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Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

Complaint without Reason, as USUAL

SouHRAuAAt 81
Editor Press: I see in the Press OF Feo-
ruary sth, 1882, that Assessor Beatty mas
completed the assessment for the year
1889. the footings being as follows: No.
acres land, 433, 053, value OF same 9o'S-f-
9l5. In looking over my book, IN search
of the dog law, I found the assessment VI
the county for 1881; thinking they "ere
not the same, l compared them. 1 io"ho
| the first years number of acres 10 De o'0'-
463, value SO, 9OS, 43O-one hundred thous-
and four hundred and ten acres more last
year than this year, and still the value OIL
the last wear is s316,4s more than the year
before. /
Mr.. Editor, we have lost too much lahu
for II year. There must be a mistake
somewhere. L own the same land that 1
have owned for the last ten years, anu yet
they have raised the assessment on the
same land $50. Why is this done!
thought the county was out of debt. Is
it not to cut down the per cent. on the
hundred dollars, that some person OF per-
sons may profit thereby-who do not own
land? BY the low per cent. on the nun
dred, it is very easy to put a few COLLARS
on land to make wealth in a county.
J. A. BROWN.
We clip the above from the Au-
drain County Press of yesterday.
No one except Brown will be sur
prised when we tell him that he is
rushing into print about nothing.
Some people are not happy unless
they can be finding fault with our
county officials and throwing dirt at
them. Mr.. Brown either don't know
how to read, Or the paper he read
was incorrect, or he is wilfully mlsrep-
} resenting Mr.. Beatty. We know
what we are talking about when We
say that the number of acres were
: never what Brown says they were,
: In 1881 the county was assessed a
1873, 1853. for 1882, 1873 ,O53-the diff
ference of 40 acres has gone int
town lots and for railroad uses
I Brown says we lost too muchlandfo
S one year, As the above shows
S Brown don't know what he is talkin!
S about. His mouth seems to hav
/ gotten ahead of his brain, which i
. unusual for a greenbacker. Wonde
if Brown thinks some a carried OF
l. this land that he can't account for
Maybe he thinks John Beatty sold
e and put the money in his pocket, G
that the court house ring and demo
Is cratic papers divided it up betwee
: themselves. We don't think any Oh
), man can make head nor tail out {
Browns last paragraph. We fail t
s. see the drift Of it except that he don
d see how, VIXEN the rate of per cent
cut down, his assessment can
i raised. Every person that know
anything knows that these two thing
y have no reference to each other
e all. If Browns property was a
: sessed s160 higher We suppose it h;
)l increased that much, if not more,
3 value. Not knowing in what spin
Ill Brown wrote his article we are at
z loss how to reply, except merely
L state the facts as above.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23
Seven Wonders.

To the Editor OF the LEDGER;
FARBER, Mo-, Feb. 22.-Will you
inform me what are the sever wonders
of the world. JENNIE.
The seven wonders Of the world.
in ancient times. were reckoned to be:
The pyramids of Egypt; the mauso-
lem. or tomb, built for Mausolus,
king Of Caria, in Asia Minor, by his
queen, Artemisia; the temple OF
Diana, at Ephesus: the walls and
hanging gardens of the city of Baby
lon the great braZen statue conse-
Grated to the sun. spanning the en-
trance to the harhor of the island Of
Rhodes, and distinguished as the
Colossus of Rhodes; the statue Of
Jupiter Olympus, carved by the
sculptor Phidias: the PharOs, or
watch-tower, Of Alexandria, built by
Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

The evils of tobacco have once more
been demonstrated. A colored man
who had spent his life in Lorillard's
tobacco factory has just passed away,
and it is believed the tobacco must
have been the cause his death. The
unfortunate mans age. was was 107
wears. This is another solemn warning.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

We are against prohibition because
we believe it contrary to the laws of
God and against the laws of nature.
Rails Co. Guide.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

Small children should not be left
alone. A house in Kearney, Mo-,
burned last week, cremating three
little children.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

Guiteau has been so alarmed by
the smallpox letters he has received
that he has been v~acclnateo. IL
recalls the story of the man who' Just
before he was hung, asked for a glass
of ale. When is was handed to him
he blew the froth from the top of the
glass because sit was bad for the
LIVER
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

Fayette had a smallpox scare last
week. Some of the school boys 'io
measels and a physician pronounced
j. smallpox.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

Oscar Fogerstrom sold last Satur-
day, his harness gelding, to Bob.
Tureman, of Mexico, for S200.-F'ul-
ton Gazette.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23
Cow.Pox a Preventative of SMALLPOX.

