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The Direct Washington Route
for the inauguration.

The Ohio and Mississippi and Baltimore
4 Ohio system Of railways running direct
" east from ST. Louis form the short and
direct line TO the National Capital, and
offer through train service which Is not
equailed by any other route. Ii is prop
erly speaking the only line from the Mis-
sisSippi River to Washington; all Others
may be classed as routes-ways of getting
there, although circui,ous and therefore to
be avoided
The O. Il NJ and T. & q. lines run two
daily trains (morning and EVENING" from
ST. Louis, with Pullman Vestibule and
Buffet Sleeping Cars through to Washing
ton, and via Washington to Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York.
No other road does this.
For the Inauguration of President
Cleveland March 4th, excursion rates will
be made BY these lines from St. Louis and
also by western lines via St. Louis and the
q. 4 NJ. and B. 4 q. system, which is the
emily one having adequate facilities for
storing Sleeping cars at Washington for
those who desire to occupy them while at
tending the Inauguration.
For further information call on agents
Of connecting lines west, or address,
GEO. h. WARFEI-
Gen1 West. Pass'r. Agt. O. 4 NJ. R'y., st.
Louis, Mo. ~ wifi.
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ROBBED A FARM HOUSE.
Officers ScaIley and Baldwin
Capture the Thieves in
East SedaIia.

About six o'clock last Sunday even
iny Officers w. A. Scally and j. X.
Baldwin, who were patrolling East
Sedalia, arrested two young white
fellows who had just beaten their way
in from the north on a freight train.
They were taken to headquarters and
thoroughly searched.
Chief belong found in their posses
sion one gray overcoat, one silver watch,
one pistol, one pair of trousers, one
pair of <uspenders and one clothes
brush.
The chief al once became convinced
tba, the officers had made an important
arrest. The prisoners, who gave their
names rs Frank Marion and William
Jones. were locked up in the Gala
bose to await further developments.
Yesterday Chief belong received
"a telegram from Marshal j.
f.. Smith, of Pilot Grove,
informing him tina. the farm house of
Mike Myers, three miles north of that
town, had been burglarized the follow
ing day. and a description of the
stolen property was given. 1t tailed
exactly with that found in possession
of the two prisoners.
Marshal Smith was informed of the
arrest. and promptly reached Sedalia.
He returned to Pilot Grove with the
burglars last night.
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again about week ago, complaining
Of feeling Ill. She seemed depressed
in mind. Last night she slept alone
in room-she had been sleeping in the
same room with the family before
when We went to call her We found
her dead; she was cold and had been
dead for some time. heard no noise
in her room during the night. Near
her bed we found two bottles. One
bottle was empty and was labeled car
bolic acid the other bottle contained
dark fluid, nearly full, and contain
ed laudanum.
Mrs. Mary f. Lane-I noticed that
my daughters mind was depressed
when she returned home last Thursday.
She did not tell me the cause Of her
depression.
Hattie Lane-My sister did not
confide in me, she did not speak much
to me, but seemed sad and depressed.
DIR. G.. w. Schabe-from
an examination Of the body
of Nina Lane, / am Of the
opinion that her death was. caused by
carbolic acid poisoning.
John d. Lowrey-I was engaged to
be married to deceased. Was to be
married next November. l live in
Benton county. called on her last
Christmas when she was at home.
She appeared contented and cheerful
and we talked about the time when
we were to be married. ] CORES
pended with her. The last letter l
received from her she told me she was
going home. She did not write as if
she felt depressed. / never had any
any difficulty or misunderstanding
with nv betrothed. ! never
heard that any other young man was
waiting on her. A week ago last
Monday l received the last letter
from her. In the last letter to me
she made a slight suggestion to me
that we cease corresponding, but did
not consider it as being meant seri-
Ously.
The following verdict was rem
dered:
We, the undersigned coroners jury
of Pettis county, after mature deliber-
alton as to how anu when Nina Lane
came to her death, find that her death
was produced by dose of carholic
acid taken by her with suicidal lii
tent.
! ROBERT L. FERGUSON,
JOHN W. LEE.
VAN FERGUSON,
J. b. MILLER,
V. ii. leo,
NoRvEL MCFARLAND.
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Do YOU remember Noah Allen?
About fifteen years ago he was a
spris of a lawyer in Sedalia and was a
reporter on a paper, ] think it was the
Blue Ribbon.
Noah was quite saucy and bright
with pen, and withal q little reckless
in fondling with the truth.
Tom j. Lingle, now of the Henry
County Democrat, the snoring sorrel
of the Tebo' This is said in kindness
was, at the time l write, connected
with the old Sedalia Democrd.
1t was over politics.
Tom and Noah had a street alter
cation.
They both came out ahead in the
scrap.
met Noah the other day a. To-
peka.
He is a populist and hung starter
at that and stops at the Button
House.
He would not be tolera ted by the
popuIists of Kansas unless he would
stop at that tavern.
Reader, keep your equilibrium,
Noah Allen is assistant attorney. gen.
eral of Kansas, and he IL called Gen
eral Allen"
1t is Col. Tom Lingle in Missouri.
/ would rather he Missouri colonel
and a democrat than to he Kansas
general and a populist.
When met Noah, he was walking
fast and seemed to have more business
than sheriff when court is in ses-
sion.
1t was January %, about ( o'clock,
p. m.
A train sped north toward Lexing-
ton.
1t was q through train, the main
line being blocked, to Kansas City.
The train did not stop at Houstonia,
and its speed was forty miles an hour
or more.
Some four or FIVE hundred yards
north of Houstonia is public road
crossing.
A few minutes before the train
reached that crossing, a lady on horse
back crossed the railroad track going
east. After she was at safe distance
from the flying cars, she stopped her
steed and turned round facing the
train.
The animal did not have the ap-
pearanoe Of having 3 very high strung
disposition, but Of high or low degree,
il did not like the looks Of matters, and
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-02-07
The best of all ways
To lencthen our DAYS.
IU IVlIGIIItfI Jul NHN".
In. Ill

