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Turkey his grand an I shud but
I've lost pocket handkerchief"

head amongst wurruds that has q Image
name Nv his frind right. II We didn't
use wurruds that was slang three hum
dherd years ago no wan cud tell whA&
we were talkin' about But people wuA
be surprised IL they knew whore most
Nv tn slang they use comes firm. In
let We into tn secret he says It
comes firm tn thieves. They invint
language to conceal thought firm tn
polls. Afther a long time a polisman
catches a thief an larns a slang wurrud
firm him. TIL copper tells It to q re-
porther. who prints 1t in his pa-aper.
theatrical manager reads 1T an has
a play wrote around it A pretty girl
hears 1t an tells it to a pote an tn
pote puts 1t into a pome. A fellow tha's
gettin' up a ditchnry sees 1t In tn pome
an sticks 1t into his book. an afther
that it's a part Nv tn ofacyal language
an is sildom or niver used in tn ball
room or on tn stage says Hogan.
ME own idee is that we ought to be
more careful in tn use Nv this gr-reat
gift to our favored nation. We ought to
masther 1t SOS to be able to keep UP
with new authors an to convarse with
tn young. Nanny a misunderstanding
in has arose between father an son
because tn parent was careless an
didn't go out nights to tn language
classes in tn billyard academies. But
1 wud like to see our chats sprinkled
here an there with wurruds aged a
month or two. In me own talk with
you I thry to employ on'y tn purest
English. as We may've noticed. I sildom
dhrop into slang EXCEPT whin tn situa-
ton demands 1T. This bein' SO. an as
tn night is wanin' an tn hour iv mid
night fast approaches, an tn price Nv
gas is high. 1 wud feel obliged to ye
IL We wud go chase ye'ersilf"
Copyright, 1912. py Finley Peter DunnsS
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ditchnry, an if it's what 1 think it is
I'm goin' to write to our cornerstone
layer extraordinary an afther-dinner-
speaker plinipotinchry about 1t.
don't want to interrupt his oficyal
jcoties as a parlor Entertainer, but I'll
have no man call noe out Nv me name
without protest.
can with tn best intintions in tn
wurruld not to deface tn English
speech, what ar-re we goin' to do about
it? I'd like to know. I'm tn last man
to want to make Englishmen talk
different firm what they do. There
ARE too few funny things In tn
wurruld as 1t is. 1 Tread tn article
to Hogan an he says it's purely
economic question. Here we ARE on
this side, he says. tn gr-reatest nanny
facthrers Nv slang liver known. We
projooce yearly more slang thin amy
more thin we need at home. No
American citizen is obliged to use tn
same slang FIR more thin a day at a
time. TIL poorest can find fresh sup
ply ivry mornin in his favrite journal
If there was nawthin' else our COM
mon language cud subsist on tn game
Nv base ball alone.
what ar-re we goin' to do with tn
oversupply? We've got to find a mar
ket f'r 1t, SO. says Hogan, we ship II
all over tn globe ontil on tn plains Nv
Arabya tn camel dhriver addresses
tn ship iv tn desert as a skate; in far
off Cathay, bedad. a mandarin is like
as not to ordher tn executioners to
bean a pris-ner, an tn Sultan iv Tur-
key, whin told that tn Balky Christyans
ARE murdhrin' each other over TIL
land they hooked firm him, turns to his
grand yiZyers an says: L shud sob, but
I've lost me pocket handkerchief
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One DUTY.

BISHOP MOORE. at q luncheon at In
- dianapolis. told q story about one
of the clergyman of his diocese, a divine
noted for the large offertories he could
always raise.
"Lawd,'' said the bishop-'let us call
him Lawd-was addressing last month a
Sunday school. In his address Lawd
likened himself to q shepherd, and his
congregation he Hkened to the sheep.
Then he asked the children:
land what. dear children, what does
the sh -pherd do for the sheepT
AN urchin piped shrillys
Shears smt" xk5uil
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manin, iv coorse. that tn defective is
a mug" But If they name mug, why
don't they say mug? TIL common term.
racy Nv tn soil, fr a prominent fea-
formerly "boko" Now. understand,
it Is supplanted aven in tn best circles
be tn mel can't pronounce this wur-
rud. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
We had q thurly descriptive wurrud
rr an onruly person Nv tn lower or
dhers. We called him a "Hooligan."
sides indicatin' that all onruly per-
sons Nv tn lower ordhers is Irish. They
use tn vulgar EXPRESSION tough" To
suggest admiration rr an action they
ccarsely say 1t is bully" while our
more refined term wud be "top-hole"
or. in certain instances. splitting" We
have a stately OIL name rr an officer Nv
tn polls. We call him a bobby" That
describes him acerately. 1t is historical
ly correct an names just what it says.
