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Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
Written for the Ledger.
THE DAUGHTER.IN.LAW.


EMILY VAIL.
She is not one we would have chosen, wife.
But Harry has had his way;
Our hearts are older and colder, perhaps.
And we shall not always stay.
Threads cf silver see now
Shining In your chestnut hair,
New lines trace upon your face
Perhaps they were made by care.
o she is very fair. admit
Her ways are chiid-llke and sweet,
But look at her slender, milk white hands,
What hands for true heipmest.
Her euris 60 tumbling about her throat.
In such careless way,
remember after our marriage, wife,
You brushed yours smoothly away.
She has kind heart--I hope 1t is SO
For the sake OF our only boy;
But. wife. she has ever seemed to NE
just useless, beautiful toy.
Yes, Harry has wealth. that is very true
Very true, perhaps, to-day.
But riches are things that often take wings
When ones wife is a mere boquet
What have been very low, you sayo
And she watched beside my bed?
I dreamed her hands like snow fakes lay
On my achiog, burning head.
An excellent girl--pray where did she learn?
Prepared dainty dishes, say you.
And nice cooling drinks--w patient and kind
So ostrange when her years are SO few.
And her cheeks grew hot when bade Harry tax
His doil to her mother again.
Oh that was too bad. but the fever had burne
The sense nearly out of my brain.
The past l regret, and will make all amends.
To the very last lay Of my life.
All Mary, feel there is sunshine ahead
For our son has a true. noble wife.
Elegant gifts for you both I'll select
When am able again TO get OUT
And think, after all. when he made his cholc
Harry knew What he was about.
Benton City, Mo-, Jan. q 1890.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Any horse worth wintering
should have some green food in
winter to keep its bowels open. 1t
is dry. and concentrated foood that
causes fevers by constipating the
bowels, making the hair rough.
The good effect of oil meal consists
in the fact, not that it directly
makes fat, but that it enables the
stomach to digest food more per-
fectly. Carrots have the same eff.
feet. A few given daily enables the
owner of a horse to diminish the
grain ration and keep the animal
in better order at less expense.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Ode Pearson, the porter of the
Ringo House, was brought before
Recorder Riley yesterday after
noon on charge of disturbing the
peace. E. s. Wilson, ticket agent,
at the Union Depot, made the COM
plant and G. M. Null was chief
witness for the prosecution. A
trial by jury was had and the city
was beaten to the tune of s25 ex.
penses. It seems that there was
some trouble at the depot Tuesday
night while a train was standing
there and some rather tall swearing
was done,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
A New Slot Machine

0xOV 1'&sSN1H1lCs
"It was ever SO kind of you to
bring me this box of candy" said
the young lady to George. "I think
you are exceedingly nice"
"That's the way it goes," said
George as he dropped another bon.
bon into her mouth. "Put a car
mel into the slot and get some
taffy."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
Protection to Wool-Growers.


From the Indianapolis Sentinel.
The delusion of protection to
wool growers is rapidly going to
pieces. The returns of the late cleo
tion in Ohio show that in twenty
seven counties, which produce
about three-fourths OF the wool
grown in the State, Compbell's net
gain was 4,O22, although Foraker
polled 1,073 more votes than he
did two years ago in the same coun-
ties. Mr.. Delano's fear of the 'imi.
nent danger of free trade" is no,
wholly joined in by the farmers
who have seen wool steadily de.
creasing in price as the tariff on i,
steadily increased. As Mr.. Liz.
coin remarked. "You may fool ali
the people part Of the time, o,
part of the people all the time, but
you can't fool all the people all the
| time.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
Billie Carter in st. Louis.
From thu Rnral Warld


W. R. Carter, Of Mexico, NO.,
has rented the stables at the
Hawthorne on Union avenue, and
will move his horses down on Jan
1st. Among them are Dick Smith,
Ayers Hambletonian, half sister
to Dick Smith, a very fast pacing
gelding, and several green ones.
Mr.. Carter has shown excellent
judgment in coming here, ass st.
Louis affords better facilities in the
way of stabling, roads, etc., for
winter work than any city in the
United States in the same latitude.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

L. E. CLEMENT Is still hammer
ing at Mexico in Colman's Rural
World. If Clement hasn't sense
enough to let up, the Rural World
should shut out his correspond
ence. All horse breeders in the
State know what Mexico is and i,
is doing US an injustice for the
Rural World to print his nonsense.
Shut the "Blue Bull" lunatic off.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

At C. B. Morris annual drawing
Thursday, under the supervision of
D. P. Moore, Miss Katie Kerr re-
ceived the first prize and Richard
Collard second. The FIRST prize
winner receives the choice of fine
diamond ring or lady's gold watch,
the second prize winner to take
the other,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
Will be Read in Public.


