The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-26

couldn't tell you now what Roosevelt ought to do to straighten out the trusts, and yit I've told him ten times. if I've told him once. Sometimes, l git most discouraged with Daniel. Don't l, Daniel?"
 "Yepw said Daniel. sometimes it looks like it wasn't no use to waste talk on me, I'm so loose minded that way"
 But I keep right on," said S. Potts, perfectly regardless of expense, like MT. Carnegie handing around the money he don't want and don't know what to do with and Is glad to get any body to take. Money comes in to Car negie so fast 1t keeps him awake at night, and I'm fixed the same way with wisdom and knowledge. I guess we was both born that way. There ain't no problem ever comes up that I don't know right off how to settle it. I don't take no credit for 1t, for I can't help it, but l must say that if they had me down there at Washington there wouldn't be so many mistakes made. When my mind gifts goin' on a thing it settles it, and 1t settles 1t right. All 1 you have to do is to mention a thing to me, offhand like, and my mind gifts right to work on it and works it all i out, and settles what is the right of 1t
 
 it without any urging either. It's like dessert to my mind to git ahold of something to settle that way. And 1t l don't make any difference what it is l my mind takes ahold of, either-politi- cal. vegetable, moral or mineral-it is all the same to it. Amt it, Daniel?"
 That's so,' said Daniel. Tt beats all I ever did see."
 And it don't need no book like that | 1nV Af1trNa -aw.y neither, said s. Potts. That's the wonderful part of it. Some minds has 1 to have lot of facts and hggers to l take hold of before they can get busy to settle anything, but my mind ain't 1 that way I don't need 'em and it won't want 'em. and the more facts and l figgers 1t has the worse it works. Facts and figgers sort of jam it up and im- ] pede it, you might say. The less 1 facts and iggers 1t has the better it works. All anybody has to do to git my mind to settle any problem that is i botherin the minds of the nation, big and little, is to mention what the prob lem is-just give it name. as you might say, and she gifts to work, and in five minutes she is ready to spit out an answer, and the answer is the right one Ain't that so, Daniel?" .--
 Sure said Daniel"I seen 1t happen mora'n once"
 "Yes, sir" said S. Potts. that's the queer thing about 1t. The answer Is the right one every time. I leave it to Daniel If 1t ain't so. It has happened time and again. Somebody comes along mebbe, and mentions race sui eide. for instance. Just mentions it onhand like. and goes away. Mebbe amt ever heard of race suicide before, and don't know whether it's a horse n m fhaf l. G-,B ~k sulcldin'. All right; do you think that makes any difference? Not bit My mlnd just gifts to work, and in half m hour l give Daniel here the whole an- sWer. right off the reel Tell him all about 1t and what 1t is and what ought 10 be done about 1t and how 1t ought to be done and what effect it will have, and then branch out and give @ lecture to him about suicide in general and what ought to be done about that. and patent medicines and what ought to ne done about them, and mebbe throw Tn a few side remarks about pure food and Is Goldfish Healthful to Eat? Don't I. Daniel"
 T bet vel" agreed Daniel heartily. 'Codhsh or wire nails or religion or anything else. You cant never seem to tell what it will be until you've got 1t said It surprises you just as much as it does me; don't it, S Potts?"
 Tt does said S. Potts. T can't never git over it. I try to. but can't. It surprises me every time The less seem to know about thing the more I seem likely to say about it. Them things l don't know nothing at all about when I begin talkin generally turns out to be the very things I can hand Daniel the most information about when l git started. So I hain't got no use for book like that you're sellin at all And what bothers me is why Daniel here was so plumb foolish as to go and buy copy, when he has got