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Show I ANTI-POLYGAM- Y STANDARD. A A t'ijwresyontltnm . on her knees, with clasped hands she plead that the sentence she might Eds. Standard. might be revoked, that be permitted to take her child and A residence of out a dozen years in Mormon-dogo somewhere, any where, only nearly hers of sight of the home that was has led me to the. conclusion, no longer. that while it is our plain duty as folthan worse This is folly, and Christians and law loving people, to will and you ly, Harry answered, endeavor to extirpate crime of every while. little a in see it so yourself kind and quality, yet in doing so, Yrou and Lilly it should be both with justice and Your home is here. if and you have every want supplied, mercy. cannot agree with Rosa, why keep We must first try to show the inwill and I to your own apartments jured and cruelly deceived women see that she keeps to hers. of the mormon faith, that wo are Heart History. BY ELEANOR LOVELL. (iConcluded ) m During all those long day: of suffering after delirium had fled Maggie spoke rarely, and then to no one but her child. It seemed as if she would be dumb for the rest of her days, her voice refused to act and it was only in whispers that she could speak to Lilly. Had she remained bereft of reason she would have suffered less, but who can dethe recital of an protract Why and crushed of that the anguish pict that has been lived over bleeding heart. At last strength experience in Utah? came back gradually, but the woman so many hundred times mother was who rose from that bed of sickness The unhappy wife and did as the helpless must, was a different creature from the helpless and submitted to her fate. Sunk in former trustful and affectionate the apathy of despair, she lived on Maggie Blake. for it is onOne morning Rosa said that Har- for months and years, in books that people die when nil ry and she were going out to spend ly makes life worth living is gone. the day. Maggie received the an- that of years in nouncement without comment. She Misery did the work had already decided upon her course. bleaching her hair and furrowing the boon She would have the day to herself, her face, and when at last and and could make her preparations for so long prayed for was granted she llight without interruption, but she 'Bound the slow bleeding of her r dared not give any sign of the stricken heart of relief and thankfulness with O which she saw Rosa leave the house. With the chill comfort of the sepulcher, The first task before her was to no one, looking into her open coffin, gather to gethcr her own and her childs clothing, and she set about would have dreamed that she who this as quickly as her weakness lay there had lived out but half' of She allotted time on earth. permitted. Busy, and sabsorbed in aer in the bleak, barren painful thought, she did not hear a sleeps Durial-plac- e overlooking the beautiffootstep outside, and only raised her head when the door opened to ad- ul city in which her husband lives mit her husband. The shock of his with the three" women who have sealed to him for time and unexpected appearance at the mo- been ment when she was preparing to eternity.' She has one mourner; leave him forever quite overcame the child for whose sake she bore and when Lilher, and she sank helplessly into the burden of life, the nearest chair, with both hands ly brings her weekly offerings of them on the unpressed over her heart to still its flowers and lays comes with throbbings. Harry looked at her a marked grave, a woman moment in silence. A little pity, her, and stands beside her with pale a little remorse, stirred within him face and bowed head. It is Rosa, as he mentally contrasted the hag- who, supplanted by later favorites, in her own life gard face and wrasted farm with a and experiencing vision that rose Irom the past, something of the sorrows of her who that of the fair young girl ho had lies here at rest, seeks to make to the dead by kindness wrnced and won in those years wmose to the chili she has left. memory be would gladly banish if The End he could. Terr aentlr he kid hi3 hand on her bowed head and proBrigham Young said he would thrust The act, the polygamy nounced her name. dozen the throat of the Amerifaced him can people . That is ivh y he sent George tone, roused her, and she with the look of a hunted creature Q. Cannon to Congress. See the next feel-inc- to-da- number of the Standard . at bay. You dare to touch me and speak like that? she cried. You, who have made me what I am! lrou, who have not only broken my heart and made my life a burden, but killed all the good in me! Maggie! y Surely you do not know what you are saying. Do I not? Then hear me repeat it, and remember what I say, for they are the last words I will ever speak to you. Before this day ends I will leave your house with my child, leave this accursed country forever. Yrou will? The mans face You Then hear me. hardened. may go where you please, but Lilly stays with me. Fora moment she looked at him in a dazed sort of way, as though not comprehending the meaning n as the his words, then ruth dawned upon her, and she ealized her own utter helplessness ter pride quite forsook her, and fall-- ONLY FIFTEEN CENTS. We arc desirous of introducing the Standard into new places where it has never yet been, believing that persons who -- have not seen it will be interested enough to subscribe. To this end, we will send the paper three months on trial to any address for the small sum of fifteen cents. This will also be an excellent way to bring the Standard to the notice of