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Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
sTOCR NOTES.
From the Centralia Courier.

From the Centralia Courier.
VIM. Robinson shipped a car of hogs
Monday night.
Louis Anthony shipped a load of
hogs Tuesday night.
John NeiLl was in Kansas City this
week after cattle for himself and
George Dean.
]. L. Sappington took twenty-five
jacks to Cedar Rapids, Ia, the first of
the week.
Success for the stock breeder means
that he must understand how to select
an animal, that with proper feed and
care pay it's owner profit.
No stock raiser a afford to keep a
scrub on his place over Sunday if he
can dispose of it, by hustling until
midnight Saturday. Feeding grain
and hay to poor stock is worse than
burning 20-cent coal for fuel.
J. H. Starr is fixing up to top the
market again next Christmas. Last
week he bought of Peter Willis 81
fancy 2-year-old cattle for which he
paid S45 per head. They will weigh
about 1000 pounds and are daisies.
Since the Centralia fair last fall, W.
Lee Green has shipped 1915 mules and
still has IS head on hand. These mules
brought about S65 per head on an
average. This means over 800, 900
left in this section for the single item
of mules in 9 months.
Ben Glenn has a very valuable brood
mare. She has foaled four colts for
Mr.. Glenn and he sold the four for
1880, the last one of which he sold
last week, a full brother of Miss Rex,
to the owner Of Miss Rex, for $3.50.
Mr.. Glenn also shipped in 80 head of
good yearlings from Kansas City last
week.
Beasts, Birds and Fish.
Each salmon produces about 100000
900 eggs.
1t is said that the Greenland whale
sometime attains the age of 400 years.
In Larned, Kas, not only the life of
al unlicensed dog is forfeited, but its
owner must pay a fine.
An acre of good fishing ground in
the sea will yield more food in a week
than an acre of the best land will do
in a year.
The horse, when browsing is guided
entirely by the nostrils in the choice
of proper food, and blind horses are
never known to make mistakes in
their diet.
The cries of sea birds, especially
sea gulls are very valuable as fog sig
mails. The birds cluster on the cliffs
and coasts, and their cries warn boat
man that they are near land.
The most valuable fur is that of the
9 otter. One Thousand dollars has
been PAID for a single skin OF this AMI
NAL not more than two yards long by
three-quarters of a yard wide.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Our lively little neighbor, C~entralia,
is getting a move on herself to the ex-
tent of extra street lights, better walks
and having the city park graded.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Butler Guthrie is working eleven
men on the Ortiz fruit farm, south of
town. He is also putting in telephone
service,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
ppffv-Tuckip

On Wednesday evening, April IA,
Mr.. Albert r. Petty and Miss Mary,
adopted daughter of Mr.. and and Mrs,
]. o. Luckie, were married at the res-
ideuce of the latter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Jas. Galloway, formerly of Mexico,
died in Bed Rock, Colo, on February
%, 1897.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
Repair1np Neatly Dome

If you want your watch cleaned or
repairing of any kind done neatly
cheaply and promptly call on T. 8.
Riley. Satisfaction guaranteed.
wifi II. &. RILEY
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

According to State superintendent
of Public Schools there are 500 log
school houses in Missouri.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

DR.. Alex. Crawford, Of Asheville,
North Carolina, is the guest of his
brother, DIR, j, ii, Crawford.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

j. j. Canada has been refused a sa-
loon license in Sturgeon. The court
held that the petition was insufficient.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

A. B. Landrum, of Laddonia, Mo-,
has one Of the best 3-year-old saddle
geldings in the United States.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

The following was received by a
business man in town yesterday:
"Der Ser find inclosed too dollers in
finishment of paying BILL"
Yours &c. -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Mrs. George Maxwell went to st.
Louis to-day accompanied by her sis
ter, who has been her guest from st.
Louis for some time.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Wood Maddox sold a pair of mules
to Robert McPheeters Wednesday for
5000,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

The Wellsville Vide ADdke says:
Miss Iva Barker Is in Mexico this week
visiting her uncle, Hon. John M.
Barker, and family.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Mrs. Silverstein, of st. Joseph, is
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
L, Phillip,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

