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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER l, 1903
PUZZLES AND THEIR SOLUTION

PUZZLES AND THEIR SOLUTION. The uustion of Ann's age Is yet worry ing the niathematioians, and they are as far from agreement as they were when the matter was first put before the people. Ann's age has varied from years up-' ward and the singular part of it Is that; each solver of the puzzle has figures to show that he is correct. It may be true that figures cannot lie, but 1t is dead eure fact that they can be so juggled as to bring out surprising results. Common arithmetic, common sense, algebra and several other things have been applied to the Ann problem, yet the solutions vary. What we frequently speak of as "an un- certain age' applies to Miss Ann with undeniable fitness.
 This is only one of the many catch prob slems that have gone the rounds to the distraction of those who tackle them. We remember two that were propounded many ears ago by The Scientific Ameri- can ,as follows: '
 Il. Lay a silver dollar on a table So that it will not move. Place another against it and roll it entirely around the Stationary one. keping the edges together. win the moving coin make two revolu- tions on it's axis in going around the sta tiouary one. or will it revoive but once?
 ,2. Let a squirrel be clingng to one side of a tree and let a hunter start around the tree. the squirrel also moving around as the hunter does until they both reach the starting point; Does the hunter go twice around the squirrel or only once?
 Doubtless any one who reads these ques- tons will at once decide off hand just how it Is. Then, perhaps, he will get to thinking about 1t and may finally decide that he doesn't know which is right. Perhaps the reader may say that neither problem offers any difficulty, but we well remember that for weeks after the queries were propounded by The American the paper was kept busy printing the solu- tions. Between the "one-ers' and the 'two-ers" the controversy waxed as warm as did the famous one between the Big endians and the Little-endlans mentioned by Culver, and coumns of the paper were taken up with the solutions and demon- strations sent in by enthusiastic corres- pondents. The amusing thing about it was that each side was positive that 1t was absolutely right.
 How the controversy ended, or whether it was ever settled we, do not now recall to mind, but we do remember the interest created and the many solutions offered, just as is being done in the Ann problem. People like to worry over such things, and the varied answers and demonstrations show how human minds will differ on any matter which is not absolutely self ex- planatory. People lack a great deal of seeing alike
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
PROF. DoANE SPEAKS.
Addresses Conference on Secondary
 Education.

Chicago, Oct. 3l.-Prof. E. c. Doane of Ohio University, addressed the conference on secondary education at Northwestern University today. His subject was, What may the public high school do for the moral and religious training of its puoils?"
 ''The sooner child can fortify its life, the better" he said, yet it is not in the high school primarily but only later out in life that the child may attain many of those experiences of manhood that will either fortify or undermine the aspira- tions of adolescence. I have personally exceeding faith in the high school, yet l do believe that the present tendency is to over-estimate the moral insight and even the moral aspirations of the high school pupil"
 In a discussion which followed, Prof. w. W. Fulwell, of the University of Min nesota, said:
 T do not think we need to have re- ligion taught in our schools. There should be no place for a sectarian school in the public school system of the United States"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
Funeral of Sagouni.

London, Oct. A.~-Enormous crowds or people attended today the funeral or Sagatel Sagouni. President of the Arme- nian Revolutionary Society in London who was murdered in the suburb Of Dun head Monday evening. supposedly by Ar menian reyolutionists of the radical sec tion The spectators lined the entire route from the headquarters of the Hunt chist Society to the cemetery Floral wreaths were sent from the branches Of the society in the United States Russia Turkey, Persia and other countries.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
IT IS SOUND. ADVICE.

