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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-08
DID sPIER suIclpE7

Police Officials Investigating Myster-
ious Death, Believe That He Did.
New York, May S.-Police officials
who have been Investigating the mys-l
terious death Of Charles L.. Spier. con =;
,fldential agent of H. H. Rogers, who
was found dead in his home in Staten
Island yesterday, reported today that
the evidence indicated that Spier had
committed suicide.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-08
MECHANIC BADLY HURT.
Otis Wade Of Newton Loses Ono Ego
as Result Of Explosion.

Special 10 srimcs- Republican
Newton. May S.--Earl Booton. a me-
chanic In the feeder works here, was
badly injured by the explosion Of some
babbit metal with which he was maxi
ing an experiment. His right eye will
be blinded and he was otherwise bad
ly burned about the face and neck.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-08
FINAL AGREEMENT
ON AMENDMENTS
Allison Made Senator Aldrich
and His Crowd Make Good
With Dolliver
oAcIc ar ~0MnA~- 70 r1,nn
BASIS OF COMPACT is FOUND
Senior Iowa Senator Refused TO Offer
Any Amendment That Would Not bo
Satisfactory to DoIlivcr, cuIIom and
cIapp-Tcxt Of the Asreement--News
Of the State.
BULLETIN.

Washington. May s.--Senator Cullom
today presented the Allison amend
ments to the railroad rate bill. They
will be printed and lie over until they
are reached In the regular order.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-08
SENATOR'S DAUGHTER SHOT.
Miss Lille Young, Of #. Pierre, S. D.
Dies at Sioux City.

Specta! 20 Thnes II publican.
Sioux City, May 8.-Miss Lille
Young aged 90, daughter of state Sem
ator Young, of F't. Pierre, S. D., died
at the hospital in Sioux City as a result
of having been accidentally shot in the
breast during target shooting near the
South Dakota state university grounds
at vermillion, S. D., Monday. Miss Ha-
eel Lott, CT Vermillion, did the shoot
ing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-08
GORKY IN DANGER
II is Rumorod That His Extradition
From the United States VIII Be
Asked for by Russia, Additional
Charges Having Been Made Against
tho Rcformor.

Moscow. May Sin addition TO the
gaging in political propaganda, the
procurator has charged him with par
ticipation in the December uprising
here. and 1t is rumored that his extra
d!tion from the United States will be
asked for.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-08
PLOT 70 AssAsslNATE.

President Caracas Life Reported q
Have Been in Danger, Sunday.
San Domingo, May Sit becam0
known today that the authorities Sun-
day discovered plot to assassinate
President Caracas. as he was leaving
the theater. Several arrests have
been made.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-08
REFUGEES LACK CLOTHING.
General Greedy Wires That Their Con
dition is Terrible.

washington, May S.-General Greely,
wiring from San Francisco says the
condition Of thousands of refugees.
particularly women, is terrible from
the lack of clothing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-08

Transferred to Southern District.
Special to Times Republican.
Washington, May 8.-Dawson has Sc
cured the passage Of bill in the house
transferring Clinton county from the
northern to the southern judicial dis
trict, with the court at Davenport.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
OLDEST STEAM RAILROAD

no other line can boast that all the Sleep
ers are solid mahogany.
The London and Northwestern, besides
being the richest of British railway COM
panies-in fact, perhaps the richest in
the world-can boast also of owning the
largest engine works in existence. The
inclosed space at Grove is eighty-five
acres, and a little over thirty acres is
under cover The Midland has at Derby
twenty-six acres of covered workshops.
The Midland has various claims to dis
tinction. 1t possesses in the Leckey In
cline the steepest gradient upon any
main line in the kingdom. This is one
in thirty-seven and a half for a distance
of more than two miles There are few
gradients in British lines exceeding one
in sixty. The Midland has also broken
transportation records by dispatching in
one day from Burton-on-Trent no fewer
than 1881 wagons loaded with beer
The Great Western holds the British
records for the longest regular nonstop
run. During the summer trains run be-
tween Paddington and Plymouth without
stopping. The distance is 246 miles The
same railway also possesses much the
longest tunnel in the country. The IA
nous Severn tunnel, which took more
time and money to construct than almost
any other in existence. is 1864 yards in
length.
There is an Australian line which owns
a most odd record. The New South
Wales line between Nygan and Bourke
runs a distance of 126 miles in nath-
ematically straight line over q plain level
almost as a billiard table
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON.
Source of the Legends Which Cluster
Around Them.

