The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-15
EMBARGO "MODlfIED''
PRATTvILLE ADOPTS MOST UNIQUE
 REGULATION.
Its Citixens May Swap visits With Capital City People, But Must
 Not Sleep in Mont

Prattville has solved the quarantine question. All honor to Prattville
 Prattville has been unable to see It's way clear to removing its ban of dis approval from Montsomery: But yes terday Prattville modified" its quar- antine. If Montgomery Is real good and real "keerful," Prattville will fur ther modify it's quarantine, until by Christmas, probably the entire quaran- tine will be removed. But Montgom- cry must not bank too strongly upon this and cherish delusive hopes.
 Now here's the way Prattville has modified its quarantine. Montgom- cry man may go over to Prattville and spend the day, but he must hurry out of the city before the sun goes down. A Prattville man may come over to Mont gomery and spend the day, but he must not stay over night in the contaminat- ing city If he does, why. he must take the consequences and be consid- cred no better than @ Montgomery man and subject to the ban of the quaran- tine.
 Honest. that's just what has been done. You may go back and forth in the day time but no man may go out from Montgomery and breathe contam- ination in Prattville after dark. It sounds like a joke. but that's the way Prattville has modified its quarantine.
 HOW IS tndl loi W hae Q the use of Vardaman, Governor of Mis- sissippi. and Blanchard. Governor of Louisiana quarreling over any sort of quarantine? Prattville could settle the whole thing in two minutes. Condt- tions which brought on the wordy war between the fighting boats of Missis- sippi and the fishing boats of Louisiana may have been different, but Prattville has plainly indicated that she Is capa- nf an1vfnG nnaattnn nf finlO- macy which may or may not center about quarantines.
 The Prattville diplomacy is the king of diplomacy that diplomates. Now that sort of diplomacy would not fool away any time with the Gordian knot. It would cut the Gordian knot off with a pair of scissors and throw 1t into tho waste basket.
 The Prattville idea goes straight at the heart of things. Napoleon planned month after month before he accom- piished the memorable feat of crossing the Alps. Now what would the Pratt vile idea have done in such an emer- gency? Easy, dead easy. It would have pulled the Alps up by the roots and thrown them over the garden fence.
 What a boon to the world 1t would have been if the Prattville idea of do- ing things had been given a fair chance at Portsmouth, where the peace envoys are in session. The whole thing would have been settled and the Russians and Japanese could have gotten out Of town on the first train after breakfast.
 The Prattville idea would have Eaid to the Japanese: You want a billion dollars indemnity You won't get it. Didn't you attack the Russian vessels in the harbor at Port Arthur after dark? And didt you attack the Baltic fleet in the sea of Japan after the sun had gone down? Anything done after dark don't count Back to the bench for you You have no indemnity coming to you" :.:..-. -.-s
 And here's what the Russians would get when they refuse to cede the island of Sakhalien: You don't want to give 1t up. do you? Well. you retreated all night long after the battle of Mukden. Don't you know it's wrong to retreat except in the day time? You lose"
 In the admiration of the brilliancy of the Prattville idea, one forgets the suffering its execution entails upon the unfortunate city of Montgomery. The Montgomery man cannot sleep in the town of Prattv:lle. Not for him is the tender and melancholy song of the bull frog in Autauga swamp. Not for him is the keen and musical tenor choxps of the mosquito fleet from Autauga Creek The katydid utters her lonely call in vain. for no Montgomery man may hear 1t. No more will the Mont- gomery man. who by force of circum- stances-and 1t requires some mighty hard circumstances to keep him over night in Prattville-sit upon the ve- randa of the hotel and smoke cigar after cigar for company after every light in the village has gone out. No more Is