The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-10
'Mongsf Pleasanf Persons
PeeIIaw. Precavlt.t. perrons.


 There have been writ so many jests. qufps, cranks, comfs cQnceits, ballads. songs. and so on. anent the banana peel as precipitator of the proud. a of all persons, that 1t has come 10 be regarded as something funny to talk about. only that and nothing more
 Bnt persons who step, slip, slide through the circumambient and unsup- porting air and then sit down with such velocity and momentum that they feel the tops of their heads to see if their spines have poked through don't feel that way about 1t at all They think that 1t Is at best only a practi- cal joke. which is very. very poor sort of joke indeed They think first of all that If ber-nan-ner peelings can be made into paper or cloth they ought to be so transformed with as much cell erity as possible. and not cast upon the s-waiks. In transit they think. too. of the old homestead and the an cient fowls at the doorstep and the baying hounds that welcome them home again. When they finally Tight" they think of wars shocks and alar- ums and of collapsed balloons. There are many peels of all sorts There Is law against 1t, but thai kind of law is mighty hard to enforce. After all 1t comes back to the innate decency of folks. If they are gentle enough to think once or twice day of other people. who, as a rule are just as virtuous and we'll dressed and rich and other admirable things as the offenders. they will risk taking on cali it, and throw their herman -ners two feet farther. A norange peel Is just as dangerous, and a napple core has been known to bring down some very laEse game. If you haven't any covers where they are least apt to be hit by the innocent ambulator.
 The Persuasive Puerfle Person.
 The Puertle Person who peddles pa- pers sometimes assumes a shrewdness that is senile in its insinuative and in- sidious persuaslveness. Every trick, of voice, manner, makeup, even is util- tzed to best advantage, and 1t takes a very stalwart persons and beyond ca- Jolery and threats to oppose for long the overtures made for the sale of the last paper when the darksome shadows and chill of early evening begin to fall upon tired and shivertng humanity.
 One of them yesterday struck the high note. It was very late. and he, with two others. was besieging tired
 But one, mfster--plee- ee-ze, mister! I got just two more and mortimer is goz ing to beat the steam outn me if don't sell 'eml Just three cents. mis- ter, reg1er price five"
 The second quoted the same figures but 1t remained for the third Puorile Person to reach the climax. He offered two for nickel. What a Purchasing Person could or would do with two copies the deponent further did not say. It Is supposed he would take 1t home to his wife or give it away to some person. At any rate the Purchase ing Person took the two copies at five cents the pair and the Puerile Person went screaming away in search of an- other sucker.
 MT. Phelan Beale. who came to Mont gomery to be present at the funeral of his brother, Mir. Jesse D. Beale, de- York. MT. Beale, while in Montgom- cry, was the guest of MT. c. A. Lanier on Perry Street.
 Hon. A. A. Wiley, Representative of the Second District in the Congress, de- | parts today for Washington to resume his duties In the National Capital. Coll onel Wiley spent the holidays in his home in Montgomery!
 Mir R. A. o'Rear, a prominent citi- zen of Jasper. was a guest in the city | yesterday. Mir. O'Rear was a member | of the last Constitutional Convention. : The friends of Mir John E. billiard will be glad to learn that he is stead 1 fly improving after severe illness at | his home. 5oS Columbus Street
 
 Mir. J. D. Matlock departed to his home in Birmingham last night. after a | brief visit to Montgomery.
 MT. Frank B. Bricken and Mir. R. H. Foloner of Luverne. were registered at the Hotel Summers yesterday.