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Show ' g'cf fieri! YOL. II. NO. hart Ips oivq gVifo ami get cvern gUoman hare Ifer emu gusbanll $or. 7; 2. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER, 1881. G. PRICE 10 CENTS. If you cant eat what I do, you of America: was the tender reply Let every happy wife and mother who may staiVe, which the husband made to this apreads these lines give her sympathy , peal. prayers and efforts to free her sisters Several months of Let . all this bondage from degrading brought the poor creature down to her the womanhood of the country stand, bed, and then she was neglected until united for them. There is a power in her mother, hearing of her condition combined enlightened sentiment and sym- went to her. The mother is a poor widow, living in Park City, and suppathy , before which every form of injusporting herself by her own labor. As tice and cruelty must finally go doivn. soon as her daughter saw her she Harriet Beecher Stowe. said: Mother, Im dying, but dont let TENDEULY CvltED iOll. me die here. Take me home with To the Women was made of rough boards, firmly nail- It happened that at about the same ed together, and its size and shape time the latter was born, the legal wife it that the contained mortal of this brute gave birth also to a child, suggested remains of a human being o medium the mother soon afterwards size. The lady sat down on the plat- Left with two babes in the housedying. and form, and, resting her left elbow on only one mother, the brute commandthe box, supported her head in an ed that Martha should perform the easy position on her hand while tears duties of mother to both. Nature ran down her cheeks. Being kindly never prepared woman to furnish susapproached, she stated that the box tenance to more than one infant at a contained the dead body of her daugh- time, unless they were her own offter, and the husband of that daughter spring, and hence Martha sank under was expected with a wagon to remove the enforced task upon her system. the remains to the cemetery for burial. As she became weaker lie became Soon three wagons arrived. In the more brutal in his treatment, furnishfirst, which was a good spring wagon, ing scanty and unsuited food for her. you. A Story in one Chapter by Mrs. A. The skeleton form that lay on the with a pair of splendid horses, so sleek Her mother, Mrs. Martha McCarty, in G. Paddock. wretched bed was a light burden to and clean as to show care and atten- the meantime had gone through her A few years ago I remember read- lift into the wagon that the mother tion at the hands of their owner, sat sorrows in Park City, where she buring an article in the Deseret News, had brought to take her child away the owner with the lines in his hands. ied her husband Two and a half years written by Sister Eliza Young, which from the scene of her suffering, but ap- He was a man of about 60 years of ago. Left as a widow, she has suptreated largely on the reverence for parently it was a load which the ten- age, with grey hair and beard, and he ported herself and children by washwomen which the Latter-DaGospel der husband feared would be too much had a face which plainly told of a bru- ing. On the 3d of July she came here inculcates. One paragraph in this ar- for him, for he did not aid in moving tal and licentious disposition. By his on a visit to her daughter and found ticle which made such an impression her, did not bid her good bye, did not side sat a roughly dressed woman with her at a neighbors house, her huson my mind at that time, that I have even look at her as she was carried unkempt hair and a general free and band paying no attention to her. never been able to forget it, reads as out of the house. The mother did easy appearance and dont care looks. John Calvin told Mrs. McCarty that all that a mothers love could devise Four or five children of different follows: ages she could take her daughter to Park life is to restore to woman the frame on wasted earth 'so that made up the balance of the load. The City if she would be responsible for Nowhere she home cared with starso but for, man gave no sign of recognition to her death. Mrs. McCarty took her her, brought tenderly highly honored, vation and neglect had done their the woman sitting beside her daugh- daughter home with her and did all as in Utah. The fact that about the date of the work, and it was soon evident that a ters coffin, or acted in any way as if that was possible for a loving mother article referred to, I witnessed a good very few hours would end her he was interested in the funeral. The to do for a child. She returned to her many illustrations of the chivalry of sufferings. Kind hearted neighbors w.jrmanqumpe j cut of the wagon and, home feeling surrowtul wer the male Saints, and their peculiar ten- who came in to aid the mother, turned approaching the mother, gave her a the loss of her daughter, yet she could derness toward the weaker sex, doubt- away sick with horror when they saw mechanical shake of the hand, and the not help expressing her gratification less helped to fix this passage in my the condition of the still breathing two entered into a conversation about that her daughter was now free from memory. I recollect seeing one of skeleton over which her tears were the deceased. The two other farm the sorrowful life she had been living, these women, tenderly cared for, the falling. The Gentile ladies of Park wagons drove near and the women in and that she much preferred seeing third wife of a wealthy citizen of Salt City, generous Christian women, has- them, to the number of three or four, her in the grave than living the life Lake, husking corn on shares in bitter tened to the mothers humble home got out and joined the others. The she had during the past few years unNovember weather, to get bread for with supplies of food and medicine, coffin was placed in one of the, wagons der the curse of polygamy. Thus, at her children. Another, highly honor- but their offerings came too