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Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
There was no objection.

Was liz obJSSsASAs
MI. Clark of Missouri. Sad and
strange as it may seem, kissing goes
by favors here as we'll as elsewhere
and, if this bill passes without this
kind of restriction, the statesman
with a pull" in this House will
seize all of the valuable books, and l
believe that in the distribution Of
this vast store of wisdom each and
every u of US should have his
full quantum of the twenty-five dol
lar books as well as his pro rata OF
the dime volumes. | came very
near saying "dime novels" [ wish
some of them were. Laughter: ]
I suspect that, as a matter of fact,
they are. 1 am very sure that some
of the unique and startling agricul-
tural theories emanating from the
fertile imaginations of the savants
of the Government would appear
decidedly novel to the genuine
farmers of the country who have
grown grey in following the pillow
and communing with nature. IRE
newed laughter l am heartily in
favor of scattering this pent-up
Utica of learning and of art over a
smiling land. l would much prefer
to see this Congress pass into his
tory as a million-volume Congress
rather than a billion dollar Congress.
Laughter
The sudden, unexpected, and
simultaneous distribution of a mill
lion volumes over this country
would have a healthy educational
effect on the public mind, and is in
direct line with that campaign of
education which we have been con-
Quoting with so much enthusiasm
for 10! these many years in this
country, and which was SO crowned
last November with such glorious re-
suits daughter on the Republican
side], and which is now being fritz
tered away somewhat. Renewed
laughter
A great many people have an
erroneous idea that all Government
publications are as dry as a powder
magazine, a proposition in Euclid,
or Tupper's poems. Laughter.
This free gift of the wisdom of the
fathers will explode that inn
preston at once. Some Gov
eminent works are things of
beauty and joys forever. [Laugh-
ter, once wrote to Senator Vest
and requested him to send me any
he might have in stock,
and he sent me two large and hand
some volumes on what the scien-
lists call entomology, but what we
plain people call bugology laugh
teri each warranted to contain ten
illustrations. Laughter,
That was certainly a big haul
twenty-thousand bugs out of one
mail bag. daughter
This was not all, however, that I
owed to the discriminating taste of
the Senator, and to the boundless
generosity of Uncle Sam, for at the
same time | was the happy recip-
Ient of two huge and gorgeous tonnes
containing a splendid steel engrav-
ng of every species of snake that
vent with Noah into the Ark.
Laughter
My little three year old boy, from
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

The st. Louis Republic, speak
ing of the financial question, edi-
torially says: eve want our par
ty to knock out the gold standard.
But we do not want it to begin the
operation by pronouncing a repeal
OF the Sherman act a ''total de-
monetiZation of silver while Cleve-
land is President" We do not
want to see that beginning, because
the statement is palpably untrue. In
the first place, all the silver we
have coined since 1878 will be Just
as much money as it ever was; and
in the second place, silver has never
been money of final account since
1873. You can't knock out a wrong
with a nursery rhyme. And you
don't fetch free coinage with a
CONCESSION to silver which per-
petuates a cowardly makeshift.
Another want we have is for our
reliable information about the ca
pacity of the Democratic organiza.
ton. Ifit is not big enough to hold
President Cleveland, Governor Till
man, Richard P. Bland, John G.
Carlisle and Francis NJ. Cockrell
we want to know how it got SO
small all at once. If Democrats
have waxed so oplnionated and
touchy that they must scatter be-
cause they differ on one of many
subjects Of our complicated Govern
ment, and that one the subject
about which men always differ more
or less, we want to be posted.
Our esteemed contemporary may
not coincide with the Republic, and
we win keep the rest of what we
want until we learn the effect of
he above few lines on his cerebral
DIGESTION"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
Notice to Creditors,

Notice is hereby given that ] So
signee, will, on the 18th, 18th snd y.
Gays Of November, 1893, at the lss 9
nee OF w. w. Fry in Mexico. Nilsson
between the hours of nine o'clockan
and five O'Clock p. M. Oh said day, 2
present and adjust and allow demane!
against the estate of my assignee 3,
!. PAUL who, prior TO his assigDmes.
mad been doing business undef =
name of Paul d. Co.
p. w. HARDING,
27-4t. Assignee of w. I. Paul
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
Assignee's Notice to Creditors.

