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REFORMING THE ALPHABET

A man must mind his p's in the flu
ture as in the past, but it's possible
that he will not have to disturb himself
about his as, for there is movement
on foot to do away with this letter of
the alphabet. The movement also
threatens the letter and such COM
binations as sh, 81, sci, tt, ce and 9TH
ers having the sh sound. For the q.
the Saxon combination of CIV is to be
substituted; for the X, cs; and for those
letters having the sound Of sh when
combined, sign resembling the dollar
sign but with one instead of two lines
drawn through the s.
This is the age of the typewriter and
the typesetting machine and this par
ticular effort to reform the alphabet
has for it's ostensible aim the reducing
Of the number of letters in order that
the space taken up on the machines by
the so-called superiuous ones may be
occupied by signs necessary in the
transaction OF business. But this plea
on behalf Of the business of the land is
obviously sop thrown to Cerberus, in
other words, the majority, that guards
the alphabet as it is. As a matter of
fact there is always somebody ready
to enter an objection to the alphabet
or to accepted combinations of it's let
ters. and such one never experiences
any difficulty in finding a philanthropic
cloak for his not generally accepted
prejudice.
The National Educational associa-
ton in Convention assembled has de-
cided to postpone for one year the con-
sideration ofNphonetic reform in spell
ing. Its action is not encouraging to
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those individuals who have started this
new movement for curtailing the al
phabet. For an organization slow -to
accept or even to recognize one spelling
fad is not likely to allow another to be
thrust upon it. And the association is
to be congratulated upon it's consery-
atism, though to be sure it is difficult
to see how it could do otherwise than
look askance at an innovation with
which the bulk of the people are so ut
terly out of sympathy.
The trouble with this question Of re-
forming the alphabet and of reforming
photography is that the gain would not
compensate for all the trouble the ref
ornation would cause. Few, perhaps,
are convinced that we could not i'm
prove our present method of spelling,
but no adult is going to open a new
spelling book merely for the purpose of
making life little easier for the girls
and boys of tomorrow. It's too much
to expect of him. Whatever reform is
instituted will be instituted SO quietly,
so unobtrusively that the adult will
never suspect that new way of SPELL
ing old words OF of writing the alpha
bet is being thrust upon him.
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Personal MENTION

MerehantsEG, W. Cooper, Des Moines
Iowa; F. s. Morrison and wife, Chippe
wa Falls; W. M Edmund. Grand Forks;
H. c. Hanshrough. Devils Lake: Chas
P. Clark and wife, Algona, Iowa; ]. E.
Harkins, Tacoma; A. B. Gottschalk, Seat
tie; John C.. Carlson Rush City; Chas.
H. Hugo, Duluth; w. H. Adams, Wi
mona.
Ryan-Annie- Johnson, Des Moines
Iowa: George Jackson. Oelwein, Iowa; J.
F. Tubel and wife. saltwater; A. G.
Rutan, C. E. Jones' Dubuque. Iowa; Rob-
ert Hamilton and wife, Vancouver, b.
c.; David Laird, Winnipeg.
Windsor-Hcward Irwin. Sheboygan,
Wis; Mary B. Pennington. Alex ID. Flem-
ington Clara Pennington, Glendale, N.
D.: r. Bruins and wife, Los Angeles;
George Davis and wife, Seattle; John
Mart and wife, Morgan; I. j. Paisley.
Dubuque.
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QUIET, HEALTHY TONE
IN BRITISH CLOTHS
Market Is Better During Week, Al
though Transactions Are Limited

MANCHESTER. July 24.-There was
quiet. and healthy demand for cloth
last week, but though July cotton was
cheaper, business for prompt delivery
was difficult to arrange. India offers
We're numerous, but were largely I'M
workable where important lines were
involved. China staples for distant
delivery were in good demand, which
resulted in moderate transactions.
Producers found it difficult to obtain
work for the nearer months, even when
they offered to accept low prices.
Yarns were slightly easier and the de-
mand for most descriptions was poor.
Occasionally American crops were in
request for delivery in the winter
months, but at limits that mostly were
not acceptable.
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Didn't Worry Wall Street