That Hoods Sarsaparilla purifies the
blood and relieves a vast amount of
suffering is not a theory but a well
known fact.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Miss Amy Hutts, Of Mexico, after a
pleasant visit with Mrs. W. B. Frank,
returned home Friday.-Falton TeEe-
urGph,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Jos. McDearmot, formerly of Au-
drain county, 10Y of C~arterville, Mo-,
Ia in Mexico on a visit.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Miss Mamie Hendrix, of Fayette,
and Miss Anna Hinde, Of Mexico,
were the guests Of Mrs. Ernest futile,
Sunday.-Fulton Sun.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Miss May Crisman was the guest of
Miss Nina Baker in Mexico Friday and
Saturday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Tom Atchison Is home from st. Louis
and viii likely go into business here.
They all come back to Mexico, the
best town in the State.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

The Fulton Journut says. Miss Amy
Hutts, of Mexico, is an applicant for a
position In our city school.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Miss Mamie Duncan and Miss Abbie
Lleweilyn are the guests OF Louisiana
relatives.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Mrs. George Ella Birclrhead left
yesterday for q short visit to her
brother, W. w. Settle, in Mexico
Moberly Democrat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

F. N. Frost and family returned to
Vandalla to-day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
A MODERN MAN OF WISDOM.

There was a man in our town,
And he was wondeous wise;
He took, when to the play he went
Some shears of goodly size.
And said: "Excuse me, madame,
want to see the play"
And pulling out his goodly shears,
He shipped her hat away.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

Leslie Ferris Is having a tin roof put
ON the Kane Hotal-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

John w. Trimble, of Perry, was in
town on business Thursday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22
The Dead Game Race Horse and Sire of
High Class Harness Horses,
Hall, 2:25 81,

By Vatican, the sire O world renowned speed, Including Vassar, 2:O7, and
Belle Vara, 2:Os3, will make the season of 1897 at the Wood Maddox farm,
miles south of Mexico, Mo, and 5 miles north of Auxvasse, No. at
$40 THE 8
money due July /. O r when Ia is parted with.
Light Hall, 2:253, is roam horse, foaled in 1885, by Vatican, $685., sire
of Vassar, 2:07, Belle Vara, 2:0S4, Robin, 2:0914, Georgette, 2:19, and many
other raj record horses; by Belmont, sire of Nutwood, 2IS3d, who has 112
|trotters Int Fl PAGERS n the list, and sire of dams of Arion, 2:1O3I, at 2 years,
Myrtle, 2:194, at years and IS others in 230 or better.
Nell, first dam of Light Hall, by Estl Eric by Ericsson, sire of Rarely,
|2:2414, mt five others in 230 Oh better, and sire of dams of Benman, 2171n
|Godeia, 2:191a, j. r. Shedd, 2:1914, and eight others n 2 OF better; by
|Mambrino Chief, sire of Lady Thorne, 1881, and five others better than
|2:3o; sire of dams of Director, 2:17, and Piedmont, 2:171, etc.
Light Hall at 1 year old trotted in 2:4s, at lin 2:351a, and in his 8 year-
old form he took his record, 2:252. He was a nose-and-nose second at St.
Joe in 215 nj al gone many miles n races in 25 and 216. At Centreviue,
Iowa, in 1894, in the free-for-an, a seven-h heat race which he Won he beat
such horses a Dandy Jim, 1909, Blackberry, 2:163d, Dan Backman, 22O, and
II other good ones. In 1895, on the Mexico mile track, it was no trouble for
him to trot a mile in 2:16 to 2I7.
Light Hall is the sire of Sprague Light, 2:201, at years, and Rose Light
that trotteda trial in 24oa al a yearing, his only two colts ever handled for
speed. His colts are all nicely gated and he never sired n that couldn't
|uot; they Ire all smooth, finely formed individuals and are the highest type
of the harness horse. Light Hall is a full brother to Vassar, 2:7, and Belle
|Vara, 2:0S3.
Care taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible should any
occur. Good pasture at 150 per month.
vUnn.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-22

]. E.. Wolfenbarger was a business
visitor from Perry Thursday.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10

