The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-12
DRIFTWooD
+ Speaking of a Crying EVIL, whats
the matter with the baby next door!

WifG OF NleLHOutsL NPiSoSi~N
|Georria takes turns with him at
caught digging worms in the back yara
the folks passing by just smile ana say
nothing for they know II Is MS Gay on
Temperance movement is spreading
In Switzerland. An exchange says,
however, that Is exactly the place TOT
1t to spread as they have plenty OF
good health and no money to puy
Mr.. McCosh says that the keenest OF
ali misery is abused affections: We
don't desire to smash so poetiSA
sentiment but seems to us about the
tight pair OF new shoes and sock
with hole In It that Is saving your
on having you walk with her all over
Wild flowers on hottest day in summer.
wei backed up"--that cat on the
back fence last night being streed by
that bench legged purp'
'T hope these. few lines will find you
well% remarked the fisherman as he
proceeded TO set out half dozen OF EN-
10 catch the wary trout.
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\ Farmer down in South Alabama has
hit upon q novel scheme fJr capturing
chickens to take to market. He stretch,
hear 1t. Then he drives the chickens
toward the net on the opposite side
through i the holes and try to get the
can't get them back again. Farmer
rolls up net and has the chickens all
together in bundle. He takes them
to town In lus wagon and trlis them,
His met" profits 10 thts u,A.oner are
said to be very large.
The twilight shadows lensthen DER the
The robin sings his yssper song SO
While the farmer neures on his SUM
And says sof hs'ii have to raise tha
~ price this year. ,~r~ -.
At d certain rural Alabama school
debate the question discussed was: rs
sistent with the genius Of the free, In
situations Of q Republican nation?"
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A noted astronomer says II would
t ss zs 5G sh' out AS
the basis Of how long II takes you To
get photograph on earth from the
time the sitting is made,
II Is said that a man carries the
marks of hts profession with him ev-
erywhere. Umph--a prizefghter does
we know.
The way to find out what other peo-
pie think of you is to run for ONCE or
be baseball umpire. ----..-.
Indiana thief was sentenced to jail
because he stole four TASKS of whiskey.
OF course such an oftense would have
been mild in a dry State but seems It
Is rather rubbing 1t in In Indiana where
booze is plentiful.
It Is said that the storlx is hovering
about the Nicholas LonEworth house.
hold.
Where. oh where does all the hair
come fromf
It required two shots for Teddy to
kill the sixth Hon Kermit made the
photograph at one shot. however. it Is
You can kill a man and go scot free
these days, but don't you dare to sell
. drink Of whisksy in drv state.
Opportunity knocks but once.
Go. her one better-don't you knock
At AL
One fash of Mr.. Roosevelts gun can
make a gnu look like q typographical
error
Castro will next try TO land on the
Canary Islands. Perhaps ne will find
siF Pace to F00'' Osr'' ne is such a rare
so she has applied for divorce3
Golf grounds. He freuuented the
club continuously and neglected her
President Taft suffered a foreign
substance in one eve the other day
which causes him some annoyance.
still he manages 10 keep the other eye
on the tarin tinkers.
Janitor In a Memphis school gets
more pay than the teachers. What's
the use after all?
Out in Kansas a poet has been APP
pointed a colonel on the Governors
staff and 1t was in Kansas that a man
was recently pardoned out of the pen
itentiary because he wrote poem. New
you who knock the poets Will please
take IN your hammers.
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Marriage is a game of baseball"
says contemporary. Well. there are
sometimes lots Of strikes. but after the
novelty wears off there are not many
home runs on the part Of hubby.
Great comedown, but we heard Of a
great baseball pitcher once who when
ne retired from the field took 10 giving
singing lessons and pitching voices Tor
Q living.
Dreams o. May.
o the dreams O. May, the dreams
May,
When the song birds sing where the
roses sway
o the lovers troths that are plighted
When dank with perfume is the twi-
O the dreams O. May meath the cres-
When Day in the arms of Night doth
When the future looms SO bright. and
In TIE beautiful land of Some Sweet
o why do we look through the misty
And always dream o the distant
o why do we let our fancies roam
To fair girl face and Home Sweet
o these are the dreams where the roses
rhe:: are the beautiful dream. .
] May. P. H. A