The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-10-07

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Thess were enly tour Of 7 them
sitting silent aud apparently immov-
able behind their baskets ri sassafr.s
and aromatic herbs. Beside . littls
pspoose vas playing With the tail Of
. eaunt black and white cur dog
that. nov and then. lszily Swapping st
passing hies. and then voold sink
into . half dnss 10 dream OF imposuible
booes and neves-eo-heRea deer sonks.
Tie crowds d people coming ssd
guisg = and out Of ths Fssseh
Aasket did n0s 10 The Ieoss iotsetsss
With she oosseopAsioos Of thses fosE
Choessv vuoes - thsy waited tns
buyers Il their goabo Gle and caas
hasksla just - their sscsseoes hook
ed down upon The Mississippi -
DeSoeO's lausches turned . bend and
came in s,shs % did nos thess
chilrso VI the forest and prairie look
upon The moving throng. No look.
10 Sign, mot . muscle gave the
slightest indication OF What waa
passing in the mind The advance of
civilization, the building Of cities.
the roar Of the locomotive, hes never
brought forth any expsessioo Of sur
prise, and they seem settled down to
IN apathy and to take everything q
q matter Of course. The plantaiu
leaves, neatly tied up in busdles.
dispensed . sweet ars0a around, -
calling some Of our Louisiana woods
and yossgsr days, when even then
the tribe wss much more numesous.
Disease and Tie march Of destisy has
thissed their ranks within the list
twenty yean. and today the repre-.
senlaaivse of the ChatahA or, q
they ere vulgarly called, the Choct.~s,
in OaS STATE eaa not numbrr 400. and
they ase scattered from Lake Charles,
in Cslcasieu Pari.h, to Sc. Trammany.
The Chatahs were formerly . most
warlike tribe. numbering many thou.
sand wsrrioss. and lived east Of the
Mississippi River, between the Cult Of
Mexico on the south, Tennessee on
the north, and rs far east a. Georgia.
They we're. IN the early DAYS Of
Louisiana, the friends Of the French,
and deadly enemies Of the 9paniarls
and Eogleh. In fact. in many en-
gsgements they fought agaiost both
and their allies. . tribe living where
Alabama now is. called the Alibamos.
They we're remarkable for their
psOwsas. and, after ysaEs of war,
succeeded in Overpowerine the Ckick.
aAws Of North Mississippi. - veil -
the Alibam0s and s0ms smaller tribes.
The litsls group Of which No have
spoken avoke some old aasociatieas,
and With them came back the memory
Of visit to Father R,quetts, Chats-
Ina. . learned priest, Of this diverse.
Who has lived amooept the remsants
u The tribe at their settle0ent %
Beysa Lacombe for twenty years.
Leaving the MARKET ve strolled down
70 Ursulines street and bock 70
ChaStres. 1t the corner Of which
stands the Archbishops palacs. under
whoss roof the venerable poet father
resides when In the city. Everybody
knows the baking. ~ rather the oat-
side Of il, but isw are acquainted
With Tie qsaiss interior. Pssise
through . guesvay. o. either side 81
which -. ssall lodgs, ono ssssss .
lAsys garden. fresh and green in THE
esassf 81 Old New Orleans II brick
and mortar. A piCsast sAoves had
addsd . bsiehtsf sresn 70 The tall
altheas. anj given . nsv seit to Tie
deeper shade ct Tie ponsgrsnates.
The patches Of srass seemed 70 b
endowed With . nav lifs, and each
hade vas nodding and blinking 1t it,
fellows - IL 1uxurialisg II The
knowlsdgs of the facs that they he'd
hllea upoo pleasant plsen, where IN
quiet and 10 psaes hey could lasGh,
grow ut ard fus the1r lie Of one
ssssos. Bslbss - roe lie rssidenes
Of The, Archhihon, . building tve
stories md . half high, With . fiuae
a aboee 100 fsek ssscssd many
ysGs ageof bsjeh. hela togsshsr b
that toegh osssar which oily Tie Cd
Cssols esieklsysss hssw hsw -
aaha 'Fsoo IL sasdsa 10 b 4sits
imposing, Tie iAsads hsioe s1asp.sly
simple, yss heavy. Up eAsae nasb5s
aseps. ooe sean6b bsaeash Q posties u
fioae II . vids doorway, asy eassise
. spacious hall LODI oue into ~
roony palae& Rsaning from one ed
10 the osher through the middle.
anosher- hallway cruises the other ct
right angles. and opening upon it are
the doom of TIE many ekanbssa JasG
b the right Of the entrance = the
business dice Of the Vicar General,
vhere he aaAis Of the dioesse are
We passed up the beoad stairway,
the stsps Of which were worn thin BY
The FEET that foe years had climbsd
then, md tie roagh heads of hand
meAe naib buFsihed b wear stsck
up hsse and there abese The WOOD.
o. reaching tie sseoad Aooe vs|
turned dovn Q eoesi6os end seood
hslbse he rsem q Psse Roqoetts.
Not . sDend troo - oolsias psos-
mated thsse pstist4 psseissas. A
quisssds shee - i4pssasivs rsslsd
lhoat Tie pleos. 81 ths osss appse-
slated after bot q 0oOeuts Walk fio0
lhs basGling street.. A tap - the
aooe and 20 vess admitted b. ths|
lashsr himself, looking not : day |
,l6es than vhsa 10 1t cav hin,
Doms years aeo. His was tie aasl
slaaieal faes. fun Of bsnsvolsscs and