The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-16
,Monssf Pisosant Persons
when P.fience Pieks the Peas,
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When Patience Pfcks the Peas.
 fanny masy sSinss ss ws trsss fsss in verse such When "salIie sings." or ',Winnie When Tessie Trips" cr Dora Dips Or .Laura Lanehss or SEva Eyes the Evening EvergIades.
 If poets write and people write such Why shouldn's some s snese poor poet pen When Patience Picks the PessY'' Out in the garden 'mongst the corn and Where grows the parsnip, peach and
 punk and pigweed rank and tall rhere stands a princely row of peas, .,a all Roddsd I;ead up tc par: - meath Papa's Panama.
 A-picking. picking. pecks of peas. per
 forming peacefully.
 Her pleasant pastime, picking peas,
 a peerless picture she.
 She pokes her pinky finger tips among
 the pale green vines,
 her pretty pan that hat shines; = Asperfect picture Patience is. pursuing Her proud position picking peas; her To me those other poems pale compar-
 ed to lines like these;
 When pretty Patience putteth out tc
 Ph8h nCt R0NEHlB DchHs s
 Joe Cone, in Puck.
 A CAiia Agaia.
 The Perfectly Appareied Person was 6 O Time Iii in Your rMdrr Plight. Make Ma 1 Me . Child Again Just for Tonight" and the Placid Person and the Impractica- s,o Sls person I., caught him ssr red-handsa a ed mstaphcy If the Persectly Apparel on his .angsrs Instead of with the fasfionable pinh tongue and his styl
 .T should like sery much to be a child again, remarked the Placid Per. son. T was won't to fetter. chick ems vaults. which fastened with much cunning. hiding then very effectively from the powers that then did be. to- T Ts Gss mg Ssne Thso egs Of course. a stone had to be tied to the end of the string to prevent their utili- satien of their wings to escape the
 That is no way to treat grass interrupted. 'I think they are. much more humorous If you tear on their ant bed, which 10 my mfnd Is even less comfortable than one of the folding variety"
 "spcaking. of ants" said The PIacid
 
 The company by silence consented to take doodles. so the Placid Person pro- ceeded:
 "There are two kinds of doodles. Jack doodles and plain doodles. The one kind may be extracted from very deep perplndtc liar holes nitn straw. The others make hoies that look like dust under houses Now if you want to have fun, just put an ant within the upside-down cone aSd watch him vortex of sand in which the doodle Is the principal agitator. It is fine. Ton Enow the ant 10 finally ct up."
 There was q little si.eaee thea. q. : song about the ardent desire for a tenn poral recalcftration that the puerile condition might be connsummated again during one noct1rnal season. The missed by whistling an aecompani- meat.
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 He Is q Greek, though he looks like neither Hercules nor Apollo nor even Oedipus, otherwise ge-named The Flat foot. He has not long been resident in that he can sffectiveIy utilize except when he Is right in the very midst of the Hellenic Colony. whsn t he s1 says Ai it at f aii Pss s says it so loudly that everybody within a blocks distance ex beets t {. f.. bel 10 ritz like anything. He runs. fruit stand raining. and when the trade Is slack he cries sad'Gtize" aild makes thes peo- pie to pause. long enough to see that hs has for for oIs srIS M tne tbs the dates of the Nile and the goobers of the Georgia.
 Rut that Csoesr w4ke oarl.' ,~"uEh noise. He had to resort to the mechan- les of le bon Amerique. For nearly six ty minutes yesterday the only trade he had was from one policeman, Wno gracefully took unto himself handLul of oceans and one paper person. who with not the less alacrity beneficently assimiIated an apple just to see 1T 1t was worth while to buy two dozen for the fellows lover there in the ouild-
 Something must now be done. so the Hellenie creature ran into the saloon that Is nigh his stand. selected pro- ment raised the lid and started the mOostick without the insertion of a single penny. Tho ptrveying person was angry. or course: Du, nv insI IoS1cas wT. ar. gumentation to be employed against one who cries out in English. broken, shattered and scattered:
 Within thirty shakes of that sheeps tail which some simpler minds nave employed to account the passage of time the CSreek was eelllnS HlChiO worth of peanuts and four bananas at the proper price.
 MT. Nj. L. Mccormack. of g. Paul. is an interesting visitor to Montgom- cry, where he Is the guest of Capt, H P Ferguson, in charge of the United States Engineers office for this dis trict. Despite the fact that he is from a fav, far land. Mir. Mccormack found numerous friends in Montgomery. He was a member of the National Demo cratic Convention at which Grover Cleveland was first nominated for the Presidency--he was elected that time too--aud was a delegate to other com ventions. In Montgomery he found other participants in the political gath erings and a good many stories were swapped. MT. Mccormack is promt- nent in public affairs of Minnesota. He will be in Montgomery several days.
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 Hon. Sam wn John. a member of the Legislature from Jefferson County and a prominent attorney of Birming" ham. was a visitor to Montgomery yes- terday.
 Mr. ". W. Graves has returned to Montgomery aftor spending several i days in Atlanta where he transacted