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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
HERE'S UNIQUE CONTEST
FOUR PROBLEMS TO BE SUB
MITTED TO PUBLIC.
Answers and Enquiries Should Be
Sent to The Advertisers New
Building on Dexter Avenue.
Handsome Prizes.

On another page of this issue will be
found the plan and scope of the newest
and most novel contest The Advertiser
has ever before attempted.
While the Dots are not new to AdVer-
tiser readers the general arrangement ana
plan of conducting this contest is chang
ed from former affairs The Dots will be
remembered by nearly all as being most
attractive when last here about four
months ago and although the Dot chart
to be presented in this contest is made
up of an entirely original design, many
will recollect the tedious moments spent
in arriving at a correct solution on pre-
vious occasions. Pins, toothpicks. ink
and many other devices will, no doubt,
be brought into service in order to get
the correct count.
There is already a scarcity of pins re-
ported in dry goods circles, owing to the
preliminary announcements in The Ad-
Vertiser concerning the coming OF Dots
The combination of problems, IS ar
ranged for this contest, furnishes not on
ly entertainment and instruction for those
interested. but will give each contestant
an opportunity to obtain four prizes by
following up each problem as presented
The first Dot chart or problem will ap-
pear tomorrow morning, which will for
mally open the contest. The first week
will be devoted to this problem exclu-
sively. The second problem will be pre-
scented on Sunday, August "a, which will
serve as an additional attraction for the
second week together with Problem No.
l of the first week, which will be con-
tnued throughout the contest.
On Sunday, August II, Problem No 3
will be introduced giving additional en-
tertainment for the third week.
The list of prizes offered under List
No will be distributed between those
making the first correct estimate of all
these problems as near as can be aver
aged.
Estimates will be received beginning
Wednesday at 10 a. m. following the prob
lens which will first appear the proceed
ing Sunday.
This contest will be conducted from
The Advertisers new building at the
corner of Dexter Avenue and Lawrence
Street, where all estima ties must be taken.
Considering the grand array of prizes
offered, the uniqucness of the problems
and the arrangement of prizes, this is
the most elaborate as we'll as attractive
contest ever before attempted by The
Advertiser or, perhaps, any other news
paper in this section Of the country.
Prizes will be exhibited today on Dex-
ter Avenue and Court Square.
Read the list over carefully pick out
what you most desire and get I'D early
in the morning and count before 1t gets
too hot.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
MR.. HARDIE INJURED.
Machinist Caught in Machinery and
Arm Broken.

William Hardic, a machinist employed
by the Iiddell Machinery Company, suf-
fered a painful accident We 'terday morn
ing his left arm being broken and the
hand badly cut.
Hardie was walking by a piece of ma
chinery in the building, when his cloth
ing caught in the wheels and one of the
spokes came in contact with his arm,
breaking it and cutting the hand as he
pulled 1t from the machinery.
The injured machinist was taken to st.
Margarct's Hospital, where last night he
was said to be resting easily.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
ERECTION OF MAsTs DELAYED
Guy Ropes Have Not Been Received
to Support Them

Captain A. G. Forbes, who is in charge
of the erection of the masts from the
sunken Spanish vessels. which were pre-
scented to the State by Captain Rich
mond Pearson Hobson, said yesterday the
ceremony of erecting the masts on the
Capitol grounds. which was to have taken
place some time in August, has been
postponed on account of the guy ropes
to the masts having not yet arrived.
These ropes have been ordered but
Captain Forbes says that he has no def
mite idea when they will reach Mont
gomery. The ceremony will take place as
soon as they are received.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
PRINCESS vIR0QUA, MD.
Practising Physician and Lecturer,
Sister Of 0ronyatekhar Head of the Order of Foresters
Of the World,
Endorses Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound After Following Its Record For Years.

publishing the newspapers Of
hams Vegetable Compound remedy for all the ills peculiar
permitted
publish in this article
devote much by of of
brother second rank the Good Tmp of the world
Independent
the world having Toronto Can Princess v
physician
the United States for the past her standing her
the writes Pham to all
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
HOT NIGHTS In AUGUST
STILL AIR AND HIGH HUMIDITY
BRING DISCOMFORT.
Longest Stretch of High Night Tenn
perature in Montgomery on
Record-Thursday Night
Temperature Was 1876.

