The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-28
Short Stories
 from Real Life.

had ordered. A dwarfed dog, of the rat terrier species, sat trembling on the floor near by The men were engaged i nearnest conversation and paid no heeo whatever to the dog.
 The tiny beast seemed to reailze tha' he was forgotten, for he moved about restlessly and gazed at the broao pacAS of the two men in an appealing manner punctuating his forlornness occasionai's with a. low, distressed howl. But the men went right on with their talk munchel crackers and in sundry other ways closed their ears to the appeals oi the dog for recognition.
 Finally an idea occurred to the ooe. He gave one long. lingering LOOK at his master, the taller of the two men, anu then slowly made for the street uooi He was a most dejected looking dog at thi, iuncture His head hung low. while e,eat tears stre amed down his little black lace. He nmped painfully, whereas ne had been a b.t of dog as fri-ky as one could wish to see only half an hour pe- fore.
 IJpon reaching the door, which was or the swinging kind with an open space at the buttom, the heartbroken il'lio beast turned for last farewell looA a' his master. The man was still busliy eh- go oed with his c. ac.ers and conversation The dog whln,d and went out uhoer 'ho door. .-.,,r
 The oysters came. They were steamins hot Soon they had di appeared. Cisars followed. The two men were now e~s.io ,la..ns i1 addt oA 10 talking. A quarter of an hour went by. Not sign or the dog. .,s. .ha
 That is, not a sign of the dog inside the place Pedestrians out idle observed sralI black object huddl d up close by the stone CT Iumn supporting the door oi inc restaurant It shivered in the cola wind. It wa the deje cted dog. Anon IL would De k cautiously unier the swlns- ing doors, as if deeply intent on soine- thing transpiring within, yet fearful or being caught in the act of eavesdroppins. Tears still coursed down its face. At Ia t he me fni h th'ir talk ana turned about to depart. The taller Of the | two lcoL, on the floor as If h. had lost | something.
 where's my dog?" he exclaimed. "He was right here minute ago, sir, | one of the walters answered. | Then b, gan a search. It extended all | over the place from front to rear; oehlno | counters and under tables. The dog was nowh re to be seen. No one thought or | glancing down und the swinging doors. l If one had thought of that he would doubtless have seen pair Of sharp plack eyes twinkling there He would have seen no tears about the eyes now, how ever, for grief had flown thence and | lcok of eoger int nse mer iment danced all over the pinched little face.
 The tall man whistled for the dog. He called out his name and clucked vigor- ously At last, in desperation, he started l for the door, wearing worried look at the ss of the dog.
 | That dog hasn't got thimble full of | sense," he calculated as he approached the swinging doors. T wonder where In the world he is, confound hlm!' | At that lstant something black bound- | ed in under the doors and a sharp yelp l rang through the place. It seemed to | say, Here I am!" and the subsequent antics of the dwarfed dog. for it was he, bore out the suspicion that such was his | exclamation.
 Aha" cried the master. Been hiding again. have you?"
 Yelp! Yelp! Yelp!
 Trying to fool your master, eh?'
 Double and triple yelps! High and lofty | jumps and floor acrobatic feats!
 You deceitful rascal"'
 l Happiness complete. No dejection now! Recognition from the master and the dog revels in raptures. Even the lat | fried oyster tossed on the floor is un- noticed for the pearly white teeth are pretending to tear at the trouser leg of the man who a nom mt before had for gotten the dwarfed dog was in existence!
 As they passed out of the place, the dog running on ahead while the master still scolded, a drummer at one of the tables observed.
 "Is it the man or the dog that hasn't get a thimbe full of sense?"
 Thanksgiving Day invariably recalls to my mind little story which furnishes an excellent example of the feeling of fraternity that exists among men who belong to fraternal organizations" said one of Montgomery's best known busi- ness men yesterday
 Many years ago 1t was reported to a Montgomery hotel clerk that a guest of the establishment had been found dying in his brdroom. An investigation by the clerk revealed the fact that the stranger had taken poisonous drug and was close to death. The clerk made nasty exami- nation of the effects of the stranger and | found in a pocket of his coat a card showing that he was member of one of the leading fraternal organizations of | which the clerk was a member. He re- ported the result of his examination to the Montgomery lodge of the organization and I was appointed on committee to sit up with the stranger. -:
 We called in a physician who either did not understand the case or kept the secret to himself The doctor gave the committee medicines and retired. Then We three m mbers cF the Montgomery lodge took charge of tn, private papers of the dying man.
 We found a letter addressed to tine local lodge in which the statement was made that the stranger, who turned out to be a business man of Georgia, had taken a deadly drug. He died late in the night without having regained conscious ness. The doctor came the next morn- ing. which dawned upon Thanksgiving | Day and gave certificate of death from , heart failure.
 l Our committee wrote a letter to the widow and her three little children that her hu band had been suddenly taken ill and that he had died in Montgomery of heart failure. The newspapers announce ed his death of heart failure. That wo- man and her children will never know that the husband and father took his own life.
 A respectable negro farmer of Bullock County came to Montgomery the other day. His business called him to the State Capitol, where hat in hand and with some trepidati0n he went into the private office of the Governor to present a busi- ne's matter to the Chi Ex cutive.
 "Mafse Will sid the nC gro, after he
 had compl ted his bu'inoss, when We usetcr ply marbles tog ther on the streets of Union Sp,inRs sho' di 7n't