Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-02
From GOOdland.
"This world is not so bad a world
AS some would like to make it;
But whether good or whether bad,

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Depends on how we take it."
1t is exceedingly full of enjoyment. if you
| will only stop and gather up the sunbeams.
A spirit of joyousness is the prevalent law OF
being, and is a natural characteristic of ev
eryone. In the little child we find this spirit
left free and JOY abounds. AS years advance
it is more rarely met, yet in old age we often
| catch CLEAN of instructive happiness. OBJ
jects are all arounds us, which, if observed,
will give emotions Of Joy. Nature, with her
boundless realms of beauty and sublimity, is
filled with stores of pleasure. The blue can
opy of the heavens is above; the variety of
lovely flowers; the magnifcently lovely tint
ed arches across the east as the brilliantly
gilded orb sinks in the west, leaving gleam-
ing mass of beautifully tinted clouds which
no artist can repI oduce.
We see the large evergreen fir contrasted
with the sweet OVERLOOKING plants, the
mighty cataract and the ripping, sparkling
brook ever attesting natures power to please.
Again the sweet thrill OF the birds, which
conveys to our ears the impression of exceed
ingly lovely music, convinces us that there is
a God, and that we should "rejoice and be
exceedingly glad" While the grandeur of
nature gives us pleasure, the beautiful fills
our hearts with a calm, peaceful emotion
that is evermore enjoyable.
Unity Of purpose is seen everywhere in
nature. Who cannot see a beauty i'm the
lovely flowers, grasses and every other ele-
of nature? Well can the student of science
say:
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Unless our eyes, in seeing,
See hidden in the thing the thought
That animates its being"
A good conscience tempered by heavenly
grace in the greatest source of earthly en-
joyment, whose springs are beyond the reach
of accident or the vile epitaph of the SLAM
derer.
OF all joys and SORROWS which cast their
lights across the checkered pathway of our
existence, none gives greater happiness than
the contemplation of well spent life; and
this leads us to everlasting pleasure in the
beyond.
Our farmers are very busily engaged MAX
ing preparation for harvesting. Wheat, ow-
ing to its being very badly winter killed,
will be very light-perhaps not greater than
so per cent. of good yield. Farmers antic-
pate a fairly good yield Of corn-perhaps
better than for several years, judging from
present Indications.
The writer was at Black p. O. Monday,
and found crops looking unusually well,
particularly corn crops. The artists, at the
above named place, tell us they will be at
Centreville for the Fourth of July. Come all
We and have your pictures taken. The writer
did not entirely destroy the equilibrium of
the chemicals. The roads are now in an aw-
full bad condition. Mr.. Mcmahon, we pre-
sumo, will soon have the same adjusted, since
he is a man of very close and practical OBJ
servation. Messrs. Eaton and j. III. Strick-
lin, have ordered for themselves two large
dinner-bells which, with those already in
this vicinity, will set the atmosphere into