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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2!», ltoi4.
PIUS IX. AND JEFF DAVIS.
tier from the Former to the Latter
I* c.pree.InK Sympathy lor Him
and Hie Followers.
puli Correspondence Boston Herald.
.<Inl8«3,” said Mr. A. Dudley Mann,
„dter reading the letter which hia Ilolir
sent to the Archbishops ot New
York and New Orleans, instructing
Ljn to use all their eilorts for the res-
"atiou of peace between the North
d r-outh, Mr. Davis determined to
*“ I to the I’opo his own thanks and
W , of his peoplo for the Christian
nty and sympathy displayed in that
• tie. This communication, dated
September 23, 1803, reached me the
) llte r part of October, and X
mile my preparations to leave
ihe city oi llrusscls, where I was
then staying, for Dome immediately.
I reached the Eternal City on the 9th
0 (November; on the 11th I had an in
terview with the Cardinal Secretary bf
£.,» Antonelli, who assured mo of an
Knee with the Sovereign Pontiff.
Antonelli asked mo several questions
lbout Mr. Davis, who, he said, had
rreated lor himself a name that would
ferever rank with those of the most il-
natriouB statesmen of modern times.
OB the 13th, accompanied by my son,
*lio was also my private secretary, I
entered the Vatican, and was received
Lifts Holiness, Pope Pius IX. Very
goon after my entrance, and after I
had made known to him the ob
ject of my mission, ho explained to
why he had sent his letter to
the Archbishops; that it was because
he had been so alliictcd by the horrors
of our war that liehadasked his priests
to use their influence toward termina
ting the deplorable state of hostilities
then in existence. I then handed him
the letter from Mr. Davis. Ho took it,
looked for a moment at the address,
then at the seal, and then cut the en
velope. ‘It is in English, a language
thaLt donotunderstand,’ lie remarked.
■If Sis agreeable to your Holiness, my
Kcretary will translate its contents to
yon,’ I said, and ho replied that be
would be gratified if my son would do
•0. The translation was made in
French, slowly and distinctly, and
during its progress I did not cease
for an instant to carefully survey
the features of the I’ontiff. A sweeter
expression of pious affection, of tender
benignity, never adorned the face of
mortal man. Every scntenco of the
letter appeared to Bensibly affect him.
At the conclusion of each, he laid his
hand down upon the desk and bowed
approvingly. When the passage was
retched wherein Mr. Davis states that
‘we have offered np at the footstool of
onr father who is in heaven prayer In-
epired by the samo feelings which ani
mate your Holiness,’his deep-sunken
oris visibly moistened, were upturned
toward the throne Upon which ever sits
the Prince of l’coce. The emotion
occasioned by tho translation was suc
ceeded by a silence of some timo. At
tagurhi I It linrss askrd w 11• *t!11• r M r.
