The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16

me own. l am revered in Scotland, worshipped in New York behind me back, an in Homestead he says, they can't speak iv me without tears.
 But, alas I am not happy This careless exteeryor, this winnin' smile, this chest which extends beyond tn buildin' line, conceal a gray an achin' heart he says "A secret grief is gnawin' at me vitals F'r oh sir, I cannot spell he says. If ye only knew tn agonies I endure whin me brain is burnin' with thought, whin me brain is burnin with thought, whin thought is thryin to burst out like lava firm Mount What 's-the-name-iv-it an rush to tn point iv me pen, to have to stop, he says, an dig he says, down into me pocket an pull out, he says, a little spellin' book he says, an find whether thought is spelled with or an T., he says.
 Me heart bleeds a good deal all ready, says tn Prisidint I've been givin' tn subject a gr-reat deal iv at tention f'r long time since ye come in,' he says. I don't like to make up me mind hurriedly,' he says. As Iyrybody knows, I'm reluctant to act on me impulses. Make haste slowly if ye must, is me motto. But make haste. Tn race is not often to tn slow. Tn shortest way acrost is tn shortest way aerost, if ye know it. I've heerd iv tn fable iv tn tortoise an tn rabbit. It's fable. Annyhow, if thrue, it was a shockin' revarsal iv public form. If they iyer get up a return match all me money goes on tn rabbit. So.' he says, havin' thurly studied tn question out he says, "tis me determination to inthrajooce this rayform at wanst,' he says.
 "'Ive been thryin' to do something that wud benifit all classes iv me counthrymen. I niver found amy thing that was satisfactorily to all hands. What I done fir tn poor seemed onpopylar among tn rich, an what I done fir tn rich seemed bad fir tn poor. I don't know why. But spellin' rayform is good fir all. Fr'm tn little breaker boy in tn mines to tn coal baron in his private car, firm tn plain wurrukin' man in his com fortable flat to tn millyonaire in his uncomfortable yacht. all have suffered firm this tyranny None have escaped tn age-old injustice he says, iv spellin' through with an aitch,' he says. I will issue an edick at wanst. An, he says, all tn wurruld will know done it firm a pure motive, for he says, Iknow iv no way iv simplifying tn wurrud r. he says.
 An so he don't it. Today tn sim plest American citizen is tn peer iv tn man that wrote tn ditchnry. No more will amy wan have to bow his head in shame because he don't know how nanny ms there ar-re in Cincin- atty or how nanny s's in Mississippi. He puts in as nanny as his means will allow an lets it go at that. seen wan iv Tiddy's addresses tn other day What-'does it look like? It's beautiful. I haven't read amy thing like it since tn Sweet Singer iv Michigan died.
 ''What else has he done? Well, he wint down to Pannyma There was no ostentation about tn departure. On a battleship accompanied on'y be sic rity an tn United States navy. he stole away f'r a surprise visit. As he left his departure was announced be tn cust'mry salue iv four hundherd an eight guns, to which tn forts re- sponded with tn usual eleven hun dherd an nine. At Pannyma tn en- jyneers an Jamaica naygurs were busy at their wurruk, but they managed to give him nasty an enthusyastic wei come, in spite iv tn fact that it had rained fir two weeks an tn decora- tions were somewhat spilled. Throwin' off his hat an coat. he done hop sllit-an -a-jump acrost tn Isthmus an nearly stepped on tn Prisidint iv tn Raypublic iv Pannyma comin' back. This great sojer an statesman, who's