Montgomery is experiencing the longest
stretch of hot nights on record for this
section of the country.
The temperature during the last two
nights has been exceptionally high. We'd
nesday night the mercury did not fall
lower than n. while on Thursday night
the thermometer fell no lower than 1S.5
degrees. Such thermal conditions com
bined with still air and very high hui
mildly are very trying as the evapora-
tion of perspiration is retarded,
On the night of June IS the lowest tenn
perature was 1871 and the humidity about
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
Little Annie Yougene Dead.

Annie Ruth Yougene, the seventeen
months-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
s. Yougene. died at o'clock yesterday
morning at the residence of her parents,
424 South Decatur Street. The child had
been i'll since her birth.
The funeral took place yesterday after
noon at 4:3O o'clock. The body was in
TERED at lakewood Cemetery -.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON
Copyright, Davis w. Clarke
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but with unwavering precision. as God
Himself moves. Moses in sight of the
people spread his hands to Heaven and
intoned the morning prayer of the mill
tant host:
Rise up. Lord, and let Thine enemies be
scattered;
And let them that hate Thee flee before
Thee"
When at length the cloud stood still,
Moses uttered Israel's evening prayer in
the wilderness:
Return. o Lord. unto the many thous-
ands of Israel"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
Death of a Child.

News has been received in Montgomery
of the death of Ellen Rowan, the infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George Rowan
of Jacksonville, Ala.
The child was twenty months Old. She
was a granddaughter of Hon. William
A. Gunter of Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
One felix's Man Met Them.

Auburn. Aug. 15-((SpeciaD-R. c
Smith of Opelika and eX-Prohatc Judge
w. c. Robinson of Lee County went t.
Alliance Hail. six miles south of Auburn
TODAY. to hold a Johnston meeting anG
had an audience of one man. ,EIe was a
Jelks man.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
FELL FROM A TRAIN.
Leg of Tom James, a Negro, Caught
Under Wheels.

Tom James, a negro brakema employ
ed by the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road Company, was brought to Montgom-
cry last night, with one of his legs near
ly severed by the wheels of the train on
which he was working.
James was on top of freight car and
fell. his leg fell across the track and be
fore the train could he stopped. car
passed over the member. 1t was cut half
way between the knee and the ankle.
1t is believed amputation will be neces-
sary. The negro was taken to his home
on the Red Bridge road, where he is suf-
fcring intensely.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16

@DEAn Mrs PNKAM:Heah the greatest
humanity and therefore anything that lost health be
[ consider e Pinkhams a
blessing State and Nation
makes them well and strong.
"For fifteen have noted the effect Vegetable
pound in curing special diseases of
1know nothing superior trouble
hundreds dangerous operations where physicians claimed
the only chance WELL liberation and inflammation the
womb has been cured two or three weeks through its and
find purely herbal remedy unhesiangy highest
endorsement Fraternay DR. p VmoQUA lansing Mich
After thorough consideration testimonial
fed making Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound.
absolutely
Ill hesitate bottle Lydia Pink
Vegetable Compound write Pinxham
at Lynn, Mass for special advice; it entirely free
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
PROMINENT FARMER KILLED.
W. M. Davis Struck by Train Near
Admission

Admission, Ala. Aug. 15-A southbound
freight train near Mcrriltnn, twenty
miles north of Admission, yesterday struck
a buggy containing w NJ Davis, a prom
inent farmer and an unknown man. The
buggy was torn to atoms ana Davis was
instantly killed The other occupant es-
capped with serious injurirs.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16

feel worse than to sec the headline in a
paper The Needs OF Cuba" We need
So many things, and 50 do the neighbors
that We can't arouse interest in the needs
of Cuba.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
DEATH OF MRS. ARCHER.
She Was a Daughter of Mr.. Curbow
of Montgomery.

