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Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

well: Go Join Great Julius whnn thine art
called up from death before me, and takel
Egypt's greetings to him All, we'll fooled
thee; and fooled Cesar perchance before
its done fate will find me and myself / shall
be fooled! Hasmachis, fare thee well ~
She turned to go, and as she turned I
heard the sweep Of another dress and the
light fall Of another woman's foot.
'.Ahl it's thou, Charmion Well for all
thy watching, the man dies"
"Ay," she answered. In voice thick with
grief. "Ay, o Queen. 30 say the physicisna
Forty hours hath he been In stupor so deep
that at times his breath could hardly lift
this tiny feathers weight, and scarce could
my eur, placed against his breast, take mo-
tice of the rising Of his heart. For ten long
days l now have watched him day and
night, till mIne ewes stare wide open with
want of sleep, and for faintness, scarce can
L keep myself from falling. And Of all my
labor this is the endi The blow Of that ao-
cursed Brennus has done its work, and
Harmachis dies!"
'Love counts not Its labor, Charmion, nor
can it weigh its tenderness in the scale OF
purchase. That which it hath it gives, and
Graves for more to give and give, till the
souls infinity be drained. Dear to thy
heart are these nights Of watching; sweet
to thy weary eyes is that sad sight OF
strength brought SO low that it hangs upon
thy weakness like babe unto its mothers
breast! For, Charmion, thou dost love this
man who loves not thee, and now that he
Is helpless thou canst pour thy passion DER
the unanswering darkness of his soul and
cheat thyself with dream of what yet might
bel"
Il love him not, as thou hast proof, o
Queenl How can ! love one who would
have slain thee, who art as my hearts sis
tera 'Tis for pity that nurse him."
She laughed little as she answered:
"Pity Is loves own twin. Wondrous way
ward are the paths of woman's love, and
thou hast shown thine strangely, that !
know. But the more high the love the
more deep the gulf whereinto it can fall
ay, and thence soar again to heaven, once
more to fall! Poor woman, thou art thy
passions plaything; now tender as the
morning sky, and now, when jealousy grips
thy heart, more cruel than the sea. Well,
thus are we made. Soon, after all this
troubling naught will be left thee but tears,
remorse and memory"
And she went forth.
iT0 RE CONT1NuED
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
HER NAME,

How shan tell your She has 80 many.
As for her sporsora how could they know
In naming that baby, their worships msy be,
Entitled OF women score or sof
When see her where flowers are blooming,
Another blossom SO fresh and swee.
lean compare her TO nothing fairer;
IoaI her my Daisy" my Marguerite.
When see her with hands SO busy.
Arustic maiden In homespun dressed,
A household fairy. with steps so airy,
Homely Maggie describes her best
When she greets me with mirth and laughter
Meg" think, is the sweetest name.
OF roguish Woflugton she reminds me;
Then she 10 Peg" my merry dame.
When earth is sowa with cold, gray rain,
When hearts are weary and life so dreary,
One scarce dare hopo for the sun again.
Then she comes with her mien SO gentle,
Calm. serene mid O mad worlds whirl.
OF jewels the rarest, the puress, farest
Iknow why they named her Margaret"
Pearl"
Chsngefui lady what sprite hath lent you
This magic power that We see you vieldf
Now tears, now smiling now fond begullins,
None can oppose you. for all must yield.
But stopi One name that mean to give you
VIII fetter and bind you all your life.
You need not guess it; will confess It:
Ny love. my lady, TIL call you ''wifa."
Mary {. Vandyne, In Harper's Weekly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
AN AMUSING INCIDENT.
Mr.. and Mrs Jonathan Hayseed's Fir
Trip on q Sleeper.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Hayseed's First
Trip on q Sleeper.
II see some queer things while knocking
around the country" said travelling man
to a Chicago Herald reporter, land one of
the funniest circumstances that can recall
happened last Friday night. was running
up the Milwaukee road a few hundred
miles, and when left Sioux City my only
fellow-passengers were an old man and his
wife, who occupied the lower section across
from me. They had their berth made up
early and soon retired. 1 guess it was the
6rst time they had ever travelled on q sleep
sr by the way they acted, for they were
pretty awkward about undressing, and
heard the old lady lecture her husband for
not getting larger room. After much
mutua; grumbling all was quiet. and then
came a deep snore accompanied by one a
trif1e more subdued. 1t was evident the
old people were asleep.
'At Manila Junction large party came
In and taxed the sleeper to it's full capa.
city. The porter had to remove the bag
gage of the couple, which was slowed
above them, and assigned the berth TO a
little inoffensive citizen, weighing about 12C
pounds. He removed his shoes and was
climbing into the bunk when the old lady
woke up and began screaming. This
aroused her husband ana ne yelied LOT the
porter, who came running down the aisle
Say, there's man just come into oul
room,' the old gentleman gasped out. The
porter tried to explain that he would no
annoy them, and had right to be there
But neither would believe this, and the ole
man declared that the porter had let hin
in to rob them. He WAS also indignant t,
think any one should be allowed in tn,
same compartment as his wife, and hnall,
he and the old lady got up and dressed
and insisted ON the porter removing tn
I bedding from their berth SO they could U.s.
| the seats.
81 peeped through the curtains and say
them both sitting there nodding, but ever,
few minutes they would suddenly remen
: ber and sit bolt upright. I pitied the poo
deluded couple, and really the situation
was not lacking in pathos, for they wer
thoroughly In earnest When got off tn
train early next morning they were stil
sitting there. but both were sound asleeI
/ the old gentleman with his arms around hi
wife's waist and her head pillowed on hi
| shoulder"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
Traced by q Horse,a Hair.

