The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-04-02

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THE HAPPY HUNTING GRoUSDs
in their blissfui Ponemah.
After the bodies we're placed in the rud,
t0mbs, the earthen mound Was built over il
The stone Of which the tombs were mad,
was evidently carried from the creek /:
hundred and City yards distant
- that j. the nearest place
from which they could have been oh
tanned. Perhaps this lsborious task vas
performed by the women, - they. among all
SAVAGE TRIBES,
have been made the mental servants al
their Lords and Masters" and amonl
none more completely than with til,
American Indians. We we're provided viii
picks and spades with which 10 re<urrec'
the remains Of the hunters aud warrior
Who danced srou.'d their camp fires on
Blsckwater, perhaps three centuries ago
We were aware that the statutes Of Mis-.
souri, make II. . misdemeanor TO remove
THE REMAINS
of any human being from the place Of in
terment, through wantonneas or mischief,
but, Of course, ve we're not actuated BY any
such motive, and we're only laboring to add
to the causelof science and history. Besides
from tie
APPEARANCE or THE SKI LIS
that We found, il would be very difficult to
prove beyond reasonable doubt that these
we're the remains Of class Of mammals
sufficiently developed according % the Oar
vinian theory to entitle them to be ranked
a. members Of the human family. In
fact We saw . bone taken cut that had
the perfect appearance of . short piece oil
the caudal appendase Of an ape. Ny mind
lent to that theory OF the case in about the
ration Of eight to seven. There were dried
up skulls and bones; arrow heads and pipes;
point balls and pieces Of unique pottery and
variety Of beautiful stones that must have
been brought from far country.
"From where the Rappahannock sweetly
eIeeps,
Ga green Virxinia's breast"
THE SKULLS
were mostly in the northwest corner Of the
vault. There were fifteen taken from this
large mound, but they had been there 10
long and decayed to euch an extent, that
none OF them could be preserved in their
natural condition. The place where the
brains ought to be.if these savases ever had
any brains, Was filed With dark, Shiny
earth, and an these holes that the eyes
were wont to inhabit, we're crept - il were,
II sCoRS OF EYES,"
the same Shiny substance. Only the larger
bones Of the skeletons could be found. The
Others had all decayed. The teeth. hovev.
er. were in . perfect state Of preservation,
and would doubtless be . valuable acqu,si.
lion to the resources Of some practical
Dental Surgeon" We INDUCED fondihopes
81 finding . goodly supply Of the flowing
Ireeses Of some gallant Yenadissie's charm
ng Neenemooaha in this
Getty OF THE DEAD"
{ would be 20 valuable in these hslcyon
lays Of fashionable head dresses and orua-
mental Wigs. But nothing Of the poor In
lians remained, except their bones, end to
emove these from the resting place where
hey had been laid in the long ago. seemed
. nitv- We thouvht of
THE CAMP FIRES
hat bla1ed in the distance-ot the brave |
'earted warrion who witnessed the |
ast sad ceremonial rites when |
hese graves we're filled while friend and |
elatives sobbed their sorrowful Wahouo-
rim
But our
ROMANTIC REFLECTIONS
'ere changed to practical thoughts when
ur chief cook and botile-vaaher told - be
bought il vas our time to dig awhile"
The mounds must have been made
hen the surrounding country vas
II prairie, a their existence sniedaies
he recollection Of The oldest settler Who
IN remember when the surrounding forest
- only small shrubbery.
THE SMOKE PIPB
nat we're found, will, perhaps. save some
osng gentleman cigar bill now and then;
the way, this 10 gentle reminder Of the
'urce from which this time honoFed custom
- originated. Whoever smokes one Of
nee pipes will have the consolation Of
moving tha, he is smoking one Of the /,
PIPES OF THE DADIEs.
The discovery of these mounds aroused a
'od deal Of latent curiosity. that will not be
titled until the last one IL demolished
I'd no trace Of their existence left.
john n. CRCTcnyIELD.
(2o IN tina Y.AR0V H0maA a.,