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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-02-06
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"Telephone!" said Mrs. Dick scorn-
fully.
Cant leave" Mr.. Dick objected.
Got to be on the property. LOOK
here, Miss-Miss Patricia, why can't
we stay here, where we are? It's very
comfortable-that is, it's nvaDie.
They've got somebody to take my
place In the house."
And father needn't know a thing
you can fix that" broke in Mrs. Dick.
And after your wedding he will be In
better humor; he'll know it's over
and not up to him any more"
Miss Patty sat down on the soap
box.
1--WE might carry 1t off," she said.
IF | could only go back to town. But
father is in one of his tantrums, and
he won't go, or let me go. The ideal
with Aunt Honoria on the long-dis-
lance wire every day, having hyster-
les, and my clothes waiting to be tried
on and everything. I'm desperate"
put the eggs on platter and
poured the coffee, and we all sat
around the soap box and ate.
Everybody felt better for the meal,
and we were sitting there laughing
and talking and very cheerful when
Mr.. Van Alstyne opened the door and
looked in. His face was stern, but
when he saw us, with Miss Patty on
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-02-06

Minnie, sprlag house girl at Hope sans-
stOrlum, tells the story. II opens with the
arrival OF Miss Patty Jennings, who II re-
ported TO be engaged TO marry prince,
and the death Of the old doctor who owns
the sanaforium. The estate le left to a
scapegrace grandson. Dicky Garter. who
must appear on a certain date and run
months Or forfeit the inheritance case
of humps delays Dicks arrival Mr.. Tho
burn8is lowering about In hopes OF Sc
curing the place for summer hotel
Pierce, college man In hard luck. Ia pre-
vailed upon by Van Alstyne. Dicks BROTH
Sr-in-Iaw 70 impersonate the missing heir
and take charge or the snnatorlum until
carter arrives Dick. who has eloped
with Pattys younger sister, Dorothy, ar
rtvRn
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-02-06

have seen. her. You've known father
for years. Minnie: have you ever
known him to be $3.50"
"Devilish," was the word she meant,
but finished for her.
Unreasonable" | said We'll, once
bsfore when. you vera little girl, he
/ put his cane through window in the
spring.house, because he thought II
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-02-06

MIR. Pierce Was Staring al 'ne
have to worry themselves SICK -
carry them victuals." and
\ He got up and began to walk Up o.. A.
down the spring-house, seo"ie
the floor. - he
Then picking up his old CAP aprsslt
opened the door. Miss Patty ne
was coming up the path. la air
She was flushed from tne III Snow
and from hurrying. and don .ottier.
that | ever saw her look pre-, We
When she came into the hgn. sssd
could both see that she was non at
for dinner. Her fur coat was ops scarf
the neck, and she had only lace
over her head.
J cro BE CONTINUED
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

