The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-12
DRIFT WO OD

The landlord never raises any ob- jection from the tenant when he low CTS the rent.
 Somehow 1t always makes our flesh creep to see a woman jab a hat pin through her hair in that reckless man ner keeping up running fire of con- versation all the time. It's a long. long head that haS no
 turning,
 Upon a rainy day, When a pretty girl comes tripping Holding her skirt that waysz.4s.s 7 Mrs. Groueh-I believe in saying nothing and saving wood.
 MT. Grouch--Pardon me. madam. but it would be a physical impossibility for you to saw wood and say noth- ing.
 You asked for just one kiss" she said. 'Remember. that's 8 pledge.'' And then he took million more That kiss was but a wedge
 That women are fond of mountain climbing is evinced by their penohant for. making a mountain out of every mole hill.
 You'n never get the cold shoulder so long as you burn your money. I And he cried Mercy me-"
 To his sweetheart who had given
 him the mitter. He committed suicide And they found that when he died. Into big iron dog he had bitten. '1f that rube doesn't look sharp he will get run over in minute.
 How do you expect rube to look sharp?"
 Weary willie-Say, pard, do you be- lieve horseshoe is lucky?
 Dusty Dave-Well dat depends if it's on hoss an the hosg kicks you in de solar plexus, you'd think it was blamed unlucky.
 The authorities in Russia permit no women's clubs to exist. The husbands of Russia ought to be nice domestic men with good dispositions then. sure of three meals a day and someone to help mind the baby. There is talk of doubling the speed of the Wright aeroplane. We would suggest that the humane society ex- tend it's Jurisdiction into the air for the safety of pigeons. buzzards. etc. An Indian named Mike Ice has com mitted suicide. Perhaps he had hopes with that frigid cognomen of keeping cool hereafter.
 A issued in Washington, no one has ever devised scheme to make poor mar ried mans salary elastic enough to cover everything he wanted it to.
 If women keep piling much more hair on their heads as each succeed ing fashion demands, the question arises, where is all the hair going to come from?
 Some people are so blinded by tears crying over the opportunities that have passed that they can't even see those man can hire horse In Japan, keep two servants, and live on the fat of the land, all for little over s20 a month.
 The Trail Towards Home. The trail towards home Is long long Stretching 'twixt then and now. For you see it's many a long, long day Since I heard the birds in the bough. There are mountains between. there
 are rivers. too.
 And it's hard to travel back. For the mountains are things that And fS the rivers are tears-alacl. The trail towards home I'd like to For I know at the end of the way Beyond where the oIG road forms a
 bend
 Is the spot where I used to play. Oh. honey y-freighted childhood days, The best meath Heavens dome, Tn later life how fancy straYs.
 Along the trail towards home.
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 Through the Mail BaE.
 Pensacola, Fla, Nov 9, 1908. Mir. Phil IT. Armstrong, Montgomery,
 Ala:
 Dear Phil-I see in today's issue of The Advertiser the following ad in the want section:
 For Sale-At a sacrifice. typewriter, sewing machine and baby carriage Phone 2552. -1O-3t" Is this one of your jokes, or is it the aF fba nxtrnar9