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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-05

federate Army. II is all the more TO
his honor that this educator OF deep
piety. should be recalled as the SPLEEN
did adiutant Of an Alabama regiment
who bore himself well ON every field
of battle and who today carries the
scars OF an honorable wound received
in the discharge of his duty on the
field OF battle. The daring are the ten
der. It is said and II 10 not ineogru-
Gus that dashing Confederate soldier
should become the gentle. lovabie and
able president of a school for girls,
and In that role achieve even q greater
success than he did as a soldier.
Out Of the army DR.. Massey he's de-
voted his life to education. He was
commandant of cadets at the Univers-
ity OF Alabama and 1t is said that no
man served in that ONCE with great
er credit. And then his church called
him to the high and responsible po-
sition of experimenting the education
Of the young women of the church.
Many men have failed in this ONCE.
But DR.. Massey. quiet. strong and de-
voted succeeded where others had
achieved only failure.
As an educator of young women the
career of DR.. Massey has been without
a parallel in this State, not only in it's
length Of activity. covering thirty
three years-an entire generation. but
in the influence and impress upon his
many hundred students and through
them upon his church and his people.
He retires while he is yet hearty
and healthy, with capacity to enjoy
the leisure that is so justly his. At
seventy-five his physical vigor is such
that he might continue his heavy la
bors for years to come. But II is his
wish to leave the field and Aiabam-
ians not only the members of the
great church to which he owes al
legiance but all Alabamians may well
wish him the reward ana the heppi-
ness that should go to one whose life
has honored himself. his church and his
people.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-05
cRossINe THE ATLANTIC.

Discussing the Zeppelin performance,
WILDER Wright as we learn from The
Brooklyn Eagle. remarked shat the
only thing which stood in the way Of
crossing the Atlantic in the air was a
machine which could carry fuel and
oil enough for the engine and food
enough for the aviator. He admitted
that duplicate engines would add
greatly to the safety OF the trip, but
they would also add to the weight Of
the airship. and the American did not
seem TO think them necessary. Never.
theless the wrights are not going to
embark on any undertaking to cross
the ocean at present.
1t win be noted that Mr.. Wright
spoke Of several essentials necessary
10 enable one to make a successful trip
across the Atlantic. Thew must have
plenty Of fuel to keep their machine
going or the passengers might find
themselves in a ticklish position. II
a railroad engine gets out OF fuel moth
ing worse can happen to It than brief
delay while more Is being procured, but
under like circumstances the flyers
would probably ind themselves depos-
tied on the salty sea with no way to
get out.
Something Of the same thing might
happen IL the food supply should give
out. OF course It would be easy
enough to calculate Just how long It
would require to go across the Atlantic
in an airship IL everything went ac-
cording TO calculations and no mishap
Of any kind occurred, but those are
matters that cannot be certainly fore
told. and as consequence a lot of
hungry adventurers might flnd them
selves beating about over the ocean
wherever the winds chose to carry
them and no rations In the locker. Pos
sibly they might go fishing but that
would be an uncertain business.
In some respects however. a trip
over the water might be safer than one
over land. because there are few or
no obstacles to butt against. Soon at
ter zeppeiin's machine made its rec
ord-breaking trip without mishaps 1t
coiiided with pear tree and was
wrecked. and something of the kind
may happen to any airship on land. If
1t should for any reason descend too
low 1t would be in danger of running
against a tree or some other hard OBJ
1ect and getting itself smashed. That
danger at least does not exist on the
ocean. There are no pear trees on the
ocean, for example, and an airship
might be blown in many directions and
still escape serious injury as long as
It could keep itself above water. For
all this, and in spite Of their conn.
dence in aviation, the wsixnts no
doubt act and decide wisely when they
say they have no present intention Of
attempting an ocean voyage in a nv.
ing-machine. That shows their good
sense, we think.
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Letters to The Editor
THE DELIGHTS OF A
HOME COMING WEEK
DR.. A.. ID. Summers, a Leading Ala
bama stock Raiser, Writes of His
Old Iewn Home.

