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Show v " v" r f t i t , THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH PORK, UTAH, t QUITE PROBABLY IT WOULD Clttl Acaldanl ( )4adgsar Uhaly U poll Expression of Almost Any Mon. mmmm t "Look plraraut," sold tha photographer. Tha elder raised bio eyre tnd gave o eUkenlng smirk. "Ydur head lust o liitlo more to tbo left. please," suigestod tbo voire from tbo block HEN CO years sgo Henrik Ibsen In obroud. "No, don't tnove tbo eyes." "Peer Gynl" that must remark Like mon suffering from a stiff nock sbls of nil his metrical works-h- eld or on liiffrl towrr collar, tbo sitter tilt up to ridicule In tbs person d bis bad gingerly till It rrarhvd of "llehu" the langusgs reformers tbo desired angle, and bo rvsembUd a of Norway, hs llllls thought that dying bob trying not to mind. "That's tbs movement, then In Its Infancy, very Mre, very nlco Indeed." said tbs would develop Into a national la Hiotog'apher. "Stay just tbero a bile auo of auch Importance ns to have Ho removed I maho tbo oipoouro. brought about the downfall of n tbo cap as bo spoke and counted out a powerful administration, and In the "Thank minute and accession to offlco of n liberal cab you," bo observed. "You can get up. luet under tbo premiership of General Bratlte. In I'm afraid you have been sluing on deed, tbo laat election la Norway waa fought your bat." "My bat! roared tbo sit mainly on thlageneral Issue of language, and rsaulted In an flattened ter, angrily, regarding the overwhelming victory of the left party, which Is felt. "Why tbo dickens didn't you tcU committed to tho reform of tbs vernacular. was I on mo my bat?" "My sitting tbs word reform, naed In Chrlatlanla, Is Pvrhapn dear sir," protested tbo photographer, For the measure now In process of misleading. would have blandly, "tbat spoiled your adoption Is not the revision of the existing language, expression." namely, Danish, but the adoption of an entirely different one, known aa the Landsmaal. It waa Invent A GRATEFUL OLD MAN. ed toward 1150 by the eminent Norwegian philologist, Ivar who, in Its construction, embodied much Mr.W.D. 8mlth, Ethel, Ky, writes: of theAascn, ancient Noras of the Sagas, aa well as soma of "I have been using Dodd's Kidney Pills the dialects of the remoter regions of the kingdom, for ten or twelve years and they have where the have peasantry clung through the four done mo a great deal of good. 1 do centurlea of Danlah domination to the tongue spoken not think I would bo their forbears In the days of the Vikings, alive today If It by Employing these and other materials, adapting were not for Dodd's them to modern requirements, Ivar Aasen succeeded Kidney rills. I In evolving so melodious and so poetic n language aratned my back that the vast hla countrymen, commencof majority about forty years ing with the rural population, have accepted It for ago, which left It their songs, their plays, their sermons, their schools, very weak. I wao and their vernacular. It haa caught their fancy; It A troubled with Inflam to their pride In tbs romantic past when the appeals -- v -mation of tbo blad 2 k. W. D. Smith. jcr. Dodd's Kidney sway of the Norse Vikings extended over Scandinorthern Germany, Russia, and the greater Tills cured mo of that and the Kidney navia, of the British portico Isles; and It haa become IdentiTrouble. I take Dodds Kidney Pills fied In their with Norwegian nationalism. eyes 1 now to keep from having Backache. The Danlah In which Ibsen wrote end am 77 years cld and a farmer. Ton are which spurious has been the official language of the Norto at liberty publish this testimonial, for more than 400 years recalls to them and you may use my picture In con wegians those centuries of Danish oppression and persecunectlon with It" Correspond with Ur. tion, when, robbed of her independence, Norway was Smith about this wonderful remedy. ruled from Copenhagen, not even as g province, hut Dodds Kidney rills, COe. per box at aa a colony, fit only for exaction, and your dealer or Dodd'o Medicine Co tyranny. Everything that spoliation, serves to recall Danlah NT. T. Household Write for Buffalo, domination Is hateful In Indeed, hla DanHints, also musle of National Anthem ish birth Is the only real Norway. cause of the unpopularity and red German and words) (English of King Ilaakon'a sagacious and conscientious