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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15; 1899.
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A Uson Which 1 Moist, Lonely and
Wild, Bat Healthy.
New t urk Sun.
For close upon 200 years the vast
water-soaked forest known as the Dis
mal Swamp has been visited by the
. woodman in quest of its treasures of
cypress and juniper. To facilitate his
r enterprise email canals, locally known
as ditches, have been cut through to
Lake Drummond at its center. Of
these one was named for Gen. Wash
ington, who visited the swamp when a
young man of 24, "encompassing the
whob," to use his own words. Another
beaJa the quaintly irrevelant name of
Jericho Ditch. At the end of the last
century a larger waterway, the Dismal
Swamp canal, which has been recently
widened, and deepened,' was excavated
near the eastern Border. As a result
much of the land lying to the eastward
was drained and it mow in cultivation.
A wilderness the Dismal Swamp re
mains. Even today its deeper recesses
are hardly known save to such untamed
denizens s deer and bear and a pecu
liar race uf cattle that has run wild and
lives upon the reeds. Not a few people
in quest of game, or curious to know
what a place so weirdly named may be
like, penetrate the swamp from Suffolk
by way of the Jericho canal, or on the
, eastern side, through the Dismal Swamp
canal. But away from these recognized
arteries of commerce stretch thousands
f upon thousands of acres of dense,
. tangled "forent, usually covered with
water to a depth of 1 or 2 feet, untra
yersed by waterways and untraversable
afoot. In such fastnesses the black
bear is at home, and he does not let
himself be seen if he can help it. But
in. hard winters he is sometimes driven
..v from his haunts" and has been seen; by
startled wayfarers even in the outskirts
, of Portsmouth,
It was on a beautiful may day that I
first saw the swamp. Our route that
da. w'as the JericLo canal, which one
reaches, riding or driving, about two
,. i miles from "the, , sleepy old town of Sufr
folk. Our craft was a skiff built of
juniper wood and propelled by pole and
paddle. At first the way lay through a
"comparatively open tract, which has
been buined over from time to time,
and which, despite the burgeoning green
.'of suqh vegetation as had Burvived ; the
; firesi has a look unutterably, desolate
and forlorn.' The trees here are small
water oaks and cow oaks, sweet bay,
holly, cotton gums, short-leaf pine and
some lumper (white cedar). Uig cane,
which inhabitants, know as reeds, grow
every where, .bending its graceful sprays
over the water or with stems standing
stifll erect, in great clumps. : To this
bamboo, more thn to any other plant,
the yegetation of the Dismal and other
Southern swamps owes its peculiarity of
aspect. The cane was in bloom when
we came into the swamp, and made one
think of the marvels travelers tell con
cerning the rare flowering of bamboo in
India. The young stalks, which are
used for making pipe stems, are cut
and tied in sheaves by negroes, who
, can thus earn $1 a day. Many flower
ing shrubs were there, mostly heath
' worts.-but heathworts "with large ''shiny
leaves, hardly "to be recognized" by their
humble cousins of the .Northern moors
and peat bogs. Most delightful of all
. to eve and nose was a pale pink azalea,
much sought by country people for the
curious green swelling produced on its
leaves by a certain fungus.. These they
eat, knowing them- as honeysuckle ap
nles. ' " ' " " ' '
As we pursued our lazy way along the
canal the trees became always higher
and the fringing canes more dense. The
.woodland voices that had been lifted
high in the early morning sank ,to a
whisper. The chorused chanting of the
frog's spring song died away. Now and
then the sweet note of a warbler reached
the ear. Once a great gray crane rose into
the air with a discordant cry. Ever
and arion we would beat up a blue
heron, to see him disappear in fright
down the long arcade before us. Then
. we glided' into what is known as' the
( Black Guai Swamp, where the straight
columns of the tree trunks towered a
hundred teet or more above us, and the
liffht was soft as in a' cathedral. Two
miles or so we went between the solemn,
vine-hung black gums, and then
. V nerged upon the margin of Lake
Drummond. having traveled our 10
v miles in something less than four hours.
