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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.

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A Plea for the Enemy.

To succeed in the Salvation Army, a man
should have voice with bristles down its
back; voice that would scare old Satan into
st. Yitus' dance. While do not indorse
Satan or any of bis acts, I believe that we
should give him chance. Satan has done q
good many things that were essentially
wrong, and there Is general feeling against
him, and yet. badly as ] hate him, and hit-
terly as would fight him on fair field,
would not ask him to wake up suddenly, out
of sound sleep, and find himself surrounded
by a Salvation Army. 70 call an enemy out
of doors and kill him according to CushiHgs
manual is one thing, and to scare him into
hydrophobia is quite nother.-Bill Nye
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SHE DEMANDED AN ENCORE,

BE sat on bicycle as straight as an icycle, and
she on a tricycle. rode by his side.
He talked like jolly fop aud naught could his
= folly stop, with all kinds Of lolly pop enliveno
ing the ride.
At last incidentally more instinctively than men
tally, he grew sentmentally saccharine
sweet -.ess
And he told with intensity Of loves strong pro-
pensity, its force and immensity, its fervor
and heat
Just then DER some hummocks he sprawled out
kerfiummux, and she thought what q lum-
muS to tumble just then.
But he climbed to his station while she said with
elation; Renew your narration; say it
over again. Life.
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A Veteran prohibitionist,

Gen Neal Dow was the originator of the
bugl,ear to the liquor traffio known as the
"Maiue law" and might be trrlcd its latek-
hoile for the past thirty live years, or since
the present law was iliaugurat.d, Gcn Neal
Dow is ut present in the nesb"rnmM Of 40
years As the portrait shows he b,tars some
facial resemblance to England's great stat.s-
man, Gladstone. He is also aetiveai vispr-
Gus but here the likeness ends, for Get,. Dow
is small man with slight figure. the
stern lines of his mouth indicate great firm
ness of character and this is carried out i'll
his career. He has been an unfiinching advo-
cate of principle throughout his whole life.
He is to-day one of the principal leaders In
the movement to establish an independent
national party which win have for its plank
tile prohibition OF the sale or manufacture
of spirituous liquor, except tor the use OF the
arts and medicine in this country. This party
he claims will hold the balance OF power in
the presidential election of 1854
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Must Have Home Comforts,

stranger--I sec ye advertise boa,d with
home comforts
Landlord-Yes sir.
Stranger-Any skeeters bout the place?
Landlord-Not a mosquito within forty
miles.
Stranger-Well. Tn sorry. I've lived in
New Jarsey nigh ON to sixty year am the hum
of skeeter is music to me. I'm lookin' for
board. stranger, but I'm an old man and
rant git along 'thout home comforts Good
1ay.-Life
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The Hours Of slean Ren,,ire.l.

aFive hours for man, seven for a
woman, and nine for q pig" says one
proverb: and a. assecond, quoted by Mr..
Hazlitt in his English Proverbs, !" de-
elares that Nature requires five: custom
gives lallowsl seven; laziness takes nine,
md wickedness eleven These conclu.
sions were, however. drawn from obser-
saEions Of country life. Exchange.
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a.. for the Best, Possibly.

Tbev were engaged digging up the pave
-. -, chelsea street. when one, wiping the
..',,,at;en ils.s from his brow, observed:
pea aa,,l,,,.,,a nm, It's hot, then Wouldn't i
/. soine thing. syrnlnnie, IL we had the war
= !. s,,eatley IN the winter when we need y
run. ,,,d then the co vld weather In the
s,,n,n,er whin we're roastin'p
aa n ,y,,d that replied Jennie, solemn
:. 2 a,,'t n,elbe, Mike, it's all fur the best as
-; !. i NJ -Chariestown Enterprise.
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Solved at Last.

He stood for long time looking into the
display window of gents furnishing store,
and by and by he gave himself a sort of kick
and exclaimed:
"Humphl just like me-"
"What is it!" asked boy who came up
eTm fule!"
aFor why" .0
sFor because I've bin wonderin' for two
years how feller got into ote of these but
ton-behind shirts, and I've jist diskivered
that he don't have ta turn around in it to
bring the husum to the 'front.' Bub, you may
kick me "a nickers wuthf-Detroit Free
p,socc SsS "
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ordinary balloon oil
the one llilIid, and
on the other will
permit itself to be
propelled and steer
ed by steam, like q
boat upon tn Q
water. All must
hope that Mir. Pat
tersons faith win be
justified by the re-
suits. His balloon
may not yet be tho
particular in g n
ton w hich ill
solve the Y,roi,lefn oF
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LORENZO Dow,s Durable SHINGLES.


