The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-13
GOOD STORIES TOLD
 OF PERSONS YOU KNOW

MmShSM@h 8m 2N @M MH@ h v AushS AMM MMt8 1 T once had the acauaintance or q witty tramp in New Haven He told me one day of a passage of arms he had just had with an old philanthro- | pist.
 Stopping the old man, the .tramp 1 said piteously:
 kind friend. will you give me the price of loaf of bread? I have not tasted food for two days The old man at once gave the tramp nickel. Then he proceeded on his way. But at the next corner he saw the tramp come forth from q saloon wiping his lips on his coat sleeve ana he said indignantly:
 "'You're a pretty feIIowi You told me you hadn't tasted food for two days. and when give you a nickel you go and spend 1t on beer.'
 But. boss said the tramp, hadn't tasted beer for two days and e
 The Aged Babe.
 W. H. Trimmer Of Moline. Fla. says asrs a s hsRps sEsS seef hsats a New hs full man, visited New York last month and the strained. worried look of tho New Workers shocked and dispieased
 You live too fast" Mr. Trimmss said to reporter. That Is your trou. S, dren have an aged ar. Why. -
 Did you ever hear about the New York child and the christening7 Nor sThs5s was a young couple ee m sas 3, }, sen sie 9sliow GI Hss was @ three 0Ssa Sears m old three. He had sosiss sDous ss a .ct. m shoa1 ne ths w4s morninx s of the ehrs.ten when h the clergyman took the whlts pisntifaiiy nS iI with wit water. it srinacsa sssd spluttered, and shouted up angrfiy in the good priests face;.
 ".Hey, cheese 1t, will ye. If ye do that again. I'll biff ye one.'"
 sound from the Sack. clark TniSsrsisy. T apsy thinks "s that ths hssls. CT education of women is one of the causes of race suicide.
 Tn a discussion of his theory, pr. Hall said recently in Worcester. feet that higher education has an op- Rosits RRor is fmss' bus look aroand @ you. cossdes tell me t you don't find ali these ak-
 Tsas aTSeS are f futile arguments, becanst the actual truth confounds them He* fore the truth they have the aAm* '1as Dr. Hali smiled.
 "Before the truth" he went qpl they have the same absurd 1oNn3 as ..yon SSm must tf know that there w4s once, here in worcester, q very Kind and charitable man. a grocer. The Eroz cer did not believe in prisons and tn- deed it was said that he was not aySfF<
 well, one evening. just as he WiN About to close his shop, q man pare Headed and In rags. tore into tho Nl1t<sl
 t'The grocer looked up from ni2 as'1z
 @.ssSe Mse me. s boss % cried the other. 4 cop's on my trail. If he ketches me ' means ten years Just then x tne soune s,,.ee louder and louder. Holy smoke, boss. cried the other, that's him now. Ht must ha' seen me come in here, Wofn S.cet a4s in that sack. said the grocer qaGAHd aAnd the man leaped into a hugs sack. and the grocer had lnst sottsR again when the policeman entered.
 "A thief came in here,' said the po-
 No: no,. said the gTocsr. ru soin, 10 search the place. anyhow.
 "sAH right. Go ahead.
 And the policeman searched ana searched, but he found nothing. Hold on. though he said at the end. whats this here in this sack
 "sThatT said the grocer quiekiy. oh. that's broken glass
 "The policeman swung back ms heavy stick and hit the sack q stout blow.
 a faint, high. thin voice said softly:
 "'Tinkle tinIklep"