Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-10-02

"You viii surely stay with us to-
mighty The doctor says the baby car
not live till morning"
''Ohs it's not so bad as that I hope
! doctors don't know everything, and to
! me the little fellow seems to be getting
better. Anyhow, I must go back. Jane
would be frightened to death if I should
leave her alone on the ranch, Besides,
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 strug-
Cling IN the agOnies Of death, and when
morning came the bereaYed mother sat
alone beside a little Waxen figure,
whose tOssings and meanings were ended
forever. And yet the man who furnished
this exhibition OF utter heartlesmess was
no worse naturally 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: '.Is thy servant a dog,
that he should do this thingY"
a friend Of OUTS who had been a de-
voted wife for many years, and who had
borne all manner of ill-treatment from
her husband and his second wife, was
driven at length, by the fortunes she en-
dured, to attempt suicide. 1t 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 effect
Of the poison, her husband cursed and
reviled her, and when she was so far re-
covered as to be able to tOtter about the
house, he told her with an oath that he
wanted her to make sure work Of it next
time, and that he wished she was dead
and out Of the way.
sand yet" said the unhappy wife,
''nO woman ever had a kinder husband
than he was during the first twelve years
Of our married life, and even after We
came to Utah he was never unkind to
me until he became infatuated With that
girl. Then, as MOrmOnism not only gave
him the privilege 2 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 1
proved how far L set his happiness above
my own when I consented to the mar
Eiage."
81 believe my husband was one Of the
best men living when L married him.
So said the first wife Of a Mormon Apos-
tie. 81 know that ne loved me above
everything on earth, and nothing but
the balefuI influences of MOrmcnism
could have made him what he is now.
He was one Of the few sincere fanatics
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 d command from Heaven that
he dared not disObey. I know his suf-
erings were almost equal to mine on
he dreadful night that preceded his
marriage with the GINS 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 land he
continued 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 happi-
ness; yet once he would have borne any
thing to save me an hours pain"