k We do not always find 1t possible to agfee. with The Chicago Chronicle. but must admit that 1t speaks good sense when it. declares that Democrats of the South would show wisdom, patriotism and good political judgment by breaking away from the Populistic- c-Socialistic->c >combina- don of 1s96-1sOo and exerting the great power which they possess to restore the Democrat Party of the North.H
 The Advertiser does not agree with a few of It's over-zealous contemporaries that the Southern States should attempt to dictate either the candidate or the platform in the next national. convention, for that would not be good judgment or good policy. It is very true that a Demo- cratic President cannot be elected with out the votes of the Southern States, but it Is equally true that those States can- not of themselves elect the candidate. Our section might adopt platform and select a ticket which could get no support from any other portion of the Union. and in such case the campaign would be a waste of time and effort.
 But while we admit the truth of this we fully agree with the advice given in the above extract. If the South will cut itself entirely loose from the i'm possible theories which have brought two defeats and much humiliation. and will show itself ready to get back to the sound Democracy of the fathers, it will have a wonderfully heartening and strengthening effect on the Democracy of the Union. It will show that we are sick of rainbow chasing, and that we de- sire success along the only road thatkuc- cess Is possible. We may not dictate or demand but we can show faith in sound Democracy and thus aid in the good work of uniting the Democracy on principle. That will do more to ensure success than anything else we of the South can do.
 There are fourteen or fifteen States, all of them classed as Southern States, and all of them can be depended on to vote the Democratic ticket. It is absurd to say that they are to have no voice except one of acquiescence in the work of Presi- dent making. If we could believe that these States would again insist on a Chicago or Kansas City platform and ticket. we should fervently wish that they be allowed no voice in the convention, but we do not believe anything of the kind We believe the Southern Democrats are cured of their alteration and are ready to go to work again for oId-time Democracy in the old-time Democratic way. If we are correct in this estimate, then we hope to see them join the Democrats of the North, the East and the West in the selection of sound candidate on sound platform. Then the Party will deserve success, whether it achieves 1t or not In no other way is success even possible. repetition of the 1900 folly would be pre- destined defeat, and that folly cannot be repeated except through Southern Demo- crats, We absoive them in advance from such political idiocy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

can citizens could pay to his personal rectitude and political wisdom. It would be a waste of time to defend such a man are now utilizing the Bennett will case, in which MT. Bryan is defendant. to en- deavor to misrepresent him and his wife as vulgar fortune hunters, who are guilty of an attempt to obtain money from a dying man by fraudulent and dishonest methods. ds.-Memphis News.
 We thoroughly agree with The News that 1t would be waste of time to en- deavor to defend Mir. Bryan in this in stance. There is no defence possible.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
statesman of the Age.

CIaVton Record.
 w. R. Hearst recently visited Atlanta and was given quite an ovation there. The manner in which he was received is taken by some papers to indicate that MT. Hearst is a favorlte in this country for the presidential nomination. Judging from what.we can hear and see, your un- Gle Grover Is the strongest favorite of them all. and would, were he to allow his name used, carry the nomination be- yond all doubt. Grover Cleveland is the biggest man in this realm the statesman Of the age, according to our notion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
EetterS to tbe Gdftor
Banks and Interest.

The Advertiser is in receipt. of the fol- lowing inquiry from Calera:
 Editor The Advertiser:
 ., Are banks allowed to charge more in Ierest on loans than individuals, under the laws Of Alabama i? | R Saroi, eiAe
 tihe statutes of Alabama fix the rate or interest, which is the same for banks ana lndlVlduais State bank incorpor- ateo uhder the laws Of Alabama is sub pect to the penalties fixed by the staT- utes ot Alabama, while National hanks are subject to the penalties fixed bv the Uniteu states statutes but in neither case
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
won First and Second.

