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Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-10
Special Half Fare Land Seek.
erS' Excursions.

special Half Fare Land Seek
ers' Excursions.
On Tuesdays, April 22nd, May
Doth, September 9th and 23d and
October 18th, the Chicago & Alton
Railroad will sell special Home
Seekers Excursion tickets to
points in Alabama, Arkansas, Col
orado, Dakota, Idaho, Indian Ter
ritory, Kansas, Louisiana, Mime
sofa, Mississippi, Southwestern
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
New Mexico, Tennessee. Texas,
Utah, Wyoming, Georgia, Florida,
and Kentucky, at the exceedingly
low rate of one fare for the round
trip. Tickets will be limited to
thirty (30) days from date of sale.
Stop over will be granted. Excep-
tional accommodations will be
provided for these excursions and
everything which it is possible to
do for the comfort and convenience
of passengers will be done. For
reduced rates and all particulars
apply 10 E. S. WILSON,
Ticket Agent Chicago & Alton R.
R., Mexico, Mo
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-10

English SPAWN Imminent re.
moves all hard, soft or calloused
Jumps and blemishes from horses.
Warranted the most wonderful
blemlsh cure ever known. Soldby
G. r. Gibbs. druggist, Mexico.
8.1y
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-10
Don't Speak Your Mind,

A Wisconsin man called anothe,
a skunk; verdict for $500. A Yer
mont woman called a man a hypo.
cr1te; verdict $3.50. A Kentucky
man called a negro a thief; verdict
for 500. A New York druggis,
called one of his clerks an eye-ser.
want; verdict for $500. just keep
cool and do a lot of thinking, but
say nothing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-10
Steam Laundry.

Steam Laundry.
Geo. and Sam Duncan have rent
ed a ! large room in the Hiner block,
and will open a steam laundry.
Such an institution will do a big
business in Mexico and we know
of no more clever or better men to
take hold of such an enterprise.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-10
CHAPTER TX.
A DINNER AT DELMoNICo's.

NCEin the street,
he hurried to Mai.
den lane and en-
tered the store OF
a manufacturing
jeweler.
moment later
he issued with a
companion, and
at the corner of
Broadway wait
ed for a cab.
One was soon
hailed, and the
two entered and
were driven to
police h~eadquar-
tiers.
He h a d not
boosted. After q
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-10
FOR SALE.

Twos to skies to sell to farmers,
from s65 up to 1926.
Six head of thoroughbred Short
horn bulls for sale; ready for SER
vice. WooD MADDOX.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-10
&.lTtHK DIAMOND BUYY0N'
FROM THE DIARY OF Il LAWYER AND THE NOTE
- BOOK OF Il REPORTER.


|M Copyrighted, 1853, by o. NJ. Durham. Published by Spe-
r;i Arrangement through the American Press Association.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-04-10
CHAPTER Y.

A PERFORMANCE NOT DOWN ON THE BILLS.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13
WIT AND WISDOM.

