The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-10-11
GOOD.HUMORED BARKIS.
He Has Seen the big Thurs
day" for the Thirty-Second
Time-Chinamen Trou-
bIes-Political
News.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. Z, 1892.

~ AoNh's A'AOss AO'.'
EprToR BAzOO:
l went to the fair yesterday. / al
ways go on ''Big Thursday and when
l return at night swear I'll never
go again. But when the time rolls
around l am always ON hand and
eager to 60.
have never missed Thursday
since the Inauguration of the fair
thirty-two years ago and l can place
my hand on my heart and say yester-
day was the
BIGGEST OF THEM ALL.
All the world and the rest of man
kind seemed to be there and everybody
enjoyed themselves. | know that | feel
just as delighted, astonished and
generally improved as |
did when l attended the
first annual fair of the st. Louis agri-
cultural and mechanical assertion in
the year my mustache began to spuout
and when / first knew the painful
bliss of having best girl.
The scene on the grounds was ami
mating, city and country folks were
there in about equal members and the
contest was both institutive and enter
tanning, one feature that attracted and
amused me was the presence of the
country darkey, his wife and his
sweetheart. l do not believe that
there is a happier creature on the face
or the earth than genuine old fash
ion negro at a Fair. | saw lots of
them Yesterday and must say their
unallayed happiness made me feel bet
ndincreasedmy pleasure. They tell
me that the Exposition building was
as crowded all day as the fair grounds
were. / don't doubt it, for made a
trip down town after my return and
the
STREETS WE'RE THRONGED
As l never saw them before. 1t may
seem unreasonable for me to "kick'
under the circumstances, but | want
to say that / consider the charge of
fifty cents admission to the fair
grounds extortionate. Twenty-Five
cents is enough to pay and if that
were made the price, every day Of the
week would be "blg Thursday" Do
away with ''complimentaries" and
give the people fair show" 1 must
compliment the police department for
efficient work during the week. They
have protected our visitors most ei.
fieiently by running in all ''crooks"
who showed themselves, and no one
has suffered much from thieves of
high and low degree. except the fresh
youths and over-coniident bald-heads
who sought to take in the town. and
found, to their cost, that in St. Louis,
as elsewhere, the man who sees the
elephant" always pays a big fee.
The St. Louis policeman and the
st. Louis detective do not admire
each other. Go to a policeman and tell
him tough yarn, and he will say
''Tell that to the detectives" and
turns on his heel. An attempt at a
fake by some fresh young newspaper
man, in which he describes the arrest
of a thief who had taken refuge in
sewer, has caused much unhappiness
in the fraternity. A fake is a swim
die at best, but when it is done awk-
wardly, it is an outrage.
THE CORNER STONE
of the old Jesuit church on Ninth and
Washington avenue, cannot be found
and there is much perturbation thereat
as there were documents enclosed of
almost priceless value.
There is terror among the "Chris-
tlan" Cinnamon of st. Louis. Lee
Bing, one of their number, who has