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Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-04-18
SEVENTY SEVEN.

By Rebecca Harding Davis.
"What is that you say, Roberts' =
"Little things don't count. !"
Don't they? Now my belief is,
hat there never was little duty
done, or kind word spoken, which
did not bring long train of bless
ings. You may not see them, but
somewhere and somehow they are
there just as you plant seed and
go away, and the roots spread, and
the tree grows, and goes on growing.
and the birds come and sing in the
branches, long after You are dead.
III tell youla story about thd )" sam
the old man, sitting himself 6;S TIE
heap of warm hay, while the boys
gathered about him.
1.-TWO boys went out to fish one
day. If you clear out the barn, ;
their father told them in the, morn
ing, you can have the afternoon fol
play
" Let's make a quick job of it,
said Charley.
$50 they worked steadily and &C
lively, and earned their holiday. A
they started, they halted by the gate
their rods over their shoulders.
" THE pond Or the creek?' aske'
Bill.
Charley was a good-hearted fel
low. The creek; and then We ca
take basket of apples to old Aunt.
Stannix,' he said.
$50 they brought the apples, CAV
them to the old negro, and went dow
to the creek. Under a big walnu
was dark pool, the very place fo
perch.
"They ha dly spoke for an hour
Just as Bill had a nibble, step wa
heard on the dry grass above, and
man appeared and looked down a
them. His clothes were shabby, hi
face strangely bloodless and pinched
"'It's too bad' muttercd Bill
''He's driven that fellow away ant
he's two-pounder. The sneakinl
old trampl I'll shy stone at him
he comes any closerP
You'll do nothing of the sort
Bill Pardee,' said Charlie. 9Th
man looks hungry, poor fellow!'
" i believe he's escaped from tn
lookup persisted Bill IF h
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-04-18
MEXICO MISSOURI, THU tEassIoAY. APRIL Is, 1878.
seyentv-seven sat down. He could

Seventy-seven sat down. He could
not speak. The boys dropped their
lines in the water.
Presently he laid his hand on
Chayley's arm. Itseemed as if he
must carress the boy, if but by a
touch.
"'What is your name?'
" Charley, sir; Cherley Pardee.'
"It was his own name! The blood
rushed violently to his heart.
'Who-who were You named for,
Charley?'
"'My uncle, sir. You've heard
of him, maybe:' coloring hotly. Il
never saw him, but my father says
he was the best man he ever knew,
and the most ill-used. Oh, here
comes papa!'
''The man staggered to his feet
and stood trembling. not looking up.
"'Well, boys, what luck?' came
in Jacks old hearty voice. Then
there was n terrible silence.
"Charley!''
"Jack had his arms about him.
oh, Charley, is it you? Thank
God, thank God!' and he sobt,ed
like child.
"The winter passed quietly.
Charles Pardee found his brothers )
house happy home, but he feared to
go outside of it. Public opinion held
him as a murderer. A few old friends
came to him, but he shrank from ev-
cry strange face. ''Now little Char
ley had habit of taking some tri1ing
gift to old Aunty Stannix on his way
to school. The old woman was crab
bed and sour beyond her wont, being
i'll that winter, but the boy persever-
ed.
"One night he was reused cut of
bed by his father.
"'Stannix is dying, and has sent
for you, my boy
Its showing muttered Bill
She'll live till morning. It's one of
her impish tricks, any how. l
wouldn't go a step, Charley
Charley thrust out one foot into
the nipping air and hesitated
"'pd better CO. he said.
"When he reached the cabin with
his father, the old woman was very
low.
81 want Charley Pardee,' she
muttered, fumbling with Ter hands.
Here i am, aunty."
You've hin good to me, sonny
better dan any body in dis womb.
I've got someiin fob you. Whah's a
squire? must say it fohr squire.
81 am a magistrate, aunty,' said
the doctor
II wants to say, fohr de squire,
dat dis boys uncle, Charles Pardee,
was as innocent as baby of George
Tygart's murder. 1t was my son,
Oaf, as done it-Oaf, de barber in
Dover.
] 81 KEEP it quiet COS 1 didn't
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-04-18
FRANCIS MURPHY.