--"Do you know what duty is?" 'It
is what we exact from others. "A. Du-
mas.
The man who is so busy that no has
no timo to laugh needs q vacation
Rams Horn.
BY examining the tongue of pa
tiont, a physician discovers the disease
of the body, and by the same means a
philosopher discovers the disease of the
llind.
"A scandal monger is person who
talks to our neighbors about u.s. An
entertaining tall1er is person who tells
us mean stories about our neigh bors. -
Munsey's Weekly.
1t is we'll enough for a man to wait
till his ship comes in, but he would re-
alize on the cargo much sooner if he
would hustle for a tug-boat to tow it in
to harhor -Elmira Gazette.
No. Celia, Behring Sea is not Ger
man summer garden, but large body of
seals entirely surrounded by poachers.
The phonetic similarity has deceived
you. Behring, not beering. See?-
Boston Transcript.
The good, kind papa had talfon his
boys with him to the beer garden. "Now
children" he remarked, "if you arc real
good and behave we'll your father will
order another glass of beer for himself"
--Fliegende Blatter.
"A man may have a head so stuffed
with knowledge that his hair can't grow,
and yet have his feet knocked clear out
from under him by question Or two
from midget too small to known an
idea from the gooseberry. Rams Horn.
The greatest man is he who chooses
the right with invincible resolution
who resists the sorest temptations from
within and without; who bears the
heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is
calmest in storms, and whose reliance
on truth, on virtue, on God, is most un-
faltering. g.-Channing.
cribbler-"Well,w what are you doing
now?" Scrawley-"Im working on a
play" Scribbler--"Have you got it
nearly written?" Scrawley-Its all
written" Scribbler-Thought you said
you were working on it," Scrawley-
$50 am" Working on it, means try
ing to get it produced. America.
An individual who was not trained
in childhood to self control, is forever
hopelessly child in his combat with
himself; and he can never gain the van
playground which his childhood gave
to him, in the battle which then opened
before him, and in the thick of which
he still finds himself. Health.
Repairs Needed-Mistress-"Mary
what are you doing with that clock?'
Mary with the servants bed room clock
under her arm )-"Plaze, mum, Dim takin'
it to a watchmaker's. It's all out av order,
mum. livery morning at foive o'clock it
goes all to pieces, an makes such a
racket Oi can't slapo."-N. Y, Weekly.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Mr.. ]. J. Hill has given half mil.
lion of dollars to establish Catholic
theological seminary in st. Paul, MINI.
-1ales academic and scientific fresh
men classes will aggregate nearly 400
members. Princeton will open with
over 800 men.
There are 5LO11 Baptists in Ohio,
with 63S churches. Last year the de-
nomination in the State contributed for
missions Sl3, .27-an average of 7G
cents per member.
-Coleridge characterizes certain re-
ligionists as beginning by loving their
party better than their church-that
they go on to love their church better
than their God, and end by loving them
solves best of all.
Man is first startled by sin; then it
becomes pleasing, then easy, then de-
lightful, then frequent, then habitual,
then confirmed. The man is impeni-
tent then obstinate, then he is damned.
Jeremy Taylor
-Sixty-seven seniors and ninety-two
Juniors at Yale University elect Old
Testament literature, two lessons a
week, for next year, the Old Testament
being the only textbook. Oriental
history, with special reference to the
Bible, will be required study in tho
freshman class. Prof. w. Z. Harper
will teach these classes.
The religious statistics of Germany
show 2o,369,S oyangelicals, including
members of the Lutheran, Reformed and
United Churches; IS, 7S5, ,734 Roman
Catholics, 125G G73 other Christians, in
Guiding the Moravians, Baptists, Meth
odists and other Independent churches;
5G3, 172 Jews, and 11,278 ''unclassifcd.
OF the 1868 independent Christians,
Co. 900 are Baptists, of whom 20, 900 are
mombers of the Baptist churches.
Wesley was once engaged in an i'm
portant conference with his leading as
sociates. They wanted satisfactory
definition Of faith. No one could fur
nish it. Wesley said: Let US call in
Mrs. NJ" naming woman of strong
"S'i'S e4it No'P PlNoJ' "io S"ll OolI Ho
just what faith is in phrase that
child can grasp" The woman was call.
ed in. "When asked what faith is she
replied: is taking God at his word"
THAT will do" exclaimed Wesley, And
that will indeed do for all of US.
In Grosspeistenin in Eastern Prussia,
is a teacher whose father and forefathers,
ever since the year 1880, have been act
ing as teachers in the village. Son las
followed father, so that in 1880 the fam
lily Bettihn was able to celebrate it's 250th
anniversary. All Bottihns have cele-
bratcd the tlftieth anniversary in office,
and, what is more, every one of them
has celebrated his golden wedding The
present cantor, Julius Bettihn, who has
been teacher in that village since 1871,
is at present sixty eight years old, and
active and physically strong,
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13
WHOOP CITY DOINGS.


