The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-03-19

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selfish. ana learned fashion, than ever be-
fore. Was ne indeed u Dante, or only
some POOR Mormon, u sort OF insane man,
dong psnaLce rs he p'oi,s -sdf
IL IN 4 great ~ take 90 saw that only dts-
honest, iguorart aud impure man are
fanatic IN religion. | frequently recall,
when thinSius of these things, the gauni,
lean figure ~ the old | armed caliph who
sat on his red camel outside the gates OF
JerusalssL, demanding the Keys OF the
doomed city. seq him dine, rs he nits
there, gu two dried fgu and o drink OF
water from the leathern bottle al his belt,
l see him die ut lsst, after ell tho wealth Of
the ems, hiss passed. untouched through his
hands, siih fece tilted radiant In hope 10
tho gates Of heaven. That his followers
were ignora 4, h "a 81 heart, IL true. They
could net even plead redeeming industry.
Pardon tue dnf e's'on.. One 10 tenn pied
into notlng parallels of religious fsnnticism
folly and msdne,s ny the singular similar.
ity OF tho physical cha act ristlcs OF the
TWO lands-S, RE and tails Mormon region
now known ae Utah.
II wss n { red, dusty, dish"artened little
party that touched the ,elt.whitc shore OF
the dead sra In she neart of the great desert
and Wilderness OF this continent more than
thirty years ago.
The silent and melancholy man In the
long black barrow was quite well enough,
after the nisht's rest which followed my
fathers visit, t. creep or after his coffin
the next morning.: aud he kept up, lowering
on our border, keeping oDly a little way in
the rear. camping only q little woy OF,
living his singular life al by himself, az
before, TIL ge reached the shores Of tue in
LAM sea.
1t is TO be confessed that there ess not
ono OF our little Grain that did not hope,
expect, elmost pray, that here this man
would leave u--this nightmare, shadow,
and cloud; this bid OF evil omen, rise al
last and tls away. No, 40.
The C, TIN took up position not 500 yards
AWAY on Il bank u a orawlipg little stream
which swept into the great black lake, vito
its cleaning border OF crystal white Bslt.
The grass wac long aud strong here. Some
willows cast a cooling shade. Here the
tall and hideous giant wit the hollow
eyes sat snd read sll day alone. But where
was he 1T night. We children did not fab
in that $ rram once during the whole week
of rect here, while purchasing fresh sup
plies from Sal, Lake Guy, only o few
miles away 10 the south Wa slapped high
and hurried In the tan grass If by chance
any OF the cattle went too close 10 that mon
strous shape and We had TO 80 there TO
drive them b, K and nearer camp.
MY fnther had been very auxious all the
Journey TO hear from the Lanes He often
asked men who had SLOW tesms like our own
II they had seen thisparty pafs. They had
been seen often. At the settlement OF Salt
Lake he asked Tor them la vain.
One day ne vsntured ~ approach the
watchiui ann silent giant VINO rested by his
coffin "a he read In tho shade OF tho will
lowe, and asked II no mad had any informn-
tion about the Lsnes.
The man only lifted the lids OF his hollow
eyes, looked a ONE at my father, let
them fall and again went on reading. But
seeing that my father still stood respect
fully by, aud WAS disposed neither to ask
Anotp nor avnp m srDvv angry and peaa on
In silence, he sgsin lifted his eyes for q sec
ond, ami looking OF my father, said In q
deep, solemn, and never-to.be-forgotSon
tone:
maybe they have boon judged; and are
not" -,
And again he went on reading and usid
no wori more, while ms father, with pale
lips, silently took my hand and returned to
camp. He knew what that awtul sentence
meant very well,
But the beautiful, blsok-eyed girl, 30 full
OF youth. bealth, stfsotiOn, devotion-whst
moDstrous creatur IN al thiB world could
be fouud miserable enough to murder her?
6urely hrr purity, her sweetness, should be
as 10. 900 swords t. defendher. Her beauty
should have been as an army with bannere.
What had happened? We shall see.
One morning before sunrise, two long
haired men on horseback, bearing long
rifles before them, dashed up to the grim
black shape halfhidden In the rank rye, grass
there by The bank Of this little trout etream
and the bony giant was eeen TO BIT sud-
denly bolt upright in his coffin.
The conferences did not last long. Only
few words ~pasRed-orders m~sipiy-brief,
abort, sharp, aud mostly made up of mono
sylIables and gestures; and then the long
haired men on horseback, with their long
rifles before them wheeled suddenly and
DISAPPEARED Ia aud behind g grove Of the
cool. leaning willows up the stream.
IT. 40. 40 80 tAns III. earfAtn nnnufRfIAn
settled down upon sll AZ to who this mon
~ter ives. Men Nno women too, w the
many campo scattered here and there, up
and down the will w-iined stream, began
to question themselves With pale lips II
they had ought u answer for, to these sud
den. swift, and merciles, Judges" of the
tribe OF Dan.
The terror tbot now possessed us, and lay
steadily aud still over al was painfal, pitt
iful. No one dared TO speak TO his neigh
Dor. No ono knew who his nelghbor we.
There ss somswnnt Of that awful stiffness
and SAD pity over the face OF nature which
Is to be observed when an earthquake Il
about 10 break the heart OF our mother.
earth.
On the next day four other men, similarly
mounted. equally anrupt, sudden esd swift,
swept up the little stream from the shores
Of the white-lined sea, aud looked up and
down and right and left as II for some one
who was Loaf or who had escaped. They
did not speak tn any one, or even come
near TO the silent man M the stream, aboyv
our camp. But they beokoned him aud
he answ red back. They then dashed on
up the mounteir4s de, which sloped to the
strear1, and climbing mt a steady gslop
a the high gray summit, sat there In a
group q long time, looking 10 the east 10
the west, every where, long and eagerly.
Then they rode on down the grassy hill
toward the head OF the stream, and we sew
them no more. Bat a darker shadow than
ever Gas'ovef US row q shadow lay behind
them like the shadow OF death.
We could not endure the strain any long
err. And then, In tact. We we're almost
ready TO SET out once more on the long,
long journey still before us. Father made
excuse that ne wanted to catch ths cool Of
the evening. And this gave hun some pre-
Is the eun went down 20 move his little
train on, on, on, onward over the great
white border Of this black sea OF death
any whore, indeed. tn &c, rid Of this night
mare that hovered over, suffocated us.
Some OF our msn had made sooat here out
OF an old wagon bed. By the hello OF .
friendly Ind ian they had rowed far out 70
. little island with three green trees on II.
There was a rock just visible above the
black, heavy waters here close TO this 10
land.
One Of the men who went in bathing on
che edge Of the Island, swan toward TINS
rock. The Iudian was Mortified. and With
Wild yeils beckoned him bsck: But the
man was already turning back through the
black. heavs water, and making for the
islsnd and thu boat with all his might. de
had seen Z dead body thsre with log-chains
about 1.-THE work Of he snites. And
yet no man dare say 30. or even speak Oh
You must know that the water OF Salt
Lake IL 90 dense and heavy with salt usf