Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28

| on ~ soP VI the p1un that oVeri0okS the
Mississippi, which is about one hun
dred and fifty feet above the river. is
a nice summer house which you can
sit Ia and look at the river as it goes
rushing past with all sorts of boats.
from q great side wheel steam boat to
little sail boat; and just few yards
out yonder is a great brass cannon on
wheels that is fired at sunrise every
| morning, called the s'sunrise gum
and over yonder is another pointed to-
wards the setting sun, that is fred at
sunset, called the sssuuset gun. y
Way down in that deep ravine are the
stables for the horses. and way over
yonder, west of US. large field called
the field parade, and its grand sight
to see several companies on parade,
and sit and watch them go through
all of their evolutions. l have always
thought there was but one living thing
that was ahead of a soldier mounted
on good horse, with all of their fine
trappings, and that one thing was a
handsome lady on q beautiful horse.
There is nothing can compare with
that. No, sir. do not remember of
ever seeing anything ornamental that
can excel that for beauty'an grace.
As sat looking at all the beautiful
surroundings Charley had gone to
headquarters) an officer and a squad
of soldiers came, each soldier armed
with a broom, sweaping the brick
walks. Every leaf and every bit of
litter was swept up in little heaps for
the cart that followed and gathered up
the litter. Everything is kept just as
neat and clean as can be. 1t made me
feel as though l would like to be a
soldier. No cares, nothing to worry
about, nothing to do but obey orders.
To do just what you are told to do.
Plenty to eat, and that's good; good
clothes to wear, plenty of time to read,
plenty of time to sleep, and plenty OF
time to do nothing. Isn't that enoughP
When Charley came back he said,
.'uow. we will go up to the city and
see what the city folks live on, and
what the countries of all the world
raise for the comfort OF the human
family
When the cars had carried US way
up to the city, he said, .'let's take it
slow and easy, so we can see." And
as we loitered along through the mar
kets we saw, o, such sights OF every
thing aud from all parts of the world.
The side walks just lined with boxes,
barrels. crates. baskets, bags and bum
dies; ana heaps upon heaps. Piles
upon piles, vegetables of all sorts,
fruits of all kinds and from every
where. Fish of all sorts, big fish and
little fish, oysters in barrels and clans,
/ saw piles of clans that come out of
old ocean way down near my old home,
and had not seen a clam for over fif-
ty years, and it made me feel as IL l
was a boy again, as every spring
and summer the clam wagons would
come with loads of CLANS for sale at a
dollar a bushel, and, to my mind, a
good clam is way ahead of an oyster.
Yes, they are much nicer. had
wondered why we did not get CLAIMS,
in the west as well as oysters. One
day / asked an eastern man, "why
don't you eastern folks send us some
clamspn He said, because we eat
them at home.n As we walked along,
we saw such piles of baskets filed with
the largest plums, many as large as q
hen eggs and they looked so delicious,
and some were green and some were
black, others red. and peaches all the
way from the shores OF the Pacific
ocean, and such great, golden colored
pears with bronzed cheeks. The sight
of them fairly made me hungry; and
all sorts of tropical fruits, bahnanas,
pine apples, cocoanuts by the wagon
I1a5 80 nr.aa ord 1an,0np fno rropao
there was no end to the grapes, In
baskets and boxes and crates. Grapes
from California, grapes from all over
the world. And such great piles of :
cabbage, like stacks of hay on the cor
ner of the streets. One would wonder
who is to eat all of the cabbage we
saw, and where do they come from9
As yon stand and look you see men
stripping them OF all of the loose leaves
and packing the cabbages In crates.
boxes and barrels to be shipped to all
parts of the world. thought / saw
enough cabbage to feed the whole
world, and yet they were nothing to
what is wanted for one days use. On
ions, one of the most despised articles
of food, and yet one that cannot be left
out of the line of food. For, after all
there are so many noses turned up at
the smell of an onion, they will eat 1t
with the greatest gusto, and one will
naturally ask. where do all these things
grow, and where do all of those bar
rels of potatoes, great nice ones, come
from?' Each country and every part
of this county has great fields OF pota-
toes. Especially in the northern states
potatoes and nothing else are grown.
Another cabbage and not much elBs.
Celery, great fields and not much else,
and so you will find every country and
every cline has its special product. like
the wide fields of wheat in the Dako-
ta's where wheat is sowed in thousand
acre fields, with no fence to make, or
for fires to burn, or foods 10 wash
away.
/ remember | was travelling through
the State of Illinois, way back in early
times, and / saw one corn field, the
rows being nine miles long. 1t was
just half days work fo- a man to
pillow from one end of the corn row and
back to dinner. He made Just two
rounds in a day. That mans name
was Strawn, lived in Morgan county
Illinois, just west OF Jacksonville. But
the time is fast passing when these
great farms will be held in single. All
of these great estates will be subdiyid-
ed sooner or later and made into small
Ter estates which will be all the better
for all concerned. A few acres we'll