All persons having claims or dseh
against w. b. Scott, assignor, are has
by notified that /. John NJ. BsfkHi
assignee of said ". B. Scott, wills
thursday; the 18th day of Novenbei
1873, and for two consecutive days
thereafter, between the hours csk
M. and 3 p. a. of each of said day. =
theiaw office of said Barker q ~
south side of the Public Squslein Nd
leo, Missouri, allow, adjust, or p
upon all claims presented to me e
allowance, when and where you M
attend If you see cause.
JOHN NJ. BARKER,
ZS-4t. Assignee of ". B. scofk
Thursday, October 10, 1898.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
Unexpected ne.,h-

Caf1espondence of the Ledger.
LADDoNIA, Mo-, Oct. 25-r
Mary Smith, wife of ]. P. a.s.
died this morning at 4 o'cloclns
went to bed as we'll as usual.I.
been visiting at Farber yests,aS
and returned bone about darl I.
midnight she was awake and s,
not complain. Mr.. Smith ~
her groan and shook her. Ha AZ
raised her up and she died as -
as she was laid down-an occn-,
within a few moments. She l..-
two daughters here, Mrs. Hunfl.s
Of Farber, and Mrs. Leslie F,,-.
who lives eight miles northve.ts,
here. Her two sons, Hills g,
Lucius, are in the State Of W.,
ington. She was an excen.
neighbor and friend. Her hush.,,
and children have the sympathy !.
the community.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
The OLDEST POSTMASTER.
A West FirgInian Appointed by Jack.
son S%urrenders Only to Death.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Oct. a.
J. 81. Miller, undoubtedly the oldest
postmaster in the United States,
died at Gauley Sunday night. He
was So years old and was appoint
ed in 1882 by President Jackson.
He has been postmaster at Gauley
continuously since.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

THE Senate is going to vote on
silver. The City Council should give
the people a chance to vote on the
light question.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
Don't fail to read the advertise.

Don't fail to read the advertise
ment OF the Famous in this weeks
LEDGER and in the daily tomorrow.
The Famous is receiving its winter
goods and is now in the market with
as full a line as was ever offered in
the city. Secure prices before you
buy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

The proposed compromise on
the silver question has nothing to
recommend it. The silver men
headed by Bland opposed it, the
administration did not approve of
it and nothing is to be gained and
everything to be lost by such a
COMPROMISE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

Mr.. THOMAS HARRISON, of Aux
vase, n of Missouri's most
prominent Democrats, was in Mex.
leo this week and made US a pleas
ant business call. Mr.. Harrison is
a strong friend of the administration
and feels confident that the Demo.
cratic party will accomplish every.
thing it promised in its platform.
AS one of the old guard he sees nc
reason why any person who is hon.
estly a Democrat should talk about
getting out of the party.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
MARRIED In THE AIR.
A Waukegan Couple United On Top
OF the Ferris Wheel.

WORLDS FAIR GRoUNDR, Oct. "a.
james d. Hutchinson and Miss
Lottie Zickler came in from Wauk-
egan, ILL.,, to-day, secured a mar
riage license and took passage on
the Ferris Wheel. When at the
top the wheel was stopped just be-
fore 1 p. m. and the couple were
married $50 feet high in the air.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. E. E. Hartman of Waukegan.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

THERE will be no more fall fes-
t~ivities in st. Louis. The Yelled
Prophet will appear no more in that
city. The expenses of Illuminating,
etc., we're borne by a few while the
benefits were shared by all. This is
the history of all such public enter
tainments the country over.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
THROUGH GHiCAGO's sLUMs.
Members Of The w. G. 4. U. Congress
90 on a Midaight crusade Into
Dens Of Wee.

