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Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
the evening

Col. Jackman, of the LaddoBia
Enterprtse, has gone to the springs
for his health. It Is reported IN
Laddonia that just before he went
away he burned some Of his clothes
up because. they did not Ct him. His
wife, who, isone Of the most estima-
BILE and hard-working ladies in the
county, made him some clothes, but
because they were not "doodish'
enough fol his elegant and grscefui
shape, he got mad at her and burned
up his resf. 1t is q pity. II this is a
fact, that he did not have to walk to
the springs naked. ID s''il tz =
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
How to Dress Poultry. !.

LIST. Poultry should be starved from
twelve to twenty -four hours before kill
ing, or until the craw is empty.
End. Kill your poultry by cutting the
iugular vein, and allowing it to bleed to
death, instead Of cnttingSor wringing1 off
the head as usual This will free the
body more thoroughly of blood and thus
improve both its appearance and keeping
qualities. ~iH.llT, tE{stFGiHi9l i
3rd. Scald as soon as dead by dipping
in boiling water, only slong enough TO
wet the fsatlersatAfe1 ugh, Aes SWING the
fowls In the cold air few seconds to
cool them and prevent the hot water in
the feashers fFom coohtEe e skin. ANeS-
er oser-scaM as it sssealg xeduoes .-tha
value of your poultry. causing It to dis
color very quickly. After scaldfng take
off the feathers auicidyas possible. r,
4th. Cut of head, pnil back SKIN oi
neck; cut off bone thus exposed, and
then tie surplus skim over end. Cut fee,
off at knee joint then draw them. Sec
that it is kept clean; free from blood
stains or soiling in any way LIZ E7'5''
@ @ SAM MORRIS
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
Romantic.

Vandalia appears to have some kind
of combination. Are the papers
standing inf If not, )why don't they,
tell as about it, AfExIco LsDGER.
If there is a combination of any
kind existing here, Bob, no one
knows anything about it. You seem
to be posted, and il so why-not tell
us of its charactes, natnre and S40h
ject? Remember, Bob, syous-afe 4
kind of romantic cuss, and fire.
quently permit your imagination to
run wild Tdadalid Leader. IA H.. s
Romantic cussl" That's good.
But why use two words, and rene of
them long, when one short word
would convey your idea good deal
BETTER t1E sE)lIi
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

The first system of Piles is an intense
itching at night after getting warm.
This unpleasant sensation is Immediately
relieved by an application of DR.. Bos-
anko's Pile Remedy. Piles in all its
forms, Itch, Salt Rheum, and Ringworm
can be permanently cured by the use of
this great remedy. Price so cents.
Manufactured by The DR.. Bosanko Medi-
cine Company, Piqua, o. Sold by Dob
yns & Gibbs, Mexico, Mo. 81 1-y
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
MIR. Robert McWade, Dec. 15.
No stock sales at Rowe this month.
Ed. Kendall is feeding about 100

Ed. Kendall IS feeding about 100
mules.
We are going to have a grand mill
tary ball during the holidays.
Five hundred hogs per day can be
packed at Hisey's pork house.
Our friend Baker of Centralia has
our thanks for favors this week.
The new revision of the Old Testa-
ment will be published next spring.
Read our advertisements this week
and then call and see for yourself.
Go to Dennis Saloon for your
Christmas whisky-the best in town.
Mrs. Gardner's grand concert at
Opera House, Saturday eve, Dec. l5-
A New England tooth-plck factory
uses 10000 cords of wood annually.
His many friends will be glad to
know that 'sBob'' Baker is out of
danger.
c. H. Harrington is talked of in
connection with next representative
of Audrain.
Bridgeford, of Laddonia, has ship
ped his eagle to the Geological Gar
dens Of st. Louis.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Show has sold out her
unholy goods and in the future will
be fed by the ravens.
j. w. Dearing is not married as
reported. We don't know whether
'Barkis is willin' - or not.
John NJ. Menefee has bought out
Mrs. Hinze. We now have but one
furniture store in Mexico.
The LEDGER, as usual, was the only
paper to spend a cent to give the
Presidents message to its readers.
John Green, of Madison county,
ILL.,, has shipped his fine 2 2:26 trotting
stallion to Ed. Kendall, of this coun-
! ty.
Grand matinee at Opera House at
2:30 p. m., Saturday evening, Dec.
10Th, by the eminent tragedian, Mr..
Robt. McWade, presenting Rip Van
Wrinkle. q.
Robt. AIcWade will play in this
city December 18th, and st. Louis
Sunday 10th, for a weeks engage
ment. The company is strictly first
class.
We made flying trip to Centralia
last week and found it booming. A
new block of buildings has just been
! completed and the new opera house
is dandy.
The LEDGER will issue large num-
Der Of extra papers every week till
after January ist. We wish to send
out some sample copies and our adj
vertisers can get the benefit of this
outlay.
The advance sale of tickets for
Robt. McWade indicates that he will
be greeted with crowded house,
composed of the elite of the city.
This will be one Of the grandest
events of the season.
The LEDGER is booming. We have
had more job work in the past month
than double our force could turn out.
We have lost one subscriber for 1884
because he died, and have gained
105. The Great Religious Weekly,
published for people now on earth,
is always to the front.
| +. M. Watrous will move to Mexi-
co next week, where he will engage
in the ice business. We can say to
the people of Mexico that they will
find Mr.. Watrous a perfect gentle
man in every sense of the word.-
Sturgeon Leader.
Mr.. Watrous will sell frozen water.
You can mix "tonsil vsnish" with il
| if you wish. ..... ..-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

