Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 249, 6 October 1906 — Page 7

The Richmond Palladium, Saturday, October 6, 1909.

Page Seven.

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The price and terms are marked in plain figures on every lot. You pan see for yourself what any lot will cost you and the weekly payments on which it is sold.

This is one of

lots so popular with the people, Oth

the easy terms of free deed of your

restrictions insuring a good class of hou!

That the people of Richmond appreciate these liberal inducements is shown by tlje way theyfhave been purchasing the lots. For in spite of the lery threatening weather, a large number of people have fvisited the plat each day since Opening Day and have selected lots. We want you to visit Bentfon Heights and give us your opinion about Che lots. If you are working and can't comeduring the day, come in the evening- Thefplat is well lighted with electric lights, enabling you to mm m M m n a mm

eiect your 101 as wen m ine

during the day.

1 . Benton Heights lots are priced at 3150 and up. Five dollars makes

on any lot, $1.00 You can pay for miss the money. Lots are on day. from 8' a.

out any time. Take the Fairview cars. We pay the car fare.

38 Actual Work Begun. Actual work was begun yesterday on the Home Telephone Company's new building on North 9th street. The ground was staked off and the excavation begun. If the weather is favorable the company hopes to get the structure under cover before Christmas. The new automatic plant will not be installed and ready for service before March or April. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Tbs Kb i Yea Hare Always Bought Bears the Signature of

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the many things that sale, the provision gr lot in event of youi

to $200 weekly tHereaft

a lot on these easy sale every da m. until 8 p.

r and 39 Colonial Bldg.

Poor Dave in the Cold. David Cusick, the well known polo goal tender, who married Miss Sue Hemingway of Kokomo after a romantic courtship, has consented to his wife's filing a divorce complaint, in which she alleges non-support although Cusick states that he never neglected her. He also signed a statement to the effect that he would neither write letters to her, nor return to Kokomo while the suit is pending nor molest her in any way. Dave also signed another agreement which calls for the return of all the household goods which are now in Fall River. Mass. It is reported that no ill feeling exists between the two and that they met agreeably and formed the final steps for the divorce. - See how wiat you have heard looks In print and get a dollar for doing it. Win the news "tip" prize. ' 1

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i ire making these advantages are ing your heirs a death, and the evening as

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)0, $125, irst payment pays for it. 1 ten is ana never cept Suncome MILTON. Milton, Indiana, October, 5. Mrs. John Thurman was hostess for the C. W. B. M. Thursday with the following program. Devotional, Mrs. Frank M. Jones; Paper, "What Lack We Yet' A study of our auxiliary and its needs, Mrs. Alice H. Gresh; Africa Congo Free State, Central Africa, Mrs. Harry R. Manlove; Reading, Mrs. John J. Ferguson. Mrs. George Kelsey gave an original poem entitled a medley ofcurrent events at a recent Cary Ciub meeting. D. B. Rudy of Indianapolis was in Milton Thursday. - Sam Beam sawed a finger off Thursday morning. The M. E. Sunday school -will observe rally day. Sunday October 7, A pretty service entitled CiV'ans of the Kingdom in preparation.