Marion Junction., Ala, June 3. 1908.
Like Savoyard. i have enjoyed
@s ana 0 now az think 10Y yoa SRs
used UP about enough gray matter on
the Johnny Cake" controversy. ana as
real news is rather at 9. low ebb. !
write up a good long editorial on
"Old Home Week" associations, with
especial reference to the one of which
! send you clippings.
scattered aver the State and Mr.. M. ".
Richards. of the Southern, Informs me
that there are quite number of Iowa
the lumber and mining regions. This
may seem far-off call to you. but
II you could only have seen the happy
faces and felt the good-fellowship at
for an instant that you would have
risen to the occasion and given US Q
rousing send-off. LeClaire Is a small
town situated In one Of the most beat
and located on the banks OF the Mis-
sfssippf River with fine facilities by
train. trolley and boat for getting at
great NUMBER Ws 81 tr ssn nt'I Population
Captain Eads the father OF James b
Eads. was one of the pioneer settlers
and Argyle cottage at that time the
W. +. Cody (Buffalo Bill was born
about two miles In the country. Cap
tain Sam Van SAINT, Ex-Governor Of
Minnesota. WAS a resident for many
years and Is still a frequent visitor.
T. B. Hanley. at the head of the M.
b. A.. and very prominent K. OF p.
is native. DIR. j. A. DeArmond.
brother of Congressman DeArmond, Is
now State Senator from that district,
and was prominent physician for
many years. Charles $. Toilette, one
of the prominent officials of the Marine
Engineers Association, with hcsdquar-
tiers at Seattle, is one OF our boys. and
others are scattered to almost every
State In the Union.
Professor Rholfs. of the State Uni
versity in Florida, George M Boyd,
prominent attorney in Chicago: Albert
Gross (now deceased) at one time one
Of the most prominent copper mine op-
orators In the Cour de Alene's. Quite
number are running boats on the Yu-
kon in Alaska and many others I might
mention IL space permitted who have
exerted and are still exerting much in
fuence in the respective places In
which they have located and
whose hearts still hold fond recollect-
ions of that beautiful spot fifled with
the memories of the DAYS gone by.
Hoping this matter will receive your
considerate attention. I remain.
Respectfully,
Pres. Old Home Week Assn.
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The man who went to the United
States Treasury some days ago and
told the officials that he understood
the government had more money than
It could use, and that he would re-
lieve it by accepting one million dol
lars, plainly applied at the wrong
place He should have gone to Rookie
Teller or Carnegie or some of the other
men who have more than they know
what to do with. True, he would have
Jared no better. as far as getting
money was concerned. but he would
At least have shown better judgment
Uncle Sam never has too much for
his needs.
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A PECULIAR NUMBER.

In the study OF the theory of num-
bers one will notice some very pecu-
liar things; but many of these odd fea-
lures remain unnoticed until they are
a field for entertaining results. This
number represents the absolute zero of
physics; and 1t was while working
some Of the mathematical portions that
different from many others. 1t Is. in
the first place. made up of the factors 8
times 7 times IS, SO that the results
obtained may be obtained from any of
the factors or from the products of
any two Of them, 81 80 or 81.
II we multiply 27S by H. we. obtain
5000, and then II we continue the null
tiplcation by any group OF two where
the product at a glance. since 1t will
be as many times 3,003 as the value of
the number used in the units or tens
The most peculiar results are OBJ
tained. however, when We take other
multipliers that give results less than
ply the number by 81, we obtain O,I01.
which may be considered as consisting
of six digits with the first 0 cancelled.
ANY multiple Of 81 will give similar
90,a09. etc. II we take 1877 for the null.
tiplier, we obtain twice 41,052. or 1922
1902, etc. If our multiplier is $50, the
P PF0dnct Is Is 5 5sl5s 4 Is !s the the
product is 1875 il il is 3.575. the
product is 975,975, etc. A little investi-
CATION will show that the sum of the
digits In all these products will always
be a number that can be divided by g.
The question will. naturally be ask
ed: How many products. smaller tina (
1000,0 900, can we obtain where the 1rs
three diRits are the same a the last
three? The question may be answered
as follows:
No matter what combination of fg-
ures we may take, where we repeat the
first three for the last three, that num-
Der will always be multiple OF 273,
provided the sum of the digits is equal
to or some multiple OF 8. If we take
the odd numbers flrst, we find that We
have /, 3. 5, and 9 as our possible
digits The numbers may be arranged
in groups of three as follows:
Let 1 be the first number; then II
each one of the others is taken in sue
cession as the second number of the
group. we have three selections for the
number In the third place. Thus we
have 1856, 1877, 1873. followed by 1853 1877
i5s, etc. II this is followed out to the
end, we hnd that we have sixty differ
ent combinations Of three digitE. and
OF these twenty-four groups VIII per-
NIT the adding OF the diglts to a sum
that Is q multiple Of 8. These are 1856
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-05
DRIFTWooD

