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Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
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Trouble Behind the Scenes.

"Let me tell you one thing, my boy"
laid the director, settling down in his
chair, "the manager of italian opera
does not pass much of his time on bed
of roses. The public comes here ele-
gantly attired, and smilingly awaits the
rising of the curtain-and the curtain
always rises at the proper time. Little
the people in the boxes know what may
be going on behind the curtain. Per
haps the Carmen who is soon to burst
upon the stage and captivate her hear
ers with Amor Misterioso, is rolling her
eyes, and stamping her foot, and threat
ening to withdraw her services. Per-
haps there are three OF four lawyers on
the stage trying to make mischief. The
director has to pour oil on the troubled
waters and pacify everybody before the
curtain is pulled up. A great operatic
tenor or prinla donna is Ike dynamite,
which will almost explode II you look
at It. They must get up the operatic
steam some time during the day.
"The late Mr.. Lumley, mypredecessor
as Director of Her Majesty's Theater,
very aptly remarked once that he had
no confidence in a singer who placidly
attended the rehearsals, came regularly
to the theater, and never caused con-
fusion. Artists who never exhibited pas
sion were not apt to be great, he used to
say.
"Mr. Macready, you know, when en-
gaging his dresser, whom 1 knew very
well, arranged that when he shook him
he should pay him double wages, and
when he struck him, his pay should be
trebled. I think that dresser used to
get treble wages all the while Macready
was at Drury Lane. 1 went once to
Macready's dressing-room during the
performance. The tragedian had the
dresser in the corner and was nearly
choking him. He was rehearsing his
part. he afterward rushed upon the
stage and startled his audience by his
brilliant aoting."-New York Times.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
The Poet whittier.

Mr.. Whittier wrote this touching lit
tie letter to q child in Pennsylvania
who asked him how he spent his days in
boyhood: "Amesbury, Mass, 9th mo.
II, 1SS1.-My Dear Young Friend: I
think at the age Of which thy note m
quires I found about equal satisfaction
80 our old rural home, With the shifting
panorama Of the seasons, in reading the
new books within my reach and dream
ing cf something wonderful and grand
inmewhere in the future. Neither
change nor loss had then made me re-
alize the uncertainty Of all earthly
things. felt secure in my mothers
love, and dreamed Of losing nothing and
gaining much. Looking back now, my
chief satisfaction u that I loved and
obeyed my parents, and tried to make
them happy by trying to be good. That
] did not succeed In all respects, that I
fell very far short Of rny good intentions,
was frequent cause Of sorrow. I had
at that time . very great thirst for
knowledge and little means Of gratifying
it. The beauty Of outward nature early
impressed me, and the moral and spirit
ual beauty of the holy lives read Of In
the Bible and other good books also
affected me with q sense of my own fall.
ing short and longing for better state.
With every good wish for thee, I am
thy sincere friend.
"JoHN q. WHTTma."
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
SOCIETIES.,

40. U. W. meets every Tuesday evening al
I :: 80. J. a. Spence, P. NJ. W; f. s. Frost, NJ.
W.; J. J. Winscott, q. E.; r. \. Armstrong, o.
ID. I. Gentry, r.; z. w Harding, Receiver; 5
l.. Mexican, f. =.
Crusade Commandery-S 5. Craig, Eminent
Commander, meets third Tuesday evening OF
each month, at 80 p. NJ.
Mexico Lodge No 20, A. F. and \. NJ. 1st Fri
day night in each lnonth ut T. ID. j. Nj. Marm-
aduke. w. NJ; L. IL. Iiightshoe, s. w; j. +.
Llewellyn, J. W; James Carroll, Secretary;
j. Gibbs, Treasurer; j. G Bassford, 5. M; J.
F. Gillian, j. D.; James Clacher, Tyler.
Mexico Chapter No. q, Royal Arch, meets the
End Friday in each month. s. NJ. Edwards, Ii
p, J. NJ. Marmaduke, Secretary.
Hebron Lode No. S5i, A. F. and A M. regular
communications lst Tuesday In every month al
7: 3OP NJ. J. Nj. Riley, w. NJ,
l. o. o. F-Mexico Lodge No. 80 meets every
Thursday evening at their hall in z. NJ. Morris
building. j. Al. Riley, n. Il.
Andrain County Medical Society meets every
Friday evening at CLOCK. DIR. L. A. Keeton.
President; DIR. W. w. ROdman, Secretary.
Salt River Lodge, No. 1856, knights of Honor,
meets 1st and 80 Thursday evenings at Ken
mans Hail. j. Med. Trimble, Dictator; z. W
Harding, Reporter.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

