Year: 1873

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Eornisg went to the N ak ff.atsise ana
sent up my card to the now interesting
lady, Mrs. Ann Eliza Webb Yonng, with
an intimation that l had called upon her
attorneys. and, if agreeable and conven-
lent, should be pleased to see her. I'm
mediately the garcon returned with the
invitation to 'please walk up


THE APPEARANCE OF THE LADY.


In person Mrs. Young is tall and slen-
der, with remarkably sweet face, fea-
lures regular aud soft, eyes dark blue,
hair very dark brown and thrown loosely
behind .after the fashion of the school
miss of fifteen. 1t is not always safe
to judge by Appearances, but nature new
er gave that countenance to hedgehog
or virago. The first thought was that
the prophet was intensely stupid to have
driven that beauty from the harem.


At the present time the lade ia twenty
eight years of age. but her i'll health i'm
parts languid expression to her coun-
tenance that might suggest to the mind
that she was few years older 1t was
in remarking upon her health that saw
the feeling of her soul upon polygamy.
She said that her health had been failing
for the last four years. The mental
suffering that she had endured in her
poly gamic life had affected her to such a
degree that she had become utterly in
different to life itself, and would rather
have died than lived


Reporter trust, Madame, that you
will not think it impertinent if l ask you
how you came to enter Brigham Young's
family with your feelings SO averse to
the polygamic institution.


Lady-Nothing on the subject, sir. can
be impertinent, as wish the facts known
to the world.


was living on my fathers farm, in
Little Cottonwood, when, in the summer
of 1867, Brigham Young informed my
father that he wanted me for a wife
Brigham, with number of the apostles
and elders from this city, was visiting
Cottonwood on Sunday and held two
meetings for preaching 1t was at the
close of the forenoon service on that oc
casion that he walked up to NE and said,
Had l not better accompany you home. ,
said. Certainly, if you wish to-" On
the way to my fathers house Brigham
asked me if | had any proposals of mar
rage since l had obtained divorce from
my first husband. | answered him, .Yes
that | had several proposals. He then
asked if there was any one of them that
l wished to accept. l said, NO." on
which he said that be would like to give
me little advice.


He advised me not to wait to marry a
person whom l loved, but to marry some
good man whom could respect and look
up to and receive good counsel from.
he GOES A SPARKLING.


At the close of the afternoon serv ice
be went up to my father, took, him aside
and talked for at least two hours to him
about me, and told him how he had
watched me from icy infancy, and saw
me grow up to womanhood, had always
loved me and intended to marry me. but
having taken Amelia just after the law
was passed in Congress prohibiting polyg-
amy, he feared to take another wife soon
after, lest it should make trouble, or he
would have taken me then. My marriage
with young man was unlocked for to
him, and when he was made acquainted
with it he did not just like to stop it, he
said, and SO he let it 60 on, but always
hoped that the time would come when he
would have me. t.f


THE OLD SINNER SETS HIS TRAP.


He wanted father and mother to use
all their influence with me, as it would
be the best thing could do. He asked
father if a good house, well furnished,
and $1,000 year pocket money would
be enough for me, and added that if it
was not enough l should have more
Father answered that he thought that
would be sufficient.


HoRRIFIED AT THE PROPOSAL.


When father come home he told moth
er by herself then they told me. l
cannot describe my feelings; l was frigh-
tened. The thought of it was a perfect
horror. thought father had gone crazy
and would not believe his statement
for hours. When realized that it was
fact -.s. 81


COULD DO NOTHING BUT CRY.


The idea of an old man, sixty.seven
years of age, the husband of about twen-
ty five wives living, asking me, at twen-
tytwo, to be added to the number, filled
me with the utmost abhorrence, and
when saw that my parents were under
his influence and sustained his PROPOSE
ton, 1 was ready to die in despair. Oh !
the horrible hours that l spent in crying
and moaning no tongue can picture.


BRIGHAM IN A PECKsNIFFIAN ROLE.


He became very kind 10 my parents,