Kermit killed q leopard.
Yes. that's what
Simply pulled the trigger
Shot him on the spot
--'priftwood" Armstrong.
Teddy killed a'tiger.
When Teddy pulled the trigger
Attaila Herald.
ladies' hats fruit baskets" and il is
0 fact that IL you look under the
dropping brim Of most OF them you win
Uncle Joe Cannon loves . joke when
It - in the tariff.
why not be polite ana let Mars oper
the conversationf Then think Of the
expense it would save
Mr.: Hartman says he could .noat
10 nye minutes. That fellow 10 right
in the swiml
A stingy old man of MAlaccs,
Who wore clothes OF the thinnest al
Would resnark with a groan:
I've a match OF my own:
VIII you lend me pipe and tobacca7"
Nixon Waterman, in Saturday Eve.
ming Post.
no continue this soul Stirring sonnetl
Who remarked, Look a-here
won't v5S ys slsa. su ss 9rs.s deaf at no
Nashville Tennessean.
There once was q girl named Pauline
Found q bucket full OF gasoline.
But the maid wasn't shy
30 she said. Pepper buy
Me q ffty-horse power naohinsi"
Poor Dadi He's the one who catches
graduates these days she expects 4
costly present' don't you know
Chicago man rescued two beautiful
girls from drowning yesterday--end
lust 70 think--wAa sspoiis the ssnti-
can't marry both Of .sm.
The Georgia peach l. King" says
gomery peach is Queen--isn't she. fell
Nat Goodwin. hasn't been divorced
for six monthsi
No use in. taiking-:some Of those
African beasts are harder TO spell than
they are to hit.
The Salt Creek correspondent of The
Mendon Constitution IL another, up-to-
date poet. He writes:
III you've nothing else to do,
Drag the roads!
II only for an hour or two.
Drag the roadsl
II will make them good as new,
With a purpose Arm and true,
Fall in line, it's up to you.
Drag the roadsi
Parson SNOWFALL drops into song ocs
easionally. He is nothing II not OPP
tinnistic:
DE rainy day
Looks lax twill stay
Rut my heart amt a-pinin'.
Kase ali knows
Twill kiss de- rose
An soon de sun be shinin'.
De Rainy day
II make me say
De Lord des sends desc warnin'9
To let folks know
Froo Joy an woe
Life needs some dreary unornln'si
--P. H. 4.
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STAGGERING FIGURES.
Planets Wealth should be Increase
$4,000. 600, OOO. 900 In 100 Years.

Planets Wealth should he Increased
$4,000. 900 100000 In 100 Years.
New York World.
In today's World app q RS a letter In
which 1t Is suggested that 10000, 900
acres Of swampy, marshy and arid
lands In North America could be re-
claimed and made to yield immense
crops, but what is the use to trouble
ourselves about that yet, while we
seem not to know what to do with
what we already have in fertile acres?
The earth's fertile region now is
2s.269, 200 square miles, or 1s,0s2,2Ss.000
acres. One acre will be more than suf-
ficient for the support of one person
My grandfather supported himself and
my grandmother and brought up eight
children from the products of one acre.
and that In the shore summered and
long wintered Sweden. Now those 49,
O92, 2SS, 900 acres, therefore, ought to
support at least that many humans, in.
stead Of the comparative handful of L.
10000, 900, which is the number OF the
earth's inhabitants now. II the life
of the human averages S3 years, as
the statisticians claim, 1t means that
In 100 years 81, 276,S6 900 and in 1000
years 542,76s.640,0OO loving human
forms divine-and why not also so
many precious eternal souls?-could
have a chance to develop on earth.
Less than 100000 people, with all
their mismanagement, increased the
wealth OF the United States more than
$27, 900, 900, 900 in seven years. AT that
rate the could-be population of the
earth, or about $4,000, 600, 900, ought to
increase the wealth OF this planet with
at least 3s4,U00, 000,000,O00 in a hun
dred years.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-05
A remnernnce Tale.


Kansas City journal.
The new ana very stringent prohi-
bitory law which goes into effect In
Kansas has revived an old story on the
subject. A stranger went into q
Kansas drug store and asked for sonls
whiskey.
81 can't sell you any whiskey," said
the druggist.
"But I'm SICK" persisted the stran-
ger.
THAT won't help any" replied the
druggist. "It don't make any differ.
ence. 1 can't sell you any whiskey
for being sick"
We'll, what can you sell 1t to me
for?' asked the stranger.
1.-THE only thing we can sell whis.
key for in this town" said the drug
gist, as for snake bites. Hold up
now don't ask me where to get bit.
ten. No use. There is only one snake
in town. and he Is engaged for three
weeks ahead"
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This Ls My seth Birthday
Bishop Caneyin.

