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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14

There, Carrie" said her mother.
as she gave the last touch to the young
lady's back hair prior to the latter's do
parture for the graduation exercises.
81 hope at least you will do "a well as
the others" Mother" replied ths
sweet creature, show can you talk sof
II doesn't matter how do. How do /
look? That's the important question"
Albany Journal.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
ONLY Two BOttl,

Only Two Bottle. Messrs. Johns
ton. Holloway & Co., Wholesale druggists
of Philadelphia, Pa, report that some time
ago a gentleman handed them a dollar,
with a request 70 send good catarrh cure
to two army officers in Arizona. Recently
the same gentleman told them that both
of the officers and the wife of well-known
u. S. A. General had been cured of Ca
tarrh by the two bottles of Ely's Cream
Balm. Not liquid or snuff. Price so
cents
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
Perfect Sight

As thousands can testify, there is nothing
90 much to be desired as perfect sight and
perfect sight can only be obtained by using
perfect spectacles. c. G. Taylor, our home
optician, exercises great skill and patiencs
in fitting those needing spectacles with care
and comfort to the wearer. l2-1ldti.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
VaSsar Girls.

A bevy of nine Texas girls passed
through Sedalia, yesterday morning,
in charge of Thomas Fl. ThOrp, agent
of the Vandalia line, bound for Vas
sar college. The were typical Texas
school girls of the poetical type.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
Married.

At Knobnoster, Sept 8, Mrs. NJ. A.
Harter to Mr.. Milt Thornton, and on
Sept. 9th, Miss Sallie Heiby to Mr..
s. Vanlue, Rev. G. w. Mathis officia-
ting.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14

Near Green Ridge, Sept, 5 1886,
Mollie j., daughter of David and S. j.
Pittman, aged 81 years and Is days.
The deceased was a worthy men,
Der of society, and leaves large cir
Gle of relatives and friends to mourn
her demise.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
Improving.

From private sources it is learned
that DIR. Staples, of Cooper county,
who was recently badly, and it was
thought fatally, cut by Patterson, was
in fair way towards ultimate recoy.
cry. He is rapidly improving.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
Thrown From His Horse.

A gentleman named 81. Cook ar
rived at the Pacific house yesterday,
from Brunswick, who had been thrown
from his horse on the road, and suf.
fered a severe cut on the head.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14

The Victim of Fifer's Fatal Bull
let Recognized after Thir-
teen Months.
He Proves to be an Indiana
Craftsman and an
EX-cOnyict.

On the morning of June 9Th, 1885,
the citizens of West Main street were
about 2 o'clock startled from their
slumbers by perfect fusilade of pis-
tol shots in the neighborhOOd of Main
and Moniteau which investigation
proved was he result of battle be-
tween police officers and burglars who
were attempting to blow open the safe
of Barley Bros. foundry. When the
smoke of the battle had cleared away
one of the burglars lay dead on Yer
mont street in front of the foundry
Office and Officer Fifer lay near by
badly shot through the lace. OF the
burglars engaged in the safe blowing
there was known to be four but the
other three made their escape and
have never been heard from since,
nor was
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
A CARD.

To all Who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak
ness, early decay, loss of manhood, &C., 1
will send a recipe that will cure you,
FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy
Fas discovered by q missionary in South
America. Send self addressed envelope
. he Rev. JOSEPH I. INMAN, Station D
De.r Y ia. 8-Seod&w1y
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14

Years adds to the faith of those cured
Of heart disease by use of DR.. Graves
Heart Regulator. For thirty years it has
proved itself a specific. 81.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
ANNOUNCEMENT.

We are authorized to announce Will
liam Booker as a candidate for County
Judge from the eastern district of Pettis
ounty.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
a Dress Trimmed With Velvet

Mary Williams, a stalwart and very
black cooness, was tried before Justice
Halstead on a charge of unlawfully
taking and carrying away one brown
cashmere dress, trimmed with brown
velvet, the property of Harriet Has
burg, and valued at SIS. Mary was
found guilty and fined So and costs,
aggregating SIS She accompanied
Constable Wallace to the Jail, prefer
ing not to pay.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
HOrsfOrd's Acid Phosphate.