VI
Mrs. Lawrence N Archer of Birming-
ham, died in that city yesterday at noon.
The body will be inferred today at Biz
mingham.
Mrs. Archer was formerly of Montgom-
cry and before her marriage was Miss
Lula Curbow. She was a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Curbow of Mont
gcmery.
She leaves a husband and three chill
dren
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16

Save for my daily range
Among the pleasant fields of Holy Writ.
l might despair -Tennyson.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16

We are looking tor someone smart
enough to explain he religious war in
France.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16

Those who have disagreeable news to
tell you, always ind you in.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-16
The Teachers Lantern.

The Christian Church is a caravan of
| pilgrims going through a Wilderness peo-
| pied with foes, and studded with trials.
| The militant host is on its way to bet
highest wisdom. For God has spoken
| good promises and sure to Israel: but
| he who would share lsrael's blessings
| must join fortunes with Israel Come!
| Here Is an example, rare and striking,
| Of tact and deftness in winning a soul.
| II one does not prove effectual. another
| may The hope of reward the RESPONSE
| bility that goes with the possession of
| talent, the opportunity of doing good-ply
| every motive. Don't let blunt ono dis
concert you.
Hobabs hope was long deferred: and
| he never did enter the literal Canaan
| But his choice was still a wise and happy
one. 1t was infinitely better for him to
| be with Israel than INDIAN. On day in
| the courts of the Lord is better than a
thousand in the tents of wickedness. If
| faithful he has seen the King in his
| beauty and the land that is very far off
There are still numerous brothers-in-law
| to the Church-the lineal descendants of
Jethro, Hobab, and Hiram. They are
| wise in counsel. munifcent in gifts, but
they are not exactly one with us. They
have never bowed the head to the
baptismal water never taken the COM
munion, outward and visible signs of their
| inward and spiritual union with Christ
and His Church. The more is the pity.
a
| keep plying him.
There is a striking analogy between
| the first three days of Israels march and
| the first three centuries of the Church's
| history. Progress in each instance was
steady, conspicuous, triumphant. Then
came the shameful lapse the epoch of
| darkness and wandering.
| The Hebrew name of the fourth book
| of Moses is very significant. 1t means In
| the Wilderness" The Greek name. Num-
bers, retained in the Authorized Version,
| Is more specific. referring. as it does, to
| a single incident of the wilderness eXpe-
rience. the numbering of Israel.
| Journalism Is bad, but forms may be
good. What could surpass the brief. ma
| iestic apostrophe used morning and even
ing for forty years? The morning prayer
| Is martial. Spiritualized. 1t may still be
| the prayer of the Church in general, and
| the Christian in particular; for
| ANGELS our march oppose.
Who still in strength excel
Our secret sworn eternal foes,
Countless, invisible
The evening prayer was festive and re-
| poseful Calvin says of it: Moses. to
| correct their impotence at the delays of
| the journey, reminds the people that their
| halts were advantageous to them. so that
| God, dwelling at home. like the father
| of family, might manifest his care of
| them: for the allusion is to men who take
advantage of a time of repose and release
| from other business, to occupy themselves
| more unrestrainedly in paying attention
to their own family"
The courier., 1902-05-17
He COURIER

loon. We have laid In a stock Of
spirits, and we deck up our little lunch
counter. and we strive to make things
as pleasant as we can for the fellows
who happen In and loaf around our
bar. You do not mean to argue that
we should try on any Of the fancy
and expensive virtues? There are fools
enough in the world for that service.
We do not presume or pretend to edu-
cate the people. They do not 60 to
humors, tickle their passions. concede
any sort Of favor to their palate. and
conform to their average habits. II
we did not produce for them the goods
they demand they would desert. Now.
as such are the conditions on both
sides, how can you seem surprised and
upon what ground can you complain?
The people are not to us the dear peo-
pie. Nor are we to them anything sig
nificant or exalted Our relations are.
all on the ground, without any ad-
mixture Of mysteries, refinements or
sophistries. We are not doing the peo-
pie up at SO much per head. Nor are
they doing us up by getting from US
what they do not deserve. Their PEN
MES in the lump make US solid with
the advertiser. The advertiser is the
man we play for. For him we would
slave or die. For him We would go to
the stake For him we would lie. steal,
or beg. For the advertiser Is our
water of life. But to get him we
must play fortunes to the pennies
And to get the pennies We must keep
scrupulOusly free Of all heterodoxy.
We must steer our craft along fiat
rather delicate line which offends
neither Sunday school nor brother.
neither the high nor low, neither the
quick nor halt, Of the social order.
Tact gives us the pennies. To be
penny wise here is to be pound solid.
The pennies give us the advertiser.
The advertiser brings bloom to our
desert"
The courier., 1902-05-17