Representatives in Congress, as well as other public men who may be interested in gainFifteen ing legislation for Utah. cents is a very small amount to each individual subscriber, yet it may be the means of accomplishing much good. Let every one of our friends send the Standard on trial for three months to an acquaintance or to some public man, and they will find it bread cast upon the waters which wo trust may bereturned to them before many days. with, and the falsehood and gross deception practiced not only by the leaders by their sermons and addresses in public, but by the secret lectures and instruction of the ward teachers, and last but not least by the utter oblivion to truth of every newspaper in Utah advocating the Mormon Church (?) and the superiority of its teachings. It is not in Salt Lake alone that outrages in the name of Christ are carried out by this degraded priesthood, but many other crimes are committed in the more northern of this Territory that are suptheir best friends, parts before they can reach voti. pressed that we are trying to place them in But my letter is getting too long the position God has assigned to now; if however acceptable I may man of woman as the helpmate write further. and to which the gospel of Christ e. c. Yours in hope raises them as his equal .generally. Ogden Utah, Oct. 18S0 We have to teach them, that we approach them as sisters, and friends, Shall John Taylor the Mormon autoand not as enemies, and that we seek crat be permitted to keep continually their welfare and the welfare of their enforced this threat of Brigham Young? children. Let us then go to them See the December number of the really and truly , with the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our hand, on our tongues and in our hearts, and try and show them by that, wherein thev have erred. It is not usual for people to like to have their faults, errors or mistakes pointed out to them, but our task is one of great care and tenderness. One thing that makes our dutv more difficult is, that their lords and mastets and the whole power of the mormon hierarchy is used to convince those poor Sisters of a common Lord, t'iaf the gentile ladies are only making a stir for the purpose of getting the mormon women themselves to aid in entrapping their own husbands, and that if they give way to these gentile ladies, it will lead to an indiscriminate attack by all the powers of the law against these men. It has .appeared to me that while pardon and amnesty, with a legitimatizing of all children born up to a certain date might be granted, that Congress could be induced to enact a law, compelling a civil marriage ceremony in all cases before officers such as Judges, J u slices, and othe? public officials, requiring the marriage certificate to bo recorded in the county records within 30 days after the ceremony, and making it the duty of the official to enquire if either of the parties was married and not divorced, even to an affidavit, and if affidavit taken, that to be received wity the ceitificate This would not prevent the Mormons going through what to us appears the ridiculous ceremonial of the Endowment House, hut would be to a certain extent at any rate a check on Celestial marriage or in other words polygamous relations, and then. by making it a felony to be a party in any sense as official or bride or groom it would scare all the timid ones out, and if a few prosecutions were earnestly carried out against any, both male and female who boldly defied that law, thus after having tried, by pardon for the past, torootitout and failed, certainly none, not even the most earnest special pleader for the Mormons could complain of any severity, where 20 years of crime had been forgiven. The great trouble is the ignorance of the women you have to deal . A On Heautilul Incident. board the steamer, SemcanhaJca, was one of the Fisk University singers. Before leaving the burning ship and committing himself to the merciless waves, lie carefully fastened upon himself and wife Some one cruelly dragged away that of the wife, leaving her without hope, except as she could cling to her husband. This she did, placing her hands firmly upon his shoulders, and resting there until her strength becoming exhausted she said, 1 can hold on no longer! Try a little longer, was the response of the wearied and let us sing agonized husband; And as the sweet Rock of Ages. strains lloated over those troubled waters, reaching the ears of the sinking and dying, little did they know those sweet singers of Israel, whom they comforted. But lo! as they sung, one after another of the exhausted ones were seen raising their heads above the overwhelming waves, joining with a last effort in this sweet, dying, plead ing prayer. life-preserve- ill-fate- d rs. ' Rock of Ages, deft for no. Lit :uo hide inysdf m thee. With the song seemed to come strength; another and yet another was encouraged to renewed efforts. Soon in the distance a boat was seen approaching. Could they hold out a little longer? Singing still they tried; and soon, with superhuman strength, laid hold of the lifeboat, upon which they were born in safety! to land. This is no fiction ; it was related by the sitiger himself, who said ho believed Tu'plady's sweet Rock of Ages saved many another besides himself and wile. Send in your orihrs for the December Standard . Women that havi been given up by their dearest frieids as beyond help, have been permanently cured by the use of Lydia Rinkhams Vegetable Compound It is a positive cure for all fem&le complaints. 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