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Show ANTI POLYGAMY STAND AED. 2 How Wives are Coerced into Giving much less go out and earn their sent for their Husbands to Enter food and clothes. I could not bring Polygamy. myself to see my children suffer, as I knew they must do, for I knew 'Many friends who have heard me him well enough' to be assured that complain of the sorrows I have en- he would carry out his threat, so I dured in polygamy have censured said, well, if you must take anothme for having given consent for my but let it be any other wife, do husband to take another wife. They er woman so, in the world than the say I could easily have prevented one you have named, you know how it, if I had been determined and hateful she was to May, and how threatened him with Gentile law, could I tolerate anyone in the house as it is only a few years since he that would be unkind to her ? went into plurality. I will relate She it must be and none other, the facts just as they are, and peowas his reply, you keep your side ple can see for themselves that it of the house, and mind your childwas utterly impossible for me to ren, and I will make her keep have acted any differently. My hers. Henry. I said, the day husband was doing well in his busithat woman enters this house will ness, and had been counselled that be the last day of domestic happihe had better avail himself of his ness for us. I cannot help it, add to to his One family. privilege Mary, he answered, I am deterday he announced to me that he mined to live up to my privileges, had determined to live his religion know when you are well and take another wife. In one way and if you off you will not make any fuss, but I was not surprised, for I had seen act like a sensible woman. There that blighting shadow destroy the is nothing to prevent me leaving peace of too many homes, not to without a penny if I live, for you fear that it might also cast its bale- you in this Territory, not ful influence over mine, yet still I have no rights Do as even the- right of dower. hoped that it might pass me by. W e had lived together happily for you ought and I will pledge myself fifteen years, and had had seven that you nor the children shall never want for anything; but make children; four of whom were living. fool of yourself and you may go One of these children was a dearly a where you like, and do the best you loved, I may say an idolized little can for them. girl, who had been an invalid from Again, I ask, what could I do ? her birth, and whom I cherished So I consented; went to e like a rare, delicate, flow- Nothing. the Endowment House and gave as er; another was a babe in arms; the wife to my husband the woman that rest were two stout hearty little I most hated and despised of all boys, not old enough to do anything women in the world. I saw her to help themselves. enter my house and take my place When he told me of his intention in the heart of the man for whom he also said that he had been coun- I had given up all I had held dear in selled to marry a certain woman. this life. know that the Gentile laI had many reasons to regard this dies as a Irule consider the Mormon womata with special aversion. A women as weak, miserable creatures year or two previous she had been to bear what they do, but the sacria servant in my family, and had an- fices that many of us make for the noyed and disgusted me by her ef- sake of our children will prove that forts to attract the attention of my we are not different from other husband. He did not seem to not- women in the matter of a mothers ice her at all at that time, and made love. no objections when I discharged her How our once peaceful and hapfor an unkind action toward my little py home became worse than a hell, girl, whom she appeared to dislike how that womans influence awakextremely, and why I never could ened and fostered all that was evil imagine, for she was as sweet and in my nature, and how we both gentle a creature as ever lived. changed my kind tender husband Subsequently I heard that he had into a perfect brute, how the strong been advised by a man high in auarm that had defended me for fifthority in the Church to marry this teen years came to be lifted woman, on purpose to humble me, me and how the death blowagainst came because I was suspected of having to my little angel child in trying to too much spirit for a true saint. save her mother from it, as she Well, it is no use repeating what I said to him, how I wept and thought, is too long to be related and must be reserved for prayed him not to ruin our happy here, But behome, reminded him of what we another communication. had beh to each other for fifteen fore I close let me say this much, long years, and how I had forsaken that Satan himself could not devise all my friends for him, how I had br invent any worse tortures than tried to be an exemplary .wife and a, women experience in polygamy. good mother to his children. I am A Fikst Wife. glad you think of your children, ....... wahis reply, for if you will not Hon. Eli H. Murray, the newly do your duty and consent for me to do mine and live up to the privi- appointed Governor of Utah, has leges of a saint, they shall have arrived with his family in this city, neither food, clothing nor shelter and qualified for office. Gov. Murof my providing during the coming ray received a warm reception winter. What could I do, could I from our y citizens, and the see my innocent children, who had Standard also exalways been tenderly cared for, go hungry, naked and homeless ? I tends the hand of welcome, trustwas not strong enough to do all my ing to find in him n trusty ally and own household work, and I had a a linn supporter oi the cause to three months old baby at my breast, which the Stanlal: is devoted. - . hot-hous- . Anti-Polygam- t A Literary Curiosity. Con- A lady of San Francisco is said to have occnpied several years in hunting np and fitting together the following thirty-eigh- t lines from thirty-eigEnglish poets. The names of the authors are given with each iitae: ht LITE. Why all this toil for triumph of an hour? Lifes a short summer, man a flower. By turn we catch the vital breath and die Young, Dr. Johnson. Pope. The table and the tomb, alas so nigh. To be is fairer than not to be. ! Prior. Sewell. Though all mans life may seem a tragedy. Spencer. Bnt light cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb. Daniel. The bottom is but shallow whence they come. Raleigh. Your fate is but the common fate of all. Unmingled joys, here, to no man befall. Longfellow. Southwell. Nature to each allots his proper sphere. Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. Congreve. Custom does not often reason overrule. And throws a cri;l eunhine Rochester. on a fool. Armstrong. Live well, how long or Bhort, permit to heaven. Milton. Then who forgive most shall be forgiven. Bailey. Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its face. Trench. Vile intercourse where virtue has not place. Somerville. Then keep each passion down, however dear. Thompson. Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. Byron. Her sensual snares let faithless pleasure lay. Smollett. With craft and skill, to ruin and betray. ha Via Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. We masters grow of all that we despise. ngtr. Oh, then renounce wlcy that implons self-estee- Beattie Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. Think not ambition wise because Cooper. tie brave. Davenant The paths of glory lead but to the grave. What is ambition ? Gray Tis a glorious cheat' -- Willis. Only destruction to the brave and great. Addison. What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown? The way to bliss liu9 not Dryden. tn beds of down. Quarles . How long we live, not years but actions tell. Watkins. The man lives twice who lives the flrstJUfe well. Herrick. Make then, while yet ye may, your God,. your friend. Masen. Whom Christians worship yet not comprehend. -- The trust thats given guard, and to yourself be For, live how we can, yet die we must. Hill. jt. Shakspeare. The Blue Tea. Communicated.! Salt Lake is a long distance from the Hub of the Universe, and the denizens of that favored locality, the only exponents of advanced cultchah, cannot be supposed to have any idea of the Great Basin, other than that of a border-land whose intellectual night has not as yet been penetrated by the farthest rays of their sun. Nevertheless, there are individuals in this benighted region who read Ruskin and Emerson, who have ideas of their own with regard to poetry and art, and who do not get their opinions of the literature of the day at second hand. Strange as it may appear, we actually have art clubs and literary societies on our side of the Rocky Mountains, and Salt Lake boasts of more than one association devoted solely to intellectual culture. The oldest of the societies alluded to is the one aamed at the head of this article, the Blue Tea, organized in 1875- beginnings were modest. A lady, who, perhaps, missed some of the intellectual privileges she had enjoyed in her former home, invited a few friends whose tastes were similar to her own to meet once a week in her parlors, for the purpose of reading and discussing their favorite authors. These little reunions proved so delightful that the ladies first invited begged the privilege of bringing their friends, and in a little while the afternoon readings attracted so many that a regular organization was thought desir able. Following this, a programme for the entire year was adopted, fixing a course of reading and research, not quite so extensive perhaps as to com- 1 mend itself to our Boston friends, but suited to the time and the appliances which the members of the society (most of them wives and mothers with a full share of domestic cares), could command for study. The Constitution of the society limited the number of members, and whenever resignation or removal made a vacancy, the popularity of the Blue Tea was attested by the number of candidates for the vacant place. The history of the years that have followed its organization shows how much can be accomplished in the way of study during.the spare minutes and half hours which busy housekeepers and tired mothers are able to snatch from their daily cares. Girls whose school-day- s were full of brilliant promise, too often drop their intellectual pursuits on the eve of their wedding, and a little chance and desultory reading marks the sum total of their acquaintance with books in after years. Numbers of the matrons who are members of the Blue Tea, had hitherto found domestic cares a sufficient reason for putting aside all thoughts of increasing their acquaintance with the world of letters, or even of keeping up the accomplishments of girlhood ; but to their own surprise they have found it possible to follow a regular course of reading, without neglecting a single real duty to their families. And who shall tell what a day the one appointed for the weekly reading is to the worried housekeeper, who is able to forget for the time that the washer woman has put too much bluing in the clothes, or that the girl in the kitchen has spilled the entire contents of the coffee-pupon her best damask table cloth? The overtasked mother, who loses sight of the hopeless rent in little Tommys best jacket, and of the long arrears of sewing for Maud and the baby, for one blessed afternoon in the week, likewise breathes a benediction upon the . red-lett- er ot thoughtful brain in which the idea of the Blue Tea origikindly heart-an- nated. It lifts one into another atmosphere, and makes life take on brighter hues, to be able, even for a few hours, to exchange the petty but wearing cares and vexations of domestic life, for communion with the great thoughts of great souls, who, perhaps, had the same every-da- y worries, but learned to live above them. If our society had done no other good than this it would have a sufficient raison d' etret but it has done more. It has awakened thought, stimulated research, and largely increased the stock of available information at the command of its members. It has likewise demonstrated that half an hour or even less time each day, devoted, not to skimming the pages of any book that happens to lie within reach, but to a regular and wisely chosen bourse of reading, amounts to a great deal in the course of the year, and leads to results which astonish the reader at the years end. C. P. , Special attention is directed to the vertisement of Prcshaw and entire liberal element should this linn, who guarantee perfect and Lnv prices, ad- ralis-faeli- on |