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The Washington times., 1906-11-25

Ideal Dessert for Thanksgiving Dinner.
c. & s Quality Ice cream. Druggists.
The Washington times., 1906-11-25
v. Baldwin JOhnsOn's Coal, 6Ia 9Th St.
Best white ash coal, 60 cents a ton OF
Spot cGsh only. and city delivery.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

NO. $3.50" the Daylight Train.
leaves Washington after breakfast. ar
rive Cincinnati before midnight. and ar
rive St Louis foT breakfast following
morning. with connections from Cum
heTland. arriving Pittsburg 5.05 p. m.
Effective November -.
The Washington times., 1906-11-25

LISBON, Nov. 4.-During the busiest
hour on the streets of Lisbon. the morn
Ing shopping hour, man was literally
hunted to his death in and among the
throngs of busy people on the side
walks.
Both men concerned were prominent
in commercial circles and one of them
The Washington times., 1906-11-25
PHI DELTA THETA'S CONVENTION
TOMORROW IN NEW WILLARD
Six Hundred Delegates to
Attend; Thirty Alumni
Chapters Represented.
HOLD SMOKER ON TUESDAY
Father Lindley, Only Surviving Char
Ter Member Among Those
Here.

Phi Delta Thetas. many OF them prom
inent politicians. others well-known
lawyers, physicians, or instructors, and
ali of them successful men In the world
of affairs. viii hold their twenty-ninth
national biennial convention in this city
for six dnys. beginning with business
session in the New willard Hotel tomOr-
row morning at 10 o'clock.
Thirty alumni chapters will be repre-
scented. and coo delegates will be In at
tendance.
There viii be banqueting. speechmak-
ing, and the giving Of the high sign"
together with numerous exchanges Of
the grip" Gray haired men viii " his
per the password" to one another ana
not a few win strive 10 recall the
identification code" II will be a re-
turn TO college and Paternity days.
Il will also be the duty of the conven-
ton 70 pass on topics and business al
fecting the general fraternity, its pol
icies. and such matters as its revenues
and the admission Of new chapters 10
the mystic circle
The "Phis" will have a smoker at
Rauscher's, Tuesday evening, and
banquet at the New Willard. Thursday
evening.
Women TO Attend.
The announcement was made last
night at convention Headquarters In the
Wyatt building that women will be vel
coined TO the opening session Of the
convention on the tenth floor OF the New
Willard tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock.
Father Lindley, the only one of the six
founders now living. will be introduced
by President Mitchell and speeches of
welcome and responses Will be made.
The first Phi Delta Theta Il arrive
In Washington for the biennial con-
vention Of that college fraternity. was
Governor-elect NJ. X. Patterson. Of
Tennessee. He concluded he could take
no better rest. after HIS vigorous cam
paign. than 10 renew his acquaintance
with his frat mates. On Thursday
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-07

structed through unceasing channels,
literary men should welcome new
words and new spellings with favoring
eye. since it is by these alone that
further Improvement can come. Schol-
ars denounced "plow'' for plough
for instance. But "plow'' has been &C
cepted. So with many words that will
readily occur to readers.
Our language is likely to prevail in
the world, and we may hope it is to be-
come finally the universal language,
the most potent of all instruments for
drawing the race together, insuring
peace and advancing civilization. The
foreigner has the greatest difficulty in
acquiring it because of it's spelling.
This is at least, his chief obstacle; for
its grammar is easy.
Hundreds of scholarly men have
agreed to use improved spelling for
twelve words. These words are already
well started in actual use. Other sim
Publications. will be suggested. If merit
orious, they will quickly be accepted.
Teachers have assured me that chill
dren would be saved more than a
years instruction if our spelling were
simplified.
Why the perverse "ough" spellings
should be continued one cannot under
stand. When we write tho" it ex-
presses exactly the same sense as
though" and expresses the sound
better. This change is so obviously
advantageous that I find many already
using it in writing. and some of these
are British authors. Indeed, tho" with
the superfiuous apostrophe, abounds in
British authors from Addison down.
We just drop the apostrophe.
In trying to hasten the use of simpli-
fed spelling and to- improve our own
language for the struggle for first
place which is even to-day upon US, we
are engaged in a most useful work If
he be a benefactor who makes two
blades of grass to grow where one
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-07
FROM MISS PRESCOTT.

