The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01
Senex Remembers Some Things,
But Some Things He Never SnD

| Editcr The Advertiser:
| Senex No, 2.5 seems to remember as
| much or more than the original Senex.
| Senex relates facts only from per-
their memory they may tell us that
| they were playmates of George WASH
| fngton and saw him cut down the chez
| ry tree with his little Ratchet, and
saw Ben Franklin draw electricity
from the clouds with kite.
They may remember when Paul Re-
we're aroused the sleeping Inhabitants
TO realisation OF their danger In his
midnight ride from Concord 10 Boston;
or John Gilpin's famous race from
many miles he covered and how much
wine he split from the BOTTLES hung TO
his belt dangling from either side.
they may remember when the Lean
ing Tower Of Pisa was built. what
for, and whether It was at FIRST
perpendicular and afterwards inclined; ;
or who built the Tower of Babel how
near Heaven II was before the confu-
sion OF tongues and what became OF
the builders after they dispersed.
Adam wore knee breeches. and Eve
wore hloomers. how many daughters
Eve had: and where the anxious mother
found husoands for them and where
the Garden of Eden was located.
It is easier for me to tell what / do
not remember.
do not remember when Nebuchad-
hizer destroyed the Temple at Je-
to Babylon with the holy vessels,
nor Belshazxar's feast. when he desc
Grated the same vessels in q bacchina.
vial reyei and brought an end to his
/ do not remember the feast of Alex
ander the Great In the same city, AZ
ter his conquest of Persia, land OF the
whole world as he thought), and his
too idolatrous worship OF Bacchus. this
God OF Wine. and his excessive indul-
Renca In potations which ended his
life and his universal kingdom at the
I do not remember when Rome was
built, when IL was saved by the caclkl-
died while Rome was burning: nor
when Julius Caesar was assassinased
by Brutus at the foot OF Pompey's
statue, on the 1des OF March.
But do remember when the Native
ings. dominated the politics of the
United States bv secret organisations
1S61-6S, in opposition to foreign ifnfni-
grafton ana the Catholics. and by
signs, pass words and oath bound mem
bers, men we're elected to once to the
surprise Of outsiders, until its back
bone was broken by Governor Henry A.
Wise, of Virginia. and the eiection
franchise released from the thfaldom
OA It's octopus kTips
THIS proved that religious Intoler-
ance, Milking of politics and religion,
and secret political societies. cannot
flourish In free America. This was be.
fore the tide of ungodly irreIigions
horror Of foreign anarchiets and So
ctalists threatens to submerge US.
remember the old Webster blue
back spelling book, IN which were
taught the 81 B &c and the wood cut
picture OF the boy up the apple tree,
and the old man pelting him with
tufts OF grass. which only made the
boy fangh, until the old man resorted
to stones. which soon changed his \
laugh TO cry and brought him down
the tree.
remember when history was taught
In schools and colleges, that was HIS
tory, not biography history which re-
corded past events--not current politi-
cal topics obtainab1e from newspapers
and periodicals.. i remember, too,
Piekett's History Of Alabama; that was
q history. This was before the Text
Book Commission adopted DuBose's