Many old legends cluster about the
snowy peaks of the Mountains of the
Moon, in Africa, and Sir Henry John
ston, writing in the Pail Mall Maya
zine, expresses the opinion that the
last discovered of all the great noun
tains of the dark continent, Ruwen-
zori, recently surmounted by the Duke
of the Abruzzi, was the principal source
of the legends of the mountains-moun-
tains of incredible height. with moon
like, notified aspect of snow and rock
appearing occasionally, like unearthly
visions in the heavens, cut off from the
forest and plains by swathes of clouds,
mountains whose copious streams
united to form the great lakes that
were the source of the Nile.
The first beginnings of these legends
may have reached the early civiliza-
ton of the Mediterranean through
Egypt. Five thousand years ago in all
probability the ancient Egyptians had
got into touch commercially with the
negroes of the Egyptian Sudan and the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
CARNEGIE ON SPELLING REFORM

or printing super1uous letters in order to
show the derivation of a word. The de-
rivation is a matter of history which can
not be obliterated; it is on record and
all who desire to study it can do so.
No one spelling, even the worst, con-
yeys the whole history of the word. 1t
is the main purpose of spelling to show
what a word is, not what it was.
A celebrated author has declared the
language of Shakespeare good enough for
him." He must have spoken without
thinking.
Here are some lines of Shakespeare as
spelled in the first edition of his plays:
MY friend Stephen, signifie pray you
Within the house, your Mistresse is at
hand,
And bring your musique foorth into the
ayre.
How sweet the moone-light sleepes vpon
this banke
Here will we sit, and let the sounds Of
musicke
Crepe in our cares soft stilnes, and the
night
Become the tutches of sweet harmonic"
Merchant of Venice, Act V.
"Ham-The Ayre bites shrewdly 1t is
very cold.
Hort is a nipping and an eager
ayre.
'Ham.-What hover now?
"Hor.-I thinlle it lacks of TWELVE.
"EIam.-No, it is strooke.
"Hor.-Indeed | heard it not; then 1t
braves neere the season wherein the
Spirit held his wont to Wake"
Hamlet.
In these fourteen lines there are twenty
six variations from the present prevail
ing spelling, and yet We have not lost the
language of Shakespeare.
Simplifcation of spelling has always
been going on. Take the word fish for
example. The author OF the "Treatyse Of
Fysshyhge wyth an Angle" 0496) spelt
the word fysshe, and Caxton did the
like, and worse. Earlier writers besides
fish had used fische. fyche, fisch. fysch
fishshe, FISH, fysshe, tsshe, ffyssh, fiche
fyche fisse. fiss, flzs, fls. fix and few
more varieties. Some one has cited from
Coverdale's English version of the Bible
d5S5), which was printed in Germany,
these other varitities: fish, fyszhe, fiszsh,
besides fiysce and fish. Within one gem
Grafton most of these superabundant
spellings were set aside. and only four
or five varieties were used, until at length,
a generation later, only one prevailed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
Corruption of a City.

