The Cimarron News. (Kenton, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1899 Page: 3 of 6
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JOSEPH H.CHOATE'S NEW AND HARD JOB
Tor th« American Ambassador to England Really Has to
Work—He Also Has to 6pcnd More Thon His Salary.
[LONDON LETTER.!
Ono or two bows to the Queen. a
public dinner or two, an occasions!
hobnobbing with l<ord SuHsbiiry and
an occaalonal communication to tho
Secretary of State -that to the mlud*
of niuny persona la the chief end of
the United States Ambuamtdor to the
Court of St. Jamea'; and they picture
Jo«eph Hodges Choato u« crowning
hla lone years of hard work with u
nice little period of recreation In Lon-
don.
And you couldn't Ret much further
from the truth. Mr. Chaate has about
nil hard a job abend of him us he bad
when he came to New York to mako
hla fortune, with nothing but a let-
ter from Rufua Choato to William M.
Everts an u starter.
More calls are made upon the Amer-
ican Ambassador In London than upon
all the other Ambassadors here put
together, and n
large proportion of
these calls he has
to attend to fcn per-
son. The chief rea-
son for this extra-
ordinary demand
on his time is that
the average Amer-
ican citizen who
comes along feels
called upon to drop
In at the Embassy
and see how bis
country's business
is being done there.
The chances are
that he is a little
homesick and
wants to set foot
again on American
soil. He'may not
have anything in
particular to say,
but he just wants
to shake hands
with the represen-
tative of the stars
and Btripes. And so
for five or six
months in each
year there is a
constant succession
of callers at the
Embassy, whereas the ordinary French
or German citizen who happens to
be in London would think no more o£
calling on his Ambassador except on
business than one would think of of-
fering to shake hands with Kaiser
Wilhelm.
"Busted" American*.
Sad to say, a fair proportion of the
visiting Americans have about them,
as an employe of the Embassy put it,
"the outward and visible sign of an
inward want of money"—unlucky
folk who have received from home
checks on some American bank in-
stead of sterling drafts on London
which should have been sent, and who
want to know if the Ambassador won't
please cash those checks; women
whose husbands have left them penni-
less, travelers who haven't even
enough money to cable home for
funds, and citizens who have been
robbed.
Usually the visitor of this sort says
he wants to see the Ambassador on
business of a private nature, but he
usually come from the victim* of seal
luwags, who make a business of dla-
covering va*t estate* and wringing
money out of Imagined helra acroa*
the Atlantic. The ntiiaance became ao
great a while ago that the Embaaay
collected cvldenco agalnut um of
these solicitors and made on example
of them, but the mythical estate and
the hungry helra n-cm to be about a*
plentiful us ever. Most of the victims
kindly offer iho Ambasnndor a com-
mission on the Hiimn he shall recover
for them, but thin fact does not add
materially to tho allurements of the
office.
Duty Dinner*.
As In calls, so In Invitations to pub-
lic functions. Tho American Ambas-
sador gets more than all the other for-
eign representatives hero put togeth-
er. This wna almost as much so when
for both tides, My* the New York
Tlmea. Mr*. Splller, fcer ton, end
daughter agreed to leave the boune.
and Mm. Crlchton accepted the deduc-
tions made from their bill by her
boarders, which were: Fifteen centa
I because potatoes were served cold, f>
cents because cabbage was u vegetable
that the family failed to relish, SO centa
because one slice of steak was not
eaten, and ft because tho Bplllern
dined out. Neither the magistrate ut
the forkvllle court nor his colleague
a', the West side court waa therefore
called upon to decide the merlta of the
ruse. The doora of tho boarding house
were freely opened yesterday to the
Splller fumlly, who packed up anil
transferred themselves to tho Hotel
Buckingham.
WHAT LONDON DRINK9.
SPELLING WASTES.
CONVENTION OJ THE PHILO-
LOQICAL ASSOCIATION.
College Man Favor It—T.-jrlnf to Get •
Hill Thrauiti Congress In Uo Aw f
with Ull.ra Nut Sunn.I oil—U Would
•eve TI imo and
rid of one of tho p tatcf.t and earn*
mumst of all the i. aorei of our spe!l
Ing. For surely It Is m eyesare, though
tin bit may render li,sensible to It.
to use such a lumbering mass of let-
ters iu 'called' and 'stepped' far the
sake of designating sound* exactly
analogous to tho*e expretaed by 'bald
and 'wept'"
llnlf us Muvli User ss Water Is Con-
sumed.