An author writing In "The Public
says he suggested to the editor of a
certain city paper that he might take
his occupation a little more seriously
and put in his paper more matter Of
literary character. The editor told
him that he knew nothing about the
exigencies Of the trade and expatiated
about the morals and taste Of the peo-
pie who bought his paper as follows:
AN average newspaper Is edited for
average men. The average man Is an
idict Therefore. the paper must be
edited for idiots. Therefore. the paper
must be idiotic. The people do not
know ps from qs in literature. or care
whether a Is crossed or not. They
would reather read evil than virtue.
They would rather read the writings of
a fool than of philosopher. They pre-
fer sensation and depravity to the pas
sive epics Of our casual and exemplary
experience. They prefer the uncfean
to the clean. They prefer the coarse
to the fine. They would rather their
editors used bad English than good.
They would resent serious discussion.
They would rather have you lie than
tell the truth. They expect to
be fiattered. They rejoice when their
confidence is abused. They would
rather be swindled than get what they
pay for. They are an ill-clothed and
rather ill-grained lot and are not to
be encouraged by editorial diversions
into areas Of free and honest contro-
versy. They are the eccentric and err
ratio fry for whom we edit papers.
II our papers are feeble and dishonest.
do not blame us. Blame the people.
We give the people the sort of paper
they wish. II you think our paper Is
below the standard you would set for
us, refer 1t to the people. When the
people demand a better article We will
furnish it. We are not inventors. We
are purveyors. We do not speculate.
We I'LL orders. We reflect the pleasure
Of the people. We are up and down,
right and left with the people. Their
concern is ours. You do not suppose
we produce paper for any abstract
reason, or because we are interested
in some unpopular cause? We are in
the business for its results. We pro-
duce a newspaper for the same reason
that you make shoes and run sa-
The courier., 1902-05-17

The man or woman who has lived
out half the days of the human span
must be either a true Christian OF a
cynic. Acquaintance in the way Of
business for a cycle Of years with
large number of human beings within
the narrow area Of prescribed terri
tory produces contempt for average
intelligence, average taste, average
disinterestedness and average good
ness. If government is the product of
the average, we are still billions of
centuries from a millennium, unless
some unlOOked-for and absolutely
unique revival of religious inspiration
and intelligence occurs. The only SEN
sitive temperament that can resist the
conviction that human beings are a
poor lot of brutes after forty years
experience with neighbors, fellow citi-
zens and strangers, belongs to the
Christian. 1t is his religion to love his
neighbOr better than himself and to
pray for him and desire his salvation
The Christian religion is the great
est blessing the world has ever re-
ceived. II 1t were not for Christianity
and the influence of the true believers
and practicers of the Word upon the
vain heather who prate and rave Of
nothing, nausea of humanity would
make suicides or murderers of a very
large proportion of those who are still
alive solely as a tribute to the miti-
eating influence of Christianity and :
Christians.
Christ thought humanity worth suf-
fering the painfulest and most igno-
minious death for. Therefore human
beings must be better than the beasts
Of the field, though the latter do not
torture for the sake of torturing and
have no vices. His supreme decision
cOntradicts the testimony Of our eyes
and ears and nostrils and all the hu-
man means We possess for detecting
fraud and diseased consciences. The
modest Christians are sure of the good
ness of their neighbors and although
we think they have poor Judgment and
poor eyesight, without them we would
walk In darkness all our days.
The courier., 1902-05-17