will venture to relate a story which l
can vouch for as true tale, writes a Bos-
ton Post correspondent. A gray horse Of
some value owned at town about twenty
miles west of here was stolen one night,
and inasmuch as no trace Of the animal
could be found elsewhere, it was assumed
that he had been taken to Boston. A de-
tective was employed, and every public or
Dealers stable in the city was visited, but
without results. Finally, just at dinner
time one day, the detective dropped in at a
large hotel much fiequeuted by market
men, teamsters and the like, and as 1t Yves
the winter season, q great number Of top
coats were hanging up in the hall. The de-
tective examined them, and found that two
contained white horsehairs, although he
had previously ascertained there was but q
single gray horse in the stable, and that
not the one of which he was in search. Ac.
cordingly he waited for the owners Of the
coats to scme out from dinner. The frs,
one west straight to the stable and ordered
his horxe to be harnessed. The second one
put on his coat and wentout into the street.
The detective pursued, and, after tracking
his man for an hour or 80, finally followed
him to small stable in an obscure street,
where he found the missing horse and ar
rested the thief.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
The Roster OF the Dead.

The inevitable reflection that
comes with the dead Of any man
who has played . part Of promi-
nence in the worlds affairs, and
has spent his later years in retire.
ment, is suggested by the passing
away of Jefferson Davis. How
very few years, after all, intervene
between the hey-day of activity in
q generation of public men and the
ceremonial with which the last is
laid in his grave. 1t is less than
twenty-five years since the curtain
fell upon the latest act Of Davis
public life, yet how few of those
most prominent in the civil and
military lite of the day are now
alive. Of those who espoused the
Southern cause Alexander II.
stephens, Vice President; Robert
Toonibs, Secretary of State; L P.
Walker, Secretary of War; Charles
G. Memmlnger, Secretary of the
Treasury; Stephen R. Mallory,
Secretary of the Navy; Judah P.
Benjamin, Attorney General J.
NJ Mason, Special Commissioner
to England; John Slidell, who ex-
ercised the same function In
France. and Robert E. Lee and
Albert Sidney Johuston preceded
Davis to the grave. So, too, did
Lincoln and all the members of his
original cabinet, Grant, Sheridan,
Thomas, Mcclellan, H locker, Burn
side, Mcdowell, Farragut and
nearly all the other prominent
civil and military leaders of the
north. John II. Reagan, now
Senator from Texas and Postmas.
ter-General of the Confedercy, is
the only survivor of the original
cabinet of Davis, while Galusha
A. Grow, Speaker of the House of
Representatives of the United
States from 1861 to 1868, and Han
nibal Hamlin, Vice-Presldent dur
ing Lincoln's first time, are almost
the only leading civilian officials
of that period now alive. Of the
great soldiers and sailors of the
war on either side there are living
only Gen. William T. Sherman
and Admiral David D. Porter, oi
the Union, and Gems. Joseph E.
Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard
of the Confederate force.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
Congressional Candidates.