The Oldest shingles on q house in this state
cover the roof of the old Dow homestead. in
which the eccentric preacher, Lorenzo Dow,
lived at Oxoboxo lake, eight miles west of
this city, in the'town,of Montville Lorenzo
put the shingles ON himself. He drew them
IN his OK cart from the Connecticut river
They were rived and planed and joined by
hand, and the marks of the clamps in which
they were held while they were being pre-
pared are plainly visitle on them vet Mr..
N. b. Vars, who twells in the Dow hol,se.
says that the shingles apparently are inst rs
sound as on the day vhell they were nailed to
the rafters, sixty-flEe years ago. Not one IS
missing, and none Is rotten or punky. He
says that they viii last for sixty or seventy
years longer. Lorenzo liked good work. and
after be had put them on he said to his neigh
bots that they were going to last to the day
of Judgment, or thereaboutss The Dow
house is somewhat deerepit; it is shaky; the
gables have sagged, and the walls are weather
beaten. u on the shore Of Lake Oxoboxo.
and it looks desolats and folsalse,a. -..-or-
.wich Cor. New York Sun.
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HOW TO KEEP WIVES AT HOME.
Z Eye Answers. Correspondent ON .
Serious Subject.

Serious Subject.
SWEET HOME, Grand. Island, Neb., asks:
What shall do to amuse and instruct my
family of wife and four children evenings:
Answer: The younger children, no doubt.
would be best pleased with some durable toy.
4 two-inch augur is good plaything for
mail boy With this he can bore a hole into
he bath tub or the piano, while you are en-
gagged in entertaining the balance of your
family. Still you must be your own judge.
He may do better with large drab hornets
nest. This instrument is soft and pliable, and
will not mar your features in ease the boy
/ should swat you with it.s In this respect it
/ has a great advantage over the bread-ax as
: N indoor amusement .-s.zrs,as-..sas.s--.44
The little girls might amuse themselves by
putting corl crab apples, or other small fruit
up their noses, though they may have out
grown this. A good plan by which to anluse
children is to apply paper overshoes to the
feet of The family cat. This affords great
amusement to the family and does not injure
the cat. The cat, under these circumstances,
will step high, like blind horse, and when
you laugh with great glee she will look at
you in reproachful way epd move around
Into the corner like late husband in his sock
feet 1t is very entertaining, and yet it is
not very wrong. ava ..H"
How to entertain your wife, however, is
quite another question, and yet it is a vital
question believe that we do not devote
time enough or thought enough to this ques-
ton. Fl" s..s
Many a wife has gone down into a narrow
and disagreeable drunkard's grave because
her husband did not keep her at home even
ings by making it pleasant for her.
A wife goes down town where she meets
gay companions in gorgeous club rooms, and
under the gaslight she soon forgets her home;
but let the husband throw around her joyous
home influences instead of reproaching her
when she comes home late; let him make the
house cheerful; let him prepare pleasant little
surprises for her. instead of trying to trip her
up as she comes through the hall with her hat
on wrong side before. Let him bring her
slippers, and her wrapper, and a mouthful Of
hairpins, when she gets home weary and
worn, instead Of waiing over his hard lot.
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THE SEA SERPENT.

Portrait of the Monster from Descrip-
tiOns by Capt. Robert Brush.
From careful description of Capt. Robert
Brush, of the schooner Mary Ann, we are en-
abled to present our readers with an accurate
engraving of the sea serpent seen in the Hud-
sen river by the captain, and by many others
on several occasions since
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xnect. to Iseturn Soma r,.v

Prince Jerome Napoleon, upon hearing the
result of the vote III the chamber of deputies
cxpelling the princes, exclaimed: Il shall
soon return to save those who have prescribed
me from being guillotined by their friends Of
to-day The Argonaut.
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And Other lsalces Afao.

