The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-11-21
BARKIS' BUDGET.
The Bazoo's Faithful Core.
spondent Starts in With
the New Deal.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. Is, '9a.


never surrenders and don't intend t.
die for a good many years yet. Tht
"BazoO" once more heads the process
sion of the people now ON earth and
the country is safe.
1 believe it was Shakespeare said
that "where money goes before, all
ways lies OPEN" Perhaps he wa
right in his time and experience, but
in this country of live men and
women and in this great country We
find that Pluck, chats good old Eng
lish world. conquers all. 1t cant be
dOwned, the man who says he wont
Weld and sticks to it, is bound to
come out on top. | congratulate the
"Bazoo" man on his indomitable
pluck and Barkis il willin' to fight
under his banner now, henceforth and
forever.
| don't pretend to be immortal, but
! have been fighting the world, the
flesh and the devil Ed many years.
that have gotten used to it and feel
/ can keep it up for an indefinite
period. While the "BAzOo" has been
temporarily silent, great many
things have occurred in this big city
Of St. Louis. One of the funniest
was little conversation overheard
in a street car not very long ago. Be
it known to the readers of the BAZOO
that although l have not been in the
Queen City of the Prairie since
became the leading city of Central
Missouri, know by sight many of
her prominent citizens belt unknown
personally by them.
About a month ago, when
Mrs. Rebecca Cady brought
her suit for large amount
of money against tine estate of the
late David H. Armstrong, ] hap
pened to he on an Olive street cable
car pretty well filled with passengers.
Near me sat four gentlemen, well
known citizens of Sedalia, and all
prominent in state politics. They
were discussing the Armstrong-Cady
suit and as the car passed the Expo
sition building, said one of them
|.Let me see, wasn't it somewhere
about here that bath house was
located
A pleasant reminiscent smile over
spread the cOuntenances of his three
interlocutors, but only one, hand
some middle-aged gentleman who
has more than once been candidate
on the state democratic ticket, spoke:
YES" said he, | ''should think You
fellows ought to know"
''Seems to me-" said another,
1.-THE woman who run the place had
name somewhat similar to that of the
plaintiff in this Armstrong case.
Seems to you? Humph, should
think you ought to know. Cady
ought to suggest Ady, especially to a
man that has had your experience
NOh, here" demonstrated the party
Of the FIRST part, "there are some ex-
periences in a mans life, that are best
forgotten, at least that's what Doc.
Graham says, and he is mighty good
authority. Suppose We change the
subject"
Nv memory went back to the time
of Rebecca Ady. "Mrs. DIR. Ady,'
and her "bath and massage treat
ment. ladies in attendance and l re-
called writing a letter to the old ''Se-
dalia Democrat in which / re-
ferred to a visit to her domicil by
the gentlemen then before me. All,
well, we were all younger then and
not SO responsible" as we are now.
OF course you have heard all about
the Waterloo the democracy encoun-
tered in the late school election. The
The board met and reorganized on
Tuesday night. The republicans con-
trel everything, and there's scarcely
a name in the whole ''compoodle'
that fellow can spell or pronounce
without undergoing diet of Timber
ger, pretzels and beer.
Hitherto, the school board has been
.'too Irish" now it is ''toO German.
/ wonder will it ever become ''too
American.
German-American society Is ex-
cited over the publication in an after
noon paper of the Opel family scan
dial. The matter has long been dis
cussed sub-rosa in German-American
circles, but was kept out of the pa
pers and courts until an enterprlslng
mud-slinging reporter got an mixing
of it and of course printed it.
President Cleveland's appointments
to Federal offices meet with little APP
probation here. He has not put a
single representative St. Louis demo-
crat in any place.
playad ont and hankrupt business