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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
Why So Few Prisonerss

Boston CnriStlan ReeISter.
 That the war now going on in the East Is fierce beyond the precedent of any modern war is suggested by the small number of prisoners taken. In many engagements apparently no quarter Is asked or given. The com batants fight to kill as we'll as to con- quer. We hear of no prison camps nor of any great concourse of prisoners anywhere. Out of the hundreds of thousands of men engaged on both sides we do not know that there are 5000 anywhere taken from either side We have no evidence that the wounded men are killed on the field of battle, but that the number of killed far sur passes the usual ratio between killed, wounded, and prisoners seems evident It may be that the policy of thorough going slaughter is in the end quite as merciful as more humane methods would be, the object being to put out of action as quickly as possible the greatest number of fighting men. It may be also that the savagery of this conflict will cause a reaction against all war.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
Too Much Watson.

CnaItanooSa Times.
 Now that MT. Thomas E. Watson has been given another lad" top of column next to pure reading matter" let us hope that the press agencies will lot him alone and his propect, whatever it is, be allowed to stand on its own mer- its. We are Getting entirely too much Watson. The man does not represent southern sentiment, politically or soci- ally. and the effort he is making to OK ploit himself as such-ably seconded pose not yet apparent-is a piece of i'm pertinence quite offensive to the ,le- cency of the section The mans ambi- tion, early deposited of its fruit has stroyed his chance for usefulness. In his speech delivered at Cruwt oi dsville, printed in the Thursday mornings Chattanooga Times. he takes as bis roit scheme for attracting attention, and on that subject reiteruteS what has been said thousands of times in the conservative newspapers oi the Scuth, namely, that each recurring election politicians of both parties set the ne- gro up as a scarecrow in order to pro- mote their own interest-the same which MT. Watson did once and Wo ltd ut-Heroded before in the business and might be again-and the people, sensitive to d degree in their social and domesic rights, are deceived aud HllSleQ Into taxing IL as an iSSue- The Chattanooga Times has warned the public against this folly time out of mind even while Watson was refusing to ride in a car with a negro, and yet he bogy still exists, nor will it down be- cause Watson has finally discovered it. The race question will be settled just as the people will it to be settled and in the good time required and not by radical agitators bent on promoting in- dividual enterprises of formulating political mischief. Watson thinks tbe Democratic party Is down and out, but smarter men than he have been deceiv- ed in the same way in the past. The party Is. to be sure, somewhat dazel, as it were. in a short of physical col lapse, but 1t is not to be resustiated or reinvigorated by the nostru ns pre- scribed by political quacks of the Wat son order.
 Watson's mendacious allusions to MT Cleveland and MT. Carlisle are of a part with the other declarations of his speech and are, tho- -efora. valueless. The best advice the South can heed just now Is to relegate Watson and the entire brood of political schemers until such time as 1t can get itself together and find out definitely wh prs 1t Is at and what it really does want
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
The Revolt Against vardamani.m.


 The telegram insulting the President of the United States which Governor Vardaman of Mississippi sent to Pres ident Francis of the Louisiana Pur- chase Exposition seems to have been the straw that broke the back of the against this coarse demagogue, who makes a business or melting race hat red and sectional animosity, is one of the most encouraging signs that has appeared for many a day in Southern skies. Not only have the newspapers him, but a Vardaman issue has been raised by Louisiana newspapers. which are protesting against the action of the Committee that selected him to be per- manent Chairman of the National Cot ton Convention. The Shreveport Jour nal describes him without hattery as "a peanut politician and slanderous demagogue. seasoned with blackguard- ism"
 Thomas E. Watson. who has his lu- cid intervals, told an audience at Crawfordsville, Ga, Wednesday night that this type of Southern politicians keep the negro question alive simply to sustain their local political monop- oly ''The negro question is the joy of their lives" he said. They exist on 1t. They fatten on 1t. With one shout of 'Nigger! they can run tho native Democrats to their holes at any hour of the day"
 MT. Watson's explanation is unques- tionabIy the true one. The Varda- mans the Tillmans and the Hefiins ex- ist politically only by their adroitness in Keeping the negro question to the South are preparing to shake. off this oligarchy of demagogism the new South" will soon have a new meaning in national politics,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

duty to say to Southern audience that things like the Statesboro affair must stop. The Governor of Georgia has al- ready said 1t, in words and by deed, more eloquently than can. The Governor of Mississippi has not only sent the them. to maintain the supremacy Of the law and the sacred proposition that this is a government by law and not py men.
 idle thing to say, that, if the people or peal the Fifteenth Amendment, leav- ing in full force and effect the Four, teenth, which protects the negro in all of his civil and industrial rights, the people of Mississippi and of South Car olina would not only accedc to the proposition to base their representation in Congress and the electoral college gladly welcome the proposition. 1t would go a long way toward the solu- ton of the negro problem. In fact. 1t would settle that problem upon its po- litical side, at any rate. ana would relax tension from every aspect. But. those people who are in control Of the conduct of the Republican Party are and I am not so badly informed as to so imagine.
 We have strength to work out our own salvation and We are conscious or its possession. We are called upon to meet the gravest problem that ever confronted any people, but we can meet 1t under the law with order. and surface of the earth that could meet 1t, at once with firm determination and with that gentle quality of mercy which is twice blest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
Marriage In Russia.