That's what q polisman Is. He's
bobby. an no person who reveres tn
language that Milton sung in liver
thought Nv CALM him "cop." TIL
other day I heerd wan Nv these out
landers refer to a beautiful lady as
pippin She was. indeed, a topp.n' fine
gal. but why pippin? Let Englishmen
who have their counthry's slang at
heart have a care. Already tn Goth
has infected our music halls our uni
varsities. an aven more exalted circles.
His rude speech is insidyously creepin'
into our most refined conversation. an
onless we make determined stand
his bloomin' cant will, as these
Beotians wud say. put our noble Eng
lish chatter on tn blink
I'VE can see he's cross about 1t. It's
tn first time I've liver been called a
Beotian. I'm goin' to look it up in tn
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VEN conservative
editors refer to the
deposed tyrant of
Nicaragua as the
notorious Zela-
ya," so II is not
S u rpri sing that
those who felt his
iron heel call the
events which led
TO his downfall and
final flight from
the republic as
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fr buggy ride. An tn mex week
tn Coort Chronicle come out with
notice that .Algy Fitz-Eustace. gintle-
man In waitin' to tn Main Uproar, will
Take tn Count with his Lizzie at tn
Bindery in Hanover Square on Choos-
dah.'
Faith, whin us free born Americans
get through with tn English language
we'll make It look az though 1t had
been run over be musical comedy.
I'm proud Nv tn spread Nv our slang.
wan fault with Americas principal
contribution to tn lithrachoor Nv tn
wurruld. It's too quick rr me.
can't keep up with it An. mind We.
I had a good idjacation. I thought
was thurly grounded whin I left tn
docks. Our grajatin' class was sup
posed to be wan " tn slangiest iver
turned out be tn OF colledge. We cud
harly understand each other. But to-
day all me idjacation goes fr nawthin'
an ye'er oldest boy laughs at me at
timpts to engage him in aisy convarsa-
ton. Nayether Nv us liver knows what
tn other IL talkin' about. Still. it's
good to have him around. With tn
help iv tn def an dumb alphybet he
can thranslate tn newspapers an
most Nv tn short stories in tn maya
zines so that 1 can almost understand
thin. But wisht ye'd speak to Brother
Ambrose an have him lend tn child
a few English wurruds ten years oil
an upward to use outside iv tn school
room.
SLANG is q sthrange thing anyhow.
TIL larned Hogan says what's slang
today may be dacint language twinty
years firm now 'Wurruds ar-re funny
things he says. Bad wurruds become
good wurruds an good wurruds be-
come bad wurruds over night A
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wurrud will start be manin' wan thing
an In tn coorse Nv few years it'll
name exactly tn opposite. an no wan
can tell why. Some Nv tn best wurruds
in tn language was dhreadful slang
at wan time. TIL fact is he says, all
wurruds was slang in q kind Nv way
whin they started. Wan Nv ye'er
ancesthors frightens a hen an sees
she's left somethin' on tn ground. He
pints at 1t an exclaims in surprise,
Egg" He happens to be man iv
standin' in tn community. havin' kilt
a lot Nv people with his stone Ratchet,
an a fellow who hears him an wants
to be In style cries egg" ivry time he
sees tn thropy, an SO 1t goes ontil an
egg is a egg ivrywhere English is
spoke. But tn Fr-rinch calls 1t a
"oof," which shows that whin tn first
Fr-rinchman see wan he started back
in alarm an DRIED, "Oof"
Now says Hogan, suppose ye'er
revered ancesthor had happened to use
some other exclamation. Issintyally.'
says he, an egg is no more entitled to
be called an egg thin 1 am. We're
used to eggs bein' called eggs, an We
think tn name describes thin, but II
OF Granpa Stone Ha.chet Dooley had
said Club" we'd be ordhrin' scrom-
bled CLUBS at tn prisint minyit Father
Kelly says he can reminder whin tn
wurrud scientist" was slang. TIL fell
low that first used it was looked down
on as low an vulgar. an whin he
sprung 1t a famous grammaryan tainted
an siv'ral ladies left tn room. But
today tn most innocint might say 1t
without a blush. It's as good a wurrud
as amy an is often used about dentists
an prize fighters.