One wouldthink the sun had enough
work to do in warming up the whole
earth, but there are some shrewd
Yankees down in New England who are
not at oil satisfied and are determined
TO make it do still more work. They
have already taken out q great num-
Der Of patents for solar heaters, solar
cookers aud solar engines Of many
kinds, although they have not been
able to invent any machine that is
really practicable for converting the
suns heat into power. And yet they
still have hope. They say that light
ming has been harnessed, and they
don't see why sunshine should not be
made to carry burdens.
Many wonderful things have been
accomplished by using the suns rays.
In Europe newspaper has been
printed by power from the sun, and
salt water has been distilled and coffee
and cider made
The only problem to be solved in
Harvesting the sun is to properly con-
centrate its rays. To do this many
inventors use an immense curved mir
ror or u large lens like burning glass,
but they are hampered in their work,
first, by the fact that the sun does not
shine steadily, and, next, by the i'm
mense expense of large lenses.
II is reckoned that the heat OF the
sun would sufficiently warm and illu-
inmate 2, 900, 900, 900 globes as big as
our earth. 1t would seem that some
clever inventor would sometime DO
able to discover q way to use it. The
man that succeeds will make his for
tune. Record.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
lowed by n Goose.

Fred Lovitre of this place had mn
exciting experience with flock Of
geese on the Red river several days
ago. Ho saw flock Of twenty wild
geese light in the river, and, getting
his gun, sneaked upon them. They
were quietly swimming ON the oppos-
ite side Of the narrow stream in close
range, and he Letter 50, knocking down
five Of the big birds. Some of them
were only winged and very likely to
get away unless expedition were used.
Mr.. Levitre Immediately stripped and
went into the stream He secured two
Of the geese without much difficulty,
and third after good deal of run
ming and swimming. The fourth had
only broken wing and he got out on
the muddy shore and ran aud hoped
along at good pace. Levitre put
after him through the mud and brush,
and the goose gave him merry chase.
just as he overlook him and was about
TO hit him with the stick he carried for
the purpose, the goose plunged back
into the stream. Levitre followed,
aud again, as he came upon him, tho
goose Owed which foiled his pursuer.
Levitre was now nearly exhausted, but
Ne thought "and so is the goose" and
the thought encouraged him to keep
up the chase. Soon he saw bubble,
and, giving one mighty effort, he made
plunge and grabbed the goose IA he
came up. Then he had terrific
wrestle and fight with him. He was
now loaded down with four heavy
geese. two Of which weighed twelve
pounds each, and he was on tho OPP
posite side Of the river from his home.
The water was deep in the centre Of
the stream, and he had to do some
swimming to get across. The question
was how to do it with four geese. He
hit upon the idea of having the last
goose caught, which was still very
lively, assist him in getting across,
and no tied stripg TO his tail andles
him go, holding on at the other end.
and the bird, trying hard TO get away.
swan across the stream and materially
helped the hunter. He finally got
across, but he was almost exhausted
and q good deal scratched on the body
by brush and briers. Minneapolis
Journal
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10

ing many little articles that would he
useful on the journey to the happy
hunting ground, and his two walking
sticks.
After the body had been arranged
in the coffin. Wa.Polla.ka, nm old man
who hni fought in more than one his
torir battle side by side with Malta.
E.Qua, delivered m address in the In
dian language at the grave and accord.
ing to Indian custom was the first 10
drop kinnikinic into the grave In
this ceremony he was followed Ivy all
the other Indiass present, one ofwhom
. sat at the open grave for several min.
utcs and in low monotone performed
his last rites. A heavy polo was chen
erected at the west end of the grave,
about four feet ont Of the ground, ana
on it were painted by George Morgan,
the secretary of the tribe, few EN-
blems to characterize events in the life
Of Ma Ta-E-Qua. Chicago Record.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
How Fiox Fought the Ants.

