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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-30

Scribner's Magazine for October has a
notable list of contributors, including w.
ID. Howells, Robert Louis Stevenson,
Joel Chandler Harris. II. G.. Bunner,
Harold Frederic and Will Il. Low. The
contribution of Mr.. Hewells is a re-
marka bic one. Under the title. "The
Man of Letters as Man of Business"
he discusses with perfect frankness the
whole relation of literature TO business,
especially the relations of the writer
with the editor and the published. 1t is
a striking presentation of those things
about which the public is so often misin-
formed. Another article Of unusual in
terest, both instrinsicall and by reason
OF its literary associations, in Robert
Stevenson's journal of the voyage made
by Sir Walter Scott in 1914 around Scot
intimate view of Sir Walter by man
OF such acute perceptions as the great
engineer of Bell Rock lighthouse,
is peculiarly genuine ane free from
the glamour which SCOTS great fame
has usually cast over those who have
written about him. There is an intro
ductory note by Robert Louis Stevenson,
the illustrious grandson of the author of
the diary, which links third interesting
personality to the narrative.
The illustrated articles of this number
represent an unusual number of The best
known American and foreign artists,
including Remington, Frost, Will III.
Low, Francis c. Jones, and group of
famous Frenchmen, Monvel, Delort,
Lynch. Marchetti, Jeanniot, and Cour-
boin. The last named group forms IL e
subject of an interesting article by +. n
Doubleday, who has visited the artists in
their studies in Paris, and gives glimpses
of their personalities as well as of their
work. Another group of French artists
will be the subject OF a second article in
the November issue.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY

Isl lieut. e. Walker West Joint 1898, sh q s Infantry semuaah vt, asu..m ..u-
Ike tT No aMmaTy Science md Tactics. Elegant new cadet nMs and eonmM1s var
sIa ma e. RWT NNs. AIfmnshed b. acto of Congress BunHnes Of brick es%5 10 "a
.m, AgggTHhet cost of grounds buildings and equipments omntre sam n umhM mrund-
|Ha II @ onroo nhes superintendent, This is a select school comnGnoa al umg 70
S@mam 1ovrnor. supreneJ Judges, Members CopGns ai of Ims aang h S cadets
N"@e~, aHness, ~ A. +. FLEET, upt MexIeo
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Children Cry for
Pitchers CastoFia.
Stock Notes.

Hogs that are marketed after ten
months of age do not give the best
profits.
A sheep raiser claims that there
is nothing like liberal feeding tC
cure the wool taste of mutton.
A writer in an exchange says he
cured a seed wart on a horse by one
application of very salty lard.
People who want cattle without
horns, but think it inhuman to de-
horn them, should try the hornless
breeds.
In some parts of England and
France the drouth has cut the crop
short and hay is SO high that thin
cattle have been rushed on the mar
ket, seriously Cutting the market
and lowering prices.
A stockman says that on the av-
erage stock farm the sire is more
than half of the herd. In two years
the increased value Of twenty calves
by a pure-bred bull of good individ-
uallty will amount to fully $40 per
head. As the bull can then be sold
for more than half the first cost, the
profit is clearly in sight.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Her Own Choice of Wedding Presents,

TIon thc e 1oih ~
81 want something pretty, but not
too costly, as a wedding gift" a
woman is reported as saying to one
of the head men at a noted jewelers.
els it for Miss B, may l ask?'
said the jeweler; ''for in that case ]
think I can suit you exactly" And
he produced a list written at length
and in the brides own writing, with
everything she wanted in the way Of
silver distinctly described, from the
soup tureen to salt spoons. 1t left
her friends a wide margin of choice
from the most expensive present to
a simple token of remembrance.
"Would you like to see the presents
already selected?" continued the
shopman, and, leading the way into
the adjoining apartment, he pointed
to several shelves completely cover
ed with the ~glittering array. Those
are all Miss BIS presents" he
explained. "She seems quite salts
fed with them so far, and comes
every few days to look them over to
e what is added"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

