Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-07
ABOUT ADAM,

We have always believed in Adam.
We have looked upon him as one to
whom mankind has been under pecu-
liar obligations. Standing by the side
OF Evo Us the first married man, dressed
in q sumptuous bear skin, he appears
to us, as we look backward through
the dim vista Of the centuries upon him,
as a person indispensable to the future
of his race. Certain philosophers
would try to make US believe that that
majestic figure is n monkey; and some
times the results OF human events, elec-
tons for instance, seem unaccountablc,
except upon the Darwinian hypothesis.
But we hold that the man who would
reflect upon the dear departed in such
an ungrateful way does not deserve the
sympathies Of his kind; as for ourselves,
We intend to nail or fg leaf to the
mast and cling 70 The old Adam. What
he knew about farming served him in
good stead in the hour Of his disap-
pointmeut, and. though oyorlnuch Civ
ca to lying i'll the shade and munching
apples, we know that when he found
himself one morning on the wrong side
of q certain garden gate he INDUCED in
no unmanly repinings--he neither
whimpered over his fate, nor made
faces and shook his fist at the guardian
of the forfeited premises, but diiligent-
~ set himself to work to develop the
ordinary crab into the New York pip
pin.
There ere certain times when we like
to withdraw our minds from the tur
MOL Of the present age and dwell upon
the character of this grand old patri
arch. Some times, even when our desk
may be covered with hat accounts lost
on the election, we set to thinking on
Adam, and don't care how big the Lib
eral majority is in New York. Adam
was never troubled about election bets,
or any thing else, except the gratis in
his orchard. He had no mother-in-law,
and his wife never bothered him with
her milliner's bill. He had q natural
antipathy to snakes, but he was never
worried over missing shirt buttons.
He never supported an unsuccessful
candidate for President, and saw his
hopes of o seat in the Cabinet grow
DINNER and DINNER as the reports
came in. Nor were his ears doafoned
and his feelings hart by tho booming
of the cannon of the Radical party over
at New Albany. Neither did he receive
the ironical and malicious congratula-
tons of his neighbors the morning af-
ter the election on the fortitude with
which he bore up under adverse news.
His eyes were never offended by crow
ing roosters and Haunting banners of
his opponents; for, barring his one un.
fortunate speculation III fruit-under-
taken at the instance OF his sleeping
partner-whcn the devil made corner
in apples ibis life was eminontly sue
cess.
To be sure, he never had the proud
consciousness OF having established
principles that he knew would ultima
tely win in spite of the influence of
hostile administration that for while
brought inevitable defeat upon him;
nor did he have the pleasure Of seeing
the old party lines of ignorance and
prejudice broken in fragments and dis
appearing before his vigorous assaults;
but as he sat upon the hills facing the
sunset, in the happy time before his
eldest boy began to be fast and run
round with strange women from the
land Of Nod, he could watch his shoot
ing sc;ons without care, nor trouble
himself with the future of his offspring.
He stands for us as the grand exam
plar of success, and as we hear the
noise of unsympathetic thousands
shouting over empty victories, and
smell the fumes of powder burnt i'll
honor of a ftful and ephemeral
triumph, our thoughts go back G,0OO
years or moro to and old Adam, and
then
"Not q wave of trouble rolls across
the peaceful breast. ."-C0u,Ter-sb0urnat.
EFFECT CT CoLoRs UPON HEALTH.-A
correspondent Of the Builder states that
he had occasion for several years to eX-