Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-20
HELPING EACH OTHER.


Angels to Smile.
A gentleman who had Travelled ex-
tensively through the south was one
evening seated in one of those proven
bal corner grocery stores in a small
village talking to the people and COM
menting upon the unstinted hospitality
of the people. A tall, cadaverous-look-
ing chap. who had listened to him in
tently, interrupted:
''That's so, stranger; when man
comes among we'uns an does what's
right we'uns amt the people to see him
suffer when he's down on his back an
can't help himself; we're just going to
raise him up
And they do 'sraise him up" If he is
sick they till his ground, feed his cat
tie, cut his wood and IN various ways
render him assistance. On the eastern
shore of Maryland and Virginia this
custom is universal, and many sick
man has silently made his grateful
prayers for blessings on las neighbors
for the great stacks of chips and split
wood that have been gathered about
his yard, and for the hams and flour
and other necessaries that have been
Almost in the heart of one of the
dense forests in Accomac county, Va,
Jim German lay on a sick bed in his
cabin, surrounded by his wife and four
children, all suffering from that disease
so prevalent on the eastern shore, the
"chills."
Luck had been against Jim for some
time, and now that he was prone upon
his back, suffering with fever, with
no one to attend to his wants but his
daughter Sallie, girl of sixteen, and
she barely able to perform that duty,
he was in dire distress.
Up at the Four Corners, four miles
away, gathered about the stove in the
general store, was group of typical
farm hands, discussing the weather.
When Judge" Watson-the Judge
was the wealthies: landowner in the
observation-disclosures in he smilingly
greeted them, and, making his pur-
chases, started to go out He paused
and looked about him. Say, boys,
where is Jim German? I've not seen
him for some time.' No one knew; he
hadn't been up to the store for a.week.
Just then Nose Hanson drove up in
his ox-cart, and, all covered with sno w,
stood on the steps stamping his feet
and brushing his coat
''Good-day, gemmens; good ebening,
Massa Watson. Use jest been obber to
see Massa Jim German. He's been nigh
onto def fo' obber week. 1 fotch him
some water an cut him a stick or two
OBJ wood an sent de ole woman obber
to kind o. cheer him up
''Bless my soul!" exclaimed the Judge.
Boys, do you hear what Nose says
about Jim Gorman?"
They did.
When Moses started for home it was
with light heart that he jumped into
his ox-cart, for he carried much larger
amount of provisions than he was won't
to purchase for his own family, and on
the way down DIR. Harrison, with the
sleigh bells jingling on his horse,
passed old Moses on his way to Jim
Germans The next night the old
farmers and their men, black and white,
rich and poor, came with cleaning
axes. followed by a two-horse wagon.
Lights flashed through the woods,
the cord-wood, piled in ranks here and
there, was vigorously attacked, and
the chips flew right and left and the
axe-blows kept time to the merry songs
of the chopper. Here was young
student fresh from Baltimore medi-
cal college; here farm hand; here q
with plenty aud to spare; here
q black man, with brawny arms and
willing hands, all working in unison
for the relief of their fellowman.
When daylight came the wood was
cut, the smoke-house looked like q
veritable grocery store and the medi-
cine administed to Jim had broken the
fever and he was much better.
s.Bill Allen, you chopped that thar
wood mighty fast" said Sallie, with .
blush.
Ibid I?'' said Rill. AN / seed you
maxim Of corn cakes, Sallie; you know
how to do it !"
The neighbors dispersed as quickly
rs they came. Jim was up and about
in . few days and Bill Allen and Sal
Jewell, sometimes the mantle Of
charity covers . great deal and UNI
things emerge from beneath
t. -Philadelphia Times