a wink of his voice." and his own
personally conducted train drew up
beside him. Daisy Lyleford looked
curiously at the strange little beast,
with its pathetic expression of un-
varying patience and strict devotion
to duty.
II never had a pass over this route"
she said. 1,tEk.eA ,Gd &
you won't find it such bad goin',
though it isn't ekal to the lightnin'
express for speed. 1t gets there Just
the same and lays over the express
in the matter O. landin' you most gen.
orally in one piece" 2
He assisted Miss Lyleford to mount
the palfrey of the hills and the jour
ney was begun, the miner leading the
burro along a narrow winding path
that ran across the foothills and along
the edge of the canyon that opened
darkly into the heart Of the range. The
u went suddenly behind the noun
tains and night closed down early
here while yet it was day in the val
ley. Over in the southwest flashes
of lightning cleaned across the pur-
pie heights and thunder rolled family
up the canyon.
"You must not be afraid of our
mountain storms. They don't amount
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26
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to much, 'cept to look pretty. An this
little cuss will take you safe as a
rockin' boss"
She smiled up at the rugged, kindly
face that was dimly visible by the
flashes Of light.
II shall not be afraid Of anything
with you to take care Of me. I re-
member how good you were to Dick"
"Sho', now! didn't do anything
for him. He was mighty good to me
when I hit the Stag pile; that is, when
l was down on my luck, you know"
II know what you did," she said,
softly, and her voice vas like a strain
of music across the wind that drifted
down from the mountain. HE told
me how you were his friend when he
first came to the mines, a '~tenderfoot,'
he called it, and how you knocked
out Big Stoker when he tried to play
pranks on him. Then he told me
about the time you went prospecting
together on the west slope. 1t seems
to me that 1 have gone over that trail
scores of times. I have felt the desert
sun blaze down on me till every drop
Of blood in my veins turned to fire.
"And then the climb away up the
mountain, stumbling over rocks and
slipping on smooth slides and scaling
almost vertical slopes, and then the
top, %shivering in the cold, freezing in
the sharp winds"
ut is a little coldishlike nights,
waitin' fer the sun to rise; but, lordy!
amt it a fine sight when she does git
up? It kind O. pays fer settin' round
IN top O. the hill tryin' to keep warm
by a brush fire that goes out mos as
soon as it kindles."
Then that time Dick slipped on a
glare Of ice and fell down the side OF
the mountain into a crevice, and you
crawled down and found him there
hurt SO that he could not move, and
you put your own coat around him to
keep him warm and sat against the
wind to shelter him from 1t. You set
HIS broken ankle and nursed him
through all the days that he was help.
less, watching him day and night,
You scarcely ate anything in all the
time that Dick could not be moved,
lest the food that you had brought for
the journey should give out and Dick
might suffer. Then, when he was
able to bear the motion, you carried
him in your arms down to the plain
and to the little station and took care
Of him till he was we'll"
'Sho', now! Did Dick tell you all
that stuff"
He would have died that time If II
had not been for you"
That's nothin' fer a man to do"
Il think 1t is a great thing for q
man to do. 1t shows friendship, and
I think that is not a common thing
in life"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26
First American ThanksqIvIna.

We have come to look upon Thanks
giving day as one of feasting and
pleasure. 1t may differ from that of
u g~randsires, but it's not SO very
far from the customs of the pilgrim
fathers who first instituted the custom
in New England. Did you aver have
an account Of the first American
thanksgiving? The Puritans were ac-
customed to somber religious observ-
ances, but the spirit of a new world
began to change the method of giving
thanks. The transition was gradual,
but occasionally the unexpected was
thrust upon them in a very positive
way.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

detrimental to his interests. says the
Detroit Free Press, In that we be-
lieve he Is right. Further a furnace is
a device that has a hogs fondness for
dirt and a health crank's mania for
cleanliness. 1t won't heat II 1t is dirty.
and it won't help to keep itself clean.
Consequently the poor brute known as
husband OF the home must be attend
ant, masseur and rubber to the fur
mace as we'll And these duties he.
must perform regularly in the dark or,
aided merely by the faint glow OF an
eight-candle power lamp that has only.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

and individual prosperity, as so often
implied, is to overlook the greater
aus Of gratitude. Every now and
then pathetic instances bring out the
heartfelt expression that IF one has
health he has everything" Position
and possessions count for little COM
pared to the simple retention Of
health. So, If a man or woman today,
unblessed by possession Of the wealth
or prosperity they think they ought
to have, will ponder upon the bless
ing of health Or upon the preserva-
ton of the lives and health of those
near and dear to them throughout the
year they must find deeper cause for
thanksgiving than any mere mere
ment in material things. This is the
true reverence, the genuine spirit Of
thanksgiving.
But in expressing this spirit In
Thanksgiving services, in gladness and
feasting, it must not be forgotten that
the true thanksgiving must come from
the heart, and will find its fullest ex-
preston in kindly act, in considera-
tion of those less fortunate and in as
sisting to make others equally thank
full. The thankfulness that is limited
to self is ungracious and unworthy.
Yet even in temporal affairs the ma
tion as a whole has cause for graft
tude. No country has been more
blessed with abundance of crops. In
dustrial and commercial conditions
are normal. We have been spared
from any great disasters. AS a ma
ton we are at peace with the world.
The census shows a splendid
growth. We face the future o only
with confidence but enthusiasm.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

