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It Is the same In Germany, where the Imperial govHEN 50 years ago Henrik Ibsen In ernment has for decades paBt been striving Its ut "Pear Gynt" that most remarkmost to substitute the German language for Polish able of all bis metrical works In the province of Posen, of German for Danish In held up to ridicule In the person the duchies of Schleswig and of Holstein, and ot of Huhu the language reformers German In lieu of French lu Alsace and Lorraine. of Norway, he little thought that The agents of the government intrusted with this the movement, then In its Infancy, work, rendered impatient by opposition and rewould develop Into a national issue of such Importance as to have sistance, resort, as In Russia, to all sorts of harsh measures to attain their ends, measures that must brought about the downfall of a to the people of this country as partaking of In the and appear powerful administration, the most Intolerable tyranny and cruel oppression, accession to office of a liberal caespecially when young children are punished fot binet under the premiership of General Braille. Into repeat In school their prayers and their was in fought declining election last Norway general deed, the catechism In any other language than that In which mainly on this Issue of language, and resulted In an they learned them at their mothers knee. .overwhelming victory of the left party, which Is Belgium Is literally torn asunder by the rival .committed to the reform of the vernacular of the Flemish and the French speaking provclaims Is in used word Christiania, reform, Perhaps the inces for the official supremacy of their respective For the measure now in process of misleading. languages. Of the population of near 8,00,000, 52 .adoption la not the revision of the existing language, dlf of an per cent, spe: k Flemish and the remaining 48 per but the adoption entirely amely, Danish, cent. French, and each moiety Insists that Its lanwas inventIt Landsmaal Cerent one, known as the guage should be the national tongue. So bitter has ed toward 1850 by the eminent Norwegian philologist, that the king has even been called the fight becc-nIvar Aasen, who. In ita construction, embodied much in at Brussels to consent to the parupon of well as some as parliament of the Norse of the ancient Sagas, tition of the country Into two separate and Indethe dialects of the remoter regions of the kingdom, pendent states, the one embracing the Walloon, or where the peasantry have clung through the four French speaking provinces, and the other the Flemto the of flanlsh domination spoken tongue centuries ish provinces, each having its own autonomous form In of the the days Vikings. by their forbears of government, and united only by dynastic ties, in Employing these and other materials, adapting the person of the sovereign. This fight about the them to modern requirements, Ivar Aasen succeeded so so a melodious aud languages In Belgium Is a perpetual source of poin evolving poetic language litical discussion, invading every form and walk in Chat Jthe vast majority of his countrymen, commenclife, and has contributed more than anything else to ing with the rural population, have accepted it for obstruct legislation, and to interfere with the progtheir songs, their plays, their sermons, their schools, ress of this amazingly rich little kingdom. and their vernacular. It has caught their fancy; it In Greece a few years ago there were sanguinary-riotappeals to their pride In the romantic past when the William throughout the country, notably between those away of the Norse Vikings extended over Scandi- Emperor or Germany Jt who favored the modern Greek version of the Scripnavia, northern Germany, Russia, and the greater tures, and thie who clung to the ancient Greek portion of the British Isles; and It has become Jdenti-HeIn their eyes with Norwegian nationalism. language, where the Bible was concerned. Even Great Britain has had her troubles in connection with The spurious Danish in which Ibsen wrote and the question of language. A short time before Jowhich has been the official language of the Norseph Chamberlain retired from the secretaryship of wegians for more than 400 years recalls to them state for the colonies, he stirred up such a hornets those centuries of Danish oppression and persecunest at Malt.', by some unpopular decrees concerning tion, when, robbed of her independence, Norway the language to be used In official matters on the rtlled from Copenhagen, not even as a province, but sm a colony, fit only for spoliation, exaction, and Island, that he was forced to rescind it, this being the only Instance In his long and masterful career tyranny. Everything that serves to recall Danish domination 1s hateful In Norway. Indeed, his Danat the colonial department of his having to beat a ish birth Is the only real cause of the unpopularity retreat. Moreover, to this day the rival claims of the of King Haakon's sagacious and conscientious rule. Tsai, or Dutch