Is TO Use Pierce's Purgative Pellets, Sir.
For nine-tenths of the diseases of
the body begin with constipation or
the elogging up of the sluice-ways,
through which the impurities of the
blood escape, so that they are reab-
sorbed into the system. The Purg-
alive Pellets act gently but thoroughly
upon the stomach and liver, and are
the best laxative known. Without
racking and straining the organs, they
open the bowels and restore natural,
healthy digestion. Unequaled in dys-
pepsia, constipation, biliousness, piles,
or any of the resulting diseases.
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BAZOO CHAT.

7, was LONG before the Civil war
that, one day, old John Carroll, a
typical Kentucky STAKEHOLDER, con-
cluded to attend certain political
gathering. Colonel Richard NJ.
johnson, the famous slayer of Tecum-
sch at the battle of the Thames, was
to be the orator. The attendance
was, therefore, overwhelming.
Colonel Carroll lived some, fifteen
miles from the scene of the picnic and
he determined to take with him an
old negro slave who had never been
out of sight of the plantation, and
knew about rs much concerning the
outside w-rld as twO-year-old
baby. Soon after the picnic
ground was reached some fool
negroes persuaded Cesar that if he
could get across into Ohio he would be
u free man.
The proposition fired the unsophis,i-
Gated old fellow and in imagination he
beheld the sweet beacon light of liber-
t. Just on the other side of the Big
FIX which stream he had never
seen or heard Of before, and which he
had been made to believe was the Ohio
river.
During the speaking Cesar stole
away from the crowd, secured a ski.i'
and WAS soon on the farther
side of the creek. When he
landed he shouted and rejoiced in
the delusive belief that he had at last
obtained his freedom.
His soiourn in the land of liberty.
however, was OF brief duration. Old
Colonel Carroll missed him shortly
after the speaking, when he was about
ready to go home, and stormed and
ragged around in great fury. He
thought for Il time his hitherto faithful
servant was out in the woods some
where having quiet game Of cards
with other niggers, but was informed
that Cesar had sought freedom
beyond the Big Elk Fork.
The old colonel Immediately gave
pursuit, and was not long in finding
the deluded fugitive.
Forty cruel lashes with blacksnake
whip was the finale Of Csesar's short ex-
perience as freeman.
In less than month the old darkey
his hopes blasted-his dream shat
tered, his heart broken-crossed that
other stream where no master could
ever pursue with curses and lashes.
George ID. Prentice, the celebrated
Louisville poet, paragrapher and
journalist, was very fond of cats
which fondness became afad or q hob
by with him toward the close Of his
life.
After the death. of his wife he &C.
cupied a bedroom in the rear Of the
Courier-Journal building. and there he
was accustomed to keep two or three
big Thomas cats.
On enc occasion, after Mr.. Prentice
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z MISSOURI.
James Dawson, of Jefferson
City, Meets Death
While Skating.

