The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-30
AWFUL EXPIRE
 HNYS FUR CLHM!
Nc Was Cuntlnsd for Two Days and Two Nights Without Food or Drink and Nearly Became De- ceassd-FaII Parilcu-
 lars FolIsrlng

Ciem clesg, one of our most re- speckted citizens, who has no blemish on his past except that he was once convickted of stealing chickens. which, however, was a insianifcant offence. and Ciern has since lived 1t down, met with a indesiribahie hardship on last Monday and Tuesday, which he will probably likely think of with loathing, regret and disgust to his dying day, and we don't blame him.
 Mehitable Clegg, who is Cleun's wife, is as deef as a post, which everybody in Bingville knows, being as you hatt to come right up and holler in her ear so loud it makes you hoarse before you can make her understand what you want to. For this reason what Cleni and Mehitable talks about in the pri- vacy of their own home ain't no secret, because their conversation can be heard all over Bingville, speshially in the summer season when the winders is up.
 Last Sunday night Glenn told Mehitr able that he thought next morning he would walk to Hardserabble, distance of ten miles, to visit his brother John and see if John would lend him enough money to pay the interest on the mort gage which Anne Hillyer, our attorney and legal light, holds on Clem's house. When Monday morning arrived, how ever, the wether was so awful hot that C1em didn't have the heart to start out on the hoof fer Hardscrabble, but took the hatchet and some nails and went down cellar to repair his potater bin. When Glenn went down, Mehitahle was upstairs airing the rooms, and when she came down and saw the door to the cellar door open she says to herself, Land sakes, did leave that door open?" After which she slammed it shut with a bang, locked 1t with key and also with heavy bolt. Then she set down to pare some apples for sass, thinking Clem had started on his trip ! to Hardscrabble To make a long !. story short, Glenn come up stairs by and ! by and found the door locked, where upon he knocked until he skun the skin offen his nuckles Then he hollered and yelled for Mehitable to open the door and let him out, but what was the use? There sat Mehitable, not 5 ft from the cellar door as calm and peace ful as you pleace, humrning to herself and never hearing a sound in the world, being as she is so deef she wouldn't hear thunder.
 There was no winders in the cellar through which Glenn could holler to the nabors; on the contrary it was very dark and damp with only board here and there on the dirt floor to prevent person stepping into pools of water. Clem would cuss while, then he would pray for deliverence. and when he got out of patience praying he would go back to cussing again, but what was the use7 Clem, who uses up 10 ct plug of chewin terbacker every day and was on his last chew when he got shet down in the cellar said he couldn't make up his mind whether he would ruther have had his freedom or a chew of ter packer. Meanwhile, the time wore on Monday night came and went, as fer Glenn there in the dark. he couldn't tell whether it was night or day outside. When Clem didn't show up Monday night, Mehitable thought he must of had trubble persuading John to give him the interest money, and had resolved to stay over till Tuesday. So she didn't