Editor Advertiser: Herr Berger win
come back a sadder but wiser man.
Not a week before he left we said to
him. in his own yard, There's no
money in that venture-don't go, Mr..
Berger" And he laughed and pooh
poohed the idea and thought us way
off. They are all far and away off
now and music hath no charms for
them. poor fellows! Whenever they
shall get back to Hawaii. contentment
will reign supreme with them. Did
the fine Philippine band induce travel
in that direction. We trow not. There
are magnificent bands in many of our
larger cities ANNE NJ. PRESCOTT.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-07
Advantage of
Spelling Reform
BY Andrew Carnegie.

From Chaucers time and before till
now our language has been constant
ly changing and improving not un-
der any rule or system, but simply as
occasion has required new words and
new spellings.
The great Oxford dictionary, now I'M
der publication. gives the history of
each word, and shows that words creep
into our language in the most haphaz-
ard manner. a new word expresses a.
new want. or an old want better than
the word in use did and so forces itself
into use. Nothing can bar it out while
the word invented with the strictest
regard to rule may apply in vain
What is slang one year is correct Eng
iish a few years later. Thus is our
language enriched. 1t is a slow pro-
cess, but a steady and sure one All
the struggles of pedants and purists
are helpless against it.
The organized effort I have agreed
to finance is not revolutionary-far
from it. Its action will be conserva-
tive. Word after word, it will en-
deavor to improve the spelling and the
language; slowly, of course. but hast
ening the pace if possible; that is ALL
The editors who are disposed to ridi-
Guile the efforts themselves use words.
and especially spellings, which their
predecessors of a century ago would
have denounced as degrading to liter
allure. The editors of the next century
will in turn marvel at the uncouth
spelling of our present scribes.
since our language has been con-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-07
THE HOMESICK GIRL FROM
MAINE.
BY Holman F. Day.

BY Holman F. Day.
She wrote to her daddy in Portland,
Maine,
From out in Denver. Col.
And she wrote. alas! despondently
That life mad commenced TO pail;
And this was a woeful, woeful case,
For she was a six-month's bride,
Who was won and wed in the State of
Maine
BY the side of the bounding tide
And ah alack. she was writing back
That she longed for Portland,
Maine.
Till oh, her feelings had been that
wrenched
Though her hubby dear was still sin
She sighed the livelong day
For a good old sniff of the sewers and
From the breast of Casco Bay.
And she wrote she sighed, and she said
she'd cried
And her appetite fell off.
And she'd grown as thin's a Delaying
pin,
VITA terrible hacking cough;
And she sort of limited that pretty soon
She'd start on a reckless scoot
And hook for her home in Portland,
Maine,
BY the very shortest route,
But her daddy dear was man of sense.
And he handles fish wholesale,
And he sat and famed himself a while
With a big, broad Goldfish tail;
And he recollected the way he felt
When he dwelt in the Worlds Fair
whirl
He slapped his head. by hake,' he
said,
II know what ails that girl"
And he went to a ten-cord pile of cod
And he pulled the biggest out,
a iib-shaped critter. broad's a sail
Three feet from tail to snout.
And he pasted a sheet of postage
stamps
From snout clear down to tail.
Put on a quick-delivery stamp,
And sent the cod by mail.
She smelled it a-coming two blocks off
On the top of the postmans pack;
She rushed to meet him, and scared
him hind
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-07

grew before, he is no less a benefactor
who plants a shorter and simply spelt
word where a longer and irregularly
spe.t word numbered the ground be-
fore.
1 hope that thoughtful people will
give this important and conservative
reform due consideration, and resolve
to use at least two or three simplified
words. and thus range themselves
with us in our effort to carry on the
unceasing work of improving our
mother tongue. and adapting it for it's
noble purposes and high destiny.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-07

