The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-15

to hnppSA up on her .head. where she could neither rec it nor reach It, a
 tuggfng and . pulling and Q peeptng.
 that started her, shrillest cries. Enter
 sergeant cunningham of the Yonkers
 Blues--and. with his help. exit robin
 who had all innocently mistaken the
 pretty heedgsar as the real thing in
 Switzerland. whence came the second
 Item. shows. hsrssif less pieasingiy
 poetic. She has docreed that hats of
 thirty-one inch diameter and upwards
 are fitly chased as cart wheels, and
 feminfne trave1ers SO garbed will
 please ride in. the luggage vans or
 leave their hats with the luggage
 guard. just as they would bicycle. . It wass q peach basket" that caused Michael Conlon. of New York. to ruin spring suit and miss Carnegie medal in June. He saw 1t slipping along on the muddy surface of the Harlem .a bird of gorgeous piumage on if. and surely. thought he. a drown ing maid beneath. Tn he went to the rescue. but the hat was all he found to bring ashore.
 And Judge Hume of Chicago has talked hats in court. MT. and Mrs. B. D. Maher stood before him. and testi- mony brought out that MT. had bought 2AIb. B6tEH 8YtCluiSuS OI utaQAGAI HI just thirty days: that he had then, one evening started to go out somewhere. she disapproving; that she, had grab bed his one and only hat to make him stay home; that a row had resulted and there you are! Its not nominat- ed in any bond I know of" said Ills Honor, "what to do In such . case. but | a man who buys his wife hats at the l rate of one every four days deserves all he gets. no matter whatA Dis chargedr'
 Just Fate.
 There fate was obviously at work --as 1t was in, August. when Belden woodring. a steepie Jack of many
 lofty climbs, fell from e chair in his
 kitchen. and killed himself; and when Antonio Aguillar, a Mexican murder
 er.. suddenly meeting the twin brother
 of a victim on the streets of zacate-
 cas-. fell on his knees. made full con
 fession of his crime. and was led away to trial and execution.
 Some. sort of Providence, again, may have worked in hidden ways to put Jack Binns aboard the .ill-fated 'Re- public" He had had a safe and com fortable berth at Cook Haven, Ireland. but he got into an argument with a fellow operator. and knocked him out in the resulting mix-up. Ergo: Off to sea was ne packed In punishment.
 assigned to ship destined to sink him and his " c. c. D." wireless calls to renown. '
 The Elements at Work. The elements which conspfred to make young Mir. Binns have been anything but idle as month has fol- lowed month. January turned to June, with heat record beating the figures for thirty years and more, per suaded us at the start that we were
 to be surprised at nothing, so that the
 June snow squalls which visited Mon
 treal and Malone (N. Y.) and Jonan-
 nesburg (six Inches disorganizins
 traffic and wire service in the last
 named) might almost have been call
 ed expected.
 Lightning. frealrish most of time,
 played It's wierdest pranks during the
 summer. It came into the bath room
 of the Sterling Smith home. at Blooms
 burg. Pa. cutting the rug in two as
 smoothly as though by knife, but
 doing nothing else; 1t entered Nelson
 Morris's house. at Norfolk, Conn.,, ex-
 tinguished lighted lamp and setting
 the chimney on the floor. unbroken;