"'Slang is experimental in language
SAYS Hogan. If slang wurrud sticks
1t don't take 1t long to lift its impydint
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make her way to the ranch where her
husband was established.
The exile lasted six years, but they were
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America and in his wife also may be
known at first hand those figures which
history seems to take joy In reproducing.
patriots who give all for the ultimate
good Of their country. 1t Is refreshing
that Senior Chamorro has Jared well at
the hands of fortune and has gotten back
much that he ventured.
graceful. dark-eyed woman, calm in
demeanor. usually silent and attentive
rather than viyacious as Latins are, ex-
ceeding well gowned and versed In all
that makes the acceptable hostess is the
wife of the hero patriot of Managua. As
a child she knew her husband and they
seem to have been destined for each
a happy destiny now Few lives SO brief
have been crowded with thrilling cpl
sodes.
Young Chamorro studied at Granada,
and then he aspired to hold a govern
ment post as typographical engraver In
the capital. 1t was with the red tape and
the conviction that only the few and the
favored could hope for favors from
Zelaya. His visits to his home and TO
the family where his wife as slender
senorita was being educated under the
careful eyes Of governssses- were filled
with dreams about the liberation. He
WouIO plan anO draw nis sChohC u opeT.
atoms for enthusiastic comrades and
none more 80 than the present chatelaine
of the Nicaragua legation. He rallied
round him many bold youths. fired by the
ideal Of setting their country free. When
he had gotten his degree at the Univer-
sity of Granada, instead of going meekly
to the capital and waiting for fortune to
smile, he sounded the bugle Of defiance
and with his comrades. all sworn to
fidelity to the cause. he charged down
the Bay of Managua ana captured the
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the liberation In the new envoy from
the beautiful and fertile land Of Central
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That's what we've been doin' an
that's what this Oxfurd professor is
ravin' about. He says American slang
is corruptin'. degradin' an mutilatin'
tn ancyent British tongue. 1T Is re-
vcltin' to amy wan he says. who has
quaffed at tn fount iv English onde-
filed TO see tn inroads tn patter iv
these barbaryans has made in our is
land slang. 1t has penethrated all
classes iv s'ciety an its shiny thrail Is
over all our speech. Where we in tn
golden days befure tn American in
vasion wud speak iv "splosh,' a sound
an hearty wurrud signifyin' tn ready
they compel US to use tn vulgar ex-
pressyon dough" Ign'rant iv all tn
laws Nv good usage in language. they
call q person Nv less thin ordhinry in
tilligince a boob" or a "bonehead,' .
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ours be marredge. Here's ici-
low In this pa-aper. a professor at
Oxfurd CoIledge, that's about ready to
declare war on us because he says
we're corruptin' tn dilect they call tn
English language in England with our
slang.
Yes, sir; It's thrue. An to think ~
all we've done fr thin people. Haven't
we staked thin to some Nv tn most
marredgeable fortunes in this country
to ornament their peerage an put mod
hern plumbin' into their ancient cas-
ties that was built be arrystocrats
that used musk whin tn specifications
called rr q bath? Hasn't me frind
Armour made 1t onnicissary rr amy
but tn poorest to ate tn roast beef Nv
merry England? Haven't we rescued
thin firm tn stovepipe hat an showed
thin how an Englishman can be a gin
tleman in summer an still not suffer
"a sunsthroke? Haven't we inthrajooced
tn turkey throt and tn tango SO that
nanny iv Briton's fairest daughters
that wanst wud blush in quadrille
can now festoon thimsilves around
their partners an have a fit as grace
fully as amy American lady, no mat
Their how colored she may be?
