The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-16


black. dead funereal black, unrelieved BY .
trace of color OF any sort. Coat, waistcoat.
trousers, cravat and eve1 the spats which hall
cover the strong, thick-solec, sQuared-toed well.
polished shoes. are black. everything black.
Even the standing collar IL circular, priestly in
cut, the ends meeting and slightly over
layptng under the chin. Here and here
only does the clothing depart from
the clerical tone. The waistcoat IL not rigidly
theological 1t il q Protestant waistcoat, and
not even . Church Of England garment In
Great Britain It would be = dissenting waist
coat. but always the waistcoat OF the pulpit II
u cut moderately low, and on each side of the
narrow fouf-in-hand cravst, which drops from
the round collar, there are little CLEANS OF white
shirt front. The coat 10 . frock of grave and
lengthy proportions OF skirt. But IL 10 worn un-
buttoned In IN easy. careless way, and not un-
frequently button or two of the Waisvcoat are
separated. and not absolutely divorced from the
corresponding button-h0lea. They are always
close enough, however, to screen the white
bones OF any family skeleton In the way of shirt
that may b hidden beneath them. The collar
vat furnish oil the break In the dead, sombee
monotony. There 10 not . CLEAN of gold or
other ornament to b seen.
Clothed - he 10, Senator Carlisle 10 clerical
and nothing but clerical in cut: clothed in
warmer colored and more worldly attire and
you might take him for an actor of the old
school heavy-tragedy typa His strongly
marked development OF facial muscles, which
appears 20 c0nspicuously in his close-shaven
face. would enable him to make up with equal
perfection ~ representative of either the stage
or the pulpit His mouth 10 rather wide and
flexible, with lips which do not indicate any
special development of discrimination OF will
power although his heavy, square Jaw most
emphatically doea His nose ID long and Of I'M.
Hnv iv~ tkvnn
from his forehead down to q point which
slightly overhangs his wide nostriis. His eyes
are gray and wide open, with prominent bulge
OF forehead stretching in an even line over
them. It 10 high, somewhat sloping forehead,
which loses itself in . vague, underlined sort of
point where the hair has grown thin, but not
thin enough at any point to tempt irreverent
boys to remarks calculated to bring bears down
upon them. 1t was thick. black hair once; in
the face you can plainly sec the blue black
traces OF . strong beard.
Altogether, Senator Carlisle's exterior person.
atty ID 20 strongly striking and original that
you would ct once select him from any group Of
men a. one remarkable in some line of intel
lectual development With the frat few words
OF conversation with him you have evidence Of
the extraordinary alertness and Quickness Of in.
tellect for which he 10 noted. It IL said that he
grasps subject no matter how complex with .
lightning-like rapidity and scstte,s from it with
one vigorous shake the chat through which
slower men would have plodded for weary
hours; that he goes straight to the vital point
by . sort Of leaping intuition. In conversation
you see constant evidences Of this habit of mind.
Before you have fairly begun to frame your own
thought In words he has seized your idea and
put 1t and his comment on 1t in few sharp.
clean-cut sentences
THAT man never had . clouded thought
said Mckinley, of Ohio. once at the end of one
of Carlisle's remarkable speeches in the house.
Five minutes talk with him on any subject
will convince you of that He 10 q decidedly
winning and agreeable taiker. His voice 10
we'll modulated aud pleasant to begin with, and
then he has frank, unconstrained manner
which ills the atmosphere with ease. That de.
testable expression, personal magnetism"
gives an idea Of something In which Carlisle 10
rather lacking. He 10 not . sympathetic man in
any sense. You feel yourself always in the cold
air Of pure, hard. cleau-cut logic. His face does
not warm up a. he talkA The gray eyes open
wider and become more piercing and keen. He
speaks rapidly, shooting out his sentences
like mathematically weighed and meas.
ured pfojectiles of modern weapons of
precision. They are perfect projectiles,
and they ny straight to the core of the
topic Not CLEAN of humor dances about his
mouth or his eyes. If he laughs it il In mirth-
less way. and it reveals q rather grim mouth,
with small and not white teeth. The general
and habitual expression of his face 10 rather
one Of Sadness sort of thoughtful, intent
melancholy. His complexion 10 sallow and un.
wholesome, and both that and the muddied
tone of the whites OF his eyes betray the aver.
sion to physical exercise which from his boy.
hood has always chung to him. Az he becomes
moro animated in conversation he makes q
swift, quick gesture with his right hand at in.
tervals and fires the projectile sentences with
quick. sharp snap forward OF the hesd.-Nes
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