Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1880-12-02
THE DISCOVERY OF ICE CREAM.

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THE DISCOVERY OF ICE CREAM.
A Better Business than Making Presidents
Or Even Acting King. ~ ~
1t was in Lacita, and the king of
The country was such a grand king
that he wore his gold crown even st
night, though it made the worst kind
Of night-cap. The wise men Of
Lacita said the crown must never
come of, and 1t was these wise men
and the prince who formed a conspir-
acy against the king, ending in the
discovery of ice cream. But the king
lived well, growing fat and jolly, un-
til his son, the prince, became unruly.
Then the king grew so thin that he
had to use a piece Of paper doubled
up inside Of his crown to prevent it
from slipping down over his nose. d
The wise men said: "We'n make
a plan to reform this prince, but
during the next three years they did
nothing but talk, talk, talk. One
day the very royal candle snuffer
brought them this note: r-..-..
''Your plan or your heads.
#"-1 aaa KING JOHN.
They sent back word to the king
to please make the prince chief high
director of the weather. The change
that followed was marvellous. The
prince suited everyone. He made it
clear and sunny for q picnic party,
windy in the right direction for the
sailors, just right for the farmers, cold
for the fur dealers and hot for the
bathing resort men. The people of
Latica went almost wild with Joy,
and the king laughed and grew fat
again. The wise men claimed all the
merit, but they soon regretted doing
so. Thousands of Lacticans came to
thank them in long, dry speeches,
and brass bands brayed before their
houses all day, while nightly process.
sions marched and hurrshed every
wink Of sleep from their pillows.
The wise men prayed the king to send
the peole home and when he refused
fifty of the wisest ran away to the sea,
but the others formed conspiracy.
The kings strawberries grew be-
tween the palace and the royal milk
house, and it was double high treason
for any one but the king to PICK them.
One morning, before the weather Office
was open, the wise men persuaded
the prince to go with them and eat
berries with sugar and cream in the
royal milk-house. While sugaring
the berries they heard the king come
into the garden. --r
"I'm afraid those robins have been
eating my berries again!" they pres
emily heard him remark.
Theprince paused, pale with fright.
The wise men rushed up and down,
shaking with terror.
Into-the-cream-with-them!'
chattered the prince, and into a can
of cream the berries were dropped,
sugar and all, the lid capped on the
can and the prince on top of that.
Six of the strongest Of the wisest men
placed their backs to the royal milk
house door, and the others soon ap-
peared to be sound asleep in the cor
ners.
The king strolled in the garden
long after the princes Office hour. II
appears that the prince had used on
ly the good weather, and had accu-
mulated such store of ill.winds,
cold snaps and great storms as was
never known before. The chief high
director not appearing, the commo.
ton that began made all the people
hunt for their almanacs in hurry.
The wind blew over chimneys and
bent high steeples out of shape.
And how it showed and hailed ano
rained and made the people wisf
there hadn't been any chief high dl
rector. The wind twitched the kings
crown over the high fence and, il
two seconds, hlm after it; and i
rolled across the fields ten miles be
fore he caught 1t. The roof of th'
royal milk house few over the palace
) and the badly frightened prince ant
the wise men tumbled out. 1ht
wind tossed the cans inlo the roat
and sent them spinning away througl
the storm like silver wheels. Th
wise men were lost, and were. snip
,, posed to have blown to a deserte,
/, island. ...-...
,, The king returned with his crow
just as an honest farmer drove up t
the palace in his sleigh with = cream
can he had just found in snow
, drift. The king carlessly tool
|, off the lid and then staggered bac
!, screaming and trembling-the ca
1 was well filled with some pink-col
ored thick stuff, such as never be
fore had been seen.
"Seize him. said the king, Ssh
, wants to poison mel" and the Who'll
court rushed out to protect the king
snake him eat of it or off goes hi
head!"
They expected to see the farme
:. drop dead, but no he spooned ou
= !, the good stuff as fast as possible. A
Il last the prince vcntured to taste, an
: the farmer couldn't get the spoo
a back. AS soon as the king tasted b
o created the farmer q duke on th
y spot, ordered hundred guns to b
y fred and promoted the prince to B
q king, as he himself wished to ope
y an ice cream saloon at one end I
e the palace. The ex-king died vel
'e wealthy. While he lived he hired q
IS the poor people of Lactia to spres
:. fine ice upon the palace hill and re
Ct his cans of cream down to freeze.
a. Studebaker.
~ The Studebakers, wagon manufa
er turers of Indiana, wrote Senator We
ae q lettar hauling him over the COS
TO for saying in a speech at Palmy
be that he would walk all his life rath
ty than ride in a Studebaker wagoI
be These remarks were called forth
II, the action of the Studebakers, vi
rs threatened to discharge any and ,
IS, of their employees who voted the Del
n, ocratic ticket. Senator Vest repli