Bob Hisey. had a s.close CALI a
few nights ago !. He wns out riding,
and on returning home, some one
tackled him 10 his barn-yard. Bob
downed him three times, and on the
fourth round the robber escaped-zas
it were. Bob thinks II was the ''clfid
stealer" that has been lurking around
in the neighborhood of Hopewell
church for some time. ~
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
An Answer Wanted.

Can any one bring us a case OF Kidney
or Liver complaint that Electric Bitters
viii not speedily cure? We say they can
not, as thousands of cases alreadyperma-
nently cured and who are daily recon-
mending Electric Bitters, win prove
Bright's disease, Diabetes, Weak Back
or any urinary complaint quickly cured
They purify the blood, regulate the bow
els, and act directly on the diseased
parts. Every bottle guaranteed. Fol
sale at soc. bottle BY J. F .LLxwEILYS
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
FRuMEnrlME.

A preparation Of frock candy ,nld rye whis>
ky, pure giycerinss Md cherry and hypo-
phosphites. ExceiIent for coughs, colds
and consumption, and all throat and lung
troubles. A splendid tonic and appetiser.
Manufactured by j. 7. Cadwallader d Co.
Chemists, Saint Louis, Mo. For sale by
L. p. Smothers, Druggist, Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

We Headquarters the above articles
knows that sell Boots and Shoes for money than
house in Mexico. We will give you a few o. speciaes
Mems heavy kip boos sold Ladies' heavy shoes, full
everywhere for So S1O stock sold everywhere for
Mems heavy kip boots, full now 81.
stock sold everywhere for $3 Ladies' French calf
now 1925 everywhere for 81, S150
Mems heavy kip boots full Ladies' goat front lace
stock sold everywhere 3 sold everywhere for $780,
50. S1OO
Mems heavy kip boots, 90 Ladies' goat button shoes
inch leg full stock sold sold everywhere for $75
where for S4 1926. S1.25
Ladies' pegged calf shoes full Ladies' glove top kid button
stock sold everywhere for 81 Shoes sold everywhere for S.
now $3.50. = y - -FaE now So. sss..
Also fine line of Chldrens and Misses Shoes which will
sold at the reductions the above.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

If you want good fresh oysters and
CLAIMS, so to ShefftePs. 34tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
Blankets and Comforts.

We have the LARGEST STOCK of these goods in the city,
and offer them at erceedingy loo prices An all wool 1O4
Blanket worth S5they bound $3.50 Comforts from
75c up to So the very best %
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

at &c.
Best cheviots, worth - 1-2c,
at 10c.
Good Canton flannel, retails
everywhere for IL 1-2c, at ,10c.
Best Canton fiannels in the
city at 12 1-2c, sold everywhere
at 15c.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13

A VERY FINE LINE OF
Notions, Hosiery,
Hamburg Edgllgs,
ali Kinds Of Laces
and Gloves,
WHICH WE WILL SELL AT
NET COST.
TO fHB LADIES. iins Ms hass lias e E

IU IHE LHUlEN. fine line of
Dress Goods, which must posi-
lively be closed out, regardless
of cost, consisting of Cashmeres
in all shades, single width, 1-2
wool goods, from 8 cents up to
15 cents-the very best. All we
want you to do, Ladies, is to
come and convince yourselves
that thu. fsat. we are net tell, IL Nh HHMRUG
Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-13
READ THE FOLLOWING :!

