The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-28
Sidew0ik Penciiings
What Ia It Earf

l Sidew1ik Penciiings
 What Ts It Fort They were standing on North Court street early in the morning. when a string Of ice wagons went clattering and IumberingA by.
 ee Ice hanging behind Ice wagons when they are fully loaded?" one of the two
 No" the other replied. Then they looked and found that each could be, had an extra cake hanging in csasr fse grasp of paitr of t0ngs from What Is that forT' asked No. ?.
 T don't know exactly. never asked the. driver. Perhaps 1t Is put can take the extra cake into saloons and get drinks for it. That would be sort of graft that would keep a driver and his helper pretty well serving ones r-explanation.
 T don't believe that that can be the reason,S said the other fellow. "because they. would have to have the consent don't think there could be a stand-in of that kind without the ice company They boarded car and rode up "oh. I have an idea" said No. 2. breaking the silence. Its to allow What Is to allow for meitingY' asked No. 1.
 That extra cake of ice." he replied They want to have just So much ice to cover route. and they carry the extra piece to make up for the shrink age"
 "But some days Ice melts more rap couldn't keep up the tally unless they knew what the weather was going to be-" ''rll have to give it up," said No. g, because I do not know what is the reason. Maybe they do 1t because they like, to have an extra cake hanging out"
 wagon is built to hold so and so many cakes and then one more." said the discoverer. and then the conversation ended. Such talk of ice will help a little these hot days.
 An Ethiopian Episode. Talking about matriInony" said today t'Gis the limit. TSe drsmatis per- peM sonae were a husband and wife. of the Ethiopian stripe. The scene was a public thoroughfare; the time was 5 p. Preceding the wife by about forty feet was the .swaggering body of her husband. aimlessly shifting up the from any entanglement which bow legs might produce. and shuffled with a droop of the shoulder and cooked hat the entire length of the street.
 Behind him came the wife, tangled all up in her dress of soiled calico. On her arm was a basket; on her lips Come back heah. nigger, and walk ceived no answer. Oats de way you swer. Come back Reah, nigger. what's de use of maring you anwaysT and this haransue was kept up for two T do not know what the trouble could have been. but from her remarks inferred that the negro had passed her on the streets and refused to walk combatants walked very slowly, the husband as if willing, after all, for the wife to catch up, and the wife. equally as stubborn. entirely unwilling At any rate the performance was whole show in itself. It collected a crowd wherever the persons went, ing; the other 6blivtous, to all appear ances, of any confusion"
 Visitors to the Capitol.
 Montgomery was thronged yesterday with delegates passing through to the convention of the Farmers Union, which convenes at Andalusia today. At least, two hundred of the visitors visited the Capitol, and large numbers of them ayailed themselves of the op- portunity to shake hands with the Many of the visitors had never been through the Capitol before despite the fact that they were born and raised in Alabama.
 One prominent planter from Bibb county said he had been to Savannah on an average of twice a year since the war but that yesterday was the first time he had ever been inside the Many of the visitors greatly admired the annex to the Capitol.
 Judge Enoch Cook, of Wilcox county, one of the best citizens of the State. tel telect @ and aa ataune6 ch intssgrity sa frger h. broahe aesss 0{ cook os os tss sas as Auditors office, has been called away. and will be absent several days pr: H. B. Lane, MT. J. N. Bryatt, and MT. R. H. Payne are in the city on their way to Andalusia as delegates ing of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America, which meets there August 3s. ss and 30.
 
 faula, president of Alabama Brenau, and one of the most prominent educa- tors in the South. spent yesterday in Montgomery returning home last night
 
 Ex-Governor William D. Jelks ar- rived in the city yesterday morning from Birmingham, and spent several hours at the Capitol. shaking hands with his friends.
 MT. B. R. Howard, of Selma, was among. the visitors to the Capital City yesterday.
 Mir. W. H. HILL who has been at St. Margarets Hospital, has returned home.
 Hon. Jesse F. stallings of Blrming- ham. is a visitor to Montgomery
 Mir. Will L. Vickers has returned from a vacation at Talladega Springs.
 
 MT. J; A.. Eason, of Ozark. Is a vis- itor to the city.