The Right Reverend ]. T.. Regis
Canevin. Roman Catholic Bishop of
Pittsburg. was born in Westmoreland
his education in st. Vincent's College
and Seminary at Beatty. Pa. He was
ordained to the priesthood in 1879, and
his first clerical appointment was as
assistant at st. Mary's Church. Pitts
burg. where he remained two years.
and until assigned as assistant at the
Cathedral in 1881. Here he remained
1--WE years. In 1885 he was given
the State Reformatory, and the West
ern penitentiary of Pennsylvania. to-
gether with a mission at CanonsburR.
In 1881 ne was appointed chanceiIos
was assigned to the passionate OF ST
Philips Church. Grafton, where he re-
manned two years. He returned to the
1895. and in 1903 he was elevated to
the bishopric.
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Wise Words of An Original Abeiition-

Brookly Eagle.
Nothing SAID at the conference on
at Cooper Union anu the United
cnarities building, In Manhattan, this
week. is likely 10 be OF one-haif the
Significance Of the letter OF Colonel
ting forth his reasons for declining TO
participate in II.
Colonel Higginson was ths nrst
white colonel OF black regiment du-
survivor of the original abolitionists,
so that his views are not TO be charged
TO unfriendliness or prejudice against
the black race. But he declares that
the extension of suffrage to the ne
groes was particularly unwise, Z
cause of great friction between the
races and an injury to the negro him
to his Industrial and educational de.
velopment than to strive for the es-
Enlistment of civil ana political
status which. whether or not HIS under
attained. or. II ever. only through
a conflict OF terrible Consequences"
In that remarkable declaration the
last OF the abolitionists joins hands
lead the negro up to a high point Of
Industrial efficiency as the only DOS.
sible basis for the establishment OF
groes Of future generations. as well
as the only practical salvation of the
negro youth of the present from the
idleness. disease and crime which are
rapidly raising the negro death rate
that only black skin could endure
the exhaustion of the Southern ell
mate.
Colonel Higginson says other wise
things about the unwisdom OF any at
tempt at this time to insist upon civic
rights for the negro--a wisdom which
is emphasized by the declarations Of
Seth Low and Francis Lynde Stetson
to take part in this conference.
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1853. 15s, 1875, SIS. ssi. ss7. SIS. SIS, SIS.
$sl. SsI. so. s7s. sci, 5s7. Iss. 1888 75s,
7s5. sis, s5l. ISL and s75. We may OBJ
tain the same results IL the three dig
ken, ana then the arrangements.
Tness groups are those containing I,
and ,; l. : and .. .. and =: and 5,
nan ana =; and since each group Of ,t three
introducing new digfts, we can find In
ibis way that we can obtain twenty
four ARRANGEMENTS In all. It may
values for the even digits, o, q. 4, 9
and 8. In like manner we may obtain
sixty arrangements Of three each and
81 men We ed %Sen Ra tsks
the combinations of odd and even dig
its either two odd and one even, or
two even and one odd, we ind that we
have increased our possibilities to a
II we take the combinations OF two
odd and one even first, we have the
fSiiowinE cCmb,sati9ns Of tive oad On m
81, SO. III, rs, is, IS. 81, %. s5. 81. or
twenty arrangements in all. II we
combine each of these with 0, we may
making il Arst second, or third. as Ois,
$50. and In like manner combine 0 with
each Of the other groups OF two or
numbers and o. II we take each Of
the other even numbers in the same
way as we have taken 0. we ind that
we have In all three hundred combi-
nations Of two odd numbers and one
even.
Then If we take the combinations OF
two even and one odd numbers, We
find our groups of two even numbers
70 be OF, o., 06, os, 20, "a, 20, 2s, 40, ~,
4s. 4s. so, 81, 81. IS, so. 50. 81 and SO,
and each OF these may be combined
with each OF the odd numbers in each
of the three ways as 102, OH, OIL, etc.
or three hundred more combinations,
1t will be found that wherever we
take the combination that is a multiple
OF and repeat 1t, as ISL 1851, 246,24e.
6lS,61S, or s63.963, the number 80 writ
ten will always be evenly Invisible by
273 or any factor of 273,
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This Date in History
June d