The st Louis Christian Advocate,
speaking of the distinguished apos-
tie of Temperance, says:
Francis Murphy was saloou-
keeper, and drunkard. In a drum
ken brawl in which he was engaged
man was killed, and Murphy was put
OH tIial for his life. Acquitted, he
still was not reformed. He was final
ly arrested and put in Jail in the
State of Maine, where he was living.
There, like the protigal, he came to
himself. A Christian man visited the
prison with the story ofJesus on his.
lips. Murphy's tears flowed freely
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-04-18

A. G. Thurman, silvAs Asay horse.
by Statesman, out of Buse she by
Discretion, out of Brain(, he rid.
den by J. G. Thompson ora red
bandana with white - 1Neisr
Bill Allen, g. h., nanaged by A..
out of Foghorn, hs Confirm.
Greenhorn; color nim.
yer sash. +.
David Davis, gram apne.
out of see-sapr;fIo = Times:
lenes, owneat has jbeDoable been 0,
by Naught' wearSss Tn m. sown .,
ready, colors und y~4tar ION ION
rom Hendricks, AA
out of mcapacity ,t;os
of Greatness, tob-ns
west. color gfea,
Tom Ewl9, g. h., by Repadiat~.
out OF c-sanback, damn'd by Gol'
Bugs, out of Patience, color rathe
green. Exchange.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-04-18
Fun IN THE WITNESS BOX.


In recent trial at Winchester.
witness, failing to make his version
of conversation intelligible by lea
son of his fondness for ''says T. and
Baron Martin with the following re-
snlt: "My man, tell us now exactly
what passed. eyes, my Lord, L said
l would not have the pig. "And
what was his answer?' ''He said
that he had been keeping it for me,
and that he-'' ssNo, no; he could
not have said that; he spoke i'll the
first person" "No, my Lord, L was
the first person that spoke mean
don't bring in the third person; re-
peated his exact Words There
was no third person, my Lord; only
him and me. - my good fellow, ne
did not say 'he had been keeping the
pig;' he said L have been kes
it - II assure you, my Lo1 gio
was no menffae of y ther.
all. We are diferen, salp y
There was no third pe.;so..- sslsl's' and
il anything had beenesa;d about your
Lordship, | must have heard it."
The barongavc in. Nothing pleases
your funlovmg Irishman better than
TO bother lawyer, and the Irieh
courts have known many dialogue
like this: ''You are Il Roman Cath
ollie" ''AmI IL" ''Are you not2''
..You say ara" "Come sir, what's
your religionF' 'sI'he true religion. -
"What religions that:'' My re-
ligion.'' And what is your relig-
ion s,'< "My mothers RELIGION
"What was your mothers religionY'-
''She TUX whisky in her tay. - ou
bless yourself, don't yonH r "When
- dong with you l will = What
- OF worship do you attend p
The mostisonvaynient.' . 'sOf what
persuasion are you % MY persua-
sion is that you won't find out
What is yote belief" THAT you
are puzzled" "Do you confess :"
Not to YOU" ''Whom woald you
write to if You were likely to die p
"The doctor. II insist upon your
answering me, sir; are you n Rom III
Catholic : II am 'And why
don't you say so at once?' "You
never axed me. You said / was
great many things, but you never
ased me. You were driving cross
words and crooked questions at me,
an l thought it was manners to cut
my behavior on your own pattern.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-04-18
WHO LOSES THE EIG1 t
CENTS!