Whiie leading newspaper organs rep
resenting Wall street influences were
raging over the omission of a gold
prank IN the Democratic platform, the
sereet itself seemed not to consider the
matter OF vital Importance. Judge Par
kefs now famous telegram, giving
rise TO one Of the most sensational
episodes In American politics, has
really added nothing to the strength
oI the assurance before conveyed that
~ purpose existed on the part of the
Democratic party as now constituted to
question Or assail the established fact
OF an adjustment of the monetary sys-
tenn OF the nation to the gold standard
Ihas was evidently the real Wall street
view, and it was the right view
springfield MASS y Republican
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At St. Paul Theaters

East Lynne" that domestic drama
when owes its perennial quality to its
heaft interest rather than to strength
OIL construction or cleverness in dia-
losue, was presented by the Fawcett
company at the Grand last night Miss
Ie!Gy aasWeH lmpersonating the mis-
guided Lady Isabel. That this drama
possesses fascination for the fair sex
were useless to deny Women
formed large majority of last nights
audience, and manifested in unmis-
taxable fashion their deep interest in
an approval of this domestic tragedy.
Ihat it was faithfully presented by
the FaWcett company goes without say
Ing. None of the dramatis personae
calls for the exercise of extraordinary
or subtle histrionic powers. Aside
from the exhibition of the smooth vii
ialny of Sir Francis Levison,. nothing
put direct, straightforward acting is
required to present all the characters
IN their true light.
MISS HasWell's portrayal of the de-
1uded Lady Isabel, who deserts a fond
husband and children without verify
ing her suspicious, was essentially
vital, and as convincing as it is possi-
Die 10 make this impulsiye and hasty
creature. The best scene in last nights
performance, and, in fact, the most
sane and reasonable in the play, was
mat between Lady Isabel and Sir
FRANCES LeyiSon in the latter's hotel
apartments. Here two people enter
tam complete mutual understanding
OF each other, and the dialogue is
pointed and vigorous. Miss Hasweu
was the perSonification Of the outraged
woman and mother. and De Witt c.
Jennings simulated with artistic touch
the cold, heartless, utterly unscrupu-
louS rascal
The return of the unfortunate LADY,
isabelle in the guise of Mime. Vine
10 the home she had deserted and the
death of her little boy brought forth
many handkerchiefs throughout the
theater, the fair spectators giving ey-
cry evidence of heartfelt enjoyment.
MISS Alice Butler contributed an
amusing Characterization of the &C.
centric spinster, Miss Cornelia Carlyle.
Miss Evelyn Vaughan was quite salts
Tying as Barbara Hare, and Miss
Agnes Everett impaired color to the
role of Joyce, the maid servant.
CHARLES Wyngate was acceptable in
the role of Archibald Carlyle, who is
not a grateful character. A show of
more establishment and emotion on Mr..
Wyngate's part, when Carlyle con-
fronts Lady Isabelle, whom he supposed
was dead, would improve that final
scene.
Alfred Hudson, as Lord Mount Sc
Vern, and George Schraeder in the role
of Mr.. Dill, were adequate.
Much of the stiited dialogue that
aggrayates the usual version of EAST
Lynne was eliminated and plain, COL
loquial English substituted, much to
the improvement of the drama.
II q IT
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TODAY'S WEATHER
WASHINGTON D. C., July 24-Fos

WASHINGTON. D. c., July 24.-Fore-
cast:
Minnesota-Sh Showers and thunder storms
Monday: Tuesday fair fresh south winds.
Upper Notwithstanding Monday with
showers in east portion; Tuesday showers
and cooler. increasing south winds.
Iowa-Fair Monday, except showers and
thunder storms in west portion; Tuesday
showers.
Observation-Disclosures Monday, followed
by showers in the afternoon; Tuesday
fair. increasing south winds.
North and South Dakota..Showers and
cooler Monday. Tuesday fair,
st. Paul Yesterdays observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul. w E. Oliver. observer. for
the twenty-four hours ended at Z O'Clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation Highest tempera-
ture, rs; lowest temperature, So; average
temperature. IS; daily range. 20; barom-
eter. 80 10; humidity. Sc; precipitation.
%; p. m. Temperature, rs: p. m. wind.
south; weather. partly cloudy
Yesterdays TeInDerat lures
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PLUCKY MATRON AS
GRAVEYARD GUARDIAN
Poorhouse Matron Fires at Grave Rob-
bers Who Seek Body