We wonder if a professed Chris.
tian, who takes the paper out oi
the Office and reads it two or three
years without paying for it, and
then leaves it in Office rejected,
sleeps well at night? True, none
but he and the editor know 1t save
God. The delinquent list will be
read public one day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Mr.. JAMES BANNERMAN, presi.
dent of the State Confederate
Home Association, has written Mr..
w. P. Barlow, the State secretary,
calling for a meeting of the Or
ganlzation at the Laciede Hotel on
the 23d INST, for the purpose OF
turning over the St. Louis charter
of the local organization.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
Miss Nora Belle Gouph of tn

Miss Nora Belle Cough, of this
city, and VIM. s. Walton, of Kan.
sas City, will be married at st..
Brendon's Catholic Church in
Mexico at $50 p. m. Wednesday,
January %, 1890. Reception at the
brides home at 3 o'clock same
day. The LEDGER extends con-
gratu,ations in advance.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

The dedication of the new family
residence of Joe Mcdonald last
Thursday night was indeed q grand
affair. Some forty or fifty selected
friends were treated TO q sump-
tuous feast Of good things and
music with the steps of the light
fantastic was INDUCED in until q
late hour. Joe knows how to en-.
terrain and his friends appreciate
The treat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

But few cows On the farm give
sufficient milk to produce 200
pounds of butter per year, and
even with that production they do
not pay. To discard such cows, or
grade up the herd, is the only way
to make q profit from dairying. A
Jersey COW will make anywhere
from IA to "a lbs. of gilt edge but
ter in z days, according TO how
she is bred. A man never own
ed better property than q thorough
bred jersey COW.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

THE young ladies of Mexico are
coming to the front. When the
young men do not ask them to GO
to an entertainment they go any
way, and enjoy themselvesjust the
same, if not better.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

There are
many white soaps,
each
represented to be
"just as good as the Ivory. /"
They are not,
but like
all counterfeits.
they lack
the peculiar
and remarkable
qualities of
the genuine.
Ask for
Ivory Soap
and
insist upon having it.
IT'S sold everywhere.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
A Mistake.

A sneak thief has been going
about Auxvasse gathering up old
spoons promising to silver plate
and return them for 81 so per set
He gets his dollar and a half,
polishes the spoons with brick
dust and returns them worse than
they were ere-Auxvasse Repieu.
II. A. Field, ex-Counc1lman oi
Mexico, who, we are informed lis re.
ferred to in the above, Is perfectly
reliable. Whatever contract he
makes with parties will be filled to
the letter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
idaho Wants In.

TFUIH Iit st JUG UdLctte.
Idaho and Wyoming will be the
next two States admitted to the
Union, most likely. They are
knocking. If they do not get in
this Congress, it will not bo their
fault. Already their delegates
have begun the ear chewing pro-
cess with the President and men,
hers of Congress-.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
GROVER Is THE MAN.
Tariff RefOrmers Banquet-Ed'
ward Atkinson Talks-Praise
for Cleveland.

