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Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
Written for the Mexico Ledger.
THE TWO DOORS.

Whisper "Farewell" at midnight,
To the old year, whisper low;
Then open the western door,
Open and let him go.
The works Of the hands not good,
The will of the wavering mind;
The thoughts of the hearts not true,
The words Of the lips not kind.
Faith that is broken or lost,
Hopes that are fading and dim;
Love that is selfish and vain
These let him carry with him.
Whisper farewell to your doubts,
To follies and faults that you know;
Then open the western door,
With the old year let them go.
Turn to the sunrising next,
When the shadows are growing thin;
Set open the eastern door,
And welcome the new year in.
Welcome the order brave,
More faithfully do your part"
Welcome the brighter hope;
Welcome the kinder heart.
Welcome the daily work,
Welcome the household care;
Clasp hands with the household love,
Lift hands In the household prayer,
Forgotten be all the mistakes,
And over again begin;
WheE you open the eastern door,
To welcome the new year in.
Mexico, Mo. II.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
FARMERS AT COLUMBIA.
Greatly Increased Attendance at the
Opening of the Winter Courses.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, January 6.-The
short winter courses in agriculture
and horticulture opened to-day at
the University with greatly increas-
ed attendance over last year, despite
the hard times among farmers. About
twenty-five have been enrolled,
largely from Northern and Central
Missouri. Many others are expected
during the remainder Of the week
from Southern Missouri. Extensive
improvements for instruction in these
lines have been made during the past
year, and prominent teachers have
been secured. Hon. N. f. Murray,
Vice President of the State Horticul-
tural Society, is already on the ground.
These courses are a great benefit to
the farmers and horticulturists Of the
State, as they deal with practical
questions only.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

THE LEDGER Is glad to know that
the Missouri Legislature will be called
upon to make an appropriation for a
building for the Young Mems Chris
tian Association to be erected at Co
lumbia, Mo. More Christianity Is
what is needed in this world and 1t
wouldn't hurt some of our members
Of the Legislature If they should go to
school at the University In Columbia
year or so and during the same time
associate themselves with the Young
Mems Christian Association. The Co
lumbia correspondent to the st. Louis
papers, referring to this matter, says:
"The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation OF Missouri has, through the
President, Thomas 8. McPheeters, OF
st. Louis, requested the Board of Cur
ators of the Missouri University to
ask of the General Assembly an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for a suitable
building to be erected on or near the
University campus, to be used for re-
ligious and other purposes by the as
sociatioE. In his letter Mr.. McPhee-
ters holds that the Legislature should
lock after the spiritual as well as in
teEectual interests OF the students,
and presents statement prepared by
r. n. Judson, an attorney of st. Louie,
giving the legal aspect Of the propo-
sition. The curators have the matter
under consideration.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
From the journal of Agriculture.

From the journal of Agriculture.
An intelligent rotation of crops will
run the farm up instead Of down.
Try an experimental patch of cane,
Kaffir corn and pop corn this year.
Readers of the Journal, please give
your methods of preparing potato
land.
II clover, barnyard manure and ro-
tation fail to improve the farm, then
try commercial fertilizers.
Remember that the best way to in
terest the boy In farm affairs is to
make him partner in crops and
stock.
1t pays to have the house and barn
well guttered to keep the water from
the foundation of the building, even
| il the water is not needed.
1t Is presumed that farmers Mt the
close of the past year have "fgured
up" to see how they stand, and to see
from what source their profits or losses
come. Now let rs know what crops
have paid you best.
The farmer who succeeds is the one
whe makes a practice of raising
crops above the average. Average
yields are very low, and the farmer
who will outstrip his fellows is the one
who by more careful attention to
methods and better cultivation pro-
duces crops above the average.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
Ocular Evidence.

sone of the great objection TO
whiskey,n said the man Of abstemious
habits, "is the fact that In this era OF
adulteration 1t contains 80 many for
eign substances"
sYoung man." replied Col. Still
well, "you have just. given utterance
to one of the most impressive truths
that know Of. Why, sub, last night
I saw . man pouring watah into it!"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

"YoU will have scandals growing
out Of the greed of the protected in
terests that will fill the newspapers
before July, superseding every other
sensation," says Senator Lindsay, of
Kentucky. This is not a prophecy.
It Is an inevitable result of the extra
session upon which the Presidential
elect has resolved. 1t became an ac-
complished fact as soon as Mr.. Ding
ley made 1t clear that the Republicans
had abandoned their promised tariff
for revenue and purposed to make a
tariff for robbery. There is no use to
cry out against trusts and organized
greed while you have high protec-
tive robber tariff.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
FORMER MEXICO BOY CRIPPLED.
Right Arm and Right Foot Cut OF
by Train.