PORT HURON, Mich, July "a
Mrs. Koepfgen, matron of the st. Clair
county poorhouse, discovered ghouls in
the cemetery, digging at the grave OF
Chris Molte, aged eighty-two, who died
recently.
The ghouls fed, but Mrs. Koepfgen
drew a revolver, calling on them to
halt. They failed to do so and the
matron fired several shots at them. The
earth had been removed from the grave
and the top of the casket broken in.
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Contemporary Comment
Hurry of American Tourists

american lli tourists in England are not
so sdlstributiye of sfillings and six
pences as they were. They fetch over
tneT own automobiles and traverse the
tuaAliy, atssinall expense They see all
through the lovenest rural regions in
tne world without half an eye. This
SUITS SUI. the American plutocrats, and re-
iieses them of the necessity of spend
ing Two OF three shillings on the show
piaces-tf1ey look at them from the
OUTSIDE, and that satisfies them. But
they are also touring the continent in
me me same. fashion Isn't it funny?
Travel was once supposed to Improve
the mind and enrich it's stores Now
sne vulgar rich have got new measure
Tor travel Get it all over as soon as
IPoossloie.-Springfield (Mass.) Repub-
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Uncertainty of Baltic Squadron

The Baltic squadron is, however. an
uncertain factor in more senses than
one. 1t is doubtful, in the light of
present Information, whether an at
tempt will BE. made to send it to the
Pacific; il Port Arthur falls into the
hands of the japanese it may be re-
garded as certain that it will never be
sent. On the other hand, every month
that Fort Arthur holds out and the re-
manning Russian warships there and
at Vladivostok are kept intact increases
the possibility of naval reinforcements
reaching the Russians. That POSSIBLE
lty may be a remote one, but it is one
which must not be Notwithstanding
delphia Ledger.
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TEXTILE WORKERS
PREPARE FOR SIEGE
Hope Abandoned for Peaceful
Settlement of Wage Cues.
ton in Fall River

ALL RIVER, Mass, July 24.-With
nope OIL a peaceful settlement aban-
uohed, both sides in the pending indus
! tiial trouble here await with logged
determination the. coming of tomorrow.
ana the hrst test of strength between
httie group Of manufacturers repre-
sentlng combined capital of S25. 900
ooo on one side and more than o. 1000
cotton mill operatives on the other.
The mill gates will be opened at the
usual time tomorrow morning and the
operatives will be given an opportunity
to work under a wage reduction of 121:
per cent. If an insufficient number re-
spends, the mills will be closed for an
indefinite period.
The strike leaders were of the opin-
Ion tonight that there would not be
enough operatives applying for work
throughout the entire city to run even
one mill, to say nothing of the eighty
or more that are affected by the strike
order.
The manufacturers claim that the
2,OeO union men who voted to strike
90 NOT represent the sentiment of the
great body of cotton mill employees.
Iney give the total number of opera
tlVes on their pay roll as $3.50. This.
OF course, does not include the en-
ployes at the independent mills of
M =. d. Borden. which are not in
Volved.
Inc talk on the streets, however. in
dicates that the feeling against the
manufacturers is quite as bitter among
the non-union operatives as it is
among those who are affiliated with
the labor organizations
john Golden, president of the United
Textile Workers of America, the leader
OF the strike, has cautioned the oper-
at1VeS to not go near the mills tomor-
row. Many wild threats have been
made by an uninfiuential class of work.
ers, but violence is not expected.
The only possible break in the ranks
of the strikers is looked for at the
Borden City mills. These mills, which
normally employ rs operatives, have
not been operated on full time for two
months, and the people who were en-
ployed there are reported desperate
from want.
Regarding the non-union element,
the strike leaders believe that if it can
be demonstrated for two weeks that
the non-union operatives can live on
strike benefits as well as if not better
than on wages paid by the mills, the
strike can be prolonged Indefinitely.
The police have made but little prep
aratlons for handling the crowds of
strikers, but officers will be stationed
at the mill gates
Several small stores patronized
chiefly by the operatives have been
obliged to close owing to the abrupt
falling off of trade, and on all sides an
alarming decrease in business has fol-
lowed the issuance Of the strike order.
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TiIIman's Chance of Tonuue