Divii was a Catholic. I answered in
the negative. Ho then asked if I was
one, and I informed him that I wan
r. • i! - I l"lim*s.s nnu M;itt‘<I that tin*
Northern government had endeavored
an impifsHion abroad that
they were fighting for tho abolition ef
slavery, and that it might perhaps be
judicious in us to consent to grad
ual emancipation. I replied that
the subject of slavery was one
■■ 1 ' ll the ’ gnvmMiMMit
of the Confederate Statej, like
that of the old United States, had no
control whatever; that all ameliora
tions with regard to tho institution
' t r.'ivnl from the States them-
•dvet, which were as Hovereign in
their character In this regard ns Great
Britain, France, or any other continen
tal power or jHta to; that true pliilan-
throphy shuddered at the thought of
the liberation of the slave in tho man
ner attempted by Mr. Lincoln's ad-
nuniitration; that such a procedure
would be practically to convert tho
well-cared-for, civilized negro into the
ttmi-barbarian; that such of our slaves
•* had been captured or
tiocoyed off by our enemies
t in an incomparably worse
condition than while they were in the
of their masters; that they
wished to retain to their old homes,
the love of which was the strongest of
»«raffections; that if. indeed, Afri
can slavery were an evil, there was a
P°Wfr which, in its own good time,
would doubtlesM remove that evil in a
oore gentle manner than that of caus-
mg the earth to be deluged with blood
lor its sudden overthrow. His Holiness
r * c *ived these remarks with an ap
proving expression, and said that Iliad
to be proud of tho self-sacrificing
-uetotion of my countrymen to
|the cause for which they wi-re eontend-
The most ample reason.* I rc-
and yet scarcely so much as of
r °^uitrywomen, whose sorrows and
Vnvsopns, whose transformation in
instances from luxury to penury,
were unparalleled, and r«mid not b-ad-
*joately described hv any living lan-
There they had been from tho
|??mencement, there they wore still,
September of the present year. It was
certainly a cause of no ordinary rejoic
ing to us to be informed—by this gen
tleman, and by tho letter of your Ex
cellency—of tho lively satis
faction you experienced, and
of tho deep sense of gratitude
you entertained toward us, illustrious
and honorable sir, when you first pe
rused our letters, addressed to those
venerable brothers, John, Archbishop
of New York, and John, Archbishop of
New Orleans, on tho 18th of October
of last year, in which we again and
again strongly urged and exhorted
those venerable brothers, on account of
their great piety and episcopal solici
tude, to make it the object of their con
stant efforts and of their earnest study,
acting thus in our name, to put an early
end to the fatal civil war prevailing
in that country, and to
re-establish among the American
people peace and concord, as
well as feelings of mutual charity and
love. It was also peculiarly gratifying
to us to hear that you, illustrious'and
honorable sir, as well as the people
whom you govern, are animate J by the
same desire for peace and tranquillity
hich we so earnestly inculcated in the
letters referred to, addressed to the
said venerable brothers. Would to
God that the other inhabitants of those
regions (the Northern people) and their
rulers, seriously reflecting upon the
fearful nature bf intestine warfare,
might, in a dispassionate mood, hearken
to and adopt the counsels of peace.
We, on our part, shall not cease
offering up our most fervent prayers to
Almighty God, begging and supplicat
ing Him, in his goodness, to pour out
upon the people of America a spirit of
Christian charity and peace, and so
reiyiie them from the multitude of
evils now afflicting them. We also
pray the same all-clement Lord of mer
cies to shine upon your Excellency the
light cf His divine grace, and to unite
you and ourselves in bonds of perfect
love.
“Given at Rome, at St. Peter’s, the
3d day of December, 1803, in the
eighteenth year of our pontificate.
“Pius P. P. IX.
THE SOLID SOUTH.
i policy of the Republican party was de-
_ ... .. i stroving the constitution were received
Causes That Have United the Voters of ljv tll0 ] 0 aders and organs of that party
the Southern States Poiitlcali,. 1 j n the North and South alike with
N. Y. Herald. contempt. Nevertheless tli6 in-
Wabuinoton, August 17, 1884.— I telligent white element of the
When Leo surrendered the Southern Sout "' ' vitl1 * KY°' vin i; »euse of
peoplo possessed only the skv above! dan . g . er , «**itatioital. government
*, r ' , - • ■ , and to liberty, from frenzied, lnconaid-
themandthe ca-tli beneath. Nearly \ orate and fanatical legislation, persist-
all their substance had been devoured : ed in opposition to it until finally the
by tho war.' Their currency became whoIe scheme to extinguish the States
worthless; the money of the Union, it
self tho creature of the war, had not
penetrated their territory, and for
which they had nothing to givo in ex
change. Destitute of public revenues,
army of sick and
crippled soldiers became a charge
upon their private charity. Their
commerce was destroyed, their hus
bandry languid and tiieir social system
overthrown. They were cast down
with defeat and their sonls filled with
sad memories of their kindred slain
in battles. In the midst of this dis
comfiture and ruin they began a new
society; and in twenty years of ardu
ous and heroic effort have converted
poverty into abundance and establish
ed material prosperity throughout
and politically control the South
through Federal agencies fell in one
general wreck. Tile Smith, during
this struggle against the insidious and
implacable attempt of tho dominant
party to change the nature of the
Union, has been covered with derision
and censure.
