The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07
DRIFTWooD

The busted drum and the broken tev. at least have Iessened some oe the noise. l7s4'sF szsE- Well. there is one conssIation. the hand:ome new wstsr wagons q dear wheels and cushionsd seats and -fhet.s saving more than the water wagons Of things by haif down this way. Mr. Thomas Collier Plats is writing ! book. and now bis ensmiss are hsp-
 We presume by now you. can write it 1909 without flicker.
 kss seminal iss't this : A i.aen ni for BirminghamT. A Colorado editor by the name of Pickett says he will stick to the fsncs 1A zssss- The love for money may not always be downright worship. but in most ev- cry case 1t Is more than platonic. f Should actresses yed7" asks Pa risian newspaper. Sure they should. but they should also provide an adding Iinachine to keep tab on the number of times.
 1. Richard croker is going into the poultry business Dick is wise. there's money in chickens--at these prevailing prices.
 Taft Is restricting shimself te two meals . day while In Georgia. As each meal includes one little skinny Geor- Eia 'possum. we can assure him there is . nS nSoS,a danger Of oysf.eatins himself: the finest and largest 'poseunns in the world: only one-tenth of one would make a meal for an entire family. The trst cocktail Is said to have been made in North Caroline, in is3e.. The Governors Of the two states doubtless had one or two together to celebrate s''s F Rather than being father of his country Roosevelt seems to bA only the feather that tickles Congress into c laugh every time he sends a rnessage. Champ Clark. of Missouri. says that the average price of wonaen's hats 10 s5., Many a poor married man will rise up in his seat and say; Lord. how wish Mir. Carnegie says. that he took ih fifty men in his steel making corpora tion We believe, however. the corpor- stion took in" many more than that. Both the earthquake in Messina ana in The Birmingham News otfice had be- come somewhat quieter ct the hour of going to press
 'Possum an 'Taters ls the menu for the Taft banquet in Atlanta. This will be washed down. we presume. with but termilk and little near wine
 An earthquake shock removed some furniture in house in Teneriffe yester- day. These earthquakes can sometimes act as uniady-like az an installment fnrniture man. It would seem church. That wicked burg is detsrmin, ed to enter heaven some way.
 No use in talking. If man found a pretty strand of giittering, rippiing. golden Montgomery blond hair In his butter. he would smile in ecstasy and wiptng 1t carefully with his napkin. cafess 1t and put 1t away in his sibiA. The dumb walters. when they fetch up a bottle and a sandwich now, in to the contents of the said bottle. 4 '. who mixes qui nine with her face pow. and that is the only way he can be iu- duced.to take medicine The spangied net sleeves ars most becoming to any wofaan whose arms are well shaped; those whose arms re- .ennble 2 twins string are advised to Nuns of every description will be carried by women this season except the round one, which has gone quite Sns ays of % issoa and Tss 1S to psS ws0 t6s s s fer.thsatra s1ppsrs win also be car. rfed by many women. fl Let Us Dream. Let us dream: dream. dream, of the vio-,
 lets Of the spring, A Of the long, long. days of sunshine and
 the bluebirds on the wing. Let us dream here in the firelight of the violets so sweet.
 A-peeping from the beds as though
 our presence they would greet. Let us dream, dream. dream. of the,
 music of the brook, a.s
 shade there in some fairy nook, Let us picture. that we're roaming
 meath 8 lovely sky of blue. With . sweetheart there beside us, and
 her heart a-beatin' true, Let us dream of children laughin' and
 a-singing' as they play.
 While up in the old mulberry sings tHS InOChIu BlFu SO gay, Let us dream. dream. dream, of the ;
 murmur of the stream, go Of the flowers and the hours fFaughg
 with honey freighted dream. Let us hear the bees ,a-hummin' as they
 gather in theifA sweets. Let us picture folks a-smiiin', roamin' round the village streets. Oh. love to dream of nature an the
 springtime O the year, When the days are warm and sunny,
 and the skies are blue and clear. know the wind Is whistlfn' now out-
 side my cottage door A-blowin' of the snowflakes with a
 a bluster and g. roar. But I scarcely seem to hear 1t, as I'm
 dreamin' here tonight,
 Of the birds and brook and flowers and
 the springtime sky so bright.
 PHI. A.
 
 Back at Drift.
 1909, you're looking hine,'' sings Mir. Drift" Armstrong in The Montgomery