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Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

immagination is about equal 10 the
fancy of those who find no difficulty
IN framing hox for the baptism of
the Israelites at the Red Sea. lst
Cor. l0:2. The ground will
serve for bottom, the walls of ice
(Ex. 1879 for sides, but no effort
of imagination has ever yet closed up
the ends of that box; and accord
ing to the record there was no
top to it-for 1.-The pillar of cloud
went from before their face and
stood behind them, and it came be-
tween the camp of the Egyptians and
the camp Of Israel" Ex. 14:19, 20.
Paul does not say that our fathers
were under the cloud at the time
they were passing through the sea-"
He would not contradict the record
in Ex. II in that way. SO that
imaginary box for a "figurativc i'm
mersion," SO much desired by the
surviving friends of Mr.. Duncan, has
any ground for its bottom, walls of
ice for its sides, but no cover and no
ends. Still the ''kerchug' kind of i'm
mersionists find immersion very olain-
ly "boxed up" at the Red Sea, and
distinctly ''iabeled" for transportation
to modern times
/ What Mr.. DIS friends lack in scrip
ture proof and legitimate argument
they make up in assumption and
Imagination. More to follow.
| L. GALLAHER.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
Poor John.

"John, DEAR" said the yeung wife,
looking up from the paper she was
reading, 81 see that people carry
chestnuts in their pockets to bure
rheumatism"
''Yes, dear"
''Is it customary to carry things in
the pockets to cure diseases?"
ut depends upon whether the per-
son afflicted is superstitious or not"
Because, when sewing a button
on your vest yesterday 1 discovered
a quantity of cloves, coffee-beans,
flagroot and other things in one Of
the pockets. Do you carry then, ~
a remedy? Is there anything the
matter with you, dear?"
"Ye-es, my DEAR" said John, ,stam-
mering and turning as red as boiled
lobster. II think I have q little
heart trouble"
'Poor fellow!" she said as tears
came to her eyes; '.you never told me
a word about IT,"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
The Labor Problem.

Senator Hawley, in his memorial
day Grafton at Spring Grove cemetery,
Hartford, Conn, spoke of the labor
problem in these words: "Men are
not lacking, even in our own land,
who feal and doubt concerning the
future of our institutions. They
would gladly feel otherwise. They
distrust the outcome of universal suf-
frage; they imagine they can see
America divided into fiercely hostile
camps labor, sore and bitter, MAX
ing wa upon capital; capital, sui
len and selfish, withdrawing to its
castles of defense and holding itself
aloof from friendly cooperation and
counsel with labor, it's indispensable
ally. They have visions of the spread
of an imported. disease, sometime
disguised as peaceful socialism, but
revealing itself at times in wild an
archy, dashing ssvagely at all institu,
tions, human and divine They dread
the influence of an unrestricted for
eign immigration of all races, relig-
ious, irrellgious, sometimes enemies
of all religions and governments, the
scoria, the Stag of the fierce fires Of
despotic government, ignorant of the
eaceful reliefs and remedies that
free government offers for oil politi-
cal sorrow and wrongs. While some
cry out in alarm that peace and pro
perty are to be destroyed / have
heard many others say: What has
this government done for laboring
menu 1t is the best protector and
friend of labor and the best conser-
vator of the accumulation of labor
known as labor. 1t is government
Of, by and for the average man.
Nine-tenths of the people-yes, per
haps ninety-nine one-bundredths-
in some form or other labor for q
living. The broadest doctrines OF
liberty, not license, are laid down as
| the foundation stone of all our con-
stitutions, all our bodies of state
laws. There Is no wrong without a
remedy. There is no uneasy fit that
cannot be easily adjusted. There ia
no aspiration of the people that may
not freely utter itself and spring or.
ganized into the arena in the endeavoI
to make itself known in the speech
of the orator, the resolution Of the
convention, and after due discussion
and buffeting and struggle, perhaps
become crystalized in law and con,
stitution. Let us have no fear o.
serious or lasting disturbance. II
1.-The struggle Of labor for better days
/ distrsst the efficiency Of statutor,
devices in solving the problem tha
can only be settled by the free citi
zen. The capitalist and the lahore
must become neighbors and meet a
friends. They may change places to
morrow. They can stand side b,
side to-day"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

