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Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

The bltchlng posts around the
Public Square are in need of atten-
ton,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Mrs. Cora Foley will give her
friends a party at her home in
South Mexico this evening.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

A couple of prominent citizens
of Mexico have cleared about S1O,-
600 each on pork in the last few
DAYS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Miss Elizabeth Allensworth has
recovered from a severe illness.
She left for Centralia this after
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

David Mc'iee and family, Of
Fulton, NO., have moved to Mex
leo to reside.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Blind Boone will be at the LIB
erty Street NJ. z. Church on the
night of April IL.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26
Wanted.

Two car loads Of second hand
goods of all kinds wanted. Will
pay caeh. Goo In of all kinda sold
on commission
"a MASON CREAsEY,
The Gunsmith, Mexico, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

The County Board of Equali-
cation meets In Mexico on the first
Monday 10 April.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

St. Margaret's Guild of St. Paul's
Church of this city will give a'dra-
matte entertainment April 20.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Mr.. and Mrs. J. ID. Morris are
visiting in Columbia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26
FIVE. YEARS OF HAPPINESS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira j. Ellis CeIe-
brate Their Wedding
Anniversary.

E are graft
fed to hear
that a joy
O us event
occurred on
M IS,
1891, n a +
Molin o, at
the home of
this young
and respect
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

You can't miss it by buying one
or more lots at the great sale In
Fulton on the End OF April. dot.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Geo. Robertson and J. &. Trim
bic are home from court at FAY.
cite.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26
Attention, wooI-growers.

The annual meeting of the Au-
dfain County Wool-growers' As
ISOLATION will be held in the Circuit
court room on Wednesday, April
1891, at one o'clock, p. M, for
me annual election of officers and
sucn other business az may come
osfore the meeting.
o. C. Rory, Pres.
Y. q. HArHAwAY, Sec'y. 81
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Martha Frost's kindergarten will
open next Monday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Forest Parkn lot sale al Fulton
On the End OF April. Il might pay
you well to run over there. DIT.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

r. L. Kurtz was here from Co.
lumbia, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

]. C. Berry is confined to his
bed with illness.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

M. r. Bell and w. G.. Davis
ere over from Fulton to-day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26
Farm For sale.

Farm OF lUU acsea al s25 pei
acre. Deferred payments II 8 per
cent. j. +. LEW kLLYS,
DIST H4t Druggist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Mr.. and Mrs. 4. NJ. White are
In St. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Born to Charley Clark and wife
q son.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Isaac Hockady, of Fulton, died
Yesterday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26
THE NINE
For Rent

III you want to rent q house or
3 room apply 10 G. D. FERRIS. tt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

R. w. 1'ureman, of Kansas City,
was here to-day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26

Three people died in Jefferson
City yesterday with pneumonia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26
THE LEDGER.
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1891.
See card of DR.. Lanoix.

Mark Pitcher is up from Perry.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26
w as Fabrics.

French Glnghams,
Zephyr Ginghams,
Toile du Nord,
Coaching Silk.
Satin de Rayon,
French Saline,
Tennis Flannel,
Madras Cloth,
Domestic Saline,
Gilbert Satlnes,
Novelty Serges,
Percales,
Penangs,
Jungle Cloths.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26
w hite Goods.

Wv 1lxUO AOOA6,
White FIouncings,
Coiored Flouncings,
Black Flouncings,
Dragon Black,
Black Lawns,
Organizes,
Grenadines,
India Linens,
Victoria Lawns,
Black India Linen,
Dinity Checks,
Nainsook,
Dotted Swiss,
Apron Goods.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-03-26
1891 Our Large Spring Stock Complete. 1891


Dress Goods.
Cancels Hair,
Cheviots,
Aomespun Broadcloth.
Domestic Serge,
French Serge,
Silk Warp Henrietta.
Wool Henrietta,
Dress Flannels,
Albatross,
Dress Robes,
Wool Grenadlne,
Mohair.
And all other kinds and STYLES
new Dress Goods.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22

