The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
SideUalk Pencilings
Candidate. Laugh and Grow Fat.

The comic papers," said a promi- nent citizen" always represent alder men as fat men and I believe that tat ones in the next Council. And the candidates who fail to be elected aldermen are going to be fat, too. They laugh so often and so long. exapt o taS IGang to he Ns de@R sarfR eno e ings Column Creature" continued the prominent citizen, "and inasmuch as he Is not on in the morning, spend quite 8 deal of my leisure like 1t around there and If the Side walk Pencilings Column Creature did not come around in the afternoons should spend the entire day there. Those candidates are the best natured men I ever met. They gather togeth- CT at the booth in the early morning with a smile, that develops into a grin, soon it Is gtggle, then sput- ter. then a roar and then-at least it was one day--a it of mysteries that would have done credit to the ladies.
 '"They joke each other and joke themselves and joke the registrars" continued the prominent citizen.
 If they cop ,Ss out s.,go yots they they. laqs1 tbs1 laugh just the same. They will all be fat by election time and the mere matter of defeat which l am sorry 10 say some few of them must suffer- TOT InGTS are nOL SiAe1AAo AAA the Council for all of them-will not keep any of them from taking on flesh.
 Experience of a Weather Man.
 '"The weather man is generally out of the public eye" said one of the weather forecasting tribe yesterday, Out sometimes he gets into the pub lie gaze, without wanting to. re- call one instance personally. when had such an innocent experience.
 T was stationed in Montana at the time. and a very sensational and cloudy case was on trial. The man on trial was charged with nendlsn believed him guilty. But the ques- tion arose. after the evidence was in. as to what sort of weather there was on the night the crime was commit It's witnesses that 1t was calm, moonlight night in February, while the defense contended that 1t was bleak night, with snow several llcnes deep on the ground. So l was calleo in very innocently to produce my rec ords and say which was right. l ex- amined by files and, on the stand l told them 1t was cold night with several inches of snow on the ground. It had been showing three days pre-
 "Weii, that much was all right, but I happened to take the stand about o'clock in the afternoon. and just at that moment a reporter for an atter- noon paper chanced In hurrisdly. ae saw me advance to the stand and as soon as I was seated he left.
 'SThat afternoon the evening paper, at the end of the story, tackled on a paragraph, saying. MT; .,or; took the the name but not giving one word of ex- planation as to why I was there. Numbers of my friends met me that afternoon and. eyelng me askance, said they were utterly shocked to learn from the papers that was mixed up in such case. It required lots of explanations for me to set my self right with them.
 And more than that I was inform ed that my testimony contributed largely toward the aequittal of the defendant!'
 May Spit on Floor, but not Walls.
 There is only one objection which I have to the Democratic spirit and its expression. I object to the free born American citizens position that he has the inherent right to spit all over his public buildings" gatd State official yesterday.
 great expense the State renovated it and in doing so had some of the highest priced plasterers and marble workers in the country at work on inc 1OOa u was really a NOlh NA art when these high priced workmen finished. The clustering was said 10 be the finest In the South. Look at if now. just look at 1t! Look up there on the wall five feet from the floor, What do you think of fellow that will come along and spit pint of to. bacco juice against handsome wall like that2
 Of course We expected the marble floor to be spit upon. We knew the average man who chews feels that he has the right to spit on any floor, but 1t never occurred to us that any man would have the nerve to spit high up on the walls. In the few weeks that this work has been finish ed the tobacco chewers have go mark ed 1t up that 1t can never be thor oughly cleaned again.
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 Mir. s. w. Napier of Union Springs is registered at Hotel Summers.
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 MT. H. D. Cammock of Suggsville is registered at the Exchange.
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 MT. w. IT. soper of Birmingham is in the city. Il
 Captain F. NJ. Maddox of Mobile is in Montgomery
 No Panic in Some Things. Gadsden Journal.
 The necessaries of life not having been watered they continue firm ln Vrwfa Fg n In