Many hard words have been said of
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
and most of them on account of his
bfaVado and his violence of expression
He has been thought of as bully.
But hereafter Democrats will speak
kindly and Republicans respectfully of
him. In the matter of Judge Parker's
letter he acted the part of the peace
maker, the party leader, and the states
man.. He and John Sharp Williams
saved the convention from making a
fool of itself or going to pieces in a
passion without waiting to find out
what the occasion for it was.-Phila-
delphia Record.
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NEBRASKA TRAVELLER
MAKES COSTLY ERROR
Thinks Open Window of Car Is Ham
mock and Throws Out $1,000

OMAHA, Neb., July 24.-While the
North Western express was traversing
Northern Nebraska at forty miles an
hour B. F. Reavis, of Falls City, Neb..
carelessly thrust his clothes, the poclz-
cts of which contained 5000, out of the
sleeper window.
He supposed he was placing the gar
ments in the hammock, and did not
discover the loss till daylight, when
the train was within a few miles OF
Omaha. He had to remain in his berth
till the train reached Omaha, when he
was given an outfit of railroad mems
clothing.
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AMERICAN STOCKS
THE STRONG FEATURE
British Market Demoraized by War
News Except for Yankee Securities

LONDON, July "a. = The nervous
condition into which the stock market
was thrown by the seizure of vessels
by the Russian volunteer fleet which
caused, however more of a disturbance
in British than in foreign stocks, yield
ed, and the market improved in tone
toward the end of the week when Rus
sia,s response to the British protest
became known
Still business was on the smallest
scale in almost all departments except
the American market, where the re-
cent strength was maintained on the
promising outlook of the harvest and
of the iron and steel industry.
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Way of a Woman

Where man finds comfort in talk,
ing of his real troubles a woman in
Variably keeps hers to herself. She
will recite numerous minor woes, and
talk volubly of her numerous small
triunphs and troubles, but her secret
hopes and buried sorrows are rarely
suspected by her most intimate friends
and associates. For the sake of her
friends, perhaps this is just as we'll
but many a, woman who is dubbed
heart1ess and worldly may have locked
in her secret heart great sorrow or
disappointment that is unsupported by
the outer World.-Philadelphi Ledger.
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FIVE MILLION FEET OF
LUMBER UP IN SMOKE
Handy Brothers Yard Burns at Bay
City, Mich.-Loss $4,000

BAY CITY, Mich, July 24.-Fire
which started ON the river front in
the Handy Brothers Manufacturing
company's lumber yard caused $4,000
loss this afternoon. Handy Brothers
had about 100000 feet of pine lumber
ready for their factories, over 5000, 600
feet of which was destroyed. Handy
Surance.- = -
The Michigan Central railroad lost
$1,000 on ears and -trackage and the
Detroit and Mackinaw railroad $4,000.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-25
DIPLOMATS WIN AT
POLO FROM MILITARY
Two Russian Princes Are Among the
Members of Defeated Team

ST. PETERSBURG, July 24.-Spen-
Ger F. Eddy, American charge DAFT
flares, and team which included Sec
retaries Beaumont and Sporting, of the
British embassy. carried off the honors
today in an international polo match
between civilians and military officers
at the picturesque Beloseisky grounds,
outside st. Petersburg, by a score of 5
to 4. The military team included
Princes Beloselsky and Cantacuzene,
both of whom married American wom-
en-.
Sir Charles Hardinge. the British
ambassador, presented four cups to Mr..
Eddy and his team.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-25
A CHANGE FOR THE WORSE