President Cleveland has signed the
scientific temperance educational bill
which passed the Senate unanimous
ly, and the House with only 8 votes
against it. Several members lodged,
voting either way Our Congress
man, Col. Hutton, was one of the
dodgers. After attaching his sigma
ture the President presented to Mrs.
Mary II. Hunt, superintendent of
the department of semitic temper
ance instruction of the national w.
c. 7. u, the pen with which he per-
formed the act To this lady belongs
the whole honor of having secured
the adoption of the first distinctively
temperance measure that has ever
passed congress, though she modest
ly disclaims the credit for it's passage
and attributes it's success to the
practical cooperation of the w. G. T.
L. throughout the country. This
law makes obligatory the teaching
of effects of alcohol and narcotics
in all the schools of the District of
Columbia, the Territories, Naval and
Military Academies, Indian and all
other schools under Federal control.
The law also exists in twenty-five
states of the Union, though in some
four or five out of the twenty-five it
has been crippled by amendments as
it was in Missouri. St. Louis pub
lie schools, not under Missouri state
law, has adopted scientific temperance
text books in all grades of the school.
This all is the result of four year
trying of the W. G. T. Z.
MRS w e. NIrTNTIpE
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
Andrain Negro Shoots His Wife.

LOUISIANA, No, June 2.-Samuel
Meadows, an Audrain county negro,
sho. his wife to-day at the residence
OF her sister, Mrs. Lake Farley.
The bullet took effect in the left
shoulder. Meadows fed but was
captured in the outskirts of the city
and lodged in the lookup. Domes-
tic trouble was the cause of the
shooting. Several months ago he
went to Kansas in search of employ
ment. He sent his wife money to
join him there, but she spent the
money in travelling around with
colored Lothario. Meadows tracked
her 10 this place and tried 10 get her
to go back with him, but she refused
and be opened fire on her with re-
voiver.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
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Obituary.

VSas1aAJs ~
Jas. Gilmore Scott wa ~. -.
Adair county, Kentucky. Apss-e.s,
'lSl7, married April IL, 1851 e g
died in the city Of Brownwooa ~.
at the residence Of his son Dr.. ri =
Scott, May 18th, 1886. When A.,
10 years Of age. his father's frsfI,
moved tc Galloway county, Mc
where he resided till few month.
ago. For more than forty years he
was an exemplary member Of Aux
vase Presbyterian church-one OF
the earliest members Of that pioneer
church. His christian virtues are
written in golden letters Of memory
on the hearts of the worshipe,s AZ
the venerable altar of the aAux-
vasse," and will long be told at the
endeared hearthstones that cluster
around his Missouri homestead,
Truly, he will be remembered by
those, who knew him best as an hon.
est man, worthy citizen, and devoted
christian. BE bore with christian
patience and fortitude the severe sui.
ferlngs of the last year of his life and
with perfect resignation calmly await
ed the summons to enter his eternal
home. The tears and prayers Of de-
voted friends were with his noble
wife and devoted children when his
remains were placed at rest within
the sacred shades of our beautiful
city of the dead-Round Mountain
Cemetery. Peace TO his ashes! -
Brown Co. Banner.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

The Language OF the Train.

To sit on one seat and put your
feet on another signifies, 81 am not
accustomed to upholstered furniture
at home"
To occupy four seats on one ticket
means, Il am hog
To lean half way cut of the window
in order to see the country means,
''There are no glazed windows in my
house."
To turn front seat and ride back
ward, staring the whole car in the
face, means, "I may not be pretty,
but / think l am"
To expectorate on the car floor
means, Il have no carpets at home.
To say of the station that you
"cannot see the town for the houses"
signifies, II have never been any
where before"
To drink all the water In the tank
and go to sleep at 8 o'clock in the
morning means, 81 was out with the
boys lost night"
To be bounced off the train signi-
fies, 81 am dead broke"
To chase your children away from
your own seat to be entertained by
the other passengers signifies, 81 can
not afford to keep nurse"
To talk so loud the whole car can't
help hearing you signifies, II am
telling all know"
To bore reluctant stranger with
your conversation signifies that you
ought to be taken out and shot.
To eat your dinner with both hands
means that you would eat like a gen.
tleman if the railroad company gave
you time.
To whistle in the car signifies that
you have no ear for music.
To drum on the window with your
fingers shows that you do not know
how to drum.
To walk through Car with a light
ed cigar in your mouth indicates that
it is your first cigar.
To do any or all of these things
just when you feel like it signifies
that you are away from home and are
going to enjoy yourself in your own
way and you don't care who knows it.
To be run over by truck load OF
theatre baggage on the platform sig
nifies, II seem to be in the way"
To go into the restaurant and come
out wiping your mouth with the back
of your hand signifies, II am pro-
hibitionist, but L am not bigoted."
To change a $50 bill for a plain
old farmer from Shoharie means, 81
am out $50"
To run up town five minutes when
the train stops only three means, 81
am liable to get left"
TO save half fare by telling the
conductor that your nine-year-old
boy will be five next June means, 81
am liar.'
For ninety-five passengers to get
into car that will seat fifty means
"Somebody is going to stand up"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
What Makes Prosperity,