Humor end Philosophy By DUNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. While there is nothing new under the son. there are several fresh things all right. Our trade with the Philippines has multiplied many fold. We must have got trading stamps with the Islands when we bought them. vinegar, but it will not attract as many Some men when they find what they are looking for dodge it. When a man asks your advice on buying a dog always give him a point er, provided you have one to spare. The man behind the gun doesn't In any way overawe the girl behind the gum. A white lie is one the oldest Inhabit ant tells about the biggest snowstorm Whatever may be its virtues, no one will, accuse limburger cheese of mod esty. You wouldn't expect a doctor to be happy when he is out of patients. Never put off until tomorrow what you can just as well postpone until next week. - Nature collects its bills without the aid of the sheriff. His Barometer. - He thought the times were out of joint; This was the reason why He had a line of sold bricks fine. And no one came to buy. Although he made a bargain rate, , He couldn't understand The reason, why good men. were shj .And left his stock on hand. He heard prosperity was here With plenty in it3 mitt. But he was shy of a supply, . And much he doubted it. Though men in many other lines In profits took delight. He still picked flaws in things because The suckers would not bite. ' The game that one time brought him cash Now only brought him woe, For suckers who looked good were few And wouldn't try a throw. No wonder he was sad of heart. Forlorn and had the blues And prone to fret. He couldn't get What seemed his honest dues. Tis thus we gauge prosperity And call it very fine -When all the fish that we could wish Are dangling on our line. But with a long range telescope Its form we could not spy If suckers only came to grin And wink the other eye. Reason Enough. "Why don't you quit your foolishness and settle down and be decent?" "Oh, but everybody hates a quitter, you know." v Getting Their Money's Worth. Too much censure should not be visited on the sightseers at the country fair "who by their jeers caused a balloonist to go up when his balloon was unsafe, thereby forcing him to take a moonlight ride over Lake Michigan when he wanted to go only a few miles out into the country to see how the crops were looking. The dear public has been bunkoed so often' In its amusements that it may be pardoned for having thought that the balloon ascension was only advertised for the purpose of selling tickets. If a man pays admission with the full expectation of seeing some one killed 6r frightfully mangled, he doesn't want to stand around all afternoon staring at a canvas bag full of wind looking for all the world as though it had been stuck to the earth with a barrel of glue, particularly if his ticket doesn't read, 'Money refunded If nobody is killed. Now They Don't Speak. I couldn't marry a man, no matter how 'much he might be in love with me, unless he were a hero. "Oh, that difficulty adjusts Itself! He'd be a hero to love you, my dear. 'Wanted Evidence. "If you will marry me I know that I will be strong enough to build upxa great fortune. "You will have to show me a blue print of the fortune first. Not He. "I love a nice lawn more than, anything else about a house. "Ton are different from me. I don't love any kind of a lawn mower. Suit on Contested Bill. William Kelly, acting attorney, fil ed suit yesterday for the R. Given & Son company an Ohio firm vs jones Haraware company on con tested claim of $256.S2. $1.25 Round Trip TdianapoHs. Sunday, Oct. ' Special train leav Richmond. S:20 a. m.. over Pennsylvania Lines. 30-2-4-6 Palladium Want Ads Pay.

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BERNARD SHAW FOR ENLARGED ALPHABET