pcFatlC6 1OhSlCSot HuiOA S4ooCA iSd
session Saturday night, will carry
away from Chicago a knowledge of
its darker side which will no doubt
become the foundation of many
addresses in advocacy of social
purity and temperance The x
perience which the crusaders gained
was found in a series OF stunning"
tours under police protection through
the ~.'levee" district OF Chicago.
The party comprised the follow
ing we'll known members OF the In
diana Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union: Miss Mollie Hay Of
indianapolis, Mrs. K. l.. Calkins of
South Bend, vice president OF the
State Union; Mrs. Ella Moore of
Lakeyille, Mrs. Emily Tompkins of
Elkhart, Mrs. Addie Fields of In
dianapolis, Miss Lenora Ayers of
Indianapolis, Mrs. l.. Mendenhall
of Richmond and Miss Gertrude
Fulton of Richmond.
They were escorted by two detect
ives from the Central Station and
Charles L. Stevens of the ''levee''
and R. s. Fulton of Richmond, Ind.
The party met at Harrison Street
Station at l O'Clock this morning,
and at once started out to visit the
most notorious dives. At the frs
place they were denied admission
because too many people were there
already, but received an invitation
to come again and they would be
shown through the place. At one
place all men save one fled from
the house. This man was drunk
and insisted upon having a dance
with one of the missionaries. HI
was finally squelched by one of the
officers. The trip occupied three
hours. The information gained viii
enable the ladies to conduct The
warfare against the evils of vice ant
intemperance.
;. The st. Louis Chronicle, referring
to this matter, says:
i AS TO STUNNING.
The female politicians fromIndian'
who went through the lowest houses
of i'll fame in Chicago night before
last claim that it was necessary 70
them to do this that they nigh
carry on the work of reform.
No such claim is tenable. |
was set up when DIR. Parkhurst o
New York hired women to dance
5 before him naked that he Nigh
. open a crusade against the authori
ties for not being severe enough OF
immoral women.
5 In his case, it was not long after
| wards shown that one of his owl
agents was levying blackma1l Of
these unfortunate creatures. Tha
is generally the end of all sue
attempts at reform-merely an in
: crease in the amount of blackmai
D lost women are compelled to pay.
If any good woman feels calle'
, on to visit such places in the hop
of saving some of her lost sisters
t let her put on the dress of a Roma
D Catholic Sister of Charity or of
Methodist Deaconess or Of a Saliva
ton Army lass.
Women thus dressed can go i
the lowest and vilest resorts and b
assured of respectful treatment
-, What is more to the purpose, it i
possible that they will do good ther
and really save some of the lost.
But nothing of the kind will eve
5 be done by stump-speaking and tn
most female politicians do in visit
ing such places is to crafty thei
/ own morbid curiosity.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

If the electric lights are to be shut
off, the protracted meetings should
be closed, stores shut up at $50,
public entertainments abandoned,
and the streets plowed up and plant
ed with dog fennel.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

DISPATCHES from Washington
City indicate that the silver contro-
versy will end this week by a vote
being taken. Democratic silver Sem
ators say that they are through fill.
clustering and will bring the matter
to a vote.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

THE electric light question was
not touched upon by the Council
last night. The order shutting off
the lights on the first of November
will go into effect. Mexico will
receive some very peculiar advertis-
ing throughout the country after
going into darkness.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

THE st. Louis Republic editor
tally says: You can't kill bimetal-
ism, but Johnshermanism ,Billstew-
artisan and Jerrysimpsonism have
suspended its animation for a few
months
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

The raising of $4,000 Sunday
morning by the congregation assem-
bled at the Baptist Church shows
clearly that Mexico people are lib
eral in their donations towards the
cause of religion.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

WHATEVER the City Council is
going to do in reference to light
should be done promptly. Submit
some proposition to the voters. Mex
leo must have light, if not from the
present plant, from some other.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

SENATOR PETER Of Kansas has
introduced a bill for the issue and
distribution of Sc, 600, OOO, 900. The
gentleman himself remarks that the
country is hardly ripe for such legis-
lation. 1t is hoped that this is true.
When the country gets to any such
state of ripeness it will need fumiga-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
Big Fire at Rocheport.

R%ocHEpoRT, NO., Oct. 21.-A
fire this morning destroyed the
grocery stores of B. White and E.
w. Hubbard, Denham's saloon and
Hilderbrand's pool room.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND says that
be is not in favor of the proposed
compromise on the silver question;
that a majority of the Senate and
House both are in favor of uncon-
ditional repeal and that the people
don't want any more makeshitts.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
Mansur at Paris, No.

PARIS, Mo-, Oct. 11.-Colonel
Gas. H. Mansur, Second Comp
troller of the Currency, is here look
ing after, it is said, his Congressional
fences, as he intends trying for the
nomination against U. S. Hall, who
defeated him last year.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

SOME of the speakers and writers
who were wont to refer sneeringly to
those who favored a change in the
silver ratio are coming down OH
of their perch.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

r. A. Daniel has sold bis s.,
dence property in Northwest Nan,
co-known as the Jno. 2. a.
place-for $1,000. Daniel Bon.
holder was the purchaser and &
will move to town shortly. III,
good piece Of property and s.
bought at a very reasonable feur
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
Notice to Creditors.