Mexico is negotiating with Mr..
Eddy, Of Alton, ILL.,, for the perma-
nent establishment Of a farm imple-
ment mandatory in that city. Tits
such enterprises as these, assisted by
local contributions and the encour-
agement Of the citizens, that gives
prosperity and brings wealth to Q
community. Factories are necessary
to the well-being of every city which
has a surplus of unemployed labor,
and as we have often said before un-
less Bowling Green does something
in this direction a part of our popu-
lation will seek homes elsewhere
where profitable employment can be
found.-Pike County Democrat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

AS this is the day OF great we'd
dings 1t may be mentioned that the
wedding outfit of the Crown Prince
of Portugal, although it did not in
clude his military uniforms, was ap-
praised at the Sanish frontier at
S2S,00O. His Royal Highness is
rather dumpy,not being up to recruit
ing sergeant's standard, which is
low in Portugal. In the photographs
taken of him and his bride she is
seated in chair before him, while he
stands behind, as if on guard. Roche
fort declares that the photographer
engaged to do the work perched the
Prince on a stool, which was hidden
by the brides skirts, so as to keep
her IN picturesque sub6rdination to
His Royal Highness.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

The newspaper fraternity con.
gratulate themselves over the new
postal law, recently put in force by
the postofilce department. ltmskes
the taking Of a newspaper and re-
fusal TO pay for the samc, theft, and
any person guilty Of such action is
liable TO criminal proceedings the
same as if he had stolen goods TO the
amount of the subscription. Here
after it will not be considered very
sbrewd scheme to take u newspaper
from the Office for a year and then
inform the editor you never ordered
il sent you.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
Excursion Rates to June Races at st.
Louis June 5th to 18th Inclusive.

For the above the Wabash, st,
Louis & Pacific and Chicago & Alton
Rvs. will sell excursion tickets to st.
Louis and return at S395, which
will include one admission (S1.00) to
the races. Tickets will be sold for
such trains as arrive in St. Louis
june 5th, 18th and 10th and will be
good for return passage until the
Monday following date of sale.
E. S. WILSON,
Ticket Agent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

Charles Blain and wife, of VAN
dalia, reached this place on their
return from a visit to Texas Friday
morning. Mr.. Blain reports the sea-
son as well advanced in the state but
says that in the sections where he
was the farmers have been suffering
a great deal for the want Of rain.
He told us that Gainesville, In which
as village he built the first brick
house eight years ago, has grown
into a city OF from twelve to fourteen
thousand people, and is a thriving,
hustling and prosperous town with q
splendid future before it.-Pike
County Democrat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

The members of the city council Of
Mexico, Mo-, manifest vommenda
BILE disposition 10 deal fairly with the
newspapers Of their fourishing town
They divided the city printing equally
between the Inteltiqencer and LED
GER. They evidently realize that the
present prosperous condition of the
city is due largely to the unceasing
efforts of tue papers named.-Troy
Mems
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
What Parents,

Many persons-especially parents
object to many quack nostrums as
likely to engender or encourage a
love for strong drink They are
right. Better die of disease than of
drunkenness. The use of Parker's
Tonic does not involve this danger.
It no. only builds up the system,
curing all ailments OF the stomach,
liver and kidneys, but it stimulates
without Intoxicating and absolutely
cures the appetite for liquor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