Here is the way the New York
Graphic illustrates it:
Seventy or eighty papers have come
to hand this week inquiriug in 4 pa
thetic voice, who it is that loses the
eight cents when a lahoring man
takes II ninety-two cent silver piece
for dollar. Now, this is the very
thin that has puzzled rs. II a car
penter receives from the government
nine-twO cent silver piece for dol
lar and passes it upon his butcher for
dollar, and the butcher passes il
upon the shoemaker for a dollar and
the shoemaker passes 1t upon his
| Ia ldlord for dollar, and the land
I lord passes it for dollar upon ma
son sor work on the state-house, and
the mason passes it for 4 dollar to a
and the merchant passes it for dol
to the custom -houss office for import
duties, and the United States treasn-
ry passes it as dolkm
and the soldiezI.s .s Solo,Pr' l"
10 the sa1 Sitter hn"-;" before
preyio .ralentioned, we are unable
tostse who has lost the eight cents.
Happy thought-perhaps the loss fell
on the same man who did not get it
Seriously, the same man who lost the
eight cents, who loses .een cents
every time he takes four silver quar-
ters, that have only eighty -foar. cents
worth of silver in them. But, even
then. the tiye-cent nickels puzzle lis.
In dollars worth Of these there is
only nineteen cents worth of metal.
Now will some of the editors who lie
awake nights to figure such thing out
please 70 inform us who it ls that
loses the eigltyoEe cents every time
a dollars worth of nickels Is pass
ed? Who loses four cents every time
five cent piece is paid for q glass of
lager or car ride? The little cop
per cents are even Il greater robbery.
We have not the heart to go into n
calculation rs to how many million
dollars are wrung from the hornev-
handed bondholder every where in
the passage of this debased cent, but
it is inconceivable how an opponent
of the Bland bill can pass one ofthese
fraudulent tokens--eyen al !, dis
tance--without blushing for the perfi-
dy of his race.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-04-18
SPRING.

The merriest maiden I ever have
seen
Is violet-eyed, drapped in simmer
ing green.
I wandered a.org through the cop
pice to day;
The robin sang blithe on the syca-
more-spray.
The golden-hued crocus was nodding
and shining,
The wandering vines round the old
trees were twining.
The squirrels along the branches
were skipping,
And ever before me this maiden was
fitting
.This merriest maiden ever have
seen.
Deep-violet-eyed, draped in SHIN
mering green.
I hurried along, crying, "Wait, dain-
ty maiden!
Where HE vou so fast, with snch rare
flowers laden?"
She smiled at me shrewdly, but has
tened along.
While the robin sat grooming his mel
lowest song.
Each time that she lifted her feet
from the ground,
The leaflets and buildings grew
brighter around.
The breezes grew gentle when kiss
ing her brow,
The sunlight fell softly and meltingly
She sped along swiftly. l followed
apaoe.
Near, nearer drew; have won ir
the racs.
81 have you! Now tell ME your
name: fairy thing?"
She scattered more flowers, and car.
oled, '.I'm spring"
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-04-18

