Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-01-18
SMALL TALK.

MAIL Aah
You would he mistaken if YOU
thought these few sickly, forlorn.
huddling mourners were attending
the funeral of a pauper whose bones
were being ratified over the stones as
his already forgotten remains are
being hustled into the three-foot deep
ditch prepared to hold all but his
soul. Neither are they the remaining
inhabitants of a Kansas country town
which has been struck and devastated
by a cyclone as it hurried where it
listeth, no III knowing whence it
A casual observer might take
this ~chattering, shivering little gath
ering to be all that was left of an au-
dience after listening to a four-hour
prohibition speech; but again, the
casual observer would be more
mistaken than the average oldest
mhabitant is about local history. No.
this band of country saviors, money |
producers, national debt payers, pros
perity giyers, free land makers, live
without-work-or-tronble fanatics who
are now seeking a resting place, a
home Or a heaven, is all that Is left
of the greenback party of Audrain
county. They have lost their name ;
they have lost what they claimed for
principles they have lost their lead
ers, such as they were; they have
lost even Il place in history their
last end is ever like their first-very
small. Rise, brethren, and sing a
hymn while a single flake of January
snow hides from the cold stare of the
world what was once thought by some
to be the only hope Of the nation.
III.
At the post-office corner Sunday
evening we, noticed a gathering of
hungry-looking, long-faced, green
visloned gentleman evidently consol-
ing each other about some terrible
calamity. From their looks they
might have been consulting about
what they would ride to their own
funeral in, OIL who they would ap-
point as administrators of estates or
rather of their debts. Our friend
". R., who generally wear a smould-
ering smile as it were, looked or
thought some n had run away with
his harness shop o + had held out on
him in some unguarded moment.
A. NJ. H., who is one of the most jo-
vial gentlemen in town, acted as
though three or four brick kilns had
burned up instead of red. Several
of our Laddonia friends were there
they said little but looked worlds.
We should judge they feared there
would be a late spring or that the
chintz bug would get the next corn
crop. E. W. looked like he had been
sent for and could not GO had been
stcalled'' and was short at both ends.
L. J. looked as if he had been stuck
on several a load of hogs. 6. B.
n. acted as though ONE mi had
sold him bad eggs for good ones as
he whispered his troubles to j. d. T.
who we know never got caught in
tEsich like" scrape before. j. G.,
NJ. P, I. H, j. H., L. S.. A. F. r.
and several more of the boys and
several other funeral looking parties,
all seemed to be troubled with the
same complaint. On drawing near
we heard such remarks as Handy
did it," 1.-The crop is short anyway"
"D--n anyway "They
would not let it grade,' and other
equally as Ineligible remarks. We
knew then that the boys were all
short ON Chicago January corn and
were being squeezed like a lemon for
a picnic drink.
LII.
Here we have a friend who can't
afford to take a county paper which
costs him less them 3 cents a week.
He comes to town at least once q
week. and spends at least 81 for bad
sheep dip to drink on the way home,
and 81 more for tobacco that the
hogs would not chew, which he takes
to bed and chews splitting on the cell