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Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

JUDGE FLYNT informs the LEDGER
that the Judges Of the County Court
will go over the track of the cyclone
in this county at once and any in need
of immediate relief will be promptly
looked after by the County Court.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Mexico Weekly Ledgers Wanted.

The management Of the Mexico
Weekly LEDGER will pay sc. apiece
for copies of the weekly LEDGER,d date
of Thursday, May IS, 1896. An extra
large edition was printed, but has
been exhausted
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

Miss Burton and Miss Banning, of
Randolph County, are the guests of
Miss Nobia Settle and are attending
the College Commencement.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Mr.. BANDS Position.

80
LEBANON, Mo, May 29.-Recent pub
LEGATIONS seem to have raised the ques-
tion-and / am in receipt of numerous
inquiries-if Mr.. Bland is indeed not a
candidate for the Presidential nomina-
ton.
With your permission, / will answer
these inquiries through your columns.
Mr.. Bland is a candidate; not of his
own choice, but made SO by the DEM
! ocracy of Missouri against his judg-
ment of propriety.
While he consented to be q candi-
date, he demonstrated against his can
didacy being urged upon the Democ-
racy of the country instead of waging
the battle for free coinage. With him
principle is everything, and men but
the instruments to carry out a princi-
pie.
Acting in harmony with Mr.. BANDS
feelings, his friends have been and
will be the active, aggressive cham
pions of the free coinage of silver at
thO ~ ~ AntlO, IN WIG cbuDboIh III
emies of the gold standard or straddie
policy. They will make the aus of
silver coinage first in Importance. But
while doing that, they will uniformly
and Loyalty urge the nomination of Mr..
Bland, il the free silver element con-
troll the convention, believing that he
is the logical candidate for that ele-
ment of the party. And we further be-
lieve that IS to / will control it.
During his entire public life of %
years in Congress Mr.. Bland has been
aggressively Democratic in all things,
and represented that kind of Democ-
racy that stood for the rights of the
people against a~ggresslons from every
quarter. He opposed alike a "robber
tariff" with the same zeal and earnest
ness that characterized his opposition
to a gold standard-no less a robbery
to the people. If, therefore, the party
is to unshackle itself at Chicago, and
defy the money power, which has so
long corrupted our politics, consist
ency of action will compel the selec-
ton of a candidate whose public life
has been in harmony with the party as
then organized. Who questions the
wisdom of Mr.. BANDS nomination I'M
der such conditions? To this extent
Mr.. Bland is a candidate, and his can
didacy, to that extent, strengthens
the cause of true Democracy, and if
he is nominated will animate with new
life a disheartened party.
j. w. FARRIs.
Missouri Press Association Excursion.
r. NJ. White, Corresponding Secre-
rotary of the Missouri Press Associa-
ton, is in receipt of a telegram from
Charles NJ. Berkeley, General Passen-
ger Agent of the Anchor Line Steam
ers, that the Belle of Memphis was not
injured during the late cyclone, and
that the Missouri Press Association
excursion will leave st. Louis prompt
ly at 8 O'Clock p. m, Friday, June 9Th,
as advertised.
Died, in Sacramento City, CAL, May
20, 1896, James Appleton Allen, aged
80 years, son OF Daniel and Martha
Allen, formerly of Fulton, Mo. De-
ceased was a nephew of Mrs. W. +.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

w. II. Logan, Sarah T. Logan, James
Logan, Annie l.. Murry, Plaintiffs,
Vs.
Edwin T. Galbreath, Paul Galbreath,
a minor, Logan Gaibreath, a minor
Henry Ernest Carr, Lewis Urban
Carr, Johnnie E. Carr and Bessie
Carr, his wife, Bette Eunice Wal
lace and James T. Wallace, her hus-
band, Lois Evelyn DUNCAN and
Louis F. DUNCAN, her husband, JOS
ophine Elizabeth O'Connor and
William O'Connor, her husband,
Arthur Carr, a minor, Festin Ethan
Carr, a minor, Georgia Letcher Carr,
a minor, Lizzie H. Smith and Harri-
son Smith, her husband, Defend
ants.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

