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Show 14 ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y one is practiced under. the cloak of very weak and nervous, not at all religion, and the other is given its able to shift for myself, and under N. BASKIN, proper status and acknowledged to The majority of people have the these circumstances the consent was ROBERT be a sin. Then again I thought, it Attorney at Law. idea that in polygamy the grievanc- wrung from me. They both promJ is. no weader that the children es are all on the side of the first ised that I should always be well Office in the Deseret National in suck a comm Building, (up stairs) wife, and that the other women cared for, and be treated in the famSalt Lake, U spend the most of their time in ily as an equal in every respect. But before many months had planning how to annoy her and CHARLES P. HUEY. make her miserable. Let me relate passed I found out that she at Attorney-aLaw, of intention had least will and never see that Wholesale and Retail Dealers in people any story, my cor. ist East and Snows Office, Block, the plural wives also have their keeping that promise, and that she 2nd South streets. sorrows, and are deserving of com- urged me to marry him simply- beSalt Lake City, Utah. miseration and sympathy too, and cause she wanted a servant. I beSTAPLE A.1ND FANCY also that the first wives are not al- lieve that he would have been kind GILCHRIST & SPRAGUE, Attorneys at Law. ways so averse to their husbands to me if he had not been so comOffice in Wahsatch Building. going into polygamy as outsiders pletely under her influence, and as often think. In my own experi- ho was naturally a peaceful man he C. K. Gilchrist. E. T. Sprague. ence I have known more than one did as she directed him in order SUTHERLAND & McBRIDE, first wife to choose a plural for her to avoid a row with her. Attorneys at Law. I had only been married to him husband. Office, 139 Main street. I came to Utah a number of about three months when a young (Up stairs.) years ago, when about eighteen sister of his told me that Polly supThere were quite a posed the president would make JTrank Tilford, Albert Hagan. years of age. number of Saints going from our him go into polygamy sometime, and TILFORD & HAGAN, Heavy and Shelf Hardware, beallowed and me to him me wanted she town, Attorneys at Law. my parents marry beto go with a neighbors family cause I would make a good 'nig- Office, 1 15 Main street, (Up stairs.) cause I was in rather delicate health, ger, for she meant the second wife D. HOGE, Tools, and one of the elders told my to be nothing but a nigger and mother that the climate of Zion know her place too. She also told Attorney at Law. The rest me that it was arranged between would soon restore me. Office, in Wasatch Building. of the family were to follow in the them before we left England that w. woods, course of a year or two with my lie should marry me as soon as we parents, and in the meantime I was reached the valley, and that I AsC. Attorney at Law. to be partially in charge of the el- should be entirely under her control der and his wife, who promised to and direction. She was walling lie Second South street, Salt Lake City. I was should be exalted in heaven, but find me a good situation. cw? an excellent needlewoman, having she was also determined to be reHns&nnk$rii. lived for years in a noblemans fam- compensed for it on earth. And for three years more she To ths Ladies of Salt Lako and Vicinity. Laflin Band Powder Co. ily as nursemaid and seamstress, but mvv failing health obliged me to did just as she pleased with me. I Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Gudgell have opened a was as much of a slave as any negro Dressmaking Establishment at No. 1274 Kimball resign my situation. After we had started on our jour- that ever lived. I could not begin Block, up stairs, and respectfully solicit a share of your patronage. ney I found that the fact of the el- to tell tile privations I endured, MRS. J. A. PHELPS, MRS. L. GUDGELL. der having a wife didnotpreveiithiin sometimes going without food for Our Stock of A CARD TO THE EADIES. fromoffering what Iconsidered decid two or three days together, and Mrs. E. A. Dykes, Dressmaker, ed insults, and what astonished me without any fire in the winter, and wife did not resent in addition I had her scorn and in- and Teacher of the Tailors system still more, his attentions to mo as I am sure I sults to bear. She would often call of measurement for cutting Ladies Will be far superior this season to should have done had I been in her me by names that decency will not and Childrens garments. She will anything we have hereto1 knew well that the let me repeat, and