Vaccination, derived from vacco, a
COW, is the process by which cow-pox
introduced into the human system
foI the prevention of smallpox.
Formerly it was customary to use
lymph from children, supposed to be
free from hereditary faint, but latter
~ vaccine direct from an animal is
preferred. This is dried on points
and quilts, with which the skin is
abraded and the virus inserted. This
virus is mainly obtained from Alderny
calves to whose bellies, after being
shaved, as many as twenty-five OF
thirty vesicles are applied, producing
as many pocks without appreciate
effect upon their health. That used
for this purpose was transmitted from
cows affected in extensive epidemics
in Veauguery in 1876.
The protecting power of vaccina-
ton or innoculation with cOw-pON was
first extensively made known by DR..
Edward Jenner who, in 1870, heard a
young woman say, Il cannot have
the smallpox because I have had the
cow-pox." Not LONG afterwards, DIR.
Jenner, thus led into extensive ex-
animation of what his attention had
been directed to, enumerated the dis
eases mixers were subject to, dwelt
upon the specific eruption which pre-
vented smallpox and expressed the
hope that this malignant and loath'
ONE disease might be eradicated by
the universal dissemination of COW
pox. Objections to the use of cow
poX virus as now obtained are yer,
foolish as it is the only known means
of arresting smallpox epidemic
without mourning unnecessary risk.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

The United States Express Com
pany has just supplied all express
cars on the Chicago & Alton r. K.
with steel safes, in which the valua-
bles of the company, for through
points, will hereafter be transported.
The safes will be locked at Kansas
City and Chicago and can only be
opened by agents at the opposite
ends of the road, so it will be lmpos'
sible hereafter for robbers to carry
off the cake if they call upon agents
of the Alton road to stand ana oe'
I;per.'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23
SHERIFF'S SALE In PARfii''

Ella McGune and John McCunSe o,,s "
band, John NJ. Brown ana '
Brown, Plaintiffs,
Warren B. Mcintyre, John a.
Frank b. Stafford, D~efendan's' ,osgd1
In the Circuit Court of AudfS"
Missouri. aeeree u
BY virtue and authority Oh aurt isv
order of sale made by the saia c.;ssd sa]
above entitled cause and OF 90 80 i sil 4
thereof, dated January 3rd. 'oo
Thursday, Feb. 2sd, ls..' ~
between the hours of nine e 9sa sfsss.
forenoon and Eve o'clock 10 'n ~ the oN9
of that day, at the front door = n Aub.
House in the City of Mexico, %vendse
| County, Missouri. sell. at puoIs dssrd
| the highest bidder, the foiio~"e
| real estate, VIZ: -:aosl toN
Lot No. 6, block No, ., oris'
" Terms of Sale rs follows:aGsJsa;
D. D. WOOD" -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

Go and hear Uncle Toms Cabin
Friday night for the benefit of Next
co silver cOrnet band.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

OFFENDER AND SWEET" Latest and
L most popular song and chorus For
sale at FETTER'S.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

DOCK AND JOB PRINTING.-AlI kinds
ID and styles of jon PRINTING, in the
highest style of the art, executed at the
LEDGER Job rooms.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-02-23

by virtue and authority OF spesis
~ execution. issued from the UNIV ';
of the clerk of the Circuit Coufl VI
Audrain county, Missouri, [es1 a
able at the January term, loas' y |,
said court, and to me dlrec'eu' a.
favor of State of Missouri, u y e =
relation and to the use oil D
Dobyns. collector, and against ..
Anderson, and the unknown neiIs
David r. Witt, | have levied w.
and seized all the right. title, i1.slr,
and claim of the said j. NJ. Anas nv,
and the unknown heirs of d; H. aI
of. in and TO the following uesci
real estate, to-wit: Tract No. ts =,
acres, southwest, northwest, see y,
thirty-five (35), township my. II
(a1), range five (6); tract No. nth.
acres north end, northwest, SUI Sun.
west, section thirty-tive tStl. y" a
ship fifty-one (51l, range fVe III
Audrain county, Missouri. AiH .pi
and being in the sand conh..'
State of Missouri, and will Oh
Thursday, February %, A. d. ~ :
between the hours of nine o,ei9 ~ IN
the forenoon and five O'Clock ~ ~
afternoon of that day, al tp n II
front door of the Court House,S
CITY of Mexico, county OF Alum uas
aforesaid. sell the same, or ~ nablt
thereof as may be required; s 2, I'd Is
vendue, to the highest oia Az prie
cash in hand, (subject 10 su nj
liens and Judgments to ss''''
execution and costs. M.
d. ID. WooDWAhII IA
Sheriff of Audrain coun..l|
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-06
md under-housekeeper are Boston doc

