Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-07
Prom Tarheeliana.
AsHEv1LLE, October 80, 1901.

and breathing the vaunted air OF the
mountains: the air that cures If you're
not much sick, and is pleasant and in
vigorating to good health. This morn
ing developed about as able-bodied
q cold as l have known in a twelve
month, and my valuable time is about
equally DIVIDED between sneezing.
coughing and expecsorating, but L
don't expect to rate it seriously (posi-
lively unpremeditated), and hope to
report myself ..as usual" in a day or
two.
just one week ago / bade friends
good-bye and started from Ironton and
began my lonely journey. or course
it wasn't so lonely that day, nor the
next, nor yet the next, but the butt-end
of the distance was spent with ''no one
to love, none to caress"; and yet it
wasn't SO gloomy ss 1t might have
been, for all that extracted the
possible maximum of enjoyment out
of it. and arrived here in excellent
health and good spirits
Atmy time of life. when the ills OF
the years begin to make themselves
manifest, pressging the end. this part
ing from friends is no laughing matter
Life, at best, hangs but upon slender
thread, and when that ill-spun, uncer-
tain tie TO existence is frazzled. shred
ded and intwisted by constant contact
with legions OF untoward surroundings
for nearly three-score years, blind Is
he who sees not the possibility-nay,
the probability. The autumn of imam
Innate nature Is beautiful in color and
shading and variety; animate. too
often there is little TO commend it to
the sense of sight or feeling. Com
miseration and admiration do not readi-
| ly blend, and an old man is more
frequently regretful momento of the
past with himself as we'll "a his
friends.
At Bismarck / fell in with an old
time Irontonian, Olin Ward Rose. He
is now secretary of some railway asso-
ciauon, and, by virtue of his position,
almost constantly son the 60" He
was on his return from q meeting OF
railway men at Jonesboro, Ark, his
home being in ST. Louis was glad
to meet him, and enjoyed long and
interesting conversation with him on
the way. At the Union Station. as We
stepped from the cara. his wife met
| him with the exclamation, 81 knew
would see you frstr" and greeted him
| with u kiss. Now, to me, there Is no
more lonely thing on earth than big
crowd of people not one of whom
know, and, usually, as we pull under
the shed Of that great railroad concen-
tration, feeling of desolation comes
over me, which requires for its dis
I sipation the three ameliorations OF dis.
tress: a weIl-constructed cocktail, g
square meal and a good cigar-partic'
ularly the first aud the last SauchC
Pauza called down heavens blessing:
upon the man who invented sleep: il
he had lived several hundred year;
later the mantle of his benson would
no doubt have been more comprehen
sive, with neither Sir Walter Raleigh
nor the man of the white apron left q
shiveripg. When the wife greeted th'
husband. as noted above, the feeling o
loneliness came upon me with increased
force; but sought and found relief.
That night and the next lodged q
the Laclede-the resort Of Rubes AM
others from the Southeast-but wit
my usual luck saw in the crowded cor
ridors not q man / knew. So retire'
early, both nights, and, dreaming
found congenial company.
Thursday / spent most enioyabl
with some lady friends-whot they wer
doesn't concern you-who drove II
all over and through the West End, ir
cludiug Forest Park and its surround
Iings. II was with feeling of regre
. that I saw the devastation of th
pleasure ground SO dear, not only I
St. Louisans, but 70 all Missourians. q
we'll, and 1 doubt whether all th
blessings and advantages that OF
hoped to result from the Louislau
Purchase Exposition can compensa1
for the destruction of the noble foreg
4 The builders of the Fair are merciles
the giants of primeval growth, some
them three feet In diameter, as well {
= the smaller tress OF later production
are being cut down 10 make way Il
the ephemeral city and its thorough
fares. To me- it looks almost like sa
rilege, and when the Worlds Fa
snail long have passed into memor.
there will remain in the heart OF ever
rightrminded citizen 3 keen regr
which cannot be satisfied or mollife
by the utmost spleDdor and the gran
est success OF the Show that was. II
!, man that burns down his dwelling
order to have big blaze and goc
warming. no doubt satisfies his desir