The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-08
Sidewalk PenciLings
Interested in DOE Tax.

Interested in Dog Tax.
 have been watching with interest tax measure in the Legislature, said an old resident of Montgomery County yes- terday. "The meaAure is good one in some respects. but if fellow will think a few minutes, he will find points of ar gument against it.
 I should think there are at least a million dogs in Alabama, and I'll wager that three-fourths of them be- long to poor people, at least In the county. This law. then. would tax the poor man. Perhaps he could scrape up the small fee. but t might cause him some difficufty to do 1t.
 Out in the country, have noticed that the poor man has asout three dogs and the very poor man aoout sev- living, and who live from hand to mouth the Year around, are owners ot the most dogs. l know a negro in jail now who has sev dogs, and he worries himself into a frenzy for fear that no one will look after the animals In his absence.
 ''On the other hand. there Is plen:y of room for argument l went home the other day and I'll vouch there were no less than 200 water meious and large quantity of corn that had been de. purchase license for dogs, it would be a means of stopping such nulsances
 Boy Gets Tentatively Lost.
 People pronounced it the funniest parties one visible sand the other un-- known, but the visible party caused the amusement of pathetic tenor. A little negro boy. had succeeded {. s,f,e in in as 1t were. tentatively In one hand he clutched tightly a bag of peanuts. In another was a stick of the inexit. able peppermint candy. The hand time the pickaninny caused the dis turbahce. had been clenched with vengeance, and chNpoy hand was rolling away the teWs which his lachrymal glands poured forth.
 He was altogether lost. and on Mont gomerys Broadway. Papa he yelled. r'papa. rapa, papa" And with each yell the yo6ngster got madder. and straddled the street. His voice. incidentally, was infected He was both histrionically gesturing and savagely holding to the earth. in towering passion.
 v Nothing would satisfy that boy. He was mad, and that was all there was to it. Neither. was it. to all appear ances, anybody's business but his own. Those of his race who approached him with the. idea of soothine the fuss, drew back quicker than they started. He was mad, and this condition im- piled touch me not"
 Finally the papa came. As he did the youngster quietly shut up. His passion was forgotten He went on chewing. first the peanuts and then the candy.
 That's a sidewalk occurrence" said a Montgofnerian who happened to be vertisement. It chsnges the monot- ony of Court Square. It attracts at- tentiop And. after all. that's just of congregatine on the corner of Court Street and Dexter Avenue. for if there's anything unusual to happen -Tthere it will be-"
 Perry County Tobacco.
 Through the courtesy Hon. George P. White. member of the House from Perry County, The Advertiser has received q handsome cigar made out of the Havana tobacco now raised near Marion. The tobacco has the color, fragrance. etc, of the finest Havana cigars. and demonstrates how perfect is the product of Havana tobacco on Perry County soil. It will be recalled that Government experts have been engaged for some. years in demonstrat- Perry and adjoining counties for rais- ing Havana filIers. The industry is growing there and is very profitable.
 Mir. Frank Coleman of the United States Land Office, has been called to Huntsville. where he will remain for some days to come.
 
 Mir. w M. Blount of Union Springs, was in Montgomery yesterday.
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 MT. R. l.. Glenn of Florence. is in the city, accompanied by his wife.
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 Messrs.. J.. L, Pollard and R; L. Miller of Abbeville. are in the city.
 
 MT. G. B. Reynolds of Gadsden is visiting Montgomery.
 MT. W. c. Briggs of Brewton. was in the city last night.
 
 MT. w. G. McCorvey of Monroeville, Is in Montgomery.