HuCSoSheSAs
 Meeting the bride and bridegroom at the door of the church, the priest first asks the bridegroom whether he will have the bride as his wife and whether he has promised any other in marriage. Receiving the proper an- swers he asks similar questions of the bride and receives her reply. Then he leads them into the church. where the choir sings a psalm and an ektene, and the priest says prayers of blessing upon the couple.
 Rings are produced, which the priest lays upon the analogion, sprink1ing them with holy water and blessing them. Then. giving one ring to the bridegroom, he says: The servant of God, N, is betrothed to .he servant of God, N, in the name of the Father. Son and Holy Ghost" Giving the other ring to the bride he says the same, merely changing names. The bride and bridegroom then join their right hands, while the priest binds the ends of his epitrakhil (stole) over the joined hands ad the bridegroom repeats after him: T, N, take thee, N, for my wife, and I will give thee love, faith and honor in wedlock, and I will not leave thee until death; may God help me. in the hold undivided Trinity and with all the saints" The bride also repeats: 'I N, take thee, N, for my husband, and I will give thee love. faith, honor and obedience in wedlock, and l will not leave thee until death," etc. Then the priest, taking away his stole, looses their hands and says: What God has joined together, let no man put asun- der; and I, an unworthy servant of God. by the power given to me- join you in holy wedlock; and declare and make known this by the power of the Holy Catholic Church; in the name of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost. Amen"
 After these words the browning takes place. The priest prays that they may | live as one and may be crowned with | love in one flesh. Then, taking the first crown from the ana1ogion, he puts 1t on the head of the bridegroom, mak- ing the sign of the cross. and saying: May the servant of God be crowned. in the name of the Father. Son and Holy Ghost Amen" He then crowns the bride with the same words The bride and bridegroom look very pret- ty as they stand before the priest at the analogion wearing their crowns. The prokimen is then sung and the Epistle from the Ephesians and the l Gospel from St. John are read. while the service closes with an ektene and | the dismissal prayer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
A MOST coM,1EsDAsLE PROJECT.

A HOST C0MMENDAnLE PROJECT.
 The statement Is made that Mobile Is going to erect monument to Father Ryan. and we hope 1t is true. If it is. not Mobile alone, but all Alabama and all the late Confederacy will be hon. ored In fact, all humanity will have part in the honor, for he was part and parcel of the Christian brotherhood of man. We build monuments to great soldiers and statesmen. to kings and emperors. and to other great men of earth, but the humble poet-priest of the South deserves more than does the man who conquered worlds or had the helm of State. for he was of the people and lived for the people.
 It might be truthfully said that Fath- CT Ryan builded his own monument while he lived--a monument more en- during than stone or brass can give. He buildeds it in the hearts of those whom he visited and comforted in their distress; of those whose cares he hoped to bear and whose sorrows he light ened and divided: of the poor and the needy. the suffering and the distressed he was the friend in need and the friend indeed. Never was there a cry of suffering humanity that~he did not heed. never widow or orphan that he did not succor. never one in distress that he was not ready to comfort and to help when human sympathy meant more than life itself.
 And heebuilded a monument in the hearts of the brave sons of the Confed- eracy, for. he was with them and of them. No more devoted son of the Southland was to be found than Abram Joseph Ryan. and no man in all the length and breadth of the Confederacy was more loyal to the "starry-barred banner that fell" than he was. His patriotism was as true as his human ity. as pure as his religion. To him the flag of the Confederacy was sacred
 second only to his religion and his all embracing humanity. He was of the South. part of the South and for the South. and his broad charity and human love was not confined by the barriers of creed or sect.
 And he builded his monument in the breasts of all who love the God given talent of poesy. Whatever his inspired pen touched. like the spear of Ithuriel, 1t endowed with life. His songs of the South will never be forgotten while son or a daughter of the South lives, for they were the cheer and the inspiration of our people. and will be remembered while we have memories to cherish them. But his genius was not sectional. It was broad as his hu- manity and embraced all things and all peoples He was the poet of the mass es as we'll as the more fortunate of earth's inhabitants, and sung the songs of the heart and the feelings.
 Let Mobile have the monument, for there was his home and there he calm ly surrendered the life which had been so largely spent for humanity and broad and tolerant Christianity. but all Alabama. all of the South should find 1t labor of love to assist in erecting a fitting monument to one who belong ed to all mankind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

