Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-30
NUNNELLEE ON THE FIGHT.
The Selma Editor Takes a Humorous View of
the Passage at-Arms-His YER
sion of 1t. fs
Selma Times.

Selma Times.
A great deal has been said about that
little unpleasantness between the editor
of the Times and Col. Frank Glass of the
Advertiser.
1t was nothing but a fiasco and did not
rise to the dignity of schoolboy scrap.
1t would have been a first-class face COM
edy if Colonel Glass had not twisted his
face into such terrible contortions.
Everybody knows that Colonel Glass
is not pretty taken at his best, but he APP
peared perfectly hldeous when he got
mad The editor of the Times thought
he was joking whsn he struck at him, and
then, when he looked at that fearfuIly
ugly face, which was a kind of a mix
ture between the grin of the 'possum
and the snarl of a flee, he was so taken
by surprise that he thought for mo-
ment that the usually genial and placid
Colonel Glass was having fit.
We have not heard of Colonel Glass
having fits, but when he Strengthened
out full length on the sidewalk we were
more impressed than ever that he was
having a fit. We think that when he
made that great contortion of the face
that he drew the skin so tight that 1t
drew his hind leg off the ground and he
fell over backwards.
We would not have had anything seri-
Gus to have happened while Colonel Glass
was making that face for the world. If
his little simlin head had cracked open
when he hit the sidewalk we would have
gone off and committed suicide, for We
could not have gone through life with
that hideouS 'possum face grinning and
snarling at us, filling our imaginations
by day and haunting our dreams by
night.
We had no idea that Colonel Glass was
going to get so angry when we told him
that we thought he had acted worse than
Kolb. We really think that Kolb's ac-
ton, compared with that of Colonel
Glass, is like comparing daylight and
darkness. Kolb had some excuse for
boiling; little Glass and his followers
none.
We really haven't it in our heart to get
mad with little CLASSY. If the show dur
ing the scrimmage had lasted fifteen
minutes longer it would have been worth
any mans dollar to have seen it. We
were just getting little interested when
Governor Jones and Mr. Alexander pull
ed US up from over the PROSTATE form of
the little bantam, and in three more sec
onds would have commenced the incest
little job of frescoing the countenance OF
an editor that was ever witnessed in the
capital city.
That horrible face of Franks. How 1t
hauntS us as we writei
When Captain Bamberger, the fighting
man of the Times, heard that his chief
had gotten into scrimmage with Col
onel Glass he became very angry and it
was all his friends could do to keep him
from chartering a train and proceeding
to Montgomery to take up the fight
Captain Hamburger won his spurs at the
battle of Sedan and he has gore in his
eye BAN thinks he is the only man who
can get his face in the same twist that
Colonel Glass does when he starts into
battle, and in few days he will issue
challenge to the lightweight of the Adj
vertiser to meet him in the fistic arena.
Mr.. Bamberger proposes to have
number of pugilistic bouts and facial
contortions in the principal cities of the
state and wants the last battle to come
off at the auditorium in Birmingham on
or before October 10, the gate receipts to
go to the campaign fund of Bryan and
Sewall.
Colonel Glass friends think that he
really did not intend to fight, but he just
wanted to make play before his friend,
Governor Jones. CLASSY wanted to do
something heroic, and he thought he
would take that occasion to impress the
fact upon Governor Jones that he would
fight.
is going to be fun, and tremendous
houses will be drawn. Jim Dougherty
has offered his services as referee. Will
Walker will be bottle holder. By the
next mail we expect to get the name of
Colonel Glass bottle holders and referee.
There is great fun in store for the peo-
pie of Alabama. Bryan and Sewall will
win in November, but that fearfully
hdeous grimmace on Frank Glass face
will haunt us to our dying day. Next
time Frank attempts to assault us with
a stick we would be much obliged If he
would stick his head in a croaker sack
or wear q mask.