one candle power left. To clean a fur
mace a man must divest himself Of all
raiment that he ever expects to wear
above ground. Then with an iron
brush he must attack the innermost
vitals Of the apparatus; cropping hither
and thither, now humping his head on
the steel upper Jaw of the open mouth,
now scraping his knuckles on the
lower jaw. Suddenly he is in the
dark The light has gone outl No, Il
is merely a cloud of dust that he failed
to inhale quick enough to prevent its
obli~terating the eight-candIe power
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

yon wanted to see was over yonder
you'd 60 to that person."
Possibly"
Then you won't mind o little run
like this. You see, we haven't any
railroad to our mine. Sometime well
have, when the workin's is more for
warder and we're a takin' the rocks
out by tons. But 1t takes a time and
while we're pegginaaway we've got to
git across the mountains the best we
cam, and that's burro train"
The expositor of mountain travel
gave q peculiar cluck, what he called
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

solved the combination. The surgeons
got it back on them for being so
fresh not so many years afterward,
when fellows calling themselves CHR
opodists sprang into existence and
declared that no man should have his
corns removed by anybody except ex-
perts at the business.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26
MANS TIME OF CIRCULATION
Writer Who Evidently Has Had Ex-
~psrIence Tells Of the Joys o.
Cleaning 4 Furnace.

A furnace is an ingenious and fend-
iab device used for heating purposes.
Il Is an asbestos-covered boiler en-
tIrelv surrounded by pipes, and stu
atad IN the darkest corner Of the eel
III. The idea Of the nan who puts i
a. seemetosbe Ahatsa convenient light
Il ne vicinity of q furnace would be
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26
Evolution IN professlons.

George II In 1745 spilled the beans
for the surgery-barbery corporation.
Several obnoxious individuals who
had been doing surgical operations in
competition with the BARRIERS did some
new stunts with the surgeons knife
and got Georges ear. They knocked
the BARRIERS work, said their opera
tions for the removal OF corns were
crude stuff, and that George ought 10
get hep to himself and start new
profession OF surgery in distinction to
barbery. George fell for 1t and dis
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26
0 pumpkin piel

Dicks my pardner," he said, quietly.
Miss Lyleford had heard men say
"he is my brother" with less of the
finality Of self-surrender that vas ex.
pressed in the simple statement of the
relationship of this miner with his
friend. She heard a soldier say once
"He is my comrade," with something
Of the deep, soft, earnest information of
her escort.
A note In the sound of her voice re-
minded him of a voice he used to
know away back in the years-his
boyhood years-when he used to play
with a girl in the schoolhouse yard,
That voice had drifted away in 81.
lence long ago and he had not thought
Of it for years, except sometimes
when he lay awake nights and heard
a soft wind sweep through the pine
trees. To his ear the wind had an
undertone of sadness, as If it might
have drifted over a grave.
A blaze of lightning lit up the noun
tain pathway. From the narrow ledge
that wound around a steep wall Of
rock the girl looked down into the
depths of a canyon that seemed to
open into the heart Of the earth.
BALKAN will take you safe through,
no matter how shaky it looks"
She looked up into the kindly, reas-
surfing face, and smiled confidently.
II am not afraid; but it all seems
so strange and SO beautiful, and aw-
full. It is uplifted SO far above the
world that I do not seem to belong
to earth any more. I wonder how the
people who are used to such scenes
feel, and If they are not larger and
grander than we who live on the com.
mon levels"
Il s'pose most folks are about the
same old bad pennies, no matter where
they live nor what they look at"
How do you know about me so far
away?"
Dick had told me where he come
from, and then, when he vas out o
his head, he talked about you, and ]
thought mebbe you lived back where
he did. He didn't talk about anybody
else, and l thought mebbe you might
be all he had, and then l sent the
telegram hoping you might get it and
come"
you and I are all he has, and we
will ave him."
The man lifted his face up TOWARD
the dark sky.
Eyes, please God, we'll save him."
They had left the narrow defile ant
were on a high plateau.
There is Tent Town just before us
That is our camp. We have no houses
yet. Will you mind staying in q
TENT"
Il shall love it. 1 never saw a ten
before. 1t will be such a novel ex
perience to live In one"
THAT is his tent that has the lighr
in it. Away over there, where thu
clouds have divided and there is /;
big, white star shining down onto It.
They fixed their gaze on the whit
tent and silence fell upon them unit
they had reached the little cluster o
tents and Daisy's escort led her to tn,
one next that on which the white sta,
shone.
This is yours next to his. Bill
taking care Of Dick. Do you see tn,
pink light in the window? Tha
means he is better. / told Bill to pu
that light in the window If he was s,
that you might see It,"
She stood for a moment in tn,
doorway and looked over toward thu
east, where Thanksgiving day woul,
dawn in a few hours. How full o
gladness was the deep. dark night.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

