Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-14
Stories OF sIormondom.

From the Boston Commercial BuyIsfin.
In about three weeks the wife returned and
found the hired girl, who had been left in
charge of the house. installed as wife Number
| Two. Naturally. there was quite a scene,
| and as the husband disliked scenes. he divided
| the family, taking the new wife TO u ranch
| that he owned, several miles from the citv,
| He had not previously developed any fond
| meas for country life, but he now spent all h,s
| time at the ranch. merely stopping at his for
mer home for dinner when he came into town
! on business.
| On one of these trips he found his wife hang
| ing distractedly over the cradle Of her baby,
who was in the worst stages of M allEnant dis
| order. AS the house was not In holiday trim,
| and no one had much time to devote to HIM,
| he thought he would make his visit brief, but
| as he turned TO go out his wife said
You Will surely stay with us tonight :
| The doctor says the baby cannot live till
morning"
"Oh. it's not so hsd as that, hope: doctors
| don't know everything. and to me che lit Q
| fellow seems to be getting better Anyhow.
must GO back. Jane would be frightened to
death IL l should leave her a one on the ranch.
BESIDES, have promised to take her to a
dance Tonight"
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 paving her this attention his youngest
born was struggling in the agonies of death.
and when morning came the bereaved mot Ter
sat alone beside little waxen Ggure. whose
tossings and meanings were ended forever.
And yet the man who furnished this eXhibi
ton of utter hesrtlessness was no worse
naturally than his fellows. Perhaps il 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: lis thy servant
a dog, that he should do this thing"
A friend of ours who had been q devoted
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 torture she endured. to attemnt suicide.
IL happened that she took an overdose of the
POI son 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 30 far re 'uvered as to be
able to totter about the hon C. he told her
with an oath that he wanted her 10 make sure
work of u next time, and that he wished she
was dead aud out OF the way.
And yet," SAID the unhappy wife. mo
woman ever had kinder husband than he
was during the first twelve years OF our mar
ried life aud even after we came to Utah he
was never unklnd to me until he bee Ime in
faluated with that girl. Then, as Mormon
lam not only gave him the privilege of mar
rying her, but made 10 his duty 10 do so, ne
began TO regard me In the light OF an obsta-
Gle TO his happiness, though Heaven knows
how far set his happiness above my own
when consented to the marriage
II believe my husband was one OF the best
men living when married him." So eaid tho
1rst wife of n Mormon Apostle, "Iknow that
he loved me above everything on earth, and
nothing but the baleful influences of Nor
mouism could have made him what he is now
lie was one OF the few sincere fanatics who
upheld Brigham Young's ella ms after the
death of Joseph, and YounR's word was the
same TO him as the voice of the Almighty. 20
when he was told Co take another wife. he
felt that he had received "a command from
Heaven that he dared not disobey. / know
his sunerings were almost equal To mine on
the dreadful night that preceded his marriage
with tho girls chosen for h m tthere were two
OF theml, but having once surrendered his
manhood and his conscience To the keeping of
Brigham Iou'g. the downward course was
easy. When be TOOK additional wives land he
continued to do so long after his hair was
gray, IL cost HIM no BiruggleA OF mind. and
no thought OF my broken heart ana blghted
life MARRIED us happiness; yet once he would
pain"