The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-21

1 dent you ought to buy copy of thit book right now"
 No" said the Marshal reluctantlg
 mo. I guess I don't want to buy one First thing I knew people would get onto the fact that I had a copy and | they would be comin' around urging | me to run for President. and I aon'i want the job. The job of Town Mar. shal and Veterinary Surgeon to Ths Pump is all I'm capable to handle. l looked Into the President business a while back. and I guess I don't want 1t. It's kind of you to suggest it tt me. but guess I'll pass 1t by. It used to be a good job In the old days, but there's too much work to it now. ix them days, when all a President tax to be was to be President, it waa nice situation: but look what is now A President has to be the whole shoot, ing match and do all the work, whiIs everybody else loafs around and draw pay. Now days a President has to b, everything from a revised dictionarI to an unexpurgated edition of the Ter Commandments in Words of One Syil able. When he ain't busy eIsctinx I. | Senator. to save some State the troubI | of doing it for itself. he has to be act ing as a committee of one to do tn work of Congress. the Supreme Court eighteen South American governmsntt and School Board. The Presiden has to do all the work. and all tn thanks he gets Is to be made fun of don't want the job. It's too big fo me. and it's getting too big for an, one man. What we@need is syndt cate to do our Presidenting for us This here big country oughtn't to ex pect one man to be the whole tiires ring circus and the menagerfe and tn side how. at one time. and then cad on him to do a prize fight and reform the spelling book and learn us nioral simultaneously at once. It ain't fair No man can't live a simple life and ds all them things at once. It wears ot man and takes all the smile out q him"
 Not if he has copy of Jarby's Ens cyclopedir on hand" said the bonf agent with a copy of this book q his house a President can do somethinf to all tho ten thousand and one thines including every subject known to naN that Is mentioned in thta book ana As them sn folks won't get sleepy whit he's doing them, end can RtiIt keep hil sweet smile. Now here" he saj6 opening the ssrlniA copy. 'Ts the Rte& engraved rortrait of the President He still smiles"
 "Yes." admitted tha Mayshai. ~fssf vat q smile or two I~ft vet but wonf like to see him if he had 2 lat of gnverr rnent owraA ruuns or railroads n At hands rA like tn see hi-e Scome sa-~s here to Riio and tackle this municira
 owned pump.
 "whv Hor't vau write binl phon. IT | a~ked FlIph Hewitt. ''Fs h~ hns~ there wes . r,"rnn Hnwr hAFe ana shs it wasn't worki-~ the wa,. the sisre- of the Declaration of Tadenense.~
 meant sa have -umps work. he wort come down H@ would eor1e rich down. with a monkey wrench in nn ,hard and copv oS Jarbv'@ Encvelo ! nenla of Krowisds4 and Cempe1dtnr | oF rdterature Scisnce anS Avt in th other. and i1 five minutes he wout ! either have that pump nieNdeA or h l wouId pull It loose from the foufida | t,ons and throw fl clean across th state of Iowa But don't advise yO | to have him come When he seen 1
 was vour duty to mend that pump. an | that won hadn't done. it. the thina
 he would say and the way he wouf say them would make this weatns seem like December in Greenland D | contrast"
 What would he sayT'' asked w ] Marshal.