Aunt Martha's pantry was full OF
ants. They crawled in the cakebox,
they skipped in the sugar-barrel, and
person was never sure when slice
of Aunt Martha's delicious bread was
cut that half-dozen ants might not
fall out of the little yeast holes. No
one knew where they came from or
how they escaped after they had filled
themselves, with the good things.
Half a dozen times Aunt Martha had
taken everything out of the pantry,
washed the shelves, put on clean
papers aud looked carefully for some
hole through which the ants might
steal, but she would no more than get
the dishes back again than the pantry
would swarm with ants.
"It's enough TO try the patience of
q saint" she said TO Uncle Matthew.
IL declare 1 don't know what I'm
goin' to do"
At that Flox piped in with her merry
voice:
what will you give me to clean
them all out, auntie?" she asked.
why, my dear, If you'll conquer
those ants I'll have Q party for you
and invite the Hill girls and the little
Coopers and any of the others
that you care most to see."
Flox had come down from the city
the day before to spend three weeks
on the farm with her aunt. She had
been preparing all summer for good
time, and now that it was here she
was enjoying il as hard rs she could.
''Its mammals way" she said 10
Aunt Martha, but she wouldn't tell
any more about it.
The next day she climbed up in the
barn where the boys were drying their
walnuts and brought down an apron
full. Part of these she cracked open
and placed, meat and all, in low tin
pan which she placed on the pantry
shelf. Then she placed little paths
of wood up to the edge, so that the
ants could climb in. The next morn
ing you would have been astonished
TO see that pan. 1t fairly swarmed
with ants--hundreds and hundreds OF
them, and they we're running up and
down the pathways, so that they
nearly crowded one another of. Flox
emptied them all out together, and
after cracking fresh supply Of nuts
set the pan again the next night.
This time she watched carefully and
her sharp eyes found n very little
crack pear the floor. where the ants
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
The Pygmies OF Egypt.

Four years ago DR.. Stuhlmann, one
of tho most scientific Of African ex-
plorers, brought to Germany two
dwarf young women, about seventeen
and twenty years old. They had been
captured by Arab slave-raiders in the
great forests northwest of Victoria
Nyanza. A man about twenty-five
years old and four feet six inches in
height, who was captured with them,
was in DR.. Stuhlmann's care for sew
eral months. but died on the coast
Just before he was to go to Europe.
He was so very shy that he was never
seen to look white man in the face,
and though he would talk q little
Ki-Suaheli, the language of the Zanzi-
bar natives, he was never heard to
speak word OF his own language.
The girls were taken back to Africa in
q few months, as il was feared they
would not survive German winter.
In all the time they were with DIR.
Stuhlmann, he was able to get from
them only sixteen words Of their Ian
guage. Perhaps this is not very sur
prising. 1t was enough to make per-
sons of low type of culture shy and
suspicious TO be shut up for hours at
O time with inquisitive savants, who
were continually looking at and ques-
tioning and measuring them, turning
them this way and that, and photo
graphing them; and though the little
women were we'll cared for and much
was done to amuse them, they could
not get over the idea that the whites
had some sinister purpose. They
'-fesre..-thay would be poisoned, and
never touched any dish before their
italian servant had first tasted it.
They we're carried around from one
scientific society to another, all over
Germany and Belgium, and it is safe
to say that in their private opinion
nnthropology was great bore and
they were very glad to get back to
Africa. -Harper's Round Table.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
LAST OF THE WAR CHIEFS.
Ma-Ta.E-Qua of the Sac and Fox Indians
Passes Away I'm lows.

Ma-Ta-E-Qua of the Sac and FoH Indians
Passes Away I'm Iowa.
Ma-Ta- Qua, the last war chief Of
the Sac and Fox Indians Of Iowa, is
dead. He expired at camp at Tama
at the age OF 81 years. The chief had
been in failing health for several years
and was the victim Of consumption,
one of the diseases that is responsible
for a very high death rate among these
Indians. Ma-Ta-E-Qua was born at
Dubuque, Iowa, in 1910, aud had the
place and date tattooed on his right
arm. In physique, habits, customs
and mental endowments he was typi-
cal Indian OF the warrior days. He
was the last one Of the five Indians
sent out on the tribes return from
Kansas to find a suitable abiding place
in Iowa, and on July 10, 1857, he, in
company with his four associates, pur-
chased eighty acres of land from one
OF the early settlers in Tama township
for $1,000. After the selection OF 10.
cation in Tams county the members Of
the tribe came to that place, and to
their original tract Of eighty acres
there have been added from time to
time adjoining farms, until today they
are in possession of nearly 5000 acres.
Ma-Ta-E-Qua's burial was attended
with considerable interest and many
OF the business men of Montour, Ia
ma and Toledo were present Judge
Burnham adjourned the district court
and the agent was accompanied to the
funeral by Judge Burnham, Inspector
A. j. Duncan of Washington, DC,
and =. VI. Endicott The body was
dressed in the regalia Of war chief
He was buried in rough coffin. in a
sitting posture, the feather in his hair
coming Just to the edge OF the ground,
his face to the west, his face and breast
laid bare. Otherwise he was clad IN
moccasins, leggings and blanket and
adorned with beads and paint, much
o. he appeared on many important oc'
cssicns. Ia the coffin were placed a
bottle Of water, a small vessel contain
ing food, on Indian handbag contain.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
LOOK AROUND.
Don't 60 chasing rainbows