Fifty years ago settlers were very
scarce in Bureau county, Ill, and Wild
hogs were plenty in the woods. A Maj.
Chamberlain put up little cabin at the
edge Of the timber somewhere west Of
Hennepin, and kept "bach" one sum-
mer while improving his land. Along in
the fall he went over to see some of his
neighbors about Princeton, and spent
several days with them. When he re-
turned he found his cabin door open,
and in the house under his bed he found
an old wild boar comfortably sleeping.
He tried to rout him out, when the boar
made o furious charge on him with his
savage tusks cleaning, and the doughty
Major was forced to take refuge on the
top Of the bed. The dog came to the
rescue Of his master, but the boar soon
whipped him out and then champed
around the perch where the Major was
long siege the Major thought he saw his
out Of the door. But his watchful guard
was close after him and chased him
round and round the house, following so
closely that the Major had no time to
climb up the corner logs. and as the only
place OF safety he at length ran back
into the house and got onto the bed
again. For probably an hour the hog
watched him there, and then again he
made break for outdoors, pursued as
before by his bristly enemy. This time
he managed to get heavy club, and
turning on the boar he pounded him
over the nose while the dog got In his
work at the rear. and after O savage
fght they whipped the hog and drove
him from the field. The old Major has
long since passed to his rest, but his de-
scendants still live in that vicinity.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
A Welcome Visitor.

BRINARp's MUSICAL WORLD for July
with its usual amount of good music,
entertaining sketches, editorials, mis-
cellany, etc. is Oh our table. An
Andante Of Beethoven" is an cquis-
lite story. and several other interesting
and instructive articles appear. to-
gether with the Biographies of
American Musicians" Educational
Hints" the famous WoRIp"L Letters"
and 81 worth of music, vocal and in
strumental: 1--WE See the Little Face
No More" beautiful song and chorus;
"Oscar Wilde Gallop," sparkling and
pretty; "A Summer Shower;'' "The
Torpedo and the Whale; "Trau-
merei,' etc, altogether making the
July number Of the Musical World
a most welcome visitor. The SUBJ
scriptions price is only $3.50 per year;
single copies 25 cents. Ask the news
dealer for it. or address
5. BRAINARD's Sons,
Chicago, Ill.
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Wise Sayings.

The reward of doing one duty is
the power to perform another Ben
Azai.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith to
God, if thou wantest charity Fran
els Quarles. .,
French infdelity is not the infidel-
ity of choice; it is the inhdelity of
despair.-[Gregory.
The best portion of good man. 8
life is his little namelsss, unremem-
bered acts of kindness and Of love.
The Bible does not say, "Well done
good and successful servant" but
'.Well done good and faithful SER
want. ''-[Gordon. "s>.'. -sr- &
Foundations are good, and paths
are good; but they are not enough.
Foundations were made to build on !;
paths were made to walk in
Weston.
Our fellow-creatures can only judge
of what we are by what we do; but
in the eye of our Maker what we do
is Of no worth except rs it flows from
what we are [Coleridge.
If We practice goodness not for the
sake of its own intrinsic excellence,
but for the sake of gaining some adj
vantage by it, We may be cunning,
but we are not good Cicero.
If thou seek rest in this life, how
wilt thou then attain to the everlast-
ing rest? Dispose not thyself fol
much rest, but for great patience.
Seek true peace-not in earth, but IL
Heaven; not in men, nor in any othel
creature, but in God alone. - kempis
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
A Cadaver Wanted.

