Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-01-29

Uf'hibN tlAHA his lpllR DidCh HdlT, grow
Ing rank from muddy skin, was sleekly
put behind his ears. A large white bios
sum ~ cravat expanded under his nude,
heefy chin. aud he wore a black dress
coat. creased with its recent packing.
Except that his pantaloons We're thrust
into his boots he was in correct go-to-
mectin costume-a Chadband of the
plains
lilo took his stand and began to full
mine over the Rsseinblage. His manner
was coarse and overbearing. with inter
val. ~ oily persuasiveness. He was a
big, powerful man. without one atom Of
deicacy In hiin-a fellow who never
could take flower OF gentle heart into
his hand without crushing it by brutal
instinct. A creature with such an
anonymous beak Of nose, with such a
heavy Tipped mouth and such wilderness
81 jaw, could never perceive the fine
SAVIOR Of any delicate thing. Coarse joys
were thu only joys for such a body;
coarse emotions. the pleasures of force
and domination the only emotions crude
enough for such soul.
His voice was as repulsive as his mien
and manner. That badly modelled nose
had an important Office in his oratory.
! Through u he hailed his auditors to open
their hearts, "a u canal boatman halls
the locks with n canal horn of bassoon
cnliher hut sometimes. when he wished
81 be seductive. his sentences took the
| channel of his mouth and his great lips
Tolled the words over like fat morsels.
Pahi how the recollection Of the fellow
| disgusis mel And yet he had an I'M
wholesome fascination which compelled
~ 20 listen. could easily understand
how he might overbear feeble minds,
aud whee,lle those that loved flattery
polished his base metal no that it shone
we'll enough 10 deceive the vulgar or the
crclulous, lie did not often allow him
self the broad coarseness Of his brother
preachers In the church.
Bodily food had been prepared by the
women while the men listened to Siz-
sums grace tefore meat. A fragrance
u baking bread had pervaded the air.
A thousand slices Of fat pork sizzled in
two hundred frying pans. and water
boiled for two hundred coffee or tea
pots. Saints cannot solely live ON ser
mons
Brent aud walked about to survey
the camp. We stopped wherever we
found the emf grants sociable, and chatted
with them. They were all eager to
know how much length Of journey re-
mEincd.
Were comm 10 believe. some of u.s."
said an old crone, with n wrinkle for
every grumble of her life. that we're to
b. forty year In the wilderness, like the
old iEKerullitcs. wouldn't have come,
samwell. II I'd known what you was
bringin inc TO-"
There's many Of us wouldn't have
come. mother" rcjoined Samwell a
cowed man IL anxious look, IF we'd
known ~ much as we do now"
Samwell glanced sadly at his dirty,
travel worn children. ut work at mud pies
aud dust vol au vents. His dowdy wife
broke oil the colloquy by announcing, in
= tone that she must have learned from
a rattlesnake. that the loaf was baked,
the bacon was fried and supper shouldn't
wait for Anyhody's talking.
All the emigrsnts were English. Lam
cashirs their accent and dialect an
nounccd. aud Lancashire they told US
was their homo In the old stepmother
country.
Stepmother. indeed, to these her chill
drcni No wonder that they found life at
home intolerablel They were the poor
~, class Of townspeople from the great
manufacturing towns-penny trades
men, indoor craftsmen, factory opera
uves-a puny. withered set of beings
hardly men, II man means strength
hardly women. II woman means beauty
Their faces told Of long years passed il
the foul air Of close shops, or work
rooins. OF steany, oily, focculent mills
All work and no play had been theil
history
We have not seen" said Brent, "ons
hearty John Bull or buxom Betsy Bull
In the whole caravan"
They look as II husks and slops had
b--eu their meat and drink, instead Of
l-ef aud beer"
Beef and beer belong 10 fellows tina,
have red in their cheeks and outlaws in
their threats. not 10 these lean, pale
dreary wretches"
The saints robes seem rs sorry a.
their persons" said |. No Waterman
ON the hilltops Of their Zion will hail,
who are these In bright array when
they heavs Ia sighil"
They have a right TO be way worn