Don't go chasing rainbows
Cos YOU think there out 81 reach
Don't sweep up the pillows
That come rolling 10 the beach.
The rolors arrhing in the cloud
Make flowers when on the ground,
All the grass IA green rs rollers
Look around Look around
Don't you weep Tor angels
COS ihcy'r" far up In the sky,
There's puuli'.;, pretty maidons
That aiu't fDustiLg half ~ high.
Don you think because you're cross
That all the earth has fruwnod;
There's lots " lightSumc laughter
Look around Look around
Piushurg News.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
HUMOROUS.

She-So he married her for her
money? Hc-les. She (thoughtful-
ly)--llow awiully rich she must DO!
She latter tho quarrcD And must
we part forever, Harry? He-Well.
ut least until tomorrow night, Maude.
1t is ono Of the strange things of
this world that every now and then u
gsl will give up $40 salary to get u
so husband.
"Dayic. what's q fricnd?" "Why.
a friends some one you tell things
about yourself to SOS they can tell
about you to some one else.
Papa. | wish you'd whip me-"
"Whip you, my son! Why should l
whip you?" because when you whip
inc mamma gives me some JAM.
Biaaley-You must dislike New.
combe very much? Grizzly hato
him ~ iiercely as u barber hates
baldheaded man with full beard,
Father-Whcn | was u boy, children
had some respect for their parents.
Son--Yes; but in those days the chill
Jren didn't know any more than their
parents did.
Waiter to diner who il absorbed in
the menu What do you wish to eat,
please? Abscnt-minded Professor
l haven't time to talk now. Ask me
after dinner.
Yeast--That man Doughton is very
skeptical. Unless he sees II thing he
won't believe 1t exists. Crimsonbeak
He never ran into II rocking chair in
the dark, then.
He--I saw something in the barber
shop that would have pleased you; it
was Il gentleman poodle. Shelf you
saw it in u barber shop it must have
been n shampoodlc.
Inauiring Tourist-lIow does that
man lounging over there happen to he
called Stationary Jim?" Alkali Ike
-Bercuz he is too blame lazy to git
out of his own way.
81 saw man eating shark" said
the boarder who had been az the sea-
shore. II saw more than that" said
Asbury Peppers, without leaving
home. I saw man eating chicken
Sometimes girls graciousness Is
caused by the fact that she has laid in
new supply or orris root, and some
times her GOODNESS may be traced to
onions for dinner. Kissing is no sin,
but it has its politics just the same.
"Who il that man who laughs so
ecstatically every time wave causes
the ship to lean to one sideT asked
the passenger on an excursion steam
or. "He thinks he's doing il, replied
the captain. eve bring HIM along to
keep him from causing any real dam.
age. He's the man who rocks the
boat.
perhaps you would like to do tho
shopping for the family yourself?"
she exclaimed. perhaps you would
like to undertake the responsibility OF
providing the funds" he retorted.
Then both shuddered and realized
that there was no use in trying to set
tie the question. 1t was the old, old
dispute between capital and labor.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
Ey{ss.bildreNSCs solUmD1

came through. She stopped it mp and
then caught in her pan of walnuts
every one of the remaining ants.
"There, Aunt Martha, she said,
1--WE done my work"
Aunt Martha examined the pantry
up and down and could not lind o
single ant.
"well, she said, "I'lldo my work, I"
and the very next week Flox had her
party.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
Rev. Lorenzo Dov's Eccentric wooing.

The Youths Companion recalls
chr racteristic anecdote Of the Rev.
Lorenzo Dow, the itinerant Methodist
preacher When he was widower he
said to the congregation one day. at
the close Of his sermon: 81 mn IA can
didate for matrimony, and if there is
Any woman in this audience who is
willing to marry me, would thank
her to rise" A woman rose very near
the pulpit, aud another in distant
part Of the house. Mr.. Dow paused
moment, then said: "There are two;
/ think this one near me rose first; at
any rate will have her for my wife. "
The woman was in good standing and
possessed of considerable property.
Very soon after this eccentric wooing
she became Mrs. Dow.