Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-09-14

plLicu i1ltn- ss K19sArOSe a1teE ~ lille stlA
picked m his sketch book aud proposed
that they return, forcing himself to be-
calm the while. And in that sifent.walk
to the house he formed great resolve, \
Q ,resolves to make himself grandly wera
thy of her, and then to come back and,
WIN her love, feel q little sorry for
him, who had formed vagrant haoits.
and had always conceived distaste for
anything when It required to be stead-l
lis. followed. starting off to- travel that
road to fame whose every milestone is
a monument, and which so few reach
the end of, and with the steadfast belief
that it was now the only road to happi-
ness, and that happiness lay at the far
Their end. God speed himI 81, ys.7a,ls
HsiEon i ~ y tff1as a,5s Il, raf,
- @ausa4 s.s Il ..,t.x...f. ~. sns :.
Dora passed through several stages of
feeling when .Cowan was gone. She felt
a little pfqued that he should have taken
her advice SO quickly, and while in this
stage she was fretful and q little unrea-
sonable, and John Howell was the
greater sufferer from it all. He came
over the day after 'Cowan's departure,
and III the course of the subsequent COM
versation took occasion to make slight
ing remark of the absent one, She
flashed out at him Instantly:
elf you, desire to. retain my respect
you will refrain from speaking in that
way Of q man who is at least TOO much
of q gentleman to speak disrespeetf1Iy
of an absent enemy" ~ 9fffts sssiA ssssa
Howell WINGED under the blow and
maintained wise reticence on the!sub-
ject ever after. 81 Really he had said
nothing very bad of Cowan, for Howell
was an honorable man,~who was lit
tie embittered by the seeming success
of rival whom he only knew as con-
ceited boy, having never seen under the,
surface. !. Now that Cowan was rival
no longer, he must vent little spleen,
but after that he could afford to be
magnanimpus, and Dora s wrath was no
more called down upon his head by a
delinquency similar to the. first. And
then there was the stage when Dora be-
gan to reproach herself for having been
SO hard upon Cowan, and she couldn't
help but pity him little. It was good
while before she discovered that she
loved him, and when. the discovery did
come il frightened her at first, and then
she grew indignant at herself; for.
Cowan had taken his congo and was
gone for good, for he had never said a
word about coming back, and, indeed,
she had certainly given him small req
son fors hope.sz She. couldn't help but
dispises him Just a little sometimes for
having accepted the first no-giving up
the ship at the first fire, as it were.
Anyhow, several months passed and
nothing was heard of Cowan, and John
Howell pressed his suit assiduously, and
it wassably backed by the opportunities
of thegold people on both sides; and, on
the point of openly rebelling and an
swerings John with "a determines and
decisive no, she said to herself e.What
is the use? I can make them all hap
pv, and will be no lessso thanI am,n
and answered yes instead, and so had
John Howell walking on air and AS
blissfully happy as a. not particularly
large nature like his would let him be.
And while matters were reaching this
state at Farmer Barnett,s, Cowan-was
occupsing a garrett inithe city, and was
battling his way along the road to fame
with q brush.s: If { have said nothing
about Cowan's anteeedents and his con-
ditiony in life before, it is because the
reader would have taken less notice of
it than he would after had succeeded
in creating an interest in him. Know,
then, that he was left an orphan at
eighteen, with enough, judiciously man
aged, to last him five years,zor enough
to base fortune on if he had been dis
posed to build fortune, which he was
not, being shiftless. When a3purpose
in life presented itself it found him
moneyless and in debt, If [ must tell the
truth. Don't despise him, for many a
noble man has been no better in his
youth. So, then, we find him wooing
fame and fortune in a garnet, not for the
sake of fame. and fortune, but. for. the
sake of another goddess-of flesh and
blood. a. 1t occurred. to him sometimes
that perhaps while he was working
somebody else might carry off the prize,
but it only made him work the harder
for after her parting words he never
doubted but that success must. be
reached before he could go back to her.
So he worked. away in his garnet and
ate and slept by his picture; ard after a
while It came to Dora's ears that he
was working thus, and first persuading
herself that she had disciplined her
heart until she felt but a ssisterly inter-
est in his welfare, and with no thought
that she was wronglng the man she had
promised to marry. she placed watch
upon Cowafn. &c f3ssodsnS asss .gfzix vsz
And after awhile the picture was An.
ished and Cowan went and saw it placed
insthe gallery himself, and then went
home and went to bed il q And one
young man came to- him III his. illness
and did numberless little, things for his
coInfort.and It never occurred to COwan.
with his whole mind on his chance Of
success, to make many inquiries concern
ing this friend who had come to him in
his trouble IN 4Andr then came the day
for the awards to be made. In his ex-'
element Cowan arose from his bed,
about noon, and tottered around the
room, and up came a messenger who
had been dispatched to Cowan's friend,
and stopped outside the door and whis-
pered these words: 8 .sHis picture has
been taken down and another put in
its placer Cowan's friend turned to
go inside, and there was Cowan at the