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Show "JOE BOWERS," AN OLD SONG. "We quite agree with an unknown writer, who points the finger of shame at "Old 'Missouri" where the "Dawg Song" has displaced "Jxe Bowers" as the state song, and who charges' that Missouri has fallen into base inconstancy, and dark ingratitude. There was not a man or woman, in crossing the "plains" about the time of the gold excitement in California or soon thereafter, who did not hear "Joe Bowers." It was the song of the plains and of the western country. "When the roads wore dusty, the watering places far between and the long journey seemingly endless, the men who wcrcthus laying the foundations o a new empire, drove away the blues and threw off dull monotony by singing "Joe Bowers." ' ' - |