The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-27
DRIFT WOOD
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ing he was in Tennessee, began with an eloquent flourish; T have trayeled of Tennessee!" An. tears-hitter tears ---that he should have mistaken the grand old State of Alabama for Ten nessee! But we can stand ft as long as he didn't think 1t was Texasi
 The Roosevelt party killed twenty five animals, including the name stamboui. La. which Is now "Koose- welt" ness is not ali hot air--but then any old balloon would fly oset cut or MIS- sourt.
 Secretary Taft is making q pig hit in the Philippines. says The 6phaio
 We M couldn't imagine him making any other kind.
 In Southern France they are selling spirits by the half-hour. says q news
 Same thing in Georgia.
 The last jug of fsh-bait left surg ling alone--B4ltimore Sun. (Atlapka papers please copy)
 T. R. ought to be with the Wall Street financiers these days as there is strenuousness enoght there now 70 satisfy even his tastes. Suggestions are being made to make the ballot boxes more attractive. We hasten to add one: Gaudy posters or q comic opera chorus might pc posted on them so that the old-bald-hsaders might feel like they were dropping m tickets for burlesQue showi
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 A Missouri woman, 123 years old. runs q farm, cares for 1000 chickens. fifty hogs and flock of sheep, without ence IS not botherfng her head about getting married.
 Horrorsi John D. Rocksfeller says he'll buy up all the paper mills m tnc world and thus stop sne p.sn punsls1ssssgn s.ssp' Pious John Is getting cracked Tn his old age. The guide who told Mfr. Roosevelt that he was no tenaesioos h'. rsSeisg" sSe more s than that Mississippi Pilot got. The latest Texas freak is the red- headed widow. In the words or the immortal Toney Weller: ssammivai beware O widows!
 wonder if there is any truth in the raport thai Mrs. Rorer is to become Society Editor of The Houston Post Respectfully referred to Frank Adams' of The New York Mall We seem to have stirred up q nest of hornets over our assertion that nice limpled fat prunes are gooo TOE breakfast" We know prnnes are e4csl- l. Ave years. Now. what will The Hsraio saw Deep Sea TraEedy.
 Why is 1t that the ocean moans! It may be that the lobster
 Chicago Journal And maybe 1t is just the pain
 That thrills it's bosom wide. what time it shuddega at the bar
 And thinks of last nights tide.
 Cleveland Leader. If now and then whale.
 Escaping from a swordfish, S6ould lash you with his tail. -Philadelphia Public Ledger The tickle ocean wooed the moon, They to a parson hied, The sound you hear tt only this;
 The moaning of the tide. e..... --ldpDiAcctEss n to this question of much weight. An answer do you crayaI If may be that the mermatds wish To have a Marcel wave. -G. W. Hustel, Jr.. Winthrop. Mas@ Those are not moans. those sounds you
 Re-echoine round the shores: The sea, you know, has adenotds. And those are ocean's snores: Boston Globe | If vou would know why ocean moans When tides flow on the lea, l Why don't you pack your ntsie sr'b And take yourself 70 sea You know they have starfish down
 fact known long before ug-- So all the Tnoans we hear are from
 The fish still in the chorus | --St. Louis Post-Dispascn- The ocean doubtless moans because Of this--please make q note | If does not invariably get The fool who rocks the boat. r.. l Oh maybe when the ocean moans l It's filled with pain and dread | And the reason for its ceaseiess groahs | It has rocks in its bedI | ---------------x-~-------------