lamp altogether. AT last with the
dustin his lungs, hair, eyes, ears, nose
and vest pockets he staggers upstairs,
only to have the partner Of his Joys
and sorrows exclaim: 1T seems to
me you could clean that furnace with
out scattering dirt all through the
house,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26
ThanksaIvIna IL the south

Until the middle Of the past century
Thanksgiving was practically ia
known in the South. In Virginia the
first Thanksgiving proclamation was
issued by Governor Wise in 1857.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

ITSA the little mountain station
and left a passenger who
STOOD on the platform looking owe at
the southwestern range as if dropped
suddenly from another planet into an
unknown life which presented puzzles
Of bewildering character.
BE you Miss Lyleford?"
The girl looked attentively at the
shaggy face as If with a view Of clas-
styling it and assigning it a place in
the vast museum Of human nature be-
fore admitting her identity.
II am. You, / suppose, are Mr..
Mawyer?"
"Yas; I'm Dicks pard."
Miss Lyleford extended her hand to
him, while a smile lit up her face brill
liantly.
81 am deeply indebted to Dicks
pard," she said.
mo; it's t'other way round. I'm
OWN you for a sight o things; more
particularly Dicks life"
She clasped her hands and a look
Of anxiety replaced the smile with
which she had greeted him.
HE will get well?"
"Sure-now. The sight o you'd
call back a man what had already
staked his claim in t'other world and
filed his application with the land Of
fee up yonder. He wouldn't want no
land patent when he could take out
the patent for the happiness O. jest
lookin' at YOU"
The winning smile came back and
dimpled her cheeks and filled each
curve Of her face with ripples of
light.
"a girl what can make sunshine out
o. all the clouds around her can take
the grumps out O. any man." thought
Dicks pard," looking at her admir-
ingly.
Nov, miss, we'd better mosey,"he
said, "fer it's gittin' dark and the road
long to u place isn't jist the path
I'd recommend a delicate young lady
to take when she wanted a constitu'
tional to brace up a run down sys.
TEN. You amt skeered o. most things
are YET"
II don't think So"
mo, / should think If a river of fire
and brimstun was here and somebody
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

From north and from south, come the pill
grim and guest,
When the gray-haired New Highlander
sees round his board,
The old broken links of affection re-
stored,
When the care-wearied man seeks his
mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the
girl smiled before.
This was the spirit Of old-time
Thanksgiving.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

You didn't abuse that conductor the
way you usually do when he refused
to take your transfer"
mo. Look at the size Of him
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26
An Imnrnvemant.

Mrs. Black-Did you ever know
moths to do any good?
Mrs. Greene-z0h, yes; they ct all
my husbands whiskers OF.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

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~G-m HE old-time spirit of
49, Thanksgiving. "Ah,
A{|N#Y%z those were good old
days!" This, with
WZMA reminiscent sadness.
ASSE$4 If there was not a lurk-
N$@MW ing sentiment for the
SRzXAe splendor of good-fel-
lowship, for the charm Of simplicity
and the peace that comes from a con-
tented heart, that marked the old-time
Thanksgiving, there would be no re-
gret for the good old days that are
gone. But why can't they be con
dured back again that we might cher
fish the generous spirit Of that house
hold festival?
1t is the character Of the day that
we would have back again-the after
math Of the harvest, with its spirit
of joyousness, the bounteous feast
gathering together the family, making
sacred the beauty Of home ties.
In old New England a hustle OF
preparation began long before the APP
pointed day. The turkey, strutting in
naughty disregard of his fate, was
watched with furtive eyes and fed
with liberal care. The pumpkins were
gathered and lay with faces upturned
to the sun. Vegetables, fruits, nuts,
raisins and citron were heaped in plen-
ty upon the pantry shelf. And within,
the house was aglow in Joyful antici-
patton Of the coming guests-a true
hospitality, not so elaborate as it was
bountiful and not SO luxurious as
healthful, but replete with a rare
kindliness and grace.
And when the feast was over, and
the long afternoon Of sport and games
was spent, and the shadows of eve
ming closed round, the great assem-
blage crowded about the huge fire
place. How gayly the popcorn splut-
tered, how clear was the cider passed
round! Hearts overlooking with jol-
lity and gratitude burst into song:
All. on Thanksgiving day, when from east
and from west.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

