The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-18
,Mongst Pleasant Psrsons
By c. .. PARTRIDGE.
Bsiiy Brya.,. Boast.

| l Btriy Bryaa's Roast.
 Ask nc to sun again. Party, I'd Ike | The Teddy Bear now has taken a
 ncare.
 He's afraid of my linguai lance.
 Bill Taft Is my meat and I'm oounf'
 Any old man that is put on the seat Just let me run again Party, want
 just one more chance.
 | How'd You Like To ise Cew-boys
 You don't have to go West for cow boys; the race is indigenous In Mont i gomerv.
 the auerc. and the chaps. and the Ia riat and the sombrerp. and the Dustin Farnum dialect. that is to be found here in MontgomeryA The cowboys Tn | There are several of them and they are paid about t2o a month. It is their business to escort estray cattle from the streets. upon which l they are improperly and illegally graz ing, to the municipal pound. which 1 weighs more upon the owners of the 1 vagrant kline than the pound of avoir- dupois. It Is always had day for their 1 business: the cowboys have omcial du- ties to perform, and in their arrests of wandering cows, swine and other edible quadrupeds they have not the protect ion of uniform and badge: So. very | they are badly beaten.
 Where are you going with my cow?" Is the indignant query of the his pet Jersey being led away just bo- cause Tommy left the gate open when he went to school in the morning and Lily. drifted out to see the end of the | world. Ana thereupon the P. c. says hard things, and delivers hard blows to the cowboy. who at the best can tell the police that some man, who had neither black eyes nor blue. and possibly not brown. who was little bigger than ] the cowboy, yet not so very big. either; who had on suit of clothes which was sort of dark looking-say about gray; and who might have lived on either street because the cowboy encountered him on a crossing--the hest he can do Is to tell about 1t.
 about evelen years. wes discharged. He had told a story, he said, and then neg ligently and improvidently had allow | cd himself to be caught up with. He and Acting City Treasurer Cowan and went away from the transaction of municipal matters.
 He said he was not sorry, except that he hated to have made the blunder of being caught in the crime of mendac- ity; so far as bovines and being beat up were concerned. he was quite recon. ciled.
 
 Greit Is Gratined.
 The work for the establishment of a hospital, owned by the city and oper- ated almost entirely for charity, pleas City Health ofilcer.
 Dr. Greil has worked long and hard for the. cooperation of the Municipal ity. and when the Council. after much debate, offered assistance, he was en- thusiastically delighted. pr. Greil has always believed the city ought to have its own hospital and though his en- deavors have necessarily been without the actual proceedings of the Council, he has done much effective work. He and Alderman Parrish. who managed the parliamentary proceedings, yester- day received many congratulations on least was arduous.
 Bouquet for President.
 oua Aaerman and annsidsrat W W. se,de ever gensr Gunter pretty compliment at the reg. ular meeting of the Council Monday night.
 When the Council convened for the transaction of business there was a great vase of beautiful American Beau ty roses on the Presidents desk, and their fragrance lent inspiration and lasting pleasure to the Aldermen who, for three hours. proposed, disposed, dis. cussed and debated matters of state Mir. | Seidle set a precedent that may not be followed. but 1t will long be remem. bered.
 Mir. Jesse F. Stallings. who has been a Congressman and one of the best liked men in the State. and now Is equally prominent and quite as popular, Is a visitor to Montgomery. MT. Stall l ings expressed to a reporter of Tho Advertiser the belief that the worst of the stringency scare was gone and that within a short time the normal condi tions of the South's prosperity will be restored. Seeing that Chicago Is dis. | posed to turn loose." he thinks New York will stop its fooling and come around.
 Mir. George 0. Berry. of Columbus, Ga. is visitor to Montgomery and Is | the guest of his son. MT: Walter H. the day. yet met all of the younger MT | Rerry's friends on The Advertiser Mir | Walter H. Berry being the competent as well as the very ponular news-edit- to Columbus today.
 Mir. Harry q Gunnels. States Super | intendent of Education. who went to | Birmingham to attend the meeting of the Board of Trustees and the Building | Committee of the University of Ala | bama, will not return to Montgomery | until the latter part of the week.
 Mir Cyrus B. Brown. Clerk Nof the | House of Representatives. returned last | night from Birmingham. where he went | to meet Speaker Carmichael to secure | hts signature for the House Journal.
 Rev. r R. Emerson, Chaplain for | State Prisoners. who has been i'll at | his home in Birmingham. is much inn l proved. according to report received | here vesterdav.
 MT. W. c. Crumpton. we'll known | Attorney of Evergreen. was Q visitor to Montgomery yesterday. Mir Crump- l ton was registered at the New Ex- | change.
 Mir. Eugene Ballard, Representative | of Autauga County in the Legislature, | is in the city in attendance on the Su- prNme Court.
 Rev. w. J. Elliott will leave today for Wetumpka. where he goes to ofi- ciate at q wedding.
 Hon. John B. Knox of Anniston was a prominent viistor to Montgomery yesterday.
 MT. H. c. Utley of Jacksonville Is registered at the Imperial Hotel.
 The Anti-MiscegenatiOn Movement. Mobile Register.
 Judge Harris Dickson. who was one of the leaders in successful move 'ment to give the city of Vicksburg a clean government after years of abuses. Is now engaged with other men of equally high standing in a well organized 4ffort to build up more healthy demand for racial integrity; 10 nrAXRnf the cficn nf rniacreorena. 1