The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-01-21

Both stole and Peripatetic.
4 H. related OF the late Senator
/ In which the religfously UNCONVENTIONAL
tendencies OF the candidate were con-
siderable. he cited, in community
where ne hsd not acquired specific in
tive constituents. various ancestors to
prove that be was friend to Catholic.
EpiscoPalians Jew. Baptist. Seventh
"a Day A az and others; and finally,
pathetically with his deft touch. It
| eame out that his dear old mother was
good Methodist. His behavior was
behavior Of white man recently es-
| topped by fiesh1y misfortune from pro-
ceedinng farther on[his journey to-
wards Birmingham than MONTGOMERY,
man was a peripatetic in the ancient
sense Of the word. Stole In the mod
s sr ~, understanding Of the naWe Of that
y When he applied to oficefs of the
city for help he displayed a broken
1 arm. a horrible wound in the scalp. and
several bruiEes upon the body. Neg
iect had rendered these more danger
Gus. He related that he received them
on account Of an accident that befeil
| him when he was riding blind bag
gage he was shaken from his perch,
tell between the cars and was mauled.
1
erwise belabored and stricken. But
with an arm fractured so badly that
the surgeon took particular notice Of
II. he walked forty miles to Mentgom-
interrogated closely by the surgeon,
the Peripatetic admitted that his arm
hurt Considerable" and his head didn't
grafton was thought necessary, he
would undergo 1t; only, he stipulated,
snere was no use OF so much trouble.
Yes, he assented. he was young--oniy
iI-but he had lived a powerful long
Time" and of course he might live q
powerfuller long time and he would
rather have two arms than one But
chut!--f he couldn't have been, he
couldn't, and there was an end to one
of them at least.
He wanted to go away--anywhere
indeed. he had started to Birmingham;
but Why Birmingham? Why not At
ter OF that. go back to Mobile? With
admirable complacency he assented
that as there was not a charity hospi-
ssats In Ss he could not o eHs
movement by remaining here
After a consultation of city officers
was agreed he should so to Birming-
city gave him ticket for Birmingham.
Heg departed yesterday.
Peripatetic? Stole?
We-el-l-l, yes; both of them. Really,
'NSo5H' hO 10 just poEeU
Value Of yolubility ana yociferou.ne.,.
Fen De Brutp' cries Excourbanies,
in Msieur Daudet's deliciously droli
make a noisep' And he did II so effec-
lively with that LOUD warehouse battle
cry of "Ha-Ha!" that seemed to bring
out the captains and the trumpets, that
none might resist. 1t was his idea of
both pleasuiable diversion and mental.
perhaps moral, excellence.
1t gained for him the name of The
Gong. and Y must have been a Gong
Spooner, who hath come with a for
n1idable fork or knicking knife rather
than with the spoon of the sympathetic
sutton, the only adverse criticism that
hath yet been audibly placed upon him.
Senator Spooner was speaking about
the railroads and the State and the
Union. three topics that. like the tail
Of Alkibiades's dog in the golden age of
Greece. have been a new thing to the
moHern Athenians for quite seven days.
In serene and essentially logical, con-
vlncing, rather than pleasing and per-
suasive language, he harangued yery
humbiy, indeed; and there were some
that could not hear his every word ~
they stood with vibrant ears. and aoiI-
ing verte5rae; and protrusiye thyroids
He don't talk loud enough" mutt
tered one man miserably.
A@%, another repeated roughly.
we have 'em as can talk heap louder.
And to- think they fetched him ali the
way from nigh Canadsl"
great many feel that way about It,
sometimes they are turors.
They are not now.
Death to the DOGS.
Tnere is existent, though not recoR-
nlzed, In many parts Of the world. a
The personnel of the society is not
cruel; 1t is, in its own opinion at least.
merely logical, and while logic is very@
cruel It sometimes smacks of that
sense OF humor, at others the sense of
the eternal fitness of things.
The society believes. in the aggre-
gate, OF course, for perhaps some of its
ment of the children. that dogs are
(flne old phraseD a relic Of barbarism.
It's members think that old Hugh Man
ity, now that he has emerged from the
early hunting stage of his existence,
no longer is in need of dogs, which in
the past ages, when man was pedatory,
stood him in good stand to hunt down
his carnal food, the while his wife was
digging for roots or plucking berries
and laws, or climbing tall trees for nuts
of various kinds. Now, though, dogs
are useless and unnecessary impede
ments of the human animal as he seeks
both excuse for existence and subist-
ence for strife. At the worst they bite:
at the best they merely bark. Ambrose
6leTC6, VINO Is editorial writer LOT a
big New York newspaper and who
has written some passing fine bits of
fiction, is an officer of the society
Nobody believes <in the society until
he mas heard the dogs of Montgomery
How many?
Travellers wto enjoy the Cooks tours
ana come back with much prating
speak of the canine pest of Constants.
nople% which the children pronounce
with q tweak of the victims nose, and
the historians speak of with a shud-
der, as of ghost-like ghouls that have
done very, very wicked things indeed.
SO, in Montgomery, there is . doggish
deviltry decorating in the night sea-
son.
only the wakeful hear 1t. But, far
to the BASTARD there comes a howl,
about midnight, when the moon swings
to the zenith. 1t is taken up by the
Mutations of hounds and ours nearer;
hunting dogs respond with raucous
banks. Finally the vicinage is violent
with sound. From street to street,
from ward to ward the noise spreads.
Shortly a whole cityfull of dogs are
CLAIMANT with every variant cry.
Fine2 Yes indeed-y! Fine for the
dogs! Fine for their owners
But If the Society for the Prevention
of CANNES came here
And talked with the wakeful--
In the words of DR.. Johnson. II might
find somewhat to point moral or
adorn a tale.
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