Some curloua partlculara aro given
In the Ilomc Magazine concerning what
London drinks every year. No leas
THE RECEPTION ROOM.
we had only a Minister here, and in
those days tho minister had to ba
chary about his acceptances, for as
a diplomat of the second rank he often
had to give precedence to the Minis-
ter from Guatemala or some other ab-
surd little power scarcely larger than
Rhode Island, if that Minister hap-
pened to be his senior by virtue of a
prior presentation. Robert T. Lincoln
was the last representative of the
United States to be humiliated in that
manner.
If our representative made a speech
at every banquet to which he was in-
vited he would have to be eloquent
afresh nearly every night in the year;
chambers of commerce, city com-
panies, and all sorts of public bodies,
want him, and think the friendship of
the two nations is somewhat impaired
if he doesn't come. And there is one
dinner neglect of which really would
cause a breach—that Is the dinner al-
ways given by the British. Foreign
Minister on the Queen's birthday. It
is also his bounden duty to attend all
AMBASSADOR'S PRIVATE OFFICE.
rarely gets past the second secretary,
for whenever the Ambassador does ex-
tend such aid, the money comes out
ot hit own pocket, or the pockets of
hla friends, and if he contributed even
a moderate amount to each applicant
for charity he would apend more than
hla salary twice over every year.
The Ambassador's correspondence, la
almost overwhelming, and If Mr.
Choate follows the role of the others
he will get some Idea of the contents
of every letter addressed to him, and
will answer a good many more of
them himself than he would if he were
st the head of a private firm. It will
seem to him on some days that the
whole population of the United States
hss relatives In England who are Im-
prisoned wrongfully, who hare ran
away to Join the British army, or who
hare died ia years gone by. and left
of the drawing rooms and levees given
by tho Queen or her royal representa-
tives, and he has to be attended thith-
er by his secretaries and military and
naval attaches. Furthermore, a place
la alwaya assigned to the Ambassa-
dors at every great public function,
where they sit next to the royal fam-
ily and take precedence of the Eng-
lish dukes. It is not thought particu-
larly good form to he absent from one
of these affairs, except for sufficient
reason, however much of a bore they
may be, for international courtesy
hss to be dsndled everlastingly, like
a spoiled child.
than 275,000,000 gallons of water find
their way annually down the throats
of Londoners. But Londoners don't
drink of water only. The beer con-
sumed amounts to 153,000,000 gallons
every year—a quantity which is placed
in four and one-half gallon casks end
to end would make a line long enough
to go more than a third of the way
round the equator. If this beer were
put Into a colossal barrel, 100 yards
in diameter, the top of our barrel (if
cylindrical) would be on a level with
the top of Nelson's hat, if the Nelson
column were perched on the top of
the monument, while 150 lifeguards-
men could not join hands around its
base. In fact, our sea of beer would
float the entire fleet of the United
States, and would allow a distribution
o. almost a pint to every man, woman,
and child in the world. Of neat spirits
London demands about 4,400,000 gal-
lons a year, or sufficient bottles (26,-
400,000), if placed five feet apart, to
throw a spirituous girdle round the
earth at the equator. If we add water
or aerated waters
in the ratio of two
to cue, who have
diluted spirits suffi-
cient to allow ten
gilis to every man,
woman and child
in the united king-
dom, But we are
still far from ex-
hausting London's
drinking capacity.
Our tea drinkers
are an army of mil-
lions, and call for
25,000,000 pounds
of tea, which,when
redueed to liquid
const rtuency.
means something
like 1,250,000,000
pints, or nearly a
pint for every in-
habitant of the
world. Our teapot,
if properly shaped,
would comfortably
take in the whole
of St. Paul's ca-
thedral, for it con-
tains over 928,000
cubic yards. To
convey the coffee
beans for London's
yearly consumption would require
a train half a mile long for a
burden of nearly 1,370 tons; and
the canister would be 14 yards in diam-
eter, and as high as the monument.
