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Show j i , j THE SISTERS' MEETING. " ! I If "in a multitude of counsellors there 5 i i is eafety," then the frightened priesthood, ; 1 girt about with Amazonians in mass I ; meeting assembled, may take courage. 'll Thie, from one standpoint, makes last : ; ; Saturday's female gathering at the The- i f atre a success. But when one remem- ;i bers that feminine doctors were the principal speakers and actors on that oc- j casion, the reminder smells rank to ' ' heaven of a defunct corporation and con- 1 sequent post morfem action. Each of the 1 quartette of doctors had diagnosed the " case and were in accord on the final de- '. cision. They protested against Uncle ' j j Sam's heroic treatment of the polygamous ' ; j ; ' victim, and appealed to Aaronicand Mel- j ' chisedecian systems as authority for their clamorous protest. They denounced the homeopathic doses of one wife for one f ( I man, and insisted upon allopathic rem- . , ; edies of from 6even to nineteen sisters to ' every priest. ; "Under the nation's law," cried one of I ':, the imported healers, "the seducer and destroyer had no fear of a deputy." I And in this connection, who does not re- ; ' ! : - member that unfortunate old man, now happily in his grave on yonder barren hillside, who, seduced from his English home and the faithful wife of his youth, ; was decoyed to this polygamous- Ziop, and when broken down by old age and , abuse, was,on pretense of insanit', sent to ; that whited sepulcher on the east bench, . and afterward jturnedirom his own house f ( i to exposure, freezing' ndeathlTlie i Temembrance of that old man's dishonor ' f and tragic end should place the seal of ! eternal silence on the lips', of "seducers ; ;. and destroyers." ; - J It us turn to less repulsive themes. Not only medical science but poetic fancies graced the stage at that theatrical exhibition of the daughters of Ziori. In the motley gathering of war vessels on ; ; the Union side during the war of the Re- ; bellion, there were " donble-enders " , with sharpened bows where the stern ought to be. They were built and rigged , ; to sail either way with equal facility. So, the interminable verses of the poetic . ! daughters ofZion could be read backward, forward or from the middle, with equal rhyme and reason. Shade of the im- i mortal Penrose, cast in all the amplitude ; j of bustle and sunbonnet, how art thou outraged by this modern pontoon bridge '4 of doggerel "double-enders." ' In one respect the sisters showed their ' 'i . . superiority over the male brawlers of the i j Tabernacle. Instead of opening their ! t mouths only to put their feet into them, j j they came around with rolls of manu- I ; script, with fixed ammunition. f There was more fun in the Theatre - i than can be obtained out of a Logan con- ference. |