"Naturally, everyone who has read
yHoore's poem, "The Lake of the Dis
anal Swamp." recalls it to' mind when
4ihe sights Lake Drummond for the first
tfime. adu even wucu dccu iu iud iuu
fide of noonday there is something of
Xeirdness in the look of this forest
bordered sheet of water. Involuntarily
?ne's eyes" go searching for that mys
ous maid who has
v Gone to the lake of the Dismal Swamp,
J Where all nitflit long by a fire-fly lamp,
f Hhe paddles her white canoe,
? That the Irish poet wrote of the Dis
mal Swamp with all the authority of
ictul experience," witness the lines:
Ills pa?li was rugged and sore,
i Through tanffled juniper, beds of reeds,
'' Through many a fen where the serpent
feeds, -i
Man's foot never trod , "
But to descend from the poet's flight
of imagination to the details of prosaic
description. Lake Drummond is a
small body of water, only three miles
long and two and a half wide. "The
banks are everywhere flat, so that the
lake impresses one as being much larger
than it is. It would be a thoroughly
monotonous landscape, this, were it not
for the picturesque belt of old cypress
stumps that margin the lake, almost
disappearing at very high water, but
usually in plain view. Gnarled and
gray are these relics of ancient forests,
worn by years of , weather and Btorm
dashed water into a thousand .strange,
unearthly forms. One likes to picture
to one's self the noble trees that must
have once stood in serried array about
Lake Drummond. A few are still liv
ing, small of girth above, but near the
water thickening into a huge buttressed
base. One of the most notable is known
in the country-side as Samson's Maul.
To the branches of these old cypresses
cling small wisps of Spanish moss and
the gray beards of lichens that resemble
it.
Thus we' found, the Bwamp in May.
In July very different was its seeming
Then it was less to appreciate the sig
nificance of its time-honored name Dis
mal, which can hardly be very inap
propriate, since in Eastern North Caro
lina it has come to be the general ap
pellation for all timbered swamps
Every day heavy rains fell and drenched
us sorely. Surely the Dismal Swamp
is at such times the wettest of places,
for not enly do torrents descend from
the skies, but the long, flexible stems of
the cane are exquisitely adjusted so that
the water dripping from them can nice
ly slip down the backs of Buffering hu
manity. And the yellow fliea 1 Speak
of yellow flies to him who has visited
the Dismal Swamp in midsummer, and
you shall listen to real eloquence. Some
thing might be said upon the subject of
mosquitos.
The uninitiated are likely to hear
wonderful tales of the serpent life of the
great Dismal, and there is a certain
amount of foundation for them, al
though, one must allow for the sad fact
that, in the presence of snakes, as of
fish, the most ardent lover of truth is
likely to go astray. In spring one sees
few snakes in the swamp. But m July
especially upon a sunny day, they crawl
out. upon . the ends of the canes and
bushes that overhang the canal. Then,
as one poles along, there is a aeries of
quick splashes as snake after snake
drops into the water. One well-grown
water moccasin made a serious miscal
culation and landed in our boat. There
he remained an hour or so unknown to
.us,' when, growing bolder, he crawled
out to meet his fate in the shape of a
paddle blade. More pleasant to the eye
are the small turtles or snappers, no
larger than our common wood tortoise,
that abound in the ditches. Their
black shell are besprinkled with spots of
orange. ' "
The water of the swamp is one of its
most interesting features. The color
of it is a rich dark coffee brown as seen
in the canals and in Lake Drummond,
but nearly that of sherry when a small
amount is taken up. ..This is due to
the vast quantity of. finely divided veg
etable matter it contains. Notwith
standing it makes an excellent, health
ful drinking water, pleasant in flavor,
and, if one may believe the local sages,
tonic in its properties by reason of the
particles of juniper wood suspended in
it. It was formerly much in request
for supplying ships about to depart on
long voyages. The antiseptic virtue
of this water is marvelous. Stumps
and logs of cypress that have long been
buried beneath the surface of the
swamp remain in excellent preserva
tion: and now that the best of the
standing ' timber, has been removed,
they are feeing sought by lumbermen.
Berries keep their color and plumpness
for months in the water.
The Dismal Swamp, contrary to pop
ular impression, is not an unhealthful
place. Malaria is said to be unknown
there, and we were- told that people
visit the swamp in order to get rid of
it. In that distant time which the
South knows as "before the war," when
yellow fever was a periodical scourge
in Norfolk, an enterprising hotel keeper
put up a frame building on the shore
of Lake Drummond and advertised a
health resort. The place was soon
crowded with refugees from the pesti
lence and throve for a while. But mid
summer came and with the yellow
flies and mosquitoes, when straightway
guests and employees leu that hotel,
never more to return. .