FLORENCE, CoLo., Jan. 5.-This af-
ternoon @. M. Roberts, formerly of
Mexico, brakeman on the switch en-
gine of the Rio Grande at this point
and Coal Creek, while in the act of
making an air coupling at the latter
place, got his foot fast in the guard
rail. He was run over by the train
and his right arm cut off off below the
shoulder and the right foot taken off
at the ankle. The injured man was
quickly brought to this city, where
amputatiou was performed by Drs.
Baker and Rambo, after which hewas
sent by special train to the hospital at
Salida.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
WITHOUT STRINGS.
This is the Manly Position Occupied
by Gov. Lon Y. Stephens.

On his recent visit to Kansas City
Gov. Stephens talked very plainly to
the citizens of this place. Among 9th
er things, he said:
"The man who attempts to pose as
having a 'pulr with me will find out
sooner or later that he may have
'pull' with me personally, but when it
comes to dealing with Missouri's chief
executive that 'pull wont count.
"Don't abuse Gov. Stone to me, gen.
tlemen," he added earnestly. "In my
Judgment, he is one of the brayest and
brainiest men in this State. To him
much of the credit is due for our sue
cess in November last. He may have
made mistakes in Kansas City q fear
he has), but he is your friend and he
loves your people.
"Gov. Stone will not attempt to in
fiuence me in Kansas City or in ether
appointments. I did not attempt this
on him. So if I make any mistake
here, charge it to me, not to Stone.
"In my estimation, Chief Julian is a
brave and honest man. No money can
buy him, and there isn't powder
enough in your town to scare him. He
is q good Democrat and an able law
yer. 1 had nothing to do with his ap-
pointment, but I didn't approve Of
the fight being made upon him by
Democratic newspapers. Newspaper
assaults here have made him popular
in the country, and I rather think he
likes it.
"I am more of a business man than a
politician, and in my appointments
here l shall select business men rather
than politicians. But, of course, they
must be active Democrats and they
must stand on my platform-the Chi
cago pIatform-o they amt in it with
me.
"Kansas City gave me the blacklist
eye I received in Missouri. Here
ran 5000 votes behind my ticket. But
am a Democrat have no griev-
ances, no tales of woe, and I hope
when / retire from the Governors
office it will have been discovered that
am q tool of no man, and that bull
doing newspapers can't influence or
intimidate me-"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
nnn,t Ynu Relieve 1t.

Early in 1895 Bob White, of the
Mexico LEDGER, gave notice that he
would present silver cup 70 evsty
during Christmas week Of 1895, the
same wear. Last week was the time
for the cups TO be called for, but up to
date only one had been claimed. We
tear the tssilver crazen has not been
properly cultivated in Audrain, for
everybody in this section is still cry
ing for silver and plenty of it.-Mont-
gomery City Standard.
Up to the time of going to press
there has been notice served upon the
LEDGER of fifteen births in Audrain
County during Christmas week and
the number will run close to twenty.
Twenty births week, fifty two weeks
in the year, would make the popula-
ton of grand old Audrain grow fast
enough.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

1T is believed that the meanest man
in the world has been found in New
Jersey village. He is now in prison,
in default Of bonds to carry out the
mandate OF the court which recently
ordered him to pay his wife ten dol
lars week for household expenses.
This man, although confessedly pos
sessed of means, owning the house in
which he lived, limited his wife to an
expenditure of five dollars week for
the maintenance of his family of sew
eral children. Out of this small sum
the poor woman did manage to feed
the family. Then he concluded that
she was getting too much, so he in
augurated a system of rebate, by i'm
posing a fine for late meals, the burn
ing of gas after 10 O'Clock at night,
for attendance at church or at prayer
meeting by his wife and daughter, and
for other offenses. Under this system
he pinched the wife until she became
desperate and the family was on the
verge Of starvation. Then she appeal
ed to the court, which found him
guilty and punished him as above.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
Three ST. Louis Robbers Confess.