Cyclone and fire insurance in Farm
ers' Mutual Co. w. L. FowLEs,
Office opposite Post Office, Mexico,
Mo. Write or call. est
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
&Aa6ash li1sG
MEXICO
a0INn EaeT
z. 8. WILSON, Ticket

Read the advertisement in another
column of the Eczema Specific Co., of
Hot Springs, Ark. They never fail to
cure eczema. 4S yr.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

JUDGE CooNEY, of Saline County,
Mo-, was nominated for Congress by
the Democrats on the 4s0th ballot at
Fayette, Mo-, in the Heard district.
Judge Cooney is a thoroughbred DEM
ocrat and will receive the full vote of
the marty.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

W. o. johnson is spending a few
days in Harris Springs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

Ex-Sergeant Walter 8. Gregory's
livery stable in st. Louis was extern
sively injured by the storm.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Friday, the Nineteenth Day of June,
A. D.. 1896.

between the hours of nine O'Clock in
the forenoon and five O'Clock in the
afternoon of that day, at the east front
Court House door, in the City of Mex
leo, County of Audrain aforesaid, sell
the same, or &c much thereof as may
be required, at public vendue, to the
highest bidder for cash in hand (sub-
ject to all prior liens and judgments),
to satisfy said execution and costs.
j. N. STEPHENS,
Sheriff of Audrain County, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

e &c reach the dis
ease at all until S.
SIS. was given, when
an m proveme t
was at once noticed.
The medicine was
continued with fav-
orable results, and
now she is cured
sound and we'll, her
skin is perfectly
clear and pure and
she has been saved
f-@- -LaA $780,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Make the Organization Thorough.

8. B. Cook, who was recently elect
ed to the craftsmanship of the Demo-
cratic state central committee to fill
the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Mr.. Maffitt, has begun the or
ganization of the party in this State,
as outlined by his subcommittee, by
school districts. Mr.. Cook under
stands the school district system thor
oughIy, and has a hereulean task be-
fore him to accomplish such an or
g~anization. When effected, however,
it is complete, and will this time be
invincible. All Democrats should aid
Mr.. Cook and the state committee in
this work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

Pure blood is the SAT eguard of health.
Keep the blood pure with Hoods Sar-
saparilla if you would always be well
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

Mrs. P. E. Locke is home from Co.
lumbia, accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Emma.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
TWO BIG HERDS OF THEM.
And the Most and Best Trained Ele-
plants Ever Shown Together.

The management of the consolidated
Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers,
Americas greatest shows, which are
booked for this city On Saturday,
June 20, go upon the broad
guage principle that they can't give
their patrons too much of a good
thing, and carry that purpose to a
literally elephantine climax. Each of
these famous exhibitions includes a big
herd of the biggest and littlest per-
forming elephants of every species,
and ranging in age from the colossal
tusker of over a hundred years to the
youngest, who can easily walk under
him, and bosses the big magnanimous
fellows about in a manner most COM
ical to behold.
Their ponderously prodigious pro-
gramme includes military maneuvers
and drills, waltzes and quadrilles, lofty
feats of apex balancing, colossal living
pyramids, recumbent, sitting and
standing poses, aldermanic feasts,
clown carnivals, racing rivalries, BIZ
cycle exhibitions, musical melanges,
boxing bouts, dude diversions, mar
velous acrobatic specialries and merry
mishaps. They are great great
enough to deserve special attention
among the innumerable wonders, SEN
sations and fun makers of the greatest
enterprise of its kind, and the only
big show to visit us the present sea-
son.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
Did YOU ever think how readily the

Did you ever think how readily the
blood is poisoned by constipation?
Bad blood means bad health and pre-
mature old age. DeWitt's Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills, over
come obstinate constipation. For sale
by Woodbridge & Purdy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
the BEST
SPRING MEDICINE

