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PHONETIC ALPHABET.
Mr. Carnegie Backs the Movement
for Reform in the Language.
Ready to Glva f 10,000 to Promlnoat
Educators Who Are Poshing the
Effort to Simplify the Spell
ing: of English Words.
Andrew Carnegie has come to the
Itelief of “the English language as
she is spoken." lie has pledged his
financial support to a movement
which will bring about reform and
correct abuses in the speaking and
writing of English. This is in pur
suance of a desire of Mr. Carnegie
to have English the principal lan
guage of the world. The first step
will be in the direction of reform
and simplicity. The members of the
various philological socieites which
have been laboring for phonetic spell
ing and the creation of a pronuncia
tion alphabet aroused Mr. Carne
gie’s interest in the matter, ami he
will finance the undertaking until its
completion to the extent of SIO,OOO
a year.
A meeting of educators, presided
over by Mr. Dewey, of Albany, was
held at Columbia university in New
York city on Saturday, February 21.
This committee discussed the matter
thoroughly, but so far as can be
learned no definite action was decid
ed upon.
W. T. Harris, United tales commis
sioner of education, who was invited
to attend the meeting in New York,
has been made aware of what trans
pired and the present status of the
movement. He said to-night:
“The need of a pronouncing alpha
bet for the use of the English lan
guage has long been felt. The
movement has been fostered by the
many philological societies, and when
the matter was brought to the at
tention of Mr. Carnegie he consented
to furnish the neccss-.ry money if
the project was handled by respon
sible men.
“Take the word ‘though.’ It Is ar
gued that there should he a sign for
*th,’ and the word would then he
spelled by using the sign determined
upon for the first two letters and
the letter *o.' For instance, the Eng
lish pronunciation of the word ‘post’
is ‘pnustThat is the way it is pro
nounced in England. We pronounce
It ‘post.’ The accent on the vowel
Is almost lost. That is due to the
‘school unarms* of our land, wdio for
the last 100 years have been telling
John when he enrne to the word
•po t’ and was inclined to drawl over
the ‘o’ to hurry up and not drag it
out.
“There are other great reforms in
English that there is a desire to
correct, hut they are, nil overshad
owed by the move for the alphabet.
“Mr. Carnegie’s move Is simply a
plan to see what can he done along
this line. 1 dad no idea that the mat
ter was to he made public until all
arrangements had been completed.’’
COWBOYS CAPTURE RED DEER.
Aimrlrnn WfUlfrmT* Kind Them
Harder to C'atrh with l.aim
'l'linu Wild ilumti,
Two of HulTulo 1 ill’s cowboys, now
performing at the Olympia, London,
'J oin Webb and Si < ompton, had what
they called On best day’s sjort they
ever had in their lives on the grounds
of Loud water house, the residence of
J’anmure (Jordon, at Kickmunsworth,
recently. They were invited to las
soo a herd of red deer, and found
them trickier to capture than wild
horses, but after a determined con
ic-1 the cowboys were victors.
The chase ranged over a 12-acre
field, fringed with woods, out of
which the deer were driven by beat
ers, whose attempts at capture they
had liithei o defied. First came a fine
stag, which seemed the leader, lie
eyed the cowboys with nn air of de
fiance and contempt. The coils of
rope hissed through the air and fell
around the legs of the slag, but be
fore the loops could be drawn taut
the animal bounded five feet into the
air Several times the cowboys failed
but eventually a coil fell round the
stag’s antlers.
With anot) er, which had no antlers,
capture was more difficult. After two
had been taken prisoners, the deer be
gan to practice sly tactic*. They
watched for the rue of the cowboy’s
arm, and jumped high in the air while
the lasso fell harmlessly below them.
It look two hours to capture the first
five.
WRITES TO STORK FOR BABY.
I’oitul ( nrd llwflitd at the Nw
Vurk Central I’nrk /.on Is of
I ulijuc Character.
A postal card was received at Cen
tral park tlie other day addressed "To
the Ktork, Central Tark Menagerie,
New York." it was mailed in Urook
lyn, and written in German. "Anyone
here by the name of Stork ?" asked the
letter earrit r of the clerk who received
the mail. "Mutt be anew appoint
ment. There is no one by that name
on this floor,” said the clerk. The
card filially was taken to Commission
er Wilcox’s secretary, who translated
the message as follows;
"Kind Mr. Stork: Please bring me
a little baby boy, and bring bim to
night, so we will find bim In the
morning. Please let Lim have blue
eyes aad yellow Lair. A. W. 11.”
The writing seemed to indicate the
sender is grown.
Cai’l Drive It Oat.
The critics carp at ragtime music,
but it still has the floor, says the
Chicago Tribune. _ _ ,
SLANG IN THE MAKING.
Man? of the lp-to-Dat* Phrases Caa
aot He Traced to Their
Origin.