Autumn is a delightful season for a
visit to the Great Dismal, especially if
one is in search of sport with rifle or
shotgun. Up to Thanksgiving, at least,
the air is soft and mild. A light haze
rests upon the lake and forest, through
which glows the brilliant scarlet of the
red maple. foliage, the bronze purple of
the sweetgum and the yellows and
browns of other. dying leaves. The
small ponds scattered through the
swamp are visited then by many a
flock of brant and geese and ducks on
their way to the sounds of North Caro
lina. Then the 'possums grow sleek
and fat upon persimmons and paw
paws, or 'posimm pocket apples, as
they are called in the Dismal.
If he were content with such honestly
come-by food, Bruin's life would be
happy and respected to a green old age,
for the odds are somewhat heavily
against his career being terminated by
a hunter's rifle. But, when the beau
tiful corn stands ripe beneath the au
tumn moon and the field seems aband
oned to his pleasure, it is not in bear
nature to resist the temptation to go
marauding. Then, as he ambles clum
sily along he is lively to encounter the
cruel wire which pulls the trigger of a
cunningly set gun, and to get a skin -
full of slugs and bullets for his pains.
I saw one day a bear's hide nailed up
on a barn door on o,ne of the large
farms that'' border the swamp. The
sight recalled to mind many a delight
fully ghastly tale of heads displayed on
Temple Bar and of thieves creaking in
chains at the crossroads.
Take it when one will or can, the
Great Dismal has a charm that falls
upon all who go on pilgrimage thither.
The very lonelinecs and vast wildness of
it helps to increase this feeling. Al
though one no longer hears the start
ling tales of great monsters, lions and
aligators and others still more impos
sible, wherewith the rustics regaled
William Byrd, one time his Majesty's
boundary commissioner for his domain
of Virginia, there is not wanting a de
licious sense of unexplored fastnesses,
far beyond our ken, in which the wild
things of the forest haye found a last
hiding place. Tales of apparitions,
such as Moore's white maid and the
ghostly full-rigged ship that is seen on
Lake Drummond in times of storm,
are firmly rooted in the negro folklore.
Then there are many legends of des
perate runaway slaves, who took refuge
in the swamp in antebellum days.
With its native weird beauty, its strange
history and yet stranger traditions, the
Dismal Swamp ha9 come to hold a place
all its own in the imaginations of men.
North Carolina's Great Exhibit of lit'
dustrial Enterprises.
Raleigh Post.
We cannot find words to expres8 fit
tingly our surprise as well as gratifica
tion at the grand exhibit made by the
industrial enterprise of our people of
this grand old State during the past 11
months of this year of grace 1899.
Last Sunday the Post published a
complete record of the various business
enterprises, covering every kind of in
dustry, to which charters had been
granted during the two years 1897 and
1898. Therein it was shown that the
amount of capital incorporated reached
the gratifying total of $6,128,920 with
power to be extended to $18,432,000.
But the 11 months of 1899 just passed
cap the climax. During these 11
months there were charters granted to
194 enterprises or corporations, with a
total incorporated capital of $ 6,795,780,
with power to increase the same capital
to $20,674,650. Add to these figures
for the 11 months jf 1899 those of the
two full years of 1897 and 1898, we
have the imposing structure of $12,'
924,700 incorporated into the immedi
ate working energy of our people, repre
sented by some 500 new industrial
enterprises and corporations for the de
velopment of our State, with power to
increase the same to $.39,106,650.
Can any North Carolinian scan these
figures without feeling a thrill of joy
and hopefulness ?
And, remember, these do not include
the railroad interests or any of the
large number of enterprises which are
in successful operation, involving mil
lions of dollars and organized and es
tablished before 1897.
The old State and her people have at
last gotten a move on them. Let it be,
as it will be, encouraged by everyone
who loves his State or hopes to better
his own condition without robbing
somebody or his neighbor.
Gen. Joe Wheeler on the Filipinos.
Washington. Dec. 2. General Toe
Wheeler, in a personal letter received
here today, dated at Angeles, Luzon,
says :
'There are more than twenty differ
ent tribes in this island and very few of
them would submit to Aguinaldo s rule.
