Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29

TELL NE WHAT YOU THINK OF TT"
fanciful ores merely embellished and
trimmed these, like friezes of
ornate carving on structure
both sturdy and grave. Those who
estimated him by his whims and
conceits were speedily convinced of
his shallowness. Passionately music
lover. he was often seen at the opera;
| devoted to the reading of novels, he sell
dom missed a good one in either En-
glish or French: fond as woman of
| flowers, he bought them at all seasons,
| filling his apartments with them and
not seldom over-illing as well a
button-hole of his modish coat. He
dwelt in Il small but luxurious home,
and received his patients in a room
heavy with floral perfumes and decor
ated in Moorish designs. When he
wrote his prescriptions a diamond of
great value. set in twisted silver, flashed
from his right hand. He was hardly
fve-and-thirty, with eyes that held the
battling darkness and luster of ebony
when made to shine it's most somberly
brilliant. and face whose pointed
brown beard and waxed mustache had
been spitefully compared to that of
some susceptible 6ouIecardier.
You should have been a Frenchman,' -
DIR. Thorndyke had once said to him.
Then you would never have had to
meet the accusation of 'humbug'"
Il don't meet it now" smiled Clyde,
with wave of one shapely hand; 81
dismiss it,
All in all, he had achieved a phenorn-
email success, alone piercing with envy
those who were ungenerous enough
to deny the worth of his notable
cures That this number was large
it need not be recorded, since there are
some persons who have private little
rogues' gallery composed entirely of
those who in any special march of eff
fort have presumed to distance them.
Nevertheless, Clyde had for a ply
stefan his mental faults, and among
these imagination ruled as chief. Full
of fine intuitionS, he sometimes forgot,
in this bloom and hey-day of his vic
torious career, the cooler methods which
had mainly comprised it. I'VE men of
science must speak by the card" he had
once said in his crisp, gay way to Thorn
dyke, ''Or erthuSiaSms will undo u.s."
His auditor had smiled, thinking how
sadly, if this were true, Clyde would
have been unGOne before he could count,
as now, his patients by the hundreds.
With these enthusiasts Gerald had
now grown pleasantly familiar. And
yet, through the weeks of their ac-
quaintanceship he had never seen so
vivid sparkle in the dark eyes of his
new friend as when Clyde at length
handed him back the paper fraught with
its alleged solution Of the impossible.
4 don't claim to be of much imDor-
lance as chemist - were the first words
that greeted Gerald, .sbut unless I
nightly mistake, my boy, here is bit
of genius fit TO startle Millions
Gerald answered excitedly: "To
startle them only, DIR. Clyde? Don't
you think
1T may do more than merely that?''
the other broke in. ''Ah. what I've
just said seems audacity enough in it.
self. My dear Maynard-my dear Ger
aid, if you'll let me call you so-when
I'd read through half that extraor-
binary piece of writing, l began to
laugh as fellow would do at some
bright but over-bold extravaganza. 1t
seemed as if a man were saying: Look;
| can take the clouds out of the sky.
turn them into new metal, like Mil
toms more ethereal one, and build YOU
with them stately pleasure-house,
like the one poor Coleridge saw in that
mad vision born of his drug But after
I'd read on, the smile died from nv lips.
Here, too, might be madness, but it GER
tainly had the trick of looking as sane
as Hamlet's. The whole thing. if a
failure, is defeat with almost the mag
nifcence of conquest"
They talked on together for a good
while about the new proposed dealings
with electricity and the three ele-
mentary chemical bodies that were
ordered as concomitants in it's astound
ing treatment before certain 'swhitish
liquid. excessively volatile and some
what luminous if stirred" should at
last crown the operators labors.
You state that you know very little
of chemistry" Gerald presently said.
Il begin to see that you are full of such
knowledge"
at has shabby look beside yours"
answered Clyde, heartily-'by Jove, if
1t HASN'T
Gerald colored at the compliment.
Again Clyde laughed, and in his blithe
style went on: You can blush as
modestly as girl, my lad-as the girl,
perhaps, whom you've left behind
you"
''I've left no girl behind me-" said
Gerald, with instant frankness.
"What! How marvellous! At your
age you've never been in love? That
beats the wonders that your father
prophesies."