The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-11
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 --------------------------------- The smsir Boy and the Paper per.on.
 He had that wonderful enthusiasm that only Jeanne d Arc or small boy can possibly possess. The lights ana the power had just gone out, and me Papef Person sorrowfully leaving the street. car had covered but one of the many blocks that lay between him. self and very ifate City Editor.
 The small boy must have felt a little aweo by the unaccustomed darkness. though his speech smacked of high courage, for he walked very closely in- deed tc The. Paper Person, who was quite as uneasy as the small boy.
 T sorter hope those lights ain't turned on again" said the small boy confident can see in the dark better'n in the light. Most people ain't that CT way, cause they got dog eyes and have gotter look about in the daylight. I've got to go way down to the shop where my brother is. He certainly can make He takes messages and Is call boy, too, and tell you they aint nobody that does it faster. He has got wheel with regular coaster brakes on her. got a wheel about the house, that makes money faster than my brother, because he has got the longest legs in the world, and he can get around faster n anybody on wheel, whether 1t has got coaster brakes or not. And when my legs grow I am going to make money fast. And I am going to start at making forty. and then am going to get to fifty and then to sixty, and then I am going to turn round where am going to stop, because that is enough. And if my legs was as long right now as yours is bet I'd be mak- ing more money n you. And with legs k rrrA s~As tA d 2 faster'n. a bicycle. an if I had 'em bet I'd be making more money"
 You are magnificent" said The Pa per Person; T really think you would But think that the elongation of my neither limbs is not more pronounced than the hneal immensity of your glossal organ"
 That's right" replied the small boy conc1usively as he left The Paper Per son and hied him to his very long Coaster brakes is what you want if your legs ain't very long
 The Paper Person had sense enough to know that he did not have sense whose older brother had such long legs, so he turned rapidly into the office stairway and told the irate City Editor that he had been to report a forest fire and had been caught out without his automobile.
 Mosquitoes Spoil Budding Romance.
 He was a dejected citizen. In fact, the most dejected one that I had for good number of days seen in the Cafe sooth, his listless attitude and don't care air made me accost him,
 Hello, old man, whats gone wrong now? Have a drinkT
 wrong, and I don't want drink. What's you bothering me for, any how?"
 well" I repled. slightly chilled at his remarks. T thought that the weather might have Something to do with your Teticence. Out with it; is 1t the weather?'
 Tn part" he said, you have guess ed it, but not altogether. You know that girl who has been visiting in I've been giving a rush? Brown eyes, chestnut hair, tapering fingers and pos sessing all the qualities of a Venus?"
 '"The one that left theacity this morn ing?' I replied.
 "That's the one," he. answered, as if 10th to speak. "and she's the cause Of the whole thing-she and the mosquf- toes. You see the thing was like this For two weeks I had been givng that girl the rush of her life. Sunday morn ing she told me that she was compell- ed to leave the city Monday morning, and accordingly made an engagement for Sunday night
 T had everything planned out for the spiel. Unaided by the moon, was to make the appeal that would win her to me, and the car ride that we were to have to the park would be the pre- liminary to it. We arrived at the park. chose a cozy nook, and rather than break the news to her all at once decided to talk about outside and inn material things, for a while at least.
 After a while noticed that some thing was the matter with both of us. need not stop to expand on the heat of the weather; you know what that was, only too well.
 Every time I got ready to make an announcement that would relieve me of the burden of my heart, found my also was squirming. Both of usnwere i'll at ease, and I need not stop to tell you that within few minutes those blooming mosquitoes had knocked out of me all the spunk that l ever nopea to possess. I got mad; she got mad. We both came home mad. Medicinal treatment has somewhat relieved the cause of the inconvenience, but the old burden around my heart, my friend. Is still there and she has gone away. That's the whole story; 23 yourself out of my sight-and, I'll take that drink. anyhow. Twas offered in good fellow ship"
 
 NO, we can't change a dollar. Out of small change" said merchant to clerk i na neighboring retail store yesterday.
 DO you know what's the matter with small change. in Montgomery? That's the tenth man today could not accomodate with any change. You see it's cotton chopping and cotton hoe ing time. The change has gravitated out in the country, where the farmers are paying off their hands.
 There are two seasons of the year in which small change is almost ex- hausted, not only in Montgomery but in all cities of the Black Belt, The first is cotton chopping time and the other Is cotton picking time. This work is done by wage hands and con siderable of it is done by a floating, unsubstantial population which has to be paid off anyhow every week and sometimes two or three times q week. The farmer has to keep himself sup piled with small change and the sup
 But the change, like the cat. al ways comes back, It doesn't stay cut in the country any longer than the ne gro wage hands can come to town and spend it. But the two seasons always create temporary dearth of change In Montgomery Railroad Visitors Here.
 Prominent visitors to Montgomery yesterday were Hon. F. L. Mansfield a prominent attorney and the leader of the Senate for the Administration in Tennessee: J B. Wright, district at torney for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company in East Tennessee; P. F. Wins. specially employed by the Louisville and Nashville for present litigation. and C. H. Magee, one of the hest known court stenographers in Tennessee. ,4...-