The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-06
Sidescolk Penciiings .

rs,s yprouer Attsfude Towards Danger. { Around at tho City Hall they tell It as a story of adventure and as Proo. that everybody in the City Hal nas read read works upon the proper etiquette to be observed when the eanisters are
 The e story Is about banisters: The The G that ~ is ~extended from .: window on the second floor and the banisters, oi iron and weighing about 6O0 poumas' had to be loosened from the plankiHgy While the carpenters were working, negro on the other side of the. street saw that the banisters were falling and, with rare presence of mind, ne Haii Thn % ana a told cheers in the room from which the gallery protected. Asaln;; with rare presence of mind, they told the carpsntsfs so seo. the tSeiF SsIpeiib weii.bred red composure by the announcement, con ferred and decided that the banisters ought to besiashsd with ropes; Insy. @ around about and nigh the City En- gineer's office. and got them ropes and they lashed2 the bapisters. go that seeg sSen fsh to tRs Rs'i second Sss d'osa story.
 Thea they continued to complete the fspaifm9bt of the floor None was was hurt, and when it was i,ons al & fSat no % ofs fcer happened to be sitting upon tne failing banister and that no citizen was under it. ran- dered from the office of the City En- gineer. According to 1t, Ialnng Body descends--not ascends. mind you sho,,t thirty two feet the second sec ond, and so on, and some very ruoe thinss were said about the alleged alacrity of the observant negro, the the carpenters the high courage Of the city officers and the great tensile strength of the ropes. o,
 But the city officials are talking or asking for Carnegie hero fund medals, so there must be something Tn It.
 Hair Does Grow After Death.
 A group of guests In a Monlgomeryy " whether or not hair grew after deatn. One man told of the reports or the finding of skeletons with long hair ,N, a., tached,, whereas the oarpse corpse tosH nea of similar instances. But it remained TOT a well dressed man of Chicago to dem- onstrate that hair did grow aIter death. .4.on. tino." he said, "by the widow or man I,formerly [ worked for before ne casn- dd in. She declared that hair did grow After death and said she, had seien- know of this proof she told me. :" we'll she said, I believe in spirit ualisYn. so last Sunday night I attend cd a seance. The room was very dark and still: We held one anothers hands and in that impressive darkness ana stiffness the medium materializeo poor dear Edward for me. .,, .s
 CT recognized his dim outlines as he approached softly. He bent over ana kissed me sweetly and tenderly.
 We'll says |, what has that got 10 do with the question:
 uO" Why, she replied. you know. Ed ward was clean shaven Tn IIe: put @ nov ", he has the softest and silkiest klno o' a nIiIstache and beard.
 Judge W. F. wilkinson. chief clerk in the Department of Agrtculture ana industries. will represent the depart ment at the convention of cotton splh- ners in Atlanta this week.
 MT. A. M. Holley of Abbeville Is In the city, accompanied by Mrs. doiley'
 Postmaster Byron Trammell of Do- than Is registered at the Exchange. MT. Will Parker of Selma is regis tered at Hotel Summers.
 MT. w. C.. Fellows of Birmingham is in Montgomery.
 MT. c. M. Cannon of Troy Is in the city.