If our Puritan friend knew American
history he would know that this means
love of liberty-that they cannot
breathe in such an atmosphere as he
lives in, and that they are sacrificing
everything to find one where they can
breathe. If he knew them he might
believe possible what is actual-that in
the East Tennessee mountains, where
they rebelled against their State tor
the Union as they had once before re-
belled against North Carolina-that
now when arrested for exercising the
liberty of making their corn, peaches,
and apples into whiskey and brandy,
as their fathers did, they often die if
they are kept long in confinement,
Just as the mountain hawk dies when
he is Gagged.
American history is far more in
structive and broadening study than
New England history, in which this
particular professor is pretty thoroughly
versed. 1t may be learned from Amer
lean history that is was one of these
"poor whites" who in the angle of the
Alamo raised around him before he
fell rampant for the liberties of Texas
made of the bodies of Santa Anna
poems. And it was this same "poor
white" who said, "Be sure you are
right, then 20 ahead" If all college
professors were only as docile as some
of them are, all of them are might
learn great deal from such "poor
whifec''
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22

the difference between the products Of
a superior new over an old effete vari-
ETY. cannot even conjecture how muc b
greater are the resulting profits an d
satisfaction from the use of the one owe r
the other But great as the advan,agc
surely is, in the use of the best vari-
cites for all crops, yet millions are lost
every year through ignorance or care
lessness.
1t is fortunate for tobacco planters
that varieties of their staple are re-
ceiving that attention which has here
tofore been SO successfully bestowed
upon the seeds OF other crops; and
that it is destined to 60 on developing
and imp rowing varieties, conserving
the finest and best and eliminating OBJ
jectionable quail tiles, until the nom
enclature OF our tobacco seed lists
shall present none but those worthy OF
propagation.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22
Mr.. DeDew On The Passion p ay.

During his recent vacation abroad Mr..
Chauncey NJ. Depew visited Ober-Am-
mergau and : w the Passion Play, Being
greatly impressed thereby. Ii a recent
address he SAID, concerningi it: imagine
a German village unchanged In hundreds
OF years, I'D in the Bavarian Iyrol. the
valley small, but the mountains rising
thousands Of feet on every siie, hem
ming it in, except by the pass by whic
you enter Shining upon the topmost
peak is an enormous cross which has
stood there and been renewed for CEN
turtles, indicating the intense religious
spirit of the population. These people
made a VOW three hundred years ago
that they would repeat the story OF the
Passion Of Christ for the purpose OF i'm
pressing it upon the inha bitants of the
Tyrol and the world, to be relieved from
the plague. They rigidly believe in the
performance, and they are profoundly
imbued with the characters which they
assume. While they are upon the stage
no one can look at them and listen to
them without being enormously i'm
pressed with the intense eafneStneSS
and profound conviction Of everybody
who participates. There are six hun
dred people who take part in this play,
from little toddlers not over two years
old up to old men Of eigty and Of ninety.
1t is all the more impressive because
the shop is outside the theatre. The
Munich photograph man, Munichs res
taurant man, everything that you can
imagine that surrounds great show is
to be seen in the streets. When you get
inside the theatre all the world is shut
out, except the sky overhead, the noun
tains around, and the cross shining yon-
der and when you know that behind the
scenes these six hundred people are on
their knees, praying in silent prayer
that they may be so spirituaized with
the presentation which they are about
to make, that it shall make the impress
which their VOW intended it SHOULD, you
become inspired with the whole Spirit OF
the occasion. The outside world and its
affairs.are eliminated, and you stand in
the presence and witness the events
which constitute the one great tragedy,
the one great revolution, to which we
owe our civilization and all that we are.
You look at Christ as he is pictured
! there by the woOd-carver, Joseph Meyer.
expect &c. to be shocked, and yet | 10
! not think I ever thoroughly understood
exactly why Almighty Power should
! have submitted to the degradation and
| the insults and the murder, us I did I'M
derstand it alter it had been presented
| in the unaffected simplicity and superb
dignity of this simple Bavarian pea
SAINT"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22
WOMAN.