patois, spoken in South Africa, and ,' Early this year Norway of English, to official and administrative supremacy, will cell brate the centen-sila- l remain a source of dissensions, which are not withanniversary of her emancipation from Denmark, out bitterness. They every now and then become of the recovery of her Independence as a separate kingdom with a constitution of her own, though acute, and seriously interfere with the reconciliation suited by dynastic ties with Sweden until 1905. It Is of the Boer element to British rule. While it is Impossible to refrain from admiring proposed to signalize the national rejoicings In honor franz-Joiep- h of the occasion by the legislative adoption of Ivar liberal policy which the British government has the Emperor Aasen s Landsmaal as the official and national of Austria adopted in South Africa In relation to this problem of Norway. The government, an overwhelmof languages, it must be a source of amazement that ing majority of the Storthing, the press, and the bulk of the people have all other and European powers should be so blind to the lessons Russia, Germany, determined upon the change, and a royal commission appointed Jointly by of history In this particular connection. orown, cabinet and parliament Is now engaged In completing the necessary arrangements for the execution of the proclamation decreeing the new vernacular, which is to Inaugurate the centennial. It will be a remarkable and unique event For, while there pre plenty of Instances of a government forcing 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 compiling Its rulers to abandon the national language for an entirely new tongue. Ivar Aasen, Its creator, already celebrated as a philologist, will from henceforth enjoy new and more lasting fame, and will occupy an isolated place In You made a great selection at Hang it!" said Oppman to his daughter. lUstory, as the one man who invented and constructed a language, which the public library! Of the three books you brought me one Is about an ao pleased and fascinated bis countrymen that they relinquished the tongue orphan asylum, another about an old folks home and the third concerns a that had been theirs for hundreds of years, to adopt his for official and napesthouse. tional use. But they're good books," Insisted Julia Oppman. Ivar Aasen, who was the son of a small peasant farmer, was born Just a "I dont want to read about a pesthouse, and I have all I can do keeping aundred years ago In the district of Sondmore, and was honored on his out of the poorhouse myself, so I dont care to read about It, growled her death, in 189G, with a great public funeral at Christiania, where a national father. Cant you get me a cheerful sort of book? Is memorial about to be erected over his tomb. "Now, papa," objected Violet Oppman, "you always read the books first There are but two things more to be mentioned In connection with this and then tell us about them before we have a chance to read them ourselves. remarkable linguistic change in Norway. The first Is that Landsmaal is That spoils the book. phonetic in Its spelling. The second Is that Its adoption as the national verHe tears the book all to pieces Yes, he does," assented Mrs, Oppman. nacular will present no difficulty. For, as I have mentioned above, It has and destroys our appetite for It by telling us that both the hero and heroine been taught In schools for 20 and 30 years past and in Norway everybody are fools. Attends school, popular education being of an extremely high order. More"Well, they mostly are, said Oppman. over, the people have become so accustomed to It, and have developed such That pesthouse story that you are growling about Is really a funny liking for It, that it Is they who forced its adoption by the state. story. It While this question of language 4iaa thus ceased to he a subject of poA what? demanded Oppman. "Yes, I suppose it Is. So Is the story litical strife in Norway, It remains a fertile source of trouble almost everytwo old folks walking hand in hand to the poorhouse." about the where else In the world. It has been so ever since he time, wheu, in the "Well, there are quaint little things in It, and the orphan story is so words of the Old Testament, the Almighty confounded the language of the The little girl reconciles an unhappy pair, fascinating, said Mrs. Oppman. builders of the Tower of Babel, so that they might not understand one It all turns out well. and speech," thereby creating so much discord among them that they Well," explained Oppman, I didnt read as far as that. I cant stand to were compelled to abandon their Impious undertaking. Here In the United read about orphan children getting abused. I suppose that was a funny yarn States the trouble has been largely confined to the Roman Catholic church, about the girl who moved to town to get work, and there was an elm tree that tfhe hierarchy of which has patriotically refused to countenance proposals of Any ecclesiastical or educational character calculated to Interfere