The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-15
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Basebal1 . Clean Sport. .,"i think the American peoples love full and wholesome characteristics of the nation said . prominent citizen yesterday. They may call us money lovers. or money-nakers. or money getters: they may charge us with thinking of nothing but money. and scoff scornfully at the great American dollar; but when 1t comes t0 love of sport. baseball as the national game must award us the palm for 9 fondness for clean, straight sport. Tt cannot be denied" that we want clean straight sport. TOW ana again we would like to buy game; but the thought doesn't last long and we all get bacfi S) the idea that we want a fair, lightning chance and nothing else. T am not in sympathy with baseball myself" concluded prominent citizen: T haven't seen game in ten years and l suppose town-ba would be nearer my gauge than the modern sport. but they are willing to take time off for dfversion.to forget the petty cares and troubles and to leave work for a It. tie while. find 1t very embarrassiu1 to hear peopl etalking about this V that man being released. because al ways ask how much his bond is. ana then am laughed at. But try to carry my end of the conversation and talk spit bali. and Dutch something or other batting single It Is absurd. but think 1t Is patr:otfcF
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 Recalls Vivid Scene.
 T was particularly interested in the the State Capitol because l happened to see the first building burned to the ground said License Inspector J. c. Cowan yesterday. T dare say hat ,tlf har A living in Montgomery who are old enough to recall the burning of the Capitol on June f4. 1849. such' an event no doubt made a deep impression on them. as 1t did on me. l was only three years old at the time. My uncle came home in the early afternoon and told us that the Capitol was on fire. He took me with him to see the ire. We stopped on Dexter Avenue In front of the old Madison House, now the struetion of the building at the other end of the avenue. The blaze, the cloud of smoke and the great crowd of people on Dexter Avenue watching made deep impression on me. have carried a vivid recollection of them through all the years that have inter-
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 Problem In Mathematics.
 T am puzzled over a mathematical problem which has arisen in a damage suit in which I r, --ent the plain tiff" said a Montgomery lawyer yes. at figures anyhow. and the problem has, therefore, been vexing to me. "The suit is brought because of the accidental killing of a man who was forty years old. According to sta tistics. he had twenty eight and eigh- teen hundredths more years 10 live on earth and he was earning $50 per month.
 Now the question bothering me Is. what amount of money must be exac- ted of the corporation defendant. It must be such an amount which will net $50 per month for twenty-eight and eighteen hundredths years. and at the end of that time the principal must be reduced to zero. or course the interest is counted in at the rate of eight per cent. and of course. every month the interest and an amount taken from the principal must make q have been unable to come near solving the problem and have written to A life insurance expert to render me solution. It is important for me to know precisely how much I must claim < E.
 Cold Weather and Blackberries
 A well known Alabama commercial advertiser said yesterday:
 Tn conversation with a minister of stated as a fact that the weather all ways remained cold while blackberry bushes were blooming. He said he had been raised on a farm f. end had had and never knew 1t to fail. Have you or any of your many readers any knowledge of this fact or explanation The statement was made while dls- eussing the present cold
 General Fred S. Ferguson of Birm- ingham. formerly prominent Mont gomerian Is at the New Exchange for for many years solicitor of Montgom- cry and has many friends throughout the city and section.
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 Dr. George R. Vandewater, pastor Of St. Andrews Episcopal Church. New York, preacted at St Johns Church here yesterday. He was en route from New Orleans. where he attended the Episcopal Congress, to New York. lie left last night for Savannah, where he will take a steamer for the Metropolis.
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 Mir J. W. Wright of Birmingham was in Montgomery yesterday, accom- panied by his wife.
 MT J. P. Reynolds of Anniston is, registered at Hotel Summers.
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 MT G. W. McComack of Woodlawn was in the city last night
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 Mir j. W. Beard of Woodlawn spent last night in Montgomery.
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 Hon. W. P. Acker of Anniston is reg istered at the Exchange
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 MT. J. S Carroll of Troy was in Mont gomeIy last night. v
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 MT J. ". Brown of Demopolis Is vis- iting Montgomery.
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 MT A. J. Murdock of Huntsville IS visiting the ci.y.
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 MT. w. L. Williams of Birmingham Is in the city.
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 MT. John Vary of Birmingham is in the city.