A queen in her beautiful garment,
She stands on the ramparts to-day
To herald the dawn, and the cerements
or her past are folded away.
She stands with the prophets and sages;
She speaks and her tongue is a flame.
Leaping forth from fires which for ages
Have smouldered In silence and shame.
Her feet have come up from the valleys,
They are climbing the mountains of light;
At her call the world rouses and ralleis
Bearing arms in the battle of right.
She treadS on the serpent that struggles
And grinds out its life meath her heel;
She grappIes with sorrows that wrong her,
Converting her woe into veal.
Made strong through her slaughtered af-
fections,
She comes with her sons by her side,
An angel Of power and protection,
Their beacon light, leader and guide.
No longer timorOus berg,
To cringe and cry meath the rod
But quick to divine, and far seeing,
She hastens the purpose Of God.
-Ladies' journal.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22
Mind Your Own Business.

One of the natural promptings Of a
Pharasaical spirit is to pry into the bus
mess and conduct of pthers-to SUPER
wise their actions and concerns and ad.
minister gratuitous advice with re,
gard to their affairs either spiritual or
temporal. We know of no surer proof of
a small mind and an impertinent dispo-
sition than this. The person who may
profess contentious scruples as an ex-
cuse for such conduct, if he will examine
his own motives little more narrowly,
may find that he deceives himself de.
plorably. He will often trace to an in.
descent spirit of intermeddling or to an
unbecoming assumption of superiority
what he is pleased to set down as the re-
suit of his anxiety for the welfare of a
fellow-creature. A little knowledge OF
the world would teach such persons that
they do infinitely more harm than good
by their interference in what does not
concern them. They are far more likely
to inspire unreserve disgust than to
awaken the mind to sense Of error or
predispose it to conviction. or all the
Paul Prys that infest society, the pirat.
zeal Paul Pry, who intrudes himself into
your affairs without any claim of rela.
tionship or even acquaintanceship, is the
most tormenting and contemplate.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22
The Church and She Secret Soc cites.


At the recent session of the Vermont
CongregatO nalists at Rutland resolu-
tions deprecating the absorption of
Christians by secret societies were
tabled, though several speakers frankly
condemned Masonic and other secret or
CARNATIONS as opposed to the interests
of the church. The Congregationalist,
commenting on this fact, intimates that
secret societies oppose the influence of
the church to a very serious degree. 1t
is interesting in this connection to call
attention to a remarkable statement
made by the Grand Master Of the Masons
of the State OF New York, the Hon. John
W. Vrooman, at the late session OF the
Grand lodge in this city. In response to
the charge that Freemasonry was op-
posed to the church, he declared that 78
ordained ministers are devoted mem bers
| Of the lodges in the State Of New York,
| and he gave this-the first-off1cial revel=
! alton of their UNCONVENTIONAL principles !:
Methodist, 2SS; Episcopal, 146; Baptist,
| ll2; Presbyterian, So; Universalist, 81 !;
| Congregational, 81; Dutch Reform, 10 !;
Christian. u; Lutheran, IL; jew, Z; Uni
| tartan, /; Reformed Jew, l. It is re-
marsable that the Methodist, the church
which is considered, perhaps, to be the
most severe In its dicipline, and the
| strictest in it's regulation of its members,
| contributes the largest number of clergy
men to this enrolment, and that every
prominent church, with the single e1-
ception of the Roman Catholic, is repre-
scented not only by its lay members, but
also by the occupants Of its pulpits, in
the roll of Masonry. 1t is fact perhaps
not generally known that a number OF
Roman Catholic laymen are also in
Guided in this membership, though We
believe the rites Of the church are still
refused them, since Pope Leo. XIII.
issued his encyclical letter or bill of ex.
communication against the fraternity,
in confirmation of similar bills issued by
his predecessors.-Fran Leslie's Illus
! trated NeWspaper.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22
ABOUT TOBACCO.
'The Necessity for New Varieties
of TObc eco.
Mai. r. l.. Raglani. !

