The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-18

puJ Lhllil All lIty re SOOQ read
.r'. Next to tn chess games they've
soout tn best readin' I find in tn pa
pe-7 fT tn brain. They take thought
an q knowledge iy tn wurruld, but
uanst ye apply ye're mind to thin ye
don't have to go to tn game to injye
IT, You. Hinnfssy, pay a lot iv good
money an spind a whole afthernoon
In tn snow iv a bitter Summers day,
while [ stay at home here dhrinkin'
hot things, smokfn' d good seegar an
seln tn spoort as plainly befure me
g es as if I ownded tn ball club an
cud set on tn players bench. Here it
IS. 'Th' hosiery display delivered tn
entire fruit stand. includin' a cornu-
copy iv checkerberries. an tn gaso-
leue torch to tn alleged Desperadoes
yis1erdah afthernoon befure twinty
thousand feather heads who wept,
groaned, moaned, an sighed ontil if
III whole faculty iv medicine had been
fr'm exhaustion putin sthrait jackets
On III psfetics. TIL cillybrated star
board whip iv Juggs Doheny, tn sali-
vary glandyator iy tn Thugs was all
tord tn fleet. an tn empire, a certain
lTsther Flicks whose eyesight niver
will be improved till tn main squeeze
v tn Junta makes him look FIR an
other job, threated tn slapless mira
,les as though they were Chinese
Ethrike breakers in San Francisco.
" This Ornymint iv tn joodicyal
station lost his on'y previous position
because he cudden't make change
while actin az chief clerk iv an T am
blind emporium with music). He
cuddents see tn space between New
York an Liverpool. He thinks they're
just tn same. If he iver thries to
board q sthreet can on tn same judg-
mint that he uses FIR decisions at bases
he'll get a dent In his little head that'Il
enable him to wear his hat upside
down without havin' 1t blow off But
in spite iv ivrything, includin' tn ac-
ton Of III oplis In blockin' plays be
three or four hundred iv our assist
ant third basemen armed with knives.
tn gang fr tn corner come through
or tn rail Tc' game was a horror
fr'm tn moment whin little old Billy
Wappus lashed tn principal headstone
with tn cannon cracker till Boggsy
trOtted 2cTost Schwartz shingles with
tn ice picks on his feet. In tn first.
CeTEHE JlnGoed. 41ctirev5Sco toddled.
TWO less thin anything were sung On
Ringstat be tn on'y empire iver born
% tn mammoth cave iv Kentucky. al
though tn balls were found in 4
dhrug sthore acrost tn sthreet aftheY'
tn game. TIL next wan was as moist
as tn flure iv tn office iv tn Thransit
House afther d cattleman's convintiOn,
hut it must've looked to tn boy at tn
gate as big as a sheep dog comm
out ~ a dhrain. He caught it where
r' medulla oblongata joins tn collar
'utJOn, an ii Wint away to return no
aore.' An there ye ARE. a pictur II
nipple language"
IT'S a rough game these days,
Ir Hennessy.
1T is that" said M Dooley ''It
has deginerated sadly. Tn in thor
ough sympathy with tn editor iv tn
Northwestern Christian Advocate.
"ho wants it suppressed. 1t amt tn
E!nteel game it was in my days. In
Thin far-gone times baseball was tn
'poort iv gintlemen. When our fathers
left their clubs and wint down to tn
aasebau park, an took off their coats
aU collars, they knew they were 60
5h TO spind an afthernoon in tn
quiet enjymint iv contest iv gintle-
menly skill an good nature. There
was no rOWdyism in thim days. No,
SIR tn best people in town wint to
..t games an cheered be cryin' Here.
here. 'excellint,' or played, indeed
ur sometimes in moments iv gr-reat
.scitemint, Kill tn speckled-faced,
.rosss-eyed pick pocket, KIN
a..assary to protect tn, en-
nre In fact, they weren't advisable.
spite " his unyform, a polisman is
hat e man afther all, No. sir. THEM
re was perfectly safe if he survived
t| game an left tn grounds first. In
F-aervior class iv men. In Ordher TO
qualify for the position they had to go
-o~0ugh tn pompier dhrill tv climbin'
re-oes undher tn Instruction iv
-.upeteut Greman.
Tn auiences were always fair an
s...~Is-Iovin' They sildOm hiss
decision whin wan iv tn home
n'avers was caught fifteen feet off tn
s~. But they were stern as well as
an they properly reprimanded
certain thievin' burglarizin', porch
bin bribe-takin ruffyans, who
u46 uudher assumed names secured
ra important position of empire. TIL
f.r- rows iv th' fifty cint seats used
q. ae occupied by club men who had
EH.ed away tn mornin' hours in tn
".atu' mills an come over to Splnd
9et afternoon in tn sunshine
"acehin tn naytional game. A pref
r. picture they made in their red
"@nnel undhershirts, fannfn' thim-
-.-ses with copies iv : Polls Gazette
.'.ey were usually quiet an Thought
.S. but at times wud make laug gnIn
'-5aaIks about tn empires family;
"1 "hin a ra-ally unjust decision oc-
Ered. or what looked like an un-
-. decision from where they sat,
-@t' proud natures asserted th1m-
s-He-. They did what amy other
rjcan, whether he wears his un-
.eishtrt outside or inside, wud do:
-ao# hoped over tn railin' an
aped on tn perjured officyal
aim were tn days Whin we had
pride. We loved tn boys that
-at so nobly for their home city,
r." "e hated tn scoundrels that come
afar to Wrest their lorls fr' m
-..'s 1t was a grand thing to have
-eTne village riprisinted be tn
."r " its athletes, la-ads that had
i tn game on tn prairies an
-.l lots iv tn west side an were
red to do or die in definse iv tn
" Chicago. 1 always had spe-
delight, Hinnessy, whin they hu-
.nl an degraded tn naughty
lork team, which they often
49,. m glad to say, an are still dom,
hIVen An whin tn long sea
was over an tn heart burnln $
9 al an ind, whin tn last httle
H.. "5 gone into tn grounds IN IN
r. inning on a ball knocked over
H. ra"e, an tn last stick 1v gum
f.. '-a- chewed an. an tn pennant
55d lr tn, Flagstaff in MItchlgan
9' or was carried back IN tfl-