with the Americanization of the Immigrants and of their children. In Europe, however, the language problem continues nearly everywhere to constitute an imNOVEL FORM OF WINTER SPORT portant and disturbing political Issue. Particularly Is this the case In Germany and In the empire. The latter comprises some 16 or more distinct races, each at daggers drawn with the others, and with a language of Its own, the preservation jf which It regards as necessary to protect It from absorption by Its nelgh-txrand from disappearance as a national entity. To such an extent Is this question of language identified with that of nationalism in the dominions Francis Joseph that his lieges are convinced that they cannot fight for ghe one without combating for the other. AuBtrla 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 inoe the sanguinary Magyar Insurrection of 1849. The Hungarians, who of the expenses of the Imperial army, demand that their defray one-hai-f language shall be used In lieu of German for the commands given those droops stationed In the Magyar kingdom. To this, neither the monarch, nor Ahe Austrian government, has been silling to consent, realizing that any concession in the matter would lead to similar pretensions on the part of the Czechs in Bohemia, of the Croatians, 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 as the Hungarians, and the quarrels which have taken place about this question of language during the laBt quarter of a century have done more than an thing else to discredit parliamentary institutions in the duel empire and to render .legislative government well nigh impossible. Nor Is this strife on the subject of languages confined within the limits It affects very seriously the foreign relations of the of Austria-Hungarlatter. Formerly the Finns were renowned for their unimpeachable loyalty Vehicle Made to Run on lea by Gaeoline Power. to the Russian crown, and it used to be a boast that no citizens ot this .northern grand duchy were ever to be found In revolutionary or nihilist ranks. This condition of affairs has been radically changed during the last 15 years or so by the endeavors of the St. Petersburg government to she fell In love with, and when it was cut down she died. Where was the finssianlze th language of the population, compelling the use of Russian Joke in that? Instead of Finnish not only in official, administrative, legislative, and Judicial "Oh, said Violet, that was a sweetly sad story. But the pest house story is uproariously funny all ,the way through. procedure and communications, but even In the schools. In the churches, and I never noticed it. They were in the pesthouse and that institution over In the everyday life of the people. A similar process of RussianUatlon has Jbeen carried on In the German-speakinlooked the graveyard. The Idea of being separated from your family and put provinces of the west and in Russian Poland, the idea being to gradually crush out of existence nationalist there to contemplate the graveyard strikes me as anything but funny! races of the czar's Well, if you had Just read a little further you would have come to the particularism and to weld the various fun. The smallpox patients organized a baseball team and played every afterempire into a wholly Russian homogeneous unit. Thus far the experiment has proved a failure, and has only serwd. as also in Finland, to develop a noon. They called themselves The Pesthouse Pippins. They challenged all greater hostility toward everjthing Russ, an and a more passionate attachcomers, and there wasn't a team in the state that dared tackle them!" ment to their own language , "Here, gimme that book!" cried Oppman. e s s FUNNY TALES Austro-Hungaria- n -- ONE GOOD TURN EVERY DAY done his good turn. The good turn may not be a very big thing help an jBoy Scout Is Pledged to That for the old woman across the street, remove a banana skin from the pavement so Honor of the Organization that people may not fall, remove from He Belongs To. stieets or roads broken glass, dangerTlxa Boy Scout of today must be ous to motor car or bicycle tires; give water to a thirsty horse, or deeds simefclvalrous, manly and gentlemanly. When he gets up in the morning he ilar to these The scout also ought to know-- how may tie a knot in his necktie and leave the necktie outside his vest until to save life. He ought to be able to he has done a good turn. Another make a Btretcher; to throw a rope to way fo remind himself Is to wear his a drowning person; to drag an unconiccut dge reversed until ha has scious person from a burning building. and to resuscitate a person overcome by gas fumes. He ought also to know the method of stopping runaway horses, and he should have the presence of mind and the skill to calm a panic and deal with street and other accidents. ThiB means that the Boy Scoot must always be in the pink of condition. A boy cannot do things like these unless he Is healthy and strong. Therefore, he must be systematically taking exercise, playing games, running and walking, U mean that ha must sleep enough hours to give him the necessary strength, and. If posuible, to sleep very much In the open, or at least with the windows open. It means also that he should take a cold bath often, rubbing dry with a rough towel. He should breathe through the nose and not through the mouth. He should at all times train himself to endure hardships. From Boy Scouts of America." Dont wait for the yourself. fool killer. Do It FARMERS WIVES ARE IS AIDING Fifty Thousand Have Sent Suggeetlone on Improving Conditione and These Are Being Applied by Department of Agriculture. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington. W Ives of the farmers of the land to the number of 50.000 have responded by letter to the request of the agricultural department that they tell of home life in the country and make suggestions as to what the department can do to Improve conditions, and to make the rural life more attractive for all the members of the household. Secretary Houston Is taking a deep Interest In the answers which have come to the departments query and be has read scores of them personally, while the others have been read for study purposes by officials high in the department. Recently the secretary of agriculture let It be known through the publicity bureau that he wished to make his department useful, not only to the farmer, but to the others of the household. The women were asked to write and they responded quickly and readily and in nearly every case. Intelligently. It is the intention of the governments agricultural officials to prepare and send out bulletins of Instruction and Information to the rural housewives of the country telling them how they can lighten their labors. shorten thfir hours of work, make their homes attractive, save money and make money and after dolng.it all find that they have left time tor rest, reading and bodily recreation. Exchange of Advice. Already the fanners wives of the country have received from the governments advisory bureau housekeeping, and other Instructions which on the face of things seems to mark Secretary Houston as a teacher of high standing in the domestic arts. It la probable that the secretary of agriculture will be the first one to put the credit where It belongs. The women have done it Advice from Alabama today Is being applied to California and advice from California Is being applied In Alabama, and put any other two states In the places of those named and the same thing holds true. Before long it Is the intention ot the department to prepare plans for the construction and proper arrangement of farm houses. They will vary in detail geographically. The same plans will not serve for a Florida farmhouse that will serve for one in Convenience and comfort Oregon. will be consulted with a view to the adaptation of the house to the special needs of the family of a farmer. Is Currency Law Prize or Blank? Now that the currency bill has become a law, the natural and perhaps apprehensive question becomes, Is it to work good or 111 to the banking and the- - general business Interests of the country? Coes one seem to put the plane of Intelligence lew when he says that, with the exception of half a dozen senators and representatives who have spoken directly to the point, no one can be found In the capital city, outside of those who speak enthusiastically simply because they are partisans, willing to give a specific answer to the question concerning the business results of the new currency law? The solemn truth Is that apparently no man understands currency to Its roots. Finance is a question which has been the subject of controversy for hundreds, yes, even thousand" of years. There are as many views on the proper way to make a sound currency as there are men able to express any view at all. Of the witnesses who appeared before the committees sitting In consideration of the currency measure, only one or two were willing to prophesy actual disaster as the result of the passage of the bin and only a few are willing to declare as q certainty that specific benefit wculd come from Its enactment During the debate on the tariff bill which is now the law there were plenty of Republicans In both bouses willing to prophesy disaster to the business Interests of the country because of the cut In customs The tariff was a familiar subject. Few Even Pretend to Know. During the debates on the currency bill, many of the Republicans sat speechless. Others, braver, spoke their minds, but those who thus spoke were few In number. Why was there reticence on currency and glibness on the tariff? The reason Is as simple as a primer. There are not more than ten men In the hcAse and senate who ' understand currency matters and all ' except the ten who understand, or who think they understand, were willing to keep quiet, lest they show thelA Gaelic Tongue. The Gaelic language was once spoken by a considerable number of the human race in the British Isles, the Isle of Man, northern Fiance and There is evidence that the