The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-04-25
A NEGRO'S BIG TOE.
A BAzoo Reporter Tackles a
laxative Texan, Who Got
Very Dry.
A Partisan Relic-Frank James
incidents and Anecdotes
Down South.

A BAzoO man met Texas horse
man on the through Galveston NJ.
X. Il T. train the other night. He
was great strapping fellow and an
ideal Texan. This Texan and his
wife, a pretty little woman, had been
no to Milwaukee on a visit. The
Texan and the BAzOO man were in
the smoking room of the sleeper ex-
patiating upon the present and future
greatness of Chicago. The Texans
throat became dry and began to
rattle. He rang up the porter and
ordered a pint of conversation
water" as they denominate it in Tex
as. As the porter was making change
the Texan reached into his pocket and
brought forth something that reminded
one of a big toe off a mummy of some
Egyptian Pharoah. He handed it to
the porter. That worthy reached out
his hand cautiously and took the OBJ
ject. After the colOred man had
thoroughly scrutinized the object the
Texan leaned back in his seat
and announced in a voice that
would be a prize and a fortune to
a lecturer in dime museum: THAT"
says he, ''is the left big toe OF the
--nigger that was mutilated and
burned to death at Paris, Texas"
With wild shrek the porter fled and
not once afterward did he come into
the presence of the brawny Texas
horseman. The Texan, who resides
at Denison, said that he had had
more fun out of that nigger's toe than
anything he had ever run across.
Then he related how it came into his
possession. He said that he did not
take part in the Paris affair, but that
he was up there in company with
Frank James, a former citizen Of Mis-
souri,, but now hOrseman of Dallas,
Texas. The day the deed was done,
after the butchering was over, he
could not bear to see it done, he said,
he had the left big toe carved off as
a mementO of the memorable occasion.
By the way, the Texan states that
Frank James Is now prosporousand
worthy horse dealer, or trader" in
the prevailing lingo, and lives in peace
and quiet in a neat cottage on one Of
the principal residence streets of Dali
las. The BAzoO's informant ought
to know, as James looks after the Dali
las end of his horse deals.
These Texans are queer people,
some of them at least. The one whom
The BAzoO man fell in with is one of
the queer ones. He was originally
from Pennsylvania, but had been in
the Lone Star State long enough
to be thoroughly Texanized
He was formerly a rail-
road conductor and intimated that
there was no need of trained railroad
men to take trains out Of Chicago,
without fear of a single ''smash.
"YOu could not corral smash with
four tracks to run on if you tried.
Any stripping, sir, could run whole
railroad. system with four tracks and
do it without break. It's different
down in Texas, quite different"
This man from Texas is republic
can in politics. He said he was run
ming freight train during the Cleve-
land-Blaine campaign. He had a
negro in his crew. On his run he had
nineteen towns to make. He had the
negro vote before he started in the
morning and intended to vote him tor
Blaine at ever place they touched
He had just nineteen chances for the
negro to vote during the day and not
delay the train. He voted him seven
teen times without a cog slipping,
but at the eighteenth place the
negro and the Texan. were nabbed.
When asked how things came out,
he remarked that il caused him more
time, trouble and money than the fun
was worth.
but what became of the negro!"
"Oh! he got three wears and a
half" remarked the Texan.
Having finished hi> cigar and con
versation water" the gentleman from
Texas put up his highly-prized dried
negro toe and turned into his berth
for the night.