By climbing the poor mans back.
But she got the fish, bit out hunk,
Ate postage stamps and all,
And a happy wife in a happy home
Lives out in Denver. Col.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24
thought he was at banged, and he
said S that sauterne is not TT to drink"

thought he was at banquet, and he:
said That sauterne is not fit to- drink::"
Then when the bearded woman
yelled that the fire had almost reached
her whiskers, and would nobody save
her, pa began to get ready to move on,
cause he concluded he hadn't =: been
riding a goat after ALL and he told me
to hand him his pants. Pa is man
that will never go out among people,
no matter how dark the night is. with
out, his pants, and admire him for
it. Some of the circus men didn't care
for dress that night, but got out just
as they were, and the result was that
when daylight came they had to tie
hay around their legs.
Our car was bOttom-side up, but
found pas pants, and he got his legs
in. and 1 buttoned him in, but + felt
all the time as though 1 had buttoned
them in the back;::so the seat was in
front, but the fire was cracking, and
pa pushed me out Of a transom, and
then he crawled out. and we sat down
in the mud
The bearded woman came next, with
her whisllers done up in curl papers
and then the fat woman got one foot
through the transom, and she couldn't
get it back in, and the train hands got
an ak and were going to cut her leg
off, and save one foot, at least, when
pa got move on him, and took the
ak and broke out the side of the car,
and got her out. Eight or nine men
lifted her tenderly onto stack of hay,
and she wrapped it around her, cause
she left her clothes in her berth.
Well, it was sight when the people
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24
ANIMAL LORE.

"a poor sire is the whole herd.'
The cowed COW cannot do her best.
1t does not pay to keep an average
COW
a >aw is not a profitable mixer
Simply Because she is pure bred.
Test the COWS and make sure that
each cow is above the average
The COWS for >!te sake of health
should be curried and. brushed fire.
Quent!y, perhaps daily.
Use straw freely for bedding. Moth
ing makes a better absorbent or bet
ter he'd for stock to lie on.
Cement is coming more and more
into use in COW stables, on account
of the ease with which it is kept clean.
Cows do not often show what tbs.
can DO the first year Of milk-givinr.
It takes several years 20 develop their
full capacity.
The most economical, ccy is the one
that eats a large amount az food and
changes a considerable pc: tim Of that
feed into butter fat. = AZ +.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24
HANDS OFF THE BUTTER.
No Necessity Of Touching It During
Any of the Processes of
It's Making.

In many Of our farm homes people
work the butter with their hands.
This method is, however, objected to
by all scientific dairymen. Il our
best creameries the butter is never
touched by the human hand. The
cream is churned, the butterm1llS
rinsed off in the churn. It. is then
ladled out and put on the mechanical
butter worker, where the wooden roll
ers go over it and where the salt is
worked into it by the wooden rollers.
It is rolled into balls by the machine
and by wooden ladies' is packed into
tubs or pushed into molds that cut it
into pound packages. The hand never
touches it. The objection to the hand
touching the butter is that moisture
is always working out of the human
body, and there is always effete mat
ter with it. People that eat such but
ter, # they ever think of it at all, must
object to the results. Also such han
ding is more than likely to add to the
butter some form of vegetable life
that may develop in the body of the
butter. It is perfectly easy on the
farm to wash the butter and work it
without touching it with the hands,
declares the Farmers Review. The
milk can be drawn out of the churn,
water poured in, the churn be given
two or three turns to rinse out the
buttermil]1, and that drawn off. The
butter may either be sailed in the
churp or placed on butter worker
and there sailed. The wooden butter
worker will cost but few, dollars aud
will last indefinitely. With it the but
ter can be worked in two or three
minutes. In fact, it is only necessary
to run the corrugated roller over the
butter two or three times. 1t can then
be packed into jars or can be packed
into wooden molds holding exactly
pound. Even for use in the farm
house, the consumers will feel much
better if they know that the human
hands have never touched the butter
they are eating.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24