The best calico at &c a yard.
Good gingham, worth s 1-3c,
at 6 lac.
Best Amoskeag gingham,
worth IL Lie, at SC.
Best Indigo-blue calico, worth
1Oc, ats 1-3c.
Good cheviots, worth 8 1-3c,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-11
Pride.

Nothing but my family pride sus-
tains me now" said an old gentleman.
GIVE lost all my money and seen a
great deal of hard luck, but am sus-
tanned by my pride"
''Pride all that keeps you up, eh?"
said a bystander.
Eyes, for / am one of the proudest
men in the State. Some people blame
ME for being proud; but, ali! sir, if it
wasn't for my pride I'd be gone. Just
look what I've had to stand, and then
tell me if you blame me for being sus-
tanned alone by my pride. Some time
ago my son Bill was hung for killing a
man; but my pride held me up. Shortly
afterward my only daughter, who had
married well, left her husband and ran
away with a brakeman of a construction
train. Ny pride held me above the
waves of adversely that beat around my
door. Then [ was arrested on charge
of stealing corn and sent to the peniten-
tiary for a year. would have sunk
under this, but pride came to my
rescue. Now, sir, don't you think that
pride is n good thing? If it wasn't for
aristocracy, sir, / could not hold up my
head and face society. . ArkaltsdtO
Traveller.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-11
The Intelligence of Turtles.

In an interesting letter to Science
Gossip on the habits of American testu-
dinata, DIR. G. G. Abbott gives some
notes of personal observation: 81 am
inclined to believe that all turtles have,
more or less, the faculty of emitting
distinct sounds. It is not to be won
dered at that our turtles should have
voices, for they are by no means slug
giSh, indolent creatures as is supposed
by those who have only observed them
indifferently or from afar off, / have
frequently seen them get up square
fight" over some delicate morsel, as a
dead fish or drowned squirrel; and,
again, while peering over the side of
my boat into the clear depths below. I
have watched the spotted turtles, two
and three together, go through variety
of cratic movements, strongly suggest
i've of play. Even the solitary land tor
toises will, when they meet, gently
touch their noses together, and go
through other movements suggesting
the expressing of ideas to each other.
Indeed, 1 have never seen any animal
as high as, or higher in the scale of de-
velopment than fishes, that did not pos
sess means of communication of ideas to
its fellows. / know not in what other
way to explain very many of the acts of
these animals
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-11
Andrew Jaekson's Colonization Notion.

" Were You acquainted with the late
DR.. John Franklin Grey" he asked,
physician of Fifth Avenue Hotel :?
Well, he died year or more ago.
Being In his room one evening, he and
Mr.. Lindell, of ST. Louis, began to
compare memories, and Gray said that
in the year 1885 he introduced to
President Andrew jackson, in the
Executive Mansion at Washington, the
subject of slavery. President Jackson
said: 1t is great evil and a great
hypocrisy for republican people to
keep up. am in favor of abolishing
it, but not on the colonization plan. I
think we ought to buy the slaves as a
Government, and save ourselves the
consequences of an agitation that is
already rising. 1 am in favor of pay
ing for them, so that nobody will have
it to his interest to be in favor of
slavery. Then / would colonize them
in California. We can buy California
for a small sum of money, and make it
the preparatory school of the African
race"
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Female Gamblers,

Another thing the women do, but less
openly, says a correspondent at Sarato-
ga, is to play cards for money, and
many of the private parlors OF the
Grand Union and Congress Hall could
tell pretty tales of fair faces, flushed
neither with rouge nor wine, but the
excitement of gambling. Betting at
races, which has become so common
among the ladies, has stimulated their
love of chance, and the fashion of play
ing for gold has been brought over from
Europe.
In London last winter I was aston
lshed at hearing of card party given
by an American lady whose name is
known throughout this country. The
company was small, all but one Amer
leans, and it was given on Sunday even
ing, though in her own land the lady's
religious scruples forbade her driving In
Central Park on the Lords day. That
night-there were no gentlemen present
50, 600 and number Of diamond rings
changed ownership. Poker is the favor
ite game here, and in the warm after
moons, when the ladies are supposed to
be enjoying their inevitable and innocent
slesta, good many, arrSyed in dres sing
sacques and skirts, and fortified with
claret cobblers and Roman punch, are
making their pin money fly, and some
OF the worst scrapes that married women
get into is In trying to account for their
lack OF Jewels to their husbands.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-11
About Drinking Men.