THE FUTURE OUTLOOK.
The timo has come, however, when
their resistance to revolution has been
vindicated and the revolutionists con
demnedby the highest authority in the
nation. A pertinent inquiry at this
timo is, will Mr. Blaine, if elected,
pursue and continue the errors ot his
party in the past 7 Does he possess
the genius and tho grasp of statesman
ship to interrupt its policy in that re
spect and restore the constitution as
the rule of his political action, or
their borders. This people, valiant in will he let the imbecility of small rpen
“ - •• •• dim the splendor of his great opportu
nities. If unconstitutional class legis-
uch
than
irthly Uu
'>• holy spirit*
iross mod tho
His Holiness
with evident
ild like to
effectually
il good re
al
n- ti
ailed my-
lye resolute, if mesiu,
in fievnll ill, i
I, u.icier. Ill
the last at tho
“‘•‘oeepnlcher.’
| received tiu S statement
'usfai'tion, and said be wi
^Anything that could be
I iOr that even pn
"n.KIUtll was 1
I " c.inl, I ;
ffj,® 1 declaration to Inform hie
t*>*t it was not tho armies of
keen 7 1 !’ r th which the South was
, n K in hoeti'o array, but that
f »»the armies of European crca-
I '’crnun and Irish, chiefly
itarniJr'? 1 "’ who were ta-
mi v° onfignitt: by circulars
Linf or tliem government to their
... agents abroad, ostensibly for
i JTSF 0 ** °i securing nigh wages,but
i.,**, 1 tyto fill up ’tho constantly de-
I k2.? nk * °i onr enemy; that these
[unfortunates were tempted by high
amounting pi f'slO, $fiC0 and
Rkfdirtand tike npam.s against
“•south; that, once in tho service,
invariably placed in tin-moat
H“™ 1 PoinU of danger mi the battle-
in consequents thereof,
kliict rt f n:o bad ceiirre! in
* n entire brigade
KsbS.»JWttlead „ r » upon
L'-SM* •bstbnt for tin- foreign
Tlh«‘North would m*.-r hk. lv
I .11, mil,- ng . il) .1.0
K22M00Tcrnvm,.r Ih..-,,,1:1,
A VISITING STATESMAN.
The Affecting; stbry of n widow Who
Kept Bonrders.
, Detroit Free Press.
She was t(ie impersonation of the
good-natured, old-fashioned, kind-
hearted and motherly landlady. She
was fat and forty, and as she sat down
to tell tho superintendent of police her
story she smoothed down her check
apron and sort o’ tucked up her sleeves
as if getting ready to lay the founda
tion for a pot-pie.
“Twowceksago,” shebegan, "a very
distinguished-looking man about fifty
years old called at my house to secure
board.”
“Yes’m.”
“He represented himself as a visit
ing statesman, and 1 gave him the
best room and the head of the tablo."
"What’s a visiting statesman?”
“Well, that’s one thing I want to
ask yon about. I alius s’posed a states
man was a member of Congress, or had
something^ other to do at Washing
ton. I kinder made up my mind he
was visiting the hole they dug for the
new post-oflice, or wanted to see sun-
thin’ about the custom-house, or was a
government agent for the cholera.”
“Urn. Well?”
“Well, when Saturday come he said
bis credentials hadn’t arrived, and in
stead of paying his board ho borrowed
of mo. ’
“What credentials?”
“I dunno. X never saw anything of
the sort, and dunno what they are made
of or how they look. 1 didn’t want to
give my ignorance away to a visiting
statesman, and so I didn’t ask any
questions.”