in the papers we are led to wonder if others take this prurient curiositv. this perverted hunger for the low and debasing. az representing the prevail ing tendencies. of American woman hood When we read ancient history. and are told how the highest class of ladies of Greece and Rome attended the arena and eagerly drank in the scenes there enacted; how they calmly watch. cd human beings torn in pieces by wild beasts. and saw other human beings 'butchered to make Roman holiday" we wonder at their hard hearts and cruel tastes. We read now of the wo- men of Spain who eagerly witness bulI- fights and think of them as unfair representatives of the gentler sex. but were the Greek and Roman women more curious or cruel than those who witness the Patterson trialf Have we any right to cast stones at the ring loving women of Spain? Hardly, in view of what goes on at trials in our, great cities. for the Nan Patterson case is only a sample of many others. some of which have even more revolting features than this one. The fact is that what some writer calls ''that low vice. curiosity" gets the better of all other feelings at times. and 1t spares neither age nor sex. apparently. Those whom we would like to look on as the highest types of womanhood will crowd to witness aNtrial of the most revolting nature with just as much easerness as Is displayed by the. wo- men of the street. However much we may regret and deprecate 1t. we cannot deny that it is true, more's the pity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1894
yNTRUDING ON RAILROAD TRACKS.

The railroads are continually en- gagged in lawsuits for damages in- cured by people being run over or knocked off by trains. It matters not what the circumstances may have been. the first thing thought of is to bring suit for damages. Is this always just and right? When a company acquires the right of way and builds its road, pays taxes and runs its trains. is it not primarily entitled to the use of that track? Of course the public also has rights, as crossings on the public highways, and in some other cases, but s when man walks along the track, sits or lies down on it, or goes to sleep on It. Is he not an intruder on the company's right of way? and if he is injured Is he not a voluntary contrib utor? Yet the first thing to be done, ordinarily, is to sue the railroad, and usually jury will find for the plaintiff and make the road pay for what 1t could not avoid and for which it is not to blame.
 Discussing this question The Hart ford Courant says:
 In England there Is a specific law against such practice and whoever transgresses Is punished, however im- portant a person he may be. It is, simply. Keep off the track! At grade crossings there are gates and those gates are kept closed except when A wagon has to cross. Instead of an in- vfting opportunity, there is a barrier and. of course, such situation com peis caution as to crossing. The result is that safety is much better assured here until we take similar precautions. Probably it would make a howl to at- tempt to get a law passed fning every body who walked on the railroad track 1t would be another encroachment of great corporations upon the privileges of private citizens. And yet 1t would go long way to save life. The loco motive cannot turn out nor can 1t slow down whenever somebody Is sighted upon the track ahead The engineer who weakens that way Is laughed at by the fellow who fools him. The only thing to do is to slam along and as- sume that the track walker will step aside in time; Usually this happens But 1t Is liable not to. and when 1t does not the engineer has blood on his hands There can be little doubt that engineers would live longer and do better work if they could be relieved constant procession of people on the tracks in front of their locomotives.
 There are many rules and regulations in force in England which do not exist here. but we've no doubt that the law above mentioned saves many accidents and also saves the railroads many vex- atious and expensive damage suits.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
UNwOMANLY CURIOSITY.

Reading of the trial of Nan Patterson in New York on the charge of murder one thing that is prominent in all the accounts is the crowds of women who flock to the court room and almost fight for a chance to witness the pro- ceedings. We are told that every seat Is filled with curious spectators, a men. and that hundreds of both sexes fall to get admitted.
 It is singular spectacle. In the first place, the circumstances leading up to the alleged murder, and the tes- timony brought out on the trial, are not of a character that any good wo- man should be willing to hear, Some of the evidence we are told. is of a nature not fit to be printed in a decent news paper. or read by a decent man or wo- man. In addition to that, they have in- troduced skeletons into the courtroom to show the nature of the wounds. and have also. for some reason, introduced portions of skin taken from tN, body of Young, the victim.
 This is the kind of a gruesome and revolting spectacle that has been pre- sented during the trial, and this is the exhibition, the program. the bill of fare to which women of New York have crowded each day. seemingly delighted with its most loathsome and debasing features. No efforts are spared by or defense to make the trial grimly realistic, both in oral and in spectacular evidence. Both sides have had one main object in view. one to convict and the other to clear. and both bring into play all the accessories of a thoroughly disreputable affair
 Reading the proceedings as detailed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