and under-housekeepe are Boston doc
tresses.
Think of having ones disgust at slop-
py coffee or an overdone steak observed
critically by the light of German philos-
ophy and Greek culture Think Of ask
ing a creature who may be contributor
to the Atlaratic Monthly to bring you
the toothpjcks L couldn't do it. The
scornful young person, who leisurely
carried Ia our breakfast by such easy
loads that no two yiands were eatabie at
the same moment, received no command
from my lips. The coffee went down
without milk or sugar the butter went
down in a pellet, all by itself the su-
perior one had forgotten to bring the
bread and as for fshballs instead of
steak, why / swallowed them without a
nurmur.
a while an EnellsAInan. saun-
tered in, took a seat near mine, and
called ont to our Hebe: Heah All, l
say, waiter" You should have seen the
Scornful. She shifted the air, she
bounced. she hounced and flushed and
bit her lips: the angry tears were in her
eyes, and she banged down a bill OF fare
before the offensive stranger as If 1t We're
a barrel Of lead. The astonished man
crtly and sharply gave ms order, and
Hebe sauntered down the room, and
was evidently agitating her wrongs with
the rest of the culture that posed about
the pantry door.
q I'm afraid You have offended that
young person, sir, SAID our professor to
the Euglishman.
Offended the servant? How ?" the
duh creature asked.
Why, by calling her waiter
"Oh beg pardon; should it be
waitress p"
" Neither, sir.
"Well, and what should she be called.
then ?"
Even the professor couldn't answer
that. The funny man suggested "high-
toned youthful individual" as "a name
that might 90 trippingly on the tongue.
But how the lady waitress IS really to be
addressed remains for Congress, or pos
terity, or some other great but irrespon-
sible power to determine.
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Simple Tales for Little Children.

I. Here we have an album. 1t is full
of pictures for little children with dirty
fingers to look at Here are two pictures
of papa This is one of him before he
was married to mamma. He looks ike
a two-year-old colt behind band OF
music Here is a picture of papa after
he had married mamma. Now he looks
like a government mule hauling load
of pig iron. See if You can put your
finger on the nose and the eyes and the
mouth of each picture. Turn down a
leaf when YOU come to a pretty picture
you like. The baby is eating bread and
molasses. Let him take the album and
look at the pictures, too.
2. This is a lamp. 1t is full of nice.
yellow oil Can you light the lamp? Ii
there is too much oil pour some OF 1t IN
the stove. Mamma will not miss the OH
if you pour it in the stove, but she may
miss you. A little oil on the carpet IS
not bad thing for the oil, but 1t Is a
bad thing for the carpet and you.
3. Do not make a noise or you will
wake the policeman He Is sitting on
the doorstep asleep. 1t is very hard on
him to have to sleep out of doors these
cold nights. There is a bank being
robbed around the corner and woman
Is being killed in the next block. Ii the
policeman walked mp he might find 1t out
and arrest somebody. Some people be-
lieve this is what policemen are for, but
the policemen do not think so.
4. Who is this creature with long hair
and a wild eye? He is a poet. He writes
poems on spring and women's eyes and
strange, unreal things of that kind. He
is always wishing he was dead, but he
wouldn't let anybody kill him if he conld
get away. A mighty good sausage-stutfer
was spoiled when the man became a
poet. He would look well standing un-
der a descending pile-driver.
s. The girl is at the gate. A young
man is coming down the lane. The girls
papa is sitting on the front porch. He
is very old. He has raised family OF
eleven children. What is the poor old
man thinking about, and why does ha
gaze so intently at his right boot? Maybe
he is thinking about raising the young
man who is coming down the lane.-
DenUer Tribune.
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4 beautiful hand is an excellent thing
IL womp; it Is a charm that never fails.
it is a means of fascination that never
disappears. Women carry a beautiful
hand with them to the grave when a
beautiful face has long since vanished
or ceased TO enchant The expression
Of the hand, too, Is iuexhaustible; and
when the eyes we may have worshiped
no longer flash or sparkle, the ringlets
with which we have played are covered
with a cap, or, worse, a turban, and the
Symmetrical presence which, in our SON
nets, has reminded US so often of ante
lopes an wild gazelles, have al, all
vanished the hand, the immortal hand,
defylnga Alike time and care, still van
quishestnd still triumphs; and small soft
and fair by an airy attitude, gentle
pressure or a new ring, renews with
untiringgrace the spell that bound our
en8moral and adoriug vouth.-DjsracL
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borrowing.