Is SIMMONS LIVER REGuLATOR-don't
forget to take it. The Liver gets sluggish
during The Winter, just like all nature,
and the system becomes choked up by
The accumulated waste, which brings on
Malaria, Fever and Ague and Rheuma-
tism. You want to wake up your Liver
now, but be sure you take SIMMONS
LIVER REGULATOR to do II. II also
regulates the Liver-keeps it properly at
work, when your system will be free from
poison and the whole body invigofated.
You get THE BEST BLOOD when
your system Is In AL condition, and that
will only be when the Liver Is kept active.
Try a Liver Remedy once and note the
difference. But take only SIMMONS
LIVER REGULATOR--ft Is SIMMONS
LIVER REGULATOR which makes the
difference. Take It In powder or In liquid
already prepared, Of make a tea Of the
powder; but take SIMMONS LIVER REGu-
LArOR. You'll find the RED z on every
package. Look for Il.
.. n. Zeilan = %, PhiIadeIphta, Pa.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

SUBSCRIPTION papers are in circula-
ton to pay for rebuilding the German
church on Bean Creek, also for the as
sistance of two or three families in
that part of the county. Our citizens
will respond promptly, and il neces-
sary the County Court and city of
Mexico will render assistance.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

A. L. Wooster, a prominent citizen
of Osseo, Mich, after suffering excru-
ciatingly from piles for twenty years,
was cured in a short time by using
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, al abso-
lutte cure for all skin diseases. More
of this preparation is used than ali
others combined. For sale by Wool
bridge & Purdy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

Died, in Sacramento City, CAL, May
20, 1896, James Appleton Allen, aged
80 years, son OF Daniel and Martha
Allen, formerly of Fulton, Mo. De-
ceased was a nephew of Mrs. w. +.
Smithey, of this city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

Miss Ida Glascock, of Vandalia, is
the guest of Miss Della Tulley.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04
A. D.. 1896,
Sheriff's Sale.

By virtue and authority of q special
execution issued from the Office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Audrain
County, Missouri, returnable at the
June term, 1896, of said court, and to
me directed in favor of the State of
Missouri at the relation and to the use
of j.. w. Dowell, Collector of Audrain
County, Missouri, and against Isom
Brooks, / have levied upon and seized
all the right, title, interest and claim
the following described real estate,
to-wit:
The west half of lot No. 8, block five
in Ladd's Addition to Mexico, Mis-
souri,, all lying and being in the said
County and State of Missouri; and l
will, on
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-04

ened to blight her life forever.
SIS. Guaranteed purely segefa6ke)
cures Eczema, Scrofula, Cancer, Rheu-
matism, or any other blood trouble.
1t is a real blood remedy and always
cures even after all else fails.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-29
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
God Almighty'S Battle.

My friends this is the morning of the
day OF God Almighty's battle! Do you not
see the troop? Hear We not all the trum-
pets of HEAVIER. and all the drums of hell ?
Which side are you on? If you are on the
right side, to what cavalry troop, to what
artillery service, to what garrison duty do
you belong? In other words, in what
Sabbath School do you teach? In what
prayer meeting do you exort? To what
penitentiary do you declare eternal liberty?
10 what almshouse do you announce the
riches of heaven? What broken bone of
sorrow have you ever set? Are you doing
nothing? 1t is possible that man or
woman sworn to be follower of Jesus
Christ is doing nothing? Then hide the
horrible secret from the angels Keep it
away from the book of Judgment. II you
are doing nothing, do not let the world
find it out, lest they charge, your religion
with being false face Do not let your
cowardice and treason be heard among the
martyrs about the throne, lest they forget
the sanctity of the place and denounce your
betrayal of that cause for which they
agonized and died.
May the eternal God arouse us all to
action! AS for myself, feel | would be
ashamed to die now and enter heaven until
| have accomplished something more
decisive for the Lord that bought me. OH
brethren. how swiftly the time goes by 1t
seems to me as if the years had gained
some new power of locomotion-,a kind Of
speed electric.
The temple of Berth is very broad and it
is very high. 1t has been going up by the
hands of men and devils and no human
engineering can dcmolish it; but if the
20, 900 ministers of Christ in this country
should each take branch of the tree of
life and all their congregations should do
the same, and we should march on and
throw these branches around the great
temples of sin, and worldliness, and folly,
it would need no match, or coal or torch of
ours to touch off the pile, for, as in the
days of Elijah fire would fall from heaven
and kindle the bonfire of Christian victory
over demolished sin.-Dr. Talmage
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-29
A DOG THAT REASONED,
He Knew When 1t Was Safe to Sleep on
His Masters Bed,

