The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-20
'inongsf Pleasant Persons


| <A~at8vn4E&$y m8mmukMs m8KutUcemts
| Aw, you maze lie tired taking
about moving the awnings on the
streets. remarked q man VINO has done
much In the making OF montgomery.
k"You'd think that montgomery was a
ed in the photographic magazines every
month. Two days ago ] saw hawk
| swoop down on sparrow In Dexter
avenue. catch him. ny to the top OF
building at the corner OF Perry Street
and DEXTER Avenue and there leisureIy
| eat his dinner, viz, to-wtt: the spar
row. That's a great big town, isn't
Now. hearlen. Little. Scribe of All
loves this old town as do. 1t is good
| to live In. to work in. to make money
in. All my friends are here, and they
are such good ones feel sometimes
else, no matter how hard they begged
for the honor. And I am one of those
| perhaps insapieht persons who believe
that the town Is going to be bigger
Quoted circus. But we need those avn
ings in our business. Next time 1t
rains real hard, and you are comfort
ably jostling and joking all the other
shed that has helped for years. think
of what ! say. We have sudden and
heavy rains. we have hot and long
suns. We are Just far enough south not
dress for the temperate zone; we get
cold and array ourselves az II we were
within speaking distance of the line.
The awnings are about the most log
teal attempt at adaptation of ourselves
to existent conditions
About the hawk? Well, was stand
ing with several friends when we
espied the hawk. 1t was not SPAR
row hawk, though IL took q sparrow,
nor piddle hawk, nor a blue darter.
but a plain. old-fashioned chicken
hawk, the. kind that Mommer used to
shoe with her apron when the hens
as you please and SCARED aloft with
him. He did not soar very loftiiy for
he lighted upon an electric wire, and
fiattened that little bird out under his
cruel claws, until ! was ready to
sailed away to a building, ~ a cross
ing that except Court Square is the
most popufous of the streets of Mont
gomery. There the hawk ate up--or
down, as you prefer-that English
"Do think Montgomery is VII
lager No, just poor crops running the
country mice to town. That hawk was
not making living In his rural home.
the city TO try his fortune. merely
used 1t as text for my hotnily. II you
have enjoyed 1t. kindly Isay a good
word to your friends; Thanking you
one aun a -; ane "AS'e ~
The Great Goldfish Fry Cure,
Several OF the Persons were as us
Court Square Fountain from its place
on the Square. where IT has been for
the twenty or more years that nave
elapsed since IL was placed there DUR
ing the administration Of the late
Mayor REESE, to the Capitol grounds,
where IT may be placed IL the state
SON" Some denounced the movement of
what The Person with A Political Past
acclaimed grandiloquentiy, That
Palladium OF our fair city" others said
eating an indifference to the location,
situation, nay. the very existence OF
the lady on the top or the spouting
things round and about her; yet othets
said they believed it ought to be moved
so that the street car tracks might !
be moved or Strengthened across the
square.
turn. The Placid Person. instead OF
looking at-the lady on top, so cold in
her scanty rainment and under the
chilling spray, was gazing intently into
(the very words OF The Person with
A Political Past) OF the pool where
the goldfish were disporting them
III they do move this hare fountain
self. but If they do move this here
fountain. | am going 70 eat a gold |
You all know it has long been my am |
bition, to masticate, digest and assimi-
late an Individual of the auriferous
species of the piscatorial genus. not
so much because none before me has
done such thing, but out of curiosity.
and to afford perhaps. to my old
friend, Hugh Manity. another article
-Eine!" was the puffy. foody ejacula-
tion of The Person Who Protrudes
Preponderously in Proportion to has
Perpendicularity, What l was a-say-
Ing professors; we need more varied
vtctuals and plenty, too; and those
teachers ought to teach the agricul-
the table. When read about plant
Ing these catalpa trees, l feel out OF
sorts, for you can't eat root, trunk,
branch or leaf of them. All that
flowers or collards or early peas"
III they do move this here touRtain.S
The placid Person remarked again, a
not only shall eat a goldfish but L
I shall give a goldfish AIRY. (Sensa-
tionr 1t will be an excellent chance
to rehabilitate our friend, The Person
With A Political Past in the eyes o.
the duly qualified. who--half of them
at least-see through their stomAshs.
AS for me, I shall be acclaimed like
q Roman emperor, IN giving SO lavish,
outre, and magnificent a feast as a
goldfish fry. with all guaranteed eigh-
F'The very thing" The Impractical
Person said Listen; give 1t Janu-
airy 1, 1909. You know that bichloride
Of gold is utilized in the Kelly Insri-
tute. One of the brightest graduates. |
though l believe he was the young
est---ever turned out told me about 1t. |
He said they also ate thousands of
raisins every day, raw raisins, cooked |
raisins., raisins in buildings. raisins
Now. January /. 1909 sees the END
of the sale of liquors in Montgomery. |
We give the gold fish-fry. invite the
people. give them goldfish and raisins. |
and there will not be sigh of regret
even from the thirstiest"
With unanimous and silent sympathy.
The Persons assumed a vinvulated
and slowly, so1emnly chanted.
The Impractical Person is magnifi- |
cent"
Number Nine Again.
1.-THE story Of the Montgomery lady |
in whose life the number nine had |
played such an important part, printed |
by The Advertiser this morning. re-
minds me of a remarkable marriage in
which nine, il it has a color as some |
of the Symbolists declare. would be the |
color scheme lavishly carried out. IL I |
may quote the sassiety- colyums," re-
marked an old newspaper reporter yes
terday. The marriage was in Mont
gomery good many years ago and !
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