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Show TftE WEEKLY REFLEX,' KAYSVlLLE. UTAH BO year ago Henrik Ibsen In Peer Gynt that moat reftiark-ablof all his metrical works held u D to rid ic of "Huhu" the language reformers of Norway, he little thought that the movement, then In its Infancy, would develop Into a national issue of such Importance as" to have brought about the downfall of a powerful administration, And In the accession to office of a' liberal eab'iaet under the premiership of General liratlie. ln- ;leed, the laat general election In Norway was fought mainly on this Issue of language, and resulted In an I The fwreror , overwhelming victory of the left part f which Is" ofRussia of the vernacular. committed to the reform ' Perhaps the word reform, used in Christiania, Is For the measure now in process of misleading. adoption Is not the revision of the existing language, .gamely, Danish, but the adoption of an entirely It was invont-,one, known as the Landsmanl toward 1850 by the eminent Norwegiun philologist, Ivor Aasen, who, in Its construction, embodied much of the ancient Norse of the Sagas, as well as some of Che dialects of the remoter regions of the kingdom, where the peasantry have clung through the four oenturies of Danish domination to the tongue spoken r their forbears In the dayB of the Vikings Employing these and other materials, adapting to modern requirements, Ivar Aasen succeeded is evolving ao melodious and wo poetic a language that the vast majority of his countrymen, roinniene have (dealt for their eongs, their plays, their sermons, their schools, and their vernacular. It. haR cuuglit their fancy; It appeals to their pride In the romantic past when the Sway of the Norse Vikings extended over Scandinavia, northern Germany, Russia, and the greater portion of the Rrlttsh Isles; and it has become identi fled In their eyes with Norwegian nationalism. The spurious Danish In which Ibsen wrote and Which has been the official language of the Norto them wegians for more than 400 those centuries of Danish oppression and persecu tion, when, robbed of her Independence, Norway was ruled from Copenhagen, not even as a province, but as A colony, fit only for spoliation, exaction, and tyranny. Everything that nerves --to recall Danish domination Is hateful In Norway Indeed, his Iup-dsbirth Is the only real cause cf the unpopularity of King Haakons sagacious and roimelentlous rule. Early this year Norway will cob brate the centennial anniversary of her emancipation from Denmark, of the recovery of her Independence as a separate kingdom with a constitution of her own, though waited by dynastic ties wtbf Sweden until 1906. Jt Is proposed to signalise thenatloiial ttjolrings In honor Of the occasion by the legislative udoptloii of ivur : Aasen Dandsmaal ss the official and national language of Norway. The government, an overwhelming majority of the Storthing, the press, and fhe hulk of the people have all determined upon the change, and a royal commission appointed Jointly by crown, cabinet and parliament Is now engaged In completing the necessary arrangements for the execution of the proclamatioa decreeing the new vernacular, which Is to Inaugurate the centennial. It will be a remarkable and unique event For, while there are plenty of Instances of a government forclhg Its language upon provinces and dependencies acquired by conquest or statecraft against the wishes of their population, there has been no case until now, to my knowledge, of a people compelling Its rulers to abandon the national language for an entirely new tongue, .Ivor Aaaen, Its creator, already .celebrated ns a philologist, will from hence-ifortenjoy new and more lasting f.'.mo, r.ml will occupy an Isolated place In ttlstory, as the one man who Invented and constructed a language, which so ploaaed and fascinated hia countrymen that they relinquished the tongue that had been theirs for hundreds of years, to adopt his for official and national use. Ivsr Aasen, who was the son of a small peasant farmer, was born Just a sundred years ago In the district of Sondmora, and was honored on his death. In 1896, with a great public funeral at Christiania, where a national memorial is about to be erected over his tomb. There are but two things more to be mentioned In connection with this remarkable linguistic change In Norway. The first Is tliut Lamlsnmal Is phonetic in its spelling The second Is that its adoption as the national vernacular will present no difficulty. For, as I have mentioned above, It has keen taught In schools for 20 and 30 years past and In Norway everybody Attends school, popular education being