From the montgomery Connty Leader.
The Seventh Congressional Dis
trict promises to be as warmly con-
tested as ever in the next canvass.
Several candidates have at this
early period signified their inten-
tions of serving the people in this
capacity. Dick Norton, the pres
ent Congressman, will aspire for
that position again. Champ Clark
admits his candidacy, and is
also authority for the statement
that Dalton and Woods, of Rails,
and McDearmon, of St. Charles,
will be candidates, also Booth, OF
Franklin.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

The "Uncle Toms Cabin" Com
pany returned from CentraIia on an
early train Friday night. Presuma-
bly, they could not afford to show
to such small audience as greeted
them; or, the weather being very
lnclement probably kept a great
many away who might otherwise
have attended. Candidly. this
stake" surpasses anything that
Mexico ever produced. The gall
of the manager ~ is something
horrible. To try to spring an
"Uncle Tom' on the public just
with common, everyday cur dogs
and no donkey is simply out of the
question. To this fact, alone, is
presumably due the lack of patron,
age which caused this gigantic theat.
rical enterprise to Idle a bornin'." A"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

John Dahlem has remembered
the LEDGER with a sack of as fine
apples as we ever saw John
says there is nothing you cannot
raise in Audrain, and he knows.
There is not more pros
porous farmer anywhere than John
and the LEDGER wishes him the
the best earth affords.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
<,a,tfornia,s FIR Trees,

They have big fr trees in California rs
well as redwoods, II the following item
going the rounds Of the press can be given
credence: A citizen Of Alma, Cal, has I'm
ished working up fir tree which grew on
his place. He received So for the bark:
built q frame house 14x20 feet, feet high,
with q kitchen feet wide and 20 feet long !.
built a wood-shed I4x3o feet; made $50 fence
rails 10 feet long; made S34 railroad ties,
300 boards 8 inches wide and Q feet long,
and Is cords Of wood. All tins from one
Urea end Q ~ - cf the s~e> ss Z, e.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

The Australian system has
tstruck knot" as it were, in
Boston. it IS all right at the cleo
tlons where men only voted; but
when the women 90 to the polls, as
they do in the school board cleo
tions, trouble begins. A good
many of them are compelled, of
course, to take their babies or stay
at home. The law, of course,
should provide for their taking the
babies, as 1t is the women with
babies who are growing up to be
pupils to whom the vote on school
questions really means something.
But the law does net So provide.
1t rigidly requires that the voter
on entering the compartment to
mark her ballot shall be alone. No
one can enter with her or be per-
mitted to see what marks she
makes. The smallest infant in
arms is an infringement of the law
and the inspectors are bound to
see that no Infringement is permit
ted. A good natured inspector in
one of the precincts at the recent
election solved the difficulty by
holding the baby for a woman
voter while she marked her ballot;
but that service can hardly be ex-
pected from inspectors as general
rule. The law should be amended
either by relaxing the restriction
as to companionsbip in the mark.
ing booth or by providing baby
holders at every precinct.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

Andy Winscott, of this city. has
been signed by Chris Won der Abe
and will play first base for the St.
Louis Browns next season. Harr
Hollopeter will likely be one of the
catchers for the same nine. They
will leave Mexico about the mid
die of March to go into practice.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
HICKMAN HEARD FROM.
Says he Never Made the State.
ment Attributed to Him.

To the Editor Of the Ledger.
MEXICO, Mo-, Jan. Ill desire,
through your columns, to refer to
the affidavits made by the Sander
son brothers as being as false as a
fairy dream. l am now well salts
fed in my own mind that the
devil surely has broken up house
keeping and settled his family In
and around Mexico. I am also as
we'll satisfied that some people
would bottle up the sun and rob
heaven of its most sacred jewels to
crafty their Unsuitable thirst for
gain. j. T. HICKMAN.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

Some one, whether accidentally
or otherwise is not known, threw a
rock against J. & v. Barth's plate
glass front, breaking a ragged hole
in a glass costing s1O5. 1t was
in suraA
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

Lafe Newk;rk's family, stock
and goods arrived at Woodland,
Cal, all safe on January 9th. Lafe
himself will go out about the first
of February. He stlll holds his
farm here and will come back when
he gets tired of California.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
Misses Hattie and Mary North.