From 1.-THE Story of Montana" by C. p.
Connolly in the November McClure's.
While the representatives of the people
were thus being bought up singly and in
delegations, public feeling in Helena had
reached the point of hysteria. Clark S
campaign was carried ON with the IA
naticism of a holy war. The women of
the capital threw themselves into the
fight with Incorporate, intolerant fervor,
They carried on their crusade in their
drawing rooms. at their dinner tables,
and at churach functions. They lobbied
and entertained. They thronged the gal
leries of the state house.
The business men of Helena were al
most a unit in declaring that bribery was
Il necessity, and in defending it, Hun
dreds of school children, when the cor
ruption was at its height, might be seen
wearing Clark badges on the streets. The
man who stood out against brides found
that his old friends held aloof from him.
His wife was often inconsolable He be-
came conscious of a lack of sympathy.
of a curious isolation on the streets and
at his club; found himself marooned
upon a cold eminence of virtue.
The purchase of votes was talked about
almost as freely as the weather, al
most as Familiarity as the markets. The
members Of the legislature openly dis
1acussed the sums they had been offered
what they had been promised, and what
they had received. The morning saluta-
ton with everyone was whats the
price of votes today?'
A warm wave of prosperity had swept
over the city, weakening and debasing
everything it touched-like the enthu-
siasm which accompanied it, Struggling
professional men stepped into positions
commanding large salaries; grocers be-
came bankers; railroad employees became
mine operators; clerks and book keepers
wore diamonds and bought wine. Rolls
of greenbacks were thrown over hotel
transoms into mems rooms. A woman
who let lodgings to members of the
legislature, when she was making up the
beds one morning, found ten one-thou-
sand dollar bills under the mattress.
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valley of the White Nile as well as
with Abyssinia. A negroid tyne of in
termediary had sprung up from the
contact between the Caucasian Egvn-
tan and the Nilotic negroes. who had
pushed his journeys in search of slaves
ivory, incense and other products of
the Sudan far southwark to the verge.
of the equatorial forests. Perhaps even
an occasional Egyptian refugee crimi-
nal or slave merchant may have ac-
companied his negroid partners on
such expeditions. In any event, COM
munication had been opened up be-
tween the negroes of central Africa
and the civilized peoples on the shores
of the Mediterranean, and doubtless
through this channel were carried
those legends of the Mountains of the
Moon, which. according to this author
1ty, attained their greatest consistency
and verisimilitude in the first century
after Christ.
For many centuries after the Roman
empire began to decline all interest in
the Mountains of the Moon ceased and
only revived when the travels and con-
quests of the Arabs once more brought
people of some degree of civilization
and culture into contact with tropical
Africa. Arab travellers or geographers
transmitted information regarding the
"Jabi-al-Kumr," as they called these
mountains, to the philosophers of Eu-
rope In the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, and thus these new peaks
of equatorial Africa reappeared on tho
worlds maps. Little was learned about
these mountains. however, until the
early eighties o fthe last century, when
Mount Kenia, which had been discov-
cred many decades before by Krapf,
Wurttemberg missionary, was redis-
covered carefully located and photo
graphed. In August, 1900, Sir Harry,
in company with two other men,
reached the snow and ice of Ruwen-
zori, on the Mubuko glacier, but it was
not until the past summer that the
summit was reached. "Now," he says,
"in all probability the era of discover
les, geographical and geological, on this
wonderful mountain range in the very
heart of equatorial Africa has only just
begun"
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as his objection that the new spelling
would cause the present books to be de-
Stroyed, and the new ones to be printed
There never was the slightest foundation
for this fear. New books and new edi-
lions will be printed. of course, as they
are now. How else will printers and
publishers live? But the present books
will continue to be read and used, just
as we read and use books printed twenty.
fifty or a hundred years ago. In time
| the old books that are not worn out will
retire to the less-frequented alcoves of
| our libraries. where they will be COM
fortably read by students interested, and
, left alone by the rest of mankind, ex-
| actly as is done now.
| As for the radical changes which
are to make the new books difficult to
| read and the old books no longer in
telligible, they are a Pigment of the i'm
| agination. The most radical change
! possible would be the substitution of an
| absolutely phonetic spelling; and it is the
! uniform testimony of competent observ
ers that any phonetic spelling in Roman
| letters can be read with ease, after a
| few minutes attention, by any one ia
| miliar with the present spelling. But sim
plification of the present spelling, which
means only the removal of its needless
| exceptions and anomalies, is not radical,
| but conservative, and it will make read
| illS more easy ana not more ulInCull. II
| the whole of the 5000 amended spellingS
recommended by the pathological socie-
| ties of Great Britain and America We're
adopted today the difficulty in reading
would be seen to be imaginary, and the
| language would become infinitely easier
| for future generations. Meanwhile not
one Of our present books need go out of
use.
Others have objected to the look of
the new words or new letters. which they
think unsghtly. The word thru has be-
come target. An impartial judge might
be excused for finding thru quite as sight
~ as ough; considered merely as an OBJ
ject to look at, the advantage is decidedly
with thru. The question that often arises
Is how can any person bring himself
to write the ugly ough when he is quite
thru with the word thru when thru is
written? What reason can be given for
adding three letters that night as we'll
be ply as ough, so far as the word thru
is concerned?
In some cases it is claimed that the ph's
and ough's show the derivation of the
word. There is no necessity for writing
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fish. This was smplfcation. 1t was ef-
fected, not by abstract growth" or "evo-
luton" but by conscious human effort,
guided by common sense. Some persons
began the change; others accepted it be-
cause it was good.
The reformers who gave us today the
simple spelling of fish would, If known,
be entitled to and would receive the graf
itude of the English-speaking race. They
seem to be unknown, but in this move
ment of today, fortunately, the records
are being kept, and future generations
will hold certain names In grateful re-
membrance; among those the Independent
will occupy a conspicuous position in the
front rank as pioneer-with President
Roosevelt.
The movement promises well; already
more than 10000 persons, including many
of the best known educators, scholars,
scientists, professional and business men,
agreed to adopt the 800 words Many
newspapers and many business firms have
done the same and the list swells daily.
This is sufficient to lead to further steps
and ensure ultimate success.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
From the London Answers.