Nhen d GlfI Is hehIly LII LOSes
From the Chicago Record.
An engaged girl was once asked,
"How can a girl tell when she is
really in lover" and this was hel
answer:
"She thinks of him all the time
wishes hat he were near; has nerv'
GUS chills if he arrives a moment OF
two late, and then wonders why he
hasn't sense enough to go home be-
fore he has been in the house hal
an hour. She gets awful mad il
any one says hat his feet are extra
large. The mere suggestion from
her father that it might be a wise
| plan to look into his business pros
poets makes her cheeks flush with
indignation. She hates every CIR
that looks at him. She thinks he
is the most fascinating person in the
whole world. She is of the opinion
that she isn't half as good and clev
er as be is. 1t takes her a long time
to dress and she can't make hersel
look pretty enough when he calls
If the dear angel coughs the leas
bit she wonders if it is anything
serious, and when he looks tired sht
says she knows he's working his life
out. And she's so happy that hel
appetite forsakes her"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

Under the statutes of the State OF
New York eavesdropping is a misde.
meanor and there are instances in
which the enforcement of the pre-
scribed penalty is a good thing for
the community afflicted by such an
offender. In one of the smaller
towns OF that state a man was re-
Gently sent up for thirty days be-
cause his anxiety to know what a
young couple engaged to each other
had to talk about when they were
supposed to be alone, led him to
conceal himself and listen. Young
people who are under promise of
marriage always have said things
that sound very silly to the cool
headed outsiders who are not in
love, and it is a very mean man
who will listen to the tender bits of
gush and foolishness which are in
terehanged by youthful lovers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
MOBERLY AGAIN sCORGHED.
The Business Portion or the "Magic
City" Visited by Another Pire.

Special Dispatch to the Ledger
MonERLY, Mo-, September g.
Another fire occurred in Moberly Al
3 o'clock this morning. Four bust
ness houses and a dwelling were
burned, as follows:
Hedges Il Jarvis, grocery store
loss about 500 on stock of goods
John Floyd, grocery store; loss
about $500 on stock.
Amanda Coates, hair dresser
loss small.
A business house which was to
have been occupied in a day or sc
by Malone Bros. as a meat market
A dwelling house occupied by {
family was also consumed. Tota
loss on buildings about $1,000; In
surance not now known.
The burned buildings were OF
Reed street, about fifty yards from
where the big fire was. 1t is be
lieved to have been the work of al
| incendiary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

incendiary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

young.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

The Wentzville (Mo.) Union
says: Hon. John NJ. Barker in a
letter states that he is not a eandi.
date for congressional honors at
present but further states that he
will join that body if the proper OPP
p%ortunity presents itself. Mr.. Bark
er is a prominent attorney of Mexico
and was at one time a resident of
this county, being born and raised
at the ancient town of Flint Hill,
about three miles north from this
place. He yet has a number of rel
atiYes and friends residing here who
are only too willing to assist him in
the realization of his anticlpations to
represent his district in Congress.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Physical Ideas Of Heaven.

The natives Of Botucudes, one Of
the hottest regions of the earth, be,
lieve hat Heaven will be a land Of
cool streams and shady groves en-
tirely cleared of all underbrush and
cacti. All desert jewellers. it is said,
die expecting to wake in wooded
land supplied beautifully with cold
water. You will remember, if you
have ever read books of Arctic travel,
that all natives of the frozen north
have paradise pictured as a land of
warm sunshine, with glowing fires
overhung with pots ofboiling whales
blubber, and easeful touches of fur
scattered here and there. The Caro-
line lslanders, who are passionately
fond of liquor, but who are in NOR
tai dread of breaking their necks by
falling from one of the millions of
cliffs with which heirislands abound,
believe that paradise will be a land
as level as a floor, where one can
get drunk and not be in constant
dread of cracking his cervical verta-
hroo
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
The New Church Organ.
the Globe Democrat

MEXICO, Mo-, August 29.-ln one
of the small towns in Northern Mis-
souri,, a few years ago, n OF the
churches concluded that an organ
would add to the attractions of the
church and the services, and after
a%scartaining the general feeling OF
the members in regard to the use Of
an organ decided to purchase one.
As is always the case, there were
a few dissenting voices. The most ag-
gressive opposition was from Brother
t, a leading member, and a deacon,
too, by the way. He objected to an
organ. He believed it sinful to
play upon any kind of instrument
during services. But the majority
Of the little flock were not disposed
to think exactly that way and pur-
chased the organ, contrary to the
deacon's. wishes. Of curse the dea-
con was displeased because be want
ed to sing long and loud in the old
fashioned way, and mark the time
to suit himself. The following Sun
day after the organ had been placed
in the church the deacon came out
to service and took a seat on the
front row, as was his usual custom,
which happened to be just in front
of the organ. The organist played
a voluntary, and after the singing
of a few hymns, in which the dea-
con was observed to take no part,
the minister asked, "Will Brother
7. lead us in prayer" Much to
the CONSERVATION of the minister
and the audience, the deacon kick
ed the organ aud said: "That
thing does yer singin'; can't it do
yer prayin', too?" ]. G. H.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
H. Martin Williams.

