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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- Still fn the Toils. Y 77 STANDARD. it must be, but give us chil- victim about to be sacrificed upon seem dumb, we give you a silent dren. Yes and it might be added the altar of an unmerciful faith. Godspeed. Speed, oh, speed the ers if us children to grow up Then gently, oh, so gently, he the day when our chains are brok-dea- lt without any home tics or associathe blow which left, in place cn and we are free! Come soon as loved, in the shelter of a pure home read the follow- tions, without any fatherly love, or of a heart, the dull, aching thing I it may for such as 1 it will be too ing narrative of a first wife, and not care, or tenderness; to be nursed have since carried in my bosom. I late; but for our pure unsullied lift up her voice in denunciation of in sorrow, reared in poverty and had been to him a good and faithful daughters we may yet hope dethat terrible demon which crushes wretchedness; and when they reach wife, and we had been very happy liverance is possible From the womens hearts beneath its iron maturity, to curse the parents who together, he said, but I was no long-- Women of Mormonism. heel, and then laughs at the despair- entailed upon them such a heritage er young. I could give mm no more children, and he felt it a duty Fine Engravings. ing agony of their tortured souls? of sin andv misery Thus during all these years I which he owed to God to take anCan any Chi istian woman who beWe have lately received four elelieves in the truth of the sentence; jore children to my husband, other and a younger woman, that steel engravings, published by God is Love read the ensuing watched over and tended them in the measure of our glory might be gant Messrs. Stinson & Co. All are very lines and not realize that she is nfancy and illness, taught them to full in the celestial kingdom. fine works of high art, and do credit 3e pure and good, worked and toilMuch he more Ihe but said, all called her to use u0 ie publishers. These engravings personally upon ed house and little ones might words were empty air. I felt only are very large, thirty by forty inches that influence for the extermination of a monster that permits such atrocities be always bright and sweet for my the awful cruel realify. This was each; the original paintings, and the With a the man for whose sake agony had steel plates, cost some $33,000. The to he perpetrated in the mame of husbands are sold at $15 per copy. God and Religion'. patient energy bom of love, I strug- been a joy, servitude a pleasure, and engravings a To plate of this size I should like to tell, through gled to make home the fairest and sacrifices as nothing. rp,Ins was my and engrave single description of workmanship, reon earth to which my reward, as it may he the reward of dearest spot sad of life the your pages, story my quires the labor of a most skilful and hearts childrens husbands Mormon wife. The re artist from one to two years, and if you will permit me to do so withany faithful should of with turn thrill a ward which a hellish diabolical creed often longer. These elegant engravalways out betraying my idehty. I do not restfulmakes possible. ings are entitled, Sing Birdie, Sing, wish to do that, because I am still a pride, and a feeling of sweet The Bathers AtI did not cry out, I did not faint, Remembrance, Mormon, at least I am bound to the ness. Upon the altar of his desires saw myself I did not even weep in the ex- tendant; and The Garden Gate. Mormon Church by innumerable I sacrificed my will. It is believed, and generally ties of kindred, and by the friend- grow worn and haggard, old before tremity of my awful pain. I only that these engravings make up time. I saw the roses fade felt the consciousness that by one the finest my of associations and and most elegant set of ships many years, of from and the of the hand should swift stroke that gold my cheeks, and at my time of life I should find worksjof high art ever brought out by I have shielded if turn as hair and g love American American gray; me, my it hard to break them. As to my my publishers. these be watched made beautiful by signs of approaching was turned to bitter loathing, the homes should identity, I suppose it does not inner: of works and refined art, prices for matter any way, for it may be merg- unloveliness, a fear crept into my fruit of a lifes devotion had turned really good and meritorions pictures ed in that of hundreds of other heart, I stilled it with the trust that to ashes on my thirsting lips. My are now so low that there can be no Mormon women in Utah, whose his- they might only render me more trust in a God who could thus excuse for the walls to remain gloomy, dear to the man in whose service I scourge me was shaken, and my tory is perhaps even more pitiable unadorned, and cheerless. American received had them. in faith creed demanded a it homes should be made beautiful, and that than mine, who, though their hearts At last the burden of maternity was smitten. 1 was passive under the tendency of this will be to make are broken, still live on. more refined and beautiful the lives of More than twenty-fivyears ago was lifted from my tired shoulders; the blow, for struggle as I might it all dwellers therein. round the children were no longer little would avail me nothing. when I was a bright-eyeAnd then, the wish was in his cheeked girl of eighteen, I gave my ones, but were fast approaching The B'est Art Practical Magazine. hand in marriage to the only man 1 mans estate and blooming girlhood, heart. Since I could no ever loved. Ah! if I could only and T felt T might now Irgin to serve him, it was his desire that I The Art Amateur for 883 judging to should a and and stand aside, from the publishers announcement, then have looked down the Ion enjoy that perfect rest give quiet vista of troubled years to the cruel which many years of servitude and younger and perhaps fairer woman, will amply maintain its high wife and tion as the best practical art magazine end! But I could not; what young