Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-03-23
SMALL TALK.
7

SMALL TALK.
1.
The people should not be alarmed.
This is not n of the plaques that
forced Pharaoh to let the Children Of
Israel 90, although it is forcing a
a good many people who sre not
Children of Israel to go-sone east,
some west, some north, some south
and some to the poor house. Little,
but loud, and more numerous than
the sounds of the sea shore, are the
candidates for recorder. Dramatic
talent is not prevalent o. wei devel-
oped when found. But when it
comes to singing ''In the Sweet Bye
and Bye we a get up on the fence
and look on the sprouting what and
take the bun before it is cooked, or
for that matter, before it is grown.
Rulers make laws that are of 10 avail.
Ministers pray that things will change
and still no change. Farmes wear
long faces and pocket books that look
as if an elephant had stepped on
them. But the pestiferous chinch
bug smiles CHASTITY smile as lie peeps
out from his winter quarters with a
blood-shot and hungry eye and in a
rasping, avaricious voice, asks what is
the prospect for a good crop.
II.
There is nothing that plesses us
more than to agreeably surprise Il
friends and readers. We would 90
without a nights sleep any time to
catch on to a news item fol- them,
and refrain from food for a week to
announce a real sensation. Such is
the case at this time. We are au-
thorized and have the pleasure to an
nounce a real, a startling and I'M
looked for and unheard of sensation.
and are willing to 90 hungry for a
month. We could give less pleas
ure or would there be greater rejoic-
ing if we assured every man that he
could be elected to the office he want
ed than there will be when you read
Il announcement. If Edwin Booth
or Bernhardt or Patti were to come
to Mexico they would have crowded
houses. But when We tell you what
is coming an addition will have to be
built and another story put on our
opera house. Now don't hurry us.
We are not going to tell you when
the millennium is coming. We are
not going to inform the debtor that
we will pay what he is owing, or the
creditor that We will pay what Is due
him. We cannot even tell yoa that
we are going to have an early spring
or a good crop year. We cannot as
sure you that the FEATHER of Waters"
will give us water works or that we
are going to have rock roads. We
shall not inform you that the G. 4 A.
division is coming back to Mexico or
that Bob ~Ingersoii is correct in his
views about HI. You can't reap if
you don't SOW. You can't be a good
Niger minstrel or a even a fair circus
clown if the Lord intended YOU for
an editor. You may he disappointed
in love. Your best friends may 90
back on you when you need them the
worst. You may be short On grain
when you should be long and vice
versa. The arrows of outrageous
fortune may strike deep into youl
sorrowful heart. The sheriff may
sell you out and even grim death east
his shadow oyer you. You may have
been fooled into going to a snld,
show or you may have paid your good
money for a church oyster stew or /:
picnic pink lemonade. But if YOU
are in Mexico on the 4th of April YOU
can forget all ills and outrages. Yor
can forget that one-half of tie yeal
is winter and that it rains alwav.
when you want to 90 fishing, You
forget and forgive all who have dcncyo,
an injury. You will at least, one,
in yourlife, be ON good terms with al
the world, and even forget the lat,
civil val which wrecked your forum,
and was the death of a brothe:. faith
er or lover-another Uncle Tom:
Cabin, April 4th.
A $4,000 Biblical Reward.
The publishers of Rutledge'sNonthl,
offer ten valuable rewards i'll thei
Monthly for April, among which i
the following:
We will give $4,000 in gold to tn
person telling us which is the middl
verse in the New Testament Script
ures by April 10th, 1882. Should tw'
or more correct answers be receiv
ed the reward will be divided. TIL