Improvements in the tobacco-plant
ing industry during the past twenty
five years, have been greater than in
any other crop grown on the farm.
There has been an entire revolution in
the construction of barns, flues, hoist
ers, hangers, and every other instru-
ment and appliances necessary in
cultivating, harvesting, curing and
handling the tobacco crop, for new
methods and implements are indlspen-
SADLY necessary in the production of
the fine types now in demand. Only
recently has proper attention been
directed to the improvement of varie-
ties of tobacco, with reference to their
adaptabilty to the several types
wanted. And if there is any one
besides the proprietor Of the Hy-
CO Tobacco Seed Farm engaged in
developing and propagating tobacco
seed by cross fertilizing varieties SO as
to combine in one variety the good
qualities of others and furnishing the
same for general use by planters Of
every commercial type grown, it has
not become known to the public.
FUTURE IMPROVEMENT IN THE STAPLE
OF TOBACCO MUST COME FROM NEW
AND BETTER VARIETIES
1t is becoming more and more ap-
parent every year, that through the
development, introduction and use of
better varieties, we are to look for the
greatest improvement in the tobacco
Anlanting industry, in the quality of the
sral types.
he old varieties, themselves acct
Spontaneously crosses occurring
= have become, in the main
ksrated under careless man
I'd of being improved, as
hould have been under
nd judicious pruning
DItively demanded
old varieties
kinds.
t.ted
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22
THE NEW SOUTH.
Southern Industrial Develop
ment Attracting Attention
Abroad.
New York Star.l

1t is a remarkable fact that the re-
cent financial and business disturbances
seem to have had less permanent effect
on the South than on any other section
of the country. 1t istrue that the trade
and industries of the South felt the in
fluence of the panic severely. Several
large failures occurred at Southern CEN
tiers within the past two months. This
general financial stringency, coming at
time when the largest cotton crop the
South ever produced was being moved
and marketed, created nolittle difficulty
But, at the same time it would seem
that banking interests south of Mason
and Dilon's line are III a good condl-
ton, and that the general business In
terests there are above the average OF
mercantile health.
This is all the more surprising, be-
cause for the past four or five years
the material and manufacturing de-
velopment of the South has progressed
at SO rapid pace. Coal, iron and
other industries there have grown from
infants to fuil-sized giants. Northern
and European capital has been going
steadily into such investments, and
the southern "boom' has displayed
few signs of decline. Under the cir
cupstances, it might be expected that
financial disturbance would exercise
a decidedly injurious influence on
southern industries.
But it wonld seem, from the COM
| parative absence of severe business dis
turbance in that section, that any ces-
salon OF manufacturing development
in the south will at most be temporary
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22

Hello! Tom. Glad to see you, old fellow,
It's almost ten years since we were married Sit
to"n own; lets have an experience meeting. How's
"ohi she's $3.50, same As usual,-alway. want
Ing something can't afford"
wei. we all want something more than we've
Yes: but guess want will be my master I
started to keep down expenses and now Lii saw,
I'm mean, and she's tired Of saving and never
down street. and she locked a. happy as a Queen -
think she is and we are economical too. -
nave to be. Ny wife can make a little 90 further
u ,raa anyone ever knew, yet she's always sur
adds to the comfort and beauty Of our little home
and she's always merry as q lark When az.
nov now she manages it, she always laughs and ray.
covered her secret When we married, we ban
knew we should have to be very careful but >i.o
And she was right wouldn't do without it nv.
self Tor double the subscription price We resl
Together, from the ttle-pagc to the last wos,.
ei Keep ereO os1 hearts The
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what Is going on; my vile is always trying zoo,
new newt, idea from the household department. ;,
makes all her dresses and those for the Chip
and she gets all her patterns for nothing w::a u.
Magazine; and wo saved Joe when he was sos
with the Group, BY doing just As directed ia "a.
Sanitarian DEPARTMENT But can tell yon L. Az
What wonderful Magazine is it :"
"Demoreat's Family Magazine, and"
what Why that's what Lii wanted 20 l.,
and told her it was an extravaganza"
We'll. my friend, that's where you -laf
grand mistake, and one you'd better r., ii;
'o1n "a You can. I'll take your sub ric'it
on my wifc's account: she's bound 10 hayr.f
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AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM


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but
this Ito
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22
In-Health,

