The Magnolia gazette., 1899-10-18
REPLY TO MEMO.
REV. j. a, SCARBOROUGH REVIEWS
MEMO S LEGAL. WIEN,

when he is down, but in Bro.
Memo s legal view there are
some things too amusing TO let
pass without calling His attention
to them.
Ia the frss place, Bro. Memo,
you organize the whole thing into
a court, and appoint yourself
judge, jury, witness, and every
thing else that goes to make up a
legal court, and proceed to try
your case on its merits. Well,
what are ycur findings? They
are, that you. Bro. Memo, did, on
August 2ud, wiite aa article con-
tainining 259 wordsin which there
was nothing worthy of notice
That your term, "ourpreachers,
'the average preacher, etc.
did not refer to anybody in par
ticular, and that il any man isl
found applying your language 70
himself, he is li..e unto Melchise-
dck, without beginning Of DAYS
or end Of time. All this YOU
have proven to your own satisfac.
ton by the English grammar,
and threw it out OF court. In this
my good brother, you have-madc
the biggest dodge Of your lie.
When you found that the two SIS
were 80 close after you, the nar-
row limits of the Baptist people
became too small for you, and at
one leap you went clear over the
denominational fence among the
Methodists, Presbyterians, Epis-
copalians, Catholics and Camp
belIiCes, where you will have as
muca territory as a minnow would
have in the Atlantic ocean. 1t isI
quite evident that the more YOU
Try to explain yourself, the more
you can't, and the "Goraian
knott is tied around your own
foot, my brother.
Your legal VIEW taking i'll
up one side and down the other,
reminds me very much Of the lit
tie boy who went TO mill, and the
miller asEed him, whose boy are
you?' Nobody's" he replied.
4" Well, whose your daddy?''
Haven't any "Who is your
mammy?' Haven't any :"
How came you here ?" II didn't
come" "How came you in the
world?" "Ohl I'm a son of one
of my aunts.
You say you are sorry for me.
Am glad to learn that have your
sympathies, brother, but what is
tho cause of your sorrow? Surely
it cannot be because of my defeat
for senator, matter to which you
have called attention so often,
your horror for personalities not
withstanding. Or, it may be that
your sympathies go out for me
because ! am so soon to be mixed !
up with your ''turnip greens. "
Are you going TO swallow me be.
cause you love me, or to show |
what a stomach you have, as the |
boy said when he swallowed the |
hairy worms?
In your illegal view", brother,
you charge me with saying OF |
you, that one church suits you as
well as another and better too. |
] deny the allegation and defy the |
alligator, and am willing to leave |
it to the Gazette and all OF its |
readers es to the truth Of my as
sertion. Your condition, brother,
is like that Of the turtle who went
crawling away after its head was
chopped off by an Irishman, who |
said, "BejasusI tho crathur is
dead and don't know it. .
You advise me to take medi-
cine and make no further attempt
to write poetry. Have you lived |
so long in the world and haven't
learned that every fool attempts
to write poetry at some period
during his life? With me tho time
has come, and so here we 60:
Ii the swallowing Of me cause many hard
What upon earth viii you do with my
brains?
II I'm to be mixed with your "turnip
green's"
Be sure that you take twenty billie
b-e-a-n-s.