The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
 "A Man From Way Down South in Dixie"

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 It was at his mothers knee that Miller and there he wrestIed with primers until he learned to read. His first school was Mrs. Goodman's private school. and Tn summer vacations he studied French and 'elocution with Mrs. westfeldt. .,. ,Soule's noted institute for boys; then he went to Professor wright's Military Academy, where he soon became Captain of his corps. .. Institute at Marion, Ala. and later he took the course at the Jesuit College. near Springhill Ala. "A
 In every school the studious. yet lively, whole-souied boy won the respect and imitation and friendship of his comradest the latter of whom often tested about his ''crankiness" over mechanics and physics:
 Having passed creditably through these prsSpa,rstGry schools, he entered the Poly, So applied himself diligently and devotedly to the three years course in electrical engineering, completing it with distinc- tion "
 bile, he immediately began the exclusive application of his talents, requirements and native ability to making an appa- ratus for enabling the deaf to hear-a dream which had haunted his boyhood; while other lads his own age were pitch- flying kites
 He is entirely Southern product. By bamian, he adds one more to the list of great names to the State. His medal presented by England's Queen for his in- yen1on is, says President Thach of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, ''perhs ps presented by crowned head for scientific work. To his Alma Mater, MT. Hutch ison sent photograph of the medal in appreciation of the valuable aid rendered of the laws of electricity It is hand. made, wrought of gold, and Is inscribed; Presented to Miller Reese Hutchison as a token of friendship and a reward of merit for scientific investigation and in. on the reverse side.
 Always an alert, observant, precoeious child, at years of age. he began to en- joy his birthday present of a rocking horse, till he'saw. as he noticed his com difference between Its wooden gait and the stepping trot of real pony. This is no horse" he exclaimed, he don't trot. I want a. live one. A velocipide pleased. @ o'ssiso, sino. that that day" %s ~ says . his mother. ''he has been perpetual motion"
 At the age of his principal amusement was drawing cars, engines, boats and ev- Happy in the possession of the finest type of "a boys best fsiend," a mother in perfect sympathy with him. he secured from her fond indulgence a little work shop where by ais daring pursuit of knowledge he kept her in an unremittent state of anxiety-but, in all his experi- ment, no serious accidents ever befell him none that a mothers kiss and skill could not heal. t.
 He was B years old when electric lights were first used to dissipate the darkness of the streets of Mobile; young Reese would fiil his pockets with discarded car bons. put them in his mothers preserve jars. add water and blue stone. and make batteries with which he produced elec- tricity to run an improvised fan for his own use and comfort while preparing hls lessons in warm weather or while the drive wheel In his brain was busy with dreams. While a student at the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute he had work ed over an x-ray apparatus. Completing 1t in one of his vacations, he sold 1t to Dr. Pope, a Mobile physician, who en. ployed it in the practice of his profession.
 Experiments with scetyline gas was another youthful recreation, and he iliu- mined his summer home with 1t using ar apparatus of his own invention. At teiegraphy employed many absorbed hours. Of tender sensibilities and ready quick sympathies, his interest had been deeply enlisted for a comrade so deal that to the closed ear was inaudible even the piercing penetrating shriek of the whistles of the steamers which piled up and down the Alabama River, bring ing the cotton of the fertile valleys to the Gulf port, and carrying back city supplies to the planters.
 The remark made in his presence that Mir. Pope of Mobile though very deaf could hear distinctly his friends voices over the telephone. took root in his mind and blossomed into ideas. It was the chance word to genius, which so often ifs in the mind showing how precious is even the rubbish with which 1t is filtered" He went to work on the telephone suggestion Lyman Abbott, deaf mute. living at Battles Wharf, further down the bay than Montrose would ride to the home of Reese, and offer himself a willing subject for experiments.
 In the thinner of 1898. being held by yellow fever quarantine in his home on the coast, shut out from the city. he em- peTtments assisted by Lyman Abbott and another deaf mute. The following winter he made a laboratory instrument. tested it publicly. and attracted the at 
 scientific men, and ere long secured the investment of capital for the manufacture of the Acoustic on. Patents were obtained in America and in foreign countries. In New York and in London companies now exist which are organizing to put the apparatus on the market. It is said that until tho machinery is made to turn out the different parts of the instrument, each part has to be made by hand, and that this expensive procedure delays the manufacture at popular prices.
 This sketch, however, Is meant to pre- sent a glimpse of the boy and man-and which exchanges a dumb world for a word of vocal language. and the desola- ton of silence for the infinite variety of sound.
 Think what It means to live shut out from the voices of nature In all her winged creatures, from the murmur of brooks to Niagara's roar. from the soft