" -SCfSh! AO UShONts e4C iudIi
by his prison number; for he never
had heard his name.
" Il don't know
I" Got no kin!'
ssThe man did not answer. He
sat down on the curbstone, his eyes
blinking, his mouth twitching. ner-
vously. He looked wistfully at the
gate, as if he woull ask to be taken
in again. In that fifteen years his
cell had grown to be home to him.
He had no other home. The keeper
turned to go in.
/" Don't leave me, Jackson he
said, feebly putting out his hand.
jackson stood beside him. sgaks
cigar he said, in token of tFsir
new equality
"'I have never smoked
" Where are ye goin', anyhow?
"Seventy-seven stared yacantly
up and down the street. When h.
had gone in at that gate, he was
young and handsome man. He had
been lawyer in fair practice, with
mother who made an idol of him, and
hosts of friends.
Now he was bent and white hair
ed. There was not a man whom he
could call friend, or house where
he had right to shelter, in all the
world.
I'D like to go back he said,
with a miserable smile.
Cant do that, my boy. You
were in for
'Murder!'
"Yesl'
. L was innocent muttered Sev-
enty-seven.
And then, suddenly, as if the free
air and sun accused him atresh of his
crime, lie rose and stretched on; his
arms.
- Before God, was innocent?
he cried.
" Yes, of course, of course, said
jackson. 'You all say so. But l
believe you, Seyentyseven. Got no
kim
MY mother died eight years ago.
Ny brother lives IN the old homo
stead. / don't know whether to 90
to him, or-what would you doY
turning in his bitter solitude to Jack
son as a friend.
Got the raoney to go?"
" Yes, the prison society gave &
these clothes, and money to pay
way home. But
: " 'How's yer brother treated ye p?
Has he Civ you the cold shoulder
:" No. After he married, ten
years agoN never would see aim
when he came, to the prison. Iwsns-
ed him to feel cfear of me; l vasa
cursed black spot i6>sis life. lie
, does not know I'm out. rEee1laf
I'd keep clear of him; but-ol@
can't, can't!'
"He covered his face with hi
hands. He was so utterly alone
Only to see him once more--to G
, through the old house-to lay hi
head on his mothers gravel
/" Il don't know what to advise,
, said jackson. 'Kinsfolk don't gen
orally kill The fatted calf for rcturne
jail-birds. But you might try it.
q don't see what else you kin do,
, fact
. "About noon the prisoner got o.
;. the train at the station next to hi
old home.
He walked down the road. OIL
. Aunty Stannix was smoking in til
n door of her cabin.
4 Z" John Pardec lives in the oil
= placer he said, inquiringly, stoppin
in front of her.
'Yeh. DENIS his boys a-fshin
4 in de branch yunder. Stranger
o his country, sahF'
r ''The m:.n shook his head "
walked on. A stranger! Why,
was not u stone or q tree wiz
O did not remember and love
''He came to his brothe1
c opened it, and then, gha(
G turned away. He COZ
II If Iahpu u1shS,aa
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1878-04-18
LEDGER.
uEp EVERY THURSDAY.

/ WHITE, EDIToE.
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|rrtb side Of Public Square,
Mexico, Missouri.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-15
BUSINESS CARDS.
M M coRBETT,

ATTORNEY AT LAW, SOLICITOR IN CHAN;
n Gerry and Notary Pnblic, Abstracts, Loans and
Collects. once and Avenue, Bird door east Of
bengston g Drug Store Rock Island, lis.
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Ghe 9 ailg Arsas,
ROCK ISLAND. ILLINOIS
Concluded from second page. J

an8mla or nervous prostration? The
secret lies in the fact that the German or
Englisbman assumes that he will have
sixty good working years at least, and
| takes his time. The American sets off in
the race as ii he would have bat ten. The
Englishman does not leave school until the
age when a New York boy is practising a
profession; he takes frequent holidays, eats
slowly, and more than all, moves in the
smooth ruts of religion, business
and belief in which his father
left him. The life of even the laboring
Londoner Is leisurely. Business does not
begin tor even the small shopkeeper in the
morning until one third of the American
working day is over. If he is i'll he cod
dies himself. He can bear thumps at
school or thumps in battle, but he is a
coward before sick stomach or a twinge
OF toothache. lie lives long and slowly,
and we question whether the amount of
accomplished work which he has to show
does not equal in quantity and quality that
OF our nervous, irritable countrymen who
dies of cerebral congestion at fifty.
1t would be absurd to urge any Ameri-
can to follow the example of his heavier
blooded cousin. You cannot make a
mastitf out OF a greyhound. One or two
precautions any man may take. besides
the ordinary hygienic ones, to iengthen his
days. First, to keep his brain, as far as
possible, at work on one subject at time.
1t is the multitude of conflicting ideas
which wear itout by actual physical strain.
Hence the brain of man who controls
the Divers occupations of other men, or
who is accustomed to carry on separate
trains of thought, will give way sooner
than one which is confined TO one branch
of study or work. Secondly, to make abso-
lutte the pauses for rest, the stoppage of
work must be complete to be worth any
thing. Thirdly, If possible, to have
hobby-some manual work which requires
also an exertion of the mind totally differ
ent from its ordinary work. Gardening,
music, drawing, cabinet making, have been
salvation for many a brain stretched and
strained to the verge of exhaustion. These
are homely hints, but they are meant for
those who know how to value simple RENE
| dies.-N 7. Tribune.
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THOMAS YATES,

is PREPARED TO DO PLUMBING IN ALL ITS
' branches. also, Gas and Steam Fitting.
Call and have estimates made before orderingyour
work dore by other parties.
THOMAS YATES. (Levee, 1Roek Island.
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Printing and binding executed nea
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German Syrup. :"

