The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-02-05
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We'll Told - q Book Wen Rsad.


We'll Told Il q Book Well Read.
He Who Never 0rins, . Worse
than Dead.
Gentle reader,
Or rampseeous hyena from Wolf creek.
Or some old skeezicks with vsrt on his
nose.
We take our pen in hand thee few lines
TO indiie, and draw our hoois out Of the
mud that We may get around to you and be
sociable.
Fellov-pilgrim., We have just got through
with January. We've done With IT. IL
wasn't much Of . month, anyhow. We
have nov struck the shortest month OF the
wear. This il the month TO Be short in.
Perhaps you are short. II you are. stand
on your dignity, and refuse al bilIs-unlesa
they're veil executed. Execution il what
counts in our judgment and the sheriHs.
10 you know hov February came to be
such q short month?
Well. veil tell you. That's What we're
here fcr-to diffuse information and in
AAm.iion. February was just - big .
month N any other month until they put
W..hington's birthday into it. Acd he
vas such . big man they had to take two
days out of February to make room for
him.
He Was born on the 22d. Well, there's
% days. Add the other 2, and you have 80.
Ser?
Bat We never saw Q man Who worked BY
the month. but what was just dead in love
with February.
Knowing that everybody takes deep in
terr-t in agriculture. We publish the rrpor,
Of that Burlington Professor with hawk
eye:
Crops are looking .plendidly. Hard
cider ]. c"ming ny finely; there is . great
deal of il 10 The scher.
A great many grain bags have been
sewed, generally with pack thread.
Fences are generally veil up. IL II sale
10 any ,iat the Younger buys are veil out
of the way al the frost. clIse IN the sitting
rOom FIRE, especially at chOre time.
There is quite lively movement in hogs,
around the corn-bi a, trying 70 get in.
The outstanding crop Of last years corn
stalks is about ruined Ly heavy froata.
Farmers are very busy everywhere. In
eome pI Ca II IL very difficult for fsrmers
TO get enough, men To help them sit on the
ien'e and watch the train e BY.
TIE conf-wood in the other mans lot il
jnst about ripe enough To gather. The dark
Of the moon Ii Considered the best time 10
harvest il.
There "a serious trouble pending in axri-
cultural districts. The f.rmers' girls have
struck, aud refuse to make up the wagon.
beds part Of the morning house work.
The men are very sulky about il, and say
II il enough to discarriage them.
Cut that ont. I: may save your life.
February ia the month when the drum
mer gresses his ears and pins them back,
hsmmem his cheek aud puts ro<in on ii,
aud then starts out in little round hat and
cork toej shoes.
The drummers came down like wolves on the fold.
Their toes were all frosted, their noses all cold.
Their weather peeled bugies soon shone through
They goia,ed the money and salted IL down,
Then took few orders and lit out Of here,
With their heads full Of business and skins full Of
beer.
Talking about thing. that's gone, do you
know what makes Big George handle the
trunks 30 tenderly lately At the depot !!
Well, sir. the other day, hanged II be didn't
hand one old horse hair jewel box into the
baggage kerr on . feather pillow! You
just bet he's careful. He had IN awful
warning the other day. Here Il IL:
Comr,des. leave me here l,stIe. while .s yet re.
Leave me here. and :hen you want me. sound
It's the place. and ali around it. - Of old the
Dreary shados: On the platform. with their hacks
Many nigh. from yonder mansion. ere took
Did see the freight trains rolling slowly onward to
the West,
Many . night s.: the signals rising through the
Where the F'schburx and the Eastern cross upon
acOmnOn grade.
In the spring the honest orAkeman u the sun may
take nap;
In the spring the gay conductor gets himself A,
In the spring t6e Pullman porters scatter fresh
And the hssease-.mashers fancy lightly turns to
thoughts OF trunks,
Then b.. cheek vas pale and thinner than should
Though h's fame TOR smashing bassage Was on
every brakeman's tongue.
And said: 20. haxeage-smasher! take this little
'Tis not strong. nor hound with iron but trust its
fate to thee"
On his raI,,d chez. and forehead came color and
As have seen the bright rails flashing. on before
a tram at night
had roussd the sense Of honor. which had .ium-
For moment better feelings rose above the evil
throng,
Then the old stern look returning darhly giittered
from hrs eyes.
Saying SI a. haze s smashed mas ug esaee bound ~'h
Saying. Never spare any; all alike their fate
He took nr that little trunk and turned it in hrs
Fora moment ,iss.iy poised it. dashed on the
He took r. IN .n r"1 coupling '~o'e that trunk
smotea secret spring. which fired some fourteen
p"t'nd- OF dynamite.
fire telis ring.
Bee the nrrmen and policemen to the post Of duty
spring.
All thar day and through the evening did those
brave men search around
For that hasgage-smsssser's body, scattered DER
the tOrn-up ground.
OF that tacsaye-smasher heAftiess, haGgAee-
sinashrr no more
Pieces found they on the Common an 1 the wharves
along the shore.
4ut my merry comnades call me, sounding on the
railroad gong
They who see in such . murder nothing to con-
denim wrong
So will no longer suSer my remosse 70 aerceay
CLOS.
aud 60.
They have got Chief Joseph up in
Le.venvorth. . prisoner. We never knew
but Que Jss<ph, and Nm. Po,'phar sued