The study of slang In the malting
haa always I *>cn hampered by the fact
that n Investigator ever sees the in
ventor at his work. In some college
■lndent’s room, behind the screens of
a drinking hall, or among the rousta
bouts of the levee the words and high
ly colored phrases taken up by the
world so readily have probably first
teen altered. Where lived the man
who coined word "chump?” asks the
New York Evening Post. Who first
thought of saying to his rival: "Go
'way back and sit down?” No one
seems to know, and the inquirer has
to be contented with inferior speci
mens for study. One of these has
just come to light in Chicago. It it
not one of the elusive sort, full of
fancy and inspiring suggestions. Bui
it. has the merit of having l>een de
signed, as it were, before our eyes,
like the wheat cakes which the white
capped cook makes In the window of
a dainty restaurant. It is the word
"seg,” which is applied to the young
women now attending the University
of Chicago. Since coeducation has
been abolished it is obviously inac
curate to call them coeds. At the same
time, the west does not lake up the
less complimentary terms which the
young men in some eastern colleges
apply to tbelr feminine fellow stu
dents. The new word is certainly ns
euphonious as the old (more so, if any
thing, because it. has no hiatus), it is
highly descriptive and not In the least
uncomplimentary.
NEVER VICTIMS OF CUPID.
There Ar More Bachelors Than Old
Maids In the Census Ba
serration.
It 1b estimated that there are now
In the United States 1,600,000 more
single men of marriageable age than
there are single women, the official fig
ures being ns follows; Unmarried men,
10,448,153; unmarried girls and women,
7,573,819. The male population of the
United States, through the excess of
male immigration and the higher male
birth rate, is more than 1,000,000 in ex
cess of the female. The span of life is
on the, average, longer for a woman
than for a man and the marriageable
age for women is severalyears younger
than flie average for men. Asa con
sequence of tliis the numberof widows
is very largely in excess of the number
of widowers, the figures being 2,700,000
and 1,200,000 respectively, says the San
Francisco Argonaut.
There are more divorced women who
have not remarried than there are
divorced men, and for all these reasons
the number of the single men of mar
riageable age is larger than the num
ber of single women. In New York it
is 240,000, in Pennsylvania 180,000, in
Ohio 120,000, in Illinois 200,000, in Cali
fornia 150,000, in Texas 150,000 and In
Kansas 75,000. In Massachusetts the
number of unmarried men exceeds the
number of unmarried women by only
a few thousand. In Utah there are.35,-
000 unmarried men and 83,000 unmar
ried women of marriageable age. In
Washington, the capital, the number
of single men is 42,000 and' of single
women about the same.
MODERN CARTHAGE.
Where Mood thp Famous Annlent
City the Vtnlklna Camel .\uir
Drews Americas Flows.
For the first tame in many centuries,
some tiling modem has appeared on the
site of the ancient edty of Cairthage.
Here, where once flourished the art* of
war and peace, Is a vast, lonely plain.
Of the street* through which the con
quering Hannibal marched in triumph
nothing now remains but the shade
less wbeat-fielda Popular Mechanics
describes the stalking camel plodding
along drawing the modern American
plow orcultlvator.
The soil is us rich as It was on the
day when the Phoenicians founded the
city, and the American and his indus
tries have found their way to the his
toric spot where the Homans wrought
such devastation In their conquests.
American*, in charge, of native work
men, may be seen directing the use of
tlie modern farming implements in
harvesting or tilling ■tie soil. These
machine* arc a source of wonder to t be
natives, who for generation*employed
only the crudest of farm implement*.
The place Is on the northern coast of
Africa, about ten miles from tbe pres
ent Hly of Tuntsi. American* find tbe
market there for their inventions a
lucrative one.
THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
One Messenger lioy Whit Was Not
Slow In Countering uu a
Famous Wit.
George Ade is an expert at badinage,
but in Chicago one day a little messen
ger boy got tbe better of him, says
the New York Tribune.
Having only a few minutes for
luncheon, Mr. Ade hud gone to cheap
place, and was sitting on u stool before,
a marble counter when the messenger
boy entered, took a place beside tbe
humorist, and ordered l a piece of apple
pie As he ate the pie the fact became
evident that, ids bunds were dirty.
There wa* on his plate a piece of
cheese- a piece of very yellow, hard
cheese, cut with mathematical preci
sion, so that it resembled a cake of
soap, Mr Ade pointed to it and said:
“Here, boy, take that and go wash
your baud* with it.’
The lx>y answered: “You takeit.and
go shave yourself.”
There was no possible rejoinder, for
Mr. Ade’i Wsrd was indubitably of two
or three days' gtowUn
ROMANCE OF KUBELIK
Celebrated Hungarian Violinist to
Wed Beautiful Country Woman.