Did you ever notice how suddenly negro,
win especially IL he Is q laboring MAN
when he accidentally displaces some artieie
OF furniture in room or drops a package. ur
unintentionally jostles somchodys Hwaa re-
minded OF this the other evening when saw
q darkey employe at the Merchants acci-
dentally knock e book from shelf. lie
looked so disconcerse.l Il might have boon
called luticrous. IL ID hadn't been something
nearer pathetic. Pioneer Press sEoicess
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TWO FAMOUS BRIDGES.

High Bridge, Kentucky, and New Ono
Across the Hudson.
In one of the most beautiful and picturesque
locations in America stands High bridge
Kentucky. 1t spans the Kentucky river, ant
: Is the railway crossing O. the Cincinnati South
ern road ON its track L New Orleans. Pic
MICS to High Bridge are the fashion in sum-
mer in that region for hundreds of miles
around ...r.-..s .t----.
A fight of 600 steps leads the foot passenger
down beside the bridge to the water below.
Once an unwary traveller fell down the
steps and was killed.
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Ex-Governor Moses is reported 20 be IN =
falling condition In the Massachusetts, pent,
tentiary,
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NO. 800
AN AIR STEAMER.

Patterson, San Francisco.
Now comes Professor William Patterson,
bridge builder, actor, hunter, squatter, trap
per, soldier and inventor, of San Francisco,
and soleianly ayers thai he has constructed u
balloon Which will fioat utol the air like an
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Mary Anderson IS growing b.uuz.si AMI
ssouter under the suns Of England and t,,e
pell Of entire rest.
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de had worked at all vocations and had tried
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-11-11
PROGRESS NEWS.
+. K. ScoTT.

Correspondence OF the Ledger.
PROGRESS, Nov. l0-A protracted
meeting is being conducted at Littleby
church, by the Rev. Henry Kay. Ct
Montgomery City.
Quite a number from our vicinity
heard Rev. N. S. Johnson of the Bap-
fist church preached last Sunday.
The debating society has been or
ganized. We elected Mr.. Nit Hendrix
as president, and he will make US a
good one, as he thoroughly understands
his business. We wish to further in
form the friends of our society that it
is going to be made a suitable place
for ladies, as we will insist upon decent
behavior, and no gentleman will pre-
vent u obtaining it. We wish the
ladies to come out.
School report for the past month:
Number enrolled, IS; average for the
month, IS. At the monthly written
examination the three highest grades
were made by Stella Creamer-grade,
SO; Clyde Eubanks, So; Louis Bybee, 70.
Miss Minnie Bird, Mr.. Thomas Shep-
herd and others. of Vandalia, have
been visiting the family of Mr.. Martin
kunkel. They returned Monday, much
to the regret of their newly formed
friends.
The A. Fl. T. A. meets on Wednesday
night at the school house. The order
is thoroughly organized and the en-
rollment goes on,
Mr. Asberry and Prof. Ellis were with
us last Thursday night.
Mr.. Martin Kunkel bought IA nice
calves on the square Saturday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-11-11
MAPL o GOSSIP.
COrrespondence OF the Ledser,

Correspondence OF the Ledger,
MAPLE GROVE, Nov. 9-Mrs. Gardner
is suffering from a severe felon.
Farmers are doing a great deal of fall
plow
Miss Annie Brown is now at home
from st. Louis, where she has been en-
gagged in studying photography.
team ran away last Saturday on the
Paris road with Buck Phillips, William
and JEFF Sims. The boys were all
thrown out and Mr.. Phillips severely
hurt.
Miss "Liny'' Newbrough is visiting
Miss Lou Darnell.
Mr.. Darnell and family are preparing
toemove to Paris next week. Their
many friends regret to have them leave
especially who can hardly be con-
soled.
Mr.. VIM. Lewis is thinking of NOV
ing to near Centralia.
Little Ffankie Canterbury is serious
ly sick oftyphoid fever. She has suffer,
edlmuch, but it is thought she is a
little better.
Earl Gass, the son of Albert Gass,
died Sundaysmorning of typhoid pneu-
moniaIand was buried at the grave.
yard on the old Gass farm Monday. Rev.
Armstrong preached the funeral.
There will be a spelling bee at the
school house Friday night, with, per.
haps, some literary exercises.
The Maple Grove school averaged
ffty-fiye daily attendance during the
month just closed. Us.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-11-11
FROM HARDIN COLLEGE.
A Spicy Letter-A Number OF Visitors
at the COilege-Missionary Society.