No other medicine in the world was ever
given such test of Its curative qualities
as Boschee's German Syrup. In three
years two million four hundred thousand
small bottles of this medicine were dis
tributed free of charge by druggists in this
country to those afflicted with consumption
asthma, Group, severe coughs, pneumonia
and other diseases of the throat aud lungs
giving the American undeniabIe proof thai
German Syrup will cure them, The re
suit has been that druggists in every towr
and village in the United States are re.
commencing them to their customers. Gt
to your druggist, and ask what they know
about it. Sample bottles 10 cents
Regular size IS cents. Three doses viii
relieve any case.
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PARENTS

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little ones are dear to us. and it is the
wish and hope to see them look bright.
and cheerful and happy.
We advise you not to give them any
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Are sure protection.
They bring to terms
Intestine Worms;
Cures every child.
Are tasteless, mild.
Your pets may live.
IL them y0u give.
Ask for Van Deusen's Worm Confec-
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sale Drug Stores.
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KINGSTON. ULSTER Co., NY,
RSRPrlce 25 cents box =gsa
Sold at every store
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OPINIONS OE PRESS
From ST. Loais Globe Denocrat.l
Or. WHITTIER, SIT st. Charles street, a reg
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engaged in the treatment of chronic diseases
than any other physician in the city. Nervous
debility, blood diseases, ali impediments TO
marriage. Cali or write. Circular tree. aSafe
medicines; moderate charges.
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CORDOvA.
Interesting Liquor Suits.

On Saturday last, VIM, Wendt. of Cor
dova, who keeps liquor store, under
state license, was arrested and brought
before Magistrate E. H. Hunt, Port By
ron, charged with selling liquor contrary
to law, and in smaller quantities than one
gallon. The case was test one and ex-
cited lively interest among license and
anti-license men, The blue ribbonites
were not in force aud it was generally un-
derstood that if this case was successfully
presented a general raid could be made on
dealers iu the same line with Wendt A
jury was impaneelled, composed of the
following persons: Chas. Wainwright, p.
j. Williams, Theo MsCue, NJ B. Len
linger, John Whteside, L. M. Rog-
ers, S, Grover, E. McDermott
Thos. Chandler, John Schafer, Ephraim
Vanderburg, W. Mummes. OF the jury,
eight were pronounced blue ribbon men
and four conservative. The case was
prosecuted on Saturday by Mr.. Shaw, and
4. II. Johdson, for Cordova; and r. J.
Bell, for Wendt. After statement of
the case to the jury, the trial vas adjourn
ed until Monday morning.
The case opened on Monday in the
Grove near the High School, with Attor-
neys Shaw and johnson for prosecution
and kenworthy and Beardsley, OF Rock
Island, and r. j. Bell. Port Byron, for the
defense. a large number of people we're
present from the townships of Cordova,
Port Byron. Canoe Creek. Coe. and else
where and unusual interest manifested in
the result.
After examination Of twenty-five
witnesses for the prosecution, the
defense brought no witnesses and
argument opened, Maj Besrdsley making
the closing appeal for Wendt. At the
conclusion of the Arguments the case was
given to the jury who in fifteen minutes
returned verdict of not guilty. This re-
suit, considering the status Of the jury, and
the pressure brought to bear by the tenn
perance people is signal victory for
license in CorGova.
In the course of the trial it was proven
beyond doubt that Wendt was man of
unimpeachable character, which with his
positive denial of the charges, aided large
ly the result attained. Major Beardsley' 3
appeal was powerful effort and convinced
with each sentence. His address was free
from personalities. and was an appeal to
good sound sense, aud the law rather than
the passions. This trial is probably only
one of a number that viii be brought by
the anti-license men.