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4 THE SEDALIA WEEKLY BAZOO, JUNE 7, 1892. SfljLATJA BAZOO Ib J. Wjsl Gaolfin Printing Comjam TEBISUF nJKMCBIPTIOH : DiUy, Inclai.ajSaoi y,ler er. W Bandar edition per yen, "JJ Waeklr. S2 number, oer Tit:. , I D&ilr. deli ered Ptrwrti .... I HEWS DULIU Regularly (spoiled ti i4 wots per copy. Ail .icripttoa! aj-aileia a trance, and d s oatinasd ttnl4f time piid for. IOW TO 8ISO 0II, t Bemlttince ''T he aide by dialt, moay Older or regitered letter, at oar rule. OlTe pcni offlce a is toll, including atate and count t. sad aidre! j. west ueoBwin, FtMSdentaad Manaeer- Ofleial Paper of the City of Sedalia TELEPHONE NUMBERS. BiRinMH oflice 48 Sunshine will do more for Sedalia now than quinine. The Syracuse conventior has proved to be a flash in the pan only this and nothing more. The tribe of Benjamin are at Min neapolis to stay, but the B'aine co horts are coming and it will be a pretty fight. Mrs. Blaine may not wear the bat, but she does wear the coat, vest and pants and Mr. Blaine will be a candi date for the nomination, beyond a doubt. The first thins a stranger dos when he arrives at Sedalia is to walk up to the Captain's office and leave hi pedi gree. Otherwise he is arrested and held as a suspect. Mexico Ledger. The "Captain"' probably means our own mayor, but the Ledger should remember that he bas reason to sus pect any stray animal whose pedigree is unknown to him. Bb White, however, can show the nick in his ear and he received with a brass band when he comes to Sedalia. Nobody will euspsct him of being anything but s whole souled newspaper man. As the walers recede from the flood ed farm3 and plantations the news is of the most encouraging de:cription. The early date of the rise permits the timely planting of seed, and the expe rience of former years teaches us to expect that the loss of crops will be very small. The American farn.er is prompt and self-reliant, and at all points along the river where the poor er cultivators have lost the means of iiding over the disastrous interval the "resources of the relief fund are being judiciously distributed, and are put in eirculation at once. The rich bottom lands of the Mississippi that only threa weeks go were scents of waste -and desolation are now alive with an energetic movement before which all traces of the recent misfor tune will speedily disappear. What a rema rkable contrast between the American way and the Russian way of mee ting a great calamity ! From our flooded districts not a single ap peal has gone up for aid from Strang en. What rel'ef was needed baa been spontaneously offered by the neighboring cities, or made up on the very spot where the overflows have ocmrred. And instead of silting d6wa in helpless and hopeless misery the farmers of America are merely spurred on to reneved activity to make good what they hive lost. Yet the R iisians are brave, laborious, cap ibis race; the difference is chiefly etween a community of free citizen?, ccustomed to takiog care of them Ives and a community of subjects tnied that natural privilege by a stupid deepoti-m. FOLLY AT SYRACUSE. The managers of the Syracuse as aamblage proved themselves to be very poor politicians. They were apparently so elated at finding them selves in a convention which they could c ontrol that they lost Eight of eveaything except a temporary eleva tion of themselves, says the New York World. In their resolution they laud Grover Cleveland, but in electing a contesting delegation to Chicago they have done more thnn all Mr Cleveland's enemies have been able to accomplish towards preventing his nomination. William R Grace deliberately im- parrelled the success of the candidate for President whom he profeesas to favor in ordrer to put himself at the haad of a new machine in New York. It was at onpe the most selfish and the most stupid move ever made by an ambitious politician, The only possible remedy for this blunder rests with the National Con. vention. It can and it undoubtedly will, as authoritatively foreshadowed in The World's Washington dispatch deny to the so-called contestants any official status whatever, and proceed to do iU buisness as though no May convention had been held. Unless party organization, party law and party precedent are to count for no thing this is frhat the National Con vention will do. With the matter thus disposed o! a nomination may be made even from this State, if that shall be deemed most expedient, which shall promise success by avoiding the humiliation ot of any and commanding the loya! support ot ell. Some people never know when they are well off. The