Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-27
A Letter From Dent County, Mo.
SALEM. Mo-, February II, 1896.

SALEM. Mo-, February II, 1896.
Ed. Register-It is a long time since
the writer has appeared in the col
accumulated until desire has arisen
to renew acquaintance with those well
remembered dear old friends whose
sweet and manly faces look kindly
back to me across the overwhelming
gulf of the weary and sorrowful years.
But the letter must tell about Dent
county as compared with the counties
farther east. There has been lately
thirty-six hours heavy aud continuous
rain, and Dent is covered with STRAIT
UNI of mud almost too deep for wading
and not quite liquid enough for swim
ming. But as there are few huge
bodies of rock near the surface of the
ground, the water will soon soak away.
The basis of all calculation in regard
to the weather is in the relation of the
Ozark Range to the Mountain System
of North America. The Ozarks are
framed in as a triangular brace be-
tween the Rocky Mountains and the
Height of Land which separates the
water of the great lakes from the Mis-
sissippi. The Ozarks connect with
Rocky Mountains in Old Mexico, not
far from the volcanoes Orizaba, Jorulla
and Colima, so that when the Greasers
have more earthquakes than they
want, they switch them off to US, and
as a rule we get the offal of their
weather.
But Grover should attend to that
and see that we not only have sound
money but sound weather as we'll.
The effect of this state of affairs is
bad. Owing to the strength of the
magnetic currents we cannOJ find on
the crest of the Ozarks tree a foot
over that is sound at the core. Abb
normal stimulation leads to precocious
development, and that is followed by
premature decay. The cause affects
people in the same way. A. P. Gage,
in his Elements of Physics. discusses
the subject fully. My friend, Mr..
Kesling of Ironton, will find chapter
four of Cages work good reading.
The people of Dent county are pro-
gressive. It is scarcely possible to
find farm where new land has not
been bought in, new buildings erected,
or old ones substantially repaired. The
people of Dent county pay more atten-
ton than formerly to the care of farm
stock. There is great deal of substan-
tial religion shown in being kind to
our poor relations, the horses, COWS.
and pigs. Great attention is being
paid to fruit.
Dent county is attracting some i'm
migration, generally of desirable
character. There is also great deal
of changing location among the resi-
dent population, which merely indi-
Gates unrest. There has been a grist
of religious excitement among US, with
the usual poor results in regard to
godliness. Our old business methods
in regard to religion are worn out, and
the new have not yet taken root.
But before this article grows too
long some notice must be taken of Iron
county. 1t appears that the south end
of the county is afflicted with wild
beasts.
The writer repudlates with loathing.
scorn and Indignation, the idea that
his friends in the south end of Iron
county have backslidden into barba-
rfsm, so that wild beasts find them
congenial associates. He leans to the
theory that the shutting down of the
Pilot Knob and Iron Mountain works
has stopped coaling and culled the
woods which have grown up to brush,
and so furnished wild beasts harbor,
they having never been entirely driv-
en- out of the country, as the writer
knows both by experience and observa-
ton.
But the south end of Iron county has
been troubled with other wild beasts
in the shape of Seventh-Day Sabbath
evangelists. The prevailing impress
sion is that the first day Sabbath comes
in the place of the seventh. This is a
mistake. They are as widely different
in character as the events which they
commemorate. The Seventh Day keeps
in memory a finished work of creation,
the first day a finished work of re-
demption. The work of creation does
not trouble His Birthstone Highness,
as it took place some time ago. But
the work of redemption is very much
in his road, so he attacks with sneak
ing fury everything that calls mans
attention to it. But the Seventh-day
Sabbath was a part of a system of
which circumcision and the Passover
were the seals. That system was an
entirety: that is, man could not take
one part and leave another. The
whole thing fell or stood together.
When, then, any man advocates or
practices Seventh-Dayism.l let the wri-
ter's friends in the south end OF Iron