The age-herald., 1900-11-01
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE

anu Us pdSS6u dl dlley d SIildit SlOHG struck the sidewalk near me. Thinking it was some friend who wished to attract my attention I turned down the alley but could see no one. It was very dark I felt in my pocket for a match, but I had changed my vest that day and did not have any with me. In looking around l noticed something dark on the ground next to the wall I pushed 1t with my foot, but could not tell what it was. It seemed like bundle of clothes. l then bent over 1t, when I could distinctly hear 1t breath ing. Thinking 1t some drunken negro with his legs drawn up under him, and wishing to wake him up, 1 drew back and gave it kick, whereupon the thing gave a most frightful growl that sent cold ehills down my back and sent me flying out of the alley. It was a huge black bear that had been chained ua"
 "Who threw the stone?" asked somc- one.
 T didn't stay to find out" replied the officer. "One thing, however, have learned, and that is never to go in an alley without matches"
 Ever since the vanishing lady trick of some years ago the fad of mysteriously disappearing has become very common Hardly day passes without an account of some one who has vanished as mysteri- ously the vanishing lady-or, rather, more so, for all know where the vanish ing lady went.
 A special from Columbus, Ga., says that Captain A. P. Lucas, a well-known rail- road man. has been missing a week, and that his family is very much alarmed over his mysterious disappearance. He was last seen in Montgomery.
 Another man has been lost in Montgom- cry. He Is C. R. Howard, who was com ! ing from Jacksonville, Fla, to Birming- ham to get married. He was traced by means of his ticket as far as Montgom- cry, but since then nothing has been seen or heard of him. The police are searching for him. but unsuccessfully
 Montgomery is getting to be a big city when two grown men can be lost there and the police be unable to find them This matter should be brought to the at- tention of the census authorities
 Printers sometimes make queer mistakes In setting up copy A poet whose verses recently appeared in The Age-Herald wrote d poem entitled "A Thousand Years" He lie felt somewhat aba shed to see that the cniy effect it had on the printer was to cause him to print it as "A Thousand Tears"
 Another instance was in the use of the familiar Latin quotation, de mortuis nil nisf bonum." This was printed as ''Dr. Martins nil nisi bonum," which sounded like Datent medicine h.y+ would be very good name for such an article.
 Some one who has recently been to a house party in the country writes of it as follows; at least, this is the way it ap- peared in a newspaper:
 "The flowers and vines that yet defed the melancholic days and would not turn red in the fall. were plucked by fairer hands and given as a reward the highest place among us Con our hats), neither did the rattan with all its suppleness escape, but was made to display their very quality as we wound them into shapes of shapes.
 Three times a day was the ringing of a bell drowned by the response thereto, and you should have seen the table before and after And when the western sun had hid behind the mnrmurring pines our voices sweet blended with guitar and with it foated on the soft night air to be waited by the zephyr breeze. The fluent flow of our words were intermingled with quota tions from Sentimental Thomas
 These days will long be remembered when they are elected ones memory; and here to our hostest's drink"
 Boys who are bad and smoke cigarettes should take warning from the fate of Cliff ford Cawthon. His mother, who was widow, being unable to cure him of his bad habits, took hatchet and played tattoo on his head with fatal results Clifford has now permanently gone to the bad-he wlll smoke, but not cigarettes. His mother, after killing him, set him on fire to hide the crime, but the fremen came and put him out. They found his mother out who is said to be prostrated over being discoY- cred Had her plans worked successfully, there is no doubt but that she would have lived happily ever afterward, with bad boy and no cigarette smoke to bother her. AS it Is, she will have to consider the ques- ton of how to die happy, though unmar- ried.
 Girls who allow young men to pay them attention and treat them to soda water and ice cream, should always consider the pos sibflity of having to pay for it. A young girl who recently refused an admirer was somewhat surprised at being sued for $95, the amount spent by the young man during his courtship Having failed in one suit, he tried another. An itemiZed bill was attached to the petition, some of the items being: Ice cream, January 10, 20 cents; chocolate candy, January 13, 25 cents; post age stamps, January 31, cents; car fare, February ?, 10 cents This girl made mis- take in not marrying the plaintiff A man who can keep books like this even while under the influence of love, is bound to succeed.