ST. LOUIS, Jan. 7.--Joseph Stanley,
alias Hart, and Joseph Mclaughlin,
alias True, the two men arrested last
night for completely in the robbery OF
the Home Brewery office, on Dec. Sd,
of more than s., 900, have confessed
and laid the whole story before Chief
of Detectives Desmond. The third
man in the deal, Billy Wolf, a barber,
was also arrested later. He also con-
fessed. The robbery occurred at ESQ
O'Clock on the afternoon OF Dec. 3D.,
when Cashier Robert Hofferkamp and
an assistant were in the office alone.
The three men entered, and, at the
point of their revolvers, compelled
the cashier and his assistant, whom
they afterward tied up and gagged, to
turn over what money they had in the
aafa
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
No Liquor at the Mansion.


We are happy to see it stated that
Mrs. Lon Stephens will not permit the
tspunch bowl" or allow sold black
Bette" on the sideboard at any OF her
receptions. She does not believe In
such things. Mrs. Stephens Ia q very
strict member of the Methodist church
and she does not believe in encourag-
ing the use Of Intoxicating liquor. Mrs.
Stephens is very fond Of society and
the mansion win be very gay while
she Ii its mistress. She will give more
receptions and more full dress fune-
tions than any Of her predecessors,
but she win not call upon the black
bottle nor the juice Of the grape to aid
her In her merry making. Jefferson
City society always takes its cues from
the manaion house, 30 that Mrs. steph-
EMS example win undoubtedly be fol-
lowed and the punch bowls OF the cap
itals, which In the past have ever bub-
bled with good cheer, will be permit
ted to all with dust.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

DURING 1897 there will be six State
elections, five of which will give some
indication of how the country feels
about the new administration. The
first Is in Rhode Island on April 7th,
too early to be of much value. The
Eve others are in the fall. On No.
vember and Massachusetts, Ohio,
Iowa and Virginia, representing in a
way important sections of the Union,
hold elections for all State offices, and
on November sth New York elects q
Judge of the Court Of Appeals and
members of the Assembly. II the Re-
pubiicans force upon the country an
other Mckinley bill, and 1t looks now
as though they would, there viii be
another landslide which will wipe the
G. o. P. of the earth. The people of
this country want no more robber tar
iff.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

One of the most remarkable cures
Of rheumatism on record is related by
Mr.. J. M. Thompson, postmaster at
Decker's Point, Pa, as follows: awhile
out driving one day last winter ! was
caught in a cold rain. The next
morning I was unable to- move my
head or arms, owing to an attack OF
inflammatory rheumatism. My clerk
telephoned for physician, but sug-
gested that I use Chamberlain's Pain
Balm, there being q bottle open on
the counter. He rubbed the affected
parts thoroughly with Pain Balm and
built up hot fire. I dozed of to sleep
and when I awoke about half an hour
later the pam had gone entirely, and /
have not been troubled since. Peo-
pie come here from many miles around
to buy Chamberlain's medicines" T"
For sale by @. A. Buckner, druggist.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

"Excuse me-" observed the man IN
spectacles, ''but i am a surgeon, and
that is not where the liver is" "Never
you mind where the liver is," re-
torted the other. "Tf it was in his big
toe or his left ear DeWitt's Little Early
Risers would reach it and shake it for
him. On that you can bet your gig
lamps" For sale by Woodbridge Il
purdv
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
vast Nonfey Farm in Florida.