No one that knew Bombshcll ever
doubted that he reasoned and thought but
occasionally | would find stranger who
inclined to believe it, and then would tell
him the following story: My parlor was
front easement, which opened by an arch
into my bedroom, back easement. A
easement may be described as room in the
wall of 4 fort, generally intended, in war
time, to hold gun Or powder, while in
time of peace many of them, like mine, are
fitted up for use as quarters for officers and
soldiers.
Bombshell had his own bed in the back
easement, but he preferred my bed and
would use it whenever he could. | had
tried to break him of the habit, but had
not been successful.
One day he came in wet and muddy, and,
as usual, curled up on my white counter
pane. The result was awful. As much as
hated to do so, felt obliged to give him
a thrashing
never caught him on my bed again
He would still get on it; but no matter
how quietly | came in, | would always
find him on the floor, though I could see
from the rumpled condition of the bed that
he had been on it, and often the spot where
he had slept would still be warm.
One evening | went out, leaving Bomb
| shell lying by the parlor stove. Out of curl
oSity l looked through the half turned Stats
OF my shutters and watched him. From my
position | was able to see the whole of both
of my rooms.
For awhile Bomhshell did not move:
then he raised his head and looked at the
door, finally he got up, stretched himself,
yawned sleepily, walked to the bed,
jumped up, and put his fore paws on it,
Standing in this position, a thought struck
him, and he said to himself:
Suppose that my master hasn't gone!
He will catch me and then l shall get a
licking. I'll 20 and make certain that he
is not coming back
| know that he said this because he took
his paws OFF of the bed, walked cautiously
back to the front door, and, with his ear
close to the crack, he listened. At last
satisfied that had really gone, he trotted
back to the bed, jumped on it, curled up
and went to sleep.
After such clever act thought that he
had earned his sleep, so | went away and
left him. st Nicholas
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-29
ALL THAT | ATTEMPTED.

have done all that | attempted if / have
started in any hungry, earnest mind and
heart the suspicion that there is great
deal here that have not done, but only
commenced to do. Our bodies are growing
old. Well, let them. But we cannot
afford to have our minds grow old, our
hearts harden and our spirits petrify. Old
conversion, old experience, old sympathies,
old love, old thoughts, be they as true as
the Bible, are as little part of to-day s
religious life as submerged and petrifed
forests are part Of the worlds living YER
dure.
God is as new us this mornings sunrise
or this evenings star-twinkle, and we
shall be so, too, if we will knit into Him,
let Him flush us every day and lean upon
his supplies as the flowing river is born
anew every morning as the limpid spirit
descends upon it from out the air by the
way of the mountain top and the hillsides.
May we, O God, be full of sensitive nerve
for Thy touch, full of waiting for Thy COM
ing, green fields lying under the dropping
of the rain, children whose flushed faces
expect Thy nod and smile.--Dr. Parkhurst.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-29
NOT BEEN TAUGHT.

most nothing about religious matters This
is due to the fact that he has not been taught.
The ordinary father and mother are anxious
enough about what they call the "educa-
ton of their child" They send him to the
best schools they can find. They see to it
that the lessons there set are learned The
child is not very much consulted about the
good; if he doesn like it, he is likely to
have to learn it anyway. This is because
the value of secular education in after
life is clearly seen and acted upon. But
what shall be done for the moral and elis
ious teachings Catholic Universe.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-29
IT WAS AN EASY ONE.