Misses Hattie and Mary North
ern entertained a large number of
friends last Friday evening at their
home in East Mexico. Refresh
ments were served at 1890 o o'clock.
The following named were among
those present: Daisy Baker, Ma
mie Duncan, Girtie McCame, Nina
Baker, Rose Ringo, Lura Baker,
Mamie Forshee, Matte johnson,
Mamie Cauthorn, Pearl Williams,
Emma Nelson, Eva Ross. Ora
Johnson, Althea Coons, Mabel
Pitcher. Mrs. Matte Brown and
Messrs. T. ]. Turner, Ed. Morris,
C D Rodgers, Abbie White, Robt.
Arnold, Tom Basket, Arthur
Brown, Fred Pitcher. Joe Northern,
Jim Northern, Ote Pindall, Lewis
Mason, Wallace johnson, Thos.
Williams, Clarence Barnes, Harry
Ruckel and Locke Macfarlane.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

VIM. Biggers to-day bought,
through the agency of Brooks &
Frost, the John Pollard property,
just south of the City Hall. The
building will undergo several need
ed repairs and will be rented out.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

A man in New York city pays
the municipal government 81 500 a
week for the privilege of sorting
over the street cleanings for lost
articles. From this it would ap-
pear that the citizens OF the me-
tropolis are rather careless with
their valuables.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
We Need A Little Practice.

FfOm the LoulSlana Pr6SS.
The LEDGER is agitating the
building OF a jamesnasium in Mexi-
CO. We don't see how Bob White
needs one. He can stand on one
of them feet of his and lift the man
who wants to know "who writ that
there article" over into the next
country,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
cuticura Resolvent

The new Blood and Skin Purifier and purest and
oest of Humor Remedies, internally, and CuTlcuRA,
the great Skin Cure, and CuTfcURA Soar, an ex-
3uiss,e skin Beautiiier. externally, speedily, and
permanently every species Of itching, burning.
seaIy crusied, pimply, scrofuIous, and hereditary
diseases and hnmora Of the skin, scalp, and blood
with loss Of hair, from pimplss 70 scrofuia.
Sold everywhere. Price, CrTTcURA, 50c.; Soar,
25c.; REsoLyENr, d. Prepared by the PoTrzz
DEUs AND CHEMICAL CoRPoRATIoS, Boston
a1Send for " How to Cure Skin Diseases et
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

Horace Mundy lost a fine mare
this week. A boar bit her on the
thigh and she lived two or three
weeks hut finally died of blood
poisoning.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
The Murray Farm Sold.

uVOiIfd
D,nglas Murray, of Worcester,
has sold his farm of 240 acres for
sc, 900. Mr.. Murray does not
know just where he will locate,
but probably will go to Martins
burg, as he has traded for some
valuable property there. The
Murray farm, we understand, will
be rented out. A good chance for
some man who wants to rent big
farm and is not afraid of work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

IND atlength, all being
y gone, l, too, turned
II to go, when a eunuch
u struck me on the
(, shoulder and roughly
V bade me wait Oh the
presence Of the Queen.
An hour past and this
fellow would b ave
rawled to me on his
ees; but he had heard,
d now he treated me-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

II I had known of the CUT1cuRA REHEDns
twenty eight years ago IL would have saved me
$500 90 1.-TWO hundred doilars) and an immense
amount Of suffering. Ny disease (psoriasis) com
menced on my head in spot not larger than cent
1t spread rapidly all over my body and got under
my nails. The scales would drop Of Of me Al the
time, and my suffering was endess and without
relief. One thousand dollars would not tempt mo
to have this disease over again. am poor man,
but feel rich to be relieved of what some Of the
doctors said was leprosy, some ringworm. pso.
riasis, etc. took and s4rs.p.rlll.s ~ over
three doctors, and no cure. cannot praise ths
CUrlcURA REMEprEs too much. They have made
INV skin AZ clear and free from scales q . baby's.
All used OF them were three boxes Of CurIcuRA,
and three bottles of CuTIcuRA RKsoLvENr, and
two cakes of CuTIcuRA Soar. II you had been
here and sa,d you would have cured me for $4,000
you would have had the money. looked ike the
picture in your book of PSORIASIS picture number
two " How to Cure Skin Diseases.s but now am
as clear as any person ever was Through force OF
habit rub my hands over my arms and legs TO
scratch once in while, but to no purpose. am
all well. scratched twenty eight yeara. and
got TO be q kind of second nature to me. 1 thank
you thousand times.
DENNIS DOWNING, Waterbury, Vt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
CLEOPATRA.
Being an Account of the Fall and
Vengeance Of Harmaehis, the
Royal Egyptian,
as SET FORTH BIZ HIs OWN HAND.
By n. RIDER HAGGARp,
Author OF King Solornon's Mines"
"She," "Allan ouaternaain,"
Etc, Etc, Etc.
illustrated by NIcHoLL. after CATION WOOD.
VILE and aREFyENHAaEN.
CHAPTER Xxx.

