The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
Ssnex Has Some
 More Recoliecfions

Editor The Advertiser:
 have seen politicians who loved the deaf people, and orated and perorated; demagoEues inflated with gas snd .I,i monght Themselves demi. gods III lapsed--and yet the Railroad rates were not lowered but the taxes raised higher.
 have seen Democrats, aristocrats, brsskfsst table. but never saw the autocrat of the Lower House of Con- grsssi have seen Cannons--big cannons and little cannons. cannons stationary and on wheels. cannons of the church and church canons, but never saw Un- cle Joe, the Cannon of brass that shoots of its stand-pAt mouth with ~upont smokeless powder and noiseless guns.
 have seen strike-busters, trust busters and. Buster Brown, but never buster, who does not burst the trusts. or the mother of trusts. 1 have seen the seven wonders of the world. but have not yet seen the eighthIwhy up the high protective tariff and az grandlze the magnates of corporations and Republican beneficiaries, l have seen women drown their grief in floods of tears and men drown their troubles in floods of strong drink and Presl- dent who drowns the public with floods What rsans of paper and floods of Some men spoil who never think.
 Have seen children drowned in tubs Of water and have seen tman drowned in branch of water not six
 i have seen the Rialto in Venice. where one could set ride in gondoias. and I have seen the Rialto in Mont & sch ooasr hsos sos Wished SHd o0e Tais @ @as be- fore the lights went out at o'clock and the schooner and passengers were stranded in the darkness.
 I have seen people who filled the Chinee. but contributed nothing to res- dss n wo Rf seoRss ana the distressed in foreign lands. but had little sympathy for the poor unfor- radium or frozen by the want of heat
 have seen coffee that vas not cof- and sround peas; % cSfree of ' made of PJ psas@ but never saw coffee made Of parched cornmeal and sold under the name of
 1 have seen sardines that were not sardines. olive oil that was not olive oil. silver that was, not silver, and glass that was not glass; a. "lass that have seen cats and catamounts, cat- tall mullet and catastrophes. but never saw q category or a catalypse.
 I have seen stars--the morning star. the north star and the do~ star. but never saw the star of hope, nor the T have seer horns Of cattle. horns but never saw the horn of plenty nor the horns of dilemma.
 have seen the milk of cows. the m. m.ilk of goats, the milk in the cocoa nut and fhA milk Y-w hut the milk of human kindness.
 l have, seen strawberries, .dewberries, raspberries and biackberries. and a white Berry in Selma-~that is the Berry of all Berries-cailed the Randall Berry; but never saw Chaucer's Cam terburry or DoEberry on the stage. asked the City Council to allow them speed of fifteen miles an hour on the plea that the faster they sped the less laashbiiity lshd to run run over and kill people: and take fifteen; If they get the nf- teen, they will take twenty-five miles ara an h9pr9 This was 6etoEs women cil.pointed shoes, wore mems hats and rode .astraddle, and before men wore white cloth shoes and parted
 This A was " Sefore seS e'ualti Cattle raisers fin Alabama sent their beeves to Chicago 10 sell at cents pound on foot and De shipped back. after being slaught- cents per pound. ,, This was before a Boston philan- thropist CD took the Montgomery ne- gress to Boston to educate her for a missionary in the South. and sent her back with q canary bird, but without clothes or money.
 witched unwary bach elors. and before Madame De Laney exhibited ten pretty girls, encircled with sheath gowns at the Nontoomery Fair to the admiring nf thA Fair EiaitnHu
 Senex No. 4.
 Selma. Oct. T, '0s.
 A LIFE OF SERVICE.