The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-11-29
WANDERING WILLIAM.
4 Wonderful Traveller Inter
viewed by an Inquisitive
Reporter.
A Queer Record Of Adventures by
Flood History of National
Bank Note From Light 20
Dark

c's.ut,r Il y store IA Msin -tr.st, and
looked at the reporter Ut IN, kail-,,- ti;v
Time. " "ul have --'.n lii and beer =
blood III any time. although. IN -a..ed
ami dirty nov"
:" i"u hav.- trar,...-i.' ,ai.i b. ,1~r.
t..r.
"Tra"ci,,i? -huGii -,y hal. -ishf9l
the hill Well de- r.-n,-,nt.r this tim.
nearly ir"!'r years ago. ~hsr ! apV,urrd
bytore IN" ;-"pIe. bright. shining and ~
Invrly - au innocent girl oi H. That
May morning viii never fnr.st Tn. AIR
Wis balIny With the breath uf spring. nj
I"rm> wrr- CHANGING. arol- shining and
n"n marching away - die under ib,- dark
southern pin,--, AMI | laid :" lr,y-.li. will
:Aake some soldier happy. Ala. TIN. man
wh" took mT away from the tr-a-urv. paid
rI. ever to
Az ARMY tnSTgACToE
and he Ill a short time. pat m.. pAck into
Washington society a. part pa, mcnt /" .
high government, official Tor a>-i,;in. him
III securing 4 contract Thus nv youthful
hopes were blasted, and Nv unfortunate.
ate NV career commenced in ;niamy. Nv
la>, master wac I high liver, ani one i.v
| found myself In saloon kr,Ier's ill I'm
1xrhaugs for bottle OF wine. [ laid there,
in silence, beui"anine NV III luck and
wandering il fortune could ham m,..wnrse.
when one night WIS lcdged in q house OF
III fame which the bark,eper fr,1ucnird.
In i bureau drawer remained !nr "a week
auping The huu.e would huru Down and
forever remove nie from this earth, wh-r
one dav Wa taken Dut and given To- At
per dr---makcr, who had iu-t completed
4 garment icr
me CuCRrEZtS.
The poor woman -Hatchc,l M =, eagerly
:hat rvr.ir' i and thought: well. here,
At last. am appreciated. 4, last , will
D.. able 20 do ,oiue g,-d and redeem NV
sell; bat, ALA she had ,carttlv rcturI.e,i
home s-e her husband took m: from her
and spent me in drink. Again laid i'm a
saloon till, within sound oi the continual
.urgl- cf the hateful bottles until INV ve:y
pores rocked with whisky.
Alter u day ri this gloomy experience
vas paid over ;o Il WHOLESALE liquor dealer
and by him taken home. This va. th,.
only respectable h"m, circle had ever en-
tered, and i'll; very much e!s;ed. Abou,
= o'clock at night
n SlLs
said: 81. you dear, kind papa, know
you'll give me 4 seal skin and then
was SLOWLY pulled out by the old man and
handed over to the me-; beautiful orcatur.
ever saw. She had large, violet eyes.
.ei lips and such sweet expression that
icil in love with her 81 much a- a nation
al bank note can TALL in love with a girl OF
any kind, but alas, -he loved seal skin
,a,guer more shan she did me. and leior,.
D u'clock next morning |, with whole roll
o. other bills WI, exchanged for the fur
aud socn living in the cash drawer Of a
large dry goods store The merchant paid
me over to 4 contractor, who Was bnii,iiny
his house, and the Latter paid me To Il
!aborrr, and the next thing | knew VA.
INA TOBACCO STORE
smelling very badly. The tobacconist gave
me Ia u boarding house keeper, and she
IN turn handed mt tn the colo-cd cook
who put me away IN an old stocking with
plenty vi company, where lay for six
months. when | was taken out and used
To buy the Cooks wedding outfit | ven,
buck To the same old store. and, strange to
saw, was given in charge TO the beautiful
girl with whom first fell in love Again
a
rwelry store That night while 1 was
asleep my ears were deafen.d by tremend-
oIis report, and then was borne swiftly
away Burglars had blown open the safe
and taken me-
THE BURGLARS
buried me and one was af,erward caught
and convicted, but he told his pal where
he Gould ind n,s and the other bills, and
me dark night, after I had been i'm ia.
ground two months, all oil us were qnie,lv
raised oie night aud started out IN q
Journey. The convict's pal turned trai,..r
to- him and fieSi with tn. money. We went
to- San Francisco, and i'm one month !
travelled from k.arney street to Mob Hill,
and s.on aiterwari started for New York
IN tn. pocket OF broker / went to
Europe, Was exchanged AMI brought back,
and have since made three more trip,
across th- water. hIve been lost dozen
times, stolen moe than that. paid for
every thing in the world, including
PREACHERS SALARIES AND BRIBEs;
was used in 1876 in the returning board
frauds Indians have spent me ior whis-
Ky. Negroes ami Chinese have had me-.
have been in cong ress, every gambling
house of note in the country and was once
shot where YOU sse this patch in the pic
turr Of Columbus discovering America
That shot killed NV owner, but il only
disabled me ior little while and covered
hoe with blood.
"Iou are . great Traveller" sgain muir
INJURED the reporter.
"Ye-. I'll tell you story.
IL SAVED \ MANS LIYE ONCE"
Indeed" replied the interrogation. "iio~
WAS it7''
II had been Loot BY drunken man about
du-k one evening, and wss lying on the
sidewalk afraid some one would step on
me, when Saw hsggsrd man hurrying
along. Suddenly he saw me and over his
face there flashed such look of Joy that
] will never forget it until Cease to circu-
late. In fifteen minutes I was in the cash
drawer Of n restaurant, and the haggard
man had STOMACH full Of good food in
him. Tie had no, eaten anything for three
DAVIS, and was on his way To the river to-