The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-07-24
....PE0PLE HND THINGS.
How the Pope Become Pope.

"The election of Pope Leo to the
head OF the Roman Catholic church was
an accident, said the well-tnform
ed citizen Monday afternoon in dis
cussing the Pope's death. PROBABLY
not a half dozen of the people OF Co
lumbia, who have been reading abol'
his serious illness for the past two
weeks, know this, but 1t is fact.
When Pope Plus III died back in the
70's, two well-known churchmen,
whose names l can I recall. were can
dldates to succeed him. Both of them
were what might have been called
Young men, and each knew that If the
other was elected that he would proba
civ hold for long time. aud that
when he finally died the other would
be too old then to be elected TO the
place. The contest was extremely close
and as the election approached 1t be-
came more doubtful as to who would
win. 1t was at that time that each
side settled on Leo. who was very
delicate man, and elected him. think
ing that he would not live long, and
that by the time he died, they would
be the strongest claimant for the
throne. But Pope Leo fooled them.
He lived until he was way past Gu,
and now both of the men which caused
his election are themselves too ola
and will nave TO give way to young
er man.
"What a strange, freakish and elus
i've thing is fame, said the man VINO
is always morallZlng. Take Tor
instance, Nickens, the young strap OF
a fellow who recently played ball In
Column ia for the local team ana Is
now with the Nashville league team.
Three months ago nobody In the base
ball world knew there was such a Tel
low as Nlckens. He lived in Nash
Vile, out on Billy Goat Hill, you
don't know where that Is, 1t Is the
rattlest. tackiest part of the city.
.way ont in the meanest suburb, and
no one ont there knew Nlckehs'
not even the neighbors, | dare say,
across the street. He is as unSalnly
LOGGING chan as one could hardly see;
absolutely without any sort OF eouca
ton. knowing only enough TO inuu!se
in that elevating, luxurious uIalu-
feeding habit of smoking cigarettes.
Yet, like King Richard. he mas maoe
q name Tor n11neSll. lCStoAuy -,
the most talked of man In NashVllle'
and it's a safe bet that even Ool oele
Baxter and Governor Frazier are NOT
as well. known to the Nashville small
bow MS the great Nickens, the le.yeaf-
old chap who let the heavy hitting
Shreveport Southern Leaguers down
with but one hit in eight innings
And now he is acclaimed by no less a
parsonage than the mighty newt
Fisher to be the speediest man In tue
Southern league and Fisher says ne
will make one of the greatest pitcrers
in the business And the Nashville
papers are full of him; publishing his
picture, aud ransacKing the town TO
get something about his history Ana
yet there are thousands OF educated
young men in Tennessee today who by
their skill and trained intelligence are
high positions In the great
world of business, who Will never be
known to the newspaper reading pub
tic. But Nickens, the uneducated boy
from a dirty, ugly suburb of Nashville,
has jumped into fame, aud the news
papers PRINT column after column
about him. He had strong arm
that all. But 1t will make hum for
tune. Such is fame, and the prsnks
II plays.