The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-06-03

tenQerly she dressed the wound, wash
ing it with the precious water Hong Foy
had carried in the great bottle. "He is
worth it..
If you would have to guess ct the
smallest part of that awful journey 60
out. on the Southern Pacific to the place
where the temperature is normally at
140 in June at II o'clock in the day
time, where the air is so hot that it
curls itself up, where the alkali is baked
into powder finer than the finest powder
known to medicine, and without the
slightest breath of air to agitate it sits
and ~scatters about over the face Of the
earth, being drawn up by the sun just
as you have heard of water being drawn
up. 1t will be an unpleasant ride to
you, for you will leave your coat at
Ogden and your raiment along the right
Of way with great persistence, until in
the middle of the desert you will be a
disgrace and will belong in the same
epoch as Adam and Eve, but you will
not think Of Adam and Eve, for they
lived where water was and grass and
trees and blossoms, and it would make
you insane to think Of those as you look
ed out on the writhing blue lines Of
mountains millions Of miles away.
Mountains which you see here this mo-
ment and which are gone when you look
again And beating, beating, beating
with q might that makes your head
thump is the great world consuming
sun
Yes, if you would like to guess about
Maggie and Hong Foy-the crippled
Hong Foy-and their IL days p~arching,
furnishing, agonizing journey until they
walked out Of death and into a green
line Of paradise which ran along a clear
river, you must 60 there and do it for
yourself. And at the end Of the jour-
ney, if you ever get to the end Of it,
perhaps you will fall fainting and
deathlike at the margin of the stream
as Hong Foy did, or perhaps you will
drop on your knees and pray as did
Maggie.
"The only thing in the cabin" said
Graves, (which plainly was not made
out Of the things hereabout is a great
bottle, which is apparently for water. I
wonder where it came from?"
81 DON'T" said the driver Of the
water wagon. what I want to know
is about that there humpy lookin camel
beast that the boy met us on Tell me
where that thing came from and I'll go
home satisfied"
"They don't know themselves" said
Ford. "They only know he came in
here one day, and the woman says he
was sent by God to help the Chinee
haul wood in winter time, but the Chi
naman insists that he was created out
of the alkali or something, from what I
gather in talking to him, as a special
gift Of his joss. The boy says nothing.
I consider that beast the greatest object
lesson in the Cancellation Of religious
disputes that I ever struck, for while
holding these different views they don't
quarrel about him. The real explana-
ton is probably that he is the offspring
of some Of those camels the United
States government bought over from
Africa several years ago for use in the
Arizona army posts, but which turned
out failure and were let loose to a
where they would"
81 suppose" said Graves. "that you
will say in your report that the red
headed, half Chinese kind is the natural
child Of the desert?"
eyes. IF this land Of heat and hard
ship is ever to be peopled, I think that
will be the breed for it!'
"Dii it ever strike you" said Graves
to Fori, after they had got back to civ
ilization, chow that Chinese friend Of
yours and his wife and child out there
in that desert are SO fond Of one anoth-
err"
"Grayes," said Ford, "the word
love- always seemed to me to be a sort
Of a sickly ne for a grown man to use
in talking to another, but do you know
that is what I would call that case? I
don't think I'd say fond"
"Idon't understand it aS all, !" Graves
observed.
"Well you know there's no rule for
that kind Of thing, old Love is
something you can't cipher out like
your latitude and your longitude. p
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