race-dust

Updated: May 1, 2025

I saw the western man with race-dust on his cheeks, or throned in the power-houses of the world, moving upon iron platforms and straight ladders in the mid throb and tumult of encompassing engines. One false step, and he must fall a crushed and mutilated thing.

O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton - Apologia Diffidentis