of an extremely high order. Moreover. the people have become s accustomed to It, and have developed such A liking for It, that it 1b they who forced its adoption by the state. While this question of language has thus ceased to be a subject of poe litical strife in Norway, It remains a fertile source of trouble almost else In the world. It ha? been so ever since the time, when. In the word of the Old Testament, the Almighty "confounded the language" of the builders of the Tower of Babel, "so that they might not. understand one an- others speech," thereby creating so much discord among them that they were compelled to abandon their Impious undertaking. Here In the United State! the trouble has been largely confined to the Roman Catholic church, he hierarchy of which has patriotically,, .refused to countenance proposals of Any ecclesiastical or educational character calculated to interfere with the Americanisation of the Immigrants and of their children. In Europe, how- Aver, the language problem continues nearly everywhere to constitute aa Important and disturbing political issue. Particularly is this the case In Germany and In the empire. The latter comprise some 16 or more distinct races, each at drawn with the others, and with a language of Its own, the preservation of which U regards a necessary to protect R from absorption by Its neighbors, and from disappearance as a national entity. To such an extent Is this question of language Identified wtth that of nationalism In the dominions of Francia Joseph that htB lieges are convlneed that they cannot fight for , lbs one without combating for the other. Auatrla and Hungary have repeatedly, during the last decade, come almost to blows about this question of language, which has created more between these two moieties of the dual empire than anything else lnee the sanguinary Magyar Insurrection of 1849 The Hungarians, who defray the ex ponses imperials iny7"demaii(T" that their language shall be used In lieu of , rnmn- for the commands given those ftroops stationed In the Magyar kingdom. To this, neither the monarch, nor vfhe Austrian government, has been w llltng to consent, realizing that any In the matter would lead to similar pretensions on the part of the Czechs in Bohemia, of the Croatian, of the Slovaks, of "the Rumanians in "Transylvania, of the Italians In the southern provinces, of the Boles in Galicia, and so along the whole gamut Each of these races entertain the same nationalist aspirations Hungarians, and the quarrels which have taken place about this qjiefvtlon of language during thq last Quarter of a century have done more than anything .else to discredit parliamentary institutions in the duel emplreimf ifo render legislative government well nigh impossible. Nor ia this .strife onoManguaffi's "conffue'd "within the limits . t It affects very seriously the foreign relations ot; the 'Jotter. Formerly the Finns were renowned for their unimpeachable loyalty 40 the Russian crown, and it used to be a boast that no citizens of this northern grand duchy were ever to be found. In revolutionary or nihilist gnnka. " This condition of affairs has been radically changed during the last 15 years or so by the endeavors of the St. Petersburg government to Russianize the language of the population, compelling the use of Russian Instead of Finnish not only In official, administrative, legislative, and Judicial , procedure and communications, hut even in the schools, in the churches, and ,ln the everyday life of the people A similar process of RusslanUaUon has 'been carried on In the provinces of the west and In Poland, the Idea being to gradually crush out of existence nationalist particularism and to weld the various non Muscovite races of, the czar's Aotplre Into a wholly Russian homogeneous unit Thus far the experiment baa proved s failure, and has only serv.d. aa also in Finland, to develop a greater hostility toward everything Russian and a more passionate attach ' , went to their own language HEN e - dlf-rfare- d B yenrn-Torall- h CHICKENS CANT STAND SALT USING THE VERTICAL DRAINS owls Will Never Deliberately Devour Mineral and When Mixed With. Feed It Proves Fatal. Whether They Work Successfully or Not Depends Largely on Underground Water How Operated. "It does not seem to be generally known that an excess iof salt will kill ihickens, says a writer In the Farmers Mail and Breeze Very frequently we get word from people who have It la the same In Germany, where the imperial gov had the experience of losing large ernment has for decades past been striving Its ut numbers of chickens from simply giv- most to substitute the German la n guag e.f