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Show THE DEAD PROPHET. 605 amy especially ladies. They go about it so logically, and it sounds so natural. " Well, Amelia became the recognized Queen of the Harem in 1866, and ruled the old fellow ever after. It was hinted that she knew too much, and that he would have liked to " shake" her, but did not dare. All the style of all the other wives put together would not equal hers. She occupied an elegant palace built for her sole self, THE MORMON TABERNACLE. across the street from the main hennery, and generally lives more like the wife of a millionaire and great leader, than did any of her predecessors. Brigham enjoyed four or five flirtations after 1866, and married a time or two, but none of them amounted to any thing. It would appear that Ann Eliza rather thought she could supersede Amelia, and did hold her own well for a few months, but the other soon knocked her clear out of the ring. Hence these tears. Margaret Van Cott, one of the latest, is a good woman, and a mother, too ; and it is said this last circumstance irritates Amelia more than any thing else. She has not been at all reticent in her insinuations about " thai |