FOR LEMONS OR LIME JUICE,
is a superior substitute, and its use is posi-
lively beneficial to health.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14

Bridge bolts, smoke stacks and all
kinds sheet iron work arc also gratings at
Q-l2-12t & w2m. BARLEY Bros. Co.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
Not nv ANY Means.

When you ask for Benson's Capcine
Plasters don't accept any Others as ''just as
good" Price % cents.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14

Broom corn cleaners, horse powers
hand rollers, BARLEY Bros. & Co.
9-l2-l2t &w2m
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14

Betting, packing, hose, gas pipe, fit
1ingt &C., at BARLEY Bros. Co.
6-l2-l2t & WIN
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-14
THE DEAD BURGLAR

ever recognized in spite of the most
vigilant efforts of the officials
to ferret out his identity.
Officer Fifer's long confinement
from his wound, the presentation
to him of a gold star by the city upon
his recovery, will all be easily re-
called by the BAzoo's readers, as well
as the fact that for months the por-
trait of the dead burglar graced many
show windows in hope of the chance
discovery of his identity, notwith-
standing that other events have since
crowded the sensation away among
the incidents of the past. The matter
has again been brought forward, how
ever, in police circles by the receipt
of the following communication sent
to marshal Jackson a few days since,
and which explains itself:
Jacksonville, Ind, Sept. 8. 1886.
Chie of Police, SedaIid, No.
Some time since heard man was
killed in your city while in the act of
committing burglary, and it was
his name was Gainey, of
Indiana. There was a man in this
prison discharged In 1880 by that
name, and If it was the same party |
would like to know all the particulars
of the affair, if you feel disposed to
give them or please furnish me with
the newspaper account, and if the
dead burglar was positively recog-
nized, and if any of his folks came to
see after the body.
His description in my office is as
follows: Age 90, 3 feet 81 inches
tall, fair Completed, gray eyes, brown
hair, dark mole below right nipple,
red scar ON breast, on left side, scar
on left arm above elbow joint, .numer-
Gus dark moles on back, scar on left
knee cap. Father, w. w. Gainey,
Indiana.
By answering this you will oblige,
Yours Truly,
NJ. /. HUETT, Clerk.
From the above epistle the officers
At once recognized the victim of June
9TH, as the party alluded to, but have
since kept the matter still in hopes of
tracing some of the other participants,
1ne of whom is almost positively
known to have been a brother of
Gainey's, while third is believed to
have been a fellow ex.convict released
1T the same time that Gainey was. As
pet, however, no developments have
been made as to their present where
.bouts and the only thing positively
known is that Gainey was the man
killed. A letter has been sent to warden
Howard of the Jacksonville prison,
md another to Gainey's lather, and it
S probable that further light will be
thrown upon the matter.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-28
The People OF Samoa.
London TImes.]


The little archipelago lying to the north.
eastward of our colony of Fiji, which is now
generally called by its euphonious native
name of Samoa, used to be better known among
US by the appellation given to 1t by early Eu-
ropean visitors, viz, the Navigators' Islands.
II is divided into two groups, the more
westerly of which contains the principal
islands, Sawaii, Upolu, and Tatuila, has a
larger population, and is in every way
more important than the other. The latter
the Manuda group, is politically distinct
from what is usually spoken of, and, indeed
is automatically recognized as the kingdom
or Samoa. The beauty of the scenery, es-
pecially of Upolu and Tatuila, has been
justly extolled by every stranger who has
described it. The fertility of the soil is not
excelled by that of any other tropical coun-
try and the group enjoys the rarer advan-
tage Of climate which in general sa-
lubrity and suitability TO white residents
stands far above that of most islands within
the torrid zone. The people are the lightest
and their intelligence and physical beauty
entitls them to a high place among the vari-
Gus divisions of the human family. The
archipelago Is occasionally visited by hurri-
canes but these appear to Do less violent
than those which are experienced in the
West Indies and occur less often. As some
proof of this 1t may be mentioned that the
most frequent anchorage, that at Apia, is a
newly opened roadstead, and yet merchant
vessels resort to II at all seasons. The pa-
tive population is about "a, 900, of whom all
have been converted to Christianity. There
are 1000 or s, 900 Roman Catholics and 2, 900
or 5000 Wesleyans the remainder are Con-
gregstonalisis under the care of missionaries
of the London Missionary Society, which he.
gan to labor In Samoa more than half CEN
fury ago. The pure whites number about
$50, and there are more than 400 half castles.
Among the white men there are about SO
British subjec and more than 100 Germans.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-28
A Frightening Comet.