devotion had won me. At last, after my place as of the day. To an abundance of beaugirl can, as she stands upon the the weariness and turmoil, would mother. tiful, working designs for And did not my own and his threshold of that awful mystery come the sweet peace for which I painting, embroidery, wood carving, had so often longed, and which ligion his right to make and which marriage makes a reality? other art work, with copious pracdear-tbe and would now made teach me demand to this I obey tical instructions for all classes of For more than twenty years doubly tenit? love I husbands could me rebelled and have bore the burden of motherhood. by my surely, amateur artists, it will continue to add but this would have brought only a profusion of charming illustrations The little ones came thick and fast, derness: But alas for the security of discord and contention to the only of porcelain, furniture, needlework. but with a patience that love makes together with an end- The dark sha- dear ones left me how, my children. ant pangs Mormon wifehood! possible,! bore the es5 supply of entertam.ng ..forma- of maternity, and as I laid each new dow which forever clouds our lives ly burdens had been many, and tion on decorative and industrial art. born baby in my husbands arms, with an unspoken fear, may at any this last one, though hoaiei than umerous artists sketches will be 1 would bear in si ence for their assume moment the and saw his smile of pleasure that tangible shape all, published as usual; t lie leading exhi- and a one shatter of at sakes. dear bitions will be largely illustrated and demon, another jewel had been added to Fertile completion of my misery piquantly criticised, and artists of his crown I thanded my God that I blow all our hopes of happiness. could thus give evidence of the love And it came to me. At last the I bail not long to wait. The fail', merit will be biogranliicully noticed. of be1lutif"! e,mbrTOidcry de-- 1 wife was soon tumid ami I bore him. From out the very depths fear was to become for me an awful the South Kensington home tor her so young signs , irom of unearthly agony, I gave his chil- - living reality. Schoo, of Art .W,uork, and I could I the and not teals lair came one then when and the It wept dren being, a number of articles on cK.a painting bright morning through like Bound the me lor I was so placidly happy when my by myself. long tedious nights that followed by Miss 'McLaughlin m Cincinnati, unmerciful an she (will be published during the year. It creed, the birth of each new life, I lay with heart and life seemed in accord with fetters of in good faith the place is not too much to declare, with the my babe at my breast, nursing away natures sunshine and gladness. 1 had usurped London Academy , (which places it of dethroned wife and limtlmr. my health and strength, while my was alone in my cosy sitting-room- ; Ilow long, oh, hew long, in this above any magazine of the kind in husband slept peacfully besides me, it was very quiet and very pleasant England,) that the Art Amateur is a boasted such shall land of brokhad hands the to indifferent freedom, there, My my dropped dreamlessly marvel of variety, beauty and cheapis be the dumb Or of had with which unrest. and possible! en slumbers things ness. This opinion may be readily piece sewing weary they a from tortured and verified by sending thirty-fivcents if he gave it one thought, it was to been busy, many lay idly folded on cry wrung ' Cor How shall a Utah? to in Montague long specimen copy satisfy his conscience wit the as my lap; an unspoken prayer of heart Union fetlIarks, Publisher, 23 Square, snrance that Woman is formed for gratitude was in my heart. My tri- women be weighed down with New York. The subscription price is als were over, my toil was ended; ters that are forged by mans bruthe burdens she is to bear. $4 a year. Omen! men! do you not know for the strong arms of my brave tality and lust? How long shall WouldhT, Forgi? Him. that in the next life, at the judg- boys and sweet girls were busy woman be obliged to smother the holiest instincts of womanhood, and Mrs. Jones was subject to Sick ment seat of God, you must answer even then lifting the burdens. The door opened softly, and my thaught that to degenerate into mere Headaches, and being .entirely out of for the lives of the women rou have murdered through your ungoverned husband came in Although always chihL bearers is fulfilling Gods pur-- 1 her favorite remedy, charged her hus- band in the morning when he left her lust, because might on the one a good kind husband, his manner pose? How long shall a lustful and to bring the medicine home at dinner hand, and some from of marriage on this morning seemed full of unusual unscrupulous priesthood hold a rod time. Like all of the men he forgot the other have made you the mas- warmth and tenderness. As he sat of iron upon our souls in the name the errand and returned as he went ters? Does the reality of a womans down beside me and took my poor of God and religion? Toward the away. Forgive me, Jane! he cried, wife asked for the remedy. like his eshis in hands both and worn when he noblemen life long love and devotion weigh own, wotmn, who, But she wouldnt do any such thing, . nothing against the expected joys of sayed to talk with a degree of cheer- yourselves, are making earnest ef- and the man went back hereafter? It fulness which lie evidently did not forts in our behalf, the hearts of :i possible heaven a for box of Swayne's to the s i ot. in our creed at least; for feel ; for even as he smiled, a look of hundreds of Mormon wivts go out Pills- - druggists The best Pills in the world for - sadness and trouble was on his face. Morof a with and the '.he gratitude daily , lhmry prayer Eighth, Liver and Billious Disorders, Indigesof look a our moth for the the sacrifice perhaps, thanksgiving. Though lips tion and Constipation. is pity vjjic Can any woman, loving and Give be- ted 1 ! . . home-comin- g. eon-cede- d, life-lon- e d, -- 1 I full-siz- e re-sancti- on bric-a-br- oft-repeat- ac ed A-8"1- ? e kind-hearte- d - |