The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19

natter of summer showers and the sublime
 music of storms and wfnds! Think what
 1t means not tc know nstgres music; .s % nor
 child to whom comes no tone Of the voices
 of mother, sister nor brother; ana of deaf
 mothers debarred the prattie of infants
 and glad laughter of boys and giris' None
 but the deaf know what U s .e ma smut listen to inc accents of affection and
 friendship which are. on earth. the echoes
 TO the deaf the Acousticon brings q
 new earthi
 Much of the interest which attaches to
 the instrument Is drawn from the pre-
 sumption that it's principles ana It's use
 will revolutonize lhe methods oi the in-
 sruction of deaf mutes' Al silent
 enabled to hear human tones and spoken
 language. the deaf mute learns by lmita-
 tinn that most rapid and sure of methods.
 Az far back as 1899 t was tested at for si'uusfS me peaf and Dumb where out of one
 hundred children not one failed to hear
 loud conversational tones at distance
 of fifteen or twenty feet
 One boy whose parents ana grand
 parents were deaf, and eho could not.
 under ordinary, circumstances. hear a
 cornet blown foot, from his ear, dis
 tinctly heard 1t thirty feet distant with
 the aid of Mir. Hutchison's instrument.
 instances like this repeated in Mobile and
 h other Southern towns. and in New
 York and other northern cities. stablish- cd confidence 1t was exhibited before scientists and experts and received their endorsement. When this young Alabanian went to the old World, his reception there equalied that the New World gave the Austrian veteran of science; his welcome to private homes was as hcarty and cordial Each
 4erves the race with his genius and in h Al.A t.nh lf a f. ha
 uninitiated, an element of the thaumsttr- gicai If not the miraculous. Each has a heart which pities the poor. Indeed the London dailies stated that the bestowal of the medal by the queen was prompted as much by what MT. Hutchison did for the unfortunate in the London free hos pitals and in the squalid homes. as by his treatment of her own slight deafness and by the impression made upon her hy feature of his '.honors abroad which especially please his mother-for to her the purity and goodness of his heart are his claim to esteem.
 He has travelled extensively in Eui ope. In his three months visit to London last year, he was called frequently to Paris to
 treat notable residents of the French capital.
 The Duke of Cambridge was one of his
 English patients, and as host ireliently in that society where intelligence and character are the aristocracy of the land. lie was often an honored guest.
 A daily visitor for some tine to his royal patient at Buckingham Pslsce. a specially invited guest with designated place at the coronation of King Edward. |'his letters at this period to his mother
 in Alabama was full of novelty and charm and glamour. possessing great interest for her neighbors who had watched him from childhood; but, not even extracts have been given to the public, for the tradi-
 tons of his family are those peculiar to
 a people among whom honor and kindli- ness and hfe's amenities are dearer than
 eclat or the worlds acclaim.
 The public thinks that the most nota-
 ble occasion In his life was that of the
 presentat ton. aboard the royal yacht,
 ',victoria and Albert" of the Queens 2
 medal. If he were questioned he would
 doubtless think, and If he answered would
 say that the most propitious event in his
 whole career occurred on the steamer
 "City of Rome'' when he met Miss Martha
 Jackson Pomeroy. She was making the tour of Europe with her parents. and he but their romantic meeting was the first step towards the. wedding which was con summa ted at her home in Lewyllen Park, West Orange, New Jersey, in May. 1901. Our Alabamian, happily married to a charming northern girl, ia still our own by right of his birth and training. | When the Gulf of Mexico shall have been made the Mediterranean of the West by the splendid efforts of the Alabama Senator, John T. Morgan, Montrose on its sunny shore will be pointed out as the | home of a great American during that l boyhood when "the child is father of the man..