Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-03-19

and things blood was sprinkled, On
the human head oil was poured, but |
water was never religiously sprinkled c
or poured, but the waslinanr INNER q
sing IN it was the universal, the inn !
nutable practice since the world 9
began. More anon, sc
A D.sclrLE. i
THE HOME OF THE BLIzzARp.
Bob Burdette Tells Of the Fun Of Lee
tnriag in the Northwest.
Dearly beloved. If you want to /,
have fun get up lecture and bring
it out West when the billiards are
ripe. Last Saturday I drove from
Hillsdale, Iowa, to Tabor. 1t was
only eight miles and it wasn't Sc aw-
fully cold. Somewhere between an
inch and an inch and three-quarters
below the dot; but as I had bresthed !
the balmy all of Wisconsin only a
week before at 80 degrees below the
belt didn't mind little thing. like
that. But Monday morning / made |
a drive of twelve miles across the
country from Tabor to Malvern. A
young student of Tabor college, Gill
bert Brooks, took me down, because
he knew the roads of the country and
the ways of the blizzard. Now, when
it blows out in this land it blows. 1t
doesn't stop for the cold and i,
doesn't stop to inquire the way. II
blows a thousand times minute.
and if it finds snowdrift not located
to suit it 1T just moves the drift into
. new. place and sweeps the old
ground perfectly bare of snow. And
+ id? The hot bricks froze to our
r feet, less or more. We rattled over
r the rough, frozen roads where the
: ground was bare, then we would
| plunge into snowdrifts up TO the
horses corsets, and all the time the
e pi,iless wind, sweeping all the way
+ down from Alaska, whirled the light
. snnw into our faces and searched out
: every crevice and wrinkle in blanket
Y and ulster. Shade of the great white
e hear, but it was cold! And as, far as
e the eye could reach across the great
white drifted prairies, the snow went
,r sweeping, whirling into fantastic
II circles, rising in great gyrating col
IS unns, comhing over like ocean
1t breakers; mile after wintery mile the
,e Arctic dance went on, and the ghost
l. ly squad,ons of the frozen north
10 went charging over these measureless
plains. and ever the fierce sweep OF
the sibilant, Kissing winds, for there
re is no forest here for them to sing ant
~ roar through. Time and again th'
er horses turned their heads away from
be the fierce onset of the snow and tn
ed blast, and only the skillful driving o
,h my comrade kept them in the roa
,e- and Laid in the leads The onl
he living souls we saw in those twelv
%, miles of storm and cold were thre
,s- little country children going
les school!-two boys and little gir
a That's western stock for you. A
no we passed them the boys hailed L
act cheerily: sinister, gimme Fl ride!
ed That's hoy all over.
he Then getting from Malvern
,ct Council Bluffs l stayed in the W.
er. bash railway station all day. frate
,e nlzing joyously with the tramps
nd the common comfort of a red-ht
In. stove and waiting for a train. The
na, were good hotels only square ava
ion hut bless you you couldn't ha'
is pulled me away from that stove Wi
,r, a stump machine. All trains LAT
J." Nothing in on the 60 the ''cann'
: !. ball. stuck in the snow down
we IIumeston. The belated hrakema
he on stray freight waiting for orde
This and th,w, said he thought I mig
on. 90 down on %, if she went on ls
ma time, get off at the ''Y'' and cat
ler- the four sixteen passenger down I
N if branch and meet 81 at the sidi
tn when she came up on construction
yh. far as bridge S5, aud then jump
we gravel for the junction, and ms
.ver second Is ar extra 10, he could
\ + say which. as far as the SOW bo:
and at the 20" crossing, and then co
,Ot, run wild and get to the Bluffs on
our Two what?' says |. Two leg
eon- says he, and honstly think thai
with the way l would have gone, # J
12tt, bash mail hadn't thawcd cut in t
red to land me in Council Bluffs, just
eifer time 10 freeze my ehf, WHICH L
11tb walking from the opera house to
,oth- L. p. dummy for Omaha. Come
rink and freeze with the country.
hap. poso,,,;.ns os I;her,v Sec, n
ID of Church sunday School.
S 1st WHEREAS. It is necessary, acc
the ing To the rules governing the
that leie"oe ~ VI M, 'ue "e..,Iu''s s'J 'ht, ina "
;oah- beloved pastor, Rev. John WayI
les therefore, be it
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