Melbourne. Victoria, Oct. Sl,-Sir Ru- pert Clarke, a member of the Legislative Council of Victoria, has accomplished the remarkable feat of getting first and sec ond places in the Australian derby with his horses. F. J. A., and Sweet Neil Belap was third. The time, 2,S6 l-4 equals the record.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
Morfq0oe Sale.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in certain mortgage executed to the undersigned. ". J. Chambers, by Geo w. Paris and Sallie l.. Paris, on the 7th day of June. 1902. and recorded in the Probate Judges office of the County of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama. in Mortgage Book No. l73, page ls4, I will on the goth day df November. 1908. within the legal hours of sale, at the Fountain. in the City of Mont gomery, Ala. sell at auction, for cash, the real estate described in said mortgage, stu- ated in the County of Montgomery and State of Alabama. and more particularly described as follows, to wit:
 Commencing sixty feet (6o) north of the southeast corner of lot ten Uo) of the H. S. Dexter plat, thence running north along the west side of Franklin Street sixty t6o) feet, thence west one hundred and twenty O2o) feet, thence south sixty (6o) feet and thence one hundred and twenty U2o) feet to the point of beginning, being the property conveyed to said Geo W. and Sallie T. Farris by deed Of Maria L. Paris
 Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by said mortgage. and the same being past due, this sale will be made to satisfy said indebtedness and ac- crued interest thereon, together with the eN penses of said sale including a reasonable attorneys fee. -
 W. J. CHAMBERS,
 Mortgagee. October I7th 1903. su-4t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

There was one prophet whose meat was locusts and wild honey" There was another who was fed by the ravens. There is another who lives off the fat of the land and fills his coffers with gold and silver drawn from his dupes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
Are Not Agreed.
RraWfOn

Brewton Standard Gauge.
 MT. Hearst is trying hard to capture the District of Columbia delegation to the Democratic National Convention. It is said that he will have the support of Bryan for his candidacy, but people are not agreed whether this will aid him or mi
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

The States of Virginia and North Carolina are engaged in somewhat acrid discussion as to which furnished the most soldiers for the Confederate army. We can't see that anything is to be gained by a controversy of this kind. There is glory enough for all.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON

pressions on the subject some plausibility to the suggestion that he would retire. He intimated his desire to quit some time began, tslt, 1t Is said, was dissuaded by the President and agreed to remain where he was until the investigation affecting his department should be completed. Cos sip has from time to- time retired Secreta- ry Shaw, but that attention-compelling gentleman has always made vigorous denial. People here who pose as posted on inside secrets of high official life say that the talk of Shaw's retirement was a wish o-the-thought resultant; that MT. Roosevelt has yeaFned to be rid of Shaw and the rest of the cabinet would be pleased to see him go.
 The plain truth appears to be that MT. Shaw is regarded with intellectual con- tumely by his colleagues of the Roose- welt ministry. Certain ebulitions of his untrammeled nature since he has been at the head of the Treasury Department have inclined those with whom he has been. associated in affairs of much pith and moment to write Shaw down as a mental mockery; Consonantly tales are is entitled to place alongside of the story of the Congressman from the West who blew out the gas.
 Last summer, the story goes. the Sec retary, with his chosen company, desig- hating them by his official order, used one of the government yachts to go from Washington to the naval review which His Excellency President Roosevelt pull ed off in the neighborhood of Oyster Bay. While the yacht was proceeding down the Potomac she ran into fog. When the foghorn of the craft blew a long, loud and doleful blast. it had upon the man from Iowa SO hark-from-t the-tomb an ef- feet that he ordered the unseemly racket to be stopped; he could not sleep and It disturbed his guests. But the horn enraged.
 little later the vessel was going to touch at Atlantic City. She anchored some distance off shore notwithstanding Secretary Shaw insisted that she go on up to certain pier. The pilot paid no attention to the artics of the angry cabi- net officer. When that very important gentlemen returned to Washington. he went to the Navy Department straight way and preferred charges against that pilot. The supervising officers of that branch of the department amiably in- formed MT. Shaw that the pilot had merely done his duty. and that had he attempted to obey the orders of the Sec retary, he would have been discharged for incompetency.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
Goes All to Pieces.

