The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-03-15
THE UNIVERSITY.
Like the Wandering Jew, is
Searching for q Hoe in the
Ground.
Was Headed for Sedalia but
Was Switched OF By q Soda
liza Paper.

liza Paper.
En- Route, March 8, 1922, the
anthor OF this dispatch, am the Missouri
State University. I was located at
Columbia or, as prefer to call in
hole in The ground, where, for many
wears I endured existence. l confer
red many benefits upon Columbia, the
hole in the ground. The fact is. l
made Columbia all it is, but that is
not very much. The reason ! c,u'd
not make much out of it was. the lack
of anitable material. Columbia never
did anything for itself. Much less
did it ever do anything for me, to re :.
ply me the many benefits / di it: l
got tired OF doing so much for COL
1mbia, snd getting nothing in return.
1 wanted q little RECIPROCITY, 20 to
speak. Seeing that was d 'omed to
1 despair in the matter, my desire to
change my location became so intense
that / took fire and burned up. That
lie, my body burned, but my spirit. my
soul. still lives. have been travers-
ling the slate in search of a new
location. l read in the Billie ablut
some foolish people who lit a candle
and pnt it under bushel. l In 'ught
that my past history must have been
wha, the b BILE meant when it said
thai!
i l read in the Bible, also, about
some wise people who built their city
on hill, 60 that it was visible Tor
many miles in all directions, AMI was
the pride and wonder OF all.
thought | would like such q location
for the future, and started to Sed,lia
Ii, search of it. I thought l would
find j, there. 1 WAS going to come to
Seialis. If l had come there l
would have brought five hun ired
thousand d II RS with me to spend.
Then would nave added five thou.
saud to the population. and would
have brought there AMI pui in circu :
, la,ion twI or three hundred thousand
dollars every year, at low estimate:
o. top OF this, in a few year.
would have brought the state capital
there. This would have given Soda
| liza five million dollars worth of new
buildings, Duld have ma lie it city
,, of hurdr i thousand people in
: few moro ycars and would have
added millions Of dollars to the bust
ness, and to the money circulating IL
Sedalia. In a word. Sedslia would
have become the gem OF Missouri and
|, the pride of the West.
, But alas! read a Sedalia newspa
per in which it WIS stated that thu
city was "wide open" town, and tina
the saloon element dom;n .ied. could
hardly believe it, having hal some &C.
lquaintance wi h number of refined
and intelligent people who claimed u
, as home. But the paper referred t
had it ia black and white.
l hesitated and mediia'ed. l would
have done for Sejalia what Christ tried
to do for Capernaum-I would b .v'
). exalted her unto heaven! But alas
like Capernsum, this paper convinced
me that Sc islia p refers to sink to hell
L [ shake the dust from my feet in tn
0 streets OF Sedalia and bid her farewell
D 1t seems that the people of Missouri
care not cuss what becomes OF me
. or here am located! l have beef
searching the sta e, since have fou.t
> out that the people at large do no
, care what fate Overtakes me, to ii q
the darkest hole in the state, int
! which to crawl and hide myself!
was at Clinton; but they have . rail
road there and have done some othel
things for themselves. 1t would never
, do to 90 there. Then l went to Wind
sor. / thought that could hide my
self there. But alas, they have a rail
road too, and are liable, though
n small and Insignificant enough now,
D to become u good town in the future
0 [ heard of q little pace away north
of Sedalia in the wood, by he name
. of "Ridge Prairie" There is 10 rail-
y road nor anything else there. l was
about 70 select it as my new location
: my hiding place. But my plar'
! were all frustrated, and knocked to
|, the devil, when l learned that there
! was an intelligent man there, and 9
republican at that! What shall l dol
y l will 90 back to Columbia! This j:
3 the only spot in Missouri where there
0 is no danger that there will ever be
Q any improvement! l will return te
' Columbia wrap about me the robe
of seclusion and dwell forever in the
Q midst of obscurity! Then, as hereto
3 fore my students will never see any
thing, never hear anything, never
D know anything, and Fever amount tt