The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-10
ST, LOUIS LETTER,
st, LouIa, February 7, 1870
of the Herald,

| Ihe olhtr uhy ! phhhou thIpubh ihu'hh
Territory and want 10 say word about H.
II has often been praised for la beauty but
this can hardly be because of variety Of land
soape. The substance Of la beauty consists
of prairie, unusually resolutely fiat With here
and there a long range Of hills lying smooth
and billowy against the distant horizon, like
waves upon the breast Of the ocean, small
forests or brush thckets skirt the Lesser
streams, while tho Canadian, Arkansas and
Grand sweep proudly down through valleys
OF tempting fertility. Built the muchness
of of repeated samenoss Of view that
Alls the eye and improsses
tho mind with the mpo lance
of making better use Of such royal gift
Of nature, At present II Is all out of doors
Now and then house Is seen, with perhaps
stable, but II Ia hard to toll which Is the
house and which the stable, both arc 30
weather-boaten and shabby Here and there
Ia village, but II Il just AZ small as n town
can BIO and contans'a depot u grocery
and saloon. AS somebody has well
said, tho NJ, X. a. Il, might us well
run through three hundred mile tunnel rs
across the Indian Territory. My ride across
tho country convinced me that the red man
requires altogether 10 much out-of-doors for
his individual use. New York city with all
It's palaces, wealth, and grandeur stands on
less ground than Is allotted TO u family Of
squald Indiana. And Why Simply be-
calne the red man wants nature 10 keep him
and II takes a good deal Of territory TO keeps
man on spontaneous production alone White
people work for living, but the Indian has
been resting ever since the morning of
creation, and herois where the white people
have the right Of IL and the Indian the
wrong of IL Ia the great conflict which has 50
long been waged between them The first
law of life, Ms laid down in the Bible Is this
"In the sweat Of thy face thou shalt eat
bread" Obedience to this law Is tho source
Of all our civilization with is wonderful in
dustres, vast accumuntions Of wealth and
splendid achievements of brain and muscle.
Bat the Indian refuses TO obey this law and
hence his demand FOR land enough to keep
him without work. But the law Is from
Heaven and the walls of the Territory have
got to come down and let civilization in,
pTbhhlHeu ouIuullslu III NV hV"'p VI
great civilized nation Is an
anomaly never intended by God and not to
be endured by man. | notice that the Pres
ident is about to fire of smother proclamation
on the subject, but he might as well throw
paper wads ut the incoming waves of the
Atlantic ocean MS to resist the progress and
determination Of public opinion in regard to
the matter.
At Vinita wc left the NJ. X. & r. aud
came down the st. Louis n San Francisco
road. This is the most direct line to st.
Louis and brought us to the city early in
the morning, after ride of but thirty hours
from Dallas.
Just now the most proper remark TO make
about ST. Louis is that it is an awful dirty
place. Everybody says so, and everybody
ought to know from the painful experience
that everybody has every hour Of the day.
All fires are made OF soft coal,
and this sends huge columns
of black smoke from the house tops which
gathers ia great cloud sbove the city and
steadily rains down fine bits of carbon upon
the open streets. Every breath is
"thck and sop" with the black stuff, and
after q couple OF days one begins to feel like
smoked ham. In addition to this the wind
sweeps clouds of dust along the streets, and
this dust don't care where it lights and is no
respecter Of persons, and would not
even turn aside for "Dleached out blonde "
/ think your paper suggested the Importance
of pavements to prevent dust. But that is no
cure at all. St. Louis is solid masonry, with
nothing but little blue strips of sky above,
and yet these streets would have to be swept
and scrubbed dozen times day to prevent
the ind from kicking up dust
Moody is now holding afternoon meetings
at Library hall. These meetings are for men
only because it was found that q large num-
of ladies went to all the meetings. and occu-
pying the seats made it impossible 70 the
men to find more than standing DOM around
stoutly built. His shapely head stands on
his broad shoulders without the intervention
of neck, leaving just room enough
to prevent his stand-up collar from cut
ting his ears off. His voice has
no volume and has to be worked up to a
pitch Ey sheer force of hard pumping, and
hence loses its impressiveness in the hoarse,
squeaking natural to such speakers. l
had heard Mr.. Moody several times before
he acquired his great reputation abroad, and
must say that he has not improved much /;
but still, he is very earnest, speaks straight
and to the point, and sends hard-hitting
truth ZONE to the heart with keen thrust.
is efforts are attended by good results
and the meeting last Sunday night is said to
have been the greatest ever held in st. Louis.
Sankey pleases me very, much, ., in fact
more than any singer ever heard except the
great Nine. Pareppa Rosa. His
tavorte song, "Come Home, oh, Come
Home" is wonderfully pathetic, and
strangely moves the heart, especially when
choir of ladies sing the chorus so softly and
sweetly that it sounds like a subdued echo of
the singer own voice.
intended to write more about st. Louis
when began, but having gotten upon the
Indians trail thought should endesvor to
| scaln some of his pretensions before letting