BY perusing tho following clippings
from the society columns of the Whoop
City Pioneer the reader will gain vivid
glimpses of everyday life in that pros
pective metropolis:
"Uncle Jackey Rawson dropped in on
us, yesterday afternoon, and incident
ally mentioned the row at the bapti2ing
out at Jerkwater creek, last Sunday,
during which the preacher was drowned.
Uncle Jaclley, though sevonty-two years
old, held his own in the scrimmage.
Call again, Uncle Jackey."
Little Willie Hanks was painfully
hurt Monday. His mother as is her
wont when making him pair Of pants,
had him lying on the cloth on the floor
while she chalked the shape around him.
At that moment his father came hurry
ing in with the news that there was an
Eastern capitalist in town, and stepped
on the poor little fellows head before
he saw him."
"Rewend Mr., Harps requests us to
announce that he will marry all comers
at less rates than any one else in the
town. Old bones, rags and iron taken
same as cash"
"wednesday morning it was found
that the cashier of the Whoop City Say
ings Bank had fed with the funds Of tho
institution, leaving this legend posted
on tho door, Bank Suspended The
boys caught him later. Thursday morn
ing he was found swinging on jack
oak limb with this legend pinned to
his bosom; Bank Cashier Suspended. u"
There was lively foot race on tho
east side, Sunday. Tho travelling COR
respondent of an Eastern paper was 1t.
The boys found out that he had written
to his paper that our prosperous little
city is not booming. Hence the race.
We hear he lost an ear just before start
ing"
"We have damage suit on hand for
killing Hank Parsons COW. Last Sab
bath morning, as we lay locked in slum-
Der, this brute came along, thrust her
head in at the open window, and seiz-
ing corner of our crazy quilt (apresent
from Aunt Missouri Azberry), began to
pull it out of the window preparatory to
devouring it. Aroused from sweet
dream by this ruthless onslaught, and
not being a meek and humble rabbit, we
grasped a shooting stick and smoto the
beast on a vulnerable spot betwixt the
horns, killing her in her tracks. Warn
ed by this proof of our skill, Hank in
stituted the damage suit as before
stated, instead ofcoming to sec us about
it, as ho threatened"
''Later-Mr. Parsons ran away with
our wife, last night. So this, we sup
pose, squashes the damage suit."-Tom
?. Morgan, in Munsey's Weekly.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13

the prize ring any day in the week. Not
man, woman or child has appeared to
help you, and it seems that neither love
nor money can induce them to sell an
hours labor. The ice man stands on
the back step of his wagon and laughs
as you strain every muscle of your body
escorting drayloads of furniture to
their places in the house, and even tho
neighbors stop and ask how you like it.
They tell your wife on the quiet that
she is fortunate, but she knows that and
always has. You struggle through the
setting up of stoves, the jointing OF
pipes and the stretching of stubborn
carpets, and you swear when it is all
over that you will never, SO long as rea-
son maintains her throne in your dis
tracted globe-never clean house again.
But then comes the reward. Then
comes the victory. The consciousness
that you may pass stove without be-
ing asked to lift it; that not one of the
tables or chairs or bureaus needs NOV
ing for another year-and thai you may
manage to die before that time. All
these things are sweet and soothing to
the tired soul and the more than
bruised and broken body. You may
now sell what was once your Sunday
suit to the old-clothcs man and sit down
in perfect peace to meal OF v1ctuals
cooked in the ordinary way. You may
90 to bed at the proper hour and not
feel in your heart of hearts that really
you ought to be up and fixing things
so that there will be less to do to-mor-
row. You have earned your reward,
and if you are wiso you will never al
low any woman to beguile you into
such an indiscretion again. Hencofor-
ward you swear you would rather live
in comfortable dirt than in the cleanest
house that was rooted over-provided
YOU have the cleaning to do yourself.-
Chicago Herald.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13
COULDN'T FOOL HIM.
A. Man Who Knew How to Keep n Nickel
When He Had One.

"What star is that?' inquired the
raw-boned stranger, hating at the street
corner.
"That amt a star" said the fal1ir with
telescope. "That is a planet"
"H'm! What planet is it?"
"That, sir, is Jupiter"
cts Jupiter, is it? How do you know
It's Jupiter?"
"Why everybody knows that planet is
.1upitcr."
"But how do you know it,"
"Know it by its belts.'
"Ilain't any other planet got belts?'
"PosSibly some of them have. In the
remotest depths of space there may be
myriads of worlds that the telescope
has not revealed to US, and some of them
may have belts like this one"
'That's what thought. Doyou s'pose
Jupiter is inhabited|'
'Some persons think it is, and some
say it has not yet cooled off sutfi-
ciently for human beings to live upon
it,"
lJp ,}Ou OLillh IL llhtly bIdg ulc pcO-
pie who live on it, if there are any, call
it Jupiter?"
"Oh, no; it isn't at all likely"
"I1m! How much do you charge for
looking at it through that thing?"
"Only five cents"
give cents, hey? You want five cents
for squirting about ten seconds at a
planet you call Jupiter because every
body else calls it Jupiter, and because
it's got belts, when you say yourself it
amt the only one that's got belts, and
you acknowledge the people on it don't
call it Jupiter? It's my belief you don't
know whether it's Jupiter or Jobs
Coffin. say that it's durn swindle."
And he elbowed his way out of the
crowd and walked off, leaving the tele-
scope man jumping up and down in
speechless rage.-Chicago Tribune.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13
PATHWAY THROUGH THE WOODS