Of aerated waters London drinks 50,-
000,000 gallons every year.
The controversy between Mrs. Crich-
toa and her boarder. Mrs. R. S. Spiller.
st 59 West Fifty-first street, which as-
vast estates of which the correspond- ««®ed such a critical aspect on Mon-
- day and led to each procuring a tan-
eat has Just heard—and would the ,
Ambassador please step out and attend nwna against the other
to the matter? court*. was
cf the last-named sort after
in different
yesterday
Imnm In LlUnlir*. """■
The style of a writer 13 the faithful
production of hia mind; therefore, if
any man wishes to write a clear style,
let him first be clear in his thoughts;
and if say would write in a noble style,
let him first possess a noble soul and
live a noble life.
Very few of our recent young poets
write good proee. This Is very easily
explained. To write good prose one
must have something to say. but he
who has nothing to say can still twirl
verses and find rhymes, where one
word suggests the other, and st last
something comes cat. which ia fact is
nothing, but which looks as if it were
something.
Spelling reform must come, says tl>«
American Philological association.
And It Bays so emphatically. Willie
the country Is being a^ked to cxerclao
Itself aud riow heated over the dU-
riiHfllon of rcfornu In police depart-
menta, aldermanle board*, street car
companies, tiust legislation and tho
queatlon of tho eternal feminine, too
little attention Is being paid to the
aubjeet of spelling reform. In which
not a small clasn of clthccna, not n se-
lect few from a certain walk In life,
not the members of an Individual
community, but every man, woman
and child In the United States, Is deep-
ly interested. Tho 74.&oo,ooo pet-sons
In this republic, say the officers of tho
association, are all directly affected
by the proposition to reform the man-
ner of spelling many of the worda in
dally uso. The association Is trying to
get a bill through congrccB which shall
correct what It describes as an evil.
The statement is made that the Irreg-
ular spelling of the English language
causeo a loss of two years of the school
time of each child, Hnd Is mainly the
cause of the alarming Illiteracy of our
people; thut it involves an expense of
hundreds of millions of dollars an-
nually for teachers and for writing and
printing superfluous letters, and that
it Is an obstacle in many ways to the
progress of the education of those
speaking the English language and to
tho spread of the language among oth-
er nations. Francis H. March, LL. D.,
L. H. D., professor of the English lan-
guage and comparative philology at
Lafayette college, Easton, Pa., Is at
the head of the movement, and with
him have been actively associated Min-
ton Warren of Johns Hopkins, Cle-
ment L. Smith of Harvard, Abby
Leach of Vassar, Herbert Weir Smyth
of Bryn Mawr, Professor Platner of
Adelbert, Professor West of Princeton,
and Professor Wright of Harvard. In
discussing the subject Professor March
said to a Herald representative: "We
are urging the adoption of gradual re-
forms, mainly the dropping of silent
letters—especially of final 'e' and the
change of 'ed' to T in preterits and
past participles."
The position of the association and
what it hopes to accomplish are clear-
ly stated. Professor March says:
"There are a good many authors and
publishers who would be glad to follow
our advice, but think we have given
them too much of it. They want some
simpler beginning. Lists of bad words
like 'though' (tho), 'through' (thru)
'program(me),' are only skirmishers,
Rules are wanted which will apply to
many examples—rules based on some
phonetic law of frequent operation
Dropping final 'e' is such a rule, which
has been widely accepted. The changes
of preterits and past participles of
our verbs suggest another and per-
haps more Interesting rule. In the
early English the preterits of our reg-
ular verbs are two syllables longer
than they are now. In the Wycllflte
Bible 'axide' (asked), 'blesside' (bless
ed), 'klsside' (kissed), 'fllllde' (filled),
'passide' (passed), and 'walkide' (walk-
ed) are familiar examples of preterits
of three syllables now of one; .'an
sweride,' 'perischide,' 'apperlde,' and