“Well?"
“Well, the next Saturday afternoon
ho came in rather hurriedly and. said
his credentials bad arrived, and wanted
$ 10 to get them certified.”
“How certified?”
“I dunno. 1 ’sposo it had something
to do with swearing on a Bible, and it
struck mo that *10 a swear was awful
dear. However, I let him have tho
money.”
“And you havon’t seen him since?”
“No, sir. Do you think he could
have fallen into tho river?”
“Ho was a fraud, madam. He has
played you for two weeks board and $15
In cash.”
“La! but you don’t say so!"
“Thai’s tho cose." •
"G-eat stars! but he was a visiting
statesman! If our statesmen descend
to such tricks, wbat will this country
come to?” . ,.
“He lied to you; tho fellow probably
never saw Washington.”
“Mysakes! hut did you over! And
them credentials?”
“All bosh.ma’nm.”
“Great cata! but it makes me shiver
all over! Ami so I’m beat!”
“Yes.”
“Well! iWell! - Did I ever! And
when he gets the credentials certified
to will ho come back ?”
“Never-never more.”
“Dear me! but l must hurry home
and tell my daughter Ann. lie kinder
made love to her, and she kinder re
ciprocated, and in case they made a
matcli 1 was to keep house for ’em in
Washington, and they were to take
dinner with the President every day
Did I ever, ever! What statesmen
What credentials! What wickedness!’
Justice that Didn’t Miss Firs.
Atlanta CoutUotlon.
The stock law is in force in several of
the militia districts of this county, and
among them is Peachtree district, or
North Atlanta. Charles Howell, a col
ored man, runs a small farm in the dis
trict, and was recently annoyed by the
hogs of Mr. Phil McIntyre getting into
and damaging his crops. Taking ad
vantage of the stock law, Howell ar
rested and impounded the hogs, claim
ing his damages against them. McIn
tyre did not see the matter in the same
light with Howell, and deliberately
broke down tho pound and drove away
bis hogs in triumph. For this act he
was indicted, and yesterday had his
trialinthe City Court. The testimony
was dear as to the commission of the
offenco, and the jury returned a verdict
of guilt#. Judge Dorsey imposed a
lined ot $15 and costa, $3.05 damages to
the prosecutor, or one month in the
common I«n- -
A Natural Mlatake.
Albany Medium*
Meeting an East Dougherty farmer
r day, wc inquired:
..in
the presence of disaster, are solidly op
posed to the party which has controll
ed the federal government during tho
riod of their rehabilitation. What
is caued this state of feeling?
Where does the germ of political boI-
idity in the Soutli have its seat? Does
it rest in disloyalty to the federal gov
ernment or a dislike of the Northern
people, or is it rather begotten of fidel
ity to the law? The South is not smart
ing from political disappointment, for
it has put forward no candidate for a
controlling federal position since the
war. It does not dislike the people
of tho North, for it has voted with great
heartiness for candidates for the highest
positions in the government whose dis
tinction was gained by military and
civil opposition to the Soutli during the
war. No man of national fame coming
from the North has. visited the "Soutli
since peace was declared who has Dot
been received there with cordiality.
Tho Southern peoplo cannot, therefore,
truthfully be charged with contumacy.
Their hostility to the Republican party
rests upon other grounds.
FEDERAL ENCROACHMENTS,
When tho Soutli" returned to tho
Union it took upon itself an obligation
to obey the constitution of the United
States, with the amendments thereto,
and all laws enacted in pursuance
.thereof. This obligation included the
duty of resisting enactments in viola
tion of the cortstitution. The duty of
resisting unconstitutional laws is os
sacred as the obligation to obey
constitutional ones. In our jurispru
dence tho Federal and Stato govern
ments, operating witiiin their respect
ive spheres, compose but one govern
inent. The functions of one govern
ment are divided between them. They
both make one system. Neither can
bo impaired without constitutional in
jury to tho other. Thoso provisions of
tho constitution of the Union which
forbid the general government from
subverting the State are as highly es
teemed by tho federal constitution it
self as is any other provision thereof,
so that he who resists an, encroach
ment of the federal upon Stato power
docs high service to the constitution
and the Union.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS.