Method to Reform Spelling Urged by Irish Critic. PEESENT PLAN ONLY SHORTENS Phonetics Are Inevitable, He Claims, bnt Correct Fhonetlea Xeed. More Letters Ieclarea Reform Cannot Be Effected by Shortened Spelling Which Luoki Inedncnted. George Bernard Shaw, the Irish dramatist and critic, has set forth his views on spelling reform in the following extract from a characteristic letter to the editor of the London Times: It is to be regretted that the scheme of the simplified spelling board so ener getically and wisely forced on our attention by President Ruzvelt (if he will allow me to simplify him to that extent) has been received not only with the outburst of ignorance and folly which any sensible proposal may nowadays count on, but with a false delicacy which has led genuine phonetic experts to withhold serious technical criticism. It is bad enough to have men of letters passionately defending Such a recent absurd and transient aberration as our pseudo-etymological spelling on the ground that it is the spelling of the Bible and Shakespeare (a libel gross enough to make Tyndale and Shakespeare turn In their graves), but it is far worse to have the defects of the scheme passed over in polite silence by the people who know authoritatively that, though the president does not overrate the enormous importance of spelling reforms, his methods cannot be regarded as an advance on those of Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. ' I tried to express this myself by com paring his action to the reform calen-. dar by Mohammed, who divided the year into twelve lunar months, with results on the caravan 'season arrange ments from which Arabian commerce has not recovered to this day, but I find that most of your contemporaries regard Mohammed's arrangement as an excellent one and accordingly report me as enthusiastically In favor of the presidential scheme. Pending some really authoritative comment by Henry Sweet, whose proposals of 1881 are hardly to the point today, or by a home expert of his school, let me point out a few obvious shortcomings In the scheme. To begin with. It is not really simplified spelling. It Is shortened spelling, which is quite a different matter, as the short spelling may leave a foreigner or a child quite as much in the dark as to the sound of a word as the long one, and it anxious ly disclaims any pretense to be phonetic. Now, It is doubtless wise when a reform is Introduced to try to persuade the British public that it is not a re form at all, but appearances must be kept up to someextent at least, and the fact Is that a board which dis claims phonetic spelling puts Itself out of court. Unphonetic spelling is as impossible a figment as secular education. Unless we adopt the system of Chinese ideographs and learn by heart a separate arbitrary symbol for every word In the dictionary we must spell phonetically. We may corrupt and confuse our spelling by etymologic fads, spelling "det" with a'"b" and "foren" with an "Ig," ust as we might spell "man", "mapn" or mkyan, to snow tnar. we are de scended from the apes or monkeys. But we shall not spell 'man" "ape" nor shall we ever spell "cat "dog.' If we did the" only result would be that we should presumably spell "dogma" "catma." We cannot get away from phonetic spelling because spelling is as necessarily and Inevitably phonetic as moisture is damp. To say that English and French spelling are not phonetic Is absurd. All that it means is that the French and English spell much worse than the Germans and Italians, being relatively conceited and inhibltive people who take an uppish delight In making -isA '.fS.i. t j mention their love of excuses for punishing children. . But in the" long run phonetics have their revenge. When we begin by re fusing to spell as we pronounce we end by having to pronounce as we spell. Etymologists, to show the French origin of the word "oblige," refused to spell It phonetically, and a generation of superior persons despised those who did not say "obleege" and were them selves despised by the still more select circle who said "obleezh. But who dares say "obleege" now except Joseph Surface on the stage? The history of the word "envelope" tells the same story. "Ongvelope" and annvelope" have had their day. We spelled it "envelope," and now we have to pronounce It "envelope. The Amer ican reformers want us to spell "cata logue" "catalog. The word Is in such common use that its pronunciation has been traditionally maintained In spite of the spelling. But what of "epilog" and "prolog"? These two words, which most Englishmen never utter or hear uttered in their lives and the rest use perhaps once In twenty years, are on those rare occasions mispronounced nine times out of ten as "epiloag" and 'proloag." As the working classes become more literate and please themselves by dragging Into ordinary conversation more and more long words that they have never heard pronounced they Introduce ways of their own of pronouncing them, founded necessarily on spelling. Programme," a vulgarism which of fends the eye as "Paris" pronounced "Paree" In English offends the ear, has been in my bearing pronounced so a to rhyme wjthdafcm.":Tbat is how we shalPall'hTve'to'prpnounce it some dy. I oWseeltb&M. i afe! when I shal be forced to ferofitlinetl'aentf consciousas "see'rjycd.nsctts "JThen there thrairch of preciosity. Already I&Jjisbbentola' habit betrays me into cafliq'. "close." I have heard a,tehoiouicingrthe F in Haendel'syacerSYonWalk.' If Deptford b'becey'Depped Ford" tr spite of nsageJPenoreason to doubt that debt will become "depped." I am fond of the' word "ham," meanbe a country place larzer than a harn-