rule. pea for dainty dishes. AU S sent free. Early thla year .Norway will celebrate the centenAdr. nial anniversary of her emancipation from Denmark, of the recovery of her Independence as a separate Polite Bertha. with a constitution of her own, though ktngdpm Little Berthe was Invited out to din ner with her father and mother. Be- united by dynastic ties with Sweden until 1905. It Is fore she went It Mia firmly Impressed proposed to signalize the national rejoicings In honor of the occasion by the legislative adoption of Ivar upon her that she must not speak All went unless spoken to. smoothly Aasen's Landsmaal as the official and national lanfor n while, but when some time guage of Norway, The government, an overwhelmelapsed and no notice was taken of ing majority of the Storthing, the press, and the bulk of the people have all determined upon the change, and a royal commission appointed Jointly by her she began to get uneasy. cabinet and parliament la now engaged In completing the necessary crown, someFinally the hostess, seeing for the execution of the proclamation decreeing the new verthing was wrong, asked her what she arrangements nacular, which la to Inaugurate the centennlaL would like next It will be a remarkable and unique event For, while there are plenty of "1 should like to have you begin to sk me questions," was the polite re Instances of a government forcing Its language upon provinces and dependencies acquired by conquest or statecraft against the wishes of their populaply. Llpplncott'a. tion, 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. IS EPILEPSY CONQUERED? Ivar Aaaen, Its creator, already celebrated as a philologist, will from henceNew Jersey Physician Said to Have forth enjoy new and more lasting fame, and will occupy an Isolated place In history, as the one man who Invented and constructed a language, which Many Cures to His Credit o pleased and fascinated hla countrymen that they relinquished the tongue Red Bank, N. J. (Special). Advices from every direction fully confirm that had been theirs for hundreds of years, to adopt hla for official and national use. previous reports that the remarkable Ivar Aasen, who was the son of a small peasant farmer, was born Just a treatment for epilepsy being administered by Dr. Perkins of this city, Is hundred years ago In the district of Sondmore, and waa honored on his achieving wonderful results. Old and death. In 1896. with a great public funeral at Christiania, where a national stubborn cases have been greatly memorial Is about to be erected over hla tomb. There are but two things more to be mentioned In connection with this benefltted and many patients claim to remarkable linguistic change In Norway. The first Is that Landsmaal la . have been entirely cured. Persons suffering from eplrepsy phonetic in its spelling. The second Is that Ita adoption as the national vershould write at once to Dr. H. W. nacular will present no difficulty. For, as 1 have mentioned above. It haa Perkins, Branch 49, Red Bank, N. J been taught In schools for 20 and 30 years past and In Norway everybody for a supply of the remedy which is attends school, popular education being of an extremely high order. More being distributed gratuitously. Adv. over, the people have become eo accustomed to it, and have developed auch a liking for It, that It la they who forced its adoption by the state. While thla question of language baa thus ceased to be a subject of poWilling to Learn. Moved by an impulse he could not litical strife in Norway, It remains a fertile source of trouble almost everyresist, he suddenly kissed her. "Oh. where else In the world. It has been so ever since the time, when, in the Herbert!" she exclaimed, thats not words of the Old Testament, the Almighty confounded the language" of the right." "I'm sorry, Helen." replied builders of the Tower of Babel, so tbat they might not understand one anHerbert humbly. "I did the best I other's speech," thereby creating so much discord among them that they know how. r. Won't you show me the were compelled to abandon their Impious undertaking. Here in the United States the trouble haa been largely confined to the Roman Catholic church, proper way?" the hierarchy of which has patriotically refused to countenance proposals of any ecclesiastical or educational character calculated to Interfere with the Important