Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
From Tarheellana.


AsHEVLLE, N. c., JAN 5. 1897.
A hotel is a fair type of life. We
come, We go, and our trace is Lost foe.
ever. The men and women we meet
to-day are gone o-morrow-vanished
saying accident, as utterly from our
ken as though they had donned an
gels plumage and winged their sew
eral flights to other worlds. Their
memory dwells day or two, but soon
is showed aside by newer guests. who,
in their turn, depart again. We form
| our little coteries, have our classes,
gossip of one another. indulge iu
piques aud friendships, and perchance
upon occasion mildly quarrel. The
negative and positive poles of human
nature are nowhere more clearly de-
veloped: you naturally take to this
man, and as naturally have no use for
the other fellow. So long as this is
reciprocal, it does not so greatly mat
ter; but when the positive pole of one
repeatedly butts against the negative
OF the other, trouble ensues. Hence
jealousies, quarrels, fights, murders.
suicides! For / hold that many q man
has been driven to self-destruction
through and by the incessant wear and
tear OF uncongeniality. He mopes, he
pines, he kicks against the pricks-
but in the end the pricks are too many
for him: his mental toe is pierced and
bruised, a gangrene sets in, and finally
his spiritual being succumbs. Every
man must run the risk of this or fore
go all chance of present happiness, for
he who draws himself wholly within
himself and seeks to live alone for
himself is the most miserable of all |
created things, and lives the death the |
unfortunate other embraces as a final
relief. Therefore, one must-to para
phrase one VIM. Shakespeare-per-
force essay to pluck from the nestle
hazard the flower friendship:
At the hotel we eat, we sleep, and
rise to eat again-day in and day out
and pay once a week. or, if our bag
gage be heavy, once a month. 1t is
much the same at home, except, per-
haps, that the pay comes first and bag
gage cuts no figure, unless in the way
Of taxes and insurance. Yet the mo-
notOny OF home is more endurable than
that of the hotel, and Father Time is
not so often cruci6ed on the cross of
leisure. But, bad cess to him! he
more than evens things up with US in
he end.
So much for the chaff OF transcen-
lental, not to say uninteiligible. ratio
,ination: now for a few grains of, may
De, not more interesting fact!
Several weeks ago Cuban family
'r, rather, part of ons-came here
Ind lodged In the Swannanoa. The
party consisted of mother, daughter
md nurse. The former two were ref
lgees from the unfortunate island, ex-
by Spanish cruelty. Their
possessions had been confscated and
heir home destroyed by order of Gen.
Veyler, and naught was left them but
o find refuge in foreign land. They
ouud their way to New York, and e.
Asheville would never have known
hem had not the mind of the mother
'iven away under her misfortunes.
he physicians there recommended
hat she be taken to this place, in
barge of q trained nurse, and ac-
ompanied by one daughter, aged Z
bout fourteen years. Five children,
he youngest only nine months old,
zero left in the city under care of the q
ather. As sometimes is the case, the i
atient took a violent aversion to her q
urse, and seemed to be in constant
ear of her. The first night they q
odged hero the poor woman ran out
0ST EOOIUS OO"H 6IAO oSSAaS vase SAA
ut into the street, exclaimlng that
he nurse was about TO poison her.
he ran shrieking up Main street un- c
il she was met by policeman. whom Il
he recognized as a guardian of the q
aw, for she unhesitatingly placed her. s
elf under his protection, beseeching
i'm to preserve her from those seek U
ng her life. In his charge she was q
eturued to her room and was finally e
uieted for the night. At that time / o
,as vegetating in a private boarding IL
ouse, but few days later returned a
D the hotel with my 'tother half. The 2
,uban refugees were still here, now S
oined by the husband, and under his IL
are the patient was quiet and tracta "
lie. We passed them frequently as II
hey sat in the hall, the mother, father o
nd daughter, and our hearts went out L
D sympathy to the uufortunates. He
} a man of about forty-fve, slender OF p
CURE, and bearing kindly, intelli- 1
,eut cast of features. The daughter L
> pleasing of address and thought r
ul beyond her years. It was affect >
up to observe the loving caresses d
,hich she was never weary OF bestow. q
= =