On thi 31st day of May, 1870, Con'
gress, in the bands of the Republican
party, passed, @nd a Republican Presi
dent approved, an enactment the third
and fourth sections of which under
took to seize and control tho whole
election machinery of the Southern
States, and to subject officers of State
elections to Federal supervision. The
effect of this enactment, if sustained,
would have been to destroy the in
dependence of these States in
their dogmatic concerns. This
enactment was resisted by the
South, and after breeding political
pestilence tor four years, was declared
void by the Supreme Court of the
United States. In 1871 Congress en
acted what was Known in the revised
statutes of the United States as section
5519. The section was broad enough
in its terms to extend Federal criminal
jurisdiction to the trial and punishment
of two or more persons who deprived
either directly or indirectly any person
of class of persons of the equal protec
tion of the law or of equal
f irivlleges or immunities under the
awe, thereby transferring to the Fed
eral government, all offices ot which
were filled by Republicans, power over
local political matters, by the constitu
tion confided to the States. Under this
pretended law indictments were found
In federal courts and proseentions car
ried forward until 1882, when the Hu
preme Court annulled it. On March
1,1875, the civil rights act, entitled
“An act to protect all citizens in their
civil aud legal rights” was approved.
The scope otthis act is indicated by its
title. It covers the remnant of State
jurisdiction uninvaded by former actsot
Congress. In 1883 this act shared the
fate of its revolutionary predeces«or»,
and was cast out of the family of laws
by tho Supreme Court ot the United
States. That court says of it in declar
ing it void: “In other words, it steps
into tlie domain of local jurisprudence,
and lavs down rules for the conduct of
individuals in society toward each
other, and itbposes sanctions for the
enforcement of these rules without re
ferring in any manner to any supposed
action of the State or its author! ties,’
iation, in which Southern political
solidity has its root and by which it is
fertilized, be abated, present party re
lations in the Soutli may dissolve and
Southern thought affected on economic
and administrative questions as the
thought of other sections is affected.
The Swimmin' Place*
H. J. Burdette in the Burlington Hawkeye.
I mean “swimming place?” Not
much 1 do not. I mean swimmin 1
place. I never heard it called anything
else, anil I’ve been right there at thu
place and swum—no, not swam, sn um;
we didn’t swam in those days, we
swum—swum in it a thousand times,
and you never saw the place I don’t
suppose. There was one boy, come to
think of it, who called it a swimming
place. Ho came from Vermont; his
uncle was a judge, or Governor, or
shoemaker, or something of that kind.
He said awftahnoonand grawss and lie
called a burr a buh. He came up to
Charlie Eiting’s with us one “awftah-
noon” and said it was a charming
swimming place, and asked Bud I’eters
if the “watah was wahm.” Bud he
told him how warm it was, and then
said it was cooler and nicer in the
shade, right where the big flat rock
was. And this boy. who called it a
swimming place, he went down to the
big rock—you remember, right under
the ico chute?—and jumped in.