Notice is hereby given that ], 49,
slgnee, will. on the 9th, 18th and e
days of November, 1893, at the oion
of Guthrie 4 Gentry In Mexico, "
souri,, between the hours of 9 o'clpd
.. m and 5 O'Clock p. M. on said Dr.
pc present and adjust and allow =
mands against the estate of my
signer, A. F. Gentry.
F. Y. GENTRY,
g-4t. Assignee of A. r. Gentfy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

PRoTRAcTED meetings are being
held at the Christian and Presby-
terrain Churches in this city and
should be largely attended.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
CHINb
FOR SALH.
Spring Pigs Of Both SlIE

Also a few gifts due to farrow Q
October. These pigs are of high nd
vidual merit and from registered md
from the best pens in Illinois and M
souri,. They will be sold at prices b
suit the times. 26-3-m.
II. w.
Thompson Station, IA
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
THE LEDGER.

No ONE need to go to Italy to
find perfect weather.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

The Grand Legion of the Select
Knights, A. Q. U. W., met yester-
day at Boonville, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
These Prices are only for the Time Advertised.
IEIE

constant playing with these books,
has come to know more about snakes
and bugs than any gentleman who
has not toyed too long with that Sc.
ductive and bewildering beverage
known as Mexican pulque. Laugh
ter.
That brilliant and exceedingly in
Iteresting work, evolved from the in
ner consciousness of "Our Uncle"
Jerry Rusk, concerning hawks and
owls, has had such an unpre-
cedented run, as can not be predict
ed even for Gen. Lew Wallace's
Prince of India [laughterl, and
there will have to be a new and en-
larged edition of it published to sat-
isfy the craving of the people for the
good, the beautiful, and the true.
Laughter 1 really think, MIR.
Chairman, that Longfellow must
have had in his mind this buried
literary treasure-trove that is con-
cealed down here in the vaults of
the Capitol when he wrote those
lines:
Nothing useless is or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.
Laughter.
l urge immediate action on this
bill. If we can not give the people
that increase in the circulating me-
dunn of which they are in sore need
Laughter, and for which they are
SO clamorous, we certainly can give
them a million books which they paid
for years ago.I express this hope with
some confidence, because l can not,
to save my life, see how the money
power has any interest in obstruct-
ing this measure. Laughter. If
it had, / would despair, for itseems
to u things here. In making this
distribution, Mr.. Chairman, we can
plant ourselves f~earlessly and firmly
on the maxim
He gives twice who gives quickly.
GApplause.1
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26
Repairing Neatly Done

If you want your watch clesnaa
or repairing of any kind done -
ly, cheaply and promptly, call 3.
T. s. Riley. Satisfaction eus,s,.
teed. tt T. s. Rury
At Woodbridge & McArthur'sdn,
! store, North Side Square.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-26

There was a spirited debate in the
House on the proposed national
bankruptcy bill.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-24
Kissing is Dangerous to Health.

Doctor c. o. Probst, Secretary OF
the State Board of Health of Ohio, ap-
peared before the association of pas
tors of Columbus to urge their CO.
operation in two much needed sani-
tary reforms. One is to stop the Gus
tom of indiscriminate kissing and the
other to abolish the use of the same
cup in the administration of the sacra-
ment by several hundred persons.
Doctor Probst explained that the most
certain and most dangerous transmits
sion of the germs of disease is by the
mouth to mouth method. He cited
the almost universal habit among
ladies of kissing friends on greeting
them or bidding them good-by; OF
kissing babies and children and urging
babies and children TO kiss each other.
Pastors, too, consider it part of their
duty to kiss the babies of their parish
toner's.
All this was well meant, but il
was as dangerous as it was perfume
tory in many cases. He quoted Moses
MS sanitarian on this subject and
said the greater law-giver would not
have tolerated either the kissing or the
common cup custom in sacramcntal
administrations The clergymcn asked
for some practical suggestions as .
how to obviate the danger pointed out
in the communion service. Several
were given, but the only ono con-
sidcred practical was that each COM
municant have his own cup. A reso-
luton to do all in their power TO bring
about these reforms was adopted. =.
IChicago Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-24

