Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19

farms were appossioEed and alIotte> IL
| proportion to the standing of each q
| dividual. The tradesmau was put t.
his trade and the artisan to his calling.
| In the town streets and squares sprang'
| up as if by magic. In the country there
| was draining and hedging. planting
and clearing, until the next summer
| saw the whole country golden with
the wheat crop. Everything pros
pered in the strange settlement.
Above all, the great temple which they
had erected in the center of tho city
grew ever taller and taller. From the
first blush of dawn until the closing
of the twilight, the clatter of the
| hammer and the rasp of the saw were
never absent from the monument
| which the immigrants erected to Him
who had led them safe through many
I dangers.
The two castaways, John Ferr5er and
she little girl who had shared his for
tunes and had been adopted as his
daughter. accompanied the Mormoas
| to- the end of their pilgrimage. Little
| Lucy Ferrier vas borne along pleas
antly enough In Elder StangersoE's
wagon. a retreat which she shared
| with the Mor;non's three wives and
| with his son. a headstrong, forward
| boy of twelve. Having rallied, with
the elasticity OF childhood, from the
shock caused by her" mothers DEATH
| she soon became a pet with the women,
and reconciled herself to this new life
| in her moving canvas-covered home.
| In the meantime, Ferrier, having re-
| covered from his, privationS. distin-
| guished himself as, useful guide and
an indefa tigable hunter. SO rapidly
! did he gain the esteem of his new
companions that when they reached
the end of their wanderings it was
unanimously agreed that he should be
provided with as large and as fertile
| tract of land as any of the. settlers,
with the exception of Young himself,
| and of StangerSOn, kimbal1, Johnston
and rebDer, who were thefour princi-
pal elders.
On the farm thus acquired John Fer
rier built himself a substantial log
house. which received SO many addi-
tons in succeeding years that it grew
into 4 roomy villa. He was a. man of a
practical turn of mind, keen in his
dealings and skillful with his hands
Ills iron "
work morning and evening at improv--
ing and tilling his lands. Hence it
came about that his farm and all that
belonged to him prospered exceeding
". In three years he was better off
than his neighbors, in six he was well
to do. in nine he was rich, and in
twelve there were not half 4 dozen men
in the whole of Salt Lake City who
could compare with him. From the
great inland sea to the distant Wah-
satch mountains there was no name
better known than that of John Fer
rler.
There was one way. and only one. in
which he offended the susceptibilities
of his coreligionists. No argument or
persuasion could ever induce him to
set up female establishment after
the manner of his companions. He
never gave reasons for this persistent
refusal, but contented himself by reso-
lutely adhering to his determination.
There were some who accused him of
lukewarmness in his adopted religion,
and others who put it down to greed Of
wealth and reluctance to- incur ex-
penSe. Others. again, spoke OF some
early love affair, and of fair-haired
gill who had pinned away on the shores
OF the Atlantic. Whatever the reason,
Ferrier remained strictly celibate. In
every other respect he conformed to
the religion Of the young settlement,
and gained the name of being an or
thodox and straight-wallSing man.
Lucy Ferricrgrew up within the log
house, and assisted her adopted father
in all his undertakings. The keen air
of the mountains and the balsamic
odor OF the pine trees took the place of
nurse and mother to the young girl.
As year succeeded to year she grew
taller and stronger, her cheek more
ruddy and her step more elastic. Many
a wayfarer upon the high-road which
ran by Terriers farm felt long-foryot-
ten thoughts revive in his mind as he
watched her 1.-THE, girlish. figure trip
ping through the wheat fields, or met
her mounted upon her fathers, mus
tang, and managing it with all tho
ease and grace of true child of the
west. So the bud blossomed into
flower, and the years which saw her
father the richest of farmers left he=
as fair specimen of American girl
hood as could be found on the whole
Siope-
1t was not the father; however, who
first discovered that the child had de-
reloped into the woman. 1t seldom is
in such cases. That mysterious change
is too subtle and too gradual to be
measured by dates. Least of all does
the maiden herself know it until the
tone OF voice or the touch of q hand
sets her heart thrilling within her. and
she at one time was forty-two.
and Cicero Lucy is cleraing for +.
turej Graves.
are Mr.. Samuel Weast is on the me
remi Our station has been closed ten
herd arily. The agent will take Ia
the and visit his mother in Ohio.
wasi Misses Rose and Addie Kimmel :
us Sunday at Des Arc. lsA
tn. Annapolis Items.
for r. E. Holkemp and family and
~, III Ottoman arrived in town tO-da