The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-08-26

was legion, when the hounds
voice made music at wolf chase and
The corn husking bee Came with the
glo-ies of autumn to add zest to rural
: life.
Wei DO you remember the Flat
Creek Indian scare and its grotesque
cause, incidents and ending ami tue
muster with It's pomp and circumstan-
ces OF mimic war and when your
mother always called your father
"mister." Your father told you of
yet earlier days when he sent corn
and pumpkins to New Orleans on a
fit boat and his baatmen walked
bick. When cabins were butt with
out nail, when horse collars were
inside out of corn sh1cks sewed to.
gether by a wooden needle with a
hemp string; when harness were made
of raw hide and hemp; when nettles
madeexcellent cl0th;when your mother
Wore a cap on her head and mOccasins
Oh her feet and your fathers brooches
were made Of buck skin that would
get stiff when it rained and stand
alone when his manly legs were not
in them; when the baby was rocked in
a trough and the spotted fawn's hide
was just the thing for a vest, when
your mother took her own pewter
dish to eat from when she went
to spend the day with a neighhor,
when ell dishes were of pewter aud
were run in moulds and secured with
rushes, when knives, forks and spoons
were whitfield from wood and horn,
and when a delectable drink was
made of water and honey.
PREPARING A FEAST.
Perhaps you remember and perhaps
he told you how feast was prepared,
how wooden hooks that turned on
pivots hung from the joists before the
hearth, and ON one of these hung
hunk of fat bear meat we'll seasoned,
beneath this haunch of venison. and
then turkey and then a prairie
chicken amt then a pheasant. The
drip from the bear meat descended
over all. a savOry stream, and was
finally caught in a trough at the bot
'Om ON the hearlh-stnne. The bastirg
being done on one side, the hook was
turned as SPIT, anu the basting VS.
done on the other, while all the time
delightful Odors were filling the house,
and whetting the appetite.
On the hearth, In an oven, baked
the corn bread which your mother had
made out of meal that she had sifted
in sieve made out of barrel hoop
With horse hairs strung across, and in
the asnes baked the sweet potatoes
The TODD Was served sometimes on
wooden platters or pewter Plates and
sometimes ON newly split white oak
clapbOards-a feast mt for the immor-
tai gods. There never was such an
other ,ince the Chiuaman discovered
his formerla for roasting sucking pigs
From your father you have heard
OF a wagon, the picture of which
stuns the imagination. 1t was a
three wheeler, one in front and two
behind; the axle was of wood, and
the Inch pin of wood, the tongue was
pole split at tne end, the wheels were
the solid cuts of log. He told you,
too, or perhaps you knew, of time
when the wild cats stole the pigs,
when the ,remulous cry of the panther
was that of lost child, when men
voted by word of mouth and boldly
announced their choice to the judges,
and when your mothers darning
needle went The rounds of the neigh
borheod when court was held be-
meath a tree. and the early Baptist
preached without hire.
Sometimes he made your heart beat
fast by telling of the sgony and fear
and woeful Deeds of the Indian wars.
His eye moistAned little as he told
of some "distressful stroke" of fortune
or shown with pride when, glancing
at your mother, he spoke of her guard
ing him al his work in the cleariog.
Those were the days that the British
emissaries in 1872 melted the Os ges,
the Sacs and Foxes and POt.owato-
mics to rapins and murder, to
ToMAHAwKING THE LONE SETTLER
and his wife and babes and callei it
war; when they sent for arms and
help to General Howard and were
told by him they were out Of his juris-
diction, and must come east to be de-
Tended, when they scorned to retreat
and hurrying into the stockades about
Boonvil e conquered an honorable
peace.
Those were the days of simple
virtue, simple hospitality, simple dress,
simple religion, simple manners, sim
pie pleasures and simple ways of di-
rect and earnest purpose, of true cour.