The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-09
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 The recent rains do not seem to have impaired the June bride crop.
 Nobody likes to have an earthquake try to shake his acquaintanee.
 Party lines in the tariff." says an exchange. Yes, and they are hitched to the poor consumer and the trusts Wui continue to apply the whip.
 Theodore Roosevelt's old nurse. who used 10 tell him animal stories Is dead. However. she lived long enough to heart to call her Mature Fakir." At the hour of going to press Count Zeppelin had butted into another tree with his airship.
 other day was shot at by someone with a rifle. Probably 1t was just one of the Kentucky feudists. A bailoonatic shopidn't expect anything else in the Boston man has advertised for lost umbrella. Oh, faith, faith, thou art a beautiful thing until rudely jared.
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 Parson snowbaiI says:
 De worl' am full ob music,
 An nah heart am full ob bliss, An An des sings halleluia,
 An de reason ob it's dis:
 Nor your French chefs nor your When de xlabama watermelon's
 Laughin' on de vine."
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 Even the worm will turn your dull day Into one of joy If he Is on the end or your hook and you have liberal Occasionally you see a, girl on the She looks great deal worse than if her hair were In curl papers.--Atchi- Don't be too hard on her--mebbe she is stenographer and has just eaten a dill pickle.
 When a girl loses her steady beau had a "bustln' up.s sometimes the young man quits of his own volition, however, because he Is tired of buying pop corn and ice cream and riding out Now is the time of year when the up-to- date young woman packs her trunks and Sva tells all her ,rit friends sad then takes a whole regiment of chums and beaus down to the station to see her off to Prattvilie.
 An engagement ring to a girl means, love, faith, life, happiness, hope and a whole world full of sweet expectations. To a young man 1t means hnstling like bn devil n the fnata l1manf a V- ments every pay day.
 Scientist of the optimistic type has discovered that the coal supply now in sight, including that near Birmingham, is sufficient to keep us supplied and feed the furnace for poor, Overworked, sleepy husbands to lire up for the next tie over the coal supply's lasting, but now feel much relieved.
 
 Don't worry bout the weather.
 For this you can't deny,
 It's goin' to be much hotter
 In July.
 The June kissed brides of Alabam' Can make biscuits--also fry ham.
 New York has 16.00o stenographers. This represents the consumption of at least 16.00O dill pickles and crackers misspelled words and wrong punctua- tion marks made by this aggregation of intelligence 1t Is impossible to com- pute.
 There Is a new counterfeit sJ00 bill on the market. Look carefully through your hundred dollar bills--you might be the very one who has 1t.
 Alabama and Georgia mint crops are better this year than ever. But what's the use?
 Each bed of mint Is born to blush un- And waste its sweetness on the des-
 ert air.
 Somehow 1t seems a little odd to think That mint was meant for this fate, declare.
 Nothing But Dreams. have my dreams-my day of dreams As on the grass 1 lies To the laughing lit of the running And the blue of the deep blue sky. My dreams they are dreams of the oth- When life was filled with joy. And I see the past through a misty When I was little boy. Oh. dreams there are of an old home And loved ones gathered there. And one little girl with an angels face,
 And Gods sunshine in her hair. Oh years they are many-and days are long,
 And the world turns on the same, | But a some things gone from the mock birds song.
 And the flowers just seem a name. Oh dreams-sweet dreams of the long Here meath a love spanned sky The zephyrs sweet my thoughts would blow
 | Down the Boyhood Trail close by. Out of the night time into the dawn l Meeting the ones I knew, l And a few will murmur, well he tl gone"
 Some day when dreams come. true.