Aguinaldo and his generals would like
to govern, because it would give them
great power, and many of his soldiers
like the war because for the first time
in their lives they have authority to
carry a gun. A hey live by taxing wnat
they want from the people. Many of
them are robbers, who rob defenseless
people of their money and sometimes
murder them. If we should withdraw
there would be warfare and anarchy in
the islands until the well-to-do people
would get some strong government to
come and take control.
"Aguinaldo publishes a paper, which
is filled with expressions from people of
the United States who are called anti-
imperialists, and I think were it not for
these expressions the insurrection would
be closed."
A Case of the Dead Alive.
Macon, . Ga., Dec., 5. Two negro
women, Dolphuse and Ida Hooks, have
been in jail here for several weeks un
der indictment for the murder of Jim
Tones, colored. Today Jones made his
appearance and his coming has caused
a profound sensation among the negroes.
A dead negro was found in South Ma
con several months ago who Lad plainly
been murdered. He was identified by
Jones' mother as Jones and was buried
by her. Suspicion pointed to the Hooks
women and their conviction was regard
ed as certain.
Jones says he has been working on a
turpentine farm and did not know he
was thought to have been murdered.
Solicitor General Hodges ordered the
release of the accused women today.
The financial bill prepared by the
Senate committee contains a provision
for refunding bonds. The bill is a
straightout gold standard declaration.
The House financial bill was introduced
yesterday and was the first measure
presented.
BILL, ARP'S LETTER,
How ephemeral is fame. This word
is of Greek origin and literally means
"for a day" and was applied to the
lives of certain insects. Its meaning
has broadened and now it is applied to
life dc fame or health or happiness or
anything that is of brief or uncertain
duration. I was ruminating about
this because I have been down to
Barnesville and Thomaston, two pros
perous towns, one in Pike a.nd the
other in Upson couuty. 1 inquired of
several good citizens who Mr. Upson
was and they couldn't tell me. Final
ly an old gentleman said that he was
a member of the legislature from Ogle
thorpe county and was a very great
and good man, and died early, and the
legislature of which he was a member
made a county and named it for him.
But now there is not one man in a hun
dred in that county that knows anything
about him. I did not find anybody
wno knew what Mr. Thomas the town
was named for. Just so I did not find
anyone at Barnesville who knew what
Mr. Pike that county was nam ed for. So
I had to wait till I got home and ex
amined my books and 1 learned that
Zebulon Pike was a great soldier in the
war of 1812 that before that he ex
plored the far west, and was the first
man to discover and ascend that very
high mountain which has ever since
been called "Pike's Peak."
The town of Zebulon took his Chris
tian name or rather his Jewish name,
for Zebulon was the sixth son of Jacob
and his descendants became sailors.
Nobody could tell me who Barnesville
was named for. Nobody cares very
much who any town or county was
named for. The present seems to be
all that concerns us, and the hiotoric
part will soon pass into oblivion for the
old men are nearly all dead. Not long
ago I read how an Englishman was
walking about the beautiful cemetery
of Gettysburg and met a Confederate
veteran there an,d said to him: "These
grand monuments and grave-stones
will forever perpetuate the memories
of the brave men who fell, but 1 fear
your confederate dead will soon pass
into oblivion unless you give them cem
eteries and monuments like these."
"No," said the veteran, "Ours will last
as long as these, for every stranger
who comes here will naturally ask the
same question that you did : 'Who
killed all these people who are buried
here?"'
As I travel over the South I can tell
a prosperous town from a stagnant one
by the wheels that are turning, the
smoke stacks and the hum of machin
ery, or the absence of all these
Barnesville is forging ahead and so is
Thomaston, for both have cotton mills
already and are building more. Thom
aston can boast of having the oldest
cotton factory in Georgia, for it was
built in 1833, and has been added to
in later years, and now is erecting an
other with a home capital of $100,000.
Everywhere are visible the signs of
progress and business activity. The
new hotel recently built by Mrs. Sand
wich is a gem of beauty and reminds
the traveler of Florida and the tropics.