Birmingham Ledger.
 It Is said that Mf. Roosevelt has gone heart and soul into the contest in Mary land because the Democrats declared for white supremacy. That is one way to move the President. He goes all to pieces at any talk of white supremacy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

Again has our strenuous President been called down. His idea of putting all White House attaches in livery raised such protest that he had to give it up. He shifts the burden from his own shoulders to those of Secretary Loeb, but the country knows that he is the responsible party for an un-American idea
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

The number of newspaper men who know that Grover Cleveland could not possibly be elected is growing fine by degrees and beautifully less" There are yet few omniscient ones, but their num- Der is cheerfully and hopefully diminish ing
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
None Resigned.
Opelika Post

OptIIkd TOSI.
 It Is reported that Jim Tillman Is com ing to Birmingham to make his home. None of the editors in that city had re- signed up to the time we went to press.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

Mark Twain declares that if he should meet Dow1e or Mrs. Eddy in one place after he is dead, he will go to the other regardless of the temperature Then if he should find one at each place. he would have nothing left but to take to the woods.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
Wait for Kipling.

Blrmlngnam News.
 Joseph Chamberlain complains of bitter attacks upon him. He doesn't know when he is well off. Wait until Kipling makes him the subject of poem.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

When Chancey Depew, at the age of nearly 6S, got married, he started the fash ion among old men of prominence and the age limit seems steadily advancing. PIatt followed suit at 7O and now Senator Stewart comes up smilingly and takes on the yoke in his 77th year. Who next?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

To call 1t by no harsher term, denun- EiatIon of newspapers by a man like Dowfe is certainly black ingratitude But for them he would be forgotten in few Weeks.I
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

The Hartford (Conn.) Courant has just entered on its 10th year of publication, but We do not notice any evidence of senilty in its appearance or editorial columns.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

An honest confession is said to be good for the soul, or something of the kind, and we hope The Minneapolis Journal will be benefited. It tells of colored woman, a superior stenographer, who has struggled for two years to get position, but has failed "because she had the awful misfortune to be born negro" Then The Journal thus 'fesses up:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

Here is an argument: man who has dyspepsia says 1t is responsible for his irritable disposition Others in the fam fly suggest that his irritable disposition is what caused dyspepsia.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
Coincidence Fails
Pladnnn1nt Nnn,n

Piedmont News.
 The esteemed St. Louis Dispatch laments the fact that there are no linn burger cheese factories in Missouri Here Is a case in which all the conventional attempts at offering condolence utterly fail.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

According to the newspaper reports John w. Gates recently pulled off little trans action in Texas oil lands which netted him S250o0,0O0, Deals of this nature indicate that Johns chances for a bed in the poor house are rather remote.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

The Birmingham Age-Herald says tnat ia MT. Nathan of Sheffield and MT. ste vens of Mobile, have gone into par, paI.n1h1 the discarded. outgrown and rotten conven- ton ton system, syst The Age-Herald is aIi un- necessarily working itself into fury The sentiment of the State IS so PIo- nounced against return to the convehs tion system that there is no likelihood or a change from the primary plan.-Mo- bile Register
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
Payne and Shaw,

There is not a little conjectural talk just now of two men going out of the cabinet before the end of the President term They are Postmaster General Payne and Secretary of the Treasury Shaw.
 The former has himself lent by his ex-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

Have you ever read the Duke of Argyll on the flight of birds? Try him and tell us how you feel.-Norfolk Landmark.
 Don't remember whether we have or not. We have read so many of them, from Solomon and Icarus down to the present day, that we cant call to mind all of them. And we feel profoundly disgusted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

MT. Nathan of Sheffield and Mir Ste vens of Mobile, have gone into partner discarded. outgrown and rotten conVeh- ton system-Bir Age-Herald.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

W. A Scott, Circulation Manager Of me Montgomery Advertiser being duly sworn. ss says. The foregoing statement of The AdVeruseI - daily circulation for the month Of Septenpptel. pt 1903 Is true and correct. and compiled atte. all returns from newsboys. news agents anu leftover copies have been deducted.
 W. A. SCOTT. Circulation Manager: Sworn to and subscribed before me this lsI oay [ Of October 1908 F. W. JACKSON,
 rEeai.I N F., Ex-O. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
Judge somerville,s Article.

