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

was silent man. The
greatness that comes from
words spoken was not his. but the
greatness that comes from things done,
certainly was.
! But some things he told you and
some things you know. You know
when ana where the first blue grass
was grown in Missouri and how the
precious seed was guarded and divi.
ded. You remember well when the
rank sill of the prairie was supposed
t. be non-prrductive and sour, ard
who was the first foolish man VINO un-
dertOok to subdue it. You remem-
Der when the school house window
was chink between the logs covered
with creased paper, when your sweet
hearts bright eyes gazed on you from
the cover of a sun bonnet, when the
hoe and axe were made by the black
smith, when you picked cotton
that your mother spun and wove !;
when your plow had wooden mould
board and when the shooting mach
was the pistime of the neighb IrhOod.
Then ii was that a beef was divided
into six parts and shot for, and tue
first choice was pound Of lead and
the second the hide aid taIlOw and
then the quarters in turn. You re-
member very well when you caught
bass and perch in the prairie ponds,
when the chipmonks were poisoned
with pumpkin seeds soaked in a de-
coction of May apple. You remsm-
Der, too, when the song of the wheel
was heard in the land, whe.
THE LOOM YOUR FATHER MADE
STOOD in the kitchen, and there you
saw your mother weave your cotton
jeans, which were always given a but
ternut hue, and wore like iron, there
she wove your suspenders, and there
che wove from bright cotton yarns
dyed g"rgeou-ly with her own hands
cloth tor your sisters dress; and, of a
wet day, your father wove belly bands
for his harness. You saw in your
mothers garcen grow the indigo and
madden for dye stuff. You remem-
Der when the gray wharf rat c,me up
the river OH boats and chased the dark
wood rat out of the country. You
remember the "Great Sleet," the
High Water" and The Turk War
ON the Usage. You remember when
the hogs ran wild and, when fattened
by nuts and roots, were "rallied" nv
The dogs and the fat ones shot to
supply the winters bacon. More
than likely you have pulled a pig
over the snow Yourself it'd to your
horses tail. You learned the mys-
terry of domestic dyeing, and knew
that sassairss bark cplored red,
and that green was made
by a combination of peach
leaves, alum aud white hickory bark.
You have carried hot clapboard for
your feet at deer stand. You have
seen your fathers hair braided in a
cue ard tucked under his coat collar
and remember when tie pedtler was
a hero. You remember pcssibly when
Howard comfy went TO the Usage ana
north and west, no one knew where;
you remember when Morgan county
was named for the revolutionary hero,
and Cole for the sturdy pioneer
whose grave you have seen, and Cal.
lawsy, for the son-in-law of Boone,
and Saline, for the Salt springs, ard
Benton for your senator, and Pettis
for a congressman, and johnson for
the saver of Tecumseh and the pride
of Kentucky, and Lafayette fer the
gallant friend of Washington and of
Americs. You knew how Rives
county came to be changed IT, Henry,
and you remember with pride that
Cooper was named a ter your fathers
friend and leader. You remembt r
about the "mik sick" to the e.st OF
you, and of the rude explanation of
the origin of ''Puke" and "Sucker,"
and when whisky was not adulterated.
You have heard the doggelel on Bar
ton and how he ate a dog, aud eased
himself by drinking grog. You we're
a hero-worshiper and knelt at the
shrine of Jackson or of Clay, and it
warns your blood yet wien you think
of them--the one with the British
sabre cut on his head and his hair
upright, infexible, of iron will, man
of the people, a patriot, and a fighter
who whipped the veterans of the Pen
insuls out of their boots. The ether
the idol of his party, the companion
AMI peer of Webster, he of the mag
netic eye and voice, the statesman,
tho orator upon whose tongue senate
and people hung entranced.
THE FIRST STEAMBOAT.
You remember the first steamboat
on the Missouri when Huntsman