The Lincoln County NeWs says:
A silver mass meeting was held up
in Audrain county Friday, and Fl.
Martin Williams was the principal
speaker. Resolutions were passed
demanding that Congressman Clark
do everything in his power for the
free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, and
to accept no compromise which
would "add to the weight of the sill
yer dollar" In other words, Is to
1 or bust. If a settlement of the
silver question is hot made in the
present Congress, it will be the work
of Just such blatherskites as Will
liams that will keep it open. Men
of his ilk who want to see the Dem
ocratic party disrupted that they
may be leaders in some new party
that might spring up from Its ashes
don't want any compromise. Viii
liams remains in the Democratic
party because he has nowhere else
to go. He is always out for ''de
stuff" and would as soon be a Pop
ulist as a Democrat if the pay was
the same, and how sensible Dem
ocrats can be influenced by bis
views or guided by his leadership is
more than we can understand.
Right now he il looking for a soft
place to light in some other party.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
They Wanted Double POrterh0use

From the Auxvasse Mo- Review.
Wood Maddox went up to Chi
cago several days ago to enjoy the
sights at the Worlds Fair. A few
days later James Garwood, of this
county, landed in the Windy City,
a stranger. Mr.. Maddox approach
ed Jimmie with a slap on the shout
der and "Hello! old boy" and
told Jim he had been in the city
four days and had picked out the
best and cheapest places to stay.
Jim followed while Wood took
the lead.
After seeing the sights for some
time Jim proposed that a lunch
would be in order.
The pair stopped at a fashionable
restaurant and took seats at a table.
Jim says, II am hungry"
In a few minutes a waiter came
in and asked the pair what they
would have.
MIR. Maddox said, "I'll take a
double porterhouse steak" and Jim
said, "Ill take the same" The
waiter stared at the pair and drawl-
ed out, GA right smart meat, gentle
men,"
MI. Maddox said, "Well, hustle
out of here and bring it in. We
are both hungry"
The double porterhouse steaks
were hustled in.
About 6 or s pounds of beef for
each of them. Jim said, "more
beef than We could eat in a month"
Wood said, thought you were
hungry. Don't say anything about
this. If you don't tell it nobody
will know it,"
The bill for meat alone was 4.SO.
They ate all they could, paid the
bill and passed out quietly.
Jim says that Wood went and
acted a fool and ordered a five cent
cigar after eating a $40 porter
house steak. He thinks that was a
dead give away.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
A Party.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Luckie, cas-
OF Mexico, entertained their niece.
Miss Nell Scates, and her friend
Miss Georgia Dyer, of Jonesburg
Wednesday evening. The party
was n of the most pleasant of the
season. The principal feature o:
the evening was it being a cher
party" each lady invited her com.
pany. The supper was all thai
heart could wish for, and the music
was certainly worthy of praise. The
yard being decorated in japanese
lanterns and country blossom
made it exquisite. About twenty,
five couple we're present all of whom
enjoyed themselves hugely.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Poultry and Bee Notes.

Try warm, sweet milk as a tonic
for sick fowls.
Eggs should be gathered at least
one a day.
If you want to raise only eggs
keep the hens separate from the
males.
With plenty of range and grass
and insects, the hens do we'll and
need no other feed.
The lowering Bros. factory and
beekeeping supplies at Wiota, Iowa,
burned the 18th ult. Loss $4,000.
Ducks grow rapidly, and, ifprop-
erly managed, car be put upon the
market at a comparatively low cost.
Poultry raising is no child's play.
1t requires study, observation and
experience to bring it to the highest
success.
A writer says that if increased egg
yield is the object, select the most
constant layers and mate them with
a cockerel of the best egg laying
strain to be found; and we might
add, give the hens egg producing
food.
A successful and extensive poul-
try raiser says that it is very poor
economy to keep a lot of cockerels,
simply because they happen to be
thoroughbreds, and you hate to kill
them. Profitable poultry culture
means down the expense.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

We clip the following from the
Columbia Herald: Mr.. Kurtz was
right in the point he made at Sat.
urday's silver meeting. The mat
ter OF silver coinage is not the ques-
ton. The great question which
elected Grover Cleveland and a
Democratic Congress was the tariff.
Down with the Mckinley law.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Largest SUN Dial in the World.