As q drinking man myself, unfort-
unately known better for that one fail
ing than for my many virtues, let me
say word about drinking men, their
modes of thought, their habits, the
causes of the disease, habit or vice, as
the reader chooses to call it. [ am not
believer in the theory of dipsomania.
1 know that it has a few eminent advo-
Gates among medical men. I have
sought information from the doctors of
several inebriate asylums and hospitals,
and have had the privilege of consult
ing the distinguished Superintendent of
one insane asylum upon whom inebri-
ates are forced by the certificates of
convenient physicians (signed, patient
unseen, as carelessly as a recommends
ton for office, and [ have read good
deal on the, to me, interesting subject.
If was the victim of an uncomfortable
appetite [ wanted to know it. 1t was a
curious mental problem to me. Per-
haps, ] thought, if and lot of other
apparently pretty good fellows I have
been clustered with, are dipsomaniacs,
some of us may next develop a hOmi-
cidal tendency or a desire to burn
barns. Well, the result Of my observa-
ton and reading is that there is no
such thing as dipsomania. 1t is moth
ing but plain, old-fashioned drunk
The drunkard, ninety-nine times in a
hundred, is as much responsible for
what he does when he is drunk as the
man is who kills another in anger. The
so-called dipsomaniac gets drunk be-
cause he wants to; he likes the effect of
whisky. He may have any one of a
dozen reasons for it-poverty, disap-
pointmcnt toothache, family difficulties,
idleness,but none of them should ex-
cuse him if, under the influence of
liquor, he commits a crime Like the
victims of opium, the habit Is often car
ried to an extent that sudden cessa-
ton of stimulants is almost certain
death No, dipsomania IS Il sentiment
al humbug and social fiction of the
scientific parlor fireworks of medical
men OF the advanced school, men like
Dr.. Beard and the epigrammatic, if not
deep. DR.. SpitZka.-G. II. Butler.
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us. after their burial for thousands OF

us, after their burial for thousands OF
years.
This is what the Rosetta Stone has
done. and can you wonder that it IS so
highly priced, or that the learned men
who have so rejoiced in its discovery
should take it for granted that every
body else has been engrossed with 1t,
like themselves, and of course has
learned ali about it?
The Moabite Stone, another famous
relic of ancient times, was found in the
year 1868 by Mr.. Klein, a missionary,
travelling in the country of Moab. 1t
was thick slab of basalt, measuring
about three feet five inches high and
one foot nine inches wide. The inscrip-
ton upon it is the oldest existing writ
ing in the alphabetic characters, as it
dates from about 900 years before
Christ. 1t records the doings of Mesha,
King of Moab, during the days of the
Israelitish prophet Elisha, and of Jeho-
ram and Jehoshaphat, Kings of Judah
and Israel, mentioned in the Bible in
the third chapter of the Second Book of
Kings. A full translation of the writing
is given on page 80 of the second vol
ume of Scri6ner's Monthly Magazine.
ST. Nicholas.
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The Hard-SheII SIOth.

The oyster is the most quiescent of
animals, for, once placed in it's bed, it
never stirs therefrom. 1t does not even
get up for its meals, but lazily lies with
open mouth to catch whatever may
drift within its gills. It is intensely do
nestle in its habits, it is true, but its in
dOlence is so constitutional that, unlike
all its brother bivalqes, it will not even
pay the slightest attention to the ap-
pearance of its home but Just goes on
adding and extending, without order
or symmetry, until it becomes the worst
looking old shell of place ever seen.
1t is to the oysters credit, however,
that it is by no means Pharisaical, and,
though its exterior is unprepossessing
to certain degree, its internal decora-
tions are wonder of iridescent beauty.
But this, as the good wives say, is more
by hap than by cunning" and when by
its secretions it has made to itself
gem of the purest ray SERENE" it is too
dilatory to bedeck itself Herewith and
keeps it in fiabby pocket, like Mother
Camps, until some pick-pocket of
diver robs it of its only jewel. The
oyster is an unsympathetic, unintelli-
gent thing, too. No amount of kind
ness will tame it and no amount of in
struction will teach it to stand up.
The educated oyster is delusion and
the whistling oyster is fraud But,
stupid, lazy and unlovely though it is,
the oyster has one quality which
all these defects. It is
a popular and nutritious article of food.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-11
Ole Bull Must Drink or Fight.