Borea's Budget, Fort Plain. n. T.,
for Maxch, 1856, says: Ia the malti-
pIicity OF medicine placed upon the
market 1t il sometimes difficult 10
Distinguish he,ween the meritor7cus
aud the worthless. There are nj
least two excellent remedies widely
used, the efficiency Of which are TIN
auestioned. We refer 10 ST. Jacobs
Oil and Red Star Cough Cure.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

Miss Effie Bridges OF Mexico, Mo,
who was selected by our school board
as one of the teachers in the public
schools this coming term, is said 10
be very bright lady. Prof. Wolfe
and the entire school board are well
pleased with her. She comes to them
highly recommended, having taught
two terms in Audrain county Mo-
berry Monitor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

Dangar' 4 neglected cough "
eo!d may lead 20 pneumonia, coli
sumption or other fatal diseases,
Strong's PeetoDas . 4ts1ts ii cure Il
cold as ty mag, %asaSe, thing for
dyspepsn. indigestion, sick head
ache as thousands testify Sat
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

Bob White, Of the Mexico LEDGER,
is enthusiastic in his support of r
NJ. Cockrell for reelection to the
United States Senate. We are not
specially an admirer of Mr.. Cockreil,
but as against any other candidate
yet mentioned for the place we should
say, re-elect him.-Glasgow Missou-
rim
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

Dick Norton says he is going to
Congress from the Seventh district if
money will elect him. At least this
remark is currently reported as hav-
ing been made by him. Money will
buy nearly anything that man
wants, but We are of the opinion il
will not buy the suffrages of the
honest Democratic yeomaEry of the
Seventh. We know them TO be made
of better material. Dick may visit
Washington but not as Congress
man elect from this district.
dalia Leader.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

Mr.. j. B. Schroll informs us that
while in Mexico Monday a dispatch
was received stating that the lumber
yard at Centralia WAS burning. He
further informed us that several
members of the G.. A. r. post of Cen
tralia were in Mexico and they stated
that there had been some trouble
about the flag at Centralia that morn,
ing, the proprietor of the lumber yard
refusing to allow them to hoist the
flag from his building. 1t was after.
wards swung to the breeze from the
elevator, and that night about twelve
O'Clock the fire was discovered, leav.
ing the impression that it was the
work of an incendiary. y.-Farber Eye.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
When an editor sends his paper +

When an editor sends his paper to
q man for six or eight years in vain
hope that the fellow win pay up, and
then has paper returned TO him
some day, with words, "Gone 70 the
better land" written on the margin,
he may not get mad, but he don't
take much stock in the statement.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
I,oek at the Past.

Beware Of campaign ''clap-irsp'
to catch votes and support the men
of your choice. Rely more upon the
past acts OF nm official rather than
wha, Won hear his political enemies
say.-Ex.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
Judge David Davis on the Local News.

paper.
Judge David Davis, formerly of the
United States Supreme Court and
later Senator of the United States,
has given the following testimony to
the Importance and benefit to a COM
munity of the local newspaper:
Every year every local newspaper
gives from 5000 to 5000 free lines
for the sole benefit Of the community
in which it is located. No other
agency can or will do this. The
local editor in proportion to his
means does more for his town than
any other ten men, and in all fairness,
man to mau, be ought TO be support
ed, not because you may happen TO
like him or admire his writing, but
because Il local paper is the best in
vestment community can make. 1t
may not be very brilliant or crowded
with more thoughts but financially it
is more of a benefit to the community
than the preacher or teacher. Un-
derstand US now, we do not mean
morally or intellectually, but finan-
cially, and yet on the moral question
you viii. find the majority of the local
papers are ON the right side Of the
question. To-day the editors of the
local papers do the most work for
the least money of any men on earth.
Subscribe for your local paper, not
as charity but as an investment
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

Mexico is 10 hare q trades process
si.,n. Mexico 10 a real live Missouri
town. with live editors and public
.r;,,tpd citisens. Pacific Herald
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

Frank Buffum, proprietor of the
new lumber yard, absolutely defies
competition in quality and prices.
Be sure to call before you buy. Att
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10
AN ARTIST In AFRICA.
Interrupted BY a Serpent that Would
Make Dime Museums Fortune.
From the San Francisco Examiner.