It doesn't matter what the scientists say about pumpkin pie being filled with microbes, for that isn't going to scare people away from 1t. A good pumpkin pie in season is a thing to be desired. and, no such small things as microbes can prevent its use. Pass the pie. please.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
Stay In Montgonlers. 7. a, 1

Hartford Times-Herald.
 The venerable editor oc the Dothai' Home Journal in one coldma "f the last issue asks someone to tell him at what hour the sun rises. and in anoth- CT column announces the fact mat ne in Montgomery where the little grand daughter is. for awhile. he will probably learn at what hour the sun first shows her face. At any rate, we extend con gratulations to the proud parents ana 10 the happy grandfather
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

The newspapee fraternity may get ready to rejoice that the esteemed Con- gressional Record will soon resume publication. Come to think of 1t, we really don't see how, we have been get ting along without t. {.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
ToO MOnstrOus.
Ashv,lle Aegis.

The proposition to put the Southern presidential electors up to be bid on by the two parties is too monstrous to be regarded seriously; but this section should organize thoroughly for the next campaign and put Democrds from the South forward for the head of the ticket, and support him for the nomination.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

We might have known that Coxey couldn't always be kept under. and his petition in bankruptcy Is but a new way to get into notice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

The worst feature of the drouth. as Kentuckians view 1t, is that many of the distilleries have been compelled to close.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

The President will come South too late to see the cotton in its glory, but he may be in time to see blossoms at their best.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

If Georgia fails to get a Governor two years hence the. failure will not be from lack of candidates. for they are being groomed in every section of the State. One good thing about 1t is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
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Makes Them Grieve.

MobiIe RegIsteT
 daman handed out to Frau:is "a cold bunch of hauteur" Yes; of the kind that makes proud MississippianJ grieve.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

Closing the football season with only 323 killed and injured Is regarded by the votaries of the game as quite a crcditable exhibit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

The Albany Herald is felicitating over the sweetness of the Georgia per- simmons, and it is we'll. Even an ed. itor may get his fill of that fruit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

A "chosolate jag" is the latest we have heard of, but such a thing is not impossible. Cold tea has been known to produce them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

If the President should visit either Birmingham or Atlanta and skip the other. wouldn't there be a cataclysm, or something just as badr
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

Even The Kansas City Journal is get ting ashamed of the Pennsylvania vote and wants somebody to stop the count.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

Several great things in e future for those who live long. An png them are an Isthmian Canal and nS railroad depots at Atlanta and Birmin lam, per haps in Chattanooga.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
Guage Ahead.

Birmfng gham NeWs:
 Meantime Georgia takes conspicu- ous place in watermelons, peaches moonshining, star-gazllg. guebfna.or- ial colonels, hot air. and few other local products of some of which Georrians are ever ready 10 boast. Here's to Georgia!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
Of Course Not.

Moulton Advertiser. ar, we have a great admiration for MT; mowers. his patriotism and lis man hood--but he can never be elected President of the United States, nor will any one who holds to his views.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
The stamp Tax

Birmingham Ledger.
 if the Republicans do put on n stamp tax to provide money for d ship sub sidy, the people will fec the exact weight of a tax contributed 10 peopie who do not need 1t by those who do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
Tint Ia q Fact.

Huntsville Mercury
 Moptgomery is making an effort to secure a State fair at that place next veal. Montgomery seems to have got ton hustle on her Ill several ways the last few months.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
oCToBER, 1904.

Daily Average for October, 1904. III, ,Se1 Sunday Average for October, 1904. .15, ,zSS P. J. Kelly. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says: The foregoing statement of Tue Advertisers daily circulation for the month of October, 1904. is true and correct. and compiled after all returns from news boys. news agents and leftover copies have been deducted
 P. J. KELLY,
 Circulation Manager, s THE ADVERTISER COMPANY. Sworn to and subscribed before mo this 10th day of November, 1904.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
AN INTERPRETING COLUMN or Ta1V.h1

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 CffcuIation is ordinarily hard to xet sne as a general rule harder to hold 1ns .o9n nn vertiser. however. is not sutkefsa "o ors growing and holding our own witn sns o1 ne of them There are many reasons whx \, should continue to increase anu sS noN .h. news from all over the world Is conseysa daily into every part of Alabams aaa nS snS adjoining states. and the people wno eevssv vtssv can not personally see or hear ike U anu would not do without it. That It is appIsv s. ciatsd by the reading public. t at.es'eu v the following statement compiled and sWorn to by our Cisculation Manager. or our ao tual net circrsation for each oay ih 'ns month of October. 1904.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

There are many rules and regulations in force in England which do not exist here. but we've no doubt that the law above mentioned saves many accidents and also saves the railroads many vex- atious and expensive damage suits.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
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