The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-03-15
TREAN;
THE M0RMoN'S DAUGHTER.
BY AVA 1fIITo1g KERR.
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Copyrighted, 1851, b as A. N xs,,oys Mess.
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CHAPTER x-Corrmurp.
Meantime the Prophet, with his train,
had gone on his way with balmy forgiving
exterior but cold and renkling heart He
had said with holy smiie Of commiscration
- his carriage was starting, 'that the Lord
would avenge the insult given His servant,
and cut Of the wicked In His own good
Time" but to Farley he had said; "Pick out
man to do the work II Beam fails; Rock
well and my men will attend to the fellow II
he comes over TO the cityl you had best
manage some way 70 send this very smart
young sister over to Smoots too, and will
zee personally TO her case"
And the Bishop had assented with great
Difference, but when the Prophets carriages
had gone, and he stood alone in the tithing
once, he glowcred darkly at the floor for q
long time in silence. At last he threw him.
self heavily into chair and brought his
fst down on the desk with crash.
"Who else, I'd like to know, is going to
"Here's Arsen and Beam, both under me,
and this internal Yankee, that I've got no
control over, and now who but the Presi-
dent Of the Church himself, with his foot
on my gullet, has his nose pointed In tho
Same directioni Now, blank me, II some
body amt goin' to get fooled in this little
affair and II it's me think the rest II find
'emselvcs in the same boat when the games
over,or my names not Hyrum ParlcyW and
he glowercd more blackly than ever.
At that there came timid tap or two
upon the door, and he growled, roughly:
"Wcll, come inp' In response to his surly
invitation one Of his wives entered, tall,
well-formed, young Scandinavian woman,
with light hair, fair skin and blue but not
very intelligent eyes. She was his latest
acquisition, one Of band Of Mormon i'm
migrants tent to settle about Mooseneck.
She had come without parent or relative,
having been decoyed away from her pleas
ant home by the specious promises and
saintly wiles Of Mormon missionary. Upon
tho arrival Of the company she had at once
been chosen by the Bishop as q servant, as
Is much the custom, and presently became
his wife. For time she had reigned as
the acknowledged fsvorite, but her charm
for her lord, which in such q case could
hardly be else than Of questionable and
ephemeral character, had begun to wane.
'Well, what IL 1t now, Cistene3" he asked,
without looking up
''Lucy hafe whipped my chiler she cried,
with quivering lip.
''Lucy was the first wife, and rather old
and ocrid, and tho Bishops brow grew puck
cred and thundery. He made movement
as II to rise, then thought seemed to in
tervcnc, und he smoothed the trenches out
Of his brow, and, with o rather sheepish
blandness, drew tho weeping girl down on
his lap and kissed herr
"Cistene," he SAID, ~ am thinking Of tax
ing another wife soon, girl who will make
these fussy fools keep 10 their knittin'l OF
course, Cistene, shall always love you
best, and am going to build you little
house on the empty lot across the street
there 30 you may 1--we unmolested. OF
courseI want your consent, though" he
added, coaxingly.
The poor thing looked at him through her
tears. "Why, iss there not now enougha"
she implored. "Why do you need more
when there iss 20 much tears now and mis-
seryf''
''Oh, that 10 the way the Lords kingdom
10 built up, you know, Cistenei Besides, tho
Lord has shown Brother Young that 1t Is
my duty to take another wife; that I am to
marry certain party for His names honor
and glory. She win take your apartment in
the house, Cistene, but you are to have the
littlc new house over the way when 1t u
built, you know"
The girl disengaged herself and stood up.
"You hate stop the love-" she sobbed.
"When ! been put away and leaf over there
you not coome or care for me any more"
And she started toward the door. The
Bishop got up and put his arms about her
and began TO coax and wheedle again.
Among other cheerful things he told her It
was the Lords command that she should
acquiesce willingly, and not complain to the
nelGhbors or make unseemly scenes, and
that the greater the numbey Of his wives
tho more certainty there was Of her own
salvation and the higher her place in Heav-
en-, since her salvation depended upon him,
anA his position In glory depended upon the
number Of his queens and increase.
He did not trouble himself about the other
wifely partners in the ownerslip of his
heart; they had all been displaced one by
ono, and would be pleased enough to see
this hlus-eyed favorite pushed from the seat
"Come, now, Cistene, win 20 with you
and sse about this trouble" he said, cheer
fully, and she followed him from the tith-
iag-eince across the yard to the long dwell
ing and through that to tho back yard. This
largo inclosure was divided into little
squares Of ground, into each one Of which Q
back door entered from an apartment. Here
In these little yards an attempt was made
10 kccp the children Of each wife separate,
and each wife was forbidden to punish the
children Of another. Back Of the yarda
wsrc large gardens, and on either side
orchards; beyond the garden were barns
and cowsheds, and beyond those were past
ures and fields, and In all Of these the
wivcs and older children worked, in large
measure supporting themselves.
lndocd, the keeping Of this establishment
was not nearly "a taxing to its head a., to
glance at IT. proportions, one might sup
pose. Almost every thing consumed by
mouth within It, precincts was produced
from tho soil by the wives and their OF
spring; great ricis Of dead timber for fuel
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