Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-08-25
SCHOOLS SOON TO opEs.
With the Ides of September Come
the Pupils for Mexice's Several
Institutions OF Learning.
To the Editor of the Ledger.

TO the Editor OF the Ledger.
Mexico, Mo-, August 1S.-Nexl
month our beautiful city will resound
again with the glad voices of the
girls who left us while the air was
laden with the perfume of flowers
and the sweet melody of song fioated
onevery breeze and the closing scenes
| of that memorable session of Hardin
/ College Were being enacted that
crowned that grand institution ol
learning with immortal honor. The
massive building has looked lonely
since its hundreds of lovely inmates
t--amid tears, smiles and sighs--
bade good-by to Mexico and theil
college home. With joy and glad
ness will we welcome them back to
the classic halls of Hardin and to
the church and social circles of liter
ary society of which they were such
brilliant and fascinating factors. We
have missed them most in our
church and Sunday school services.
How proud we will be to see the
pretty navy blue uniforms again in
the long line as they silently move
through Mexico's streets to their
different churches. We. learn with
pleasure and pride that new rooms
are necessary to accommodate the
increased incoming attendance and
are glad that ample means are being
prepared for their reception.
But our girls are not our only
pride and pleasure. The Missouri
Military Academy claims an undi-
vided interest peculiar to itself. We
are proud of its record and laurels
won. 1t is an honor to Mexico and
our city will receive with open
doors our soldier boys in gray
when they come marching home.
We long again to hear the bugle call
and reveille and see the bright faces
that were aglow with enthusiasm and
Interest. We don't visit the drill
ground now and the quarters look
as lonely as Goldsmith's deserted
village. But when the ides OF Sep
Itember come we'll hear the tramp
|trampl trampl of elastic steps,
the booming of the artillery, the
lclang of the sabre, and oul
churches and our Sunday schools
will be full to overhowing again
i From favorable reports that come,
lquarters will of necessity be en-.
larged, though now the long line oi
beautiful buildings with watch
towers, turrets and spires, drill
rooms, dormitories, Railways from
ground floor to fourth story all
lighted by electricity and heated by
steam seems ample to house whole
army of cadets eager for the fray on
| the field of science. Come on, boys
Mexico is ready to meet you, and
Col. Fleet has everything as clean
and bright as a new silver dollar out
at the Academy.
But Mexieo's crowning glory is
her Public Schools. We just SIM
| ply stand ahead and can't be down
ed by any public school in America.
It takes small army of teachers to
train this eighteen hundred tender
thopefuls. But here lies Audrain's Is
strength, influence and supremacy.
We educate the masses and intelli.
gence, in turn, breeds prosperity,
contentment and sure success. II
/ is show worth travelling miles to
see this school form lines preparatory
to entering the school building. You
can no more induce one of the boys
or girls to speak, even in a whis.
per, after the line is formed thar
| you could get one to drink poison
They are drilled to perfection. Order
and system are seen everywhere
Our newly elected principal, Prof
Darlington, who has won such dis
| tinction rs an educator all over Mis-
souri,, will walk into one of the bes
disciplined and brightest schools il
the State when he comes to TAX,
charge in Mexico.
Il With these institutions in Mexict
lis it wonder that we are what W,
| are-the school center of our grea
State? Here's hearty hand to al
three and the thousands of student
whose glad voices will soon greet ou
ears. ]. V. w.