Is this where you answer questions
he asked as he entered the ROOM
1T is, " replied the careworn man at the
desk
We'll, l've got a corker for YOU" said
the stranger confidently.
Fire away" returned the man at the
desk, with the weary air of one who had
settled so many hard problems that they
had ceased to interest him.
'I've Just come from a lunchroom largely
patronized by women" explained the
stranger as sort Of perface to his query.
"Yes?" said the man at the desk disn-
terestedly.
There were two women opposite me at
the table, continued the stranger and
two women behind me at another table,
and two women jus. across the aisle from
me at still another table"
mot an unusual experience for man
during the noon hour in Chicago. said the
man at the desk.
'Of course not" replied the stranger,
''but it suggested corking question to me
just the same. :"
Lets hear it
"Well why is it that two women can't
carry on Il conversation for Is minutes al
any time or place without discussing
dress?'
as that your great question:" asked the
man at the desk YEARLY,
1t is. Can you answer it?o
easily"
"What's the answer?'
because they're not built that way -
Chicago Post.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-29
THE POWER OF PRAYER.

More things are wrought by prayer than this
world dreams of:
For what are men better than sheep or goats.
That nourish II blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands Of
prayer.
Both for themselves and those who call them
friend?
For so the world round world is every hour
Bound by gold chains around tho feet of
God. Tennyson.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-29

Although a very busy man, Dr. H. v.
Pierce, IF Buffalo, n. V, has found time
in which to write great book of over Il
thousand pages entitled, The People
Common Sense Medical Adviser, in Plain
English, or Medicine Simplifed. Few
books printed in the English language have
reached so great a sale as has this popular
work, over $50, 600 copies having been sold
at 81. 30 each The profits on this enor.
nous sale having repaid its author for the
great amount OF labor and money expended
on its production he has now decided to
give away, absolutely free, 500, 600 copies
of this valuable book, the recipient only
being required to mail to the Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association of Buffalo. n.
Y, of which company he is president,
twanty-one-cent stamps, to cover cost of
mailing only, and the book will be sent
post paid 1t is vcritable medical library
complet in one volume. 1t contains 1908
large pages, and over 300 illustrations some
of them in colors. The Free Edition is
precisely the same as that sold at ST. 80 ex-
cept only that the books are bound in strong
MANILA paper covers, instead of cloth. 1t
is not often that our readers have an oppor-
tunity to obtain a valuable book on such
generous terms, and we predict that few
i'll miss availing themselves of the unusal
and liberal offer to which we have called
their attention.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-29

word Of praise in his behalf, no word of
Justification. This is no true life. 1t is
the worst of failures. There are glorious
opportunities in this world for service. He
who wisely uses them ,nriches both his
race and hms If, and dying leaves
monument which outlasts granite
and is brighter than polished brass. Indie
pendent
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-29
LIVING FOR SELF ALONE.

The man who lives to himself bequeaths
his own folly and poverty and meanness
body, while he has dwarfed and warped his
own powers, and scnseless stone or marble,
however lavishly supplied to mark his
resting place, does him no honor, He has
lived in himself, he has died in himself
and all that he leaves in
memory of himself speaks no
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-05-16
\ NEW TOWNSHIP LAND BILL
Towns on Private Land May Take in
Government Land.

Washington, May lot is quite likely
that before this session closes congress
will take up and pass the bill introduced
by Representative Lacey. amending the
land laws relative to town sites. 1t IS
proposed by him to substitute the follow
ing for section 4 OIL the act of March B.
1877.
Section 4. That 1t shall be lawful
for any town to make entry or entries
of such tracts of public lands contiguous
thereto as will, wnen auueu 10 the tracts
OF land then occupied by such town, not
exceed $3.50 acres, provided, that the lands
so entered shall not, together with the
tracts then occupied by such town, be in
excess OF the area to which such town
would then be entitled by virtue Of its
population, as prescribed in section 1888
Of the revised statutes"
This bill has received the sanction of
the public lands committee OF the house,
and is now on the calendar Under the
existing statutes, it has been held by the
department Of the interior that n town
site, when originally located upon public
land, may be extended to include addi-
ton lands OF the publ" domain under
the townsite laws. But where the town
is plated upon private land adjoining
public lands the adjoining land can not
be entered for townslte purposes under
the statutes in their present form. The
committee was of the opinion that the
right to enter additional lands for town
site purposes should be so extended that
towns laid out upon private lands should
also be included in the statutes. Mr..
Lacey's bill will accomplish that pur-
pose, and the same was prepared In con-
ference with the officials OF the general
/ land office.