage with the
 girls chosen for him (there were two of them),
 but having once surrendered his manhood
 and his conscience to the keeping of Brigham
 Young the downward course was easy.
 When he took additional wives (and he con-
 tinusd to do so long after his hair was gray),
 it cost him no struggles of mind, and no
 thought of my broken heart and blighted
 life marred his happiness yet once he would
 have borne anything to save me an hours
 pain"