NEW YORK, Jan. IA successful
monkey farm has been established in
the Florida Everglades by w. w.
Jacobus, Of Brick Church, N. j., who
has succeeded In raising breed of
monkeys whose meat, when properly
dressed, Ia found to be most beneficial
for epicures and dyspeptics. Mr..
Jacobus and his partners in the enter
prise, Andrew Craig, capitalist, Of
Philadelphia, Pa, and Captain Rev
and G. r. Schultz, Of Punta Rosa,
Fla, have devoted large portion Of
the last year to putting the monkey
farm in q paying condition, and are
now about to market large output of
meat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

IT Ia not often that member of
either political party rises above par
tisan feeling as much as does Senator
White, of California, when he declares
that he will not assist in hampering
and embarrassing the incoming ad-
ministration. He accepts the decis-
ion of the national election as the
voice of the people, and believes it
the duty of both branches of Congress
to lend Mr.. Mckinley every possible
assistance. If this patriotic senti-
ment on the part of the California
Senator should spread we have no
doubt that Congress would show it
self much more in line with the will OF
the people, and much more helpful to
the political and financial situation of
the country.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

The Sturgeon Leader says: A gen.
tleman received the following worded
letter last week and he was kind
enough to allow the Leader to repro
duce It: ave is all well; and moth
er's got the his Terrix; brother Tom
is got the hupin Kaugh; and sister
Ann has got babee; and / hope
these few lines viii find you the same.
Rite sune. Your aphectionate kuz-
~rrv, -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
PATRONAGE FOR POPULIsTs.


In the organization of the Missouri
Legislature by the Democratic party
of Missouri, Populists have been given
positions while there are plenty of
good Democrats worthy and willing
to fill all of the places. 1t is right and
proper under the circumstances that
the Populists should be recognized.
They voted for the Democratic nomi-
nees and, 1t is understood, were told
by the management of the party that
they should be taken care of. They
did part of the work and should have
a portion of the pie. If they have
come into the Democratic party to stay
they should be treated just like home
folks and be invited to the table at
meal time. The LEDGER has always
been of the opinion that there we're
enough Democrats to elect the ticket,
but the Populists were invited and
came in, and they should have all
they were promised; and If they stay
with us and subscribe to Democratic
principles will surely reap their re-
ward. The Democratic party is al
ways ready to welcome converts from
any of the other parties and espec-
tally those who have come to stay.
OF course, politicians who JOIN party
just like some children do a Sunday
School, just before Christmas, are la
BILE to get the marble heart from the
regulars who have been attending the
year round. But the LEDGER feels
that the rank and file of the Populist
party has come into the Democratic
camp to stay. The LEDGER is bitter
ly opposed to abandoning the grand
old name of "Democrat," and it is
just as much opposed to abandoning
our principles and landmarks to
please new friends. Let them have
their share of the patronage and the
honors, but we insist that they should
subscribe to the principles of the
party and that they also carry the
colors on which is clearly inscribed
the word Democrat. All who wish to
become members of a party should
subscribe heartily to its principles and
its name. This is no contention, but
a fact which no one can gainsay.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
JONES DEFEATS PULITZER.
The Missouri Supreme Court Decides
the Post Dispatch Case.

JEFFERsoN CITY, Mo-, Jan. 6.--The
Supreme Court this afternoon decided
the St. Louis Post Dispatch case In
favor of Charles IL. Jones, the present
editor in charge. The opinion was
written by Judge Macfarlane.
Judges Sherwood and Robinson dis
sented from the opinion OF the MAJOR
ity, Burgess not sitting.
The Post Dispatch case has an ele-
ment of politics. In February, 1895,
Charles II. Jones made contract
with the Post Dispatch Publishing Co.,
Joseph Pulitzer signing as President,
whereby Jones was to be general man.
ager of the paper for FIVE years at q
salary OF $4,000. Later, when Mis-
souri, Democracy began to make its
fight for free silver, Jones took tho
lead with that wing Of the party. II
was contended by his faction that IL
was on this account that Pulitzer's
board of directors decided to depose
him in November, 1895. He secured q
temporary restraining order before
Judge Wood, who was an appointee
of Stone. Later Judge Valiant made
the order permanent and the action OF
the Supreme Court to- day affirms that
decision.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
Two Kept for Seed.