'Twas only little pathway,
BOrdered with marigolds sweet,
With the green leaves overarching
The marks of unfrequent feet.
The golden tints of the autumn
Brought one of my saddest moods
AsItook that lonely pathway
Through the solemn, silent woods.
Chirp, chirp, said the wee brown songster,
As he hoped from limb TO limb
Stealing one look at the stranges
Then seeking the shadows dim,
Anon, sound that was sweeter
with fairy like interludes
Came over my soul like ether
Andcharmed that path through the woods
Thereafter there came vision
Asbright as tabled fay,
maiden of wondrous beauty
Stood right In my narrow way
She blushed, and twilight grew ros
Down through the soft solitudes.
had met my fate, and knew il,
In the pathway through the woods.
Many happy years have blessed mo
Since that quiet cleaning hour,
And to-day, beside my home hearth
dote on that woodland flower.
There is sunshine in her presence,
No matter what care intrudes.
And dear for her sake, forever,
Is that pathway through the woods.
William Lyle, in Detroit Free Press.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13

have to slick up bit and go hals milo
10 the store for another roll, only to find
when you get there that the merchant
mas no more of that exact pattern, but
would be glad to fill your order from
any thing else in the shop. BY the way,
dld anybody ever find match for wall
paper already purchased?
The upshot of it all is that you buy
new outfit, pay the cash and carry it
home, and are told when you get there
that your wife has concluded to have
the room calcimired, anyway. You can
either swear and be brute or hold your
temper and be saint-just as you like.
Being man, you choose the latter
clean house and say nothing.
One of the carpets has to be ripped
and sewed over, and while you are busy
with such little things as going with.
out your dinner, lifting two-ton bureaus
and full-length mirrors, carrying out
Wardrobes and base burners, that ami
able woman, with ragged calico
dress on, sits down in the midst of the
litter and sews like q Trojan. She
tells you what lot of lovely new
things Mrs. Blank is going to get for
her parlor, and harries you into prom
ising good deal better outfit, even
though you know your salary is already
overdrawn. You blister knees and
knuckles scrubbing the floor, and fall
from the step-ladder while trying to
brush the dust from the ceiling. You
knock the little statuettes from
the brackets where they had gained a
residence, and in fit of impa tience at
pounding your thumb throw the ham
mer through the largest window pane
in the house, You tear your clothes on
nails that were never revealed be-
fore, and cut both hands on the butch
er knife while struggling to prepare a
lunch. Your ravenous appetite can
find nothing but husks of better liv-
ing to feed upon, and not many even of
them. A tailor comes and presents his
bill, which he claims is due and has
long been in that condition, and in tho
face of proof so positive you can not for
moment make your wife understand
where all the money goes to.
When you have lived through three
days of this sort Of agony, going to bed
at midnight, only to rise with mid
summer dawn, you find the house is
cleaned and the things that were SO
hard to move out can now be moved in
again. Though bruised and broken in
body and spirit, you are still in the
ring, and come up to the scratch with a
readiness that would disqualify you for
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13

is thing that can only be experienced
by one who has gone through the mill.
And so, to appreciate all there is in
this nineteenth century civilization of
ours, one must go to work at the bot
tom and build it up from the chaos in
which housekeepers always seem to
take such tiendish delight.
For weeks the wife of your sorrows
has said: 1--WE will clean house Mon
day." and you have been led to think
1t little, trivial thing, not worth
worrying about, and so have not
hired man to do the heavy work be-
cause there seems to be no heavy work
to do. But at last the fatal moment
comes and you can escape no longer
You are asked with all the sweetness of
an invitation to peaches and cream if
you will help with the stove before you
go downtown, and in moment of
weakness you consent. Then you are
lost even more effectually than the
woman who hesitates Once tho stove
is out you see the zinc on which it rest
ed is easy to remove, and that comes
next The tacks have all been drawn
from the carpet by your wife, whose
forehead shows an enormous height,
and then, while you arc at it, you can
SO easily help them roll the carpet to-
gether and carry it out to the back yard
50 that the man who is expected every
minute can beat the dust out of it to
MS hearts content. OF course he never
comes, and when you have carried the
parlor chairs out to the laundry and
found you had missed the train, you 60
ait yourself and thump away for half
an hour at the dust you were all winter
tIreading in. Then you are hot and
ulfty and all out OF patience, and when
you go in the house for glass Of but
tefmllk and find the woman who was to
nave come Is as far away as IS the man
servant you grow desperate, get mop
anu bucket, turn up your trousers and
lall to work. From then on it is you
anu your wife for it. No one ever found
al allen assistant when there was
mouse to clean.
bedsteads have to be set out in the
'uaae and mattresses have to be hung
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13
A FEMALE SWiNDLER.