'worschiplde' of four syllables for-
merly, but now of two. The unac-
cented, weak vowels In 'ide' were free-
ly dropped. Some early verbs have
'ade,' some 'ode,' some 'ude,' some
'ede,' and in some the vowel before
*de' is absent—'lufade—ode—ude—ede'
(loved); 'lyfode—ede,' 'lifde' (lived);
'demed,' 'demde' (deemed); 'de' was
the significant part of the suffix, and
the law of least effort led to the weak-
ening and dropping of the unaccented
vowel before it. But when the vowel
is dropped and the 'de' comes next to
a final consonant of the root a new
illustration of the law of least effort
appears. Whenever the final conso-
nant of the root is surd (p, t, c, k,
ss, x, th, as in 'thin,' and, later, f,
sh, ch), the 'd' of the suffix changes
to't'—'8laept' (slept), 'cyste* (kist). It
requires a special adjustment of the
vocal chords to utter 'd' a sonant,
after a surd, and to neglect the ad-
justment turns'd' into't*. But shortly
after the time of Wyclif the final 'e'
of the preterit and participle dropped,
and the suffix was largely drawn into
the final syllable of the stem. Thus
we have a number of preterits and
participles in modern English ending
in 't' in which the't' is as old as the
language." Prof. March says the
printers are responsible for a good
part of the lack of progression. "The
printers want only one spelling for
any word," he declares, "or any gram-
matical form, and their influence has
been against the 't's.' The real speech,
the speech as pronounced, has been
setting In the opposite direction, and
the long forms of the preterits and
participles are no longer heard except
in a few words ending in'd' sound or
•t' sound, like 'load,' 'unite.' after
which 1* or 'd' could not be heard
alone. This separation between the
apftken language and the written is
deplorable." One of the pioneers In
the reform movement was Julius
Charles Hare, a fellow of Trinity col-
lege. Dublin, in 1819. afterward arch-
deacon of Lewes, prebendary of Chi-
chester. chaplain to the queen, author
of "Guesses at Truth" and other well-
known works of scolarshlp and liter-
ary taste. He published a paper In
lgtt on English orthography, la which
b« advocated the ase of "t" In pre-
terits and participles which are so
Hiaanimril He said his object in
mtmt thia spelling himself was "to get
SOME NEW TRUSTS.
Igurea Thut Sli ut>l Muke I'uor Peopl*
Tkliki
The new trusts established In U9 •
would fill columns of this paper. Al
over tho ccuntiy tho big manufuctur
era, atrcct railroad owners, light in .
aud power companlea, etc.. have been
whipped Into gigantic corporations,the
combined capital of which fo:>ts up to
tho enormouB llguro of 1957,967,300-
alino&t an even billion. Among tho
blggcHt trusts the following cau bo
named:
AmerlcRU Linseed Oil Co..f lti.7BO.fiOJ
American Potteries Co 13,600,000
American Steel und Wire
Co
American Tin Pluto Co
Boston Fruit Co
Bessemer Ore Ass'n
Broom Manufacturers
Cambria Steol Co
Cast Iron Pipe
Continental Tobncco Co....
Consolidated Oas.Ncw York
Consolidated Traction Co.,
New Jersey
Continental Cracker Co..,
Federal Steel Co
Fire Clay Sewer Pipe
Hawaiian Com. Sugar Co...
International Paper Co....
International Silver Co....
Knit Goods Co
Kings Co. Traction Co
Met. St. Railway, N. V
Milwaukee Electric Ry. and
Light
New Amsterdam Gas Co..
N. Y. Gas and Electric
Light
National Mirror Mnfs
Pacific States Tel. Co
Penn. Light and Power Co.
People's Gas Light and
Coke, Chicago
Print Cloth Pool
River Co-operatives' Co....
Rubber Goods Mfrs 15,000,000
Sash and Door Combine.. 20,000,000
Standard Distilling Co 10,000,000
U. S. Biscuit Co 30,000,000
Writing Paper Mfrs 40,000,00'J
The beef trust, $125,000,000 capital
and the Standard Oil trust monopoly,
$100,000,000, existed before 1898; also
the sugar trust, $75,000,000.
In tho list of trusts formed last year
there are companies that produce the
following necessaries of life:
Hay, flsli, rubber, candy, lamp chlm
neys, linseed oil, thread, snuff, shin
gles, mattresses, pottery, steel wire,
canned goods, needles, Ice, ice cream
cameras, lumber, beer, whisky, scissors
and shears, starch, envelopes. While
since Jan. 1, this year, prunes have
been added to the list and bananas are
threatened.