The large promontory in the
Aegean Sea, known as Hayon
Horoo, extends 5000 feet above
the level of the water. As the sun
swings around the shadow OF this
mountain it touches one by one a
circle of islands, separated by regu-
lar intervals, which act as hour
marks. 1t is the largest sun dali
in the world.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
MEXICO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
They Opened Last T~aesday-The
Teachers Assigned.

The Mexico Public Schools open
last Tuesday and the teachers have
been assigned as follows:
HIGH AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Principal, d. w. Majors, science
and advanced mathematics.
Miss Shea, algebra and rhetoric,
Miss Rogers, elocution, history
and drawing.
Miss Houston, Latin, literature
and grammar.
Room II MI. Painter.
Room II Mr.. Lee.
Room 10 Miss Ellis
Room 8 Miss Baldwin.
Room 8 Miss Phillips.
Room 7 Miss Wright.
Room 6 Miss Sullinger.
Room 5 Miss Bloom.
Room 4 Miss Hughes.
Room 3 Mrs. Houghland.
Room 2 Miss Stevenson.
Room | Miss Patton.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Will Learn a Trade,

From the Montgomery MO- Standard.
George Townsley, a son of our es-
teemed colored townsman, Granville
Townsley, seems to be a '<bad mig
ger" 1t appears that he sppropri-
ated a horse and buggy at Mexico
the other day of DR.. Luckie and took
them to Fulton, where he was Sc
closely pursued that he abandoned the
rig and stole another at Fulton and
came over here, arriving Sunday
morning. That afternoon Sheriff
Windsor from Galloway came after
him and recovered the horse and
buggy and also George. He will
now be able to learn a trade at JEFF
ferson SO he won't have to steal
horses when he gets out.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
ALL BROKEN DOWN

Is it not sad to see 50 many young
men every day of whom this can be
said? Young man, take my advice.
Stop all indiscretions which you
have practised, keep good hours,
retire early, and build up your shat.
tered system by using Sulphur Bit.
tiers, which will cure you.-OLD
PHYSICIAN.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Ed. FAY Arresfad

Edward Fox, deaf and dumb, was
arrested Friday morning by Sheriff
Stephens charged with felonious as
sault. He got into some trouble
with his brother, who is also deaf
and dumb, and shot at him. The
Foxes live just vest OF Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

The Salisbury (Mo,) Democrat
says: Mrs. A. W.Terrill, and hel
two children, of Mexico, have been
visiting the family of her brother,
James w. Wayland, this week. Mrs.
7. has been employed as one of the
teachers of Hardin College for the
ensuing school year.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

MEssRs. Fred Naeter and FREQ
Haskin r the new proprietors o.
the Shelbina Torchlight. Bott
being ambitious young men, and
Judging from the first issue since
they have assumed control of the
paper, we feel sure they will meet
with success and will establish quite
a reputation for the Torchlight in
the interest of Shelbina and Shelby
county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.

Oscar Painter, "a years old, who
lives only "a miles north of Mexico,
visited this city for the first time
this week. He called on DR.. Pat
%terson, who showed him the princi-
pal points of interest.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Children Cry for
Pitchers CastoSia.

The Columbia Herald says
Hello, here, how's this? In the
live stock exhibit at the Worlds
Fair, Wallace Estill, of Howard
county, Missouri, carries off six
first priz4s for cattle in competition
with the world.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

VIM. Nevius, the well-known
travelling man whose wife died at
the Globe Hotel in this city about
two years ago, will be married next
Thursday to Miss Maggie Walker,
of Pike county. Mr.. Nevius is now
in the banking business at Nebo,
LII. When Mr.. Nevius was a boy
he was very poor, When he was
grown he was considered well off.
Now he is worth in cash between
$40 900 and $4,000. He saved
this fortune out of a salary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
THE LEDGER.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1898.
The Varied Value OF Silver.