Examine carefully every bottle of Americanization of the Immigrants and of their children. In Europe, howCASTOR1A, a safe and sure remedy for ever, the language problem continues nearly everywhere to constitute an Iminfants and children, and see that It portant and disturbing political Issue, Bears the n Particularly la this the case in Germany and In the 16 more some Signature of or each distinct at dagraces, The latter comprises empire. In Use For Over SO' Years. gers drawn with the others, and with a language of Its own, the preservation Children C for Fletcher's Caatoria of which It regards as necessary to protect It from absorption by Its neighbors, and from disappearance aa a national entity. To auch an extent is this Nothing to His Credit question of language Identified with that of nationalism In the dominions "Nowadays when a man tries to of Francis Joseph tbat his lieges are convinced that they cannot fight for make both ends meet he Is greeted by the one without combating for the other. ' & loud laugh of derision." Austria and Hungary have repeatedly, during the last decade, come alQuite so. And It is generally sus- most to blows about this question of language, which has created more between these two moieties of the dual empire than anything else pected that he la lacking In finesse." since the sanguinary Magyar Insurrection of 1849. The Hungarians, who e of the expenses of the Imperial army, demand that their Stop that cough, the source of Pneumoma. defray one-haetc. Prompt use of Deans Mentholated language shall be used in lieu of German for' the commands given those Cough Drop give relief Oc at Druggists. troops stationed In the Magyar kingdom. To this, neither the monarch, nor the Austrian government, haB been willing to consent, realizing that any conwoman a than convince Its easier to cession In the matter would lead to Blmllar pretensions on the part of the It la to keep her convinced. Czechs in Bohemia, of the Croatlans, of the Slovaks, of the Rumanians In Transylvania, of the Italians In the southern provinces, of the Poles In Galicia, and so along the whole gamut Each of these races entertain the same nationalist aspirations aB the lacreusour wtaa foroe at one wa offer extra liberal contract to enHungarians, and the quarrels which have taken place about this question of ergetic men of itood habit end appearance, language during the last quarter of a century have done more than anything 21 to GO year okl, who can t urmh good to discredit parliamentary Institutions la the duel empire and to render else reference. Pleasant, profitable, work. You ere your own boat but government well nigh Impossible, legislative experience operate on our capital. No Nor is this strife on the subject of languages confined within the limits needed. W, gtv, you thorough eoune in work grow euier and profit bet. It affects very seriously the foreign relations of the of Austria-Hungarter every month. Our men elenr IW to IAK) per month above expenae. Fine territory now open latter. Formerly the Finns were renowned for their unimpeachable loyalty in your atate. Old mlabllahid, Writ .tone, fur yarticu- to the Russian crown, and it used to be a boast that no citizens of this Jny 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 Russianize the language of the population, compelling the use of Russian feistead of Finnish not only In official, administrative, legislative, and Judicial procedure and communications, but even In the schools, in the churches, and in the everyday life of the people. A similar process of Russlanlzation has IF YOU been carried on in the German-speakinprovinces of the west and in Rusno appetite, Indigestion, Flatulence, Sick to idea crush out of existence nationalist the sian being gradually Poland, Headache, all run down" or losing flesb, yea will find races of the czars particularism and to weld the various empire into a wholly Russian' homogeneous unit. Thus far the' experiment has proved a failure, and has only' served,' arf also in Finland, to develop a greater hostility toward everything Russian and a more passionate attachment to their own language. Inst what ynn need. They tone up the weak flagging etomach aud build up the energies. i three-quarter- Hil mum s. Go No Farther! Send your jewelry ordm directly to ui. Well ihip at once. Witche $1.60 up. I Iffklqucrt- -f 6 OstJ T