The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-21
SIDEWALK PENCILINGS
.rhe winter That Was,

.srhe Winter That Wns.'
 The late warm spell" as the baimy weather of the past three weeks was regretfully and wistfully named by. shieering, thin -bIooded person of far greater length than width or thickness. last might eliclted many stories Of weather signs, suspicious, traditions and legends The oldest inhabitant re- yelled in the opportunity It gave him to tell about the marvellous winter ot forty odd and the marvellous spring of ffty-even, and the altogether unIrecey dented and unimitatedN fall of sixty nought, when autumn never ended.
 old citizens tell it that November never fails to have one "spelT' cold enough for hogAkilling-"ho killing weather,"' which means not weather that dispatches swine, but tempera- ture of sufficient lowliness to render the slaughter and conserving of pork CTS expedient and profitable. Novem- Der, 1906, was quite warm, but il had one bit of cold weather.
 Yet is it phosographically lined on the tablets of the mind of more than one ancient, that during the war there was Byear in which winter brought so little of cold that cotton plants did not die at their usual time of taking off. but. after bearing fruit in the fali, again fourished like the green bay tree in Holy Writ. without permanent whitening. bore again in the early spring. strange sight even in those parious times. During that winter. peaches were plucked. not off the pam try shelf as in our own wintry days, but from the leafy tree about which bees hummed or buzzed or sang such other song as was then most popular in the apiary. /
 There were many stories of that ilk, but they are not told now. Now it is to shiver.
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 Observe the Ordinance.
 One of the most careless pieces of | bn va in l lonO fffap :, aiH an obserVant citizen last night, and one which might have resulted seri- ously " that of niotorman on a Street near Dexter Avenue this even ing l was walking along the Avenue when l heard the fire bell. A minute Street and turned into Dexter. headed toward the Capitol. In order to avoId a street car at the intersection of peied tnd to maFsa wide tnrn taking dI s1 the south side of the thoroughfare. The car which he avoided, according to the requirement. of the city ordinance. was
 Another car. however, which was about to turn up Lawrence Street paid no heed to the fire bell. and turned di- steamer. Passersby attracted the at tention of the motorman to the danger of his position, and he quickly threw on more current, succeeding in cross ing with only a few feet to spare be- tween the rear platform of the car and while I should feel like commend: ing the ccolness and prompt action of the motorman. in extricating himself from peril I think his neglect to stop his car at the sound of the fire bell cording 10 my recollection. there is a law on the city books requiring all motormein1, 70 bring their cars to a fiT11n oftar tho a1qHyp rThfo law was passed with a view to just such a possible circumstance as that which occurred this evening. and the necessity of its close observance is. to my mind one of The first things which should be impressed upon the new mo- tormen."
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 Why He Did Not Pay Fax.
 The plaint of a county official, who expressed sorrow and grief over the tendency of a certain young man to neglect his right of franchise by neg lecting to pay his poll tax, has found response from a travelling man who regards an article which appeared in The Advertiser Of Saturday morning as applying to himself. The party in question, who has requested that his name be suppressed. has written in the following vein.
 Being the party referred to as going to the Court House and suddenly de- ciding' not to pay my poll tax after the receipt was written. beg to give the facts which County Official suppressed When the receipt was written, l ten dered five dollar bill. and was told there was no change in the office. I explained to the clerk l was a drum mer, and would not be in town again soon. and told him he might destroy the receipt
 If this official had taken one-half the time to get my five dollars changed that it took to carry his article to The Advertiser. the county would nave one dollar and fifty cents more in the treasury, and his grief would be. in a measure, assuaged"
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 FavOrs Immigration Bureau.
 Hon. Ross c. Smith, the head of the Alabama Bureau of immigration, of Birmingham, is in the city for a few days. Mr. Smith Is hopeful the pres ent Legislature will extend some aid to the cause of immigration. He be- lieVeS the address of Governor Hayward of South Carolina, who will speak to the Legislature on immigration, Janu- 1 ary 20. will carry weight with the Ala 1 bama legislators on this important question. South Carolina is far ahead of any Southern State in the securing of desirable migrants.
 The Immigration Bureau, which Is under the direction of Mir. Smith, has succeeded in bringing to Alabama a large number of immigrants. It might be said that the ease with which they were secured surprised even the men WnO nad the WOTk III ctldTSe 1tt work of the Bureau has done much to- wards relieving the stringency of labor conditions in the mineral district of Alabama.
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 Mir. Howard Holmes of Selma spent yesterday in the city with friends. |> Ss 2
 MT. w. J. Ellis of Prattville is reg istered at a down town hotel
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 Mir. J R Martin of Union Springs ! was in the city yesterday. MT Felix L Smith of Rockford spent yesterday in Montgomery.
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 MT. s. A Wilson of Evergreen is a visitor to Montgomery
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 pr. T. NJ. McMillan of Monroeville is a visitor to the city.
 MT H s. Pate of Enterprise is regis tered at the Mabson.
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 MT W o. Mulkey of Geneva was in the city yesterday.
 The XlndicatiOn of Wirz. Richmond Times Dispatch The Times-DisUa atch has taken deep interest in the proposal to erect mon ument to Cant Henry WirZ, comman-