men who organized a protest against the midwinier con vention, the purpose of which protest was long since accomplished, are ob viously of this clas. They have matched that monumental blunder in the erJort to rebuke it. A QUESTION OF HONOR. An article in the Tipton Times, in reference to Noland'a fall, says : "With the first breath of suspicion Gov. Francis began a systematic in vestigation of the treasury, at th conclusion of which Noland was nus pende d from office. During this time a large sum of money was in the safe, with uothing to prevent the treasurer's appropriating any part of it to his own use. He knew what the result ne wuikeu uui ui luts uuiuc nuumi ai dollar in his pocket, with which to -j. 1 - -C i:r c i.: I r ii l . r l. ..a:-,. T.I. .... I proviue iue uevi . ui wue ana eiem ueiuiesa ujiiureu. Speaking on that subject, the writer once heard rsolaod declare ne woum have suffered his right arm toru on before he would have touched a dollar of the state's monev when he kuew he could not return it, and to do so would have been deliberate stealing. There i3 in the above a certain de fense of Noland which is peculiarly miechievous. Because he did not ap propriate the large sum of money in the safe, he is commen 'ed. What a false idea of honor we have' here Would it have been worse for Noland to have appropriated the sum which was in the safe io his own use, than to have robbed the treasury de liberalely, day after day, of nearly 833,000," to gratify his mania fo: gtmbling? Certainly not; neith er does he deserve the least consideration for refraining from appropriating such a .sum as he had not yet had time to steal. He did not appropriate that Bum, but is there any individual so lost to common sense as not to believe that when a man be trays every trust bestowed upon him, when he takes a solemn oath to be true to his charge and then plots and plans, day after day and month after month, to deceive those who have given him the charge, that his sense of honor is so great that he would not have cleaned the platter had he not been caught at his rascally work? It is high time for the democrats of this, state to show that they have no use for men of the Noland stamp, it is high time iu the interests of justice that the s'atement that no men with influential friends go to the peniten tiary in Missouri no matter what may be their misdeeds, is proven to be false and it is high time that such falla cies as those which have been set forth because this thieving treasurer has been lightly sentenced for his crime were cut short. Honorable demo crats do not moke theft a part of their creed, they do not call a spade a hoe, neither do they condone an offense again-t honor and principle because a man has a wife and eight children. It is the fault of the criminal that the innocent must suffer with him and the cowardly plea for mercy which such criminal makes when his crime is found out, is disgusting to men among men. Does the man who commits a crime for a paltry sum gain anymore lenient treatment because he has a family who is innocent? Not so. He is held responsible as he should be and it is the man who deserves the punishment wno saouia oe neld re sponsible in all such cases and not the law which finds him guilty and assesses punishment. It is the war ol criminals to be penitent.when caught. bold and defiant when undiscovered. It is a queer idea of honor indetd which credits a man who is already a thief because he refrained from being a still greater thief and such reasoning I is not calculated to serve any purpose save the one of encouraging youth to steal largely if it steals at all. Mis souri demands fealty in office and she will not condon? betrayal no matter where the blow falls. MR. BLAINE RESIGNS. James G. Blaine, secretary ot state sent in his ns'gnation yesterday to President Harrison, in a few terse words. It was very promptly accep ted. Now the fight is on, and it will prubably be one of the sharpest and most bitter known to American poli tics. The resignation means that the friendfc of Mr. Blaine have prevailed up'jn him to permit his name to be presented to the Minneapolis conven tion. Further on it mems the nomi nation of the plumed knight the de feat of President Harrison, and a general factional fight in the republican ranks, the wounds 'rom which years will be uetded to heal. The friends of Mr. B'aine are jubilant at his action of yesterday, while the friends o' the president are visibly despondent. It is the general opinion among the unprejudiced both at Minneapolis and Washington that the ex secre tary.of state will be nom inated, and a democratic congress