The past week at the college has
been an unusually pleasant one, there
being a number of visitors here from
all owe rthe country. Among those Wis
iting from a distance were the follow
ing named persons: Mr.. Watkins,
wife, and daughter, of Washington,
D. c., who spent five days with us
very pleasantly; Mrs. Rudolph, of
St. Louis, who is still here; Mr..
Alex. Pettee and Miss Mollie Pettee,
of Jacksonville, ILL.,, who are visiting
Miss Lena Pettee; Mrs. NJ. r. K.
Biggs, of Farber, Mo.
The young ladies' Missionary So
ciety met Saturday afternoon, the ex-
ercises being opened with a prayer by
Rev. E.. K. Miller. This society is
of the most interesting of any of our
societies. After the regular business
an elaborate dinner was served in
good style, just such a dinner as the
management of the college knows
how to get up. The Evening LED
GER is greatly appreciated by both
faculty and girls. "More Anon
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ANOTHER BLAZE.
Fire Destroys a Residence In South
MexieO-The Fire Company
Does Good Work.

at twelve o'clock Monday night fire
was discovered in the roof of a house
near Hardin Park in South Mexico,
owned and occupied by Mrs. Julia
E. Aliensworth. The fire department
responded promptly to the alarm, but
owing TO the long run, the fire had
made great Roadway before the COM
pany reached the place. However,
when one of the heavy inch streams
was gotten on the building, the blaze
did not last long. The building is
not a total loss, while a portion of
the household goods were saved. The
loss is covered by 500 on the house
and $1,000 on the contents, which
is held in the agency of Bassford &
Tucker. The Mexico water-works
company is a big thing for Mexico.
No fire can last three minutes after
a stream is turned on.
A BLAZE
Called out the Department again
at 4:15 p. m. Tuesday, Oh account of
a fire being discovered on the Bridge
which was supposed to have caught
from a passing locomotive. Damage
slight.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-11-11
MARTINsBURG MUSINGS

Correspondence Of the Ledger.
MAETINsBURG, Nov. i0.-~L. Turner
Owens, Of st. Louis, visited his family
here Sunday.
o. P. Smith, of Mexico, was in town
Saturday on business.
N. Friedman was In st. louis last
week.
Dick Burchard has typhoid fever.
MIR. j. d. Elder is quite Ill. His friends
despair of his recovery.
One evening last week q young man
from the country fired several times with
a pistol near Krieger's corner, and was
promptly arrested and fined.
John A. Reed, late of B~entonviIle, Ark.
has purchased the frame house belonging
to T. ]. NARROW, aud will move In this
week, Mr.. Reed Is well known in Mexi-
co, having been, many years ago, a mer-
chant there.
Grandmother Noel, aged &c, was buried
last week.
The ladies Of the Christian Church viii
give a dinner and supper on Thanksgiving
day, for the benefit Of their new church.
We bespeak for them q liberal patronage.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Cliff Fink, of Vernon county, shot
his father in the cheek.
Gen. Gordon was formally inaueu-
rated as governor of Georgia yester-
day.
Surgeons of the Wabash railway
system met in convention at Kansas
City.
Samuel J. Tilden's will is to he
contested by the heirs on legal
grounds.
Charles Peterson, Of Galloway Co.
Missouri, lost an arm by the acct,
dental discharge of q gun,
Gov. Marmaduke offers 5000 re-
ward for a murderer named Webster
Jackson. of Franklin county.
In Montgomery county, Texas, j.
j. Barrett shot MORALLY M. P. Price
in a row growing out of the election.
Fred Wlseman, a carpenter EN-.
ployed by the o. & NJ. r. R., in
East st. Louis, vas fatally crushed
under a a yesterday.
Two negroes are being held in jail
at California, Mo-, while the people
are trying to find out which is guilty
of a criminal assault on o little girl al
Upton.
The national convention of United
Presbyterians opposed to the action
of the general assembly on the music
question met at Allegheny City, Pa,
yesterday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-11-11
SMITH SUCCUMBS
To Hannibal Officers, and is Killed.
His Former Partner Now in
Jail Here.

