Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1898-09-22
VARIED WEATHER.
THE EDITORS TOURING COLORADO
ARE KEPT CONSTANTLY
CHANGING CLOTHING.
Pleasant Trip Over the Georgetown
Loop-Klondykers With the Cuban
Fever-Women in Politics
Editor Acts as Nurse.

Editor Acts as Nurse.
Editorial Correspondence OF the Ledger.
On SPECIAL EDITORIAL TRAIN IN
COLORADO, Sept. 14.--'Necessity 10
the mother of invention" Since the
corn roast at LoveIand we have learn
ed to clothe ourselves aswe 60 up and
down the mountains. When on the
mountains we put on two or three
suits Of underwear, night shirts and
maybe two or three spilled" shirts and
top OF with negligee shirt. As we
go up or down and the weather varies
we take off or put on ''shuck" or so.
The drawing rooms are in use all the
time by those who change their clothes
as fast as the weather changes.
One of the most pleasant trips in
Colorado is that over the Georgetown
Loop. The Loop was built in 1ssl-s2
under the direction OF Robert Blick-
ensderfer.
The high bridge 10 on q curve, the
radius OF which 10 319k feet. The
track under the bridge is s,es7 feet
above the sea level. Elevation Of
track on bridge ut point of crossing,
8, s,722 feet. The track ON bridge is 76 feet
higher than track below and il 80 feet
higher than the water level in Clear
Greek under the bridge. The gradient,
or rise of track, is 1856 feet to the mile.
Silver Plume is s,176 feet above sea
level; Georgetown, S,746 feet. Actual
distance between the towns by rail,
4 lilo miles; by wagon road, 1 mile.
Horseshoe Curve, on the big fill, has
a radius of 191 feet. The I'LL is rs feet
high. Steepest gradient on the Loop
trip between Denver and Silver Plume
is 1876 feet to the mile.
While in Colorado we have met sew
! eral KIondykers who are now going
to Cuba to try their luck. They claim
that in Cuba you can get rich, and
compare chances with Alaska about
as follows:
Cost of getting to Cuba, $40.
Cost of getting to Circle City, $500.
| Amount of available land in Cuba,
| nine-tenths of the island.
Amount of available land in Klon-
dyke, very little.
Chances of success In Cuba, 30 to 1,
Chances OF success in Alaska, to
500.
Cost of living in Cuba, % per week
Cost of living In Klondyke, "a and
upwards per day.
For every s5 invested in Cuba, s1(
quick profit.
For every s5 invested in Alaska, re-
/ suit uncertain.
}, Vegetables ripen very quickly il
Cuba and several crops can be RAISED
year.
Considering that 1t takes only q few
hours to get from Cuba to the Unite.
States, q Yankee farmer can 60 ther
, and make . very comfortable livini
on very little land.
We trust that the Audrain Klon'
! dykers will not get the Cuba fever
You can't get rich in Cuba any NOR
, than you can in Alaska without work
, You will do just a. well in Audrail
, county ss you can anywhere else
you will only settle down and get 3
work. There is no use to try to &c
!. rich quick. Thousands have tried
and failed where one succeeded. Max
up your mind to be satisfied and d,
the best you can, then you will sue
ceed fairly well and be happy. You d.
not have to be rich to be happy, bu
you do have to work to be satisfie
, with your lot. No man in this worl
. Is truly happy until he works. Di
), you ever think Of that?
I wish I could tell you something
about the politics of this country, bu
the politics, like the scenery, is pas
:, describing and, in addition to that
the women are in politics here, an
.. some Of them are in it up to theil
neck. Some Of the political war
meetings in Denver would be amusin
] II they were not disgusting. Tn
, scenery of Colorado is to be admired
I the politics, at least In that city, is tn
! opposite.
sl Oh, woman! woman! when you &c
A to voting and attending politics
y meetings, and lying, demagoguinf
a etc., the home is gone. When tn
a home 10 gone then we have no gov
ernment and the end has come. Moth
- or, home, country-these we can pre-
serve while women remain pure an
!, : free from politics. Everything
!. Colorado seems to be pure except th
politics, and we trust this fact doe
not exist because women vote hert
Some people thought women woul
purify politics. The readers Of th
LEDGER know that the opposite woul
happen and that politics would tarnii
the good name Of woman.
But here II . good woman now WI
: wants me to hold her baby while 81
goes to the baggage car for . wrap N
IL must close. II all women were