The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-10-07

from congress in
SIMEON DISwIDDIE, April and come
home to make garden, bringing the
seeds with him. He then staid a
few weeks, planted the garden spot
and then returned to congress to fuss
and wrestle with the Legislative prob
lens and with Tom Reed, who is a
thorn of the sharpest sort, in the side
of us democrats, who never scratch
and who delight to see the party sue
cessful from Maine to California in
Guiding Boone county, Indiana and
Burks county, Pennsylvania. In
July Ros gets another leave of alb
sence TO come home and hoe the gar :
den, trim out the weeds and dig up
the pusley. And this was where /
found him at work. Ros and | were
bows together. He was lazy then,
but when he found that it was work or
90, why, Ros was not afraid of
good old-fasnioned labor He was
tired and sweating like a good
democrat at an election. We
sat down in the fence corner in tie
garden and talked ever everything
from boyhood up, how We u>ei to go
IL swimming together and tell lies TO
our mothers and teachers. We talked
about old Henry Brown and Deacon
William Cole, who often chased Us of
their farms where we used TO 60 10
pick berries and eat wild cherries UNI
til our little stomachs Were as full Of
pains as county sheriff IS of business.
Then we talked OF Professor Morse,
who used to teach us and whip Us
turn about to keep his hand in. Then
Roy Fowler, who is now pl lying the
teacher game in Scranton, Penn, was
sized up and Dan Eamts who is a
captain of a STEAMBOAT on the St.
Lawrence was given turning over
on account of his being one OF the
deacons 10 a Universalist church.
which accommodates christians and
sinners alike with ground floor rooms
In the next w3rld. R9s and [ talked
on sometime and the weeds in the
garlen kept growing. | asks him
if he was elected prtsideHt if he
would give me the Sedalia post office.
He gave his consent cheerfully, but
said that | must carry the Fourth ward
for the democracy.
We talked on until the servant girl
blew the conchshell for supper and
1 left him very much fatigued from
the afternoons work.
Roswell is patriot and should be a
deacon. He built an Episcopal church
In Watertown this summer costing
S95, 900 and made it present to the
Parish and what he loses in politics he
will make up in his great devotion to
the one cause of evangeliziug the
word.
My great weaknesses are carrin'
elections, passin' the platter, and vot-
in 'er straight with al the patriots
like Deacon Bill Holman of Indiana.
Col. Roger Q. Mills, of Texas and
Col. Grit Prather, of St. Louis, NOT
withstandlng, that President Harrison
is ole of those bad republicans tavcrs
forcin' the southern niggers to "vote
as they shot, " he is comm west. He's
goin' TO do loyal Illinois then he will
take turn through Iowa, when they
have a governor who is agin' grand
fathers ma, boots and breeches and
goes to sleep each night with a happy
and contented conscience, because he
takes democracy unadulterated. Then
the president will swing around the
circle and call on Father Baker, of
the Commonwealth, and beg a chew
tobacco of j. K. Hudson, of the Capt.
til, who thinks that when he dies he
will go to the republican party.
[ heard the other day that Ben
was not in the best of health, he
was troubled with DYSPEPSIA, sort Of
political Indigestion, sour stomach
over the prospect of denomination.
| want him cured and since
he's comm to the land Of plenty,
L want him to come TO Sedalia and
try the virtue of our invigorating air,
the health. giving properties of Hen