low She NiCtimized n Boston Firm to
the Extent of a Thousand Dollars.
There is a thousand-dollar counter
felt note in the possession of the secret
service bureau in New York with an in
teresting history. One morning, not so
very long ago, handsomely dressed
lady entered one of the largestdry goods
houses in Boston and, after selecting a
shawl worth $3.50, rendered a genuine
one thousand-dollar bill in payment
The note was of course, carefully
scrutinizcd and finally sent to neigh
boring bank, where it was vouChed for
When the lady was informed Of its ac-
ceptancc she became indignant and ex-
pressed in no measured terms her Opin-
ion of firm that would for moment
suspect her honesty. So wrathy was
she, indeed, that she refused to take tho
shawl, and, replacing the money in her
pocket-boob, left the store.
Later in the day she returned. Her
anger had disappeared and she explained
that, having walked all over Boston
without being able to find d shawl that
suited her, she had returned to apollo
gize for her hasty action and to take the
shawl she had first selected. Again she
rendered a $1,000 note-not a genuine
one this time, but closely executed
counterfeit.
Of course the firm accepted themoney,
believing it to be the genuine note,
without question, and the woman de.
parted with her shawl and $3.50 in
change. The swindle was not discov-
cred until the counterfeit was rejected
at the bank. The note was sent to the
secret Service Bureau, where its history
is occasionally related to interested Wis
i tors. The woman was never caught,
Boston Herald.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13
Victor IugO'S Granddaughte ter.

Jeanne Hugo is just twenty years Of
age She is pretty and stylish blonde
and has a good deal of social success
since her debut in society, which took
place two years ago, She has one de-
feet, howcyer-she is addicted to tight
lacing, a habit which rather spoils tho
grace Of her carriage. She was the idol
of her illustrious grandfather, who used
to spend hours in watching at her bed
side whenever she was i'll, a contingency
that not infrequently happened, for in
her early childhood Jeanne was a very
delicate little creature. Victor Hugo
had at one time vision for his darling
of an alliance rendered impossible at
that time by the youth of the parties,
and there is no doubt that had his life
been spared some five or six years long
or he would have tried to carry out his
project. Mrs. John W. Mackey was
presented to him about year before
his death, and he was so charmed with
the beauty and grace and intelligence of
his fair visitor that he remarked after
ward to gentleman (by whom I was
told of the incident): IF my little
Jeanne had been only a few years older
should have endeavored to arrange
4 marriage between her and Mrs. Mack
ay's eldest son, particularly If the
young gentleman resembles his mother"
Paris Letter.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13

81 suppose your son learned lot
at that new-fangled Boston SCHOOL,"
"Oh, yes. Henry stood at the head Of
all his classes in the sciences"
And what is he doing ow-resting?"
"Oh, DEAR no. Henry is applying his
knowledge in perfecting a circular saw
for cutting trowsers for bow-legged
men. Judge.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-11-13
EATING IN HASTE.
To 1t May Safely BE Attributed the Ma
tiOnal Disease of Dyspepsia.

tional Disease of Dyspepsia.
There is no doubt that the average
American eats too rapidly Noone who
has witnessed tho feats of deglutition
performed by commercial travellers at a
railway station will cayil at this asser-
tion. it is safe to attribute the nation
al disease of dyspepsia to this cause
fully as much as to the indigestible
viands of which the ordinary citizen
makes his chief diet. And this haste is
not confined to the hotel dining-room or
the railway eating-house. In tho pri-
vate household as astonishing and dis
gusting exhibitions of rapid gorging
may be seen as are ever witnessed in
public restaurants.
No one who had once beheld the spec
tacle could ever forget the fashion in
which meals were conducted in cer-
tain home where wealth and every eVi-
dence of outward refinement gave prom
Use of better things. The father, man
of business from his sixteenth year,
plainly considered eating the duty to
be accomplished at the table, and quite
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