Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-13
Sic Transit.


does GO, he comes again. The spring
flowers dot and dimple glen aud mead.
ow with simple, touching beauty, and
fade away from our loving eyes, but
rag tweed and mullen stay and grow
ruggeder and lustier all summer. The
bells of the columbine drop away from
the clefts in the rocks, but the poison
vine hangs on, and grows more venom
Gus with age. Golden rod and iron
weed pass away, and the purple asters
no longer make dim starlight in the
rustling woods, but the brush is full OF
"beggar's Iice' and snakeroot. Beau
ty comes and goes, but ugliness only
adds to uginess with age. Satin trays
and costliest velvet loses its pile, but
rays are eternal, and the longer they
last, the raggede- they are. The bank
er-prince goes down with crash, his
millions are swept away, and he drops
out of society, but the social. status Of
the tramp never changes.
"For We have the poor always with
you." In this world of change, moth
ing endures like poverty. Nothing
i'm the morning, and he stands at the
bedside waiting for us. zone moment,
please. will just put few peas in this
shoe for the days pilgrimage; you will
find them conducive to u pleasant
morbid sentiment and reflection. Turn
arounsi q second, and will adjust this
bur under the neck band Of your shirt.
Are you quite ready now? Do you feel
sufficiently uncomfortable? / believe
I wouldn't stop for any breakfast this
morning. We have long way to go
to-day, and am pleased to assure you
that there are two lions at lonely
point on the road which we will pass
about dusk. do not think they are
chained; the last time accompanied a
pilgrim that way did not notice any
chains. and they were very cross lions
too. Come; don't limp, and do look
pleasant and happy. Can't you sing a
little and laugh gaily when we meet
any body by the way?"
We 90 down to the Office with a
brave face and a heart AS light as o
round shot, and he is waitin0 for us.
Well, it's gone to protest,
and Flyaway to whom y ou sold such a
whaling big bill of goods last month
has gone all to pieces, and can't pay 81
cents OH the dollar. You won't care to
see the mails this morning; there is
nothing IN it but duns. Goodness alive,
man, don't look like q tombstone.
There's 8 committee of ladies in the u
private Office been waiting for you near
" an hour. They want a donation of
goods and liberal cash subscription
for the .Woman's Home for Orphans Of
the Extinct Tribes OF North American
Indians You'll have to do something
for them, too. Now brace up and be
cheerful"
He sits by our side at dinner. "Allow
me, please. l will just moisten this
bread with few tears. Don't you
think their saline bitterness has quite |
. tonic effect? And think Il handful
Of ashes will greatly improve your roast
beef It is better eaten dry. There |
now, choke over that? Can't you think |
If something cheerful to say? Haven't
you new funny story at hand, or can't
you relate some amusing incident of
your busy down town life? There are
guests at your table, aud they rather
expect something of the kind from you,
you know. Come, man, look pleasant, |
)r I'll put wormwood in your after din
ler coffee"
And when we lie down at night he
says: "Could't you just as well sleep
)u the bolster? | have put the shoe |
brush, half a brick, big book, Rob
oie's tia engine and pockefful of
:hestnuts i'm to make it easy for you.
am light sleeper myself, so / prefer |
he pillow which is soft and siumbrous. |
Oh, did you know the insurance expir- |
I'd this morning? Don't turn round |
ike that! How eau any body sleep? |
The rent is due tomorrow and your |
cousin Smuthebore and his family are |
coming this week to stay until Christ
mas. You otawfully swindled in that
horse you bought to-day. The groom
,ays he is all gone in the shoulders and
wont last year. Say, amt you
ashamed of the way you treated that
Door fellow this afternoon who begged
ior an extension? Shouldn't wonder if
ne hung himself tonight. Are you
,leeny? I'm not q bit. could talk all
light. but / guess you'd better go to
,Ieep. because you've got terribly
nard ,iay before you tomorrow.
,hould think you'd wish you might
never get out OF bed again. Good night,
sweet rest. I've got the awfulest
iream for you, rs soon as hear you
more. that ever made . mans hair
stand on end.
An. dearly beloved, although affiic-
ion cometh not forth of the dust,
,either doth trouble spring out of the
yet man is born unto trouble,
Is the sparks fly upward We look
into the earth, and behold trouble and
Iarkn dimness of anguish" Our
little day flawns In clouds and mists.
aud behold at eveningtide, trouble"
Dur bank is shaky. and our mine has /
been saIted, it rains Oh the picnic. your .
boots are tight aud the cook Is like un- I