The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-08-30
"BARKIS" DlsCOURSEs
Pleasantly of the Grand Demo
cratic Rally Which He Pro-
nOunces q Shining Sue
cess.
The Exposition of '92 will be a
Success -Suicide of Annie,
The Flower Girl-1he
Oldest lnhabitant
Again Dead.
ST.. LOUIS, NO., Aug. 26, '92.

ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 26, '92.
EDITOR BAzoo: The grand demon
stration made last night by the de-
mocracy of St. Louis, under the aus
pices of the Business Mems demo-
cratic club, surpassed even the SAN
gulne expectations of Barkis, who Is
willing to believe that to the demo-
Gratis Of St. Louis and Missouri moth
ing is impossible. the arrangements
we're perfect and perfectly carried
out, although the enthusiasm of
THE IMMENSE THRoNG
might have ratified men less accus-
toned to the crowds that always at.
tend genuine democratic meetings in
communities composed of honest pa
triotic citizens. who know their rights
and duties aud maintain and perform
them. :,
The testing of the electric and
gas lights for the street illumi-
nations during the fall festivities
filled the sidewalks and streets Of the
central part of the city. during the
.arly part of the evening with men,
women and children of all sorts, sizes
and degrees of condition.
THE CRUSH WAS AWFUL.
But St. Louisians are good nafured
people and We have few cranks among
US and they bore it very pleasantly
might say they "bored III tor that
was the only way to get through it.
The display was worth the inconveni-
ence-experienced in witnessing it.,
however Here and there, the light
would not shine, but it was to discover
these spots that the test was made.
On the night of September LIST, when
the first regular illumination occurs,
any superstition person in Sedalia,
10 king towards St. Louis, will imagine
that The obstruction of the world by fire
has surely commenced.
l was Ill through the
EXPOSITION BUILDING
to-day and was grstified to note that
all The exhibitors are fast getting their
displays in shape and I can assure the
"BAzoo" readers that the promise of
the managers Of the "Ex" that 1892
will Tor eclipse any previous year, will
be msgni6cently fulfilled.
St. Louis is full Of Knights of
Pythias to-day, on their way home
from the encampment at Kansas City.
They are nearly ali fine looking men,
many of them real handsome" as l
overheard very pretty girl remark to
another just now as l passed group
on Olive street.
Perhaps the saddest event that &C.
occurred in this big city during the
week was the
SUICIDE CT CANINE,
the Flower Girl" as she was known,
although for about two years past she
hiss been ian actress" at one of the
numerous variety dives that dis
grace St. Louis. Annie Johnson began
selling flowers about the hotels and
theaters and on the streets, when
she was little tot that should have
been Juggling at her mothers apron.
She was bright and pretty, and grew
to be . very attractive girl. Her
great charm was her childish, innocent
appearance and manner, and l, in
common with many Others, albeit men
of the world. was shocked when she
drifted into the life Of q variety &C
tress in an Elm Street sead-fsll. She
had grown "tOo large to sell flowers. ,
poor child.
WELL. THE END CANE MONDAY
when she faltered into q Walnut
street boarding house and told the
Ian lady. an acquaintance, that she
had taken poison and wanted to
die"
Talk about mans inhumanity to
man,it lie mans inhumanity to woman
that causes nine tennis of the misery
and crime of this world.
The poison Annie johnson took. or
as her friends say, was fol ced to take
by a man, vas trough on rats,
compound solo at every drug store TO
all who ask for it and which has been
the means of suicides innumerab,y.
A druggist will refuse to
cell arsenic, strychnine, morphine,
hydrocyanic acid, etc to a person he
does not know. but will hand out or
as he calls it, dispense trough on rats"