The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-10-09

that ii was rigama rOie that an en-,
rolling clerk could never enrol.
"What do you want me to do, we
asked.
81 want you to fix that up ship
shape"
ayes, but what are you driving at
in the Bill.
This question nettlcd the youthful
Legislator and he repeated testify:
"You fellows are always introducing
Bills and | don't see why | shouldn't
introduce one too"
That let the eat out of the wallet,
he wanted to let his constituents see
that their representative wasn't a
dead head IN that assembly of soIons.
And thus il will be in the future.
At our next biennial, So!ons will arise
to amend the amendments, and the
grav"-digging and epitaphs will begin.
On the whole review of the matter
as to lis letter and spirit, let us initiate
the pious CALCULATIONS of devoul old
man at n camp-meeting.
While the preacher announced his
premise, he would respond: "Bless
the Lold."
"My brethren" said the divine, ain
SIX days the Lord made the Heaven
and the carth.n
"Humph! Bless the Lord for making
the Heaven and the Earthn was
piously responded.
"And he made man after his own
image"
"Humph! B'css the Lord for making
man in his own image! !"
"And he made woman after the
imagc man -ah-aOiH q ,tca0 slight
U0TiQtiOnS"
Bless the Lord ah--for the Jcp slight
UdridtiOnS."
Thus may we beable by experience to
to say in after years about the Octo Code
bless the Lord for the few slight vari-
ations. After all we have pretty much
come to the conclusion that here we
have another illustration of idcntity in |
MUTATION. Physiology tells us that
we are disseminated every seven years
and put on an entirely new one yet
we are "Same VS.. Same.n
Or take yet more homely illustra-
tion--an old woman's stocking may
be SO etc,noly d0med, as to leave
scarcely an original thread and yet it
is the same old stocking still.
Thus the old warp and woof of the .
Common Law has been torn into
shreds and woven up into our stat
utes, here and there Il stitch has drop
ped out such as cold Shelly and Mari
tai Entirety" ETC., yet in the main
is but interviewer III tile ihnGfwt.. MiGWgIt /
Dover and Curtesy, at commou law
are gone, the threads are woven INTO .
Marital descent, Homestead and the .
exemption law. Though seals are
dcfunct, writing and signature is re-
quired more stEingently and in other
cases as before.
Thus also Rents ScrUicc - Rents
charge and Rents Scek that once were
the three great strands in the Land
lord cdJCi, are now SO blended into the
Landlord and Tenant act, that they
are undistinguishablc and the impe-
cunious Tenant will find them just as
distressing rs ever.
There is one word left which will
yet wake old Coke from his slumber,
and that word is "lOdirdRt."
When we come in after years to in
terpret its meaning in our ldcOnic
Deeds prccrfbed, we must perlOrce
look back to Warrantia Charta and
qUulTdntigdnClun.
Finally, Dear Bill, when TalIeyrand
took the oath of allegiance to Louis
PHILIPPE | think-he sarcastically re-
marked:
"Ive taken the oath thirteen times
and pray God this may be the last"
When man has survived four ;
Codes he may well Join in Talley-
rand's ejaculation, "Pro tanto," may |
the October Code out last at least our
lay and generation.
| am glad to assure you that my !,
playful communications have been /
highly complimented, as shown by I
Ihc following incident: ,
a highly valued friend came into {
Dur Office the other day-hc took his /;
seat in one chair and cooked his feet /
Ipon anOthcr-being lawyer the +
Jodr was the topic Of course. He y
,egan in a snarling way: I
al see some fellow has been writing I
n THE COMET about seals. He must t
re fool. Why, they've been abol- \
shed a long time aga. don't expect u
Ic knew what a seal was. He GER i
ainly didn't know what he was Y
writing about a
These comments like Il charge of -
came so fast that ! didn't u
lave time TO duck my head, but it is G
Ieedless to tell you kept concealed n
ia RODIi,iiS ct PERSONA" q
Yours with and without variations. X
JEWS HARP. .
Echoes from our Colleges. Il
Mississippi College matriculated 1l5 o