Disease is not unfrequently the means
Of leading to the path of virtue; it has
a salutary operation on our moral consti-
tuition, and prepares for the rewards OF
obedience. Death is departure from
Ehe present scene: and we have good
ason to conclude that, with respect to
f who have acted virtuously here, 1t
snsition to more exalted state of
No virtuous person, then, has
complain the vicious ought to
murmurs and complaints.
Author oftheir existence
SAsnts, but against their
= DEsity in disobeying
and conscience.
ppiness which
placed within
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22

When you are constipated, have head
ache, or loss of appetite, take DR.. j. Il
NcLean's Liver and Kidney Pillets: they
are pleasant to take and will cure you.
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FROM $500 TO $3.50 A YEAR-CASH,
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-22
1.-THE POOR WHITES"
How Their Brains and Blood
Made and Saved the Re
public.
rSt. Louis Republic. ]

textbook, New England college
professor speaks contemporary of what |
he calls the "poor whites''of the South,
as class which cares little for liberty
and does not know how to maintain it.
He does not seem to be guilty of false
hood; he is telling the truth to the
best Of his ability, and if his error
leads him into SANDER, it is not be-
cause of malice but because of de-
ficient knowledge of American history,
influenced to some extent perhaps by
the contempt for poverty which is
unfortunately too general.
If Mr.. Hosmer knew the history of
the yeomen he calls the "poor whites"
he would know that the gravest de-
fects of their character are Intimately
connected with love of liberty often
unreason'ng and sometimes fierce
They belong to race which now, as
when Robin Hood took to Sherwood
Forest with their ancestors against the
Norman sheriffs, prefers liberty to ev-
erything else, and sacrifices for it
money, culture, comforts, everything
which in the views of those who de-
spise them makes life desirable. They
have been the pioneers of American
Civilization. Their love of liberty
pushed them beyond the mountains
into the unknown West, but even
before they had followed Daniel Boone
into "The Dark and Bloody Ground"
they had struck hard blows for free
dom. 1t is a most singular ignorance
of history which impeaches their ami
NAL courage when the glaring fault of
their character is readiness to grip
their weapons and to decide every
question raised against them man to
man and steel to steel. They are
"weaponed men" now as they were
when they followed Hengist and
Horsa. They do not belong to the
class which went out from Boston to
Petition Washington to allow the
beleagured British to escape for fear of
disturbing trade and damaging the
shops by fight. They are such men
as surrounded Bacon, Hansford, Giles
and Drummond in the uprising
against Berkeley under Charles II.
Our college professor knows SO little
of American history that he thinks
they do not love liberty yet.
Such love filled all the heart OF Drummond
when his band
OF his own home made Liberty a beacon
light.
OF this class and of this blood was
Patrick Henry, foremost in the breach
for freedom, and of this blood, too.
was Henry Clay, born almost in sight
of the birthplace of Patrick Henry
When the hopes of liberty were at
their lowest ebb, when such a marcr
through the Confederate colonies was
being made by the English as Sher-
man afterwards made TO the sea
through the Confederate States, these
"poor whites" crossed the mountains,
I'D, under Shelby and Sewer, struck
A,ings Mountain, the blow which
the tide of the Revolution back
own. And at about the same
f these poor whites, a rag
lad of seventeen, ordered
Seer to do the work of a
with all the fierce
e2sestry and with
n always-and
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-30
Whittier are We Drifting?

Whittier are we drifting? AS if the
acceptance of free special train from
the railroad magnatea was not suffi-
cient insult to the great mass of the peo-
pie, who believe that the president is
entitled to the privileges of a plain
every day American citizen. no more,
no less, the front Car of the special
free train on which Mr.. Harrison is
making his political tour is emblazoned
with big gold letters ''Tha- Presidential
Train" Photographs of this royalty
eqipped train should be distributed
from one end of the country to the
other, particularly among the people
who have to work for a living and to
buy second-class railroad tickets, OF
walk when they wish to go anywhere.
The train upon which Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, took her recent jaunt
was not to be compared, for maguif-
cence, to that upon which Mr.. Harrison
is now travelling. Is it any wonder
that the people clamor for return to
democratic simplicity and every-man.
pay-his-own-way methods?-JunctioI
City Sentinel.