The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04
Monsst Pleasant Persons
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Table TaIk for Bremides During Three
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 breakfast--The Weather Bureau does hit 1t rixht sometimes. oId Thaw fs sttll making capital for the news- papers. I.eee the Council had its usual ronndabout of talk and frolic last night. We have more laws now than Sney can enforce. Ben Hur went to is q great driveri he won every time he was entered here.
 Lgncheonxou are sleepy. You Ssght SsG to go to bed at night tHaE,
 slept too long; hHSsS soo much ,n 'hs sleep sos is worse than not enough. like cold baths; but ! can't stand them. I am glad turned the water off last night: ehsncss where the there i is UI piumber % 1ns ins volved. How long do you think they are going to keep old Thaw In the bug house7 Everybody seems to be rmnmigg rsnt ,t,, tor ofiice. I regard the pay, duties of citizenship. T
 Dinner Dinnsr.Ewhat do you do since the s. o,sioek law You might as well get Everybody else is--I can't get over their killing that little Grown Prince. ins T9S ,S w9toh lev wastI a. s.y t wiiI De rain certainly did her part to save Thaw and he ought to love. her all the rest of his life--and her life. too, They say the papers didn't print half of it. That It makes me siad we have a republic, after all. still. several of our chief executives have been assassinated. Yes. but they left the children alone. You They say she tried to protect the little Grown Prince with her own life.
 The OmeiaI Ground-Hog.
 ground Sos fr qsnsy eeulre eSy " R HaiIs. H%i the terday. -.'Npt all of us in the Court House sweaf to his tideiity as weath. 0ss we taEs S. much intsrss n not await his day, but rame out week earlier than the appointed time.
 He first appeared in the terrace of the Court House premises three or four tenant ever since His burrow is to the right of the steps leading from Washington Street to the Court House. Last spring one of the janitors tried they could not Bpdge him. <
 But every year when he wakes up from his winters sleep he breaks through the crust that closes his bur THS what day RSAs Ss saarssS asDs this time. & snd so can not say if hs saw his shadow, !"
 senater nsyles is Baeyant.
 Senator m Tor for the ss aistriot " of 'ss Manfoe and Baldwin Counties spent yesterday in Montgomery to transact businsss which he dispatched with enough of expedi-
 times Sn to or so h @ eash q slSeS Ses'i to sSss hands and talk-talk, as Huck Finn says. with numerous friepds. He is in the finest of health and spirits. As Usua s wss eSSySas . iS Asssu, sStS 'snSss a.s cheering, hopeful. and inspiring. even comfortable and comforting; and ev- erybedy. Wasgfn a better humor for a
 fI Hard I'd ti.nss haven't hit the farms yet" he said. 'Tney are probably coming. Things in the country are just dragging along. but with spring we shall set to werk again: Nov. those who nave trouble enough to hire them have not always money enough to pay them"
 Senator Bayles. you see Is & as lucky % kla was for being asiAep; he is a law. yer and . farmer, too. and with hard times merely hitting in spots, he ought to get along very well e. s.,- whence he SViii 60 to Monroe County. Doctor Dtseeurses on Dope. T do not deprecate the new oru& law, which is purposed to prevent the sale of narcotic ana stifnulRtlve drugs except upon the prescription vf phy- sician," said doctor yesterday, for the law will do--aud now does-much good; but sometimes can not but pity some of the fiends who are completely shut off from their supply. Only those who are addicted to drugs, or who have had close commerce with them, can know the tortnres of the man sud denly deprived of drug that he has practically llsed on for years. There Ia probably no worse suffering.
 T have met with some pitiable cases recently. One day, fortnight ago, a most miserable wretch came into my ofice and begged for it He was fair iy well-dressed and seemed to have been in good circumstances. though at the time ne was probably feeling the bottom of his pocket every time he put his hand in 1t. He said
 Doctor, I'll take my clothes oh and give lem to you, and then walk up that street, for just a grain.
 He Is not the only one. It seems like d cruelty, and probably 1t will kill some of them, but 1t had to come soon CT or later. You can't survive with out being f1t even If you are not httest. People outside the profession don't know how many there are. Many or them are trying to find consolation and comfort in drink"