The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-07-26

Along the Santa Fe and Writes
q Letter About it to the
"BaZOO.
What He thinks of the ToWns and
Cities Along the Line of
Travel.

C1CleS Along the Line OF
Travel.
Correspondence sunday Morning Bazoo
COLORADO SPRINGS, July IL.
We had long cherished desire To "gO
west yOnng man." not To grow up with the
country, but to see the bowling coyotes
chase the bObtailed antelopes over the
boundleSs plains that look like the deep
blue, and the little prairie dogs that stand
up on their north end and howl ut fel-
low As he goes by without gun; and the
Jack rabbits. and the buffaloes that wear
bangs like the Boonville girls, and the sons
Of guns with their corduroy shirts and
buckskin breeches on.
This desire got away with us last week.
SO We instructed the night clerk To call Us
early, mother dear, and on last WedneS-
day morning ut five o'clock a procession
OF one could have been seen meandering
down the street, with grip sack and a
grub box i'm one hand and letter Of in
PRODUCTION to Sitting Bull in the other.
The procession was us, headed for the
morning express We went to the depot
and sat down on pile Of old dry hides, a
would have time 20 tell everybody where
We were going. In q short time the train
came whistling in and the baggage master
tumbled the big trunks out upon the plat
form. When she stopped We got On the
train and was anxious to go. but, when YOU
think every passenger is ready and the
conductor shouts All aboard" fifteen or
twenty more will come struggling along
and every one will say,
''GOING Up THE ROAD, EH?"
and ii Won say, YES, they will ask YOU
where Won are going, and ii yon tell them
YOU are e ing out west to see Your neigh
bor-in-law they will ask Won what YOU
have got in that box and if YOU tell them
i, is liver pads to trade Ia the Indians for
their health they will call YOU mission
ary. and your gills will turn red. and Won
will say: Il wish this derned train would
start"
Sitting i'm the smoking car and squirt
ing tobacco juice into the wood box, wait
ing ior the bell To ring, and seeing the
people out on the platform and in the
cars, We wonder where all the folks are
going and who walked them up 80 early.
There are Jews and Gentilcs. and Penn
and women, and preachers
that go out and preach i'm the country
school houses and eat fried chickens and
pass the hat around and beg Young sprigs
ct cetera, all trying to get into the
same car. The last person that comes
along the platform and gets aboard. Is 4
big lat old woman, with a dog and big
basket filled with something that looks
like carpet rags on one arm and about SIX
band boxes under the other. She fuses
and bnStle> around. and cCcks up her spec
tacies. and looks down the aisle, and asks
and after awhile sit down right
opposite us anG taxes the dog on her lap
AMI gets W. io hold her band boxes.
FINALLY the conductor swings his arms
MP AMI down. ard the engineer pulls 4 dim
gus. and the train puil> ont. and the ladies
on the platform wave their handks rchisis.
and We lock OFT at the back door ami smile
y benediciion, anal away We 20 tor Kansas
Citv, where We will assemble and gather
up into 4 squad of one. and point
our Hoses
TOWARD THE CRIMSON SUNSET.
The train rolls on through the rocky
cut, down grade. past the tank, and out
over the prairies. The stations pop up
on, Of the wheat fields and the farmers
stop work Just long enough to stand 1T the
depot and SEE the train 60 by. The plat
form of Il country depot is an interesting
study. There are always iour boys: one
with sore ewes and red handkerchief
around his neck: enc with the seat of his
pantalOons in such q state Of anarchy that
he backs up against.the depot and watches
the lady passengers tn see If they are look
ing ut him; one with his breeches rolled
up and warts on his feet. and one holding
a sorrel dog. There is the man with the
mail bag, who looks Us though he thought
nobody could appreciate the responsibility
that rests on him. There is the station
agent with manure on his boots, and dis
is the old man who can remember when
the first railroad was built in Missouri,
and the express man wheeling the empty
egg boxes along the platform, and fellow
that can't read rushing around with a
nickle in his hand looking for the news
boy to buy paper and hoping he won't
find him; and. four Ioafers that come
through the cars to see the passengers and
70 out Ut the back end, and walk forward
on the platform, and chew plug tobacco,
and make remarks about the ladies, and
say:
"rHAr OLD GAL Is LOUD UN,'
rs the train moves of and some tired lady
looks ont At the window.
You can always see these people at a
country depot.
When the train stopped to take on
water, dandifed looking fellow came
into the car with a gun in one hand
and a piece Of bed cord attached
to yet dog in the other. He sat down
near the old woman and her dog, and the
result Of this was q dog fight scattered
along the road at thirty five miles an hour.
They demoralized her band boxes and
broke two dozen guinea eggs that she was
taking to her sons wife at Greenwood, to
,et the old speckled hen on. About this
lime we wanted to see fellow back in the
r.