was waning. For a fortnight the
newspapers in the territory tributary
to the road had been full of strike talk,
and Hildreth had said his say, depre-
eating the threatened appeal to force
as fearlessly as he condemned the
mismanagement which was provoking
it. -.
But it was Kent who was RESPONSE
BILE for the dearth of news on the eve
of the event. Early in the morning
of the last day Of the month he had
sought out the editor and begged him
to close the columns Of the Evening
Argus to strike news, no matter what
the day.
Il can't go into the reasons as
deeply now as hope to little later"
he had said, his secretive habit hold
ing good to the final fathom of the
slipping hawser of events. But you
must bear with ME once more, and
whatever you hear between now and
the time you go to press, don't COM
ment on it. I have one more chance
to win out, and it hangs in balance
that feathers weight might tip the
wrong way. I'll be with you between
10 and IL tonight, and you can
safely save two columns of the morn
ing paper for the sensation I'm going
to give you.''
1t was in fulfillment of this promise
that Kent bestirred himself after he
had sent wire to Ormsby, and M'Tosh
had settled down to the task of
smoothing Callahan's way westward
over a division already twitching in
the preliminary rigor Of the strike
cOnVulsiOn.
Il am going to set the fuse for the
newspaper explosion" he said to his
ally. Barring accidents, there is no
reason why We shouldn't begin to
figure definitely upon the result, is
there?"
M'Tosh was leaning over Dispatch
or Donahue's shoulder. He had
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24

into another train, or been run into,
and you have to be pulled out of. a
window by the heels, and laid out in
q marsh until the claim agents can
settle with you.
always thought in reading of rail-
road accidents, that the railroad sent
out a special trainload of doctors and
nurses, to care for the injured, but the
specia! train never has doctor until
the lawyers give first aid to the
wounded in the way of financial poul-
tees for the cripples. People in our
business are on the railroads, and we
work them for all there is in it; and
the man that is hurt the least makes
the biggest howl, ant gets the biggest
slice of indemnity. Some circus peo-
pie spend all their salary as they 50
along. and live all winter on the dam
ages they get from tie railroads when
the wreck comes.
The night of the wreck our train
was whooping along at about 80 miles
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24
SCALES ON THE FARM.
Why They Should Be Installed and
the Best Manner Of Put
ting Them In.

The Weighing of salable produce at
the farm before hauling to market. to
definitely ascertain exact weights 10
serve as check On those obtained at
the market is practice common
among many farmers grown out OF dis
satisfaction between buyer and seller.
There was time years and years
ago, when the producer of farm prod
ucts, because of the lack of proper
facilities for weighing marketable
stuff, whether stock or grain. was
compelled to submit to the weights of
the purchaser. In more instances than
one feeling of dissatisfaction de-
veloped between the producer and
buyer which has led 10 the former for
tifying himself with ample facilities
by which he may determine the pound
value OF his produce in round num-
bers to his own satisfaction before ar
irving at the market
It is an old saying that no man can
do his own business so we'll as he him
self can and SO evident is the truth OF
this that we all incline to adopt the
adage. 1t is questionable if another
source has furnished more material
to stimulate envy between the two in
volved parties, the farmer and the
purchaser, than the matter of honest
weights. Were such conditions simply
confined to certain localities and indi-
viduals an immediate remedy could be
enacted by the establishment of weigh
ing stations where all weighing would
be under the direct charge Of disinter-
ested parties; but so universal is the
evil in every market whether large Or
small that a solution Of the problem
is made difficult.
AS we sum up present conditions
based upon years OF experien:e selling
upon both local and large markets
there evidently is but one SOLE zion and
that is for the farmer to have a relia-
BILE set of standard scales conveniently
located and in good working condition
where he can weigh his produce be-
fore It leaves the farm. Under such
an arrangement there is no reason
why after receiving the purchasers
weights, he should ever have cause to
feel he had been dishonesty dealt
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24

were got out of our car, and they
let it burn. to light up the scene, and
pa and and the boss canvasman went
along the ditched train, and helped
people out. The giant was in two
upper berths, and he got one leg cut
Of the transom over one berth, and one
leg out of the transom over the other
berth, and We pulled his legs, but he
couldn't make it. so pa took the ak
and made both berths into one, ana
got him out
The giant shook himself and start
ed on run across the marsh, but
he mired up to his neck, and a farm
er who heard the noise came to order
us off his hay field for tresrass, and
yelled: Here's a head of some OF
your performers cut off away over
here and he was going to bring it in
when the farmer found the head was
alive, and he ran away from 1t.
In an hour We had everybody out
and made beds for them by spreading
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24

