The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-02-01
'Monesf Pleasant Persons



There Is nothing like politics to
make q man polite" said The Person
with q Political Past yesterday as he
noticed q quondam human clam. nota-
Bile for neither cordially nor courtesy,
hugging one man and vainIy trying to
strike another In that very vital spot
known ~ the button hole. "As re-
CARDS that primary education of hui
man sympathy Il is unexcelled; every
man ought te run for once at least
once In his iife-4say when he is just
about grown; and some ought to re-
peat the dose every decade. SOme-
times. Of course, the treatment reacts
when the patient Is unsuccessful In
nus candidacy be- may become positive
Il am not speaking cynicaIly," The
Person With Political Past continued.
There are some men with kind and
warm hearts. men who naturally love
dear old Hugh Manlty. but somehow
are 80 shut up that they can not for
their very lives show 1t. They are
human. very human CLAIMS. It takes
open up. But when they do open up.
1t IL worth while. They are jolly COM
panions and faithful friends. At FIRST
they seem hypocritical in their newly
hitherto have tried and failed to get
at them. But they really are not. They
are just coming into their own, be-
fore the campaign IL half over they
fnd It not only easy but most pleas
urable to meet men. Towards the
end they are not friends because they
are candidates, but candidates because
they are friends. IN the last municipal
campaign the 4ldermAnic aspirants be-
Ses e sor e saRsessS them
"If you want TO bring q man out
in a social way. bring him cut in po-
llticaI way. m
VIVA - n xhaS~..- uaeae Awnsu
II see that Il 10 raining, said a
prominent citizen at 6:45 O'Clock last
night. as he Hospitality held his UNI
brella over patient person to let the
| ter's back. The patient person had
just run all the way across Dexter Av-
enue, and was so wetted that he won
dered n he had not. tust - well take
basin before it was washed away or
removed by aldermanic impulse.
an fact the precipitation seems to
be quite heavy" said the p, c. as ne
| shraak comfortably into the dryness OF
the doorway ana deftiy Jobbed another
into ne already crowded veatibuIe
from the stream in which he had waded
!" 1T it e funny how quickly these rains
come on. the D. c. remarked, with an
other Of those fortuitous CLEANS OF ln-
there's you earl" cried the FIRST st
patient person, and as the p. c. ran
| into the hood they blocked the pass
age 40 that he could not re-enter--for
az course the car was not coulIns
SBack 10 Atlanta with youn they ey. cried ana
The s-Wslk column or yon'" ~ anu
we have no place TOT you
| Th. Catcher Caught, the Taxer Taught.
M, r. s. Williams. who distineuisne q
himself by resignins an omceF, W tSs
very gentle in the the , n.sc h was a
o inSS,re ~ Won had the money in
pienty ana had no time to spend IT, 20 ~
hand 1t to him as taxes on ipr99per.y W. u !,
you nao 4, the Eut M Mr. Williams was as
arm as he was kind and he took hor
! city the things that belonged 70 Guy:
And son 1s,,p f,,,, nocEets and empty
smiles and came away watn empty
pockets and smiles so full they looked
| like smirks. .s4hsu rS,.,,
| Hail boys did rejoice when they saw
MT. Williams paying his own taxes.
They remembered only the times ne
ter not advance any more of their
wages; the one or two who nave
enough property TO be noticeanle by tne
assessors could r think il q WHICH f he had
taken t.thes from them; ana when tney
saw Mr. Williams @nfa the h1 nsT eSsr
l ureF. Mr.. ROBERT Idll, uAeBhuS ONOt
Mr., WIliiams's taxes, their hearts sang
within them. Theyscried out upon MI.
TAFT to stick II to him, and for little
while they were exceeding glad:
New Mr.. Henry ". Parrish, IT. who
| Secretary to the Department OF Police:
He harked back, to the sleuth days OF
| his youth and with WONDERFUL per-
| spicacity noted that whenever Mr.. VIII
! liams declared petulantly that Mr.. TAFT
was exacting a dime too much. he deft:
iy lowered the starboard eyelid; and
| that when Mr.. TAFT threatened MT, WI:
| iians with a lawsuit II he didn't add
on the is cents interest, Mr.: TAFT HIM
self abased the larboard lid. 50 MT
| Parrish, with the analytical power that
| opined that the lowering OF the lids
| signified something. SO he asked Mr.
| John J. Farley, the City Clerk:
| do they mean ity
Mr.. Farley lowered both his Ids; Mr.
Parrish said. very irritably Indeed:
| "Come on. fellerg."
And they came.
|
Real Horse Sense.
tsTaMn IJur ga O araaf show" said tn