Yesterday evening, a few minutes
after 8 o'clock, james Dawson, sOn Of
DIR. Dawson, who is well known in
Sedalia. was drowned while skating
on the Missouri river.
At 7:4O James Dawson and Charlie
Dewey, his chum, started from DIR.
Davison's residence to go skating.
But twenty-five minutes after, the sad
news was being circulated that young
Davisonwas drowned.
The circumstances in the case are
these: The ice covering the river has
melted in some places and in other
places it has been overlooked, and the
water freezing made the second coat
ing as smooth as glass, and very hard
to distinguish from water at night.
James Dawson was good skater,
but could not swim, skated into an
open place in the ice about fifty fete
long and ten feet wide. He called
frantically for help and struggled vio-
lently to catch the edge, but his own
struggles fastened his sinking. His
companions were unable to render
him assistance and be was washed
under the ice. which is about fifteen
inches thick.
DR.. Dawson. with some members OF
his family, was at church when the
news of rhe drowning reached him.
The grief of the family is almost be.
yond description.
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TWELVE YEARS.
McCord Won't Hang for Kill.
ing Burress, but will Lam
guish in the Pen.

BooNvILLE Mo, Feb. l.-[special]
At the opening of the court this
morning McCcrd entered a plea Of
guilty and was sentenced by Judge
Riley to term of twelve years in the
penitentiary.
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Lanes Medicine Moves the Bowels Each
Day.
In order to be healthy this is necessary.
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after giving two or three shakes Of the
head, it whirled and threw its fair
rider to the ground and ran at full
speed.
The woman turned Q complete
eomersault and struck on her feet,
just as all Pettis county girls do. She
gazed at the fleeing horse and then at
the train, the windc VS. Of which were
full Of protruding heads.
She gave a saucy and defiant twist
of her head and then gathered her
riding skirt in her arms and walked
briskly in the direction where the
horse disappeared.
If the lady who was dismounted
will send her address, stating the
color of the horse she was riding, as q
means of identification, and state she
was the one thrown. the WEEKLY
BAzOO will be sent to her address for
one year free.
Justice of the Peace H. C. Levens,
one of Sedalia's most esteemed citi-
zens, in early life was q country ped
agogue-and a good one, too. He
had received an excellent education
and possessed the happy faculty Of be-
ing able to successfully teach and
manage children.
Forty years ago he conducted q
large district school at Palestine,
which was then, as it is now, one Of
the finest communities in Cooper
county, Mo. When the school term
drew to close there were musical
and literary exercises appropriate to
the occasion.
Mr.. Levens, who was greatly be
loved as a teacher, composed the fol-
lowing farewell verses, which, after
forty eventful years, he still treasures
in memory of that happy event.
The Chatter is permitted to make
transcript OF them:
There is q treasure on science hill,
Which YOU can gain if you only will,
And You'll get there in course OF time
Your paths not iicwery all the way,
You'll meet with troubles day by dav.
But If YOU stumble tits no sin,
just get up and try it again.
What ioy it is to think OF this,
OF living there in constant bliss;
And taste the sweets while life shall last,
Forgetting all the toll that's past
When YOU get there and look around,
| And view the treasure Won have found.
You'll he rejoiced and glad to tell
That you have spent your time so well.
! You know IL is well understood,
| You were created for some good;
Then TO your books, both soon and late
For if you ,rN YOU can be great
Now scholars, while Won have a chance.
Study your lessons and advance,
Ii you will only persevere,
| You will improve yourselves this year
Go to your school every day,
And do not idle your time away;
It's better for YOU to go to school
Than stay away and be fool.
Some go day and miss day;
