The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-16

Editor The Advertiser:
 No business interest of Montgomery is ols to repeatedly imper tse vital to the city that 1t. can use the street to it's own good advantage and make them unsafe to the women and children of Montgomery.
 Not once but. several times yesterday the streets of Montgomery were un- safe, not cnly~ to women and children, but to strong men. At noon yesterday arsn na wers erndred men women and chl wild mules. and some of them were in imminent peril. That half a dozen peo- pie escaped deadly injuries was due more more to sood fortune than any care
 And 1t may be said that this same incident Tn less startling form was re- peated a full half dozen times during terrifying to every man who saw the imminent danger in which helpless wo- men and children are constantly thrown. Nor was there a man with a true heart in him. after he had seen that no one was mained or killed, but denounced any condition or any sys- tenn which would so jeopardize the lives of innocent people.
 Montgomerians who habitually use the citys streets have grown to know the ways of the fiery, untamed mules from Missouri and Tennessee. They have gotten to be as familiar with the mules as with the street cars. but this familiarity has never made them con temptuous of the latent danger in the flying herds of wild animals. They have grown to know that some of these herds go straight enough and fol- low the stalking horse before them in faith and confidence. They have grown to know that unless they are run down as, they attempt to cross the streets, by the galloping herd. there Is but these well behaved herds will follow their leader and put the lives of the people in danger only on the street crossings.
 But there is a different style of mule. There are some men who firmly be- lieve that mules are shipped in here from Missouri that will go right up the postoffice steps after a man for no real reason on earth. And having a wide acquaintance with mules the Montgomery man knows that any little untoward circumstance will send a whole drove Into a frenzy of danger ous excitement. In such a drove it the old seni-religious superstition that animals were sometimes possessed of devils, who. unless they were properly exercised would drive the animals to stant menace to man or woman.
 If there is anything in this old belief that most dangerous animal that af- devil devil is s Missouri mule with with four % sharp hoofs and wicked eye, and when two dozens of them, each with his own devil. is reused and started on a wild gallop through the city, 1t Is time for man or woman. chick or child. to fly ing wall.
 What self-respecting horse is willing to permit a drove of wild and snoTting animals 70 chatter up behind him at q full gall ,, to the dfscordant music of wild shouts and cracking whips7 There matter how long he has been in the family, or how ,sedate are his habits and customs, but what will, with his eyes shut in by binders, when he hears the, terrifying clamor behind him, break sSggy and al sway fron Ebe tiis sa,nv n, horse has the right to perform his ser vice for his friends free from the un- known and unseen terrors.
 The family horse yesterday, had hfs part in the incident which was almost
 rdvs tSssh %hcS eea csussS sSs tSs troase of the deviI-pessessed sort, wild with some sort of untamed terror. Some body had given them 8 start for the depot and they were going there if they had to knock down every building
 A family horse hitched to an empty buggy was standing. near the corner of Washington and Lawrence Streets. When he heard the wild chatter of the riderless, fearful troop behind. he threw his head in the Air and dashed head renee Street near the postoffice. The troop swung round the corner and pur- sued him, hot foot The turn about the corner was too much for one of the Missouri products. All four feet slipped from under him and he slid