Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-05-09

whsn there iss - much tears now and mis-
sioh. that Il he way shs Lord's kingdom
= built mp, you know, Cistenei Beaideo, tho
Lord hos shown Brother Young that Il II
my duty 10 take another wife; that am TO
marry certain party for His names honor
and glory. She win take your apartment in
the house, Cistne, but you are to have the
little new house over the way when 1t -
built, you know"
Tho girl disengaged herself and stood mp.
ssYou hate stop the love-" she sobbed.
"When been put away and leaf over there
You not coome or care for me any morel''
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 1t
was the Lords command that she should
acquiesce willingly, and not complain to the
neighbors or mako unseemly scenes, and
that the creator the number Of his wives
the more certainty there WINS Of her own
salvation and the higher her place in Heav-
en-, since her salvation depended upon him,
and 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 ownership Of his
heart; they had all been displaced one BY
one, and would be pleased enough to see
this blue-eyed fsvorite pushed from the seat
OF preference.
'Come, now, Cistene, win go with you
fully, aud abe followed him from the tith-
ing-omoe across the yard to the long dwell
ing and through that to the back yard This
large incloeure was divided into little
squares Of ground, into each ono Of which Q
back door entered from an apartment Hero
In these little yards IN attempt was made
to keep the children Of each wife separate,
and each wife was forbidden to punish the
children Of another. Back Of the yards
orchards; beyond the garden were barns
and cowshsds, and beyond those were past
ures and fields, and in all Of these the
wives and older children worked, in large
measure supporting themselves.
Indeed, the keeping Of this establishment
was not nearly so taxing to It's head as, to
glance at its proportions, one might sup
pose. Almost every thing consumed by
mouth within its precincts was produced
from the soil by the wives and their or
spring; great riclxs of dead timber for fuel
were "snaled" with oxen from the mount
ain sides without cost; two Of the older
wives were supplied with looms upon which
the wool from large flock Of sheep was
woven into cloth, supplying IA great part
the apparel OF the family, while the Bishop
in handling the uthes had the free permis-
sion Of the Head Of the Church to convert
these large quantities Of butter, eggs, grain,
beeves, etc., into cash, aud, after turning =
certain sum into the church treasury, to re-
serve the remainder for himself Thus the
taking Of another wife was to the Bishop Of
small import beyond the act itself, as indeed
with most polygamists among these mount
aims owing mainly to the same ignoble
cause.
When Cistene, weepingly, and her lord,
now with . thundery front, entered the
back yard An angry scene ensued, . seene
Of accusation and denunciation that shall
remain unpictured here, save . glimpse as
II closed Of . man seizing . woman with
gray hair and faded face by the throat, and
roughly thrusting her backward through .
gateway and slsmming it after her, with
the rather heated injunction that she keep
it and her mouth closed.
He had loved her once, when sAs was
young and slender and fair, and had sworn
to love and cleaye to none other than she.