Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-20
A Letter from Goodiand.
Oh the ice, the beautiful ice.
The slipping, the sliding, the falling are

Bump! Whew! The machine is
broken, and the rest must be told in
prose. The writer is nearly well, and
having treated his own case himself,
he is master of the situation, and the
mos: effective treatment is very SIM
pie.
Talking of sickness, the frequent re-
currences of death among the very
best families OF Ironton recalls a fact
well established in the history of ma
laria. 1t always strikes worst on
ground of a medium elevation. Per-
sors living on the very edge of a
slough, or on the crest of a hill, are SAT-
er than those living OH the second bot
tom of streams. This will explain the
deadly form of the disease in Ironton.
A question has also arisen in regard to
the sanitary effect of fish ponds. The
small water courses running through
Ironton need investigation. The peo-
pie of Ironton live too fast. They eX-
haust their vitality anu SO become q
ready prey to disease from without.
Out here we have the earth coated
with ice about four inches thick, and
the air raw in the worst degree, SO that
it is very hard to preserve health, and
almost every one is eomplaining of
trouble in their lungs. The writer has
gone through aud understands the
SUI ject, having learned on himself. He
is very thankful to his many kind
friends who gave him aid AID sympa-
thy in his sickness.
On the fourth Sabbath of February
the writer attended service ut the Bap-
tist church, and had the pleasure of
meeting many of his old friends, and
OF hearing a good sermon preached by
Elder John r. Adams, followed by
pertinent exhortation by brother Reilly
Hawk, who bids fair to make an effect
i've worker. He also heard a number
of his young friends, under the lead of
Mr.. Nelson Adams, Jr., do some very
fair singing. Our young friends labor
under difficulties from which few lee
lures Oh the relation between reading,
speaking and singing would free them.
There has been a new store set up at
it your correspondent knows nothing
about it. Such institutions are usually
just like humble bees-biggest just aft
er they are hatched. But every friend
of good order will wish that the pro-
prietors will not follow in the practice
of some others of our traders and deal
in Bulls Bitters; vilIainous decoction
of rotten tobacco, red peppers and fish
berries, which will make man howl
ing drunk i'm fifteen minutes, and then
make him puke until he throws up his
knees.
Your correspondent is compelled to
record his deliberate judgment that
there is no mineral in paying quanti-
ties in Township "a, north, range one
west, but the percentage of farming
land is large, and the timber is abun-
dant, young and thrifty, SO that the
land will be good investment at cur
rent rates.
1t is pleasant to hear that Mr.. Fa-
We te Alcorn proposes to make this re-
gion his home; as he has bought land,
and as some time ago the writer saw
him in the neighborhood of one of the
most sweetly pretty young ladies of
Iron county, the case seems hopeful.
Mr. Aicorn is a very good citizen and
will make valuable man.
DIR. Marshall Henderson is having
some practice and is studying very dill
gently, being resolved if possible to
master his profession.
Your Belleview correspondent does
not understand the true inwardness of
that region. There are parties there
with false objective points in life, and
who play at cross purposes, and no one
is willing to trust another; and all are
right and sensible. And yet there is
strong percentage of excellent and SEN
sible young people who quietly stand
back out of the racket.
The discussion of prohibition drags
its slow length along in your columns.
The writer went through it all forty
years ago, and takes little interest, as
it leads to lame and impotent conclu-
sions. And yet the manufacture and
sale Of liquors is diminishing in this
country in proportion to the popula-
ton. The traffic is more collected in
to great centres, and we see it more
:han formerly. But before We can sue
ceed in graphing ssfnlly with the
evil, We must slow up our lives and pay
the National Debt. T.C.
March Sth, 1884.