The Dawson journal., 1886-09-23
STORIES OF M0RNeNDCM.
From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.

In about three weeks the wife
returned and found the hired
girl, who had been left in charge
If the house. installed as wife
Ntmber Two. Naturally, there
was quite scene, and as the hus-
band disliked scenes, he divided
the family, taking TIE new wife to
a ranch THAT he owned several
miles from the city. lie had not
previously developed any fond
ness for country life, hpt he now
spent all his time at the ranch,
merely stepping at bis former
'ome fer dinner when he came
INTO town On business.
On one Of these trips he foVnd
his wife hanging distractedly over
the cradle Of her baby, Who was
IN the worst stages OF malignant
disorder AS the house was not
in holiday trim, and 10 one
had much time to devote to him,
he thought he would make his Wis
it brief, but as he turned to go
out his wife said:
''You will surely stay with Us
to-niShtg The doctor says the
baby cannot live till next morn
ing"
ooh, It's not so bad as that, |
hope; doctors don't know every
thing, and to me the little fellow
/ seems to be getting better. Any
how [ must go back. Jane would
be frightened to death if [ should
leave her alone on the ranch. Be
sides, / 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 Gully es-
corted to the dance, but while the
husband was paying her this at
tention his youngest born was
struggling in the agonies of death,
and when morning came the be-
j reaved mother sat alone beside a
little waxen figure, whose tossings
and moulning5 were ended forev-
er. And yet tho man who fur
ni5hed this exhibition of heart
/ lessness was no worse naturally
than his fellows. Perhaps if he
had been told, ten years before,
that he would spend The night at
s &aEoo while his child lay dying,
lie would have said: as thy seq
want dog, that he should do this
thing?"
A friend OF ours who had been
q devoted wife for many yooro,
/ and who naa p9rue all manner Of
f. il'-tro2tnapt from her husband
and his second wife, was driven
ut length, by the to9tGre
she endured, to attempt suicide.
It happendd that she took an
overdose Of the poison that sh 9
hoped woGld enc ker misery, and
he attempt was unsuccessful.
. N1;le she was at deaths door
from the effect Of the poison, hot
hush nd cursed and reg;lej her,
aud when she was 81 far recover
ed as to he able to totter about the
house, he told her with an oath that
he wanted her to make sure Of il
neyt time, and that he wished she
vas dead and cut Of the way.
"And yet" said the unhappy
wife, "no woman ever had kinder
hn3band than he was daring the
first twelve years OF our married
life, aud even after we came t.
Utah he was Ley2r unkind to nc
until he became infatuated Will
that girl. Then, as Mormonism
not onIy gave him the privilege OF
not marrying, but made it his du-
ty to do so, he began to regard
me in the light Of an obstacle t.
his happiness, though HeayeI
knows how far | set his happiness
above nay own when l consented
to the marriage
'I believe my husband was one
Of the best men living when ]
married him." 50 SAID the first
| wife Of a Mormon Apostle. 81
| know that he loved nae above ev
erything on earth, and nothing
bat the balefal infaences Of Nor
llaonism could have made hiu
i. bat ho - now. IL ,yoo ono -!
tho few fanatics who upholC
/ Brigham Yonngs claims after the
/ daeth of Joseph, and Young.
7 wotl WAS the same as the voice oI
t.e Almighty So when he wa.
/ told to take another wife, hl
felt that he had received II com
mand from Heaven that lie darel
mot dieobey. ! know his suffer
ings we're almost equal to mint
on the dreadful night th4t pre-
ceiad his marriage with the girlf
ch )sen for him (there were ty,
OF them), but having once sur
rendered his manhood and hit
conscience to the keeping Of Brig
ham Young, the dowhwlrd cour5t
WAS easy. When lie took adoi
tior al wives (and h. continued t,
do so long after his hair wa
gray), it cost him uo struggle o
mind, and NO thought OF lny broker
heart and blightod life marred hi