Year: 1873

took up a public collection to obtain a


fresh supply of liquor for one of the musi-


clans who refused to proceed farther with
out it, the article being kept for sale by


another leader of the church. Towards


morning an elder stepped forward and


gravely dismissed the assembly with


prayer.


| Not even the members of the church
know the number of the wives of Brigham


Young, which has been variously estimat-


ed at from one to five score. They are
| probably somewhat over forty in number,


though some are merely sealed to him foI
| the next world SO as to partake of his ce-
| lestial glory, being perhaps the wives OF
other men in this world, and many OF


them dwell out of Salt Lake City, scatter
| ed throughout the valleys. of the Territory.
Their religion does not peremptorily en-
join polygamy, or plurality" as they
mildly term it, but.cOmmends it as val
liable means of growth in grace and an in
stitution established by God and abolished
through the wickedness of man, the ex-
ample Of the early Scriptural patriarchs
being frequently cited in support OF their
doctrines. They also commend it as a
valuable promoter of masculine domestic
virtue and denounce bitterly the corrupt
ed morals of monogamic Gentiles.


THREE wIvED MORMON IN TROUBLE.


The green-eyed monster does not keep
aloof from even the homes of these patri-
archal saints, and men with more than one
helpmeet frequently build for them sepa-
rate houses or locate them in different pOr
tions of the same building to prevent quar-
rels, sometimes spending alternate weeks
or fortnights with each charmer, thus Sc
curing perpetual round of honey moons.


L recall the case of One very worthy Old
L
Uncle Meier. whose triple, .cbanneled
course of true love did not always run
smooth. The old man had block of
three adobe houses in the little village of
Draper. In the centre dwelling lived an
old wife, somewhat near his own age, in
the western younger wife, Simanthy, a
young American woman, and i'll the easter
most honsa, towards the Wasatch range,
lived his youngest bride, Mary, an English
woman. The venerable patriarch spent.
alternate weeks at the different houses.
On OCCASION, such trouble would arise as
the fair brides kicking his clothes from
door to door, each declining the task of
washing the same. But his troubles cam
to a sad focus one Sabbath morning, dur
ing my visit. His week was up with
Mary and it was his duty tohfport prompt
ly at breakfast at Semanthy's hCspitable
board. But the old man, though latter
day saint, was nevertheless, only a human
Ole, and he had an especial weakness for
Mary's cooking, and in fatal moment he
yielded to the temptation and took that
meal with Mary.


The scene that ensued when he present.
ed himself before the sighted Simanthy
may be better imagined than described.


Tears, Il vehement protestation that she
regretted not having been buried before
making the acquaintance of her fraction
of a lord and master and general raising
of such degree of the old Harry as an an
CRY and sighted helpmeet is capable of,
were the preparation of Uncle Meier for
the Sabbath morning service and another
eXemplification of the old adage that
"too many cooks will spoil the broth"


That Uncle Meier was notbOld headed at
his advanced age, under such circumstan-
ces as these, may be taken as a striking
proof of the great salubrity of the Rocky
Mounatin climate. .-..-r, a.. -