Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-20
BOB BURDETTE,
Hawkeye Man i'm Missouri.

FULTON, Mo-, Feb. 4.-You make
connection at Mexico for Fulton.
That is, you get to Mexico all right,
and then the Chicago and Alton rail-
road runs a train from Mexico to
Fulton and Jefferson City every ace
in a while.
Sometimes as often as once every
two weeks, l should judge. And if
the weather in real fine, they run a
train almost every day. 1t is a great
convenience to people who travel.
That is, if they travel by team.
1 reached Mexico. The republic
was quiet, the last revolution having
just subsidized and the new president
having just avoided a military execu-
ton by shooting himself. 1 found
the Mexicans, especially those at the
RingoH ouse, h~ospitable, pleasant
people. 1 wanted to accept an inyi-
tation to stay there a week, but time
flies and money is twelve per cent.
Well, not being a travelling tele-
phone with clothes on, l couldn't
stay at Mexico and lecture at Fulton.
So / hired me a Mexican team to
take me to Fulton. Time, 500 p.
m. Distance, twenty-five miles.
Muddy and billy. 1 telegraphed MIR.
II. w. Wells, of Fulton, that / would
be there and we started. Over prai-
RE roads that stretched away through
a fertile, beautiful grazing country,
noted all over the west for It's SPLEEN
did stock, down rugged hill-sides and
across creek and branch and run;
through q drilling misty rain,
through mud and darkness, the weary
hours spoiled all of beauty or romance
there was in the diversified scenery,
and at last, at ten minutes of eight,
Mr.. Booth met us with openarms at the
hotel in Fulton, and told us the house
was there and was waiting for the
talking machine.
1t was a hard drive, but L was glad
/ made it. ] think the best natured
people this side of the summer land
live in Fulton. 1t is an old town,
very wealthy, and seat Of two of the
state institutions. The intellectual
tone of it's society is moulded and
kept up to a hi yh standard by The two
famous Presbyterian colleges located
there, the Westminster and the Syn
odical, and the latter for ladies'
These schools justly bear q high repu-
tation in educational circles, which
they have won by their genuine ex-
cellence end merits. The social ele-
ment of the little city is most charm
ing. The people are as bright, in
telligent, and well read, as they are
good natured, and that is saying a
great deal. Four good newspapers
keep Fulton before the world, and it
has one railroad. And that is enough.
! If it had another one like it, the
bright little city would never have
any trains.
1 didn't have time to visit the col
leges, and l regretted this very much.
/ did not have time to see half the
people | wanted to see, but as hurri-
ed rs my visit was, it delighted me
with the town and its people, and 1
brought away with me only the pleas
ATTEST impressions of it and them.
To-day / returned to Mexico on
the train, and
By the way, for all we growl at the
railroads once in a while, did you
never observe that we always take
the train when we can? MY team
and driver were all ready to take me
back to Mexico the way / came, but
somehow or other / kind of went and
sort of bought a ticket like, and came
kind of back on the train The run
TO Mexico was shortened by the pres
ence of some new-made friends who
were the most delightful of travelling
companions, and l was sorry this dis
lance was so short.
Really, l am beginning to like this
Missouri country. If l meet many
many more friends down here / shall
want to buy a piece of it. 1t is a
state that has immense undeveloped
resources, a delightful climate, and
is only just now waking up TO a sense
of the Importance of calling the at
tention ofimmlgrants and home buyers
to the advantages and attractions Of
fered by this state. With proper
work by an energetic state board of
immigration, Missouri would grow
so rapidly in the next three Or four
year, it would brighten itself.
Mexico. l have reached Mexico.
Here l dine at the Ringo, and wait
for a train to Moberly. There l will
go to the Rothwell, and wait for a
train to Hannibal.
/ believe | have waited for more
trains, on a coupon ticket only an
inch and a half long, than any other
man in America. Il. J. Is.