o r Jo list log in' inft province of Posen, of German for Danish in "This Is never done deliberately, the duchies of Schleswig and of Holstein, and ol tout comes about In a most Innocent German In lieu of French in Alsace and Lorraine. way . Eor instance, one woman baked The agent of the government Intrusted with this a cake and made the mistake of putand re- ting In salt Instead of sugar When, work, rendered Impatient by opposition harsh the error was discovered. It was of of In all sorts to as resort, Russia, sistance, must rourse found that the cake was unfit measures that measures to attain their ends, of to eat,and as a consequence it was as of this th to partaking country appear people cruel the most intolerable tyranny and oppression, throw to the chickens. Practically all tot of the chickens died aa a result are children when punished young especially "In another case some Ice cream declining to repeat In school their prayers and their catechism In any other language thafl that In which wa ordered, and the salty water which waa left In the freezer was poured they learned them at their mothers knee. mf Georfeof rival Into the chicken feed with the rethe Is torn asunder Great Britain by Belgium literally claims of the Flemish and the French speaking prov- sult that the next morning practicalinces for the official supremacy of their respective ly all of the lady's chickens were j languages Of the population of near 8,000,000, 62 dead. 48 we "So t k per the Flemish and might go on with these Inremaining per cent, bjm ent. French and each moiety Insists that its lan- stances. but this Is enough to show when guage should be the national tongue. So bitter has what the deadly effects areChickens the fight become that the king has even been called chickens get too much salt. salt in Its upon in parliament at Brussels to consent to the par- will seldom deliberately eat watition of the country Into two separate and Inde- pure form, or drink enough salty mixed is It when but or kill to ter them, pendent states, the one embracing the Walloon, provinces, and the other the Flemi- with their food it nearly always proves sh- provinces, each "having Its own autonomous form fatal. of government, and united only by dynastic ties, in the person of Die sovereign This fight about the IMPROVED SPADE FOR BUTTER languages In Belgium Is a perpetual source of poIkTn Implement Devised by Minnesota Man lttfml'dirrusnmlnvudtHfrf,veryTofm&hr life, and has contributed more than anything else to Cuts Through Print Easily, No obstruct legislation, and to Interfere with the progMatter How Hard It la ress of this amazingly rich little kingdom In Greets a few years ago there were sanguinary When & knife Is too dull to be of riots throughout the country, notably between those much use people are fond of referring who favored the modern Greek version of the Scrip- to It is "too dull to cut butter." Whoe who clung, to the ancient Greek ever originated this remark evidently tures, and-tiEven had small experience in cutting butter, where the Bible was concerned. language, Great Britain has had her troubles in connection with for a good, cold, firm print Is not so the question f language. A short time before Jo- easily divided as most folk Imagine. seph (Tiambv'Ialn retired from the secretaryship of Warm butter may not have much constate for ths colonies, he stirred up such a hornets sistency, but cold butter has. A Minnest at Mult.', by sore unpopular decrees concerning nesota man, who is not necessarily a the language to be used In official matters on the farmer because his first name Is Reu-- Island, that he was forced to rescind it, this being ben, "has Invented a butter spade which the only Instance in his long pndmasterful career crenmerymen and dealers will find at the colonial department of his having to beat a retreat Moreover, to this day the rival claims of the Tual. or Dutch putoiH, spoken In South Africa, and of English, to official and administrative supremacy. remaliXa source of dissensions, which are not without bitterness They eviry now and then become acute, and Variously interfere with the reconciliation of the Boer element to British rule While It Is impossible to refrain from admiring the liberal policy which the Ifritish government has Impewrfranz-ihyp- h of Austria adopted In South Africa In relation to Phis problem a source of amazement that of languages, It must Germany, Russia, and other European powers should be so blind to the lessons of history in this particular connection. s French-speakin- - n - -- FUNNY TALES -- Austro-Hungaria- "Hang It!" said Oppmnn to his daughter. "You made a great selectton