The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-19

cnange anu JOY, ana ne avoiueo gIe1
deal of personal misery BY regulating
the animal instead of making him bet
ter than his Maker had. In his pres
ence nobody Was allowed to be drunk
to swear, or be familiar, but he did
not make Cromwell's mistake of max
ing morality national by system like
the Spanish inquisitioa.
X Happily, he l. # No chill
dren, none but
At the close Of the revolution hard
ly any mules existed in the C,nfeder'
acy. Washington discovered that ia
the southern climate the draught horse
did not flourish, and he sent abroad,
not for foreign sons-in-laws, but for
jacks and jennies. The King of Spain
sent him three from the royal stud,
Lafayette sent three from the Island
of Malta, he crossed the breeds and
made matrons of his old coach horses.
and from Mt. Vernon, proceeded the
monxstic animal. which multiplied by
the example and made the South to
bloom and boast.
Il have often waded my horse dur
ing the rebellion I'm the all but bottom
less roa,ls our armies advanced over,
and nv heart sank with nv siirrups
in dread that neither l nor my country
could ever rise again. and when ]
thought of the thousands of miles We
vet must march in slough and and
desert to assert the authority of the
flag of Washington, l felt that moth
ing could pull us through, till sudden
ly on the night wind would come a
sound that was like trumpet, pealed
from the clouds, and it hushed the
lamentatioa of the viii p-poor-will and
made the screeching owl modest in his
hooking. 1t was the faithful. the
tough, the unsentimental, the unmusi.
cal, the undaunted. the Washington
mule pulling the Union out Of the first
ditch. and onward to the last ditch,
and | seemed to hear his bray, the
mighty voice of that chief who saw
farther into the necessities of his coun-
try than constitutiOn.makers or moral
philosophers. and spared by providence
the curse of foolish posteritv, died the
father of his country-and of the
mule"
COMING TO JOHN ADAMS,
Mr.. Townsend gave some novel points
about bis married life:
Lawyers were few, and looked
down upon in that Puritan soc iety
preachers were magistrates. and looked
up to, and their daughters were mat.
rimonial prizes. 1t broke farmer
hopes to see his son cavil on
Cslvinism and 90 to join that lawyer
circle, and he soon after died |; but the
boy. er reading. reading. deep in
the law and principles Of society a. he
could get, lived at Quincy with his
mother, picking up scant practice till
he won one of those preachers daugh-
ters, Abigail Smith, and che brought
him both practice and brains. Of all
the wives of presidents she was the
only wise one. the only one whose let
ters, written for her husband alone,
are literature; the only presidents
wife who-e son, reared by her hand.
became his fathers equal. To her he
wrote; 81 have no concern on your
account but for your health. A woman
can be silent when she will" After
he became vice-president he wrote to
her:
"Your letters give me more enter
than al the speeches / hear.
There are more good thoughts, fine
strokes and mother wit in them than /
hear in a whole week. An ounce of
mother wit is worth pound Of clergy.
and | rejoice that one Of nv children,
at least, has an abundance of net only
mother Wit but of his mothers wit. If
the rogue has any family pride it is all
derived from the same source"
For years that wife titled his farm
1t Quincy there she heard the eau
non at Bunker's Hill, and was exposed
10 all the perils of the war while he
was absent. For ten years she saw
him scarcely at all, surrendering him
% the country. never complaining Of
country monotony, never asking to
move into Boston, and had she been
eaning on him like q
HELPLESS WOMAN OF FASHION
III those years, or conceiving herself
o be President, this letter need never
rave been written by ANN at tho out
Freak Of the war:
"'Dear partner. take part with
ne in the struggle. Rouse your whole
I'tention to the family, the stock, the
arm, the dairy. Let every article Of
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