BosToN, January l. Members of
the Massachusetts, Tariff Reform
League dined last evening. the oc-
casion being the annual dinner OF
the organization. Hon. Henry l..
Pierce presided and among those
present were Hon. Roger @. Mills,
of Texas, Hon. Thomas G. Sher-
man, of New York, Edward At
kinson, President c. w. Elliott, of
Harvard College, Charles Francis
Adams, Hon. John F. Andrew,
Hon. Robert Treat Paine, Hon. P.
A. Collins and others. Letters of
regret were received from Messrs.
Carlisle and Breckenridge, Cham
berlain, Headley and many other
distinguished men.
President Pierce, IN opening the
afternoon exercises, said:
politicians of the protectionist
school, foreseeing that either the
duties upon the raw materials
must be given, or else that the in
| dustries thus taxed must 60 to the
wall, intimate q willingness to let
one of the most important of them
die out, if it should be found nec-
essary to do so in order to pacity
the ironmasters and coal barons of
Pennsylvania.
"It is no small advantage that in
the struggle before US We haye for
our leader a man Of moral courage,
sterling honesty and straightfor-
| wardness, the most interesting
personality in American Lille
Grover Cleveland"
Hon. Roger @. Mills was next
presented. Mr.. Mills felicitated
himself upon being able to touch
elbows with New England on the
subject that had gathered them to-
gether, and he thought it a fitting
place for the agitation of tariff re.
form-in the old town that had
once made teapot of its harbor.
Edward Atkinson next spoke IN
part, as follows:
"More than one-half of the sub.
iects of taxation under our presen,
tariff could be put into the free list
without diminishing our revenue
/ from customs Is per cent. in what
they have yielded up to this time;
without doubt with similar results
81 refuse to believe that the rep.
resentatives of the great National
Republican party, to which I was
proud to belong for so many years,
have become SO narrow and bigoted
in their sectional feeling as to be
incapable to rising to the level oi
their present responsibility. We
only ask some of them to give their
support to measures which are con.
sistent with their own personal
convictions. In the time of danger
there were seven men in the great
Republican party who saved the
country from what I think nearly
all reasonable men now admit
would have been political con-
vulsion, when they voted on thei,
personal convictions, but not with
their party, against the impeach'
ment of Andrew Johnson. Are
there not now seven men in the
Senate and a relative number of the
House representatives, who msy al
the present time be capable Of the
same independent judgment, who
may unite with their party oppo
nents in such a reasonable anc
judicial reform of the tariff as will
put us in the way toward estab
fishing conditions in the future il
which this country may attain the
paramount position to which it il
entitled in the great commerce O.
the world?"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

The law recently passed allowing
jurors two dollars per day instead
Of one dollar and a half, and the
decision ofthe Supreme Court that
a newspaper reader is eligible as
juror, are steps in the direction of
a much needed reform. We ap.
prehend that in the future there
will be fewer packed juries, more
convictions and less use for the
pardon act. 1t is a source of graf
i6cation to note these improve
ments, because they not only build
the foundation for moral improve
ment, but prove beyond a doubt
that Missouri is destined to be, If
she is not already, the best gov
erned State in the Monroe
City Neus.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
Gard of Thanks.

Mrs. Craig and son desire TO re-
urn thanks to their many friends
for their kindness and assistance
during the long and fatal illness Of
Miss Belle Craig. and be assured
that they will ever remember these
instances Of your kindness and
good will.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
A Good Citizen Goes.

We understand that c. II. Har-
rington, Of near Worcester, who sold
his farm recently, will move to
Higginsville In the spring and will
engage in the poultry business. Mr..
Harrington is one of Audrain's
most substantial citizens, and We
regret to hear that he will leave
the county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
Elder G. G. Hill.

Elder c. c. Hill, of Perry, who
has been preaching for the Chris
tian Church here this week, re-
turned to his home this morning.
Elder Hill is an earnest, jealous
worker in lis chosen field of labor
and made many lasting friends
during his short stay in Auxvasse.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

A. F. FLEET is hard at work
with all the details for the Military
School, and is overlooking moth
ing which would be necessary to
the success OF the institution.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

w. II. Barton, once . member Of
Audrain County Wheel and who
Audrain soon bounced as an impo-
sition on honest thinkers and
workers, and who at one time
threatened to make the "fur fly"
out of the members and delegates
of . certain meeting of Audrain
County Wheel, is now q blooming
Union pirate in Oklahoma, and
represented that Territory in the
late convention at ST. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

The ladies OF the Liberty Street
NJ. e. Church will give an oyster
supper in the lecture room of the
church Thursday evening, Janu-
ary 9th. They invite all their
friends to attend.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

LESLIE FERRIS has leased the
Kabrich Opera House for five
years and will remove the chairs
at once. He says he will likely
make a fine gymnasium out of it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

The Mexico LEDGER is recogniz.
ed as one of the leading journals ir
the State Of Missouri. 1t is sirens
financially and editorially, and
justly deserves its large and in.
creasing circulation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
New Factorv.