From the San Francisco Examiner.
One day, being on the edge of the
berg, sketching grand view of the
mountains, looking along the edge
my attention was attracted toward a
number of bamboos that were frisk-
ing about among the rocks. As the
animals are very shy, remained per-
fectly quiet and went on with my
painting, but hoping they would
come nearer. Being thus engaged.
partly with the landscape and partly
with the bamboos, what should I see
in the long grass but an immense boa
constructor! He seemed at least 20
feet long and one foot in diameter.
He was crawling along towards the
bamboos; I watched the result with
intense interest. No sooner did his
snakeship show his head above the
long grass than the animals scam
pered off in a second. Talk about
the agility of prairie dogs and ground
squirrels No one would imagine
that those fellows, big and clumsy as
they seemed,would disperse so quick
ly. The serpent seemed just as
quick, for with a few springs On his
tail he seemed to be among them,
but he did not succeed in capturing
any of them. Snatching up my shot
gun l was determined to haye that
serpent's skin. 1 went up to the
place where he disappeared behind
the rocks. There he was, about a
hundred yards away, crawling slow
ly along the edge of the precipice. 1
was gaining steadily on him, but 1
did not like to run for fear of alarm
ing-startling him into a run, as it
were, either from me or toward me.
/ wanted to make sure of him without
giving him chance if I could help it..
l was always coward when fighting
rattlesnakes in Mendocino county,
but this whopper, twenty feet long,
made me quake in my boots worse
than if there were fifty snakes hidden
there.
After following him for some time
he stopped crawling; he raised his
body on rock, and turning his face
towards me saw me. ! was in range of
him with heavy shot. Bang! bang!
went both barrels. The stock of my
gun kicked me affectionately, and
when the smoke cleared away the
serpent was not in sight. Re-loading
my piece, 1 advanced cautiously with
my finger on the trigger all the while.
When I got to the spot there lay my
victim twisting and tying himself
up in knot and unraveling it again
with lightning like rapidity. Then he
stretched himself out his full length
and raising himself upon his tai
bounded into the air several times
making a circle of sixteen or eighteen
feet at every jump, till at last, with
a mighty effort he bounded agair
and fell to the earth with q crash
He was dead-past all danger te
man and beast. He weighed at least
100 pounds. My next anxiety wa:
as to how I could get that beautiful
ly colored skin. He was on the very
edge of the precipice. A final spasn
in the lingering life that clings 81
tenaciously to the snake tribe nigh
destroy hopes. could only sit anC
wait. 1t was fully an hour before
had the courage to commence th'
skinning, and after considerable
labor, / succeeded.
Judge David Davis on the Local News
paper.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

M. Y. Duncan, of Mexico, candi-
date for Circuit Judge, was in town
this week. Mr.. Duncan is a lawyer
of fine ability, and should the choice
of the people fall upon him they can
rest assured the judicial ermine will
be worn by him with that dignity
and uprightness which should char
acterize the impartial judge. He
made very favorable impression
upon The people during his short stay
in this section.-Frankford Chronicle.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

The anti-Cockrell papers do a great
deal of complaining because voters
of the several counties make their
aspirants for the legislature declare
themselves on the senatorial question.
Why should the people not declare
whom they favor? If majority of
the democracy of a county are de-
slrous for a certain democrat to be
chosen as senator why should they
no say SO to their representative,
and why should their wishes not be
needed! When the people speak,
their Representatives cannot go far
wrong by obeying their direction
BrunsaCicker.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10


Warden Marmaduke last Wednes-
day treated the prisoners to supper
of strawberries and cream. 200 gal
Ions of Strawberries had been pro-
vided for the feast The Warden
has been led to adopt this course
from a due appreciation of the gen.
eral good behavior and conduct of
the prisoners. The people will ap-
preciate this act of the Warden 5
kindness as they have the wise, hu-
name and conciliatory management OF
the institution during the entire
period of his incumbency as warden.
Jefferson City Journal.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-06-10

Mrs. Martin, wife of S. p. Martin,
who in company with her husband
has been here for the last few weeks
running a ten cent store, is as anx-
ious to get the Mexico LEDGER as she
is TO get her meals. Mrs. Martin
generally sends some one to our office
for the LEDGER on Thursday evening,
and if it has not come leaves word
for us to bring the "grand paper" as
she calls it, over to the hotel. Mr..
and Mrs. Martin formerly lived in
Mexico and are quite an excellent,
sociable couple.-Warrenton Banner.