The New York Times observes:
"The worlds working stock of genius
never is SO large that the downfall of
a commanding personality like Fer
dinand de Lesseps can be regarded
with cynicism. There is nothing in
modern annals more pathetic than the
vicissitudes of fortune by which the
picturesque and heroic figure, alike
the first citizen of the Empire and the
Republic, has been transformed into a
sentenced convict M. dc Lesseps'
misfortunes may be attributed in large
degree to his extraordinary success.
At Suez he achieved what statesmen,
capitalists and engineers throughout
Europe had pronounced impossible
and chimerical. If NJ. de Lesseps
succeeded at Suez it was because he
was not an engineer. If he failed at
Panama it was because he was only o
speculative diplomatist and not a prac-
tical man of business. The very
qualities which enabled him to over
come every obstacle at the Isthmus,
where tide-level canal was to be cuI
through desert levels and an ancient
sea-bed, disqualified him for taking a
sober view of the difficulties of rock.
ribbed Panama or for controlling the
flood of reckless financial waste and
corruption which swept everything
before it. In tile end lie was like {
drowning man catching at straws, al
Oriental tatalist, paralyzed and dis
enchanted; but neither France nor thu
world will ever believe that he was ;
common swindler, or that he meritet
when dying in his old age--the Crane
Frenchman still at eighty -eight-th'
grotesque and horrible sentence whicl
has been pronounced against him.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-24

An Edinburgh actuary says that
forty out OF 1000 people who reach
seventy years are farmers. The aver
age mortality per 1000 is 292 among
liquor dealers, increasing from 1872
between the ages of twenty and
twenty-nine to 1928 from seventy up
ward. Among 1000 gardeners he
finds the death-ratc to be 10.6, carpen-
ters 1874, shoemakers 1874, stone ma
cons 1873, butchers 17.8, innkeepers
21.4, licensed grocers who sell liquors
1879, hotel-keepers 26.S, bar-keepers
1874. Among clergymen the lowest
death-rate is in the Church of Eng
land. 1912, and the highest in the
Catholic Church, 1871 The New York
Medical Record attributes the high
death-rate of the Catholic clergy TO
celibacy.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-24
HUMOROUS.

Love may be blind, but he knows
when the parlor lamp is too high.
A revolver is no large weapon, but
it can be made to cover a very large
man.
About the hardest crop to raise on
farm nowadays is the boys in the
family.
She-You know you broke your
promse to me. He-Never mind, can
make another just as good.
When man inherits portion of
goodly estate he has no trouble in
finding people ready to take his part.
"Today was prize day at my school,"
said Jimmie. .'And did my little boy
get anything?" asked papa. "Yep.
Got kept in"
Banks-Rivers, how do you suppose
that wonderful bird, the phoenix, ever
caught fire2 Rivers-probably from
defective flew.
A bird in the hand is worth two In the
bush,
Though gorgeous their plumage and re-
gal; 49,
But, instead of an oriole, robin or thrush,
Let the bird be bright, golden eagle.
Mr., owthink-I-er-you have
noticed how the days are getting
longer and--Miss Pertly-It seems
to me as though it's the evenings.
"You have been in my mind all
day, Miss Angie" he cooed sweetly.
"Great mercy!" groand the girl in
agony; can it be that am as small as
that?"
"Wen, mademoisclle, isn't he q
handsome fellow?' eyes, he Is, but
certainly one of his is too short"
"Too short? Quite the contrary; one
of his legs is too long"
"Why are you so naughty, Johnniel
1t seems with mamma worn out and
papa with broken arm, you might
try to be good." "HohW said
Johnnie. "That's just the time to be
bad. No one can lick me-"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-24
Hawairs Immense Sugar Plantation

Hawaiis Immense Sugar Plantation.
Fifty miles from Pala, in the north
ern part of Maui Island, is the planta-
ton of the Hawaiian Commercial
Company-one of the largest sugar
estates in the world, DIR. j. Mott
Smith says. On the sandy isthmus
connecting East and West Maui, and
on q plain which was formerly an arid
desert, where not tree or scarcely a
blade of grass ten years ago could be
found, can now be seen green pastures,
beautiful flower gardens, avenues of
trees and 10000 acres of growing
sugarcane. On this extensive planta-
ton is sugar mill capable of manu-
featuring 100 tons of sugar day.
This great change was brought
about by storing the rain gifts of the
clouds, which for ages had fallen On
barren rocks forty miles distant and
run to waste into the sea. The work
of transferring the rainfall from the
mountains to the sugar plantation is
one of the greatest pieces of engineer
ing in the Pacific. Twenty EIGHT tuu-
nels, SKIS feet, cut through solid rock,
some of them 500 feet through, had TO
be dug before good results were OBJ
tanned. The water is brought through
pipes, aud they deliver 5000, 900 cubic
feet of water a day. The Commercial
Company owns $4,000 acres of land
in this valley, aud $4,000 acres of the
tract are constantly under cultivation.
-rNew York Tribune.