It was Secretary Shaw who started the notion that Judge Somerville, chairman of the Board of Appraisers at New York
 would be deposed because he wrote a magazine article which reflected upon President Roosevelts race policy It is now said that President Roosevelt never Somerville; but Shaw had been so insis- tent that Mir. Roosevelt read the article in question and reserved his conclusion. Subsequently, he cited to Shaw the lan- guage Of the act which created the Board of Appraisers showing that under its pro- visions no cause had arisen for removal. The act on this point says that apprais- CTS may be removed from office at any time. by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in of nee. R. H. Watkins
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

If they could combine graphophone with some sort of automatic hand-shak- ing device, political campaigning might be made very much easier.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

Some of those walking delegates seem to understand just how to walk out of the way when the officers want them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

MT, Bryan is a great American. He has twice been the leader of the Demo- cratic party and has twice received the highest tribute that over 6.000.000 Ameri-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

The President is now 45 years of age He has not reached the years of discre- tion, but has passed the poll tax period.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

After this demonstration of a mean. unworthy and cruel prejudice we no longer have any right to criticize the Southern whites for their treatment of the negroes. We believe that Miss Renix could have secured employment in Southern city. And even if she couldn't the fact remains that the Southerners are no worse than we.
 No worse than we.'' is good. Bless the old Journal, we ain't half as worse!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

A pretty thorough test of State seI pri7 IL mary was had last year and we fall to note any real signs of popular discontent at at either the methods of its operation or or the result which crowned the exercise Of those methods. The State Executlve Committee can employ it's labors in the studv of improvements to our present plan, if needed, but it's attempt to com init the party to a system 1t has repudl- ated after many years of trial VIII De promptly and effectually resenteu'-Moli'- gomery Times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

Dowie advises his hearers against in- dulgng in kissing. Judging from his pictures he doesn't need a shield to keep 'em off.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

A puzzled reader, says We have had an ice age, stone age, and several other ages of the world, but this is Ann's age. But, how old is Ann?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
EDUCATIONAL.

has the bank a right to charge more than s per cent. interest in this State.-Editor A AdVertiSer,)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

The Spartanburg Herald intimates that Roosevelt will have to visit Atlanta in order to get his boom on straight
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

"Persimmons are ripe" rejoices The Chattanooga News. But how do the 'possums hang?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

Walking Delegate Parks should now walk straight to prison like any other criminal. The country has had enough of him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

for once like to see the people elect their ofncers directly without primary. We nave never seen such thing In our gem eration and the novelty of 1t attracts us.
 It would carry us back to the good old days before the war when elections were honestly conducted We think such a course would necessitate a more yigor- ous campaign than usual and bring the people more closely together. It would certainly eventuate in fair elections. The black peril Is out of the way and we can be free Let us then be free.-Uniontow
 Herald. -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
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 < WHAT THE STATE PAPERS < < ARE SAYING. .2

Is All Lost. Camp Hill Times. 4 Grover has been telling Chicagoans about American Good Citizenship" It's all lost on that butch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

There is little outcrappings and ear marks that some of our State politicians system. They may succeed. and the old time convention. with it's trickery, fraud and bribery be again thrust upon the people. but with 1t will be the disruption of the Democratic party The masses of the voters have had enough of the con- vention system when the professional poll itictan can work out his own political sal vation. The primary plan may not give the people any better officials but there Is some satisfaction among the voters when they have helped to elect or defeat a candidate for political office. The pri- mary plan has tendency, to do away with the professional politician. and any plan that will have tendency to do that should stand.- Centerville Press.