The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-07-06
APEsTILENCE.
Apparitions of o Coming Conta.
Rion Seen Last Night in
Sedalia Alley.

meandering Lficeward after evening rervi
ce-, dresmiiy wondering how many day
would elap-e before the BAzoO could thor
oughly reform the morals Of the wOrl'
2 aud grip them by the hair aud ralse then
; up 10 the elev .ted plane on which its M
: IFS are nov standing, he passed the sOuli
end of the alley running back OF White
' halt, and was startled from his reveries BY
noticing sever. aPparit.on- pacing up and
do~n tina. eIiey. True To r-portor,si in.
s,inct- he ran mp the alley 10 examine
them more closely. They we're OF divers
size- and ages. The tsllest Was . slim
concave-cheekpd, sallow compile xioned
sullen-faceti individual, who sat IN the
Jail ward fence, occasionally glancing be.
hind him aEd cont~ntediy surveying q
long aud broad train which appeared 70
follow him, which was headed by figures
Of men, women and children, lying on beds,
in the streets, in market places. in stores
and elsewhere, attended by hurrying ply
Z
Immediately behind these were laid on,
remains of those recently deceased, watched
by a solitary person or by none.
and Cd at Q distance stoO bereaved friends
weeping and agitated. Following these
we're men carrying spades and shovels and
digging graves or rather, great holes in the
ground, followed closely by burying par
ties which could scarcely be called funeral
professions, Ms in many instances several
bodies were being hauled out in one wag.
On, with no friends or moGrners following
the remains 10 the city of the dead, but
they we're hurriedly driven away and sew
ersl bodies tossed into the same
hole in the ground.
While looking At the CHASTITY panorama the
6eshless, bony form of old Death approach.
ed. Being saluted BY this leading person.
age, death produced book aud pencil from
inside its ribs, and asked the BAZOO re-
porter for his knife TO sharpen his pencil
with. The reporter, with his hair standing
on end. hurriedly produced his knife, told
Death the big blade was the sharpesf, and
handed it to the old King Of Darkness.
Death began whiitling bis pencil and, pro-
ducing stout string, had the reporter tie
up his cervicsl vertsbr~, as il wss getting
loose-jointed and shaky. Then he said TO
that Misunderstanding form, "well done,
good and faithful servant. Shall credit
this work to your old account, "Asistic
Cholera" III you please. replied the boss
apparitiou, saluting old Death as a subor-
dinste would superior. The figure then
moved away. The next noticeable figure
following in the procession ~ it marched
past Was a red-faced parsonage with
swollen eyes and pimpled features, sur
rounded by an air of fear as il it we're .
rontsgion, and followed by = long line of
sick rooms, physicians in consultation,
brave attentive NURSES hurrying to and fro,
Merry ministers, orn ,ments TO their profess |
-ions, who administered spiritual consOis- |
latiOn to Ps,i-h;-, while Death WAS in the
room, ravrnou~ly reaching for human life,
followed nv grave digs-rs and cemeteries
The figure WAS readily recosnn ,ble a.
Small Pox. Beh,nd Small Pox with it,
victims, marched red checked F-v~rs of
various species and kindred diseases,
all dragging along behind them the |
victims oi their r.vages. and old Death, as (
they marched past, gathering chunk of q
board and whiting, it down to point be- |
gan picking HE teeth, digging out there
from several lawyers, some beautiful la
Of the SelaIia city council, and tossed the |
tooth l.ic.:incs down in the alley and pro |
duced his book and credited the small Pox, |
fever and other diseases iOr services rem |
dered, on the open account he kept with |
them, and turning 10 the reporter sstJ, ell !
these workers are mine. Al! this desola- !
ton il in nv favor and an still hungry. |
I'll Just keep your knife; may need to
use it" Death continued, a. he tied the
Ilium. and moved swiftly away.
After the last disease in Panorama had |
passed the reporter, after the last grave was
hug and flied aud the tail end of the pro-
cessiun come along with it, bilious-looking
members. the survivors of the Sedalia city
council marced past, held a meeting and
proposed to send sanitary policeman Kelly
around to the alley with INSTRUCTIONS 10
take steps toward cleaning il out and scat
,ering disinfectants over il to prevent dis
ease-breeding impurities from a.ising
therefrom.
Kelly jlst came up with a shovel and
disinfectants as the BAZoO reporter,
mourning the loss OF his thirty 6ve-cent
knife, proceeded to the BAzoo wigwsm
to finish his n Elections ~ to the difficulty
the BAzoo experienced in reforming the
world.