After the sessions out they'll say,
My child's learned nothing all this quarter;
He hasn't advanced as he "oughter."
Perhaps too much time prolong,
In reading you this farewell song,
But now l will no longer dwell;
Then bid you all long farewell.
Farewell, my friends, farewell, my foes
Ny peace for these, my love to those"
Farewell, my scholars, parents too.
My love give to all OF you.
Ii should see you here no more,
l hope to meet you on that shore
Where We shall have eternal rest.
Among the legions OF the best
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Coroner Muehl was notified of the
affair and held an inquest yesterday.
The following is transcript of the
testimony:
A. ID. Lane y My daughter has
been working Us a domestic in the FAM
lily of Judge Daily in Sedalia for the
past three years. She came home last
Christmas and was cheerful, and she
remained one week. She came home
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WIS tuduc, anu III VIC POShCSo VI = So0e
Mr.. Prentice had hung on the wall,
we're found several large chunks of
meat, now decompOsed, which he had
picked up somewhere to feed to his fe-
line pets.
Major-General John H. Morgan,
the famous Confederate Kentucky
cavalryman and raider, though not
trained to arms, was q born soldier.
In ante-bellum days he was captain OF
heightened military company in Lex
ingtOn, and displayed those remarka-
bic traits which were to make him re-
nowned in Civil war annals.
One day, in the year 1883, o pris-
oner named Warren, confined in the
Jail at Lexington, murdered Jailer
Blakoe, who was an exceedingly
popular man in the community. The
news spread like wildfire and a mob
was Immediately organized to visitthe
Jail, batter in the doors, take Warren
out and hang him.
The mayor Of the city, seeing the
desperate situation, called upon Cap
tain Morgan to muster his men as
quickly as possible and march to the
defense of the jail.
The order was executed with Won
derful promptn&s and celebrity. The
boys shouidered their guns and fell
into line without waiting to put on
their uniforms.
They had no sooner arrived at the
threatened building than onward came
a maddened, bowling mob Of men,
numbering hundreds. Morgan had
only eighty men, but they were
thoroughly trained and disciplined.
The infatuated mas approached
nearer and nearer as though it would
trample down everything in its way.
Just then John Morgan gave the
command to his boys to take aim, and
a glistening row of Enfield rifles was
levelled at the ang-y mob. Morgan,
with the GOODNESS aud courage of the
born leader that he was, stepped
slightly in front of his ranks and told
the mob he would fire balls first, and
blank cartridges afterward if it did moi
disperse
This had for moment the desired
effect, the would-be lynchers sullenly
tell back, and the company were
ordered to recover arms. The moi
surged forth again with hardly les:
fury, but were again checked by the
firmness of Morgan, and Warren wa
saved.
The murderer was afterwards adj
Judged insane and died in an asylum
John II. Morgan became the hero o
Lexington and this feat Of arms led t.
his selection foran important comman'
at the beginning Of the Civil war 1
year later.
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had been absent from the Office some
days an employee entered his room and
was met by q very disagreeable
smell. rs though some sort Of
animal had died there and was
decomposing. A search for the cause
was made, and in the pockets of coat
Mr.. Prentice had hung on the wall,
were found several large chunks of
meat, now decomposed, which he had
picked up somewhere to feed to his fe-
line pets.
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Ground.Hog Meat

The Sedalia BAzoO published an
eminently original and creditable
"Ground-Hog' review edition Sunday.
Democrat.
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Coughing Leads to CONSUMPTION.
Kemp's Balsam stops the cough at once.
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THE HEIGHT OF MAN.
Alarming Conclusions Reached After Much
Study by "A StatistIcian.

