The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-04-04
Thinks Hicks Slipped a Cog
and the Old Crowd We're
Fooled in "Good
Friday"
Believes the st. Louis Business
Outlook Good and Chats
Of Tuesdays EIec.
ton, Etc.
ST. LOUIS, March 81, '93.

EDITOR BAZOO :-Brer Hicks
seems to have missed a date or two
when he told us March would go out
rampant and the believers in the old
superstition that Good Friday is
always a gloomy, gruesome day, sad,
sombre and generally disagreeable,
are also mistaken this year and per-
haps disappointed.
This is the last day of March and
vet it Is the balmiest. brightest and
altogether most beautiful day we have
had this year.
GOOD FRIDAY SERVICES.
The usual solemn and impressive
ceremonies are being held in the
Catholic, Luthern, and Episcopal
churches and business is somewhat
depressed in Difference to custom and
christian practice. but there is a
Springiness and a healthyozone abroad
that make people feel good" in
spite of the fact that according to
tradition, we ought to be in sack cloth
and ashes. Perhaps, | am wrong, l
know | am not orthodox, but ! be-
lieve, that He who died to save us,
commends rather the cheerful disciple
than the fearful and uncertain. Fear
is an ignOble instinct. Faith and
hope and love, virtues.
SPRING BUSINESS.
am glad to record that the spring
business in ST. Louis which was not
encouraging at first, has taken on a
big boom and that both our wholesale
and retail merchants are doing an I'M
mense business, larger than ever be-
fore. There is also an unprecedented
amount of building going on and an
abundance of work for mechanics and
laborers Eighteen ninety-three prom
ises to he the greatest year SO far in
st. Louis history and her people are
hopeful and confident,
CORNER RULE ABOLISHED.
The "corner rule" ofthe Merchants
exchange has been abolished BY q
large majority and this market will be
wide open" for all classes of operators
hereafter. Time will tell Of the wis
dom of the policy. Our commercial
men may have been too "conserva-
tive"
POsTMAsTER's ASSISTANT.
Mr.. E. H. Semple has been ap-
pointed assistant postmaster in place
of Isaac H. Sturgeon, who resigned to
accept the republican nomination for
city comptroller. Semple will suit
Postmaster Harlow better than Stur-
geon, he is q narrow minded blgot of
about the same mental and moral cali
Der as Harlow himself. 1t is fortunate
for St. Louis and Missouri that it can
not be longereth president willappoint
u competent man postmaster here, who
will reconstruct the entire local post
Office system and give st. Louis an
honest, reliable and efficient postal
service, something that she has not
had for years.
"HEATHEN CHINEE' REGISTERING.
The Chinese of st. Louis are be-
ginning to register in obedience to the
law, which so unjustly discnminates
between them and other emigrants.
The time for the "pOor heather" to be
registered. labeled and licensed ex-
PRED on May 5. Personally, abom-
mate the Chinese, but really, they are
not any worse than the refuse Of
Europe. which is being constantly
thrown int the United States.
'UNwHrr OF JUSTICE"
The trial of the midwife Hotson for
causing the death of Laura Fits is in
progress this week. The effort to