There were two things that combined,
as Buh Peters had truly said, to make
the water cooler for all, and nicer for
some purposes, right by the big flat
rock. One was a living spring of clear,
cold water that came gushing up out of
tho deep, cold, sunless caverns of the
earth right there. The other was, the
rock was also the terminal point of a
drain from the big ico houses, and the
water from the melted ice, whenever it
melted, mingled its frostiness with the
limDid currents of the spring and thus
developed a latent heat that couian’l
have been much latenter in on iceberg,
As I remarked, right here the boy who
called it a swimming place jumped in,
Now, if a hoy feels to si • • *
would like to holler, I am the one to
get up every time and move the unani
mous consent of the house that he may
holler with a free course, and no" re
straint or embarrassment. So when
this boy, after jumping into about fir
feet of ico water, gave one horrified
gash that was enough to curdle the ice,
onu then held bis breath for a second
and stood with ilia two eyes standing
out past his nose and thnist his hands
witli all fingers extended, high up in
tho air, I knew he was seized with n
strange and morbid desire to make a
little noise, so I said to my comrades:
“Fellows, stand back and give him
plenty of room. He’s going to holler
and he’ll need ail the air he can got.
I fell off the chute into that spring once
myself.”
Yon see how a broad experience in
this life enables ns to put ourselves
more thoroughly in our neighbor’s
place, and deepens and lntenaifies ear
sympathies.
Tlie next moment my gloomy fore
bodings were realized. The nice boy
"hollered.” A wild, free howl, tlint
spread its sweeping pinions on the
blast, and went booming over tlie
waste of waters like a tiling of life, and
wakened a thousand disconlant echoes
in tho distant hills beyond tho startled
lake. And tho half-clad boys on tlie
pebbly shore danced like wild canni
bals in their savage glee, and shrieked
in mocking echo of the nice hoy’s
howl, and cast sand upon each other’s
red-ribbed backs to show their joy.
And when that boy floun
dered aud (Uttered ashore
and stood there, shivering and
gasping in the life-giving rays ol tho
July sun, we lay down on the ground
and held oar aching sides with penitent
hands, and only asked the one poor
boon, that the Icehouse might fall over
on top of ns right then and there. Only
one hoy who had enjoyed himself more
than the others, asked that some kind
person wonid amputate his limbs, or,
as he rudely expressedit in song, “Saw
my leg off.” Then we rubbed the cold
boy with dry sand until we mit him
nice and warm and red and real tender,
and he became a good boy and went
with us often, and learned many
tilings, and wo eventually taught him
In asv "(■rimmin’ hnln >• (list fn tlm
•ritealetr
‘ to he
1 lie
' -I character that it
| ■ Ullfcstcil II!'
1 V ■ l'lll.iw -
1 I,
t),f Cun fed* r-
—Il i I - Tit In l -
Si:, Gruetin.,: We
'■ I suli all the kindness
to him, till- envoy sent tiy
IVr ...;; '*.* :• convey to us your
* of tfie month ol
i the otl:
“Cott» »n opening?”
**V« s fast/* he replied.
“Picked any yet?”^
“oh, yes! several bales. 1
“Why didn't you bring a bale to
t' wn? '
* * it*-* there isn't enough money
fn Albany'to pay for it?"
Then we cautiously felt for the thoQ'
■anddoQar package in onr inside coat
ju- k. t triil Mtnil' d pleasantly at bis
mistake*
on Ins chattering I
and shivering, looked at Bud’s relaxed.\
drooping figure anc languid expression
and said kindly, but with a
firmness that not even his eba
teeth could conceal:
“You'll find the watah rathali coolah
and pleasantah for drinking purposes,
Bud, in the shade by the big flat rock.”
Then we did lay down and pound
the sand with our heels in an immeasu
rable ecstacy and laughed till we cribd
and felt so good that wc didn’t care to
jive any longer, but wanted to go right
into the lake and drown where the wa
ter was warm. The slavering Ver
monter had made a complete and easy
capture of a dozen or fifteen wild West
erners in one fell swoop; we liked him
from that minute from tho ground tip,
and never made up a party after that
without him. And when Bud Teters,
with a funny kind of grin on liis sor
rowful face, walked over to the Ver
mont boy .and held out his hand, tlie
enthusiasm went off like a rocket.