Ed. Williams has rented the
rooms over Sam Evans tailor es.
tablishment and will at once open
a cigar factory. He will put q
large force of men at work and will
sell his goods direct to the mer.
chants.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

FERRIS should put a bowling
alley into his gymnasium. There
are quite a number of ladies and
gentlemen in this city who would
enjoy such exercise.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

DEFryITE action should be taken
on the paper mill proposition at
once. Iflt suits our people let's
accept; if not, Messrs. Young and
Mingle should be 20 informed q
oncs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

J. N. McCutchan, of near Santa
Fe, NO., has bought 80 acres Of
land, adjoining him on the east,
from Bob Smiley, at about $40
nor acra
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Pike county now has 16 prisoners
all local talent-in her county
Jail. Audrain has only one of her
own citizens in Jail here. Three OF
Montgomery county's prisoners are
here for safe keeping and Dusen-
berry, the pants man and negro
wench, all from Montgomery coun-
ty, make up the total of seven
here In Jail.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
ON FRIDAY

Lee surrendered.
Moscow was burned.
Washington was born.
Shakespeare was born.
America was discovered.
Richmond was evacuated.
The Bastile was destroyed.
The Mayfower was landed.
Queen Victoria was married.
King Charles / was beheaded.
Fort Sumter was bombarded.
Napoleon Bonapart was born.
Julius Caesar was assassinated.
The battle of Marengo was fought.
The battle of Waterloo was
fought.
The battle of Bunker Hill was
fought.
Joan of Arc was burned at the
stake.
The battle of New Orleans was
fought.
The Declaration of Independence
was signed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
Rev A. NJ. Vardeman.
Curryvillt Correspondence Of the Bowling Grrea

Rev. A. N. Vardeman, of Mexi-
CO, Mo-, closed his meetings here
Wednesday, Jan. /, 1899, With FIVE
additions. He is an earnest and
Jealous man and preached some Of
the best discourses ever delivered
in the church.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Mrs. M. E. Crawford and son,
Arthur, of Fulton, who have been
visiting Santa Fe friends for several
days, have returned home. While
in Mexico they were guests of Mrs.
M. e. Wells.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

L. E. CLEMENT, of the Rural
World, is named McGinty in Au-
drain county and that most popu-
lar paper snould bear this fact in
mind
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
James McMahan and daughter

James McMahan and daughter,
of Montgomery City, have been in
Mexico this week on a visit to NJ Y.
Duncan, who is his uncle. Mr.. Nc.
Mahan is one of thirteen children
born to. Mr.. Duncan's eldest sis
ter. These children are all living
except two, who were killed in the
Confederate army. It is very
seldom that a family of thirteen
children is raised without single
death from natural causes.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Miss Lennie Gamble, of Colum-
hia, is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. F. Reed, of this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
Professor Fleet.

From the Columbia Herald.
Mexico is very much elated at
having secured Prof. Fleets school.
Mexico has a right to feel proud
over such a good thing. There can
hardly be any doubt but that this
institution will be paying affair,
both to the town, its president, and
to those who may patronize it. In
our language we would designate
Professor Fleet as an active, earn.
est and enterprising gentleman,
full ofvlm and energy. Mexico, in
speaking of him, takes a shorter
route and calls him q "hustler, "
all of which means that the school
with the Professor at its helm will
be one of the leaders in tie race
for progress. The State of Mis-.
souri, is wefuliy in need OF similar
institutions to the one Prof. Fleet
will build up in Mexico; as he is
among the first in the field, he will
be one of the first to reap the ad.
vantages. Success to the new acad.
emy and its able president.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Purcell and
daughter, Jessie, accompanied by
Miss Lily Dobyns, left lor Bruins
wick to-day after visiting in this
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Elwin Locke lett Friday for
Dakota after u pleasant visit to
relatives and friends in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Mesdames JOSIAH Wright and
Harrison went to Martinsburg Sat-
urday to visit friends.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Fielding Marvin, of Monroe City,
son of the late Bishop Marvin, is
the guest OF Mrs. Lakenan.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

The entire press OF the State
refers TO the death of Major Rucker
as calamity, and with one voice
speaks in the highest praise of his
Life, public and private.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

A GYMNASIUM, such as Leslie
Ferris proposes to give Mexico,
will be literally patronized by the
best people of our city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Marriage licenses have been
issued to Jasper Patton and Sallie
Thomas; also to R. c. Hayes and
Miss Mollie Rodgers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Jas. P. Powell, late of Joe & Vic
Barth's clothing house, left to-day
for Western Kansas as travelling
salesman for Taylor Bros. & Co., of
Chicago.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

LA GRIPPE is not fashionable
any more. This being a fact we
don't think case can be found in
town
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