"Now when you reach Macon you
go and see Col. Blank" they said to
me at the Constitution office in At
lanta. "The Colonel knows every
body for miles around, and he'll post
you on everything
"Thanks.
s'But he's a peculiar man." con-
tinued Grady. ''You've got to strike
him just right or he won't talk for
shucks. He's strictly temperate, and
yet you must take flask along and
ask him to drink. It's an old South
ern custom, you know, and while he
won't touch drop, he'll expect to
be invited to, You can fill the flask
with water, and he'll never know the
difference.
When reached Macon arranged
for call on the Colonel. l bought
pint flask at drug store, and told
the clerk to fill it with something good
to soothe sore heel. / didn't ask
him what it was, but sniff Or two
convinced me that sweet oil and tar
formed the greater portion. With
this bottle in my pocket 1 entered the
Colonel's office and told him who l
was and what / wanted.
eyes, sir; glad to see you-sit
down." he replied, and as soon as he
had sealed his letters he turned and
began:
$50 you want to know what we can
raise here, do you? Well, my boy,
you can say everything-everything.
We raise wheat, corn, oats, potatoes,
yams and-''
Just then he looked over to the
water-cooler and l put in with
s'Say, Colonel, have a drop of
something good put up by the best
house here"
"Thanks-that's just what l was
hankering after!' he replied, as he
held out his hand for the flask.
How 1 got out of there alive can't
remember, nor can I reconect what
became of the bottle, but there is a
whole newspaper staff in Atlanta who
may look upon themselves as doomed
men. The Colonel took his quart
daily, and it was put-up job to get
hold Of my dead body for a new
medical college at Savannah.
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POST OFFICE.


oEOhSE a. II IO5tiiltSIGE.
DAILY MAILS.
st. Louis mail arrives at 2: 10 p. m. and ,: %
a. m. (nightA r-a
81 Louis mail closes !2 m. and p. IN.
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II 35 p. m closes :lep m
st. Louis anu Chicago mail {via C. & A. r. RI
arrives ut 3 : 30 a. m, closes IL 70 p. m.
Jefferson City maii arrives at II SOp.m.
Jefferson City mail closes 3: 1op. m.
Western mail arrives ut IA p M
Western mail closes att p. m.
West Hartford and Perry mails arrive ut 20
a. m. Tuesdays, Thursday and SATURDAYS. Close
at a. m. saline days.
Santa Fe mail arrives at IL nj. Tuesdays and
Fridays--departs : a0p. IN. same days.
Young s Greek and Long Branch mails arrive
at IL IN. Tuesdays, Thursdays and saturdays
Close ut IL 30 p. m. same days.
Modoc and 1olnger's mail arrives at IL a. NJ.
saturdays. Closes ut p. m. same day.
fost Office opens at q. M; closes at ,. N.
Open Sundays from to ~
sE- Money orders on ali. important points IN
the United States, England and Ireland
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
Warm and Cold Baths

The physiological effects Of warm and
cold baths are thus noted by q writer In
An English medical journal
Warm baths produce an effect upon
the skin directly contrary to that which
is brought about by cold water. The
cutaneous vessels dilate Immediately un-
der the influence Of the heat, and, al
though the dilation is followed by q
contraction, this contraction is seldom
excessive, and the ultimate result of o
warm bath is to increase tho cutaneous
circulation. The pulse and respiration
are both quickened in the cold bath.
The warm bath increases the temper
ature Of the body, and, by lessening the
necessity for the internal production Of
heat, it decreases the call which is made
upon certain Of the vital processes, and
enables life TO be sustained with less
expenditure Of force.
While Q cold bath causes q certain
stiffness Of the muscles if continued too
long, . warm bath relieves stiffness and
fatigue. The final effect Of both hot and
cold baths, If their temperature is mod
crate, is the same, the difference being,
10 use the words Of Braun, that "cold
refreshes by stimulating the functions,
heat by physically facilitating them, and
in this hes thp important differences be-
tween tho cold water system and the
thermal mode Of treatment"
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
CITY OFFICERS
CHURCHES.

NJ. +. CHURCH, SOUTH--ServiceS in the NJ. +.
Church, south, every sunday ut 10 80 a. NJ. and
I: ~ T. NJ. Rev. L. j. Gooch, pastor. Prayer
School at 8 \. Il. j. NJ. Marmaduke, Superin
tendent.
BAPTIST CHURCH--Services at Baptist Church
every Sunday morning and evening. Prayer
meeting every Wednesday evening. Rev. j. c.
Armstrong, Pastor. Sunday School at A. NJ.
James Carroll, Superintendent
PREsBYTERIAS CHURCII--ServIces at Presby
Stodlert every sunday, at 10 80, a. NJ, and 80
p. NJ. Lecture and prayer meeting every Wednes
day evening. Sunday School ut A.. NJ. j. L.
BlantOn, Superintendent.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH--ServiceS at the Christian
Church every Lord's day at 10 80 A.. Il. and ! 80
p NJ. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at
80. Sunday School at . 30 a. NJ. B. l.. Locke,
Superintendent, L. +. Dobyns, Secretary.
OLp-ScHooL BAPTIST CHURCH, Services at the
Old-School Baptist Church every fourth Sunday
in each month. ElderJ. +. Lee, Pastor.
LIBERTY STREET NJ. f. .CHURcH--Services at the
Liberty Street Methodist Episcopal Church every
Sabbath morning and evening. Rev. j. Wayman.
pastor. Prayer meeting every Wednesday eyen-
ing. Sabbath School a. M. j. Wright, Super
lntendent.
EPISCOPAL CuURCH---Seryices in Episcopal
Church on 1st and Sd sundays in each month at
IL A. NJ. and :30P. NJ. Rev. Peter Wager, Rector.
CATHOLIC CHURCH--Services at the Catholic
Church every Sunday. Father Dempsey Pastor.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
Kansas or Bust.

