The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-22
DRIFT " OOD
BY PHIL U. ARMsxR0N0.

are going to dine in the same cage with q bunch of ferocious lions are to be commended for their nerve. but here's hoping they won't De 'lioniaed''
 The bear hunt is over and Teddy has gone from 2 strenuous rest back to a more strenuous work.
 So far the only Philippine policy Sec retary Taft has promulgated is the an- Baltimore Sun.
 MT, Bryan made sixteen speeches in Kentucky in three days which goes to show that William Jennings IS some when it comes to the rub.
 Now there are ffty-eight varieties including Heinze himaelf'
 With the stEiks-bresker on a strike it looks like the employers are bound to get the worst of 1t after all.
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 A Tennessee man has discovered a species of worm that eats Enrlish sparroWs. Hereafter the early bird will do well to watch out and not get eaught ght by the worm.--Washington
 Heres the way Missouri paper re- gently spoke of a robbery Tt occur red sometime between the lowering the purple veil that heraIds the ap- proach of rosy dawn!" Laura Blue jean Liver never beat that in her palm fest days.
 "will Mfr. Taft i'll the Presidential chatrf" asks an exchange. win he well if he's elected he wiil--and some over. v
 The Montgomery Advertiser wants to know whether the people of Texas ever do anything sut eat, The number of that State would indicate that they do. Washington Poat.
 Isn't 1t like the Wilkinson para graphooists to be making slurring re- marks about Miss Sophie Wright?- ?-. Shreveport Times. " Sure-they ought to be made to treat Miss Sophie Wright.
 The founder lays 1000. 100000 eggs poor hard-working millionaires could only get q corner on the founder egg crop!
 To the Montgomery dudes---Socks should be seen and not heard!  There were some 100000 Americans who visited Europe this year and spent approximately $40,000,0o0. No danger of war with European powers at that rate-no wonder they love us like they do.
 Texas man declares that the world a news item. Doubtless an error of geographical location--surely it was a Georgia man.
 The people of Pittshurg are said to have more money per capita than those of any other American city. (Yes, and they also have more trobles with cho- Lillian Russell says that divorce "is a vehicle" And sometimes as expen- sivs as that swift little vehicle known as the motor-caR. isn't 1t, Lilly?
 Never mind. T. R. will get even with the paragraphsrs by writing a 20-pags magazine story on how he hunted the teddy y-bearsl
 With prices roasting sky-high let us hope that the Alabama Thanksgiving Turkey won't
 What Would We DOs You can knock dearest woman as much
 as you will
 You can speak of the fact that her
 tongues never still. You can tell how she goes after bar
 gains and paints Her face. How at sight of a mousey
 she faints.
 Steps backward from street cars, looks
 under the bed
 For burglars. and wears piles of hair
 on her head.
 But wouldn't this world be a dreary
 old waste
 With nary 8 woman in all the placer You can knock the dear creatures, I
 say, and all that You can joke of the lean ones and joke
 of the fat
 You can sheer at the venus-like
 shapes they assume At the rosy-like drug store cosmetic
 bloom.
 the change
 In poor hubby's trousers at night. Tho
 whole range
 Of the fair ereature's weaknesses here
 might trace
 But I'd leave if we had nary one in this
 placeI
 Drift" Armstrong. the president of the Alabama Association of Rarred and Jagged Poets, brings his town into the alliterated list as Moving Mont gomery." If the designation is accur- ate. we suppose Montgomery Ia headed of aridity. If Montgomery comes, we shall annex it to Houston and call 1t the Seventh Ward-Houatan pOS1