"The comet discovered in Paris on Dscem-
Der l." said Professor Boss, the Director of
the Observatory, last night, sis slowly in
creasing in brightness, and promises to be
grand spectacle. About April the increase
will begin to be much more rapid, and by the
middle of April the comet will undoubtedly
become visible to the naked eye. Two weeks
later 1t will be very much brighter-perhsps
at Its maximum-and then II will probably
be as brilliant a spectacle as the great comet
OF 1881, which attracted SO much attention.
The position of the Paris conceive call
comets, you know, by the names OF their
discoveries or after the places from which
they are FIRST aeen-will DO much like that
of the comet of 1851, and will be- visible all
night. will be seen in the western sky
early In the evening, as was that Of 1881.
II will appear very bright, as there will be
no moon to detract from its brilliauoy. When
nearest the earth the comet will be only
$4,000, 900 miles distant. This will be a
nearer approach to the earth that any comet
OF recent years has made. Another remark
able thing about this comet viii be the long
period for which 1t will retain its brightness
probably from May to 10. 1t win thus
afford long time for popular study of its
appearance. The comet will then disappear
from the view OF persons in the northern
hemisphere, and will sweep all its grandeur
into the sight Of people south of the equator.
To them 1t win retain its brightness for a
longer time than to observers in the North
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-28

lSun fThuCltcO tHlonlclt'l
TO any one who contemplates trying a sea-
sons riding I would say this: You will
build up your constitution for life, you will
meet rough fellows, hear hard swearing, and
see some fighting, but you will hear fewer in
decent stories ON the range than you will
in the average sinoking-room. Your "out-
it," or bed, clothing, and equipments, will
cost about half your earnings, and II you
smoke freely and do not try to save money
the end Of the season will leave you neither
richer nor poorer. You will often have
wet bed, aud thank Heaven for getting TO IL
wet as IL Is; you will always be up before
daylight, and generally two hours out Of the
night as well you will eat coarse food, every
thing fried in lard; you will be In saddle
from twelve to eighteen hours every day
you will often suffer for the want of food and
water during a long days work in :he
hot sun; you will expose yourself to some
peril of life and more of limb you will be
for much of the time absolutely cut off from
the civilized world as If you were on vessel
in midocean you will vow three times day
that when you strike the ranch again you
will quit you will be sore and bruised, cold
at night and scorched by day, wet to the
skin one hour and parched with thirst the
next, and for the rest of your life you will
look back to your life on the range with long
ing thoughts of its charms. Very few men
are rich enough to indulge their taste for
riding by keeping more than two saddle
horses. "puncher' often rides dozen,
and does much of his work at full run. He
breathes the finest air on earth, eats beef as
freely as an ordinary workingman eats cab
bage and potatoes, and fancies the class to
which he belongs are the aristocraoy oflabor.
He Is generous, always quick TO appre-
ciate pluck and kindness in others, chival-
rous to the few women he sees, ever ready to
help hang horse-tbief, and undergoes more
hardship and danger than a dozen soldiers.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-28
Bare Shoulders I'm Fashion.

