EDITOR'S WALLET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2529, 3 September 1902, Page 71

EDITOR'S WALLET.

A Visit to Brigham Young.

ARTEMC3 WARD'S FMfOFS STORY OF HIS IX-

TKRVIEW WITH THE MOBMOX PKOPHET.

My desire was to exhibit my grate showin Salt Lake City, so I called on Brigham Yung, th-& grate mogul I amung the Mormins, and axed his permishun to pitch my tent and onfurl my banner to the jentle brcezis. He lookt at me in a auateer manner fov a few minits, and s&d :

"Do you bleeve in Solomon. Saint Paul, the immaeulateness of tiTe Alomiin Church, and the Latter-day lievelashuns'/"

Sez I, "I'm on it !" I make it a pint to git along plesunt, tho I didn't know what under the Son the old feller was dnvin* at. He sed I mito show.

"You air a marrid man, Mister "Fung, I bleeve?" sez I, preparin' to rite, him sum free parais.

"1 have eighty wives, Mister Ward. I sertingly am niarrid."

•'How do you like it, as far as you hey got?" sed I.

IJ» sud, "Middlin." and axel* me wouldn't I hki> to sr-a his famei-ly. to which I replide that I wouldn't mind minglin with t!i° fair iS^cb & Bar-kin in the winnin .smiles of his interestin wives. He accordniijlv t'ik me to Ins Hcareuni. Th© liocre h powerful big, tc in a p.xeeeuin large loom was lib wives & children, which larst was &quawkin and hollenn <Miuff to takr> the roof iite olf the house The wimin was of nil sizes ard apes. Sum was pretty & sum M-ai Plane— .sum was helthy and sum was on t! o Wavvr -whir h is versef, tho sich was not my intentions, as I don't 'prove of puttm \or~-* in Prr.ze rittins. tho ef occas'inn ! vi\\ii'P" T can .Teik a f'oim ekal to anj- of thorn Atlantic Monthly fell-i-s. "Mv unrs, .Mister Ward," sed Ymifr. "Ycm servant, marn'--," s^d I. af. I 'at down in a cheer which a red hrtlfd fenialp lirawt rue. '•J"!e'-idr<: th<*»r> \m\p« vru sp" here. Mi 3 tpr Waicl.' sed Yung. "1 liav 80 more' in vjris paits of tliis consecrated land winch air Kraled to me." "Winch V" sex I, ge'.Ung up & stanng at him "Scaled, Sir' eraied." ' Wliaii' hoi\(-.?"' I. ""i ~ed, Sir. that tjie-y was sealed!"' He -pok* 1 in i twjjerdv \oic". "A\ ill tlioy* pro'.ily continuer on in that .u\r> to a'iy grate extent. .Sir?" I a\cd. "Sir." spd lie, turning as red a.- a biled he&t, ' don't you know that the rules of our Chinch is that I. the Profit, may hey as n;ppv wi\es a« I wants?" ". r r-st a o,'' I scd. "You are old pie, ain't V'.U'" > "■Them as n Scaled to me — that is to say, ' to he mine when I wants urn — air at present my fpeiretcoul \\i\es," scd Mirter Yung. "Lonj? may they wave !"' ecz I, seem I ehoocl fiit into a gciape ef I didn't look <w£»'

In a privit coovrrsEsliun with Brigli&m I learnt the following fax: — It takes him six weeks to kiss his wives. He ilon't do it ouly ouct a ycre, & sez it is wus: nor cksnniu. house. Ho don't prctcnt to know hi-, children, thare is so many of urn, tho they jdl know him. He spz about every child he meets calls him Par, & he tak-es it for granted it is so. His wives air very expensiv. They allcrs want suthin, & ef ha don't buy it for urn they set the house in a -upr,oar. He sez he don't have a. minit's