let. . am stm auawea .to spea or

"East Ham" and "West Ham" because the words are written separately, but when I speak of "Lewis Ham." "Elt Ham" or Peters Ham" I, am suspected of a defect in my speech, almost as If I had spoken of "Cars Holton" (properly rhyming to "Walton") Instead of "Ker Shalltn." The received pronunciations nowadays are "Louis sham." "Peter sham," "El them" and so on. and people who support the bad spelling which Is corrupting the language in this fash ion pretend to have special regard for It and prattle of the Bible and Shake speare. They remind me of the New York police commissioner who once arrested a whole theatrical company for performing one of my plays and ex plained on being remonstrated, with that the sermon on the mount was good enough for him. The worst of it is this want of con science in spelling has led to anarchy and indifference in the Interpretation of spelling. London children are delib erately taught to speak hideously by teachers who speak that way them selves. I have passed a public element ary school and have heard a class of children chorusing the alpha bet as fol lows: "I." "ber-ee," "ser-ee," "der-ee. "er-ee," "aff," "ger-ee," "iche," "awy, "Ji," "ki," "al." "am," "an." "o "per-ee," "kioo," "aw," "ass," "ter-ee, "yer-eoo," "ver-ee," "dabblyew," "ax, "wawy," "zad." Already the west end, a section of London, and Oxford have acquired more than half this horrible pronuncia tlon, and they will soon acquire It completely. They are lulled into false security by the fact that the coarsely na sal resonance of the costermouger dis tingui8heshim socially from the Ox ford graduate in spite of the Identity of their mispronunciation. But the snarl will no doubt conquer Oxford In time. .When smart society says "ow, now," for "oh, no," and dahntahn" for downtown" and calls "humbug with a gun" "hambag with agan" it is not very far fromcomplete mastery of the language of what it already calls "Mile End rowd" and will soon call with na tive perfection of accent "Mtwl Enn Rowd." I insist on this aspect of the case be cause, while we seem incapable of grasping the enormous advantage of making English the universal language both for writing and speech or of un-. derstanding how our spelling obstructs that consummation, most English men and women would almost rather die than be convicted of speaking like costerm ongers and flower girls. Our gov erning classes dropped half the conti nent of North America from sheer care lessness. Sooner than drop an "h they would steep Europe In blood. It therefore hits them purposely In their vulnerable point. For this very reason, however, the reform cannot be effected by shortened spelling, which is indistinguishable from ordinary wrong spelling. If any man writes me a letter In which "through" is spelled "thru" and "above" "abuv" I shall at nee put him down as Illiterate and In consequence plebeian, no matter what board or what potentate sanctions his orthogra phy. Really phonetic spelling Is quite unmistakable in this way. No lady or gentleman will ever be persuaded to spell like the late Sir Isaac ntman, who was a very energetic bookseller and a very bad phonetician, but anybody might spell like nenry Sweet without compromising himself Indeed, with positive affirmation of having been at Oxford. A practically correct phonetic spelling Justifies Itself at once to the eye as being the spelling of an educated man, whereas shortenings and so called simplifications suggest nothing but blunders. I therefore respectfully advise the president and the board to take the bull by the horns without wasting further time and enlarge the alphabet until our consonants and vowels are for all practical purposes separately represented and defined. By rhyming with words in dally use we shall then get a word notation which may be strange at first which . does not matter but which will be neither ludicrous nor apparently ignorant which does matter very much indeed. One other point Is of importance. The new ' letters must be designed by an artist with a fully developed sense of beauty In writing and printing. There must be no diacritical signs to spoil the appearance of the pages of new type. It is a mistake to suppose that the Bible teaches us the sacredness of pseudo-etymological spelling, but It does teach us the comeliness of a page on which there are no apostrophes and no Inverted commas. Tea on Wheel. Now that the American women have become devotees of the 5 o'clock tea there is much interest in the appointments that accompany it. One of the latest and most convenient schemes, says Suburban Life, is the tea wagon. It may be loaded with the good things In the pantry and' in safety be wheeled to the place of serving, be It In the living room, the piazza or the rustic garden house. These tea wagons vary In price from $12 upward and may be purchased In the natural wicker or stained any color.' A red wagon makes a pleasing bit of color on the green lawn. . It is not hard to have a good opinion of a man who keeps his opinion of himself to himself. no ninu irear tie Tnrone. Brown Why did your mother takt the parrot out of the sitting room? Little Johnnie The sewing cirdt met here this afternoon. A Qnery. Juno, they say, wae ox eyed. Now. don't you think It true. Were she a dame of thews tinea. She'd be peroxide too? Baltimore American. Pension System Needed. Talk of a pension system for fire men and policemen who have been in the service for a long period and are relieved from duty because of old age, has again been revived in Richmond among officials. It is possible that the city council will seriously consider the matter soon. Although nearly all the summer birds are gone to warmer climes the black bird is in Richmond in great numbers. .

