Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-07-09
NEW r NoTABLEs.
A Stroll Through Wall Street and a
Side Glance at Tammany Hail.
The Editor Fishing and
Farming"

Side Glance at Tammany Hail.
The Editor Fishing and
Farming"
Editorial Correspondence of the Ledger.
NEW YORK CRY, July 1.-TWO of the
most deceiving things in this world to
look at are Wall street and Tammany
Hall, both in this city. Wall street is
a very narrow, short street with very
plain and not very high, most ordinary
looking buildings. Tammany Hall is
modest in appearance. 1t faces on
Fourteenth street and looks like a
plain three story brick barn. AT the
same time, if you believe what you
see in the papers a good deal of influ-
ence radiates from both Of these places
and it is not always for the best. Both
look very harmless and not at all i'm
posing or devilish, but you can't some
times most always judge by appear
ances.
At Central Park and Coney Island I
saw hundreds-yes, it seemed to me
thousands-of people on wheels, most
of them ladies, or maybe I only saw
the ladies. In fact, it was hard to dis
tinguish a good many of them from
the men, while others looked very
modest and attractive. I have seen a
great many ladies in a great many
cities, in various costumes, on wheels,
but the neatest attired, most modest
and graceful rider / ever saw is Miss
Annie Spence, of Mexico, Mo.
I am sur / have broken one of the
Ten Commandments since / left home
and have broken it more than once,
too. l don't remember just which one
it is, but l could not resist. 1t seemed
to me as though I was tempted beyond
the point where I ought to be expect
ed to stand firm. Why, every city
yes, every town-more than that,
every little flag station I passed
through for miles before I got to New
York had a beautiful pressed brick
passenger station. They were trimmed
with stone, too. Maybe if they had
not been trimmed with stone I could
have withstood the temptation and
not coveted them for Mexico. There
Is always some excuse, or at least we
think there is, or to try to think there
is, when we break n of the Com
mandments. Well, I will lay the blame
on the railroads. That is popular, you
know. If the railroad companies had
built a new passenger depot for Mexi-
co l would not have coveted my
neighbors' goods. Now, there is an
other sin charged to the railroads and
proven, too. Wonder if I have not
good grounds for a law suit against
them for damages. Outside of it's
being q sin to covet it makes one very
unhappy to keep on coveting some
thing he can't get or ought not to
have. I don't mean that Mexico
ought not to have a new passenger
station, but she can't get n and
that's what makes me unhappy, and
because l am unhappy is where I will
get my work in for damages when /
bring my suit. "No railroad has a
right to do anything or not to do any
thing to make a man unhappy" II
the above is not in the law books
will have it there the next time | start
to run for the Legislature.
/ never pass through Harper's Fer
ry but think of our genial ex-County
Recorder, Tom Torreyson, who brows-
ed around here before and some during
the war, and just what he browsed or
is not evident; but that was a gooo
while ago. When l think of Tom / am
impressed with the fact that there is 8
great deal more to some men with
only M leg than there is to others
who have their anatomy entire. The
writer has always been In admirer o.
outspoken, sturdy Tom Torreyson
Not because he used to live at Harp
er's Ferry, but because he got away te
the grandest county in the grandes1
State in the Union as soon he could
That showed his sense. Not because
he lost his leg but because he lost il
fighting for what he thought wal
right. That showed his grit. Tom ii
a man who has convictions and advo'
Gates what he thinks is right fearlessly
and in a manly way. Such men Away
have strong influence and are highly
thought of by their neighbors. Ton
is a strong free silver man and has en-
listed not for 30 or 120 days, but TO
"during the war;" He will win in thi
fight or lose-not his other leg or arm
Ibis voice and Tom will not b.
speechless until after death.
expect to leave for southampton
Long Island, to-day where I will spen'
two or three weeks fishing and farm
ing. I am not much of a fisherman
and my friends and relatives dow
here say that my fishing beats m,
farming all hollow. I believe / ca
farm better than I could fish if it was a
popular to tell big stories about farm
, ing as it is about fishing. / don't Sc
why a man can't yarn just as cas-
about the farming he don't do as tn
fish he don't catch. / think / shall tr
5 it. You never can tell what you ca
do until you try.
D The crops this side of st. Louis d
' not look as good as through Missouri
In fact, the oats are very short an
f the corn is unusually late and choke
with grass and weeds. "Too niue
! rain" is the cause r. M. WHITE.
Mexico Horses at Marceline.
o At Marceline, Mo-, last week, G. +,
= Barber's @. r. z. by Ed. Sutherlan,
won the free-for-all pace in straigl
heats. Time, 2:244, 2:22L, 2:2