IN i. SoI, bObtOu dhAete,l
The paragraph wrote for the Gazette
early in December about the scanty costumes
worn by ladies at the Metropolitan Opera
House seems to have stirred up hornets
nest, and the subject has been taken up
town correspondents, but by the local
papers, and editorials and illustrated arti.
oles have been devoted to its discussion.
Women will do anything that is fashionable,
and II Is the fashion to wear the arms and
neck as bare as the law will allow. II q
thing is the fashion, q woman does not seem
to consider the question Of modesty. lit Is
fashionable, II is right, and that's the only
argument that she offers In its defense. A
favorite costume at the opera and balls is a
waist without neck or sleeves, and In some
instances not even shoulder, straps. II you
can imagine woman with no other waist
than her corsets, you can get q good idea of
this new cut. Some ladies, whose modesty
will not allow them to go the whole length
of this fashion, wear feathers instead of
shoulder straps. | heard of one lady,
the other day, whose modesty forbade her
wearing one of these waists, but who
hated to he thought Questionable and
who as compromise with her science wore
flesh colored channels skin that fitted her so
ughtly the very elect could not tell which
was the skin Of the ohamois and which was
the skin OF the lady. II is unfortunate that
these ladies OF fashion should have any
modest compunctions, for It sometimes makes
them feel little uncomfortable in their
evening undress but it seld I'm intsrfsres
with their adopting the costume OF the day.
The man who said that he was inclined to
leave the opera house because he felt that
he was playing the role of Peeping Tom and
looking at ladies in their bath-tubs just
about described the effect produced by some
of these costumes. The worst of 1t is that
the more that is written and the more that is
said on the subject only drives these ladies
to further lengths, They feel then that they
are ultra fashionable, aud that they are
saorihcing their feelings in good cause. In
short, that they are playing the role Of
martyrs, and this is a role that stronger
persons than women Of fashion are very fond
of MIA o inc
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-28
The Fate OF Man who Didn't Adver.
tlse.


derrick Dodd In San Francisco Wasp.l
A pointed illustration of the folly of try.
ing to get along without advertising-aud
particularly advertising in the Wdsp-oc-
CURED here recently. Avery clever English
writer sojourning in our midst decided to
deliver lecture on "Literary Life in Lon
dom" He didn't desire any newspaper
assistance, he said, as he wished the lecture
to be a success on its own merits.
So he hired Irving Hall, and on the even
evening dress and with hiI portfolio lecture
under his arm. The audience didn't arrive.
Eight O'Clock passed-eight flfteen-eight
thirty-but no one invaded the brilliantly
lighted but empty chamber. At last his
heart was gladdened by the sound of faint
footsteps, and peeping through the curtain
he beheld two rather crummy-looking par
ties stink into the hall and take very back
seats.
After another half hour the crushed leo
turer approached the pair of auditors and
muttered something about there being q
mistake in the date-the lecturer had missed
his train-money would be returned at the
.door-lecture to morrow evening.
"Lecter !-wot lecter p asked one of the
men.
"Didn't you come here TO hear the great
lecture on Literary Life p" asked the emf.
nent writer.
"Pard," said one of the two earnestly, 81
will not deceive yer. We've jest walked
clear up from San Jose, and as we is busted
an hain't no place ter go we thought we'd
sneak in here over night ter git outen ther
weather."
1t was the last camel on the straw's back
and they carried the lecturer home on q
stretcher.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-28