late. The and two men and one boy seated the age of 24 years, this womans life ed, the second wife of a Saint, who highly honored and tenderly cared for themselves on it to ride to the ceme- is crushed out and another victim of Saint was tery, while the front seat was occupied the god of lust finds rest in the grave. proposed to exalt her to one of the up- wife of a true Latter-DaWomen of America, how do you per seats in the celestial kingdom, past all earthly help, and the only ser- by one man, one woman and three could render was children. The mother of the deceased like this picture of an institution foscame to me to get washing to do. vice they When asked why her husband did not to provide for a decent burial. Thanks found a seat in the spring wagon be- tered by a class of people who call to them, the poor girl who, at the hind the old reprobate driver, who themselves Latter Day Saints of our support her, she answered: I have left him, because for two age of twenty-fou- r, succumbed to the still gave no sign of recognition to Lord Jesus Christ? Is it not enough in tender treatment she received at the her. This old heathen was John Cal- to bring the blush of shame to the years there has never been a week me until hands of her Saintly husband, was vin, who had for the has he not which whipped past six years cheek of every true American citizen laid rest with to and Christian black funeral arms were and back rites, claimed the deceased as his wife num- that such crimes are permitted iirUtah my blue. but, alas! she forfeited her claim in the ber two. The funeral cortege of three in the name of religion, while the bruInstances of this sort; scores of them celestial kingdom to which that hus- wagons wended their way to the cem- tal perpetrators are permitted to go failing under my own observation, band would have conducted her, she etery and deposited all that was mor- unpunished? God speed the end of could not fail to convince me, that the forsook his home, put herself beyond tal of Martha J. Calvin in the grave, all such scenes of sorrow. women, whose lot is cast among the the reach of his tender care, and al- Not one tear was shed except those Latter-Da- y lowed others, not of his faith to minis- shed by the mother, and there was. an Saints is Thousands of ladies y cherish ter to her wants in her last hours. appearance in the face of the others Blest abune tip lave. of remembrances the grateful help defor exaltation in that chance has she What were when was it over. of the tender glad they The latest illustration from the use of Lydia E. Pink-ham- s the next life? Let those who are The history of this case can be told rived care which the Mormon wife receives, Vegetable Compound. It posin the mysteries of this holy in a few words. John Calvin lives in came to my knowledge yesterday. A learned itively cures all female complaints. answer. is known as what a religion suburb of of those Lynne, Saint residing in Ogden, one Send to airs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 233 MarSix he took Ogden. years ago that men Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., for Judge Pyper speaks manly A writer in the Ogden Iyilot gives tha J. McCarty as his second wife. him in sealed to women had two of, pamphlets. order that through him they might ob- the sequel to this tragic affair, and also She at that time was a maiden is Bn.i in facts to additional some the beof and was regard to a age, years persuaded tain eternal life. About year and a Send the Standard for three months half ago each of these women bore Saintly husband and the unfortunate come his concubine through his plead- to your Congressman or the Senator him a child. The mother of the child victim, who met her doorn at his ings and also that of his legal wife. from your State. It will cost you only born first languished for a few days hands. And who will ' dare say that What object his legal wife had in in- fifteen cents. and then died from the sheer lack of he is not as much responsible for her terceding in behalf of this unholy allithe necessaries of life. The other death as if he had plunged a knife in ance we know not, unless it was her Renew your subscription to the a bullet in her fanaticism prompted her to do it, or woman survived her confinement, per- her breast, or lodged Standard at once if you have failed to heart? else that she was in hopes of thus gethaps because fitted with a stronger so do before. Roller in Death. ting rid of much of the abuse she was constitution, and when she rose from The train from Park City which ar- receiving from her husband. She her sick bed undertook the task of Will our subscribers outside of most probably wished to divide her nursing the motherless babe left in the rived in Ogden, yesterday morning sorrows with some one who was bet- Utah Territory be kind family as well as her own child. She brought a rough box resting on the enough to take to and thus ter them, car. prepared A , lady send us a postal card with the name was weak and ill, barely able to totter rear platform of the Martha Be as selected victim. the from of front end the the coarse and alighted about the house, and the car, and address of some Christian minis-ste- r as it may, Martha became an octhat back asked two food her and husband which, gentlemen passing unpalatable who would be likely to take an of his household, and during-ththe cupant the to box She sickened remove her. to platdepot begged provided, y six years of sorrow and toil be- interest in advancing the this was and for of sake the the two that form, promptly done. pitiously cause, as we wish to address babes she nursed she might have The lady then made inquiry for a man came the mother of two children, one a boy now three years old, and the these on the subject of special legsomething to sustain their life and her whom she expected to meet her, but other a girl one year and a half old. islation for Utah. own. who had failed to do so. 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