Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-05
The Route Home.

Arched meath the clouded skies,
And promise gave of heightened life to her
Who now in final silence lies,
We turned our faces home-to home and
friends
How sweet the Joy anticipation lends!
To home and friends, to home and friends!
What happiness the thought portends!
But now, alone, my way is homeward bent,
And burdened years my footsteps know;
Alone, again 1 go the way we went
The all-wise Master wills it so!
That she has found her home, and there doth
know
The many friends of long ago,
Is JOY to them who re taught by faith to know
The loving Master wills it SO!
Having battled unsuccessfully for
four weeks against cold, contracted
on my way to Asheville, I at last gave
in and concluded to return to the State
some of our Republican editors are
trying to make the outer world be-
lieve is given over to the Evil One.
1 note, as singular fact, that though
many of them come from angel-kissed
Republican commonwealths they are
slow to return to their various Edens.
Are they willing sacrifices to the ad-
vancement of Political Purity and
Heavenly Methods? Bless their inno-
cent hearts, and Saint Hanna reward
themi
A genuine cold is sui generss. There
is no other thing like it on earth,
heaven knows it not, and it is impos-
sible to the neither regions. 1t comes
unbidden and unannounced and de-
parts unaneled. To-day it chills you;
tomorrow it burns you; and its last
state is always worse than the first.
1t clogs your sleep, and benumbs your
faculties while awake. 1t swells the
vocal chords into base condition, and
thence into the state of the fiddle with
no rosin to the bow. There is no
nasslity to the articulation, for it has
an inborn antipathy to the MS and m's |
of the alphabet. 1t places an undue
burden upon the mouth and lips |
through the clogging of the overhang-
ing organ. 1t not infrequently acts as
the usher to still more serious ailment. |
Yet it has its ompensations-to the
doctor and the druggist. Also, to the
victim If he be lodged in the vicinity
of livery stable or a soap factory.
The fragrance of the flowers and the
scent of limburgher smell alike to it.
But, hang it! let the cold go-as, in
deed, have been trying to do with
might and main for a month or more.
Having made all necessary prepara-
securing of the berth on the
s.sleeper." the checking of the bag
gage, and the paying of such bills as l,
a stranger. had been permitted to run
evening saw me with no re-
naming ties to the city of Asheville,
except those which, however easily
taken on, can not be put off as one
brushes the dust from his shoes. The
life of man Is of singular formation.
Scripture tells Us che cometh up as a
flower and is cut down." and it may be
further said he is all his years engaged
In growing the flowers of affection and
friendship, only to uproot them and
see them wither and die. The vase
that holds them is continually being
broken, and, while their fragrance
may linger awhile upon the air of
memory, new growths-sometimes of
lesser beauty = soon displace them.
I believe I am ordinarily constant in
my likes and dislikes, and not unusu-
ally quick in forming them; yet, how
soon, with change of scene and absence,
they affect me only as the incidents to
a half-forgotten dream! But not al
ways. During my stay in Asheville
five years ago formed acquaintance
whose pleasure will not cease except |
with the passing of all things earthly. |
And SO with regard to the visit just
concluded. In fact, If the gods are
propitious, intend to again see the |
Land of the Sky and once more greet
those l met while there. hope the
reunion may be mutually agreeable.
The weather all along had been un-
usually fne-only one day of rain and
another of cold winds and clouded
skies-but when / arose at four
o'clock Saturday morning all outside
was mess of pattering, splashing wet
ness. The distance from my quarters
to the station was nearly two miles.
but, the trip being made in a close
carriage, 1 did not suffer much from
the inclemency of the weather. /
could not help contrasting my outgoing |
with my incoming. The day arrived
was warm and bright with the rays of
an unclouded sun; all nature pleased,
and If man was vile his villainy |
was veiled under good humor and the
affability his pleasant surroundings
called forth. This morning | made