Spain. Gaelic branch of the Celtic breed was widespread. For instance, it is maintained by some excellent authorities that the Cimbri. who threatened at one time to overwhelm Rome, and who were stopped by Marius, were of Gaelic speech. The ancient language is found today in the Isle of Man, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, western Ireland and In Brittany, northern France. Leadless Glaze Unknown. Englishmen demand "leadless glaze when they buy pottery, for leadless glaze does not poison the pottery workers. We In America do not ask for It In the china shops most of us have never heard of it. Yet Dr. Alice Hamilton's study for the federal bureau of labor shows how serious a form of lead poisoning Is the disease contracted by workers in American notteries, says tbeSurvey. All table Ignorance or predict something which might not be fulfilled As far as the congress of the Unit ed States Is concerned, the currency law is an experimental measure. Sen ators and representatives know what the banking Interests have said In fa vor of the bill and against It They realize that the "doctors disagree and If the doctors disagree how can the layman decide? President Wilson's currency measure will not come Into full operation for some time. In Washington Its re suits are looked upon much as were the results of the drawings of the old Louisiana lottery. It may be major prize legislation. It may be minor prize legislation, or It may be blank legisla tion representing the loss of all the eneigy which was put into its passage plus the loss of business stability Wilson Seema Confident. So It is that the currency measure, over the passage of which a sigh of relief went up because It brings with It cessation of congressional labors and a surcease of present sorrows, will become the law of the land and go Into operation without any definite knowledge, so far as Washington officials are concerned, as to whether it is to "do the country or to do some thing for the country. President Wilson seemingly is sure that money will be easier, that Wall street will not get Its hog's share In times of stress, that stability underlies the law In every one of its classes, and yet Mr Wilson may be mistaken. He admitted before the bill was Introduced that he did not understand the Has currency question thoroughly. he been able to master it In three months? Other men who have studied and Its ramifications money through the avenues of peace for years are ready to confess today that they are still groping The law is to go into operation. There will be no more surprise In Washington at Its failure to do what It Is Intended to do On currency than at Its success. matters the lawmakers have been guessing and now after all the weeks of debating It can still be said that perhaps one mans guess Is as good as anothers. Remarkable Work In Alaska. Lieut. Col. Wilds P. Richardson, United States army, chairman of the board of road commissioners for Alaska, has come out of the wilderness to' Washington to report at headquarters.' Colonel HENITf HOWLANH cornels of !tv. This year I shall endeavor to be To Judge men as I wish them toJut Judgs To try to keep myself from fre To morethan earn my wage, envy to merit To cease from being swayed by every gust .That blows across my path, to try tn. see The good there is, to labor honestly For honors sake, and not because I must. This year I shall endeavor to be brave, To give no other reason to complain! To be no foolish habit's slave, To cease to dread the smirking fools disdain. To ever hope for better things to come. To keep from swearing If 1 pound mv thumb. Richard- son and his fellow road builders, Lieut Glen Edgerton, corps of engineers; and Lieutenant Louis A- Kunzig, Thirtieth United States infantry, have superintended the construction and have attended to the details of administration of a government road which runs from Valdez near the coast to the town of Fairbanks, and over which In the summer time automobiles find easy passage. Perhaps when one reads this short statement of road construction the task appears to be nothing phenomenal, but it must be remembered that this road which the army officers planned, laid out and built runs through 400 miles of what is virtually The natural difficua wilderness. lties which are overcome seemingly were enough to dishearten the hardiest and most resourceful of men, but road has been built and it has cost the government $1,009 a mile less than the estimate made by engineers who went over the proposed road nine years ago. This government road, which has opened up Alaska to wagon traffic In summer and to the traffic of mall sleighs and other sledding vehicles in the winter, cost $2,o00 a mile to build. Army engineers fixed the prospective amount of expenditure at a mile. The road today is as good as the ordinary country road and If the government chooses to expend an additional $1,000 for each mile of construction, which the engineers recommended, It can be made one of the model roads of the country. Hardest