All around are to be seen new resi
dences of modern architecture. The
auditorium nearly completed is a mar
vel of Grecian beauty. An electric
plant lights the new hotel and many
homes and will soon light the streets
of the little city. Mrs. Sandwich es
tablished this plant and owns it. Just
ponder it a moment. A woman is the
foremost factor in the advancing pro
gress of a new-born city. Now if they
will let her tear down the old ante
bellum court house and erect a new
one she will do it. But she can t vote
when is this fossiliferous relic of a
past age to be reformed. The dirtiest
negro in this town has a vote in select
ing its ruler, while a widow who pays the
highest tax is excluded. All but one
of the teachers in our public schools
are women, but they have no voice in
anything except the privilege of teach
ing our children. The Hardwick bill
is dead, and the maxim is to speak no
ill of the dead, but a better bill would
have been to place the ballot box just
where the jury box is now. In every
county there is a commission of honor
able men who select the men who are
fit to serve on the jury and their names
only are placed in the jury box. Men
of bad moral character or exceeding
ignorance are excluded. We have
known instances where men of consid
erable wealth were excluded because
of their notorious vices. The right to
sit upon a jury and try cases involving
life and liberty or property is of far
more importance than the privilege ot
voting. Then why not purge the bal
lot box as well as the jury box. Many
good negroes would be put in and some
bad white men left out. 1 am not
afraid of being left out. Reader, are
you ? The ballot has got to be purged
in some way. There are only twenty
counties that local option has not suc
ceeded in driving out whisky aud sa
loons and in nearly all of these twenty
the white vote would expel them, but
negroes and vagabonds and saloon
owners override the will of a large ma
jority of the people. In bpalding
county it was admitted that negroes
carried the day and killed the much
wanted reform. If the mothers and
wives and sisters could have voted. tK''
majority for prohibition wil l s f
been overwhelming. Who
If it is not '.neidered prope
to vote in .il matters
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affect the welfare of their husbands
and sons and brothers, and also in all
educatidnal organizations why does
not some member of the legislature
with a great big heart and brain cham
'pion this reform I The people are
ready for it, and will say a Daniel has
come to judgment.
Our ThankPgiving is over we had a
turkey that bad been stall-fed, but my
wife and I were invited to a good, kind
neighbor's and the girls to another
neighbor's and our turkey has been
respited. He has been gobbling all
the day, but hears no response from
neighboring coops. I would be sorry
for turkeys if they were sorry for them
selves. We had a union Thanksgiving ser
vice in our town acd a large congrega
tion listened to Mr. Bealer's eloquent
discourse from the 147 Psalm: "God
hath not dealt so with any other na
tion." He sketched our country from
Columbus down and showed that
blessing and love had followed us for
400 years. It was a grand sermon.
Bill Arp.
Preachers and money.
Statesvllle Landmark.
Referring to the large sums of money
that are always raised at every session
of a Methodist Conference, for various
purposes, the Winston Sentinel says,
which is true, that most of this money
comes off the preachers, many of whom,
perhaps the majority, are ill able to give
it, and it thinks that the whole business
is wrong and a great injustice to these
preachers. The Landmark agrees with
the Sentinel. Most of the preachers in
our State are poorly paid and the ma
jority of them have a hard struggle to
support a family and educate their
children. Not infrequently they go to
the Confeience with their salaries only
partially paid, and there they are called
upon to contribute to numerous objects.
Sometimes, doubtless they come away
completely strapped aud have to begin
another year with nothing. - This is
certainly a hardship if not an injustice.
While on this subject, we have been
interested in the trial of Bey. Mr.
Green of Caldwell county, and his
suspension from the ministry for twelve
months, at the recent Conference at
Concord, the charge being that Mr.
Green failed to pay his debts and prac
ticed deception. Of course this was
wrong. It will not do to allow a minis
ter to be an immoral man, for the pub
lic loses confidence in him and his in
fluence for good is gone. And yet we
are sympathizing with Mr. Green, be-.
cause it hardly seems fair to discipline
a preacher for doing what many promi
nent church members are constantly
guilty of. If not only the Methodist
church, but all other churches, will re
quire their preachers aod members to
pay their debts or be amenable to the
discipline of the church, the finances of
the country will improve wonderfully.
Very frequently officers aud leaders in
the churches are notorious for not pay
ing their honest obligations and some
times they are guilty of actual fraud
and deception. Sometimes, too, church
members subscribe to the pastor's salary
and to other church causes and then
refuse to pay all or part of the subscrip
tion, and often for this reason the
preacher is handicapped and can't
pay his debts. We think this, too, is a
case for an application of the discipline.
