The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-03-01

Mary land are on the line Oh the baltl-
more and Ohio railroad and during
the summer months the elite and
fashion of Washington. Baltimore and
New York frequent these places and
pleasure OF the most democratic kind
is INDUCED in.
And gay they firt and gay they dance
And love they make of course,
Which sometimes ends in marriage VOWS
And sometimes in divorce.
HARPER's FERRY.
Us democrats of the never
scratca-the-titk et kind always as
sociate - John Brown and the
freeing niggers in the same breath.
This is the place where the old mis-
guided crank endeavored to overthrow
slavery.
The old man mistook his calling
hence he got short tlial, long rope
and dead head ticket to join the ma
jority.
And he went, the Virginia militia
looking at him with arms at a right
shoulder-shift.
Such was the fate Of this man
Brown and Hsrper's Ferry was the
place. This was before the war of the
states and before the talk Of the re-
moval of the state capital from Jeffer-
son City to Sedalla.
At WASHINGTON.
At 5 o'clock p. M, the train pulled
into Washington and your own dea.
con enlightened the bald headed clerk
at Willard's by putting the name Of
Simeon Dinwiddie on the register IN
bold but easily read hand.
This tavern is one of the best in
Washington. 1t is kept by o. G.
Staples. who Was educated for . dea-
con in Jefferson county. New York. at
time when Royal Baking Powder
was unknown. and in Q town where
, ,u mpkiu pies we're a legal tender.
He left there early in life and kept
an Inn. Being the proprietor Of q
hotel and posing as deacon didn't
work, and the world lost poor dea.
con and secured a model landlord.
A landlord who unto his gusts
Does cater till they swear,
There's none can beat in Washington,
On earth or-anywhere
About the Willard met
number of sleek looking gen
tlemen, who wore good clothe',
smoked ten cent cigars and talket
politics. was told by the bale
headed clerk that they were congress
men, who told their constituents they
we're in sympathy with the farmel
and the horny handed sons OF toll.
said in a tone of voice that sound
ed as if my head wss in an empt.
barrel.
| They do not toll neither do the,
spin" anything but yarns.
washington is . great city. 1t i
great in beauty of its streets, in 81
chitecture Of its buildings, its prett.
women, brave men and the grea
number of s,aunch democrats here
who believe the good things of thi
government we're made for the man.
in place Of the few.
Euch is politics.
/ would rather be deacon
And with the deacons stand,
So can pass the "platter"
l. And travel DER the land.
}, AT THE STORE.
I had not long been talking abou
the condition of the country, how th
crops in Missouri bad been harvested
; until Deacon John Rudd, who 9
one time was a Ay-by-night reporter
Kansas City, asked two or three Of .
TO take q walk to "the store"
While it was new to me it SCENE
old to several who walked away IN
your deacon followed withouta mu
muir.
II All took cougar in their'n," excel
two, and the two were from Missouri
They had received their early ed
cation in Pike county and had new
= been weaned from the bottle.
This Is . remark dropped by De
con Joe Hickey between gurgles.
). The store has been frequented
such men as Dan Webster, Tom Be
ton, Harry Clay, General Grant al
: others, hence q western deacon cou
feel somewhat at home.
3 1.-THE Store" is one Of the lant
. marks of the west eide of Pennsy
: vania avenue and attracts more ate
u ton from strangers, as we'll - hon
people, than the Capitol, White Houa
Treasury building or how much Pc
zion you can get.
Senators, congressman, judges a
deacons fit in and out OF The Store
q It is congenial to some, it is almt
q home to others.