From the London Answers.
~ HE oldest steam railway which is
still in existence is the Stockton
and Darlington, which was first
opened in the year 1925. But America can
boast the possession of an iron way still
existing as part of the South Carolina and
Georgia railway which was laid two years
before that date, and which is perhaps
the only passenger line that ever was
worked by wind power 1t is recorded
that, with a favornig breeze, thirteen
passengers and three tons of iron were
carried at rate of ten miles an hour.
In this country you find both the
cheapest and most expensive miles of
railway ever constructed. The eight-mle
line known as the Wotton Tramway, and
which was built to the order of the late
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, cost
only G1400 per mile. 1t is of standard
gauge, and is now used as a light rail-
way.
The most costly piece of railway line
in the world is that between the Mansion
house and Aldgate, on the Underground,
London. 1t cost nearly &2,O0O000. Be-
statue the record rose to no less than
1000 guineas a yard about $50 an inch.
For cheap travelling the Trans-Siberian
railway holds worlds record. In order
to encourage immigration into Siberia,
third class fares are granted from any
Russian station on the line to Tobolsk
for sum equivalent to four and sixpence.
From Tobolsk on to the very edge of
Manchuria you can travel for nine shil-
,f.r,.s,, A
miles for 10 shillngs pence. This rate,
which works out at about twenty miles
per penny, is certainly cheaper than the
fares on the California line, the Pueblo
and Beulah Valley. Passengers by this
railway are weighed and carried the
whole distance for three farthings a
pound.
The most northern railway line in exist
ence is the Ofoten, built across the upper
end of the Scandinavian peninsula by a
British company, to tap the great iron
ore beds which cover 100000 acres At
the frontier station between Norway and
Sweden an enormous hall has been built,
into which can be closed as protection
against the weather When crossing the
arctic circle the engine driver makes a
point of blowing the whistle.
What is-or was. before being taken
over by the Great Western-the smallest
Independent railway company in exist
ence was the Abingdon railway with
Radley. 1t was paying concern, and
fetched a very good price when sold.
The Manila and Dagupan railway
which is to be found in the Island of
Luzon, has some claim to be considered
the most elegant in existence. Certainly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
ORIGIN of "Jesuits."
the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
The members of the Society of Jesus,
whose new general has just been elected,
appear first to have been given their
familiar short name, "Jesuits,' by none
other than Calvin. Pope Sixtus V. at
tempted to change their name from SO
eiety of Jesus" to Society of 1gnatius,
after their founder, Ignatius Loyola. but
the attempt miscarried, and the Jesuits
have never become 1gnatians," after the
model of the Francscans, Dominicans
and Benedictines, although their enc
mics in Spain used to call them "Inig-
isias'' Gnigo being the Spanish original
of Loyols' Christian name.D In France,
after their expulsion in 1865. those who
ventured to remain temporarily called
themselves Fathers of the Faith or
CLERKS of the Sacred Heart"
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Andrew Carnegie, LID, in the lndepend-
ent.
-HE Independent has many merits
which give 1t value to it's readers,
Il and it is to pass into history as a
pioneer in improving the spelling of our
Language, a result which will grow in
public estimation with the years as each
successive generation looks back and con-
graduates itself upon what it has escaped
just as we may congratulate ourselves
upon being freed from the trammels of
Caxtons Tyndale's, Sponsors and even
Shakespeare's and Jonsons spelling
1t is quite true that language is a
growth, and that, in spite of all, our own
language has improved and will con-
tnue to improve. But spelling is not
language; and Improvement in spelling
never came until a few writer's at first
rejected an old and adopted "A new SPELL
ing nor can it come in any other way.
There must be pioneers.
Spelling reform has this popularity
reforms in other departments are usually
prested by those who are not the highest
authorities but by innovators knowing
and caring less for origins, but feeling
more the trammelS OF existing cond1-
itons. The contrary is the case with
spelling. The great body of philologists
are convinced of the necessity of this re-
form. and are its most ardent advocates
The more man knows of our language
and of its confusion and anomalies OF
spelling, the greater "A reformer he is.
When this movement for reform took
hehnite shape, thirty years ago, its lead
srs were Professors March, Whitney,
Bloomsbury, Max Muller and Others, the
highest authorities of their time; men
who were soon Joined by scholars like
Child Hadley, Barnard, Harris and many
others in America, and by S<eat, Murray.
Sweet and others in England; while the
younger generation of scholars concerned
In English philology and leXicography
seem to be even more Jealous for re-
form. In fact, in this matter, expert
opinion and common sense point in the
same direction. Reform must be begun.
The class that resists most is that of
aged literary recluses who resent dis
turbance and wish to continue in the old
ways to which they are used.
One of the most prominent men gave
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
Brainless Dogs.

