Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
Visit to the Wreck of the Lost Pan.
ther," Which Went Down in Deep
Water Capt. Burnett, of the
L. s. s., a Companion on
the Trip Editor White
ct His Old Home.

in a terrible storm and in spite of the
heroic efforts of the life saving service
most of the crew were drowned. This
wreck lies in about 100 feet of water
and the sea bass love to feed and play
around it. Capt. Nelson Burnett, a
prominent officer in the life saving
service, invited Jesse Fowler, one of
Southampton's most prosperous and
substantial citizens, and the writer to
ego off" and take a days sport. Capt.
Burnett has been in the life saving
service for years and has been on the
sea off and on-mostly on-all his life,
and he is getting along in years but
does not show it, as he has eve used
whiskey or tobacco. He says it is all
stuff about sailors using so much
liquor. He don't believe any sailor,
more especially a man who is connect
ed with the life saving service, should
use any kind of liquor at any time.
He says liquor has "no part in saving
life."
After a twenty minutes row we are
right over the wreck. The Captain
knows because he sounded for it and
then ''got sight on two or three land
Marks Very few others can locate
the wreck. The weather must be good
or you will not enjoy the sport, es-
pecially if you ate much breakfast.
After casting anchor you go to work
with q hand limo ohnnt nrn k,-IraJ
feet long, as the water is very deep.
You use CLAIMS or small fish for bass.
l tell you the sport is lively. The fish
weigh from three to ten pounds and
maybe more. They are game and
when you get your 100 feet of line in
with a ten pound bass you want a rest,
especially if there is a good swell on,
and there always is. The swell of the
ocean, wen when it is at rest, is a
very deceiving movement. You think,
Oh! how nice. In a few moments you
get sea sick and then you say, Oh!
how terrible. Those who have been
both "good and drunk" and sea sick
say they prefer the former ''next
morning" feeling. | have been sea
sick and that is enough for me. \
good catch of from so to 100 fine sea
bass in two OF three hours, especially
if you have one for dinner, will amply
repay a man for either being scared
or sick. They do say that the reason
the most of us landlubbers get so sick
is because we are so scared. Well,
one hundred feet of water under a
small boat with a good sea running
when you can't swim and "don't feel
very we'll, anyway" will make most
any man wish to himself: 81 want to
go home" whether he says SO or not.
If you say 50 you will get laughed at,
so you might as we'll keep still; it is
about all you can keep-on your
stomach.
| am so sorry to hear of the death
of Robert Lawder. He was one of
Audrain's most prosperous and en-
ergetic young men-just such men as
it takes to bring prosperity to a com
munity. Not only Sin the midst of
life" but even early in life We are in
death.
Missouri should have a large immi-
grafton during the next year. Mexico
and Audrain county should arrange to
benefit by the movement west. The
fact that Missouri seems to be crazy
after politics has done it no good, as
the impression is left that we are in
bad shape and not prosperous. Too
much politics is the curse of any
howlers, Missouri's fine lands and
great natural will insure her
a big proportion of the movement
west. Farmers out this way who pay
as much each year to fertilize an acre
of ground as an acre of good land
costs in Missouri are going to work
west and many of them have their
faces turned toward Missouri. There
is no better state in the Union for in
dustrious, careful farmers. There is no
good location in the world for any
other kind. The same rule applies to
all kinds of business and to every
profession. Industry and frugality
will always be rewarded everywhere.
Potatoes is the big crop among the
farmers here. Potatoes are to the
farmer in parts of New York what
corn is to Missouri. Very often three
or four hundred bushels of potatoes
are raised to the acre and are sold in
New York City for from 60 to 81 per
bushel. This season the blight got
the best of the crop here.
The women folks cut quite a figure
in farming here, as they do every
where in the world. a farmers wife
or a farmers daughter are the noblest
of women. The society butterfly is
not to be compared to the sturdy
country woman, and they are pretty,
too. / see Miss Lewis, a farmers
daughter, carried off the prize at the
Mexico Fair for the prettiest lady,
married or single, on the grounds on
big Wednesday. The honor was well
placed. Farmers wives are the
mothers of the big men of this world.
History will bear me out in this state
ment. The women who live on the
farm are equally at their ease, either
at the churn or piano. They can hitch
up a team, make a pair of pants and
make the cloth, if necessary, and at
the same time they are just as pretty
and graceful in the parlor as the s'city
folks and they r ladies under any
and all circumstances. They may not
know as much gossip or be quite so
well posted on the latest styles in
bloomers but they are better for this
and the world is benefited. Where
would the next generation of men
come from if it YER not for the
farmers wives? s'God made the
country; man made the town."
1t is time a move was made toward
erecting another public school build
ing in Mexico. ALI of the tax payers
favor this enterprise and the board
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