at the public library! Of the three books you brought me one Is about an orphan asylum, another about an old folks' home and the third concerns a pesthouse. "But theyre good books," Insisted Julia Oppman "I dont want to read about a pesthouse, and I have all I can do keeping out of the poorhouae myself, so I dont care to read about it," growled her father. "Can't you get me a cheerful sort of book?" Now, pupa," objected Violet Oppma, you always read the books first and then tell us about them before we have a chance to read them ourselves. That bmHs the book." "Yes, he does, assented Mrs. Oppman. "He tears the book all to pieces and destroys our appetite for It by telling ua that both the hero and heroine ... are fools "Well, 'they mostly are,1" said Oppman. "That pesthouse atory that you are growling about Is really a funny story. It A what? demanded Oppman. Yes, I suppose It Is. So Is the story about the two old folkB walking hand in hand to the poorhouse. vWell, there are quaint little things in It, and the orphan story Is so The little girl reconciles sn unhappy pair, fascinating, said Mrs. Oppman and" It all turn out well. Well, explained Oppman, "1 didnt read aa far aa that. I can't stand to read about orphan children getting abused. I suppose that was a funny yarn about the girl ho moved to town to get work; and there w as an him. tree ibid -- NOVEL FORM OF WINTER SPORT n dag-jgsr- s .. - d Illustration that further description unnecessary. It can be used either w ith the right or left hand and provides for-- straight, downward movement, whichx! insures a more even cut from top to bottom than can be obtained with a knife. The blade is much stronger than the blade of an ordinary knife, too, "and is not likely Is q to wobble, German-speakin- g EVERY Rus-Ala- n DAY " hia good turii. The good turn may not btfa very big thing help an JSoy Scout la Pledget! to That for the old woman across the street; remove Honor of the Organization He Belongs To, done a banana skin from the pavement so that people may not fall; 'remove from street or.joads broken giassrdangef--f "The Boy Scoufhr' today must be ous to motor car or bicycle tires, give 'fvalrous, manly and gentlemanly. water to a thirsty horse, or deeds simn he gets up In the morning he ilar to these a knot in his necktie and The scout also ought to know how outside his vest until to save life. He ought to be able to a good turn. Another make a stretcher; to throw a rope to j, wer hla a drowning person; to drag an un - 'sMM This year I shall endoavo'r to be To Judge men a. I wish then, w try to keep myself ro more than earn my trust, To cease from 'being from tnrv ' k A. A , VERTICAL DRAIN. K 10 swaW hv gust That blows across my patn 0 see The good there Is to la r. For honor sakeranairnrh, iuse "Wf try .. This year I shall endeavor t. t, To give no other reason to eomnbu!! To be no foolish habits slave To cease to dread the smirklB dlsdain. To ever hope for better things to cea. To keep from swearing if 1 thumb. These Drains May Serve as Outlets for Horizontal Laterals, With or Without These Laterals, They May Drain Thoroughly. which require to be successively pierced to tree the upper soil of waterlogging. After the first one has been penetrated the water may rise and again subside whSn the second or third sheets arp pierced. In seepage lands we may have a stratum of hard soil confining water at a depth injurious to crops and retaining water, the accumulations of year, and these may be wasting into spring holes and ' wallows In many places, yet the water has not sufficient flow to clear itBelf. In such cases, even If the water rises from below, relief often comes by opening up the hardpan and drawing off the w ater In a tile or open, ditch-- It This year I shall endeavor to give char To those who sit In doubt and those t will often be found that the water which ruins and la coming In To sigh. those who, bearing bruises, wond" very slowly but lies In an'underground why basin formed by hard pan at a differ- The world has grown so barrenXnd ent level from the surface soil, perdrear; though the Bky be overcast or cleir, haps crossing the underflow with And, My heart shall be serene, my purpoa ridges at almost a right angle to the high; flow and these must If possible, be No task shall be JU So hard for me to try, cut through if a vertical drain fails to My breast shall have no room for fohsli fear. give relief. This year I shall endeavor where I may To comfort those whose burdens bev REEL CARTF0R BARB WIRE therm down. Pot-Hole- s I y Device Made of Old Cultivator Truck With Shovel Beams Removed Works Quite Rapidly. With this device twonien