It la the asm In Germany, where tha Imperial gow rnment haa for decades past been striving Ita UP moat lo substitut the German language for Polish In the province of Posen, of Urrman for Danish In smj umui wn,wiq tho durblea of Rchleawlg and of llolaleln, and ol German In lieu of French In Alsaee and Tbo agents of Iho government Intrusted with thla Tb modern girl Insist on doing nd rs work, rendered Impatient by opposition ah pleases with who pleases shat letanre, resort, as In Russia, to ell sorts of harsh her. must measures to attain their ends, measures that appear to tbo people of thla country na partaking ol tho most Intolerable tyranny end cruel oppression, especially when young children ere punished fof declining to repeat In echoed tbelr prayers end tbeli catechism In any other language then that In which Of a Good Coffee it in the they learned them at their mother' knee. Belgium Is literally torn asunder by th rival Fgrewcll' or lingering Ute claims of the Flemish end tho French speaking provinces for the official supremacy of their respective languages. Of tho population of near 1,000.000, 62 per cent apeak Flemish and tbo remaining 48 per cent. French, and each moiety Insists that Its lanLunds Freih Roasted Steel Cut guage should ho tho national tongue. Bo bitter hae Coffee ha a dclicioui and plea tho fight become that tho king haa even been called after-taste that please the ant upon In parliament at Brussels to consent to tho par Utlon of tbo country Into two separate and Indw coffee drinker. ciitical most pendent states, tbo ono embracing tbo Walloon, or provinces, and tho other tho FlemA woman I content to wait on the ish provinces, each having Ita own nutonomoua form of government, and united only by dynastic ties. In man shs loves forever, but slit won't Iho person of the sovereign. This fight about tho wait for him half an hour. languages In Belgium Is n perpetual source of p lillcal discussion. Invading every form and walk In life, and has contributed more than anything else to obstruct legislation, and to Interfere with tho progress of this amazingly rich little kingdom. In Greece a few years ago there were sanguinary riots throughout tho country, notably between thoso AXGKLKS who favored tho modern Greek version of tho ScripAMO NKTI'RI tures, and thoso who clung to the ancient Greek JANL'AMY 31 language, where tho Bible wao concerned. Even Mid-Wintwith connection In Great Britain has had her troubles tbo question of language. A short time before Kxriintlon Chamberlain retired from tho secretaryship of Wilts lag (prcial state for the colonies, ho stirred op such n hornets' ol nip m mo yow Miltood ograb nest at Malta, by some unpopular decrees concerning J.M.MaaAWbU.ACPX tho language to ho used In official matters on tho Sah LakaCar Island, tbat ho was forced to rescind It, this being tho ouly Instance In hla long and masterful career at tho colonial department of hla having to beat e 2 liioh Arm Iarx-On retreat Moreover, to this day the rival claim of the Tutor. In Rural Futnll. and Houth In knives. II Dutch two Africa, or spoken Tsai, patois,' Iran ruio-- atl.ka. t'hrap. Writ X, ram of English, to official and administrative oupremacy, Wratrm kap.- -t Tniun. Salt LaO Cltr. remain e source of dissensions, which are not without blttcrnesa. They every now nd then become CLIENT WAS GRATEFUL. acute, and seriously interfere with the reconciliation of the Boer element to British rule. , Have Rewarded "Plumed While It Is Impossible to refrain from admiring Would Aid. for has British which the Knight" Timely , government liberal policy fmpervrfranz doxA tbe When Blalns was a young lawyer adopted In South Africa In relation to this problem of Auofr as of languages,' It must be a source or amazement that and casea were few, he waa aaked to other and European power should be ao blind to the lessons defend a poverty stricken tramp acRussia, Germany, of history In this particular connection. cused of stealing a watch. He pleaded with all tha ardor at hla command, drawing so pathetic a picture with auch convincing energy tbat at the close of his argument the court was In tears and even the tramp wept Tbe Jury deliberated a few minutes -and returned the verdict "not guilty." , Then the tramp drew himself up, tears streaming down hla face aa be looked at tbe future "plumed knight" selection at e "You made