- OfIHNNE IOh TIE WOE0G
The Minneapolis Times rejoices in
the cessation of the coinage of silver
collars and heralds as gain the sub
stitution therefor of paper money. This
is a proper Republican view Of things,
and no criticism can be passed upon
the Times for maintaining it in har-
mony with the idea of the party which
it supports. For our part, we object to
the change, both on economic grounds
and on the score of personal comfort.
The present circulation of paper
money in the shape of small bills has
most befogging effect Nothing tends
more to support the fiat idea of finance,
nothing gives greater stimulus to
the demand in time of distress for the
emission of paper promises to pay,
than the habit of using paper money in
all the little transactions of daily life.
The one may be actually Iedeemable in
coin and the other inconvertible, but
the average man knows nothing what
ever of the difference. A paper dollar
is paper dollar to him. Therefore, as
an educative influence, We should well
come the disappearance of the paper
notes in small denominations
AS to public convenience, that is all
question of custom. The people on
the Pacific coast use metallic money
exclusively, except when very large
sums have to be carried. You cannot
get bills except by asking for them at
a bank, and it is rarely that man will
accept them in payment without grum-
bling. 1t is easy to talk twaddle
about "cartwheel dollars" but as q
matter of fact those who are accus-
toned to the use of gold and silver
only find not the slightest inconven-
fence in carrying about enough for their
daily needs; while they are rid of the
anxiety of handling utterly filthy, dis
gushing and unsanitary scraps of soiled
paper, which banknotes or treasury
notes of any kind soon become. Fur
Their than this, the people of Great
Britain, with the enormous volume Of
their small transactions, use coin for
everything less than SIS. 1t is as we
say, simply question of habit and
the habit Of using coin only is much
safer, more economical, more sensible
and in reality more convenient, unless
you happen never to have tried it.
For our part, We trust that on all
grounds the supply of silver dollars
may be renewed and kept up, and we
believe that nothing could conduce so
much to a permanent removal Of pos
sibility of renewing dangerous finan-
cial struggles in party politics than the
substitution of silver dollars for all
paper money of every kind below five
dollars in value. If we were to say all
below ten dollars it would be an I'M
provement. Were this the case, we
should have ample occupation for all
our supply of metallic money; we
should need to keep constantly increas-
ing it; we should habituate ourselves
to the use of coin and to the idea that
coin means money and money means
economic heresy, and the battle Of the
standards would never perplex US
more
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-25
BRYAN Visits Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE,, July "a. William
Jennings Bryan was in Milwaukee a
short time today on a trip from Mime
apolis en- route to Chicago. Mr.. Bryan
breakfasted with Edward c. Wall. Al
though he met several Democratic poll
tieians during his short stay, his stop
over is declared to have no political
Significance
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TWO POSTPONED REFORMS

1t is a mistake and a misfortune that
national conventions adopt their rules
| and discuss possible changes in the
regulations affecting future gatherings
| before they proceed to their regular
work of nominating candidates. The
friends of different aspirants for hon
ors at the conventions hands are al
ways afraid of losing votes by support
ing perfectly obvious reforms; hence
abuses or anachronisms finger from
year to year, and national conventions
| are made unrepresentative or tied down
by conditions which have long lost all
excuse for being
Thus there are two most desirable
reforms in the government of Demo-
cratic national conventions that are
again passed on to posterity The two
| thirds rule ought to be abolished. Prob
ably it would have been abolished this
year but for the opportunity this would
have given to the minority to appeal to
the country on the ground that they
We're deprived of a veto power on the
nomination of the president. This
| would have given them the only pos
sible ground for remonstrance; and the
| majority did not think it wise to open
even SO small window to the disputa-
tious. ,.
The two-thirds rule has outlived it's
| usefulness. 1t was put into effect away
back in slavery times to preserve
certain balance of power. 1t has no
excuse for existence today. It is I'M
Democratic and un-American. Major
ity rule is the very life principle of the
republic. Democracy ought to go back
to it, and the two thirds rule should be
wiped out; not because it ever really
| makes much difference in results, but
because Of it's essential antagonism to
Democratic ideas.
The other great reform is clearly
needed by both conventions. This is a
change of the basis of representation
from population to the actual party
vote. The apportionment of delegates
| to national conventions on the basis
of population is almost insane. How
| the practice has, SO long prevailed, in
direct contradiction to representation
1 in state conventions and every other
representative body on, earth, we can
not understand. The basis of appor-
tionment should be the party vote at
the last national election. This is abso-
| lutely fair to all sections, and it gives
/ to the men who have to elect a presi-
dent no more and no less than their
| due voice in choosing the nominee.
Not a, single reason can be given for
| perpetuating the present absurd and
unjust arrangement. 1t forms more and
more standing menace to the success
| of the party. In every campaign the
least available candidate, the one least
acceptable to the Democratic masses,
makes his strongest fight in the sure
| Republican states, and vice versa. Both
parties are handicapped by set of del
| egates'who can contribute nothing to a
successful result, and who are usually
! made most reckless and extreme by the
/ hopelessness of their local fight. We
| wish very much that the national COM
| mittee would have courage to take the
bull by the horns and advise and a
| national convention adopt, these two
! essential reforms.