Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-26
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To the Editor Of the Ledger.
MEXICO, Mo-, Feb. 24.-The letters of
ice which have held US SO firmly bound in
their iron grasp for months have well
nigh frozen up the fountain of social life
and closed every avenue of pleasure. But
there are bonds which bind men more
closely together than the unyieldins coat
of transparent armor which frigid winter
pins on us with her piercing i~cicles.
A party of Mexicans last hight in obey
ance to the impulses of better natures set
defiance the decrees'of Old Boreas and
broke his tyrannical grasp, visitingiin due
form the Legion of Select Knights of our
neighbors, Centralia.
If II man can't get warm by going to
Centralia, stopping first st the Globe ho-
tel and then mingling with her warm
hearted people, then he is u tit sublectfo for
divine clemency that his stony heart
may be melted ere he is given over to
~reprobacy and stiff-neckness. To say
that Mexico Legion had d good time is
the mildest possible way of putting it.
The lingering taste of her delicious BIZ
valves, the remembrance of the sweet
morsels that we rolled under our tongues,
60 up as a lasting memorial of the feast
Of body and soul enjoyed by US, and
which so completely took possession OF
our mortality that winter seemed trans
formed into an eternal summer Of sun
beams.
But We'll give it up. We can't do JUS
tice or describe it. Though when mortal
tongue must fail to tell we fain would
call ON tase or smell. But adding all the
senses pleasures would still fall short of
modes measures while these good
folks with royal hand opened their treas
ureS to our commtnd.
But tina wasn't all we had. The PAN
dering to the palate was only a foretaste
to that more enjoyable flow Of reason
aud feast of the soul to which we were
treated by the comrades of Centralia Le-
gion. Their whole heart seemed to go
out to US Mexico A. o. U. WIS, and when
the hand was given in fraternal welcome
the heart aud pocket book seemed to be
in the hand. We must be allowed to say
that Mexico acquitted herself with her
usual proficiency.
One of the attractive features of the
enjoyable occasion was the melOdious
music which our worthy comrades Of
Mexico Legion furnished upon soiicita-
ton. The rich melody of Triinble's su-
perb bass voice rolled in ponderous vol
umes through the corridors, v~estihules
and audience chamber as though search
Ing for some vacuum or untitled space, and
was met by Gentry's sweet soprano led
by Laforce's s~cintillating, vibrating, clear
toned tenor, and the three blending with
all the undividable precision of the rain
bows varied hues, combined in striking
symphony of sound, scared into the loft
lest chamber, filed the audience room
and rolling down with a grand crash into
the cellar was drowned by the stentorian
eioquence of Comrade Cupp of Centralia
Legion.
But your hu ;nble writer is getting weak
and faint Int must not in Justice to his
nervous system (for one of the children
just fell into the kraut barrel while eat
ing diuner) write any longer on this e
} citing subject. We only wish
| When deaths dark stream | ferry DER,
A time that surely will come
In heaven itself I ask no more,
: MOI look for a warmer welcome.