hla great to daughter. "Hang It!" said Oppman the public library! Of the three hooka you brought me one la about an and said: never heard ao grand I orphan asylum, another about an old folks' home and the third concern a a "Sir, I have not Cried before since have plea. pesthouse." was I no child. I a have money with Julia Insisted books. Oppman. "But they're good "I don't want to read about a pesthouse, end I have all I can do keeping which to reward you, but (drawing a out of the poorhouse myself, so I don't cere to read about It," growled her package from the depths of his ragged clothes), heres tbe watch; father. "Can't you get me a cheerful sort of book?" books first take It and welcome." Pittsburgh the read Violet "you always Oppman, "Now, papa," objected . and then tell us about them before wa have a chance to read them ouraelves. That spoils the book." A Wise Youth. "Yes, he does," assented Mrs. Oppman. "He teen the book all to pieces A small boy had been vaccinated, and destroys our appetite for it by telling us that both the hero end heroine and after the operation the doctor ore fools. Well, they mostly are," said Oppman. prepared to bandage tbe sore arm,, "That pesthouse story that you' ere growling about la really a funny but tbe boy objected. " "Put It on the other arm, doctor." story. It A whit?" demanded Oppman. "Yes, I suppose it is. So Is the story I Why, no," said tbe physician, about the two old folks walking hand In hand to the poorhouse." want to put the banduge on your sore Well, there ere quaint little things in It, end the orphan story is so arm, ao the boys at school wont hit The little girl reconciles an unhappy pair, you on it? fascinating," said Mrs. Oppman. i and it ell turns out well." Put It on the other arm, doc," reWell," explained Oppman, I didn't read as far as that. I cant stand to iterated the small you dont read about orphan children getting abused. I suppose that was a funny yarn know the fellows at boy; Laour school. about tbe girl who moved to town to get work, and there was an elm tree that dles Home Journal. The True Test HEWLETTS French-speakin- To LOS er Jo-aep- h ilis-e- y f FUNNY TALES v . Chronicle-Telegraph- . Misted tha Flood Story. Sir William Treloar recently told a story of a servant who was once em- ployed at hla Cripples' Home at Alton, says the Tatler. One day during lunch time there was a heavy downfall of rain, and Sir William said to the little maid who was waiting at table, Why, Lizzie, It Is almost like the flood." 'The. flood, Sir William?" said the . NOVEL FORM WINTER OF SPORT ' girl. Yes, the flood. Noah, you know and Mount Ararat" I never have no time to look at the papers," she replied apologetically lf g m-- . tj n. h, r Austro-Hungaria- We Want Salesmen sMewsie. ( .v X - What He Had Learned ' Oh, mother!" cried a youngster who had been visiting an elder bro1 learned lots tother In school. . day." , "What was one thing you learned? t7 asked the parent. I learned in the rlthmetic class," was the reply, that the square of the base and the perpendicular of a triangle is equal to the sun of the hlpplpotamus. Chicago Trib' ' , right-hande-d , ' , I J une. Vehicle Made to Run on Ice by' Gasoline Power. - . f Danger Ahead. Young husband (to wife) Didnt I telegraph to you not to bring your mother with you? Young wife I, know. Thats what she wants to see you about. She read 1 she fell In love with, and when it was cut down she died. Where was the . . Joke in that?" ,, ,, l was a sad But said the house that Violet, Oh, story. sweetly pest story is uproariously funny all the way through." I never noticed It They were in the pesthouse and that Institution overlooked the graveyard. ' The Idea of being separated from your family and put there to contemplate the graveyard strikes me ,a anything but funny!"' "Well, If you had Just read a little further you would have come to the fun. The smallpox patients organized a baseball team and played every afternoon. They called themselves 'The Pesthouse Pippins. They challenged all comers, and there wasn't a team In the state that dared tackle them!" Here, gimme that book!" cried Oppman. t - the telegram A Near Humorist Pa, what 'IS' & neat' humorist?" ' A near humoriBt, son, Is a person who says, when he finds an oyster ii a stew: Well well, little stranger, what are you doing here?" Birmingham Age-Heral- , ' |