In the Hannibal Journal of the
9th an account was noticed of the
killing of a man named Smith, near
Cameron, Mo-, by police officers.
The man was spoken Of as a horse
thief, who, some time before, entered
a Hannibal livery stable, hired a rig,
and never returned with it. Young
Dohe, now confined in Jail in this
city for robbery, confessed, it will be
remembered, and implicated a man
named James Smith-'sa man who
made moulds for money" etc. A
LEDGER reporter, %suspecting the man
killed was Dohe's pal, called at the
Jail, and, by a little inquiry, confirm
ed his belief. Had Smith been cap
tured alive, he would have proven a
valuable prisoner, as he has, at diff
ferent times, appeared in the roles of
ceunterfeiter, horse thief, robber,
etc. Young Dohe, the boy in Jail, is
an intelligent looking boy of Is Or
16, who seems very anxious to tell
all he knows regarding his exploits
with Smith, but perhaps if he knew
Smith was dead, would tell more.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-11-11
WORCESTER NOTES.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
WORCESTER, Nov. 10-The protracted
meeting at Wesley Chapel closed with
about twelve additions.
The Rev. Kay is holding a series of
meetings at the M. E. Church, South,
ofthis place;
A little boy, son of a Mr.. Morris that
lives on Littleby, was kicked by a colt
that belongs to Mr.. Galbreath. It
struck him in the breast, and it was
thought the blow would prove fatal, but
he was improving at last account.
L. Berry bought a pair of oxen on the
street last Saturday. He says he is
going to farming right.
Mr.. E. Hughes has increased his fine
herd of cattle by recent purchases.
R. Bunstine's sale was a success.
G. E. Casper bought 80 acres of corn
from G. Bunstine at IS per acre.
B. Underwood sold his $40 acre farm
known az the old race track, to Mr..
Pitcher, of Mexico. for 5000.
Mr. John Thomkins and son have re-
rented Geo. Azdell's farm. So we are
assured of good neighbors for another
year.
James DAVIS will move on the Bun
slime farm. James is always a welcome
neighbor.
Byron Iiams has commenced manu-
featuring brooms at Worcester.
Mrs. Onesks futile, of Mascow, Mo-,
is visiting her parents, Ed. Iiams and
wife.
Capt. w. F. Lott and Mr.. /. Iiams
expect to start on a trip to South
Missouri tomorrow.
John Beagles purchased a Windmill
from j. T. Carnes, which he will erect
soon, for the purpose of raising water
and Smelling corn for stock.
James Davis sold two mule colts fol-
sW
Literary society and spelling organic.
ed at the Dye school house last Friday
night, under the management of the
teacher, Mr.. Braden. BLITz.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-11-11
Joe & Vic Barth.
CLOTHIERS.
WORDS AND EGGS.
&. Il. Scott and the Laddonia Herald.

TO the Editor OF the Ledger.
C~URRYvILLE, Mo-, Nov. 9, 1885,
l notice in the Laddonia Herald
some kind notices of me while I was
in Laddonia lecturing. The editor
shows, in his notices of me, that he
is very ignorant of tie science of
phrenology, as he says 1 claim to
tell "the past, present and future of
any man, woman or child, negroes
and ALL" which, had he known any
thing of the science, he would never
have written, as phernology teaches
no such things. The true reason of
that editor writing me up as he
did, was in my public examination
of his head 1 said she was very
stubborn, and should marry a lady
easily ruled" 1 didn't>use enough
fiattery. The best people in town
patronized me and attended my lee
ture-even this mighty editor came
the three nights l lectured there,
using a five cent complimentary. He
claims he wants to do all he can for
his town, but he goes at it in a poor
1 believe he, with a few
others, threw the eggs at me as I
got on the train. Fortunately, they
all missed me, but one hit a passen-
ger that came to the door, and he
gave the town in general a good
curslng. I can assure those funny
boys that they didn't hurt me half
so badly as they did their own town.
Admitting I was a crank, those roughs
are killing the reputation of their
town by their heathenish ways. and
as l told them in my lecture, no gen.
tleman would sneer out in an audi
ence where ladies were,in the manner
they did !; and one fellow that sat BY
his girl snorted in such a manner
that the lady should have left his
side at once. Even the. Marshal
reprimanded them in the audience,
and I see the editor gives him a
thrust of his malice for doing 50.
This is why I displeased these lords.
[ spoke against whisky and tobacco,
and they hadn't the good sense to
say I spoke the truth ; and 1 spoke
against snorting in company, and
they took pride in their snort,ng.
has many good people and
they should rise and put down those
roughs, Or in time they will kill the
Yours, very truly,
G.. K. SCoTT.