Somebody went west to Kansas to
grow up with the Country. But the
country was evidently little too fast
for him and he got left. He advises
an eastern friend as follows:
CLAY CENTRE, KAs. July 10, So
Dear Friend: l write You a few lines
to let you know that l Received your
letter a few days ago. You don't
want to come to Kansas to start "a
Saloon unless you want to get Busted.
Kansas is He'll of n Country. l just
laid a weeks in Jail for selling Beer,
& 1 got enough of it. p. S. don't
come to Kansas to start Saloon.
(Signed. Joe Montel, Kas.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

This man is an editor. One week
ago he started newspaper, and the
prospectus announced that it would
be conducted on the basis of exclud-
ing every item that could in the least
offend the fastidious tastes or moral
sentiment of the community. At
present he is crouching behind the
fence. 1t is shady, but he does not
do it for the sake of shade; it is soli-
tary, but he does not do it for the
sake of solitude. The moral Journal
ist is a wary man. He-sees deputy
sheriff coming down the opposite side
of the street.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

The Mayor of Bedford gave the
graduating class of the high school
some good advice. He told the boys
that trade was desirable acquire
ment, and the girls that house work
ought to be included in their accom-
plishments. Some of them turned up
their school noses at him, and looked
at him with unattainable scorn.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

The old story of the man who blew
the froth off a glass of ale he drank
just before going 10 the galIows, be-
carse ''froth was bad for the liver"
is recalled by Guiteau's standing out
of the draft because he would "catch
cold" the day before he was hung.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

"What is the dcvil!' asked Sun
day school teacher of the new boy,
who was quite small.
Il don't know what is, bat it can't
run as fast as pa can.''
GLOW do you know that!''
"Because i heard pa say that he
catches the devil every time he comes
home late from the lodge.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

Jay Gould's new conservatory at
Evington, n. Y, is 400 feet long,
with several wings of 80 feet each,
and contains over 1000 varieties Of
plants, most of which were brought
from Eurooe this year. The grounds
are five hundreds acres in extent, and
there are large flower and vegetable
gardens.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

A boy paid his first visit TO the
country school as scholar, the other
day, and as he came home at night
his mother inquired:
"Well, Eddie, how do you like
going to school!'
"Bully!' he replied in an excited
voice. II saw four boys licked, and
one girl get her ear pulled, and l
don't want to miss day for any
thing
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
of the street

All East Boston father discovered
that his daughter, who has a soul for
romance, proposed to elope, and he
didn't set up with bulldog and
shotgun to waylay the fugitives.
Oh, no! He went to his daughter
and told her he desired her TO marry
ayoung man, naming her lover, and
he would set him up in good-paying
grocery business; and the young
lady at once declared she'd die
rather than marry any man just to
please her father.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

"Am l hurting you badly" asked
a Boston dentist of a lady whose teeth
he was fixing, aud who WAS emitting
horrible groans. "Oh, not in the
least; but | love TO groan," was the
reply.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
The Great State of Colorado.