ENGLAND'S SEA- PERIL

Crumbling of Her Shores Now a Real Danger. MANY THOUSANDS OF ACEES 60N2 RTI Commission Appointed to De- . Ti-e War to Stop Ra'raseo of the Ocean Town. One Far Intend Xoir Lapped ly Incoming- Tide A Fort Captnre by the Hugrr Waves. So serious has the gradual but sure disappearance of England's coast line become that a royal commission has been appointed to study the matter and devise some means to stop the ravages of the greedy sea, says a London cable dispatch to the New York American and Journal. It Is known that places that were beaches a few years ago now lie beneath the surface of the ocean and that towns that once were far Inland are now lapped by the Incoming tide. Cases of erosion or encroachment by the sea have long been known in practically all portions of the English coast line, but the facts that the progress of the land destroying ocean Is going steadily on and that the island is being gradually eaten away by the hungry waves are now considered seriously. It has been feund that between lSd7 and 1900 no less than 182.000 acres that ouce were English territory have been claimed by the ocean as Its bed." Moreaver, the amount of annual loss is increasing from year to year.' and unless something Is done to stop the encroachment of waters upon the land It can be almost calculated when England shall have ceased rto exist, except as a little group of rocky Islets. Startling as this may seem. It is far from being a mere scientific speculation or the alarming cry of some theorist, but Is rather the unpleasant and serious fact that will soon, it Is believed, make the savin? of England from the ocean-a national problem. That England might really disappear from the map of the world can be perhaps appreciated when it Is realized that all the 6pace that is now occupied by the North sea and the English channel was once dry land. Great glaciers that slid down on this Immense territory destroyed the land before them and dug a place for the sea. They divided the lands and made England, but their melting and processes of deposit gave her a soft and Insecure coat. The cliffs that seem impregnable fortresses are as playthings to the incessant lapping of the waves. Each tide, indeed, takes a bit of England away with it. Some of the worst effects of this erosion are to be seen In Sussex, where Langney fort, just beyond Eastbourne, is actually falling into the sea. - The waves have eaten Into the brick foundation of the fortifications to such an extent that this once valuable piece of coast defense has been recently abandoned. It was not many years ago that the map of the Suffolk coast showed little bays and jutting points of land. Now for miles It is straight almost as if cut with a knife. The site of Dunwlch, that once was a prosperous market town, Is now far out under fathoms ,of water, and Easton He vent, the most easterly point in England, Is far out beyond the general coast line. In the southeastern portion of York shire the greed of the sea seems now to be at its worst, for there the cliffs almost crumble as the waves lash them. What Is to be the solution of the subject Is not known at this time. The commission has hardly entered into Its work, but the members are determined to end the losses of -territory that England is yearly sustaining In this way.. Redemption of land will be undertaken as well, and much of the destruction of recent years will be made up for. ' MUST KNOW LAW TO "SHINE" Boston Bootbknelca to Take a laral Csbtm to tftaallfr. Boston bootblacks must . hereafter show the earmarks of learning, accord ing to a special dispatch to the New York World. Nearly all bootblacks arc minors, and the school board recently ruled that tinder Massachusetts laws the shiners must know the law. In or der to get a license each bootblack mus V nnder the decision, write out his Interpretation of the state's license law, sign it, and show that he understands what It means. To aid the boyi sample interpretations are provided The ruling also affects newsboys. A scattering of the Greeks, who hav been almost monopolizing . the bootblack trade In the Athens of America, Is now expected. Cnanapmarne Vmr a Haf r Wuk. Women have discovered that cham pagne, though an expensive hair wash, ogives beauty to the hair and baa tb advantage of being much less Injuriout than even the finest of French dyes, to which many women resort when thej find themselves growing gray, says tb New York Press. Other society women have realized that brightly colored bail makes an old face look even older bj contrast and that gray hair makes a young face look younger still. Th snow white hair of Mrs. Potter Palmei was always her chief attraction, and Mrs. John Jacob Astor beautiful silvery gray hair makes a - bewitching frame for her fine features and dellcati coloring. Now another of the younj women, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbllt, Jr, bids fair to have hair as gray in i short time, for it is turning rapidly lr tint, and she has it treated dally U have it become the silvery cater that prettiest Exceptional For you tytngagt In the Re4T Estau and riraansnrsnet bastoeaC n tapiti TtqHTTffT m long at yoiLasre honest an Opportunity mbltloua. X office of youn slat yon IpfestabllsblsK rn: mapfar maklnc frort SLOOO.OO O S5Jk0.00 YEARLY, Id tola bo formation es. yon Taloable lo st ba6st me yeara of tlm and many getting th obtain ; I aaalat yon U cv for roor town of tbi bolt aiKKest and lre Insurance Companies uailfr yoo lug, U'ritlag of Policies, co-operate mni rork with you. Write me today for fre Strtlcnlars a boat my New ana O rig tan Stood. Failure lmpoealble. 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