An american Banker" who has visited
England with his eyes open, and written an
interesting book, says 81 had always heard
much in praise of the rugged ami vigorous
out. of-door habits of the young men of Eng
lam, but my ideas in this regard received
rather a setback when studied the habits
and observed the physiques of English
students at the famous school towns and uni
versity towns. remember of being some.
what astonished, when l was starting out
one morning to walk from Rugby to London,
to find that none Of the crowd of rather deli
cate-looking boys who were walking about the
town, or gliding over its streets OH bicycles
or tricycles, seemed to know much about the
highway that would take them to London
and this famous Tom Brown school is, if
remember correctly, only about seventy
miles from the mighty metropolis Of England,
over highways the finest and pleasantest in
the world. These young men were very
much astonished to hear me talk of uaiking
to London. When l told them I should
think some of them would like such pleas.
ant ramble in such a magnificent walking
climate as they were blessed with, found
no hearty response This is depressing
revelation, for If the British youth of the
upper middle class are not athletes-as even
such severe critics as Mr.. Matthew Arnold
Huu oehCOHSutlu CToulL tueu Win
bsing-the question may we'll be asked,
What are theyf "It did not seem
to me-" this sturdy truth-seeker continues,
"that the boys at Rugby, the boys saw at
Eton, Harrow, Oxford, and other educational
towns in England, where young men and
boys most do congregate, and those whom |
met in London, home in vast swarms for the
holidays, were as ruddy aud white and strong
on their legs as American boys of the same
age and class. And my observation of the
boys of England of an older growth. both in
town and country in all parts of thu king
dom, also led me to the conclusion that the
boosted superior muscularity of Englishmen,
as compared with their cousins in the United
States, did not exist" This opinion, the
outcome of an exceptionally wide induction,
is only partially qualified by subsequent
admission that "the rage for athletics runs
high at Oxford. To day far more Oxford
men are absorbed in boating than in reading
for honors. In the matter Of the Oxford
craze for boating, let the following amusing
incident speak for itself: The Oxford eight
were out on a training pull on the Isis, under
the lead of stroke oar who was a scholar of
Brazenose the stroke heard one of the crew
discussing for moment with fellow oars
man some point about their studies, making
some classical illusions. The indignant cap
tain paused and, while from his uplifted
feathered oar the glittering water was for an
instant allowed to drip into the stream, he
Numbered out to the astonished undergrad
uate: No ID intellectually here ="
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-28
Gagged.

Sing, bird sing, for you know not sorrow;
You are content within gilded bars.
II you were free, do you think you could borrow
A higher note from the mystic stars7
Large and white In the skies above you
The pale moon shines In the winter night.
Sing, my bird, for I hear and love You
Oh, 10 be free In that radiant height!
A tremulous note across the sweetness,
A futter and droop Of your delicate wing:
You. too, know it-fe's incompletcness-
When one ia Gagged, ahl how can one sing7
Bird, my bird, do you still remember
That sweet spring day when our hearts were
young,
And never breath of a bleak December
Marred the Joy OF the song that you suDg7
Morn so cloudncss, a dream Of wonder,
The wide world sweet with the May-tde breath;
Night had parted our lives asunder-
Which is the stronger, bird, Love or Death
Gagged, my bird, and cannot free you!
Life OF my life is your life, my bird.
Flutter and sing to me, for when see you
And hear you my weary spirit is stirred.
with the old INFINITE rapturous longing
Born OF the glow OF q long dead spring;
Thoughts OF my past come crowding and thronging
Bring me my youth again--slng to me, singl
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-28
A Born Soldier.
[London Spectator

We regret to announce the death OF Sir
George Udny Yule. He was only an able
Bengal civilian of the older and more active
type, but he once did wonderful thing.
In 1858 he was a commissioner in Bengal
proper, when three regiments Of Sspoys,
breaking late into munity, marched across
his district to join the insurgent army in
Dude. Mr.. Yule had no troops, no military
authority, and no responsibility in the mat
ter ; but the impudence of the affair was too
much for him. He was hunting man,
turned out his hunting equipage, borrowed
more elephants from native friends, collected
eighty European planters and clerks and a
small force of native guards" aud deter.
mined to stop the three regiments. After a
pursuit of days, during which he exhibited
all the qualities of first class general,
marching often across a roadless country as
fast as the Sepo;s in retreat, he actually
drove the three regiments-2,4 400 trained
soldiers-in headlong flight out of Bengal
and brought back his force without one sick
man or the loss of one elephant. And then,
because he had not succeeded in his full in
tention, which was to destroy the brigade,
he offered to pay for his expedition out Of
his own purse. He had never been soldier,
and relied only on his hunting experience
but of the Europeans who rallied at his call,
no one doubted that II the Sepoy brigade
had ventured to turn on him, or had checked
its fight for twelve hours, 1t would have
been destroyed. II was matter Of life long
disappointment to him that the Sspoys
thought SO, too.