Going down the Mississippi Ole Bull
met on the steamboat a party of half
savage men, colonists from the far West.
While reading his newspaper he was
accusted by one of the men, who had
been a. spokesman by his companions,
with the request that the fiddler would
take drink with them, offering him
a whisky flask at the same time. II
thank you," said Ole Bull politely, "but
/ never drink whisky" With a curse
the fellow asked if he was teetotaler.
"No, but whisky is like poison to me. "
off You can't drink, come and fight
then" The mans comrades had gath
cred round him meantime, and they all
cried, off you won't drink, you must
fight. You look strong; show us what
you are good for" "a Norseman can
fight as well as anybody when his blood
is up, but I can't fight when my blood
is cold, and why should I?' you look
like strong fellow, and you shall fight"
Seeing no way to escape, Ole Bull
quietly said, "Since you insist on test
ing my strength, and there is no reason
for fighting, will tell you what I will
do. Let any one of you take hold of
me in any way he likes, and [ wager
that In half a minute he shall lie on his
back at my feet" A big fellow was
chosen, who stepped forward and
grasped the violinist around the waist,
but was instantly thrown over his head
by sudden wrench and lay senseless
on the deck. Ole Bull now felt himself
IN very uncomfortable position, for
he saw one of the mans comrades draw
his bowie knife but was relieved when
it was used only to open a flask. A
good dose of its contents poured down
his throat soon revived the fainting
man, and his first question. "How the
devil was [ throwed down here?" was
answered by shout of laughter from
his companions, in which he himself
joined. He sprang to his feet, and af-
ter tainly trying to pursuade Ole Bull
to show him how he had thrown him,
he said: "Take this knife home with
you; you fight well; you are as quick
as lightningr" The artist heard of the
same fellow later as having gone to an
editor to call him to account for an adj
verse criticism on his playing, ready to
fight for 1.-THE strongest fiddler he had
ever seen anyhow"
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OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
The Land of Nod.

Did you ever hear how Bulge and Tod
Took flying trip to the Land of Nod?
They put on their nightgowns, climbed the stairs
Mumbed their innocent, drowsy prayers,
Curled up in bed in dmpied heap,
And in forty winks they we're fast asleepl
Then the DreaIn-Man came, on train of cars,
With moonbeain windows and wheels of stars;
The fires were lit by comet, queer
And the man in the moon was engineeri
A sea-weed cord held the engine-bell,
Made from ringing ocean shell;
The railroad track rainbow band,
Reaching far over the sea and land,
And the ends of the road, am gravely told,
Were butt upon pots of shining gold!
g All aboard!"-and away went Bulge and Tod,
Nightgowns and all, to the Land of Nod!
II.
The cars were filled with curious crew:
Sweet baby Trix, and the Wandering Jew -
Jack with his bean-stock-the Giant Grim,
Little Miss Mincer and Uncle Tim.
Fairies, and Sprites, and Brownies rare,
And mermaids, wrapped in their yellow hair,
Sat, side by side, in the phantom cars
With moonbeam windows and wheels Of stars,
On, on they sped through the silver sand
Of the beautiful streets of the Wonderland;
They stopped in cloud for a drink of dew,
While the sea-sheu rung and the whistle blew
They gathered blossoms that never die,
That grew in the land Of the " By-and-by,"
And there, at the end OF the route, m told,
Our travellers found the Pot of Goldllk
Then the Dream Man brought little Budge and Tod
Night-gowns and all, from khe Land of Nod!
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The Ideal Home.

The ideal home is a haven of rest
where the husband and wife both have
their own way in everything; where the
children never cry; where the servants
are models of honesty and industry ;
where the dinner is never late and is
always well cooked; where there is no
perceptiblo washing day; where the
sweeping and busting are done when
nobody knows it; where selfishness and
bad temper are never known; in short,
little heaven upon earth, inhabited
by acknowledgements mortals. Homes
of that kind constructed upon scien-
tific basis and served hot, like steam
through subterranean pipes, would
meet a long-felt want. Nearly every
family would subscribe for one.-Nel0
York Tribune.