The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15
War Horse Platt still AnwSers The
 Bugle.

| War Horse PIatt stiu AnwSers The A delivery horse harnessed to a | huckster wagon heard bugler prac- | tising cavalry calls the other day. When the animal got through with the manoeuvres the bugle called for. all | that part of the town was strewn with i ca bbag ges, carrots and other articles of | a commissary nature. As the estab- | lishment dashed down the street at | Charge" a bystander shouted, Whoa, Platt."
 I asked him why he said that. | Easy" he answered.; that's an old war horse. That bugle would start him if he were dead
 l It wasn't far wrong, either. Thom-
 as c. Piatt has been retired from poll | tics to the express business so many times in the past twenty years, by those in whom the wish is father to the thought, that it is getting to be a joke, and the genius of political his | tory has contracted writer's cramp try | ing to keep tally or the times ne mas | fooled them.
 l To find out where Platt is it is only
 necessary to sound boots and saddles" for a campaign. fortnight ago they had him dying in Denver, and New York newspapers had his obituary writ ten and standing in type in the com posing rooms, all ready to jump into | the form for an extra.
 A note on the political trumpet and into New York slid the deacon, bland
 and smooth Tt was all a canard," he said softly. T haven't felt better in 1 a long time" Then he changed his hotel, leaving the Fifth Avenue, where | he has put up for almost half cen- tury, and taking rooms in the new Gotham, where you can't get a drink | except by messenger, because Governor Higgins vetoed the saxe bill and so
 killed the Gotham's license. Tt was the only favor I ever asked of him."
 said MT. Platt.
 The things that are happening to Odell are very suggestive of the Platt method. In Wall Street, where Odell had a warm welcome once. there are icicles on the caves when he comes up out of the Subway. and in political circles, the smile is certainly coming
 off. It is good gamble that Odell | will not make any more Governors. | Mayor of Newburgh and quiet life for his. It is the real, seasoned cav airy horse that remembers the bugle. Passing of the Three R's. I The new-fangled system of teaching | in the public schools is fast reaching
 the point where 1t will take precedence of the servant girl problem The
 theory that knowledge of the alphabet | is an unnecessary accomplishment be- | lon 9inr only to normal schools and post | graduate degrees, and that all educa- \ ton should be purely pictorial, is begin ming to have the appearance of an epidemic malady. for the control of | which mental boards of health will be | required.
 A nauseated father thus pours out | his complaint.
 My little girl, years old, com
 plained last night of a sore throat. My
 wife is afraid of diphtheria and called
 in the doctor. Nothing dangerous" says he; make a gargle of alcohol and | water and give 1t to her every half hour. In the morning she'll be all
 right
 "No doctor says the girl. can't | use it.
 And why not my dear says the
 doctor.
 "Because.' looking very superior. I
 study physiology, and know that
 alcohol destroys the mind
 when I asked her to tell me what | latitude was, or to define the equator and few other little things like that, | she was up stump.
 And her brother Is just as bad. He's seven years old and writes out long | sentences for me in a bulgy hand. "I
 500 four apples on a tree" and things W of the sentence. By and by some body1l give him a big check. and hell cash it for half it's face if he doesn't
 happen to have seen the picture of that
 amount on the blackboard. I tell you,
 when this group of graduates grows up
 and gets out into life, anybody that | ever learned the three R's won't have | to go to the theatre to laugh There are some refreshing develop | ments this season in athletics. One is | the determination of the authorities at l Columbia to put an end to the semi l professional business in the college l sports Columbia student who wants 1 to represent the institution on the foot | ball team has got to answer questions l in such a manner as to show clean | bill of amateur health and then sign 1 and swear to it. This isn't priggish- | ness. It's simply good business. Ev- | cry big college in the country has re- | alized the value of athletics as adver- l tising for higher education, and has | winked the other eye while all kinds | of strong men were induced to come to | college and cultivate their minds. The | pendulum is about to swing the other | way and Columbia is showing sagacity | by getting out in the front rank of re- | form.
 | Bishop POtter's Latest.
 Bishop Potter is certainly restless