Dear Girls-Let me entreat you never
TO form a habit of borrowing-borrowlng
in season and out of season; borrowing
dresses and wraps, ribbons and pins,
scissors and thread, dimes and pencils,
until your friends will expect to hear
YOU say. Please, may / borrow, each
time you look into their rooms. Lend
ing Is a real kindness, and betokens an
obiging spirit but borrowing shows
careless management and no proper re-
gard for the rights of others. To be
sure, IL Is sometimes necessary even
with the best regulated household,
wardrobe or work-box. Still [ have
real regard for those who viii deny them
selves pleasure or put off time OF
enjoyment rather than borrow. But OF
all things, HcUe2' ask the loan OF clothing
Some persons are so sensitive that II
they could afford it they would rather
throw away garment another had worn
than appear in it themselves. Although
you may think this foolish, you must
bear IN mind that the garments belong
to their friend, and 10y asking to borrow
them, You force her to choose between
furnishing herself with complying or
offending you with denial.
Perhaps the girl readers are not ad-
dicted 10 this exasperating habit, and
do not need this talk. There Is, how
ever, among my acquaintance a maiden
who makes herself one Of my greatest
trials. She asks for my scarf to wear to
the city, for my shawl when she visits
her aunt, for my hood when she goes
skating. One of my dresses figured at
her cousins wedding one Of my neck
ties is seen in her photograph; she pro
tects her hands with my mittens, walks
dry-shod in my rubbers, and warns her
fingers in my mutf. Yet she Is so help
full, and sociable, and amiable, and re
turns so readily and neatly each article
borrowed, that ! seldom venture re-
fusal, especially when L remember that
her wardrobe is seantily furnished Still
L often take myself severely to task for
allowing a girl with s1,cb excellent traits
to pass into womanhood with this disa-
greeable one. So full of the hope that
She will see this talk, I send it on its
mission, trusting it will help some
maiden to become q more agreeable
woman. -4unt Oliva" ia Country GEN
UeuIQR.
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woman's Exchange in New York.

[ must mention the Woman's Ex-
change here, which is now accepted as
an established success. Only three
years old, and starting with but ten con-
signors, it now has $3.50. The sales
this year amount to S26, ,535.37, an in
crease of So, 600 over last year. With
all expenses paid, and without debt,
SO, 600 has been put In the bank toward
the building fund, and, encouraged by
the example of the parent society, nine
others have been started in different
cities.
Few people have any idea of the
amount of good accomplished through
the Exchange. Only the other day
came across a young girl, rendered a
cripple by painful accident, and unable
to move from her chair, who supported
herself by making pure molasses candy,
which is sold In the restaurant attached
to the three rooms of the Exchange.
Another instance is found in the English
lady reduced by misfortune to poverty,
who supplies all orders for English plum
pudding, and dresses herself from the
proceeds. There are very few women
in the world deprived of the gift OF
doing some one thing well and, whether
it consists of making good ginger bread,
q set of baby clothes, painting a screen,
or carving n piano, she can find an OPP
portunlty to make profitable use of II
here. Letter in Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Poor Boys Who Hare Become Pres.
idenfs


