The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-03
SETTLE PRICE OF PALMISTRY Aldermen Forbid Indian Ito Forego License. sIDAEALK SIGNS OF THE TINES PetitiodA for Display Make Devious
 Debates. saduces Liauor Question And sullivan Talks out--Crowded condi-
 lion. in schools Has
 Counci1's Consideraton. 4
sIDAEALK SIGNS OF THE TINES

whether Mary Lehan, Cherokee, palmist, proud possessor of twenty-one
 papooses. and prospective pauper. may
 tell the pale-face's future in pfc-
 turesque pigeon English and arrange him for his past and present accord ing to his pennies rather than his peccadillos. and yet not pay license money to the city was a grave ques- ton that the Council decided in the
 negative after much pow-wow in the
 big wigwam last night.
 xt took some time to get the mat ter settled but 1t was well worth while. It evinced the fact that the aldermen know what oratory is as defined by Cicero, who was q mem Der of the Council from Rome at Drge. to please. to teach, to convince beyond the point of protestation. The alder men pleased themselves and their auditors by a ready flow of language; they taught by marking back to the days when the red man speared fish in the Court Square basin, bow -and-ar- rowed wild geese In the, ponds of squaw carry impossible burdens of wood up the Capitol hill while between the puffs of his peace-pipe he whetted his tomahawk upon the sole of his naoccasin. counted his wampum, or, in dolce far niente. merely inurmured sAlabama." and sank into the one-eyed slumber which Mark Twain, deducing from the Leather Stocking Tales. de- clares may properly be broken only by the breaking of Fenimore Cooper.s stage property. the dry twig.
 The petition of Mary Lehau came to the Council from Mayor Tsague. who advised the Council of the womanss wish He said that she was the mother of twenty-one children, and without means of support except paifnistry, which she asked that she might utilize to her own profit and the citizens enlightenment without paying for per- advised, letters from persons ok responsibility in other parts of the country declaring her to be worthy of charity The Mayor suggested that the payment of license might in her case be omitted.
 Alderman Moritx said that the May ora spirit of charity could not always be depended upon, and that while he thought woman with twenty tone children might be received as a great assistance in tlie impelling of the 1910 movement he must declare himself against the petition. Alderman John son said that ft appeared to him to be a case of ~everyhody works but fath- er." He suspected that father was about the place somewhere.
 if was Alderman Kennedy who led his auditors into the past After stat-' ine that the camp of the woman and her one score and one was near Pick cit Springs and therefore perhaps so far rom the city that she might not Id a 1ieense. he went on to speak of ..fe Cherokees who were once owners of fll& very spot that Montgomery was, buiIded upon "tne owners of the land. z he dubbed them. Then he related thak the Tnatang had been compelled to. leave their possessions, and how tho last Indian chief who was taken away carted off fin a farm wagon drawn by mules and how the chief was so greatly humiliated that ha cut his throat with a, case-knife.
 Alderman Sullivan objected to the of the Cherokees. Now, he said, the Jews owned the town the Irish ran it and the negroes enjoyed it. eve want no motley crowd in. Mont gomery."
 Afr Parrish explained what the Sam itary Department. in its vital statis- tics call s'the social relations of the family. It might be expected from the large number of children that six or seven of them at least were capable of doing labor, Mir. Parrish said, but they were not: the papooses had come in ten pairs and one single shot.
 Alderman Thompson won the admi- ration of his associates by stating with calmness that he had seen them with his own eyes. and not with another's. as most of the Aldermen had viewed them. They--the Indians=-were mak- Ing money, he declared, and two or