man voiced the sentimeut of that party when he said: "It is well Cleveland defeated Blaine once be ... . . Wjjj it again, , THE NEW ROAD. The Indications are Most En couraging for the Early Construction of the S. S. M & Jf. Railway. Mr. O. A. Cran.lall is expected home from the east to-morrow, where he went in company with Col. G. A. C. Wonley, of Springfield; W. J. Cox, of Dewitt ; L. S. Boden, ot Brookfield and (Jen. S. M. Drake, of Centerville, Iora. The obje:t of their yisit was to conftr with capitalists and railway magnates in the interest of the buildmg of the Springfield, Sedalia, Marshall & Northern Rail road. Col. Woolley has already returned to Springfield and is greatly encour aged at the outlook. He stated briefly that the results of their interview with capitalist were very encouraging. A year ago he made a trip on the same mission, but the men of means re quisite to push such enterprise, in formed him that it was useless to talk about the matter at that time. That a better feeling of confidence exists now is shown by the fact that Gen. Russell Sage devoted nearly an entire after noon to an interview with the Missouri visitors, and appeared deeply inter ested in the enterprise. "Everything is encouraging," said Col. Woolley, "and notbiog is dis couraging. Of course an enterprise of such magnitude as our consolidated railway companies have undertaken cannot be accomplished in a minute. The men who furnish the means re- ?uire time to investigate the matter, t cannot be decided upon hastily like the purchase of a house and lot. Still we expect to hear something definite within two or three weeks. WHAT THE INDICATOR SATS. The Daily Indicator, a New York journal devoted exclusively to finan- ! r c . i ces, says in iisrssue ui oaiaruar, may 28: A project is on foot in which it is hoped to interest the Iowa Central, involving the organizition of a con struction company to build a line of road from Centreville, la., to Sa bine Pas, Tex., on the gulf of Mex ico. The proposed line is to be cal led the Dntutb, Sioux City & Sabine Pass railway. The proposed route is to lead from Centreville to Sabine Pass, through De Witt, on the Mis souri river, Sedalia Springfield, Mo., Dardanelle, Hot Springs, Ark., and Alexadra La., From the last named point to Sabine 'will be used. The scheme involves the construction of about 295 miles from Centreville, Iowa, to Springfield, Mo., the line it is stated having already been survey ed, loca'eA and prepared tor construction. GREENE C0UNT1. Stone Carries the County for Gov ernor; Sherwood for Su preme Judge and Ste phens for Treas urer. Spbisofteld, Mo., June 4. Spe cial. Delegates to judicial conven tion at St. Louis and State nominating convention at Jefferson Cify were se lected here today. The fight was a hot one, the issue being on judge of the Supreme Court. Judge Sherwood of this county was a candidate for renomination. Fight was made for him by railroads and against him by voters who said they were opposed to corporations controlling the "su preme bench. Sherwood carried the county by three votes majority. The delegates are for Lon V. Ste phens for state treasurer and Stone for governor. GHOCER SUMEHWELL GONE. He Disappears From Home in a Mysterious Manner. R. S. Sumerwell, commission mer chant, at Twenty-first and Walnut streets, reports the disappearance ot his brother, James S. Suuierwell, pio prietor of a meal market at Twenty first and Bellcvtew avenue, says the Kaiisas City Journal. Mr. Sumerwell left his s'ore Tues day night at 8 o'clock, and. turning to his younger brother, E. B. Sumer well, a clerk in the adjoining grocery store of Mrs. Maze, laughingly said : "It I dou't get back again to-night in time to lock up, you take the money out of the drawer and take it with you. and lock the door and give the key to my wife." Since that time nothing has been seen or heard of him, nor can any clue to bis whereabouts be found. He had in the neighborhood of S50 in his pockets when he left, and was dress'd in a da'k suit of clothes. He weighs about 140 pounds, and stands about 5 feet 10 inches, ba3 candy hair and beard, blue eyes, and is 45 year old. No rras-n whwtevtr can loe assigned for his disappearance, as his financial condition wns known to be all right, and he never bad contracted any habit of drinking or staging away from home without leaving notice with his family. Ia b claimed by his friends that about two years aj,o Mr. SuniTttel was ill for a space of six months, when his head bothered him n great deal and he acted very strangely. After he became well the mental tnuhle van ishe''. His wife stated yesteidiy