Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-18

ana seemed to draw me to them as
magnet, so the following evening i
made my first call
How the next few weeks passed / can
not remember. but shortly after be-
gan to lay awake nights and endeavor
to compose my thoughts and a COMES
sion l WAS informed that q small
brother, who was away TO school would
soon be home Presently school stopped
and the brother began.
/ have naturally natural repugnance
to small boys. since increased. but con-
quered my feelings then. and in few
days had made complete conquest of
that boy. What 3 bother he wasi no
sooner entered the gate than I was
greeted at once by him, and if the
proverbial brother sticks closer to you
at times than my girls brother did to
me during my visits 1 should think that
brothers are very suggestive of porous
plasters- 4 small boy of these adhesive
propensities would make an excellent
advertising agent Any way. he was at
me all the time, unable to take hint
as broad as the side of house, and ex-
ecuting the most distant errands in an
incredibly short space OF time At last
my evil genius prompted NE 10 present
him with a photographer 5 outfit, which
l did Misery untold.
In order TO show his unbounded graf
itude to me I was made the recipient Of
photographs. if such they could be
called, and if she endured the great pa n
depicted Oh the face of the pictures sent
TO me she has great endurance and
pluck. Still | encouraged him and told
him TO parsevere and that some day lie
would become a second Michael Angelo.
etc, while IN secret begged Mike par
don for the ms nuations cast upon his
character
Bat ali things come to an end-exeepi
small boys. One day. after an after
noon spent in the garden with the owner
Of those black ewes. | was leaving pater
with his consent when my evil genius
met NE outside the door and told me
that he had learned the instantaneous
method OF photography and had taken
would please me. / kindly told him TO
10 prepay the postage
The next day at the Office / had ac-
complished very little work when the
postman presented a most villainous
looking envelope. all torn and unused,
exposing 10 view parts Of the photo
graphs enclosed. Tearing of the cover
| saw the two pictures taken by the in
Simultaneous process l raved, l swore.
! eternallv condemned the inventor Of
phorograp ply; blamed any amp every
BODY. but nv wrath was chiefly directed
against the yoRng photographer Why
In the first picture | was in the most
suppiica4ing position. not caring Tor
the II elton of the gravel walk against
the knee OF my best trousers and hold
ing some ones hand IN mine in the
other / was no longer kReeling. but
there were two figures very much mixed
up, Vet still 7ery plain and distinguish
able and
At that moment the door opened and
the cause Of all my profanity entered,
bland and smiling, with note for me-
How nv heart As well As my words
went ont in condemnation Of the act Of
taking photographs, especially BY the
instantan aoss process How, IN few
minutes the small boy. with an injured.
Crieyed expression Of countenance, left
nv presence minus the usual twenty
FIVE CENTS / was wont TO hestow % him
An. how
I do not know whether nv youn.
hrother-in-law has forgotten me or not,
and what Is more 10 the point con
care, bat that evening IN a private
audience with him, dollar bill and
two Photographic negatives changed
hands. and few hours LATER the money
reposed in the pocket Of a small boy
and the two negatives lay crushed 10
atoms under the persuasive influence Of
The first large stone that presented itself
was married few months ago. but
/ would advise any Sultor wishing TO
present his best girls younger brother
with something nice not TO give him a
photograph camera a shotgun Is 10
more expensive, and II sometimes hap-
pens that the small boy thereby takes
himself '-of--FIqUe1 S. Mines, gss n.
7. Graphic.