L. NJ. Hodges, clever young news
paper man, has left the Mexico LED
GER for q position in st. Louis. The
LEDGER turns out more good news
paper men than any other paper we
know. 1t always manages to keep
two, however, r. n. White and B. B.
Runkle.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
Twenty-Five "war Correspondents"
From tha Kew West Eouator Democrat

twenty-five war Correspondence,
From the Key West Equator Democrat.
Some of the New York dailies are
being systematically robbed by a lot
of fake newspaper correspondents.
In the last seven weeks twenty i've
war corresponds have left New
York for the insurgent camp, but not
one of them has arrived there, yet
some of them are writing letters from
the rebel camp while they are ''incog"
in Key West or having good time,
in perfect security, on some of the
adjacent keys. How long win this
thing continue before their papers
will catch on?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
Vest Again Nominated.
THE SENATOR NAMED BY MIS-
SOURI, DEMOCRATS TO Sue
CEED HIMSELF.
Governor Stone Was Proposed by Mr.
Washburn, a Populist Member,
Who Withdrew His Name and
Voted For Him.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Jan. S.-Sen-
ator George Graham Vest was renom-
mated to succeed himself as United
States Senator from Missouri tonight
by q joint caucus of the Democratic
members of the House and Senate of
the State Legislature, the Populists
joining in the caucus.
Governor Stone received one vote
in the Senate and one in the House.
Senator Vest, in his speech of ac-
ceptance, spoke with his old-time Wig
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

The Sturgeon Leader says: J. r.
Wayne, of Near Mexico, has purchased
Wv. Getter's barber shop in the
Opera House building. The Leader is
glad to welcome Mr.. Wayne to our
city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
Catarrh in the Head

Is a dangerous disease. 1t may lead
directly to consumption. Catarrh is
caused by impure blood, and the true
way to cure it is by purifying the
blood. Hoods Sarsaparilla cures ca
tarrh becauseft removes the cause Of
it by purifying the blood. Thousands
testify that they have been cured by
Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
The Public Administrator of

THE Public Administrator or St.
LoaisA Tho has taken charge of Editor
McC Hllagh's effects in the abssace of
a win, has discovered that the late
editor of the Globe Democrat was
possessed of considerable wealth.
Besides several smaller sums of
money lying around in envelopes, he
found $26, 900 to his credit in the bank,
a great lot of mining stock of COM
paratively little value, and thirty
shares of stock in the Globe Democrat.
The total of his possessions are valued
in the neighborhood of 100000. Mr..
McCullagh's heirs are his brothers
and sisters and their children, some
of whom are living in Ireland.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
THE Washington City correspondent


of the st. Louis Post Dispatch says:
There is row brewing in the Mis-
souri, delegation. 1t grows out of the
recent visit of Congressman Burton.
Tracy and Treloar to Canton, o. They
slipped away to Canton to see Nc
Kinley without notifying other MEM
bers and presented the name of Maj.
Warner as the proper person to rep
resent Missouri in the Cabinet.
Other members say these three took
snap Judgment in sneaking away to
Canton and that they did it to further
their own schemes. They we're told
by the President elect that Missouri
would hardly be recognized in the
cabinet, but that Maj. Warner might
get some other place. There at, they
say that the three Missourians availed
themselves of the opportunity to put
in their own claims.
Burton would like to be United
States Attorney for the Western Dis
trict, Tracy to be Third Assistant Sec
retary of War and Treloar wants some
position. The Republican members
from Missouri will caucns Thursday
night and there ia every probability
that there will be lively row.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14
Cancer
OF the Breast.

Mr.. A. n. Crausby, of IS8 Kerr ST.,
Memphis, Tenn, says that his wife
paid no attention to small lump which
appeared in her breast, but it soon de-
veioped into a cancer of the worst type,
and notwithstanding the treatment of
the best physicians, it continued to
spread and grow rapidly, eating two
holes in her breast. The doctors
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

THE LEDGER regrets to see that
Vandalia has discharged its night po-
liceman and discontinued the electric
lights. Vandalia is one of Missouri's
most prosperous little cities and it is
to be hoped will soon have plenty of
light again.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-01-14

Kremis, Mercer County, Pa. We
believe Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
to be the best remedy in use. We use
1t in orr own families, and IL In favor
ite among our customers. HEcxEa
BROS. & Co. 25 and 80 cent bottles
for sale by q. A. Buckner, druggist.