that she had noticed for seveial days past that his mind was troubling h:m, but as he appeared to be rational, nothing was thought of it. She dots not sus pect foul play nor suicide, but thinks tut under a temporary derangement of bis mind he has wandt-red away, and that he will turn up all right in a few days. The'greatest anxiety is felt for his mother, who lives in the Dext houe to the one occupied by his family. She is 76 years old and is in an en feebled condition, and the suspense which naturally attends circumstan ces of this kind is telling npon her. The fimily is mucb worried. It was learned at the Citizens' bank that Mr. Sumerwell had overdrawn bis account slightly, and a check for 880 was presented there yesterday and had to be returned. But this wns Dot unusual, and had be been here the check would have been honor ed He owns a two story brick bui'ding at Twenty first street and Belleview avenue and seveial dwelling houses, which pay bim a rental of 8100 per month, be sides the iuome he derives from his market. He has been a resident of Kansas City fourteen years, thirteen of which he bas lived at the corner ot Twenty-first street and Belleview avenue, being one of the first to locate in that vicinity. His brother thought he might have gone to Denver to visit a brother who resides there, but after telegraphing he received an answer yesterday that James had not been there. His de-ctiption has been sent all over the west, and it his body should be found there are papers and letters on his person sufficient to identify him. We want money, and to cet it i will sell our millinery at cost. Comeqaiek. BOXMaRCHE, 503 Ohio street The carriage-making industry haa turned out lots ot good fel'oes in its t;me. Bingbamton Leader. for Infants "Caatorl a Is to well adapted to cha lrrn that I recommend it aa cuperior Io acj prescription known to ne." H. A. Abcbzb, M. D., UI So. Oxford SL, Erooiajn, X. T. NELL'S LETTER Bad Behaviour at a Wedding- Funeral Flowers. Etc Der Madge : There was a nret'v wedding in this city a few days ago and the briie looked beautiful of course. and all the detiils were managed in a manner wuicu won praise from all but well let me tell you that there are people in Se'n!ia, who ought to be relegated to the back woods," they Iiavu t a gtain of politeness, thev havti't the least sense ot decorum Trie wedding I referred to took place at a church and invitations had betn sent to all friends who might care to witness the ceremony and of course seats were reserved for these. The dear public, however, who were not invited, concluded that it was a free show and they worked it, m slang parlance, for all it was worth. They took possession of the pews and by the time the ceremony was over tbey blocked up the chuica exits in such a manner that the imme diate relatives of the bridal party were almost unable to find an egress. iNow, .Madge, it does seem to me that people have some rights even in such a matter as a wedding, and one of these rights is to nave friends present, it desired, and none other. There is a certain delicacv. to say nothing of etquette, which t rjhibits those who have not been remembered with invitations to weddings, etc , from being present, aud a good many who struggled and stared Wednesday evening, should bear the fact in mind. ror my part, 1 neither believe m public weddings nor public funerals. Both are in bad form, because both give rise to vulgar curiosity, which had best be quelled. More especially should a funeral be private. It does not in the least mit igate the grief which we suffer at part ing with our loved ones to know that people are present at the funeral with wbum the deceased never bad an ac quaintance, and who are there merely to take notes and commaot on the possible cost of the coffin, the hem on the munriiinz veil, the number of the floral offerings, etc. In c -nuection with these latter 1 am glad to note that it is begin o in-r tj be the custom to omit funeral de sign, aucu as broken wne 1, broken columns, pillows and the like, which have a stiff look and carry with them nothing but a sense of tortured ro-es and lilies, and substitute instead loose bunches of flowers, twined with their own foliige. Tnia change in popular taste 'may be hard on the florists, but it is h great saving to those who study artis tic effects and have long shuddered at the floral abortions which they have seen added to the list of funeral trap pings. There ia really more love ex pressed in the little posey gathered by tender hands and laid above the pulse less breast qf the dead, there to exhale its fresh sweet fragrance, than in a