Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-09-13


SMALL TALK.
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About this season of the year a
certain class of our population can be
made at least temporarily, il not SUI
premeiy happy, at even . less price
than they a get drunk on cheap
whisky. We noticed yesterday eve
ming one of the residents Of southeast
Mexico, to outward appearances,
perfectly happy. Although black as
the ace Of spades, he would not, for
worlds, have changed his color. He
cared nothing for being familiarly
called ''niggah," and asked to ''stand
aside" He knew that there was no
meat Or bread at home (?). He had
no money in his pocket. His wife
had run away the day before with q
lighter-colored darkey than be. The
city marshal had shot both his dogs.
The opossum crop is short. He had
been forbidden to tap the empty beer
kegs at the back door Of the saloon.
1t is a long time before we have any
city election. The prospect for a
cold winter is good. The prospect
for feed and clothing for the object
of our remarks, was poorer than our
prospect to have a street sprinkler 10
Mexico. In spite of all this and
much more, life to him was a para
disc to that enjoyed by many who
are surrounded by all the comforts
of the world. Under that ragged
coat he had concealed a watermelon,
On the fence in front of him we're
full length-four-color-circ posters.
III.
They do not move as fast, but are
far prettier than the vanished cars.
Their movements are guided by an
engineer, but they are pulled by no
engine. A conductor is always in
charge, and tramps are quickly
"bounced." No brakeman is need
ed-ln fact, brakemen are kept at a
good distance. As this train almost
daily passes through our most pleas
ant streets, every n pauses and re.
marks show beautiful" or show
neat" or show Stylish or show
intelligent" The train this season
is larger, and, if possible, more styl.
ish, more pretty, more neat and more
intelligent-looking than ever. It is
the Hardin College girls under charge
Of Conductor Baird, with engineer
True, out for their daily walk.
iii. IT,
This gathering of people is not 6
political mass meeting +; neither is it 8
temperance Or prayer meeting. 1t il
too we'll attended for either Of thu
! latter, and occurs too often to be tht
} former. You find here the butcher
the baker, and the candlestick maker
and all other classes not included il
the above. They have evidently me
for al object. Before the meeting il
; called to order, every one is in q goot
humor-smiles. jokes and repartee
together with tobacco smoke fills til,
room. After adjournment, there i
only n man happy. The rest o
them are buried in sorrow and dis
appointment, as if in a COB of gloom
! The particular happy party is the en-
! We'd of all present. He is the her,
, of the hour. He drew the gun at tn
rattle, which is just over To-morrov
night the same gun will be rafle'
again, and some other man will b
happy. In this way honors are al
easy, except with the gun, whic|
! thinks it is being sold nearly as often
if not higher, than the participants il
the rafles. When every one ha
owned the gun once, there will be n
more rafnes. No one wants it again
This gentleman looks like he we
! well, but he is not. There i
evidently nothing the matter with hi
appetite O stomach, but he is seldor
IN a good humor with the world
Although Of good size, he don't TAX
up as much space in the eyes of othe
: people as he does in his own, althoug
his optics are very ordinary six
+, His brain is crippled in the same way
e This thing and that thing are ne
: right, but that thing and this thin
are. Or vice versa, as he is the orig
= !. nator Of said thing. Not to agre
i with him, is to be radically wrong
: Life is too short to fool with hin
E When he dies his grave will be mari
9 ed by the appropriate lines: "Her
lies a sorehead and, by the way, h
d used to lie before he died." 5;"@+
III. Hall and Frank IaMAa.