In short, we think if the preacher is
to be made to walk the chalk line, and
he should, that the church members
should be made to do it too.
Biblical Quotation Painted on His
Grain Elevator.
Topeka, Kas., Dec. 2. The people
of Lebanon, Kas., and passengers of
the Rock Island Railroad today saw a
practical illustration of the proclaiming
of God's word from the housetops. The
big gram elevator owned by E. D.
Hoyde, a devout Free Methodist, was
yesterday decorated by a sign painter
with this Bible quotation: "Eternity
in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in
torment. Be not deceived. God is not
mocked. Heaven and earth shall pass
away, but my word shall not pass away.
Fear God and keep his commandments.
For the son of man is come to seek and
to save that which was lost."
These texts are in bright letters, and
may be read for miles over the level
plains. Mr. Hoyde is one of the
wealthiest citizens of Lebanon, is a
member of the Town Council, and
prominent in church and temperance
work. Mr. Hoyde says a positive gos
pel tells, and he believes in disseminat
ing it in every possible way.
While riding on a train in Kansas the
other day Miss Mary Burns, of Balti
more, fastened a toy balloon to a dia
mond brooch, valued at $2,500, her
object being to amuse a chij
window was open ary
wind carried thf,
out into the op;"'
has bfcen offp'
jewel j""
for i'
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Oil. BROUGI1TOH ON FOOTBALL,
Atlanta Constitution. 4th,
At the Tabernacle Baptist church
last night Dr. Len G. Broughton con
tinued hia eeries of sermons on "The
Fallen Young Man," paying particular
attention to football.
Dr. Broughton denounced football as
brutal and totally unworthy the support
of any college or university, He de
clared that one of the reasons of Mer
cer's continual victory in the matter of
oratory waa that the state university en
couraged football.
In speaking of football, Dr. Brough
ton said:
"The fad of fads to-day is professional
football; yea, it's more than a fad it
is a shame upon our civilization; it is
humanized bull fight. I have a .con
tempt for every college or university
that spends its influence for the perpetu
ation of any such a brutal sport. In
tercollegiate football of to-day is doing
more harm to the young than prize
fighting. The other day I said before a
New York audience that I was ashamed
of New York, and especially so of New
York's governor, for fostering the hu-.
man bulls who enter the pen to conquer
by their animal force. I believe Con
gress ought to pass a law to prevent
prize fighting in this country. We must
look at this thing seriously. ' It is not
longer a question for whimpering wo
men and sensational preachers. It is
one which should engage the attention
of statesmen. Shall we degenerate into
barbarians and clap our hands over the
brute force expended for the enrich
ment of blackleg gamblers and sensa
tional newspapers mongers ? This is a
question of serious import to the well
being of our society.
"But what about its twin brother
the footbalf craze ? Hear me when I
say again it is doing more to corrupt
the youth of this country than all. the
prize fighting New York and her gover- '
nor is feasting us on today. It is doing
harm because of the institutions that
dady it. Think of our universities and
so called Christian colleges drilling a lot
of long-haired boys to root for a pig
skin. It reminds me of an experience
I used to have feeding hogs as a boy.
Nothing I enjoped more than sitting on
the fence, throwing corn over in a mud
hole and seeing a lot of hogs fight for
it. It is simply brutaL It is unduly
encouraging brute force. It is deve
loping the coarse side of life. It is
running a high-handed gambling ma
chine upon so called cultured lines.
I'm opposed to a state university en
couraging any such uncivilized sports.
"And Burely I can have no respect
for the Christian college which enters
such a contest. I want to see our state
university put more premium upon
character and brains and less on feet
and hair in a tussle for mastery in a
sport that will almost rival the Mexican
bull fight. Let me tell you if our uni
versity would pay more attention to
education and less to such sports and
the manufactory of dudes, Mercer uni
versity at Macon would not forever be
wearing the champion medal in orator
ical contests in Georgia.
"Some states have made ' this inter
collegiate football unlawful. It ought
to be done. A number of young men
were killed on Thanksgiving Day by it.
Who is surprised? The wonder is that
any escaped. I tell you it's high time
our athletic sports were being looked
into. We are going down grade because
of them. A lot of young men who
accompanied the pigskin rooters then
got drunk and disgraced themselves. I
tell you, parents, keep your boy away
from that college or university that is in
this business."
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