1--WE have. We're civilizin' that
miserable little island. an small thanks
dc we get fr our pains. They make
slow progress in westhern culture, to
be sure. It's now more thin thirty
years since we give thin tn tillyphOne
an they're just beginnin to larn to
over there on a secret mission to blow
up tn hourse iv lords. which he wud've
done if a careless porther hadn't dhrop-
ped his thrunk at Queenstown, he see
a sign In front Nv saloon in London
marked: American drinks sarved
here With tn patriotic idee iv en-
couragin' American art abroad he whit
in an pleaded with tn BARTENDER. who
was lady. fr a gin fizz. I'm sorry
says tn lady, but we have no olives.
But I'll make ye a mint julep If yen
wait till sind out f'r some eggs she
says.
IT'S very disheartenin'. Still. they
do make some progress. I've often said
an American with a rugged constitu-
ton. who can stand their climate an
their cheese, an is used to roughin' 1t
an can put up with tn discomforts
common to all new civilizations. an
doesn't catch tn sleepin' sickness can
have q good time over there wanst he
has mastered tn language. An tn
best way to masther tn language Nv
amy Turin country is to inthrajooce
yeer own.
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Eye can see he's cross about it. It's
tn first time I've liver been called n
Beotian. I'm goin' to look 1t up in tn
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Copyright, 1912. BY Finley Peter DunasS
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Materially. Hogan goes on, our best u
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By MARGARET Il. DOWNING.
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friendship between the two has waxed
into . comradeship and ~ . culmina-
ton John Grass has offered to confer
. great honor upon his white warrior
friend.
Late last night the conference be-
tween the gentlemen had not been
completed but partial arrangements
had been agreed upon for the big cell
ebration which is to be held in June.
Mr.. WEIGH is to furnish beef % his
token in the proceedings. Mr.. Grass
will send word to the old-time Indians
and warriors of his tribe. The occas-
ion will consist of ceremonial dances,
presentation of the pipe Of peace,
which the chief is having made for the
occasion. There will be q council Of
old chiefs in which none but war
riors of distinction shall be allowed
to sit. There will be speeches and
other ceremonies. The great pipe
will be passed from the chief to Mr.
WEIGH, and from him on to the other
members of the council, which in this
instance will be taken as an act Of
cementing perpetual friendship.
There will be feasting and general
pow-wow which will be one of the
greatest in the history of the Sioux
tribe.
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the discing.
Now seed placed in this loose, UNI
packed soil is in about the worst pos
sible condition.
If you have a piece of land praeti-
cally free of weeds and upon which
late crop was grown last year, disc
it in--but don't do it this way.
Set your disc over to the last notch
and then in order to disc as lightly
as possible walk, instead of riding
the disc-you will then just scrape
about an inch or two of the ton. Then
follow with the seeder-a single disc
| think is best in this case-and put
the seed down a good inch into the
moist, packed soil under the dosing.
The kernel then has a compact bed,
almost an ideal place, to bring forth
the young shoot.
Because of the small amount of
blowing done last fall in this whole
area--from the Canadian border to
Mclean comfy and east to Devils
Lake-there will be curtailment of
acreage and much seed put in without
proper soil preparation.
This is risky proceeding and de-
mands better than normal conditions
all through the growing season to
pull the crop through without serious
impairment.
On the whole, however, it is a pleas
ure to note that the preparation of
the ground for the reception of the
seed is better than usual. More at
tention is paid to the mechanical con-
dition Of the soil.
l warn farmers that it is a hazard
Gus undertaking to sow wheat after
May 10Th.
Much better would it be to disc
what ground you have left after next
week.-Mrs. discing will kill weed;
and conserve moisture and then you
can pillow it and plant it to coarse
grain like barley any time up to June
5th.
If barley ground is properly han
died you will clear more dollars per
acre-even at low price-than YOU
will from wheat. Then, too, barley
seed is cheap this spring. No region
between the oceans can raise more
or better barley and winter rye than
this region. More of both should be
raised.
Good corn seed is available. and
comparatively cheap. Every 100 acre
farmer should plant at least FIVE acres
even if you have to borrou the
money to buy the seed.
But plant only the varieties that
will practically mature here in the
average year. Mercer Flint, Triumph
Flint and N. D. Dent and the Square
Deal l think the best. Don't buy the
big southern grown seed because you
can get it for $1.25 per bushel. It
won't come anywhere near maturing.
Remember that corn that grows Z
feet tall and gets to the glazing
stage before frost will have 800 per
cent more dry feeding matter in 1t
than southern grown corn that grows
8 feet high and never gets past the
tasseling stage.
