Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06

roI line times out OF ten stk K
He's got bottom Ia his heart,
And he'll build up again
II you1I let him get start
P. Devil.
did either Of you fellows ever meet
a real live 'knocker' one Of those fell
! lows who carry concealed weapons in
1.-THE shape OF a neat little hammer,
(Which they use with greater zeal than
lever Carrie Nation used her Ratchet
and with about as much senseg And
Baldy leaned back in his comfortable
chair, preparatory to hearing his
friends replies.
why, the woods are full of them
said Fatty, CONTEMPORARY, 'sthe
/ knocker is indigenous to the whole.
round world, and there's never place
so prosperous or place SO miserable
that it is not cursed with the presence
of the Knocker with big X. And
what they would do,<i they could, to
anything, anybody, anywhere, at any
time, is a plenty--but, thank goodness,
they generally do nothing but create
"A little unpleasantness and get the
worst Of that themselves"
There you are wrong, Fatty" said
the Man from the East, they do not
get the worst of it themselves, for the
harm they do hardly ever effects them
in any way, but does knock all the
well-meaning plans of others awry and
plays the devil generally. With his
hammer, the 'knocker' slips around in
the darkness and hammers away on
some proposed movement intended for
the general good. and for the very
love of being contrary, endeavors to
create sentiment of opposition, that
it may be defeated. He is as deadly
poison to the spirit of enterprise in
a community, as the Upas tree is to
human life in the country to which it
is indigenous"
AS you say, Fatty, the knocker is
Indigenous to the whole round world
he is omnipresent and his work is
seen On every hand. = said Badly, The
would - - ~ 1o0no e1ssk h1t. ii.
ataz = s. n zy(hing.
1ndiscr iml1e1sly Il hftz1Irs ~ ~,
p sisht Nh ~ unexIlne uno11in . !
feroclfy q : 1aad doE run aautlck. Il III
sees nothing good in any enterpris
and he is the original and only 1-tol,
you-so' whenever misfortune comes
a town in which he exists and II !,
town that is not his habitat does n.
yet appear on the map"
That's the right idea," said Fatty
he is destroyer of everything. whi=/
an iconoclast only batters into piec,
the shams, superstitIons and fan
cious beliefs that threaten COMMIT
lty or people. The knocker sees
good in anything, and attacks ever
tning simply for the love of being d.
tagonistic. He is an excresceno'
bursting with pessimism, which nm
It's life on the yitals of every sociy-
civil and political body"
n Some towns In the West" sas
me Man from the East, 1T IS the c,,s
ON to allude to health conditions y
ne vicinity In such a significant mao =
ler as to lead the knocker to sed7 I,
lnotner residence in a rather hurrit IN
way They simply won't stand ~ \
lis 'butting in on every propositidcl n
With a bunch Of kicks that would pio r
ne intended movement to the BAD
Without its ever getting fair sho'tI
land as the people in that sectiosI
lre prone to give everybody and everf-t |
ming 9 chance for his or her WHIT
Hey they won't stand for the hnocle
y a little bit"
IT would be good thing for everM
own IN this county to adopt the sand II
rastic measures.'r said Badly, sbdll H
IS not feasible plan here here vi II
re tied up with an overabundance /
ne Majesty Of the Law. Thank good II
ess Hattiesburg, while It hes q fet II
mateur knockers is not troubled v,,A | III