hundred designs where the word "Rest," has been made ot immortelles and kept in stock, so as to be filled upnn order and when I die Madge, dear, I want nothing, if I am not to have the posey. "Simon says thumbs up," has been a popular title for the sweet girl grad uates this year, Madge. I have counted no less than eight who have used this title. In the march of progress, it does seem to me that the school commence ment has little to boast of. Nobody is such a fool as to suppose that the bop worn essay is not at once recog nized and yet year after year they are chased out of hiding and the same inane twaddle is repeated. Now why could not every pupil be allowed to select some subject on which she or he could write 'intelli gently and if not this be allowed to select from standard authors a bit of prose or poetry or in fact why should the public commencement be held at all? It is no test of scholarship it is merely one more show which should go in hand with show weddings and funerals. Honestly, Madge dear, it looks as. it nothing could be accomplished with out the blare of trumpets anymore and Children. Caatorl cud Colle, Consttpatioa, Sour Stomach. Diarrhoea. Eructation, Kills Wonua, give alwp, and promotes i (Test ion. WT tuout injurious medicatta Taa CciTAca Conraxr, TT Murray Street. K. . and while modesty is something we often hear of, yet like the violet.it has been so much forced from under the shrouding hedgerow of refinement that it is hard to recognize the vir -tue. A few days ago, I happened to get hold of a diary which wa3 written by a certain young man in this city, who if he had the brains would be a dude. I made a transcript of it and here it is: Woke this morning at 10 o'clock in love. I know ii because my toma to omlette wa3 very repugn int to me and I could not drink my iced tea. Wonder who I'm in love with? It will be awiu'.ly inconvenient, especi ally as I'm engaged to Dora. It mu.-t be one ot the Smither girls, or else Susie B , of Warrensburg thiuk it must be one of the Smither girls, but which one is it. that's the question. What will Dora say, I wonder?" Deah! deah! couldn't eat any luncheon. Know now its Susie. It can't be one of the Smither girls, bs cause Choily said they were laughing at me all last evening. Couldn't eat any dinner. Its love ; Choily says so, and Cholly knows. Said he had it once, couldn't eat, for got to change his pocket handkerchief for over two hours. Symptoms exact ly likn mine. Think I'll tell Dora about it. As we are to be married in August, it may interest her. Told D.ira all about it, and 'y gad its all right. I'm in love with her she said so herself, and she ought to know. I'm awfully lucky. Gving to tell Cholly ; he'll-be awfully surprised for a fact. SOME THOUGHTS. Why do people go where they are not wanted, and then think they are abused because reminded of the tact. Why do women go where tbey are not wanted more than men. Ten to one not a man was at the wedding Wednesday night who was not "ex pected." Why do fl .wera stripped of all fol iage aud reared up on wire have more significtnee than when with the dew, nature's tears, upon ihem, they are twined and placed above the dead by loving hands. Why are dudes and dog fennel al lowed to exist one is about as useful as the other, and both are a protest gainst good temper and sweet smells, and with this ugly fling at the next thing to nothing, I am yours as ever, Nell. Mamma When that boy threw stones at you why didn't you come an tell me instead of throwing them back Litt'e 8on tell you ! Why you ouldu't hit a barn door. Good News. Towanda, Though Lata, Asks Aid. Toward A, Kan., June 4. On- March 31 last this town was almost totally destroyed by a tornado. Temporary aid was generously given by neighbor ing cities, but most of U was used ia caring for the sick ana wounded. A relief committee has been organized and asks subscriptions. All money will be received by Secretary J. C. Kuhlmann. R. T. MILLER, 1. D. Physician and Surgeon. Dr. Miller ia a regulxr graduate qt the'St. Louis Medical College, one of the oldest and best Medical Colleges in the west. He gives special, atten tion to chronic cases in medicine and surgery. At one time during the war he had charge of one of the largest government hospitals in Central Mis souri, in which there were several hundred sick and wounded soldiers. He is now engaged in manufacturing a full line of regular remedies (not patented nor copyrighted.) In connec tion with hia regular practice, his medicines are intended to take the place of the patent nostrums of the day. $ OFFICE AND LABRATORY At his Drug Store, 113 Oh;o Street.