can reel up barb wire nearly, as fast as they can walk. One man guides the truck backwards to make the wire wind evenly on spool, says a Kansas writer ln the Fanners Mall and Breeze1 The cranking pulls the truck ACOVTOALUE let no man as I shall go my way Behold my face disfigured by a frown. To try, when others walk upon my toes. To smile because they haven't humped my nose. y- f Detilsh-datrymetf"Tal- gray-haire- ou Can you remember went insane what your trobule was?" Oh, yes, I wore out my mental faculties trying to make people believe I waa a reincarnation of Oliver Cromwell They simply wouldn't believe me and the humiliation was more than I Qnfy Be Found Out by Weighing Milking and Ny Keeping Daily Record. The valu of Ju cow be known,t)y weighing each milking and keeping a dally record of the same JThe weighing of the feed and the welghlngv-othe milk Is now followed dairymen Sometimes a good cow Is not appreciated because the yield - comes from her months of milking rather than1 from the big yield soon after calving A dairyman at a farmers meeting a few weeks ago said: 1 have Introduced the system of weighing the grain and forage fed to the hern and weighing the milk of each cow. R takes very little time to do this, and you can then know after a few months what cows are the most profitable. A persistent milker will In most every Instance prove the most, profitable cow to keep Cause of His Trouble. Poor man," said the lady who wm passing through the lunatic asylum, "how long have you been here?" The round shouldered little man to whom she had spokes looked at "her strangely for a moment and then replied: Seven years. "Do you realize your condition?" How sad. Important Fact Can can--onl- aa me, To Xx DETERMINING AMOUNT OF FEED FOR COWS Brief and Simple Rules Given by braska Experiment Station ... Great-Aifoe Dairymen, d the-eubje- Austriar-Hungary- HEW YEAR could why-y- bear" p. ,k. ' Barb Wire Reel Cart. - The Model Dad. Lives there a dad with soul so dead along and rolls the wire on tight The Who never to hla eon hath said: 1 waa your age I would ran truck is an old walking cultivator "When To do the things I had to do; with shovel beams removed. I never till my work was done The frame Is made Of two by fours Found any pleasures to pursue; bolter. together.. with a to fas- My parents never had to scold, And every rule they ever made ten the front to the tongue. The me was honestly obeyed. frame is wide enough to havd a collar I For never frowned- - and never told at each end of the spool with set A falsehood when I waa a boy; screws. The Bcrewt are tightened up T rave my parents dally Joy By doing well and being kind. against the crank shaft so the reel " By being truthful and polite; cant slip. My speech was proper and refined. My heart contained no room for spite; If such there be, go mark him welt PROPER BREEDING OF DUCKS For he's a bird! But none such dwtl , Upon this earth unknown, unsung, Care ..Should Be Exercised That' the Buck wonders all die very- young " Females Are Matured and the Male Fatal Oversight. a Little Undersized. But your story seems to lack ah the magi tine editor exIn making up the breeding pen care tnoBphere, y should be taken that the females are plained. "Dear me,7 replied the young tsdf matured and that the drake, though who desired to contribute, "how fully grown. Is a little on the small of me not to have thought of stupid size for his breed. that. And the hero carries the heroin It is the ducks which Impart Blze X to the progeny and the male bird the away in an airship, too. shape and style, so that large-frame- d Neighborly Consideration. ducks should be mated with medium 1 heard your baby crying nearly oil sized drakes. What waa the matter wlth It?" night. - Therr is a 'good'flrsT croes Pekin "I think she wanted me to get up which produces large, and Aylesbury, carry her around, but I was afraid healthy ducklings, but which do not If I did youd be disturbed by hearing mature so rapidly as the pure Ayles-buT- me the floor over your bead." tramping stock; still, considering that the Aylesbury ducks must have a fairly U nconventlonal. sheltered position If they are to do at "She ie so unconventional." well as early breeders, the above croet "Yea. I asked her out to dinner might be chosen with advantage when fww ago, and she didnt ml breeding Is to be carried on In bleak whenevenings we had oat down at the tabU U-b- -- ithe xOSE GOOD TURN thin-blade- -- con-cessio- n - much more effective than the long, knife they have been using. The spade Is shown so plainly in the Thewhaf cow they need The most profitable cows can only be had by careful breeding. wise