What an honest animal a boy is any
how. • What mean things he can do;
what cruel tricks he .can play on a fel
low ; how generous are oJa impulses;
how brave and manly the better side
of his nature; how much of his bad
ness is pure thoughtlessness, the heed
lessness of a young colt; under his
noisy, rough, boisterous turbulent sur
face, what a sensitive shrinking heart
there is, proud, ambitious, timid, fool
ishly ashamed to show its better im
pulses, fearful that you may discover its
ambitious dreams; ho loves a boy who
can make the longest jump and run the
swiftest, and he nates with equal fury
a sneak and a bully; he will throw off
his coat and jump into a fight and take
a “licking” any timo for a friend, and
will walk around two blocks out of his
way rather than meet a girl to whom
he will be expected to speak; os differ-
ent when you get him alone from what
he is in a crowd that yon think he may
bo two entirely different boys. *
DO NOT BE DECEIVED
By tbs heavy artillery ol onr competitors’ thundering
BIG BARGAINS.
‘LOW PRICES AND
J. W. RICE & CO.
Cannot he—will not be undersold by any firm or individual in Central
Georgia. Cut out the prices that are quote d by tlie Boomers, bring
them to ns, and we will sell yon tho same or better goods for less money.
SUMMER GOODS MUST MOVE.
Biggest drives in white goods ever shown in tho State
BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT!!
Yu will always find that
THE LOWEST PRICES,
RULE . T . ICE’S.
strange, honest, capricious, ’ ten
der-hearted, tyrannical, loving, cruel,
thoughtless, dreaming, shouting, com
plex animal, this boy of ours.
Often badly taught, worse trained, half
disciplined, whipped and petted, scold
ed and caressed, he tries our patience,
destroys our quiet, wastes our money f
wrings our hearts, neglects us, loves
ui/*, understands us-bettcr many times
than we understand him, and wo chide
him to his face and praise him to our
hearts; we praise him, humor him,
[>ray for him and leve him; love him,
love him—God bless the boy, how we
do love him.
In the Apex of
T ri angular
apr27d<fcwly
13 I o c It.
JOHNSON & LANE,
i 07 and 1 oq Third St„ Macon, Ga.
General Agents for
PRATT COTTON GINS !
The Baseball of the Future.
Kansas City Journal.
ain’t what it
“The game certainly H
used to be,” said Mr. J. C. Higdon,
the solicitor, to a Journal. reporter.
“Let mo tell you why,” said he.
“Baseball is a first class exercise if
taken in moderate quantities, and as
notv played by tho League nines is un
doubtedly good sport for the on-look
ers, but it kills tlie men. This will
not do. Tho game is altogether too
violent. It must bo made more scien
tific and less dangerous, audit will do.
Why, even insido ot twenty-four
months we can expect to see the now-
overworked pitcher will havo a little
more to do than place tho ball into n
catapult or spring gun that will throw-
perfect strikes, curved ot course to suit
tho pleasure of tlie operator, but noth
ing wild. It will be almost nn impos
sibility to hit any thing from tho gun,
but there will be no killed men, for the
machine will put the balls over the
homo baso with tho certainty of a rifle
allot. Tho curves will bo Indescriba
ble. Tho hall will dart from tho muz-
zlo of tho gun, arttl probably make a
lunge toward tlie lemonade stand, or
start out like a ‘fly,’ but it will always
manage to get around over homo baso
in Henson to bo called a strike.”
“Rather rough on tho catcher,"
commented tlie reporter.
“Why.no: the catcher would have
a very easy time. Every hall from tlie
gun would be caught in a canvas
chute, not of a large size, either, for
you must hear in mind there will bo
no wild pitcher, and upon striking the
chuto tho ball drops into the hands of
tho catcher, who can bo stationed be
hind or on oithcr sido of tlie chuto, ns
desired.
“Certainly," said he, referring to
the pitching-machine, “any suitable
explosive force ennid bo used in the
mMWn»—compressed ■ air, sxploMre
gas or even gunpowder and dynamite
can bo bridled and made to perform
tho horse-work that is now imposed
upon tho main players.”
