The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-06

| geStlOnS for remark as possible; so, before
leaving his hotel, he Invested himself ofevery
visible trace of city raiment, and clothed him
self in the Sunday suit which Haynton had
seen often enough to pass without remark.
He could not restore his shorn superfuity Of
hair, but he again put on the hat which for a
year had been his best at home. He even
went so far as to leave for his father new
trunk which he had purchased, putting his
own personal property into the antique car
pet-bag-real carpet-which the old farmer
had brought down.
Lastly, that he might not appear in the
| least like city youth, he carried with him
| two religious weelllies which some society for
the reformation of hotel hoarders had caused
| to be placed in his box in the hotel office, and
he read them quite faithfully on the train.
Reminders of the cid life to which he was
returning came to him thick and fast when
the train got fairly ont Of the city. In a field
nc saw man stripping the leaves from
standing corn stalks, and although the view
was what photographers term ''instantane-
GUS" it was long enough to show the shabby
attire, brown face, shocking bad hat clumsy
boots, and general air of resignation that
marked all farmers in the vicinity of Hayn-
saw half grown boy picking up stones in a
field of thin soil and adding them to piles
which were painfully significant of much
similar work in past days.
Down in q marshy pasture beside the rail-
way embankment two men were digging a
drainage ditch; they were too far apart to be
company for each other, and too muddy to
be attractive to themselves. Phil at once re-
called much work of like nature he had done,
and more that still depended upon his muscle
to make the entire acreage of Hayn farm
available for cultivation. Estimating accord
ing to past experience and newly acquired
knowledge, he found that the number of days
of work required, if paid for at the lowest
rate of common laborers in New York, would
amount to twice as much as the value of the
land when improved. 1t was easy to see why
farmers never got rich. Still, the farm was
his natural sphere; he had been born to it.
Heaven, in arranging his life career, knew in
advance what he was fit for, and his own diff
ference of opinion would probably be ex-
planned away in time by the logic OF events
which he could not foresee
In dusty road near a little station at
which the train stopped he saw two farmers
hts3SOLS ulcct, obOp, ehliU tuCA ONLSi CA6Sl5c
in conversation. Thus would he, the OBJ
server, soon be obtaining whatever news he
acquired; instead of every morning opz?:lg
a newspaper recording the previous days do
ings throughout the civilized world, he would
be restricted to stories of how Joddles' horse,
who had cast himself, was getting along with
his scraped hip joint, and when Bragfew
thought he might be likely to kill beef if
he could find somebody to take fore quar-
ter which hadn't been spoken for yet, the
chances of Nemy Perkins being 'churched"
for calling Deacon Tbewser sneaking old
sheep thief, and much more information
equally entertaining and instructive. Well,
why notF What better news would he him
self be likely to offeri He was not going to
fall into the sin, warning Of which had been
given by one Of the apostles, of esteeming
himself more highly than his neighbors; some
pnonle in the vicinity Of HaYnton did not