"a small community; but the superior
culture of the young men who work
for their living compared with the
manners Of the undergraduates is the
same ratio that obtains in larger towns
which contain larger colleges. When
men they have the humility of the life
taught. They are less arrogant. and
they take what recognition the world
grants as good fortune rather than
deserved tribute to greatness. They
are not arrogant with the arrogance
of scholar who has spent his life
merely In unproductive study Of books.
"The savageries Of boyhood'' are pro-
longed by a college course to the age
Of twenty-four years or the average
graduates age. The youngster whose
supply Of bread and butter has de-
pended upon the accuracy Of his ex-
periments in human nature and Of the
consequent adjustment of his own con-
duct, Is far ahead Of the graduate at
commencement day. The former ZAP
preciates the value of sacrifice and the
wrong Of selfishness; his eyes have
rOamed beyond the circle Of self and
have perceived the eddyings Of man
kind, he has conceived the need of the
weak for the constant sympathy of the
strong" On the other hand the con-
slant indulgence Of the community
towards the selfish assaults Of the col
lege undergraduate has weakened the
undergraduates sense Of what he owes
the community and increased his esti-
mate Of what the world owes him.
Such a state Of mind, inculcated and
developed by four years self-indulg-
ence and piracy on the public, Is good
foundation for a futile career. The
wonder is, not that so few college grad
yates are useful, but that SO many
finally triumph over the effect of four
years dissipation of time and the
temple.
The protest of the country against
the selection of the college graduate as
your only gentleman has been en-
phatic and general. 1t is apparent that
the self-made man still has first place
in the affections Of the newspaper edi-
tors.
The courier., 1902-05-17

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The courier., 1902-05-17
Savagery and Civilizatioa

The republicans who truly love their
country will concur with the president
in his sincere purpose to punish the
brutality of the army officers in the
Philippines. 1t Is all very well to say
The courier., 1902-05-17

that we do not understand the condt-
tions that surround the army In the
Philippines. We can be made TO un-
derstand them. The military depart
ment Of this government Is subservient
Mt all times to the civil government.
And all explanations aside. the officers
In the field must be taught that they
can not under any circumstances adopt
the methods Of retaliation practiced
by savages.
This republic was founded by senti-
ment and by sentiment II shall still
exist. There is no question but that
the sensibilities OF the men and women
Of this country have been profoundly
shocked by the report Of Major Gard
ener. the civil governor OF Tayabas
province. In regard to the tortures In
fiicted by American soldiers upon Fill
B pino prisoners.
The president Is a soldier. too. But
tician. As a statesman he realizes the
outrage we have committed against the
law OF nations. As a politician he real
ICES the universal shocked condemna-
tion which the promulgation Of General
Smiths instructions to Major Waller
to kill and burn. make Samar a howl
ing wilderness; and kill everybody cap
able Of bearing arms" has created.
Unrestrained by the civil authority,
soldiers degenerate rapidly. War is
hol xxrst thA raf int Nf
the civil arm OF the government, sol
diers and officers become devils. Gen.
eral Sherman's famous Characterization
Of war has been urged over and over
again in excuse OF General Smiths or
der to kill every Filipino boy over ten
years old. But the devil is not In COM
mand of the army Of the Philippines.
II 1t Is proven that a devilish officer Is
in command he will have to come back
to America. The American people will
army without regard to his previous
military services. What treachery.
cruelty, savagery the Filipino insurg-
ents have practiced upon the American
soldiers Is no excuse for the issuance
of such an order by a grizzled general
to one Of his officers. This Is a civilized
country and America is In the Philip
pines to benevolently assimilate them,
and unless the officers over there un-
derstand the methods Of modern inter-
national war they must be recalled
and substitutes put In command who
will be benevolent or die The conduct
Of the Filipinos towards American
prisoners Is no excuse for retaliation
in kind. We are in the Philippines as
uniformed missionaries of civilization.
That is our only excuse for being
there
Excuses urged for General Smiths
instructions by men who say we do not
know the conditions of barbaric war
fare are injurious to the party. II we
are no better than the F1lipinos. IL we
kill eleven-year-old boys for the
treachery Of their fathers, we ought to
pack our soldiers out of the Orient as
fast as we can load them on the trans
ports.
II we mean well by the F1lipinos,
then punishment must be meted out
to General Smith who has confessed
that he ordered Major Waller to kill
and burn and make Samar a bowling
wilderness and to kill every boy over
ten years Of age.
All Americans understand by this
time that the subjugation of the Phil
ippines is not an easy matter of a
month or two. Americans have con-
cluded that 1t takes time and a great