The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-14
SAINT VALENTINES DAY AND < SOME MONTGOMERY SENTIMENTS

the comic pictures" or under a lace heart with Cupids flying around it. The custom, however, is not confined | Tn Montgomery to the small boys. In fact, men of the highest station in Montgomery are known to have joined In the practice. For instance. a mis- sive bearing the crest of the distin- guished Mayor of Montgomery, mules head rampant is said to have gone forth yesterday bearing the following 70 muley. little muIey. With thy feet that give us pain, With thy playful little exercise That may some day raise Cain, ask of you, beg of you To hide yourself, and, we'll Q muley. little muley. Will you kindly step to Georgia? While it is not stated as a positive fact 1t was reported last night that in his mail this morning General Manager w. H. Ragland of the Montgomery Traction Company may receive a sweet scented missive from the City Council running thus;
 You can't play in our yard With your gorgeous yellow cars We don't like you any more.
 Mayor Teague put up the bars"
 But the coincidence is that the City Council. according to report, will re- eeive a dainty billet doux from the Traction Company magnate that will read this way:
 Everybody works on the Traction
 Trying to make 1t pay
 Dollars to the city
 As fast as hen can lay.
 Laban Strauss is working
 And so is Archie IT.,
 And all the other Aldermen,
 On the M. T. C."
 And 1t is also said that Alderman Jim Sullivan. his voice having weaken ed, is wooing fair one with this sort of a plea:
 70, Goddess fair, O Venus rare,
 O, patroness of all that's love. O. hear my plea, it's only me As harmless as a cooing dove. want to talk, now please don't balk. My vocal chords aren't made of stone. It's not your heart from you I'd part. Pray send to me megaphone." If earnest sentiment Is carried by the lace and gold emblems of St. Val entine. Custodian c. w. Buckley of the Montgomery Federal building might draw to the attention of Washington the feeling that exists in Montgomery over the retrenchuAnt policy that has caused a stoppage7 of the passenger elevator in the governments handsome local house. He might say for exam pie:
 Dear Uncle sam:\ I take my pen Tn hand to write letter.
 The people here are mad with you You ought to treat them better. Right nows they say you're stingy. mean,
 They're calling you a second-rater. It's cheap, they say, to stop the pay And also stop the elevator.
 CTween you and me shall agree To all you do. c. W. B.)
 The appended valentine was dropped on Dexter Avenue and picked up by a pedestrian. The name of the sender is yelled in mystery, but 1t was addressed to Republican officeholders.- The valen- tine was an expensive affair, and the verse, the sentiment of which Is beau tifui, is herewith published for the first and only time:
 q am the boss of the G. O. P. I run this State for Teddy;
 want you to come and fly with me, For you I'm always ready.
 My influence is great big thing, I've made young Reese feel hot; I'm still the centre of the Repub ring, Anu my HAfn0 IN --7------ q bet you can't guess)."
 Another valentine message was ad- dressed to Charley Frank, New Or- leans, and the sender didn't care who knew his name. Copies were also mailed to Billy Smith, Atlanta; Harry Vaughn, Birmingham; Mike Finn, Nashville; Bob Gilks, Shreveport; Char ley Babb, Memphis, and Chief Trimmer, Little Rock:
 The charming ballade Is herewith re- produced:
 "A pennant I must and shall win;
 We have been trailing behind long
 enough;
 And now, lads. I'll wager my tin
 Keep, still, boys, this ain't no big
 We have got the only real stun. And my roll on my club I will bet.
 The Climbers, to beat. will be tough, Or I'll swear my name afnt Durrett.
 These are only a few of those that expressed tender sentiments It is true that Adolph Roemer addressed mis- sive to all contractors for sidewalk having, which set out in verse how much he loved them, but the irony of the verse is too apparent for printing purposes. It's also true that Sam Bel ser, Jack Taylor and George Powell wooed in written words a dainty miss called Miss Sheriff, but there were so many of these kind of valentines that space prevents printing them all.
 While we who have older heads may scoff at the custom, young America still clings to St. Valentines Day. The school teachers will no doubt be re- minded of 1t today when they receive colored cards ornamented with crudely drawn pictures of cats and dogs and donkeys and goats bearing such un- grammatical but expressive phrases as "This are you," carved in badly shaped capital letters.
 And you who receive cards drawing attention to your foibles and weak nesses must laugh and be good-natured. This is St, Valentines Day! You were once a bad little boy with a stone bruise and an all-consuming desire to send comic to the fat old fellow who had more dignity than he had charity
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