12,000.000
30,000,000
10,000,000
20,00i),000
10,000,0.0
10,000,000
ln.iifMi.ir.Ki
80,600,00'
30,730,000
16,000,000
10,000,003
100,000,000
20,000,005
10,000,003
13,040,000
11,000,003
15,000,000
15,000,000
40,000,COD
10,000,000
13,000,000
25,000,000
15,000,000
30,000,000
15,000,000
30,000,001
50,000,000
11,000,000
Froze Her Neighbor* In.
Reading (Penn.) Cor. New York
Sun: Mrs. Michael Marsunek was tak
en into custody today by Constable
Wise on the charge of freezing In her
neighbor, Mrs. John Nestle. The al
legation is thai vhen the thermometer
was 10 degrees below zero, before the
Nestles were out of bed, Mrs. Marsunek
came into the back yard from her own
and dashed water against the kitchen
door. The water froze. A number of
bucketB of water are alleged to hav
been poured on the door until a coat-
ing of Ice froze the door tight 3hut.
The same thing was done to the front
door, the water having been carried
out through the alley way. When the
Nestles wanted to get into their back
yard it was impossible to open the
kitchen door. Then the butcher came,
and they could not get out the front
door. A hatchet was passed out the
front window and the ice was choppcd
away. The kitchen door waa opened
in the same way.
CmsavON
Do not think for • slngl#
moment that consumption will
ever strike you a sudden blow.
It doca not comc that way.
It crecps its way along.
Flrat, you think It ia a little
cold; nothing but a little hack*
Ing cough; tlicn a little loss In
weight; then a harder cough;
then tno fever and the night
sweats.
The suddenness comes when
you have a hemorrhage.
Better atop the dlsvaso white
It la yet creeping.
You can do It with
Ayer's
Cherry
pectoral
You first notice that you
cough less. The pressure on
the chest Is lifted. That feellna
of suffocation ia removed. A
cure Is hastened by placingone of
Dr. Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral Plaster
over the Chest.
A Book Froo*
It Is on the Discsses of the
Throat and Lungs.
Write um Frmmiy.
•' l e, writ# the £e«ie
Bcelve prompt reply■
ER"£OW«U, Maw
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m
. can potuVbly rerfllve
i frnely. You Will
m
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SLICK
The Best
Saddle Coat.
Keep* both rider and saddle per-1
fecUy dry in the hardest *ton r
Substitutes will disappoint. Ask ft.
<8of Fish Brand Pommel Slicker-1
It Is entirely new. If not for sale In I
your town, write for catalogue to \
1 J. TOWER. BostonTSUsa ..!
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tend thin No. W-B.I
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A Spelling
A good story Is told of Rev. Ottl
well Wood, a celebrated English
preacher. Mr. Wood had to appear
a witness In a North Country Asslz
Court, and was asked and gave his
name In due course.
"What?" asked the Judge, peevishly
being rather deaf. Mr. Wood repeated
his answer.
"Can't hear you; spell It out,
snapped the Judge.
"O, double T, I. double U, E, double
L, double U, double O, D."
The Judge threw down hia pen
despair. This is even a more remark-
able name thLts that of the late Ad-
miral W. W. Wood, which the cadets
at the Annapolis Naval Academy, when
be was an Instructor in mathematics
there, always wrote "W cube, O square,
D."—Buffalo Commercial.
lew lailaad Seee Ua.
Our Britiah cousina have some quec:
notion* about our customs and man-
ners. Here ia a sample, clipped from
a recent Issue of a London paper: "The
Americans, business-like and practi-
cal, have reduced present-giving to
the minimum of simplicity. On birth-
days and other festive occasions the
heads of rich families merely hand to
each of their relations a slip of paper
ia which you read 'Good for a hat (or a
dress, or any other article the recipient
wants), at such and such a place/ This
la signed like a check, and there the
titrable ends until the bill cosaea 1*-"
riewm
Flowers are the beautiful hiero-
glyphics of nature, with wfcich she to
dlcates how much she lores as.—Cs.
Spalding's
Trade Mark'
Meant
"Standard
of Quality"
on Athletic Good*
Insist upon Spalding's
Handsome Catalogue free.
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