OF THE REPRoAcu OF HARaAcHIs; OF THE
STRUGGLE OF HARMACHIS WITH THE
GUARDS; OF THE QUICK BLOW STRUCK BY
BRENNUs, AND OF THE SECRET SPEECH OF
CLEOPATRA.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16

so british is the nature of such
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bic. Gold and silver more than she had
ever thought of in her widest dreams Of
comfort, and almost buried in the pile az
treasure lay Totty's little blue stockine.
We will not intrude long upon such
happiness, but leave the joyful Family
sounding praise to heaven and Sants
Claus.
The whole story soon reached Mra.
Stewards ears. She knew Jack Dawson
by sight, and when she next met him.
although tho honest fellow tried hard 70
push by her, she caught hold Of his cost
and compelled him to stand and listen "a
her fearful thanks. The tears shed
were not all hers, for when Jack moved
away there were drops of LIQUID crystai
hanging to his checks.
-Four months from that aMerrfc Christ.
mas" Mrs. Stewart became Mrs. JACK
Dawson, and every evening when the
hardy miner returns from his daily labor
to his comfortable and happy home.
lofty and Benny will climb upon his
strong knccs and almost smother him
with kisses, while they lovingly address
him rs @Our Santa Claus papa
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-12-26

and they. put the whole length Of che
ribbon very gently around my neck, and
hitchcd the other end to tho horse, and
the dolls held tho horse by tho bit and
snid: sHc might be mcchant, and jump
so as to hurt &C bon garcon.n And thcy
led him along very gently, and the Jump
ing Jack, as I went up in the Dir, just
roarcd Us I kicked my legs about, high
up in tho tree.
1t was awful amusing to sec them all
sporting below me, ever SO far down.
They just raced around the tree after
they had lit my candle. If it hadn't been
for some of tho wax of one of the red
tapcrs that melted and fell ON mo it
would have been nicer, but / didn't say
anything.
Right neal mo was a Jack-in-thc-box.
I heard him in his box talking and
grumbling to himself, and presently he
sad: "Thosc dolls, and that horse, and
that stupid Jumping Jack are paying
you a mighty sight of attention, and you
arc only o boy, and q cheap toy-boy at
that. won't have it cost IS cents,
and I could buy you ut any time for Is
cents, and you are not painted nicely at
all, and you can't do anything, whereas
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an awful curious child, and up to mis-.
.lf-R ~

an awful curious child, and up to mis-
chief"
sIsn't IT pretty to see him asleep, SO
happy like, and as to being curious. isn't
that natural9 He is a child always in
search of information. You said the
jumping Jack, and the hobby-horse, and
the dolls were there? 1 dare say the
horse and the Jack arc all right, but I
never ought to have trusted you to buy
the dolls. A man can't buy q nice doll.
Well, let's get them and hang them up
on the tree. Let Bobby sleep, dear
child, for he is going to have lots Of fun"
"Het's lave fOmc sum-" / said, and why
I don't know, for l was pretending to be
sound asleep.
sPoor Bobby" said ma, as she kissed
me. sHe must be dreaming in his sleep
of tho joys of tomorrow. l do SO hope
he and the other children will have o
good time of it,"
"a good time of it, said I to myself.
~ have Just had Il bully time; for I
bctchyr there isn't another fellow in
Chicago that eve had o row with q
Jack-in-thc-box and got knocked sky
high. Those dolls were just too sweet
for anything, and IL 1t wasn't for the
boys laughing at me, I would Just 60
round and kiss 'em all tomorrow. And
would you believe It? When ma was
carrying out the dolls I heard one Of
them say distinctly to me. 'Bood-gy.
pugar slums
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Several carloads Of rpii
from Omaha have been re-.
for distribution, aud about
quantity goes into the vari.
along the line. The Fremo
& Missouri VALLEY road j
graceful thing i'll slipp:r
supplies nearly 800 mi.
charge, and the people wall
the road gratfn!iy fos ii. !!
such favors will he asked -
horn during the con,,ns
spring. and the road will
just as freely grant them.
rs all ;l;c more graceful on
the road. because OF INN
railroad agitation among
and the neav certainty of
railroad legislation by II
legislature this winter. The
is not so soundless as the
would have the people bell
few more such accommod
assure considerable of the
which has been fomcntcd {,
people, especially the farmc
County tNeb.) Journal.