Too Big to Crawl.
Advertiser and Appeal.
On last Tuesday, near tlie Light
House, William Murphy killed the
largest rattlesnake by several rattles
that has been killed this year on tlie
Isiand. It lias eighteen distinct rattles
besides the button. It was doubtless
over eighteen years old, seven und s
half feet long, and William says as big
as a stove pipe. It was easily killed.
It msde but little resistance.
A SUBVERSION OF LIBERTY.
That ail these so-called laws were
unconstitutional is no longer questiona
ble. Tho Supreme Court, composed of
judges, all o! whom were appointed by
Republican Presidents, so hold. Tlie
destructive oflect of this legislation
1 the government is strikingly viv-
If sustained, it would have dis
mantled the States. Its revolu
tionary force wss so potent that
it filled the Southern mind
witli alarm and provoked the solid op
position of intelligent whites. It can
from no standpoint be justified. It was
-not to the advantage of the colored peo
ple, for their good could in no way be
promoted by violating the constitution.
Constitutional government in this
country is tlie only highest hope oi tlie
people. To subvert that government is
to bury the liberty of whites and blacks
in one common grave.
RACE CONFLICTS.
The political cfic.'t of tho legislation
above alluded to was to inflame the
colored people of tbe South, in whoee tered ashore dog fashion. When be
pretended interest it was enacted, [came np on the shore and stood team
to say "swimmin’ bole.” But to tlie
end of his days his provincial accent
clang to him and he spelled rat “ah-at,
r-r-r-rat,” and called a war horse
Bat bow is the mischief of the wick
ed returned upon Ids own head, and
his violent dealings come, down upon
his own pate. Bud i’eters, who had
suggested the advisability of plunging
into the more gracing waters of the
shady, place wss placidly swimming
his back when the curtain went np,
and the fire caat its lurid light upon
the tableau. It made him feel so good
that he forgot where lie was and tried
to sit np and hold hit sides and laugh,
and of course he went down with a
“ha ha” that tailed off in a gurgle like
a sinking well backet and the rainnte
he got hts eyes above water he tried to
“holler” a little on hia own account,
but made a failure of it by not
waitinz until his month
out of tbe treacherous wave 80 down
he went and np he came, and he got
rattled and lost his stroke and splat-
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Berrien County New*.
The Albany Medium hears minors
of a “icrtib race” for Legiilatlve hon
ors in Dougherty county this fall.
Scrub races are correctly named, for
scrubs generally win such races.
by
ing wearily against the big cottonwood
tree, he lobked like a boy who hadn’t
had any fun at aH. Ilia eyes were red,
1 it ap-
ngamut the whites. The colored men
of the South were incited by these laws
to suspect and distrust tho whites. IHN ...... .
They were led by them to abhor the he went freely at tbe i
State goremmente under which tliey peered not only by his general app
lived, because by implication thenc [ once, bat upon his own candid admis-
ensetments d A '*' :
gorernmeti
do them
voyage to the pebbly
rip ol kl>out. thirty-live
»k ;i tail fall oi warm
I-vv.S’i tax$*M and r.-
Bamesvllb*. The liiiuor *i
motive i>ower in it all.
■ •••nn/ ?4.f
y lively in
is the
enactments declared that State I aion, tha
la were insufficient to strand,
justice. The white peo- feet, he had
I.!.•. *■ 11 tli** nt!u r hand. ! *•!.• :! !.$k** \at**r.
th*’ colored •• •in used as a pretext by ; r*q arir.g t<
thi- l;. i . i.'-an tarty ii < teiitraiu*- th«- Now. > .trm lak<» •-$ aU-r may U- >«:.
K«>\«*rn:i!> nt. lhf> all »a* th$? $ onii.- nutritioe.s hilt it in Rut very‘pals table,
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•wept away, rtuygestion*
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