The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-13

for the society of the intelligent and
progressive spirits similar to those we
associated with while attending the
high schools and colleges of our
youth. Those past graduating
schools, | call them. will especially
stimulate and encourage that social
nature which is
FAMISHING AMONG THE FARMERS,
and needs to be stimulated into cul-
ture by intelligent men and women
associating with each other in the
same line of research and labor.
The times demand these things. They
are essential to our progress and adj
vanced mode of living. BY them we
shall reac,, a greater degree of success
in life time and be guided from maxi
ing many a blunder. The starry
heavens reaching out into immensely
of space, always seemed cold and awe
stricken to me until l studied more
carefully our solar system, and found
out little more of the Individual
nature of our planets and then the
distance seemed to vanish, and the
thought that some of them were simi->
lar to our earth, perhaps Inhabited.
had days and nights. years and months,
seasons and system, and now when I
90 out into the night and see Mars in
the sky, it is an object of admiration
and interest, and does not seem 81 far
away. This horticultural society, the
dairy and poultry associations will he
the means of making us feel that the
state is not a vast uninhabited do
main; that we do not live so far
apart; that we are bodies that have
common interest, and that our hopes
and ambitions lie in the same orbit.
1t Is doubly interesting to you and me
when We speak of Westport, to know
that our genial secretary lives there;
or of Kansas City, that our old friend
and president lives there; or of Boom
vile, ali! there is our jolly Bell; or
of Sedalia, there are our esteemed
Mrs. Dugan and Prot. Kirk, and so
on all over our commonwealth, We
know that in Holden and Clinton.
Springfield and Columbia, BlutitOn
and kirksville, Carthage and Mob
erly, Lees Summit and Lamonte,
Green Ridge and Dunlap. and score
of other places, there are those who
esteem us and those whom we esteem.
| ask of you whose experience is along
this line, if it does not
SEEM MORE LIKE LIVING,
if the state does not seem more like
home, if life has not had added to ii a
peculiar charm and reality that it
never had before, and that these
associations are unreasonable in the
grandeurOf theirmission Can it not be
truthfully said that our associations
have added wealth to our years. charm
to our association, strength to our eff
forts and courage to our manhood?
Do they not disperse selfishness, en-
large our appropriations, enrich our ex-
perience, browning all with social joyr
Several of these state associations,
or peoples colleges, are of only few
years growth, but they do not need
money more than members, prestige
more than friends, influence more
than br. ms or charter. more than
character.
They are one of the hopes of pro-
gressive Missouri and the man who
Joins himself to the association which
seeks to develop and dignity his
special calling will get more for his
efforts, time and money, / trow, than
by carrying torchlight in political
possession or screaming his throat sore
for man who reels in drunken de-