The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

IomorrOw-Innugura . Ruler.
 
 DRIFTWOOD Fools rush in. but messenger boys take their time. f.ls Experience is a good teacher and the best part of it is she doesn't in struct through correspondence cause he is such an easy mark. The confectionery store. the livery stable Keeper the florist, the jeweler, to say nothing of the little kid brother or gifts. all profit by him. No wonder all the world loves him.
 Just think how appropriate 1t was of Mr Taft to select Tennessee man for Secretary of War. Tennessee Is a war like little state all right.
 Parson Jones says there are lots of people in this world trying to eat soup with fork" This is another way of discribing the square peg in the round hole. In other words a misapplication of ability. Are you one of these kind? Do only that for which you are fitted. You would look just as comical trying to eat steak with spoon.
 Our friend John Wells points out the Robert Louis Stevenson used the word molly -coddle" before Roosevelt ever began rolling up his Rough Rider record .l
  another presidential inauguration Historic old Pennsylvania Avenue will present spectacle to the world such as is only seen once in four years and bed by the graft that is part of the game. -'
 MT. Taft said he was going from Phtladelphia to New York to get some rest. Now If he had said from New York to, Philadelphia. it would have been nearer the truth. |
 Running birds tongues are to be served at a banquet In San Antonio old West come to this; serving a mol ly-codjle menu!
 Better to have run and lost than never to have lectured to crowded houses. Words and music by W. J.B.
 A hen-pecked husband Is the slail- est thing in the world. Women have men. Even the pup growls at him and the rooster flies up on the fence every time he comes round and seems to crow over him.
 They have racing automobiles these days that can go like a streak of greasej lightning, but there is noth- ing in this world that can go as fast as money.
 The reason some men have a head like tack Is because some women can drive them.
 And now the Lower, House of the Arkansas Legislature has passed the state wide prohibition bill amid much confusion and excitement that ad- Iiators no doubt were forced to go out and get something to quiet their nerves. There is a story going the rounds ritory sold his tract of land for quart of whiskey. This is hard to swallow however. when one stops to think how tame and docile are the blind tigers these days.
 'who are the ten greatest living Americans?" was asked The New York Herald, and in reply The Herald emu Edison, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Nor gan, J. D. Rockefeller Mark Twain, Admiral Dewey, Charles W. Eliot. Car dinaI Gibbons Henry Clews. Alexander G. Bell.'
 A man in New Jersey has just died of drinking water. Its all right to get into practice before moving away to a dry state as this man no doubt was doing, but there Is no sense in over doing the thing.
 Don't dodge your taxes-it is a violent and often a disastrous form of exercise.
 Ex-Governor Glenn of North Caro- lima Is to go on the lecture platform. l one of his subjects being The Race Problem" The only race problem that ever worried us was figuring on which horse would come in to win
 The Ananias Club will only be a historic memory after tomorrow. MT. Taft may start something vastly dif- ferent
 A Buffalo man has had his house stolen "plank by plank" When 1t gets to the point where thieves make away with our dwellings what are we to do? Between the thief and the con- tractor a man in moderate circum: quit
 TH.sa Alabama Sunshine. With this Alabama sunshine jes
 siftin' thro' your soul, Don't if make you feel Q longin' jes
 fer grab a fishin' pole, Fling your coat aside an wander Somewhere long a quiet stream. Set your line out then Jes settle down
 an dream. dream. dream! oh. the Alabama sunshine stoops to kiss the vi-olets, | An a feller as he feels it jes forgets, forgets. forgets, An he caint help feelin' happy-don't
 kere how hard he may try, When the green is In the foliage an
 the blue is in the skyl | Oh. this Alabama sunshine-it feels mighty good to me | An there ain't no music dearer than the buzzin' O the bee | An there aint no perfume sweeter l than the blossoms in the tree! | Oh, I ain't no poet feller. but I'j like 1 to make you see | The beauty O this sunshine, siftin' | fbpot fnA aoul ~ mai