selection, practical feeding and thorough milking In some dairies the young cows are milked three times a day to develop their milking -Hhe- G-- SoimeisofC TiiisPs"boxofTenrtiieca3ernfnrini? drain Is carried to as low a water table as 12 or 15 feet. It is quite common to pad seve-- ai sheets of impervious material which- HOWjw TO ButterSpsde. h every-wher- HENRY g - r Vertical drains can often be used where the cost of tiling is prohibitive for small amount of land. Whether these draiss work welt or.not dewa pends largely on th underground when rise will cases some terwhicb Jn tie Impervious sheet above Is pierced. -- Ne-- .. The Nebraska station gives the following brief and simple rules aa an Vehicle Made to Run on Ice by Gasoline Power. aid In determining the amount of feed required by each cow; let. Feed all the roughage, such aa she fell in love with, and when it was cut down she died Where was the alfalfa, corn silage, etc., that the cow will eat np clean. Joke in that? 2d. Feed approximately one pound "Oh, said Violet, that was a sweetly sad story But the pest house story of grain for every three pounds of and' unsheltered situations. is uproariously funny all the way through." 1 never noticed It. It Is a good plan to run" an AylesThey were in the pesthouse and that Institution over milk produced per day 3d Give the cows as much feed as looked the graveyard The Idea of being separated from your family and put bury drake with Indian Runners for they will consume without gaining in the production of passable table there to contemplate the graveyard strikes me aa anything but funny!" birds, ' and then to remove the drake and re- "Well, If you had just read a little further you would have come to the weight fun The smallpox patients organized a baseball team and played every after- - ! 4th. Feed some succulent feed, such place him with one 5T their own breed noon They called themselves The'Pesthouse Pippins They challenged all aa corn silage or roots, to make the tor the production of pure breeds tor ration more palatable egg production. comers, and there wasn't a team in1 the state that dared tackle them! 5ti. Be prepared to supplement the The proper sheltering of "Here, gimme that bookcried Oppman breeding pastures by feeding silage when the ducks is of the greatest Importance as season sets In. dry the birds cannot render a acgood and to resuscitate a person overcome enough hours to give him the count, of themselves unless housed in Valuable Winter Feed. structures that are damp-prooby gas fumes. He ought also to know sary strength, and. If poaalble, to sleep'' well Unthreshed peas may he made a ventilated, kept clean the" method of stopping runaway very much In the open, or at least and bedwell valuable winter feed for hogs by ded with dry Utterhorses, and he should have the pres- with the windows open. Tlng-thI uv-crop in the held until the rtnes ence of m i n d . a n Ob e... skill mrans'MSu that Tie" should well are cured, when they-ar- e other wtth gathstreet deal and cold bath anj Mineral Matter for pamc often, rubbing dry with a Sheep. accidents He should breathe ered without being cut with the comrough towel. Scientists tell us that there Is often mon in bull rake used There haying. must nose means This more mineral that the Boy Scoot and not through the through the are a few vines left where the rake fleece of wool matter removed from a always be In the pink of condition. A mouth. He should at all times train than is contained in the but as soon as a quantity hae boy cannot do things like these unless himself to endure hardships. From starts, entire body from which the sheeps the are teeth taken wool Is they gathered upon he la healthy and strong. Therefore, "Boy Scouts of America." clipped; hence the necessity up clean with but little scattering. of a he must be systematically taking ex--" ration, with plenty of mineral dm-ln- g fed the be from Btack They may Dont wait for the fool killer, Do matter In , order to supply material running and the w Inter without threshing. -Nb j for th.s deep, yourself. superior wool jrow A. S f, -- e Uv-ea '"ea, ' n that she didn't feel ' hungry -- bit the least Sir Isaac's Loss. I have discovered the law of ity!" exclaimed Newton. Too bad," said his neighbor, grav- that the Chautauqua circuit hasnt been ganised yet" or- Pa Explains. "Pa, what's an affinity?" "A woman with whom a man woulf haver been miserable if he"- had "K&P pened to get her for his wife." - Love. Love cannot be bought." says one of the phliosophettes. The statement may be true, but It can be coaxed with fine clothes and Jewelry. - Help. Many a man's biggest be-- ' i- - " |