A movement is now on in Saline
county to get better roads for that
county. Several special road districts
already r doing fine work in the
county. but their proper spheres of
activity do not always connect with
each other. leaving spots Of roads un-
cared for. The movement now on
'oot is to correlate all the work of the
county under friendly, unofficial SUI
pervision, so that no main roads will
De neglected at any part.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26
o PUMPKIN PIB
o pumpkin pie!
BY WILBUR D. NEsBIT

o pumpkin pie!
Athwart thy face
A hundred fancies may | tracel
| see the CLINT Of summer sun,
And twilight, when the day is done;
The sober peace Of musing cows
Who in the meadow grasses browse;
The radiant glory Of the morn
That sweeps across the nodding corn.
A thousand happy fancies start
When thou art nesting ear my heart.
o pumpkin pieI
hear the breeze
That whispered in the maple trees;
l see the swaying fields OF wheat,
And hear the b%irdsongs, clear and sweet;
And, low across the land at night,
| catch the ballad OF delight
The chant the cricket sings in glee;
And summer comes again to me.
O pumpkin piel Thus dost thou cast
Thy Joyous glamour Ger the past.
o pumpkin pie!
Within thy breast
These gladstone summer fancies rest;
The golden sunshine and the dew
Have paid their tribute through ant
through.
The song the lark trilled in the air
Within thy form is echoed there;
For all these things Of joy to me
We're caught and firmly held by thee.
o pumpkin pie! For all thou didst
welcome thee unto my midstl
Copyright by Wilbur D.. Nesbit)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

A lone bandit entered the Gravois
bank in st. Louis county the other
afternoon and after locking the cash
Ter and his assistant in the vault,
'obbed the cash drawer of $1,000. He
vas arrested before he could make
his getaway.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

A blow out while a motor car was
going forty miles an hour causing the
machine to turn over, resulted in the
ieath of an unidentified man and the
severe injury of Luther Treece and
Lee Winston, merchants of Gretchen.
The accident was a mile southwest of
Marshall.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

When the frost is on the punkfn, and the folders in the shock,
And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the srutit turkey-coch,
And the cackm' of the guineas and the cEuckIn' Of the hens
And the ROSTERS halylOoyer IS he tptoeS on the fence;
G, it's thenS the times a feHer is a feeHn at AIS best
With the riSIn' sun to greet him from a night II peaceful rest.
AS he leaves the house, bare-headed, and goes out to feedthe stock.
When the frost is on the punkin. and the folders in the shock. s
100 FLAMES WHHTCOMB RILEY
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

Gee! Amt he proud? Seems like
he knows he's goin' to be ct by u
minister tomorrow
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81
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ht by Daily Story Pub. COZ
q was snow on the
peaks and the wind swept
down the slopes and skur-
ried wildly through the can
yon.
The train pulled out from
the little mountain station
and left a passenger who
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

Circuit Judge James D. Barnett
overruled the plea to jurisdiction
made by the Wabash attorneys in the
ate cases instituted by C. w. White
Of Montgomery, and he retains juris-
fiction and will hear the cases on
heir merit.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26
TRUE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON
Thanksgiving Should Find Its Best
Expression In the Doing Of Some
Kindly Act.

To limit reasons for thankfulness to
mere material abundance. to national
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-26

Two armed men held up F. G. john
son, former circuit Judge, and robbed
lim of $3.50 in his room at Neosho.
Bloodhounds were put on the trail Of
he robbers. The robbery occurred
while Mr.. Johnson was alone in the
lome of a friend with whom he is
staying.