So LONG as you live you will
have to write a 9 in your date line.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Miss Stella Harper, daughter of
Warren Harper, of Mexico. spent
a few days at the home of c. A.
Bast, in New Florence, Mo, and
returned home Tuesday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Arthur Crawford, of Santa Fe,
returned to school at Fulton Fri
day,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

The Speaker of the House placed
Hon. r. II. Norton on the COM
mIttees on levees and improve
ment of the MISSISSIPPI river and
also on pensions. The first of
these committees is a very i'm
portant one and Mr.. Norton is quite
we'll pleased with his assignment
thereto. Considering that this il
his 6rst term. he has been treated
very nicely by the Republican
Speaker.-Troy Free Press.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

J. P. Fry shipped one car of
mules to Columbia, Tenn, Fri
day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Cass Hagan has just returned
from his annual holiday tour and
is looking pleasant.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

THERE is no better time to ad.
vertise than during the month o.
January.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Charley Clark, a Fulton Branch
brakeman, and Miss Josie Rodgers,
of Wellsville, were married in that
place Wednesday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Ira Shepherd and Mics Effe
Gillespie spent the holidays with
the family of o. B. Wilson, Cen.
fro1io
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Small boy: "Say, dad, I wish
you'd give me q bicycle" Old
man : Cant afford. it my son.
Rent too high, coal too dear. Be-
sides, l don't want you to break
your neck" "Well, then, a tricy.
cle." "Can't do it. But I'll tell
you what you can have. When
winter comes III try and get you a
nice long icicle.' The youngster
In pacified.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Mrs. Colley, of Moberly, is the
guest of her brother, J. s. Atkins,
of this county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
They Drink Water in Fulton.
From the Fnii on Globe

The Fulton Globe says only
three families in Fulton use the
Water-works water of that city.
We are not surprsed.-Mexico
LEDGER.
We are glad to be able to state,
though, that unlike a town or two
we have heard of, water still holds
its place here as the favorite bev-
erage, even lift does not come from
the Water-works.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

The dedication of the K. of P.
Hall at Jefferson City will take
place January 18th.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

MAYOR NooNAN made no mis-
take when he vetoed the gas bill
in St. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Miss Florence Patton is teaching
No. / at the Public School, vice
Miss Lutte Cave resigned. Miss
Patton is first class teacher and
will give general satisfaction.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

M. Fred Bell, of Fulton, was in
town Thursday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09
A GYMNAsIUM.
Leslie Ferris Leases the Kabrich
Opera House for Five Years
VIII Take the Seats Out
and Give Mexico q
Gymnasium.

Leslie Ferris, the genial and
hustling manager Of the Ferns
Opera House, has leased the Ka-
brich Opera House for q term of
five years at $3.50 a year. Leslie
says he has some fine shows on the
string for 1890 and they will all ap-
pear at the Ferris Grand. He is
going to take the seats out of the
Kabrich Opera House and will
likely turn it into gymnasium,
bo Wing alley or dance and festival
hall. He says he can secure a
first class professor of gymnastics
cheap, and If the young people
take hold he will give them a
first class gymnasium, which we
think weuld be we'll patronized in
Mexico. Such exercise is very
healthful and rare sport could
be enjoyed by the young of both
sexes.
The Same Dog Has Bitten
Others.
In conversation with a young
man who is now a resident of this
city, but formerly of Germany, q
LEDGER representative became
much interested in the foreigner
telling his story of how he LETT the
Old Country. He said that he was
much pleased with America and
thought Missouri was the State
and Mexico the town; that st.
Louis was entitled to the Worlds
Fair and should have it; that we
had lots Of advantages in Missouri
which should be considered in To-
eating the Fair. The whole rea-
son that he gave for now being in
Mexico was love. He said that he
never loved but enc woman and
she he did sincerely adore above
all others; that the matter worked
on him so that the only recourse
he could think of was the United
States, but he now believed he
was entirely over it; he said the
poet that wrote these lines was q
prevaricator-"Yes, loving is q
painful thrill, yet not to love
more painful still" The young
German is we'll educated and very
intelligent. We hope he may soon
find a worthy young lady in oul
midst upon whom to lavish his
affection.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Miss Lutte Cave leaves for Colo
RADIO to-day, where she has accepted
a position in the schools at Buena
Vista.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-09

Robert e. Smith is building a
house in Lakenan & Barnes add.
ton.