if he attempted teach the system until you under place. very fore offered. in Saints Utah practiced polygamy, to fake my part she would turn on stand it, and furnish scale and diabut I never had any thought of en- him too. He sometimes promised gram to each scholar. Terms, 87.50, tering it, for I had a sweetheart in to take hie awav and leave her on- - or $5.00 each, if two ladies take Wc arc daily opening the England who was to emigrate later tl rely, but lie never could shake off instruction together. Residence, on with my own family. blocks west of her influence enough to think or two and Soon after arriving in Salt Lake act for himself. Kimball & Lawrences store. I was taken down with intermitI did all the household work for! And are offering our Patrons tent or mountain fever and was very tiie family, and when there was CAMERON'S NEUf YORK HOUSE, ill for many weeks. The elder and nothing else to be done in the house; Special Inducements. 08 51., 5.1573' I.AKI? CITY. his wife were very good to me, washing, ironing and fine sewing DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, JEWELRY, TOYS, NOTIONS, ETC., nursed me as if I had been a sister, were taken in, which I did, and the G02S3S Wholesale and Retail. but as soon as I was able to be pay for which she put in her pocket. At New York Trices. S. M. Pi IE SIIAW, WM. SKEWES. around a little they both commenced I had no friends that I could confide ANIEI. IBUNNE, to talk polygamy to me, told me it in, because 'she alwavs took good j Was mv dutv to enter it; not only care that 'I should not leave the t.o i e pay them for their kindness, house except in her company, so I rfr also but us the means of string nf Iron Fencing, Gate, Tree Guards Garnever had the chance of making ac- denIilarufscltircr v O my Holler Clmirs Ornamental Forcing for Cemetery soul. She said she was only sorry quaintances or my own. Once Lots, Ironfoot Bedstead, t hildrens Cot, c Fencing from Office and Works, Corner Second $1.0t per she had not become a plural wife when I threatened to leave the South and Westrpwsrdp. Temple- Streets. for they would be exalted higher louse, she told me that I would be in the next world. I strongly oh- - glad enough to comeback agairg'for PRESHAW & SKEWES I could not told them jected, XT JN IXTC marry she had informed. every one that I Custom Made Bools and Shoes. RTAKE KM, at all because theyi knew very well was only an outcast that they had All kinds of 'Wood Coffins and Caskets and Tain Street, between Walker Metallic Oases constantly on hand at reasonable that I was promised before I left picked up in the streets of Liverprices. Embalming a specialty. 10!) Kimball Houso and Glift House. England, and I had no idea of pool, and was trying to reform. Block, opposite Continental Bold, (Salt Lake .IMS I over City. own K Ji INO sweetheart BIMSCJAITTV. my throwing A Second Wife. for another wgmaus husband. Put To he continued. ADOLPII IIAUEBBACH, CALIFORNIA FRUIT STORE, the more I objected the more they WntcJnnnkcr. Nos. 40 ik 42 rimt Soudt st, urged me, and at last, being weak No. Commercial in keeping the choicest California lead 109 St., next door to Palace Bath ,bVe Every cookery book, said Mrs. from recent illness, being entirely aiKi Lake Salt House, emits, Grapes in season. All varieties of City, Utah. Prefresh and salt water Fish, Jones, ought to be illustrated. Oysters etc. Choice, penniless and a stranger, without a and Fancy Groceries, Nuts and Candies. I quite Mrs. Smith, said Watches and Clocks repaired and cleaned and Staple cisely, Goods Delivered Free of Charge. friend in the place, my neighbors for tell me if warranted for one year. with agree there, you FEED. G. LYNGBEEG.' family from England having gone is the good of a dinner can what you to one of the I conI. The Story of a Second Wife . t - Mechanics R Miners Supplies, GOODS -- - one-ha- lf ! NovelfJea, . . : 1 . T-o- BROS. : . . ' ft V ft, i ttiiiitt Ms iffi. - r. e: m. 1 V semT I't-actlo-ul ' sented. settlements, What made me yield was without the threat that if I refused I should ; plates?- - . The most irreligious woman is inbe turned out of doors, and the clined to believe that a rainy day is Saints all told that I was a bad providential, if the has a dressmaker character. As I said before, I was in the house. . la WAITERS. WANTED Broker. Makes loans on Watches, Diamonds, and Dust (Snake River preferred) bought; rents collected; collections made; Railroad Tickets bought and sold. Business confidential, Unclaimed articles sold at a bargain. P. O. Box, I 06. Office: Godbes Drug Store ld AT W. L. PKICES, No. 1257 First South St., opposite Kimball Block, i ; ALL KINDS OF . . 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