Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-09
A STUDY In HEREDITY.
By REnA G. PRELAr.

"Blood will TELL" people said when
they looked at the Pinclxney family.
Some persons called the head of it gem
eral, some judge, some senator, and all
actual functions, well per-
formed. His eldest SON often remarked
that his father was an epitome of the
United States-''The many in one"
Perhaps their most effective appear
ance was in church, as they walked up
The aisle to the big pew in front, deserv-
ing and appreciating the coed opinions
bestowed upon them. The judge and
Hrs. Pinckney came first. He was tall
ald strong for all his so years, and
without a thread of gray in his military
mlstache; past generations cf good
breeding directed every step he took,
ami the ancestor who signed the Decla-
ration of Independence lived again in
hin
Mrs. Pinckney was also stately, pos
sessng blonde beauty which even in
fading lent her an additional charm;
it WIS almost impossible to tell whether
golo or silver predominated in her air,
and the result was a softened and ex-
quiste halo.
OIher features there rested the shad-
.ow 4 past suffering-the indefinable
expression of woman who has sor-
rowd and been comforted.
Tk eldest son, Rupert, followed his
parets, and bore the large family
prayr book; it was a genuine Church
- Fol 10 H.
to tie Pinckneys when they prayed for
the ing in old Virginia.
Rpert was the Fundamentally primo
sgeniure, for he had caught the pater-
nal ssence in its threefold capacity
the ,oldierly air of the general, the
'eolit dignity of the judge, the un-
ruff1d suavity of the senator. He was
.only21, but the accident of his birth"
had1eveloped him early. The twins,
Courtney and Reginald, walked next,
WIFI the little rosebud sisters. Mary
and.Ielani, closed the procession.
TIE moral glory had never departed
frol their house, but outside of the
SANITARY much of it's material SPLEEN
dorad dwindled. They could worship
eGodin the pew of their fathers, OIL
thoyh the rooftree that had sheltered
so any of their race was owned by
strsgers now.
Jst beyond the town stood a stately,
oldashioned mansion, in which the
jude had been born. It had the wide
yeradas, the massive wooden pillars,
the,enerous expanse of lawn, charac-
terrific of southern manor houses. The
broi Potomac rolled in front.
Hhad passed into the hands of
;strsgers, as part of the financial
miortunes attending the family. To
bu,it back again became thu Mecca
OF ieir hopes. The crisis of the civil
wa was approaching, and the whole
!. Ian vibrated to the first shocks of the
seanqual<e No sermon was preached
this did not bear on the impending is
sumo family failed to discuss politics
wi its Sunday dinner.
lter religious services were over for
thtday Judge Pinckney called his
faIly together in the library. The
roo itself was not large, but it had
gahd an air of Importance from it's
connts; the word contents better ex-
prees the idea than furniture, for
chas, tables and floor coverings made
uphe least of its glory. The walls
wei adorned with departed Pinck-
cney their portraits, their swords,
the guns; their framed commissions
in ne of war, and their framed dipIo
masn time of peace.
IRE was an official communication
purrting to be written at the person
al i1ancc of King George the Second,
contrinc an order upon one of them
for avery on a European battlefield.
whiia few generations later an auto
graz letter from Gen. Washington
shosl that they were taking their
sliarof starving and freezing at Val
ley lge.
Beles these documentary orna-
mentthere were deer antlers and buff
falo rms, peace pipes and wampums
broun from the frontier, where they
had III fought and traded with tie
India In short, the little apart
-mentresented the history OF noble
race hich had left behind it all the
tracepf 8 generous and simple man
hoodITnder the shadow of these trc-
phiesae judge was accustomed to sat,
and anecdotes beginning with the
touIler OF jamestown and conciud-
ing u his own adventures; history
had aer.onaI interest to all the chill
dren.nee they were taught to consid-
er tn their ancestors had hand In
the hing of it. The one element OF
Saline s. these discussions was the