The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

I don't know why it should have at- tracted my attention as passed up the street. but when a voice from the depths of tho subway calling for help in stren- uous tones fell upon my ear halted in my homeward course to investigate. If was no new thing at that hour of the night-close upon half-past twelve-to hear such sounds, for latterly the subway ditches have become almost 8 fad with those who have dined not so wisely as well, but upon this occasion there was something in the appeal that went deep and touched tangibly upon my sympa- thies.
 think, now that the incident has pass ed and I am able to view the contre- temps coolly, that the fact that unfor- tunate creature spoke in Latin was re- sponsible for the arrestation of my foot steps. A great deal of Italian. some brogue and a lot of bad English come up from the subway ditches these days, but Latin terms are a rarer quantity. so that when the sufferers Help, help! in the purest accents of the Caesars rattled forth from the broad scar on the fair face of our city, I stayed my homeward march and, leaning over the wooden rail by which the muddy depths were pro- tected from an overinquisitive or under cautious public. called back:
 ''Well-youl What do you want?''
 q want to get out of this,'' was the answer in accents that Cicero might have envied. 'Im tired of subterranean life, and seek only to return to the upper stratum of terra firma.'
 .'Bonus!" cried in reply and doing my best in spite of a somewhat rickety rec ollection of Latin. "Omnes rectus," added. meaning, of course, ''all right" *I'n do my bestissimus. Wait a momen- tum until I find a copuarium. I can't help you out all by my ipsissimus."
 Memo. me impune lacessit," was the reply. Only hurry up. I'm in state of arma virumque down here, and if you don't get me out in twenty minutes it will be de gustibus with me-" -4-
 SSssib Why He Fastened.
 With such an appeal ringing in my ears how could do otherwise than hasten? :? My first thought. of course. was to run 10 the corner drug store and ring for an am- bulance, but second thought prevailed. ''If l do that" I reflected, they'll have his leg off before he gets to the alcoholic ward Then I thought of the police, who are ever useful; but circumstances over which the Commissioner seems to have no control prevented that. The of- ficer in charge of that particular beat was up on other charges and in spite of a
 
 the neighborhood did not divulge himself. Hence I fell back upon my own resources and. returning to the wooden rail, called down to the sufferer.
 Hi, there, you. Can't you climb out of that solus sine extra succorum?"
 Sic semper tyrannis," he replied. some what irrelevantly I thought. "Sed si sic non vobis erat will lend a hand think l can shin up to the top. Praeterita hic haec hoo sine qua non saeculorum ad nee inter alias rotulorum."
 ''I think you are wrong there" said !. as his meaning dawned upon my mind 'Still if you want to try it you will find me as ever non paratus sed alabazam cum toujours.''
 Obeying these instructions. the individ- ual. whom I had not yet seen. caught hold of the hoist rope and hauled him. self up to the edge of the cut
 ''Quid next?' he asked, as his foot found firm resting place on the outer rim ol the cobblestoEes.