During Hl* Tour of World He Has
Many Proposals, Hot He Hrmalaa
Trae to Ilia l.ove for Couuteaa
voa Caaky-SaelL
The news that Kubelik is engaged
to wed Countess Marianne von Csaky-
Szell (pronounced ChakkysShell) is
the sensation in Hungarian social cir
cles. She is 22 y°ars of age, while
Kubelik is a year older. She is the
daughter of Wolfgang Von Szell Bes
senyei, who was president of the sen
ate at Debrecin, in Hungary, and at
the age of 18 was married to a Hunga
rian. count. But her married life last
ed a few weeks only, and soon after
wards she secured a divorce.
The youthful violinist had but re
cently leaped to fume. It was not
until I8 ( J8 that he made Lis first ap
pearance and scored an Immediate
triumph in Vienna. And it was the
first time he played at Debrecin that
he made the beautiful young countess’
acquaintance.
It was a case of love at first sight,
for Herr Kubelik has confessed that
when he saw her he knew he had
found his “ideal." Hut, determined
not to be led away by the Impulse of
a moment, he delayed his proposal
for three years. In England and Amer
ica he had m .uy offers of marriage,
but he took no notice of them, and al
ways hid himself when pursued by
admirers. Friendly correspondence
pasted between him and the countess
duringthe three years, and Herr Kube
lik, with the honors of both hemi
spheres. heaped upon him, returned to
his native land to lay them at the feet
of his “ideal."
On February 27 he gave a concert
in Vienna. The house was crowded,
and everyone noticed in one of the
boxes a charming young woman with
brown hair and brown eyes. !#ie di
vided with Kubelik himself the utteie
lions of tlie audience, so exquisite was
her beauty. But none present, save
Kubelik—not even his foster mothdr
—had any idea that she was at that
moment the betrothed of the young
musician whose playing delighted the
house. Shortly before the concert
Kubelik had declared, hia love and had
been accepted.
In addition to being one of the most
lovely women of hercountrythcyoung
countess is possessed of so much
wealth that Kubelik need never again
play after he has married her; but
be is quite, content on continuing bis
professional career aiul will not be
married for at least another year. Be
ing a knight of St. Gregory, he will
have to get the pope's consent.
SMALL SECRET SOCIETY.
Moat Eulualve Organisation In tha
World—Kvery Member Hold*
an Offlct.
Probably tbe most exclusive organi
zation in New Yolk city is a secret
lodge with only seven members, every
one of whom is wealthy. The mem
bership of the lodge never has been
greater, although it is one of the old
est in New York state. The meeting
place ia said to be the most luxurious
ly equipped lodgeroom in the city,
and the paraphernalia owned by the
lodge represents a small fortune. The
membership is just large enough to
fill in rotation the oilices prescribed
by the constitution, and it lias been
agreed among the members that the
number shall never be increased be
yond seven. New members are pro
posed only when vacancies are caused
through the death of old ones. Asa
rule, a son or other male relative
of a dead member is chosen to fill
his place. The order of which (he
lodge forms a subordinate part does
n<A look upon it with unmingled favor,
and some outsiders condemn it un
equivocally and threats have lieiu
made that the lodge would be com
pelled either to increase its member
ship or surrender its charter, but the
opposition has always been stranded
on the lavish generosity which, the
lodge displays toward all charitable
institutions organized under the aus
pice)* of the order.
PORTRAIT OF DANTE FOUND.
The Valuable Caavaa la I)licovr4
Amid Church Frrseuss at
Florence.
A writer on Ithalian art, Mr. Chla
pelli, has just discovered at Florence
in one of tbe frescoes in tbe church of
Bantu Maria Novella a figure that ap
pears to him incontestably to be that
of Dante. Tills portrait differs from
the traditional description of the poet,
except for the cap.
The frescoes are by the Orcagna
brothers, Andrea and ilernurdo. As
Andrea was born after Dante died it
Is supposed that the figure must have
been painted by Bernardo.
Several so-called portraits of Dante
exist, such us De La Croix’s, Scheffer's,
etc., but tiiey are rather figment* pt
tbe poet-painter's imagination than
likenesses. The only portrait at all
true to life hitherto known is the one
by Giotti.
Missouri I'rrorkrr to Toll Truth.
A Missouri preacher announces flint
wlien he officiate* at a funeral here
after he will tellthe truth about the de
ceased. The other preacher in the
town, says the Chicago Tribune, must
have been getting all the weddings.
A Dead llsslsrss.
The conviction is growing widely
prevalent that the coroner, as an insti
tution, has out lived his usefulness, says
the Chicago Tribune.
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The Princess Alfred Tennyson
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Black Beauty Anna Sewall
Flower Fables Louisa M. Alcott
Laddie, and Miss Toosie’s Mission
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Little Lame Prince Miss Mulock
Try Again Oliver Optic
Wafer Babies Charles Kingsley
Rollo in London Jacob Abbott
Tales from Shakespeare.. ..C. and M. Lamb
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Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan
Imitation of Christ Thomas a Kempis
Kept for the Master’s Use...F. H. HavergaL
Daily Food for Christians ....
PairaLdise Lost John Milton