The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-11
'Mongsf Pleasant Persons
The Mule Mlxes To.
By 0. 8. PARTRIDGE.

"It is funny how news runs" remark i ed a reformed paper person yesteroay. T have been watching mules recently and they seem to have had their snare of the space. Not long ago there was story about Montgomery as mule market yesterday a mule preelpltatedi into an old well and had to be pulled out by the Street Department; another mule got into a bog and broke his reg and had to be shot. But George w. for a newspaper in Selma and IS now D. c. in Meridian, Miss. with several kinds of businesses working thelr heads off for hirn. was the genius that made the mule what he is today In American Journalism.
 MT. Cater one day heard from de- linquent subscriber who came into the office to lay large turnip or, some other inedible fruit upon his table, the statement that the mans mule up in shelby County was ,, aetihs waa Teas ea nlean gone crazy: bitin' up the calf and the chickens. and so on. It was meant for MT. Cater. and inside of three days he had the mule as mad as a maA-eatlng 1g tiger and twice as dangerous. under >his sksllful guidance. the mule paved children, devoured poultry. lkicked lightning rods and played general havoc with the other priceless possessions of 'hs saeorge aanIse' madg a column a day out of it until there came a crisis. A posse from dear old Shelby came down and demanded that George, as special cor respondent, accompany the crowd he sigh. George Killed the mule With a long distance phone message from Calera. The. corpus delicti was. never until the Shelby County persons could go away. The crazy mule of Shelby County was famous in its day but now fsIFo Aid nm lOtQ of gnanQ-p
 MT. Louis E. Schwarz, "a business young man of. Mobile, who is promin- ent and popular, spent yesterday in Montgomery. MT. Schwarz is a member of an Alabama family that eujoys the confidence and esteem of the people of several sections of the State. He is a native of Linden and was reared in Selma. where he married Miss Maas. Several years ago he went to Mobile, where he has been very successful in business and has contributed toward the progress and uplift of the Gulf City,
 A telegram was received at the State Treasurer office yesterday from Treas urer Seed announcing that be left Bal timore last night for Montgomery the condition of Mrs. Seed having .mprov- ed to such an extent that he consid- cred 1t safe for him to return here. The news that Mrs Seeds condition has taken a turn for the better will be of much interest to her friends here and tn roughout the State. She has been i'll for several weeks. following an operation at sanatorium in Balti- more.
 pr. A. A. Persons, Professor of Chem istry in the faculty of the University of Alabama, has undergone an opera tion for appendicitis and was said last evening to be doing well in the local hospital where the operation was per formed.
 Mir. R, l.. Melton. a well-known young business man of Birmin gham, departed to his home yesterday after visit to Montgomery. MT. Melton was 4 the gomery
 Owing to the illness of Secretary of State Julian. and the absence of Insur- arce Commissioner A, O. sexton, the closed yesterday afternoon.
 Friends of Mrs Al. A. Reynolds will re- gret to learn that she is seriously i'll at her home fin Hot Springs, Ark.
 MT. Fat McGauley has returned from Clanton, where he was court steno- grapher in an important case.
 MT. George C. Randolph, of Perdido | Bay, is the guest of MT H. P Candler at 40 Amanda Street
 MT. Sam Strauss, who has bean i'll for several days, departed yesterday to Lithia Springs. Ga.
 Hon. Frank N. Julian. Secretary of State. Is confined to his home on Madi- son Avenue by illness