Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-22
themselves as well as to those around

tiOuS OI tuc WOriO tnat nave
in the past to enslave the conscience
and political life of mankind Col
Sellers may not have succeededin sup
plying all Asia with eye water, but h,
has furnished the prospectus of
party which certainly ought to be sat
isfactory to everyone in quest of a new
party.
And so it goes. Will the time evel
come when we can live without work.
Until that time there will be new
parties and new isms without end. III
the meantime those Of us who ploi
along earning our daily bread by the
sweat Of our brow have the greatest
prosperity and enjoy the most con-
tentment. Will it ever be otherwisei
We think not. We can't afford to wall
and see.
1 see that the Hon. Champ CLARK
has written to the LEDGER that the
inspectors have refused Mexico free
delivery because they claim Mexico
sidewalks r bad and that our Post
Office building is too small. There
is nothing in either one of these ex-
cuses and I trust MIR. CLARK will get
after the proper parties with a sharp
stick. Mexico is entitled to free de-
livery and must have it. If our side
walks are bad our city dads must have
them made better. 1t won't cost the
city anything and will prevent damage
suits. Postmaster Luke Morris is one
Of the most efficient and accommodate
ing of public servants and will do all
he can to give us free delivery.
Inote that L. P. Crigler is visiting
in Colorado and that he writes the
LEDGER most interesting letters. /
trust he will return home with his
health much improved.
A great deal of money is spent by
wealthy people during the summer,
but they can afford it and the trade
gets the money. Some of the man
sions by the sea are very costly. The
readers of the LEDGER will be inter-
ested in the following statement re-
garding six very costly affairs:
The biggest price for a painting was
that paid for Meissonier's "1s41." M.
blanchard gave $4,000 for it. The
most costly building of modern times
is that of the New York State capitol
at Albany. Nineteen million six hun
dred thousand dollars have been spent
on 1t. In 1891 J. Malcolm Forbes paid
$780, 600 to Senator Stanford for the
horse Arion, making it the most val
liable equine the world has ever
known. The most valuable book in
the world is a Hebrew Bible now in
the Vatican. In 1912 Pope Julius re-
fused to sell it for its weight in gold,
which would amount to about $103, 900.
The Imperial diamond is considered
the finest stone of its kind in the
world. The Nizam of Hyderabad Of
fered 50, 15o, 900, the largest price ever
known, for this diamond. The cost
lest meal ever served was a supper
given by Eelius Verus to a dozen
guests. 1t is said to have cost $242,-
500.
Among the new things in New York
is a very sociabIe hearse. 1t was ex-
hib1ted yesterday. But whether it has
come to stay, whether it will be well
or receive the coolest kind
Of a cold shoulder is one of these
which can only be found out by
Time was when ribald and irrever-
emit persons on the stage cracked
Jokes about the living riding with the
corpse, and the thoughtless and I'M
godly snickered at the fancy. Little
did the negro minstrel or the variety
performer realize that this conceit
would one day take serious form. But
1t has, and the company which takes
it's name from Stephen Merritt, the
parson- undertaken, offers mourners
an opportunity to ride beside their
dead.
The hearse coach Is large and COM
modious. 1t will require the services
Of four or six strong horses to make it
bowl along in sufficient style to keep
pace with it's ornate appearance. In
the center of the death room is a raised
platform Or catafalque for holding the
and round about it are soft
seats for the use of the mourners, who
will thus be able to bear their dead
company all the way to the cemetery.
The Stephen Merritt people think
hat they have secured a very fetch
ng thing, and expect to book dates
a rush Al soon as the public
earns what a sociable thing in the
way Of funeral devices has been in
Everything new appears to come to
New York except the new woman,
Ind even New York is not large
enough for her. She is everywhere
md appears to get newer every year,
although she don't flock to the sea-
ide much. The new woman and the
ummer girl do not get along well to-
The men do not like the new
Woman. Men r good judges of some
hings, so the summer girl says, and
o say not the new woman. Let the
lew woman and the summer girl fight
; out. What else were they intended
or? There are girls and girls and
and women, but the everyday
l-the-year.round sensible girl or
roman is the worlds comforter, up
o-date tfsassiety" to the contrary,
Notwithstanding.
r. M. WHITE.
Nervousness, sleeplessness, nervous
nervous debility and
disturbances are generally
ne to impoverished blood. The ner-
Gus system suffers for want of pure,
oh blood to nourish and sustain it.
vitalize and enrich the blood,
= taking DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
and all these nervous
vanish.
Gold Discovered at Americas.
NEW FLORENCE, Mo-, July 1.-THE
tizens OF Americus Ire much elated
YER the discovery of gold in their
Recently some parties were
OF o mountain east of the 4,
,Wn and discovered ore of n BRIGHT ,