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barren waste, and the heart of woman an empty sepulchre, where the light of love never casts a ray to dispel the eternal eclipse, in whose unholy shadow the cankerworm of jealousy and the pangs of despair gnaw their victims to the grave.

If the sullen, dreamy apathy of the Mormon women, looking with wild distrust upon husbands claimed by others, and wincing under unprovoked neglect, or the display of hypocritical affection to associates by their lord; the unwelcome proclamation of the birth of the child of their associate in fractional wedlock; and the pangs and gloom to which their imprisoned and impoverished love is bound as it struggles through the night of absolute despair-if these things be "joy and gladness," and "woman's highest mission," by what name shall we call the ordered laws that centres one woman's love to the heart of one affectionate and confiding husband, where the mutual love and parental joys are lighted anew in the innocent faces proclaiming the unity of souls in the "twain flesh made one?"

Society, as it is known in other parts of America, is entirely unknown in Utah. There is but little intercourse between Mormon families. Even in the city of Salt Lake, where an elegant theatre is maintained, it is patronized chiefly by Gentiles and apostate Mormons. Visiting among women and evening entertainments are rare, and Gentile men are excluded from all intercourse with the wives and daughters of the saints.

On the Sabbath the harems let loose their flocks, who file in solemn procession to the tabernacle, to listen to the prophecies of Joseph, and the laws of "increase," as expounded by the "elders of the Lord."

In Salt Lake City, a few leading Mormons who have

means maintain spacious establishments, where their wives and families live in comparative comfort. But as the great body of the people are poor, a man often finds it burdensome to support five, eight, or ten wives, so the women soon find that they have to rely upon their own industry for their bread. Dress, fashion, and the filigrees of modern city women are unknown among Mormon wives. Plain dressing, plain food, hard work, obedience, baptism, and child-bearing are the pleasures and duties of Mormon women.

Of late years, the influx of Gentiles, railroad intercourse and enterprise in the Territory have somewhat changed the position of the young Mormon females, many of whom decline to enter the harems, and leave. the country, seeking homes and protection in California, Oregon, and Nevada, and other sections, much to the displeasure of the bishops and elders.

The solution of the "Mormon question" still distracts the country. Utah as a State, with an anti-Mormon majority, could soon exterminate polygamy. As a Territory, with Mormon juries, no punishment can be imposed on Mormon offenders. A few years, however, at most, will give Utah an anti-Mormon majority, when Mormonism, now embraced by about eighty thousand in Europe and America, will be weeded out of Utah, and eventually be known only as a thing of the past.

CHAPTER XXXV.

ARIZONA TERRITORY.

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THE Territory of Arizona is situated in the semitropical region lying directly east of California and west of Mexico, and is bounded on the south by the Republic of Mexico, east by New Mexico, north by Utah, and west by the Colorado river, which forms the boundary between the extreme southeastern corner of California and the northwestern part of Arizona.

This Territory, which embraces an area of 126,140 square miles, was acquired from the Republic of Mexico by the conquest of California, and the "Gadsden Purchase;" and by act of Congress of the 24th of February, 1863, was organized with a territorial government, with the capital at Tucson.

In 1870, the population of this Territory, exclusive of Indians, was but 9,658; of whom but 3,849 were native born, and 5,809 were foreigners. The preponderance of foreigners is owing to the fact of the large numbers of Mexicans in the country. There were at this period but twenty-six colored people and twenty Chinese in this Territory.

The climate of Arizona is exceedingly dry in its western division, and in the section adjoining the River Colorado; and in many portions of the interior the heat of summer is intense, it often reaching one hun

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PROCURING POISON FOR HIS ARROWS.

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