l723-Adam Smith, one of the great
est of political economists, born
in Kirkealdy. Scotland. Died In
Edinburgh July 1g, 1896.
aGsurfahdefos Of Augusta, Ga.s9 to
the Americans after a Siege OF
eleven days.
17s3-Joseph and Stephen Montgolfer'a
first public ascent In a ffre ball
loon.
is13-British defeated the Americans
at Stoney Creek.
lS54-International reciprocity treaty
between Canada and the United
States signed.
IS76-First session of the Supreme
Court of Canada.
1s95-Motion favoring woman suffrage
defeated in the Canadian House
of Commons.
1soo--British under Lord Roberts en-
tered Pretoria.
19OS-An explosion on the cruiser
Tennessee killed Ave men.
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Pnrtr Lines nnd MARLIN.

New York Journal of Commerce
Party lines are getting more and
more deranged on the tariff question.
While 1t Is in a broad sense far from
being q local issue" schedules Of pro-
tective duties raise many and various
local Issues. which affect the position
OF Republicans and Democrats much
alike 1t is coming to be question Of
principle against private and local In
terest; of the policy beneficial to the
people against that profitable to those
That will not divide the people on ira
ditional party lines, and while there Is
little prospect of forming a new party
on this broad issue. II Is getting to he
doubtful. in the shifting In the ranks,
which party will be that of tariff re-
form in the next alignment
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High Credit Of nirmingham.

Birmingham Age-Herald.
Mayor o'Brien has borrowed at per
cent straight $4,000. This money
will be used to tide the city treasury
over until the taxes OF the coming ms;
cal year are paid in. The money VIII
he called for as needed and in this
way eonsiderable saving In interest
money will be effected.
rAry loan on equally favorable f,s,, terms.
MAYOR o'Hrien's skill in making loans.
and It shows, too, the abundance OF
money at the money esnnt,strs' ana BIZ
The vigorous manner n which Cap.
tain o'Brien Is taking hold OF the city's
AFFAIRS IS promise Of an alert ana EN-
Client administration. He should have
the active support and good speech OF
every citizen In all that he undertakes
that makes, for the bettermsnt OF the
city, In this way our new Mayor viii
sr, 70 strike at every evil n sight, and
% % his utmost g make make sirmingham
prosperous.
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The continued rain in Alabama is a
serious misfortune--just how grave.
cannot be told at this time. OF all the
year this is the most critical time for
the farmer. At no other time does the
weather mean so much to him The
lowlands are flooded and the grass on
the uplands grows green for the la
borers cannot get In. The rain has
hurt Alabama ana hurt 1t badly. 1t
was pity, too, for crops and farming
systems were being changed to a great
extent. 1t was TO be the States great
corn year and a regrettable feature of
the depressing rain is that it may dis
courage farmers who are growing
more corn this year than ever before.
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just what the Doctor Ordered.

TIT BIts.
"You must drink hot water with your
whiskey." the doctor told his patient,
10Th O. Use you mustn't take 1t at all. q"
b. how shall I get the hot water?''
the patient queried, plaintively. MY
wife won't let me have 1t for the
whiskey today"
"Tell her you want TO shave" the
doctor said, and took HIS departure.
The next day the doctor called and
asked the wife how his patient was.
Hes gone raving mad" his wife re-
piled. HE shaves every ten min
utes,"
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Prof. Starr. who has been making
some Investigations in the Philippines.
tells it that ten thousand natives have
died from cholera and the outside
world knew nothing of it. II that is
true there is certainly gross blame
somewhere.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-05

A twelve year old boy Of Altoona.
Mich, Jumped aboard an unguarded
locomotive, pulled open the throttle
and leaped off. The locomotive only
stopped when it ran into a train Of
freight cars. AS near as can be hg-
ured the total damage is $4,000. Some
body in Altoona has failed to do his
spanking duty.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-05

How times have changed. Roosevelt
rides on the cowcatcher of locomo-
tive and only gets a paragraph in the
newspapers. Taft goes to a ball game,
eats peanuts and a full column is tel
egraphed about it all over the country.
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The Charlotte Observer heads an edi-
torial North Cardinals Modesty" II
reminds US of the man who set out to
write an essay on the subject OF
Snakes in Ireland" His essay con-
sisted OF the words, There are no
snakes in Ireland" The Observer didn't
follow his example. however. by about
half a column