Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-07-23
ALICIA'S DIVORCE.


There was no accounting for IT, She
could have been anything she chose in
that little Georgia town. She could
have married any man not already
married from The blacksmith up to the
Justice of the peace himself
But she chose to throw herself away.
When the PROSECUTING elder of the
later-day saints left the town with his
three converts, Alicia among them,
the people arose in their might and
talked Of running after him and hang
ing him to the most convenient tree.
II was terrible, they said, that poor
girl like she, with no parents TO look
after her, should embrace such an aw-
full religion as mormouism. They
talked a good deal about the matter.
That is the way they arose in their
might.
And so Alicia, firm TO her new-found
faith, was taken across the plains in
emigrant train 10 Salt Lake.
A cattleman named Nephi Hearn,
who could quote verses from the Book
of Mormon by the yard, came up from
Arizona and met her at the elders
house. He saw that she was fresh
checked, largc-eyed aud black-haired,
and he began forthwith to make love
TO her.
Now love and all that were not
part Of Alicia's programme, if, indeed
she had any programme at ali. She
had gone to the land of the saints with
her precious hottie fun of the beauties
of the doctrines of Joe smith, bat when
it came to the Brighamite part of the
religion-the marrying and giving in
marriage she hesitated.
Perfect simplicity of faith shone
from her eyes when she faced the
music, or rather the big, ugly man be-
fore her. The bishop told her she
must marry Hearn and, of course she
married him,
After they had gone through the en-
dowment house aud taken all the lob
legations he carted her over 800 miles
of ulkali desert and sandy wastes to
his ranch in Stone jug Valley, which
is ia central Arizona.
Alicia did not like this Journey. The
cart had canvas cover that shaded
her head, but the heat beat up from
the ground like the heat from burning
Gouurrah, and her pretty checks be-
came tanned and pink. They looked
all the prett for that, but she did
not like to fee them And this big
man who MARI q her-who was he,
and where was he taking her TO-? All,
well. one mus, have faith. The saints
all have their trials The man was
doubtless a good man. The bishop
had ~lid So. II would care for her.
She would love him after Time per-
hap~. aud ii not why there was th9
book to read and the hymns TO sing
md the prayers to repeat
It was well with her soul. What
mattered the rest2
Al Stone jug ranch Uearn intro
duced her To his two other wives. His
other wives! 1t made her cheek flame
and her eye flash. Here was some
Niug of which she had not before been
-lade aware. But even had some one
at the first Diuutly told her that she
had gone among polygumous people
she would have been none the wiser.
Polygamy meant no more to her SIN
pie mind than did polythnism or POI
larization.
OF course IL was all hoax. StilI, if
It were, il seemed strange that Hearn
and the two women should carry them
selves so griuly. The women were
ugly and jealousy made them uglier
shll. Their faces were brown with 10,
She doubted and doubted But
when Hearn was away the women took
noins IN nxploin .avprvtbiurr tn her
The thrry E~ht ON severn, shady
cba4ters in the book They repeated
nasIo,res nom tbe sermons az tbe dead
and T3nc Erirb,m
III, sbo sao, ora see;r,r sbook
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