Silver, in its relative commercial
value to gold, has varied greatly at
different times since the two metals
were first used for coins. In the
days of Abraham the Patriarch 1t
was s to 1; B. C. 1000 it was II
to 1; B. C. 500, Is to 1, and at the
beginning of the Christian Era, about
to 1. In the year 500 \. d. it
was IS to 1; in 100 it was S to l,
and at the time of the discovery of
America only 7 to 1.
In the year 1900 gold was only
six times more valuable than the
precious white, and within the next
100 years two pounds of silver could
be exchanged evenly for one OF gold.
In 1916 gold was again on the boom,
being ten times more valuable than
its paler brother; and in 1725 it was
IL times more valuable than silver,
Just as it was 500 years B. c. At
the beginning Of the present century
silver was at a lower figure than it
had been at any time since the year
900 A. D., viz: 1898 to 1. In 1876
the ratio (commercial) of silver to
gold was 10 to l and in 1892 it was
at the lowest point it has ever reach
ed since the discovery of America
24.24 to 1. The figures for the pres
emit year are wanting.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

One of Mexico's ministers of the
gospel is in receipt of a communi-
cation from a syndicate offering to
furnish him sermons on any text at
90 cents each. The financial de-
preston of the country seems to
have affected the price of sermons
as well as of wheat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

Mrs. James G.. MCGOWAN died
near Thompson Station Sept. IND
aged 40 years. Mrs. MCGOWAN
leaves a husband and six sons to
mourn her loss, who have the sym
pathy of the community in this
their hour of bereavement.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
THE

of the Wakefield, Mass, Rattan
Works, c. F. Young, says: In all
case of biliousness accompanied
with those terrible sick headaches.
l have found no other medicine that
seems TO take hold and do the good
that your Sulphur Bitters does. 1t is
the best family medicine made.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

A window was cut in the west
end of the county Jail Thursday and
the benighted home of the unfor-
Inmates can now be invaded by Old
SOILS cheerful effect.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

The DIR. Lanius property, just
east of the Mexico Savings Bank,
was sold to the highest bidder Fri
day by John Atchison. 1t was
purchased by D. P. Moore for
$1,O1O. This is the cheapest piece
of property ever sold in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
What's the Use Of Talking

About colds and coughs in the sum-
mer time. You may have a tickling
cough or a little cold or baby may have
the Group and wheni it comes you ought
to know that Parks'CoughSyrup is the
best cure for it. Sold by Woodbridge
& McA rthur.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
TrOtting Stock mt Public Sale.

The Mccormick Live Stock Co.
will sell at public sale at their place,
IL miles northwest of Bowling
Green, Mo-, on Sept. 90, twenty
head Of trotting stock, consisting OF
brood mares, colts and FLIES. Send
for catalogue.
p I'd MCCORMICK L. S. Co,
Bowling Green, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

The Centre (Mo.) Courier says:
DR.. J. B. Hawkins, of Mexico, has
been here this week settling up his
business. The Doctor says that
his family are well pleased with
their new home.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Our Grandmothers' Way

Was to steep roots and herbs and
use it every night. Nothing acts as
promptly and without discomfort.
Not a pill or a cathartic but move the
bowels every day. Sold by Wool
bridge & Macarthur.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
The New Spring Hata

Are all adorned with roses. The
roses on your cheeks can be retained
by using Parks Tea. 1t clears the
blood of impurities, moves the bow
els every day and gives health and
strength to the user. Sold by Wool
bridge & Macarthur.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Books for Ex.Cenreaerate Ham

was appointed on committee te
secure books for ex-Confederate
Home at Higginsville. Those hay.
ing books to spare will please leave
them at Southern Bank with Mai
Ricketts,, and oblige,
WIN. l.. MARTIN,
Co. G. Pindall's Battalion
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

Miss Lutte Cave left this week
for Buena Vista, Colo, where she
has a splendid position in the public
school. Miss Lutte Is a most sue
cessful teacher.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

Sam Watkins has moved his l,ar-
Der shop from the Ringo House, to
rooms on south Washington street
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07
Mexico's Fair Association.

Bob Whites much-talked-o kite.
shaped track at Mexico is no more.
The fair grounds were sold at trus.
tees sale on Saturday. Kites are
no more successful than elipses in
~Mlssouri.-Hermon (Mo.) Leader.
The kite shaped mile track is still
here and in good hands. Mexico
will, next year and every year after
wards, have the best interior fair in
the State.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

All the talk in the world will no,
convince you sc quickly as one trial o
De Wits Witch Hazel SaIve for seaIds
burns, bruises, skin affections ana
piles. French Garrett. ~
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

One word describes it-'sperfection.n
We refer to De Wits Witch Hazel
Salve. Cures obstinate sores, burns.
k diseases and is a we'll known cure
for piles. French & Garrett,