Iron County register., 1898-04-28

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made me feel as though l would lik'
to be young again to go into the frui
| business again. 0, | saw Thousands
and thousands of acres of land just a:
good land as that for orchards, and il
a few years there will be orchards ant
vineyards all over these hills.
After we passed Gads Hill we saw
some lovely places along the road, and
when we came in sight OF Piedmont ]
saw it had spread out in every direc
ton. And lovely looking place il
is. As the train slowed up at the sta
tion and climbed down the steps,
saw quite a crowd standing around,
and all at once l saw three or four
goldfish" men come with outstretched
hands to help me down and shake
hands, and ''how are you?" and ''how
have you been?" One or two I recog.
nized; the others l did not. l could
not place them, yet there was some
thing familiar about them. And had
to tell them ''you have the all advan-
tage of me-" Then they would give
me their names.
AS had not written to my children
when would come, there was no one
to meet me. But knew all the sur
7 hA
l gave them quite a surprise. and
received a hearty greeting.
After l had rested I walked down
town to make a few calls. l found my
old fried D. f. Martin had located at
this place and was in the hub business
and had large store. AS l came to
the door l saw a man, way at the fur
ther end of the store, come with his
hand out and | saw it was same old
friend d. F. Martin. He said, Gas
soon as you came to the door l knew
you" l found him just the same as
the last time l saw him, some twenty
years ago. He did not look a day
older; his hair and whiskers in their
natural color, and when seated how
how we went over the old day OF long
ago! How all these scenes came up.
I made several other short calls.
But the next morning l made a good
many very pleasant calls; one was at
the printing Office, and l found the
editor real nice looking man and a
very pleasant man to spend an hour
with. At one of the largest stores
met man who was the son of one of
my old friends of way back in Fred
ericktown. l spent a most delightful
hour with him and he has a large and
very handsome store, we'll stocked
with goods. I was astonished at the
number of stores and the large amount
of goods and of the rich qualities. |
spoke of it and one of the business
men said, ''we have to carry heavy
stocks or we would not do much busi-
ness; the people require it." AS | sat
talking with this friend | saw two la
dies come in and he said 'wait a few
minutes But don't you think those
ladies wanted to see every new style
of goods, and my friend took down
piece after piece and undid the wrap
pers, and they would pass on from one
thing to another, and the counter was
covered with all sorts of rich clothes
and all kinds of goods. After long
time these same ladies walked out and
had not bought single thing. When
my hunting days 1 could go out in the
mountains and sit up in tree all night
at a deer lick and wait for the deer to
come in if l could only hear one once
in while But don't think l could
stand that kind of customers. He
said, patience, patience, that's part
of the trade" "
AhS uCAG Ndy C1liCd Ou u4LI cbS Oil
as he came to me he said, ''you re-
member those ladies that called yes
terday while you were here; and don't
you think those ladies came back in
the evening and bought large bill of
goods and left me good sum of mon
ey." l said, ''good for you," and now
l shall have to take it all back what l
said yesterday" He said, ''you see
they were prospecting yesterday"
tell you, Mr.. Editor, Piedmont is
nice place to visit. find wherever
go there are nice people, and this
old world is nice place to stay in, if
there are some rough pieces of road
and the mud is deep in places.
Well, when the time was up that
had given myself to stay took the
train for home, feeling there is no place
like home, which | reached safely and
better than when l left, and my mind
full of pleasant thoughts. I. P. r.
Mrs. A. Tween, residing at 720 Hen
ry St., Alton, H., suffered with sciatic
rheumatism for over eight months.
She doctored for it nearly the whole of
this time, using various remedies re-
commended by friends, and was treated
by the physicians, but received no re-
lief She then used ono opd q hole