Show REFORM SPELLING VERNON alabama august lith editors deseret news the publication of my letter upon reform spelling in the newsham NEWS has called forth a few expected ex e eted objections which have been presen presented teci teel to me in written form feeling an interest in this question I 1 beg space enough in your columns t to 0 answer the same the norst first objection I 1 is based upon books it reads in ic looking at the writing C how much U h prettier the present style of spelling looks beside the other take the word correct and compare it with korest correct korest why the latter looks like eke some foreign word this argument is 18 very weak and I 1 would advise for it an eternal rest it is also incorrect for perfection is beauty our lecause present resent spelling is imperfect because its characters do not represent those proper sounds which the spoken words contain it also contains sounds which are foreign to the english language but if we had an alphabet whose characters would represent the sounds of our language and we would use those characters in the proper places would have a perfect system then we could talk of beauty to our hearts content without being vain the reason that 1 kore korest kt looks foreign is s because we are not nob used to it if we had been used to it 61 correct would not only look jook foreign but barbarous the second object objection loil reads lat atis is a poor rule that will not work in all cases there are hundreds of words that it would be impossible to change and make sense of them here is a misunderstanding we are not wanting to change any words we only want to change the spelling in order that the commonest kind of a scholar may by the spelling be able to pronounce any word which he happens to see or by the sound readily spell any word which he happens to hear it is not our desire to exchange a certainty for an uncertainty but an uncertainty for a certainty it is not our intention to make a good thin thing 9 bad bid but a bad thing good and a good thing better the third and last objection is in this method you lose track of the derivatives or in other words you lose sight of the origin of many words it would take a lifetime to pick out all the words that are derived from french greek and latin this is a mistake derivatives are or should be known by sound and not by characters unless the characters represented the derived sounds if a word is firmed ormed which has no relative sound to that of another I 1 fall fail to see how it can consistently be called a derivative in a new method it would not be har harder harden derbut if anything easier to keep track of the origine of derivatives but suppose for instance we should lose sight of some words what of that shall we look 0 o the dead for the living ilet ret let the dead bury the dead we are not wanting to look to the dead past I 1 but to th the living future there is a certain class of people who believe in letting jetting others do as they have done such folks remind me of the man inan who was ivas suddenly surprise surprised d in in I 1 the woods by a bear rushing towards him he became frightened and jumped behind a tree for refuge but the bear quickly found him and began to chase him around the tree in a lively manner grabbing each way trying to catch him the man seeing it was his only chance seized the bear by the paws and held him crying for help until he be was almost given out just bo be fore he was going to despair reheard an answer some one was coming to his assistance this gave him new courage and he held on until the person arrived but when his rescuer went to kill the bear he said baid 1 I am not able to hold this bear till you kill it you hold it and I 1 will kill it when the unsuspecting man had bad taken the bear into his hands the liberated victim said as he be walked deliberately away 1 I cant kill that bear I 1 dont feel able for I 1 have held it liere fiere here all day you may hold it there as long as I 1 have and see how it goesl goes goer it is thought by some to be an absurd folly in the extreme for a man or any set of mento undertake to change the orthography of millions I 1 fail to see the lla absurd surd folly of such an under it is not impossible it can be done and I 1 do not think I 1 would be far from correct in saying it will be done for union is strength truth br is IF power powen and truth will prevail it has always been those individuals who have said iq 1 I will that have ever amounted to or accomplished anything during life but 1 I cant is nobody he never was or ever will be he never accomplished anything or ever even will so then let the cant ites stand back and let the rising generation af wll wil lItes step forward with a vim and kill this old bear of present orthography which their fathers have been hum num huz hugging around the fruitful tree of education CatI catl orl ori ADv ADVANCE ance AxcE it is claimed by some medical men that smoking weakens the eyesight maybe it does dayes but just see ll 11 how v it astren strengthens the breath prisoner at the bar said the judge is there anything you wish to say before sentence is passed upon you the prisoner looked towards the door and remarked that he would like to say good evening if it was agreeable to the company A shocking case illustrative of the effiec effects ts of opium a habit which is rapidly increasing among civilized and so soc c called all ail ed christian people is given in the stonington conn family of paul greene wife and daughter the parents 70 years of age the daughter about 35 they have been sent back paupers haupers pau pers from hopkinton hopkinson Hop kinton B R I 1 to stonington where they formerly lived among the best beat people in the town the daughter was accomplished in music the father a leader in the baptist church and the family was respected spec ted but the mother began the use of laudanum to deaden pain and kept up the tile habit and the husband an and d father also became a slave to it and then the daughter and they parted with their mo and furniture to obtain the noxious drug which has ruined them |