Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12

/ Wednesday of last week we arose
right early in the morning and at -four
o'clock boarded the passenger trair
and went thirteen miles north to Bis
marck-our destination being some
fifty miles south of Ironton. It is q
way we Ironton folk have-going a
few steps in one direction in order to
get good start, and when We come
back through our city we come a-fy-
| ing. Long habit has made this a Gus
ton with US, whose breaches never
need mending. OF course that morn
ing We got to Bismarck strictly on
time to find that the last mali was
| late. This enabled us to grace the
| junction city with our presence be-
| yond the schedule time, and to gather
wisdom from Mr.. Barth's philosophical
| observations on a variety of subjects
| from Adam and Eve in the garden
| down TO the beer inspection law. Time
| flew; the train came all the sooner for
| it, and we were a few minutes later
| headed southwark with all the rattle,
whirr, pomp and circumstance of
steam. At Williamsv1lle we changed
cars" and the Holiday railroad
| switchbacked us TO Greenvllle long
before the all-important dinner hour.
Editor Holmes met Us at the station
Postmaster Crow of De Soto was the
other of uS-and after a call at the
Journal Office escorted us to the house
of justice where Judge bearing pre-
sided. As such precincts are not often
our voluntary resort, il may be well
,rrt Il, L.
the Law had Bro. Holmes by the scalp
lock and Mr.. Cow and the writer
were on hand to induce the former to
loose his august hold. After looking
about a few minutes we noticed that
there seemed to be a sort of dispute
between the attorneys and the Judge;
the latter wanted TO go ahead and try
the causes set for the day, but Strange
to say the former didn't appear to be
ready: that is to say, they couldn't
all get ready at the same time. If the
plaintiffs attorney wanted to go ahead,
the defendants champion was unpre-
pared-and Uice versa. Finally, His
Honor, seemingly a-wearied, gently
remarked that 1.-The court will now ad
iourn until l o'clock, when if you gen.
tlemen are not ready to proceed the
court will go through the docket I'M
aided and alone''-or words to that
effect. 1t gives us pleasure to state,
however, that the attorneys were
ready at one o'clock, else there's no
telling what might have resulted! At
ter partaking of a most excellent din
ner the court room was again visited.
business went ahead, ard at precisely
three o'clock Bro. Holmes scalp-lock
was free of all legal entanglements.
A few minutes later the defendant and
his witnesses started for Piedmont
across the country behind a spanking
team. The day was fine and the roads |
good, and as we sped along bathing in |
the genial sunshine, drinking the pure
air OF heaven, and viewing on either |
hand the wonders and beauties wrought |
OF God, it seemed singular that man |
had ever essayed to build the town. |
Woodland and farm, rugged hill and |
fertile valley, succeeded in pleasing |
diversion. The farms, clean and we'll |
kept, with neat and substantial habit |
ations, and barns game ing the years |
fire. tiulness, showed the richness of the |
as well as the industry OF the sturdy |
tiIlers of the soil. The swiftly flowing |
brooks sparkled in the sungleam and |
their pebbled bottoms showed clean |
beneath the transparent water. Covey |
afte" cOvey of quail was passed, but
not one of them flushed at our approach
the beautiful creatures somehow
knowing that the destructive tenden-
cies of man are innocuous and inert
under the tread of team and the rat
tie of a wagon. They looked inouir-
ingly at US but showed no trace of fear.
Patterson is beautifully situated and
bears an air OF comfort and quiet hap
piness most enticing to the wayfarer
longing for the repose and placid en-
jOyment unknown to the buster world.
Pity that pickering or quarrel, conten-
ton or envy, should ever mar so fair
a prospect, We drove into Piedmont
as the veil OF night was being drawn.
With the descending sun the air grew
chill, the seat-cushiOns somehow drew
their contents into Jumps and knots,
the pleasing landscape grew dim and
blurred, and so right glad were we to
seek refreshment and rest at our inn.
Next morning at four o'clock-just "a
hours after taking our departure-we
were home again. And we were right
glad of that, too.