From the New York Press
James S. Bush, the bank builder and
decorator, contends that dog should
never be allowed to lie with its head to
the fire, as the brains will become added.
If Jim visits the home of friend and
sees puppy facing the heat he will turn
the youngster around and stick its tail in
the ashes. And the youngster will
promptly reverse himself and persist in
sticking his nose as close to the Goals
as possible without scorching. Who is
right Bush or the dog?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-25
A Great Selling for Thanksgiving Week

Tremendous reductions have been made all along the line and
department makes special bids for business You know without tell
you what savings you buy this regular pc
and these special sales savings that quaed by other ho
u attempted.
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THE BUSY CORNER
LOUIS PIZITZ
LOUIS PIZlTZ

Of Fine White
Choice OF Styles
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-05-13
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Generous Friends Sending Literature.
Chlldren's Department.

Generous friend. are constantly
s'udinR in contributions showing their
Interest aud deslte To help this lAud
Ahle enterprise, A very valuable con.
tribut,un hA' just been received from
Mr.. Margaret toward consisting ~
twenty.elghI volumes ~ the very best
literature for children. arranged aud
compiled 10 suit all ages from i've /,
eighteen yeArS In such n manner ~
beet 10 develop the m,ni, including
cVrryIhiug from in,ry tales tu hi0orys,
hlugrspnys, poems all beautifully u
lustrAted, AMI van th,S handsome nj.
diion ~ III" library, tie As,ociaIun
val nov be- able ~ dpUu Ia the pub.
lac n childrrn's reading. room aud A..
cure parents that they viii he tar
nIshrd with the very hest literature.
the follnwiug collection Vt huok'
we're also dDns,"d ou Apul 3tth 10y G
X C,awinFd Rch"s ~ Huryan. VT
Il; Debate uu Endl",s ,shmeut
Indian Massacre ~ MlunrsOh 4 WIN.
ser ia Florida
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-05-13
THE CIRCUIT COURT.
Court Adjourned Until Wednesday Of
Next Week, Account Primary.

After short session Saturday, the
circuit court adjourned until Wednes.
day Of the coming week, owing to tn.
primary Which will be held on Tues
day.
The grand jury came into open court
and made it's presentments, which
would have appeared in The Sun OF to.
day had it not been for the fact that
the foreman and other members OF the
practical department were i'll, and the
paper is now being RIM on a short
force. These presentments, however,
vii appear on Tuesday morning.