The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-10
an. thing. The tannery rotted down
and nothing but ruins now mark the
spot where the great railroad king
began his speculative career"
From Bill Nye.

Bill Nye, writing from Fall River,
Wisconsin, TO the Boomerang, saws:
[ have just returned from a trip up
the North Wisconsin railway, where
l went to catch a string of Goldfish or
anything else that might be contagious
The trip was a pleasant one. and pro-
ductive of great good in many ways.
| am hardening myself to railway
travelling like TimberIine Jones man
80 that | can stand the return journey
to Laramie in July.
Northern Wisconsin is the place
where the ''foreign lumber" comes
from which We use in Laramie in the
erection of our palatial residences.
| visited the mill, last week. that fur
nished the lumber used in the Oasis
hotel at Greeley. They yank a big
wet log into that mill and turn it into
cash as quick as a railroad man can
draw his salery out of the pay car.
The log is held on a carriage by
means of iron dogs while it is being
worked into lumber. These iron dogs
are not like those We see on the front
steps of a brown stone front occa-
sionally. They are another breed of
dogs.
The managing editor of the mill
lays out the log in mis- mind, and
works it into dimension stuff, single
bolts. slabs, edgings, two by tours,
two by Fights, two by skies. etc, so
AS 30 use the goods to the best advan-
tage, just as a woman takes a dress
pattern and cuts it SO she won't have
to piece the front breadths, and will
still have enough left to make polon-
aise for the last summer gown.
1 stood there for long time watch
ing the various saws and listening to
their mOnOtonous groan, and wishing
[ had been born a successful timber
thief instead of poor boy without
rag to my back.
At one of these mills, not long ago,
a man backed up to get away from
the carriage. and thoughtlessly backed
against a large saw that was revolving
at the rate of about two hundred
times a minute. The saw took
large chew of tobacco from the plug
he had in his pistol pocket, and then
began on him.
But there's no use going into details
Such things are rot cheerful. They
gathered him up out of the saw-dust,
and put him in nail aeg and carried
him away, but he did not speak again.
Life was quite extinct. Whether it
was the nervous shock that killed him
or the conclusion of the cold saw
against bis liver that killed him no
one ever knew.
The mill shut down a couple Of
hours 80 that the head saver could
file his saw, and then work was re-
sumed once more.
We should learn from this never to
lean on buzz saw when it moveth
itself Alright.
1t might be we'll in closieg to say a
word in defense of myself.
The varied and uniformly erroneous
notices expressed recently as to my
plans for the future naturally call for
some kind of au expression on this
point over my own signature. In the
first place it devolves upon me to re-
gain my health in full if it takes
fourteen years / shall not. therefore,
publish a book, "prepare an you
morous lecture" "visit Florida, ''pre-
bate the estate of Lydia E. Pinkham,
deceased" nor make any other grand
break till | have once more the old
vigor and elasticity and gurgling
laugh of other days.