The second President of the United
Stat $. John Adams, Ras the son of a
farmer OF sodurate means. who was
compelled tb work constantly for +he
support of ~ family. When at the
age of twenty-one, he son Graduated at
Harvard Colleges his education was his
own capital for his Start IN life.
Andrew jackson Was born in a log hut
in extreme poverty. He grew up in the
woods of North CaHlina, living in the
home Of a reIatives where his mother
worked to SUPPORT herself and her three
children.
James X. Iaoik, eleventh President,
spent his early yean on a new farm
in the wilderness q North Carolina.
His fatheI. eI.plaez22 IN a store, with
sths-in1anT1-s5sn tlal.s h. shoufd enter mer-
camille life but his disllAN for business
was so great that, at the age o eighteen,
he was sent to the Murfreelborough
Academy 10 fit for college.
Mlllard Fillmore was the son Of New
York farmer, and his home was an lslm-
BILE one. When he was fourteen years
Old he was sent away from home to lean
the business Of q clothier. But five
years latter he entered a law office, and
mt the age Of twenty-three he was admit
ted to tue bar.
James Buchanan was born in a small
town of the Aleghany Mountains. His
father was poor, and by his own AK built
his home IN the wilderness. When
James was eight years old he was placed
at school, and six years latter entered
Dickinson College where he graduated
with the highest honors.
1t Is well known that Abraham Lin
coin was the son of parents who were
the poorest Of the poor. Til he was
more than twenty-one his home was a
log cabin. His attendance at school
was limited TO a few months. From
early life he was compelled to depend
ON himself not only for his living, but
also for his success IN his business and
his profession.
At the age Of ten Andrew johnson
was apprenticed to a tailor Previously
hls mother had supported him by her
own labor. He was never able, it Is said
10 attend school. His education he
gained by his own efforts at night, after
working all day at his trade, and by the
help of his vie.
The early home OF General Grant,
also on the banks of the Ohio. more than
fifty years ago, was without many Of the
comforts Of civilized life. Till he was
seventeen, when he was sent to West
Point, he lived the life Of a COMMON boy
in n common home.
James A. Garfield, ike so many of
his predecessors, was born IN a log hut.
When he had hardly entered bis teens
he was doing mans work in the har-
vest field. He learned the carpenters
trade. He worked on the Ohio Canal
He was determined, however, to have
an education, and, leaving his plane and
scythe, he worked his way through the
preparatory school, and, with some help
from friends, was able to graduate at
Williams College.
The ives or many of the Presidents
prove that no boy is so poor but that he
may hope TO attain the highest honors
which the American people can give.
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Western women.

Perh@s the most striking character
istic of Inc women of the West IS the
even unlue Importance they place on
the intellectual life. 1t Is natural re-
suit Of the early depriyations of the
parents Who, in going to new country,
relinquihed the educational privileges
of the East, and TO whose receding
visions ihe opportunities of schools,
libraries art galleries and social culture
were blessings that frightened as they
took thar flight. As an almost inyari-
able sequence their children were
reared e consider these the very essen
tials OF ife. The mother might neces-
sarily bt confined to a life limited in its
realizatbns but infinite in its aspira-
ti0ns. and ont of this grew the feeling
that the daughter should enjoy those
privileges denied to herself. Thus the
present generations of the women of the
West are the ones who recruit the intel
lectual ranlzs. Boston TraUeHer.
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The Fgg Story.

1t would violate all precedent If the
story of Columbus and the egg were to
be spared the readers of this volume. 1t
Is briefly as follows Soon after his
return 20 Spain he dined with Cardinal
de Mendoza, an eminent clergyman with
a talent for dinners. An Objectionable
young man who was present, and who
undoubtedly had taken more champagne
than was good for his fellow diners,
asked the Admiral if he did not think
that if he had not discovered the New
World some one else would have very
shortly discovered it. He was unques-
tionably an impertinent young man, but
he was undoubtedly right in assuming
that sooner or later the Atlantic would
have been crossed, even If Columbus had
never been born. Historians tell us that
Columbus, in reply, asked the young
man If he could stand an egg on its little
end, and when the young man, after
rudely inquiring what Columbus was
giving him, was constrained to admit
that he could not perform the feat in
question, fhe great explorer simply fiat
tened the little end of the egg by knock
ing it against the table, and then easily
made it stand up. The whole company
instantly burst into tears, and exclaimed
that Columbus was the greatest and
noblest of mankind. If this trick OF
flattening an egg was really regarded as
a brilliant repartee, by which the imper-
tinent young man ought to have been
utterly withered up, it gives US a melan-
choly view of the state of the art of
repartee among the Spaniards The real
facts of the case are probably these
Cardinal de Mendoza, the dinner and the
impertinent young man doubtless ex-
listed in the manner specified, and the
impertinent young man, In an advanced
state of champagne, probably said some
thing insulting to the Admiral. The
latter, disclaiming to notice the affront
by words, and reluctant to cause any
unpleasant scene at the Cardinals table,
merely threw an egg at the offenders
head, and pursued the conversation with
his host. Subsequent writer's, deter
mined to give a profoundly scientific
character to everything the Admiral did,
built up from this slight basis of fact the
egg-balaneing story. In point of fact,
any one can balance an egg on its little
end by the exercise Of little care and
patience, and it is rather more easy to
do this with an egg that has not been
fattened than with one that has. ". L.
Alden's "CHfiStOOher Columbus"