My letter next week will deal with
summer tillage and crop narrowing.
y. S. Murphy,
Agricultural Agt., 500 Ry.
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INDIANS ADOPT
BISMARCK NAN
"A. b. WEIGH WILL BECOME A
MEMBER OF SIOUX TRIBE BY
ADOPTION-IS AN OLD TIME
INDIAN SCOUT.

Bismarck, N. D., May s. - John
Grass, chief Of the Sioux, Asa Little
crow, official interpreter, Ben Bald
head, James All-Yellow and Thos.
Halsey, all Of Fort Yates, are in the
city, having come up to make visit
with A.. B. WEIGH for the purpose
Of arranging for the big ceremonial
celebration which is to be held on
Standing Rock reservation in June, at
which time the chief will confer the
greatest honor possible upon Mr..
WEIGH by adopting him and giving
him his name, which is Ma-tow-a-tak-
pc, of Charging Bear.
It happened that from time to time,
when M. WEIGH has been down on the
reservation, the big chief took lik-
ing to him. This was largely due to
the. fact that Mr.. WEIGH is a veteran
of the Philippine campaign, and has
an exceptional war record for valiant
services. As time has run along this
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Many FARMERS Do
HAPhAzARD WORK
MURPHY FINDS SIXTEEN
FARMERS ALONG 500 Dl9CING
IN WHEAT-SAYS WEEDS WILL
PLAY HAVOC WITH CROP.

M
io the Editor:
Inc supremest gnt with which the
eoos doWefy human Deings-the rar.
est, the choicest, Is common sense
Inc absence Of this quality some
times celled aorse:.sense," is the
cause q nan the 1ahures and follies
OF tne world: !.
Ies tnls ellxir V documentary or
gan N, ana capable q development.
!. Wouidn.t you think that the jost-
hngs, brulsings, f:ilures and repeated
mistakes Of some farmers would force
some OF tnls quality Of common sense
INTO the cracks and creyices Of their
experience!
NOW just THINK OF farmer whose
neld is 1oui with almost every weed
wh;ch ~ t t,s hi;.o 49,. l neid On
s;an ..ct,,. . - Ia.t wyIs snu n ~
ions - Ia, 80 ,,;t:I =. ..1 lsVs .sis D.'
.nrou+ - ~ IT,. ~ at ~. -; 49, 10y 70
lust th;nf r s.v 1s - ~ - c sMe so,
...ss ~ :t i;. az, y W sonM a:
fs s1S .nd h.n o'ssn& wn ~ INTO TINS
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late spring like this, when the weeds
have inst yet made any progress,
much prefer to disc in piece Of land
upona which late crop of flax or
barley was grown last year than to
plow such land and seed it in the or
binary way.
But even this kind Of land may be
practically ruined for the year by not
thinking"
l have observed, for instance, that
the fellow who is discing in q crop
realizing that he is not treating the
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Agricultural Agt., 500 Ry.

Irwin Williamson will leave today
for Saskatchewan, where he has a
valuable 800 acre homestead. "Red"
has the right system. He comes back
to the states every winter and makes
enough money trimming whiskers to
pay his expenses while on the home
stead. n
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soil decently, trys to make amends
by discing as deeply as possible. Then
he will follow with the seeder and
put the seed about half way down in
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Cure for Stomach Disorders.

Disorders of the stomach may be
avoided by the use Of Chamberlain
Tablets. Many very remarkable
cures have been effected by these tab
let's. Sold by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-01
About Iowa Women.

Iowa City Citizen: One Of the
forthcoming books of more than local
interest will be the Blue Book Of
Iowa Women. nov IN preparation by
the editor, Mrs. Winona Reeves. Of
Keokuk- Mrs. Reeves writes the Ctti-
zen that some misstatements have
been published concerning the work J;
that no paid matter VIII appear IN It
and that space is not for gale. Il
will be financed entirely from the sale
of the completed volumes.
The purpose Of the book is two
fold-to record what the women Oh
Iowa have accomplished in organiza.
ton and out of it; and TO give q his.
tory of families which have been
long time residents of the state and
have helped to make Its history.
This is the first attempt to compile
a history of Iowa women and theil
achievements, and 1t will be a valu
able addition to the historical works
of the state. A number of prominen
women of Iowa city are to be inciud
ed in the volume.