Kind of a Job. ,, There Is a plan at present for the government to build railroads In Alaska to be owned and possibly to be operated by Uncle Sam. It is said in Washington that If the governments railroad shall be constructed as well and as economically as the wagColonel Richardson on road which and his asscciates have just completed, the tax payers of the country and the travelers who use the railway well may be satisfied with government work. Road building in Alaska Is a hard task. All sorts of conditions must be met Landslides, torrents, glacial action and a variety of assortment of problems, to the layman seemingly Impossible o fsolutlon, confront the builders at Intervals 'all For along the line of constructoln. years Colonel Richardson has been at his work, and last tall with his colleagues he made the trip over the new roadway the whole distance from Fairbanks to Valdez In an auto truck. Lieutenant Colonel Richardson, who has spent so many years in the government service in Alaska, Is a sturdy Texan. He graduated from the United States military academy in 1884. - te $3.-50- 0 Wonder whether the originator of the tango would have recognized the dance as attempted by many. and toilet wear. Including bathtubs and sinks. Is lead glazed the glaze containing from 5 to 20 per cent, of unchanged and therefore poisonous white lead. In decorated wear the per cent, is as high as 40 to 50. The dangers that follow from dust filled atmosphere, dusty floors, hands carelessly washed. If washed at all, at lunch hour, are conditions that should call for immediate remedy. Exploring the Air. All records for altitude tests and Investigations Into the skyward regions where air grows scarce and illimitable space begin have been broken in southern California. The results of the investigations into the upper air currents conducted at Catalina Island last July by government experts show that one of the automatic recording balloons used in the tests reached the immense altitude of 20.4 miles, or a greater distance from the earth than man has hitherto had knowledge of. Tbe southern California climate is approximately three miles in II. This year I shall endeavor to give cheer To those who sit In doubt and those whs sigh. To those who, bearing bruises, wonder why The world has grown so barren and so drear; And, though the sky be overcast or clear. My heart shall be serene, my purpose high; No task shall be too hard for me to try. My breast shall have' no room for f olish fear. This year I shall endeavor where I may To comfort those whose burdens bear them down, To 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 havent humped my nose. Cause of His Trouble. Poor man, said the lady who was passing through the lunatic asylum, how long have you been here? The little man to whom she had spoken looked at her strangely for a moment and then replied: Seven years. Do you realize your condition?" gray-haire- round-shouldere- . Yes. How sad. Can you remember why you went insane what your trobule was? Oh, yes, I wore out my mental fatrying to make people believe I was a reincarnation of Oliver Cromwell. They simply wouldnt believe me and the humiliation was more than I could bear. culties The Model Dad. Lives there a dad with soul so dead Who never to his son hath said: When I was your age I would run To do the things I had to do; I never till my work was done Found any pleasures to pursue; My parents never had to scold. And every rule they ever made For me was honestly obeyed; I never frowned and never told A falsehood when I was a boy; I gave my parents dally Joy By doing well and being kind, By being truthful and polite; My speech was proper and refined. My heart contained no room for spite! If such there be, go mark him well. For hes a bird! But none such dweB Upon this earth unknown, unsung. Such wonders all die very young. Fatal Oversight But your story seems to lack atexmosphere, the magizlne editor plained. Dear me, replied the young lady how who desired to contribute, of stupid of me not to have thought that. And the hero carries the heroiaa away in an airship, too. Neighborly Consideration. I heard your baby crying nearly all It. night What was the mattertowith OP get "I think she wanted me and carry her around, but I was afraid If I did youd be disturbed by hearing me tramping the floor over your bead. U neon venttenal. "She le so unconventional. a "Yes. I asked her out to dinner few evenings ago, and she didnt say when we had sat down at the table that she didnt feel the least bit hungry 81 r Isaacs Lots. ! "I have discovered the law of exclaimed Newton. tb Too bad, said his neighbor, orthe chautauqua circuit hasn't been ganized yet grav-lty- Pa Explains. Pa, what's an affinity? wou "A woman with whom a msn F had he If miserable have been wife. hls pened to get her for Love. one "Love cannot be bought, says stateroe of the philosophettes. The coaxed may be true, but it can be fine clothes and Jewelry. boost Many a mans biggest dov been In the nature of a calling t j |
