Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-12-09

ed or laid down some pieces of money
on the counter, you ought to have seen
that little fellow scrape the money in
to his hand and walk out of the store
the richest man in all that town.
At the post-office supplied with a
daily mail l saw the boxes were we'll
filled with all sorts of papers. dailes
and weeklies, and many other period
ieaIs. l find this is a reading people.
1 found quite variety of papers in
every house was in.
AS looked saw right over to the
southeast the schoolhouse. a large
two-story building with large cam
pus around it, and at recess | saw a
large crowd of boys and young men
and little girls and young ladies, just
such as have seen ever since / was
big enough to go to school-all enjoy
ing themselves in all the games and
pastimes, and / saw the old Professor
OuG GuIO"1nS Oo54A 'Oi ShO yOuuS ldut0S
to bat, aud tell you l saw some good
batting and throwing and catching,
and those girls could run and catch a
ball as good as the best of them, and
as l looked over west l saw the col
lege, and on the opposite side of the
street, the church-all nice buildings
for any country. Just down in the
hollow l saw the cabinet shop and just
a little farther on large blacksmith
and wagon shop, where those great
log wagons are made, and I saw but
few wagons other than those broad
tired, low ones for hauling those great
logs.
Way down in the lower part of town
is located steam mill. AS I made
my way to it saw not only saw mill
but grist mill, carding machine,
planer aud don't know what other
machinery. As ! sat one day on log
in the mill yard, summing and watching
the mill at work / saw a small boy
come with team. On his wagon he
had two long pine logs. Each log
would make, as near as | could guess,
two hundred and fifty feet of sawed
lumber. That boy drove his team up
to the proper place and unloaded the
logs as quick and as easy as man
could have done it. As he was so
small l asked him, ''how old are you?"
He said fourteen years. ''And did
you load those logs?" He said, mo,
my pa helped" "And how far have
you Gomez" He said, ''four and a
half miles" l just thought what a
difference in now and way back fifty
years ago when l hauled logs. No
boy could have done such a feat at that
time. No, we did not know how and
we did not have the conveniences they
have now. And that town has two
doctors, both single men, and nice,
pleasant looking with just such faces
as makes one who is sick feel glad to
have them come to the sick room. |
tell you appearance has a great deal
to do with the mind, and the mind has
a great deal to do with the body. Jol-
ly looking faces will do more to drive
away the blues than a saddlebag full
of medicine.
And l saw at church on Sunday a
good house full of worshippers, both
men and women. saw as fine looking
lot of young men, dressed as nice as
YOU will find in any country. And the
girls, my, you just ought to see the
girls with their rosy cheeks and the
skin so clear! The clear, fresh, pure
air and clear, pure water, not taint
in the air, and those girls dressed as
nice and prim as the incest. [ tell
you they looked real sweet.
And was told there was not a sa,
loon in the county; a drunken man
would be sight not often seen. Prof
Fox told me he had not heard an oath
uttered on the streets in months.
could but compare this place to the
eastern country in the time OF Abra
ham. when he told his son, Isaac, tc
90 back to his old country and get a
wife.
One of the public wells in Lester
Vile is at the corner of Mr.. Fox's yard
As sat looking saw those Rebekah;
of the town come at the sunset hour II
groups with their pitchers to draw wa
ter. and | saw the young men will
their buckets, and l don't know how
msny matches have been made at the
town we'll as the young men would
draw and fill the pitchers for the girls
It almost made me feel as if l woulc
like to be young again. I. 2. r.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
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