The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-23

Their Fccentricities on and Of the
platform-How Beecher Faced the
Nob5 and Won Them Over-Ann
Eliza, Brigham Young's Handsome
Wife as a Lscsurer-Jonn Cough
ana Ole Bull a ma D.ckinson's Great
Blunder That 9uined Her as Lee.
curer.
CCopyriaht 1907
NEW YORK, Jan. 1S-My avocation was
tbr st upon me, and, finding it congenial,
and at times more or less remunerative. I
have not grown discontented, but have &C
copied more earnestly and il less vain
shirt than Maloolis accepted his supposed
good fortune.
began my career as a manager at Salt
Lake City, in 1873. AT that time excite
ul5nt over the Mormon question ran high.
Chi5f Justice McKeon had caused the arrest
of Brigham Young, ami the Mormon HER
arcby, then more powerful, more relentless,
more blood hi sly than now. was using every
effort to check the influx of Gentiles. and
to establish a saint.like kingdom inim-
ical to the United States government.
Mines hal been discovered in Utah, and the
railr lad TO Sa Lake tad been completed.
Hordes II miners and fortu 70 hunters
focked to the City of the Saints,
and the sacred Mormon terri
tory was, as they religiously
expressed it, overrun by the GENTLE van
dals from Il effete wet. Thess vandals
had to board WITH Mo,mons, and as the
Mormo husbands had in many ms a ces
married Yankee wives, good board and
model housekeeping made some amends for
the di ordinations of polygang.
L happened that Nj t odist preacher
boarded with Ann Eliza Young, Brigham
Yo4ng'S nineteenth, and also his you gest
AMI pretti-st wife. Anna Eliza was mar
riei when Brigham met and fancied her.
With his power he removed her hu,ba ID
and ma ried her himself. Having incurred
B.igham's Gi,pIeas re by refusing TO live in
his harem, he built her house and W uld
nOteven visit he =. Sne vas product of Nor
mondom, having been born and reared in
the territory, und knowing nothing OF Gem
tiles or the ways Of the world. To make
long story short. the Methods minister
c0nve ted her, and in 20 mi utes she va
cated her house and was placed under the
care of the minister and his wife at the
Walker house. Tne "boys"-I was one of
them-knew of her apost1cy and were on
hand to buy her household effects. In a
few minutes we raised 81, 100 for her by pay
ing large prices for every article in her
house. A common water pail bronght $50.
and straw bro IN $40. OtaeS articles not
worth 10 ceAts were bid in for large sums
just to help Mrs Young and secure a souve-
mir Of her.
NJ S. Dung was reared by delicate and
refined mother, and she herself was proud.
hlgh-mlnded, and womanly woman. No
wonder she was shocked at the life she saw
IN brigham'S harem, or that she revolted.
The ch eff justice and the minister induced
her to tell the story of her life in the plrlJr
of the Walker hou-e. All the prominent
Gentiles in the city attended. Her sorry
and the delightful charm of her personality
won her auditors at once Every one
became enthusiastic over her, 1
among the nun er. Her friends
were legion and the United S ates troops
were e. ere to project her. Immediately
offers to induce her to lecture were tele-
graphed from all parts of the nited States.
One day the editor of the Salt Lake
Tribune, the first Gentle paper in U J,
asked me to manage An FL "a in a series
OF lectures to be delivered in the east. |
thought it over and fin lily con
ssented, provided contract could
be made for two years Everything
was arranged and l started out wi Mrs.
Young and NJ S. Cook, Norman lady
who had been music teacher in Brighams
family, but had changed her views and was
willing to travel as a chapero 9. At Lara
ME, the lecture was a great success, and in
Denver her reception was a grand ovation
The aid of e dressmaker was invoked at
the latter city and Mrs Young attired in a
black silk dress and nea collarette looked
and even beautiful. There was
a mir hA-
it hinge Ell in each sentence of her lee
.ure. She took the country by storm.
In Washington, Congress nan Blaina,
1Ow Secretary of State, and all the ninent
Statement heard her. just forty-eight hou s
after her fl st lecture at the capital, the
Poland bill was introduced in congress and
passed. At the emf of our two tars' C m
jract she had $4,000 in money. and with
ome Of 1t she took her mother and two boys
out of Utah. l never think of her with
ou5 recalling one of the best of women.
She is now Mrs. NJ. A Denning, and livl q
n Manistee, Mich, happy, / sincerely
nope.
la 1874, bought the "Redpath Lyceum
Bureau" in Boston, and visi ed New Y,rk
to meet the great stars and get acquainted
generally. [ shall not indulge in every
detail. Nv object was TO secure He Try
Ward Beecher. and so l wrote him letter,
saying that / would call upon him and
myself. When l rang his door
bell at his house on Columbia Nights,
Brooklyn, it vas opened by gray-haired,
-uddy faced man, VINO said in a frank
way: This is Pondw I knew him to be
MIR. Beecher, and he escorted me to his
study where he sat down, placed his
legs on q sofa and began to talk unre-
/ asked him if he would lecture,
and he replied that he did not know
whether he was worth anything, for as he
had been on the wit ess stand six months,
the public might be surfeited. | told him
that was perfectly willing - risk tour.
"lhea," said he, II have No objection to
trying"
He gave me some 1000 letters that had
been written to him during the great trial,
which | bundled up and took with me.
Those letters were, in many instances.
harsh, unjust, vituperative, Indeed, the off
spring or malice. read them all, but they
did not shake my res tuition.
We sta to out in 1876, and in the wears
taat followed we travelled over 400,O00
miles; over 1000 lectures we're delivered,
and | paid lin for his net sh ire of the
profits $242,00 We visited every state
ana terillory in the uui n, with the ex-
eeption Of Mississippi and Arz ma. Mr..
echer d / never had word of dispute
over money matters, and no fxe price or
percentage was underst lod between us. |
pad him what thought was right. and he
was satisfied. In large city ike Chicago
gave him $500 for | cture. We RAJ ely
d, Visited small city, where could not pay
MN $500 an evening.
Beecuer had no eccentricites and was an