Alarming Conclusions Reached After Much
Study by "A StatisticIan.
A French statistician has been study
ing the average heights of men at differ
ent periods of the worlds history and
has reached some alarming conclu-
sions.
The recorded facts extend over nearly
three centuries. 1t is found that in
1910 the average height of men in Eu-
rope was nearly 5 feet 6 inches. In
1890 it was feet 6 inches. In 1920 it
was feet 5 inches and fraction. At
the present time it is feet 3sf inches
1t is easy to deduct from these figures
a rate of regular and gradual decline in
human stature, and they apply this,
working backward and forward, to the
past and to the future.
By this calculation it is determined
that the stature of the first men at
tanned the surprising average of 16 feet
inches. The race had already deteri-
grated in the days of Og, and Goliath
was quite degenerate offspring of the
giants,
Coming down to later time, we find
that at the beginning of our era the
average height of man was feet, and
in the time of Charlemagne it was s
feet s inches
But the most astonishing result of
this mans study comes from the appli-
cation of the same law OF diminution.
1t is conclusiyelY shown that in 1000 A.
D, the height of the average man will
pc but fifteen inches, and in a few
thousand years more the end of the
world will come, for men will get so
short that there will be nothing left of
them.
This is altogether the most eomforta-
bic solution of the end-of-the-w world
problem that has been presented. II
will be so much more pleasant for the
coming man to diminish out of exist
ence than to be burned off the earth -.
Buffalo Express,
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|
1t is the custom in France for all the
fashionable world to go shooting in
the autumn and every owner of
landed estate invites his friends from
! Paris to visit him. When Adolphe
Thiers, the petit bourgeois statesman of
France, became presiden of the repub-
lie he was invited one autumn to take
part in the sports at the country estate
OF NJ Casimir-Perier. He accepted the
invitation, and appeared in the field in
shooting dress and armed with a gun.
The whole entertainment was really
in his honor NJ. Casimir- -Perier was
of course we'll aware that his old friend
knew nothing whatever of cunning he
instructed his gamekeeper to go with
him. and see that the guest of the occa-
sion bagged more game than anybody
else. The gamekeeper led the presi-
dent to certain spot and said
Your excellency, the game will all
be driven past this place. You have
only to remain here, and if you fire you
are bound to kill something or other"
But the president declined the op-
portunity and insisted upon travelling
about with the other sportsmen-ex-
cept that he never went to the right
place and never got shot at all.
The gamekeeper was in despair. The
distinguished guest kept him moving
about from place to place, but always
out of range of the game. Neverthe-
less, by collusion with others the game
keeper so managed it that when the
days sport was ended, NJ. Thiers, who
had not discharged his gun all day,
found a large lot of game at his feet.
THAT is yours, your excellency," said
the old gamekeeper.
This mine ?" said the president, in
astonishment.
Yes, your excellency."
The president looked up with a
twinkle in his eye.
"Ah, see p he said. Il never shot
anything before I became president so
| suppose this was killed by the Office,
not by the man p
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Awful Loneliness of the Plains.

Midocean is not more lonesome than
the plains; nor night so gloomy as that
dumb sunlight. 1t is barren of sound.
The brown grass is knee:deep-apd
even that trifle gives a shock, in this
hoof.obliterated land. The band of
antelope that drift, like cloud shadows,
across the dun landscape suggest less
of life than of the supernatural The
spell of the plain is wondrous thing
AT first it fascinates Then it be-
wilders. At last it crushes. 1t is as
sure as the grave-and worse. 1t is in
tangible but resistless; stronger than
hope, reason, will--stFonger than hu-
manity. When we cannot otherwise
escape the plains, one takes refuge in
madness. &C. +, Lummis, in Scribner's.
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81 Must Burn Your Ship."

An incident related in the recent BIZ
ography of Sir Provo Wallis, admiral OF
The British fleet, brings home to the
reader the cruel nature of war. 1t oc.
Cured during the war of 1912. An
American captain had taken fine ship
to Lisbon, where he had sold her cargo
for the use of the British army under
wellington, and received several thou
sands of dollars i'll return, which were
on board. Meantime war had been de-
clared, and on her homeward way she
fell victim to the British squadron.
One of the principal objects of her cap
tors was to obtain information.
The American captain was sent on
board the Shannon-which afterward
captured the famous Chesapeake-but
was kept in ignorance of the war and
of the fact that he was a prisoner. He
answered unreseryedly all the questions
put to him and Captain Broke, who
greatly disliked the deception he had
been obliged to practice, now felt it diff
iicult to make the prisoner acquainted
with the next step which must be
taken. At length he forced himself to
say:
Captain, I must burn your ship"
The American, overcome by surprise,
cried
Burn her p = -
Indeed L must"
Burn her for what Will not
money save her =? She is all my own
and all theproperty 1 have in the world.
Is it war, then ?"
YES" said Broke. Both parties were
painfully moved, and the scene did not
end without tear from each but duty
was duty, and the prize was destroyed
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While Mr.. r. j. Richey, of Altoona,
Mo-, was travelling in Kansas he was
taken violently i'll with cholera morbus.
He called at drug store to get some
medicine and the druggist recommend
ed Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy so highly he con-
cluded to try it. The result was imme-
diate relief, and few doses cured him
completely. 1t is made for bowel com-
plant and nothing else. 1t never fails.
For sale by Z. Il, Reynolds.