with. No time ever presents a better
opportunity to correct dishonesty than
the Immediate moment of the transac-
ton. Several instances have come I'M
der my observation where difficulty
has arisen from faulty weighing that
could have been satisfactorily adjust
ed had the involved parties gotten to-
gether and made new draft. In
great many cases faulty weighing is
not due to unreliable scales, but rather
the manner in which the machine has
been previously adjusted. I have
known instances where scales were off
several pounds to the hundred and 50
far as observation could account had
been purpOsely fixed up.
The installation of set of scales
upon the farm is not so serious and
costly proposition as many farmers
imagine. The first matter to be taken
into consideration in installing a set
of scales is the location. In order to
Obtain: the greatest usefulness it is
essential they should be conveniently
locared. No definite rule can be adj
hered to because Of the fact that con-
ditions vary to such marked extent
on different farms. 1t is advisable,
however, that they should be located
upon slightly elevated ground to pro-
mote drainage. Then. too. the location
should be selected with due regard to
usage.
After these conditions have been
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tect the scales must be designed. II
some instances the scales might be 10
Gated near the granary for convent
ence in weighing the grain. The illus
tration, taken from the Prairie Farm
er, shows design of scale house con-
structed onto granary. There is
nothing out of the ordinary concern
ing the structure except that it is a
cheap, practical and convenient build
elng for the purpose. 1t is particular
Is adapted to the average farmers
conditions where the means to con-
struct a costly building are limited
The structure is 16x2O with II feet
posts. For siding matched hemlocl1
was used. The roofing is more on the
flat order with sufficient incline to per-
nit water to run off readily. The ma
terial used for roofing was of manu-
factIred nature and serves the pur-
posi- satisfactorily. The door ways are
IL feet wide and permit of drive over
tho scales. The cost of the structure,
including labor and material, did not
exceed $35.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24
THE INTEGRITY OF CHINA.
Celestial Empire May Possibly Pass
Through Egypt's Expe-
rieuces.

In the preamble Of the new treaty be-
tween Great Britain and Japan it is rep
resented that one of it's objects is the
preservation of the independence and in
tegrity of the Chinese empire. To &C.
complish this end the two powers agree
to cooperate, says the San Francisco
Chronicle. There is something ana
logous in this agreement to the dual con-
troll which England and France estab-
the consent of the European powers,
owing to the Encouragement and ex-
travagances of Ismail pasta, who had
been forced to abdicate in favor of his
son, the present khedive, and the belief
that the Egyptians were incapable of
managing their own affairs, which was
undoubtedly true. But this assumption
of a dual control of the Egyptian
finances resulted ultimately in the
British occupation of the country,
through the backing out of France
when it became necessary to en-
ploy military force to restore order,
and its conversion practically after
ward into British province.
There can be no reasonable doubt
that Japan is quite as DESTROYS of ex-
plotting China as Britain was OF
dominating Africa when she acquired
control Of the 3uez canal. and under
took the conquest of the Soudan.
Japan has footing in China already,
and, under the terms OF the treaty
o. peace with Russia, a rretexr for re.
naming in that part of Manchuria
now in her military possession for a
period of 1S months after the ratifica-
ton of the convention. China evil
IDENTIFY understands the ambitions of
her enterprising and adventurous
neighbor. She does not welcome
the prospect of either Japan or
Russia making protracted stay
on her soil. nut Japan has set
herself up as China's protector, just
as England did in Egypt and the op-
portunity may present itself for her
to manifest Ter Intention to continue
the protectorate, if need be, by the ex.
ercise of force, as the British entered
on the permanent protectorate OF
Egypt through the bombardment OF
alexandria,: The analogy may, at that
point in the history ct events, be
Strengthened by the refusal of Eng
lane to cooperate with Japan III as
Stunning control of China's affairs or
the occupation Of Ter territory, as
France declined &c take part in the
EgvDtian camDaign China's inca
pacity for self,,sovernment is 50 con.
spicuouss and official dishonesty is so
rampant, that it would doubtless be a
boon to the. country should the man
agement of It's affairs pass under Jap.
anese control, for they are. likely, in
such an event, to administer the gov.
eminent honestly in self-interest.. :.