just tlilHk VI IL! SOlOfdlO was
admitted into the union as state
when the union was 100 years old,
and is, therefore, called the "Centen-
NAL State" Twenty-one years ago
the City of Denver existed only in
Imagination; now its population ex-
ceeds 10000.
Twelve lines of railroads center in
Denver, and cars are running On all
of these roads. The population of
Denver is increasing by emigration at
a rate exceeding 1000 per month.
1t is the finest and most substantially
built city of its size and years there is
to be found in the United States.
The population of Colorado entire, is
now little more than 200, 700, and
is filling up at the rate of about 10o,-
600 increase per year. Men of means,
muscle and disposition to industry
are being directed to Colorado, be-
cause of the great opportunities its
mines offer for the investment of
money, machinery and time. Last
year more than S25, 10000 worth
of gold, silver and copper was taken
out Of the mines of Colorado at a
profit to the miners exceeding S15,-
600, 900. In no other part Of the
country has such small population
succeeded in producing so much
wealth. The mining enterprises of
Colorado are yet in their infancy.
New mines are being discovered every
week, and hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of the most improved
machinery is being put in place for
the mining and smelling of ores there
this year. From all parts of the
country, especially from the North,
earnest, active, enterprising, deter
mined men are making their way to
Colorado to engagement in the de-
velopment of her great industry, the
same being the production of mineral
or the taking of it from the great
mineral-bearing mines.
Among those who have lately gone
to Colorado is Mark NJ, more widely
known as "Brick" Pomeroy, who
went to Colorado about two years
ago, and who is now publishing his
large eight-page paper, Pomeroy's
Great Vest, in Denver, which IS sent
out at So per year, and contains vast
amount of reliable information con-
cerning mines and mining enterprises
of this young but wonderfully vigor-
GUS and growing stale. Since going
to Colorado Pomeroy has become in
terested in some of the most valuable
mining properties in the state, and
from some of them is now taking out
ore in large quantities, so that he bids
fair to become one of the largest
wealth producers in the West.
Persons wishing information con-
cerning Colorado and her mining in
terests, or wishing to invest some
money in legitimate mining properties
and mining enterprises will do well
to subscribe for Pomeroy's Great
Vest, or to send for sample copies of
the paper, or write to the editor
thereof, whose address is Denver.
In this country are great many
people. who do not like ''Brick"
Pomeroy, but certainly his energy
and industry are commendable, and
he is doing so much to help develop
the resources of this country it is
presumed that he will in time be fully
forgiven for having positive ideas and
and disposition to explain them
plainly.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

just before Carlyle married he read
kant's works in order to quiet his
nerves. After he WAS married he
nearly talked his poor wife to death.
and to quiet her nerves she used 10
scrub the floor.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

A couple of Louisville editors shot
ten times at each other last week.
Neither one was hurt. Mexico edit
ors shoot off their mouths with about
the same results and receive the same
applause (?).
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

"A reputashun," says Josh Bill
ings, ''once broken, may possibly bc
repaired, but the world win allwus
keep their eyes on the spot where the
crack was"
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

Miss Anna Dickinson and Miss
Susan B. Anthony arc to play, it is
whispered. in ''Much Ado About
Nothing" Miss Susan is to he
Much Ado and Miss Anna Nothing.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

''Oscar Wilde is failure on the
platform, declares the Memphis
1lpeal, land is only relieved from
the odium of humbuggery by his ap-
parent earnestncss.
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[ Duf't--N ester
Missouri.
STATE OEEICIAIS.

GOvernor-T. T. Crittenden. Salary, s. 900
Lieut. Goy.Robert y. Cainpbei.... So per day.
Secretary of St.tte-I X. Mctirath. .S3, 900
Attorney General-Daniel III. Mcintyre So, eco
AuditOr--J0hn Walker. 81, ,0n0
Treasurer--Phil l.. Chappell.. 50, 900
Register oil lands Robert McCulloch.. 81, 900
Supt. Public instraction--R. ID. Shannon. 50, ,0U0
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
A Lexington (Ky.) youth, who

A Lexington (Ky.) youth, who
went to work in the country, wrote
to his girl, a June graduate, that he
was raising a calf. Imagine his feel
ings when the girl replied: II am
glad you have begun to support your
self -
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

The person who stands and holds
the spring screen-door half open is
abroad in the land. We trust the
flies will get the best of him sometime.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20

The parting gives me pain," rs
the man said when he had a trouble
some extracted.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-07-20
County and City Directory
Times of Holding Courts.

AUDRAIN CIRCUIT COURT.
Regular Terms---Fourth Monday in January
first Monday in June, and first Monday in
October.
PROBATE C0URT.
Regular Tcrms--Second Monday in March, May
September, and January.
COUNTY COURT.
Regular Terms--First Monday in May, August,
November and February.