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Geme of the Reasons Why It Is Treated With Sach Disrespect.

The question is asked oman’ ‘Why that English | such sinners i poet to the iny of che letter‘) rhe writer 5 gay that the Scotch, Lrish and Americans are Not giveis to this favltiness in

1 beli philologists attribute the fre quent disrespect with which the letter “whispered in heaven and muttered in heli’ is treated is largely due to the influ ence of the French language on our own. and especially tpon those of the English speaking race who live in England itself. As every one knows, the ‘‘h’’ is not aspi gated in the French language, which was unti! the middle ages largely used in this gountry.

Then, for almost centuries at a time, in the days of the Plantagenets, our English goldiers, who were wandering about France, became, naturally enough, affect- ed by its people's manner of speech and returned to their own country to infect their families and acquaintances with gome influences which go to determine method of pronunciation. And at that time it was really an English—not British —army which did the bulk of the fighting.

Again, from time to time various quar- ters of England have been used as settle- ments for French refugees—the Hugue- nots, for example—and French prisoners. Even so late as the beginning of the pres- ent century, when we were in a chronic state of warfare with Napoleon Bonaparte, great numbers of Frenchmen settled, as prisoners on parole, in England — the southern land midland counties especially, which, as we know, are the districts in which the aspirate is least observed.

Scotland, Ireland and Wales were not under these same influences, their greuter distance from the continent being one of the reasons.

But the constant ‘‘h’’ dropping among the working classes in England today is, I 2m sure, largely due to the fact that the workingman who persists in speaking of his horse, his house and his home, instead of his ‘orse, ‘ouse and ‘ome, is regarded by bis companions as a pedant and one who “puts side on.’’ I have often noticed that domestic servants are quite aecurate or nearly so in the use of the aspirate when speaking to their mistresses, etc., while, once back again in the kitchen among their fellows, there ceases to be an ‘‘h’’ in

their composition.—London Tit-Bits.

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Composing Scotch Dialect Stories,

One of the Scotchiest of the Scotch dia- lect story writers confesses in an artless interview, which he himself contributes to @ periodical, that he thinks and plans slowly, ‘‘often keeping a story for months and years in his head without writing a single word.’’ When the actual writing begins, he ‘‘works rapidly.’" The condi- tion of his head with the Seotch bur re- volving in it ‘‘for mouths or years’’ need not here be considered. The astonishing thing is what a friend of the Scotchman in question tells in addition. ‘* Work rap- idly!’ he says. ‘‘I should think he does. He has two typewriting machines of un- usual size and strength that he had made especially for his own use at a cost of $500 each, and he works on these at lightning pace. But that is not all—he will carry _ OM a general conversation with a roomful | of people while he is writing out a story on the machine. Now, I have heard com- positors talk while sticking type, but they Were merely copying, whereas this author Was writing out original matter. Usually he works alone, beginning at about 5 o'clock in the morning, and when he comes down to breakfast at ¥ he has 600 words Written out. I never saw such @ man. He seems to be inexhaustible and is cer- tainly indefatigable. He is 6 feet 4 inches tall, wei,.hs 230 pounds and js as nimble a&sacat.’ Thanks be to the gods it is only “commercial fiction’’ which is turned out atsuch « prodigious rate. How terrible indeed to think of a man being forced to order two extra strong typewriters to car- ry bis light weight in fiction!—Boston Transcript.

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Disastrous Speculation, Alice—So you are not working as old Bixby's stenographer any more? Well, I'm glad to hear it. He's a horrible old bear. How did you come to quit? Ethel—We got married.—Chicago Rec-

Reason Enough, “Why do you fellows call that mountain *Cortsh hill?’ "’ asked the tourist. ‘avse,’’ said Pieface Bill, ‘‘it can’t be sented. '’—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Frenchmen often put their family bame in the middle and then their mother’s cr Wife's name. Thus Albert Meyer calls himself Albert Meyer May. May was his Wife's name.

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The Stomach.

There is a Wonders sympathy between the stomach and ali other parts of the body, but that between the stomach and the brain is so active and perfect that the most skilled physician is often greatly puzzled in trying to decide wiien one is ill whether the brain or stomach is really to blame. Nothing is more common, for ex- ample, than to meet a long standing case of Gyspepsia in which the prominent and almost the only symptom is a dull and fretting headache. While persons have suffered for many years from what they believed to be a grave organic disease of the stomach and were themselves fully convinced that cancer at least was the cause of their suffering, it turned out that when a postmortem examination was made that a healthier stomach than the average was found, but there were evidences of long standing and serious disease of the brain. In fact, sick headache is the result of eating too much and exercising too lit- tle. In the majority of cases its cause lies in the fact that the food last taken is so rich in quality or so exeessive in quantity that the stomach cannot digest it.

A simple diet on grains and ripe fruit, with sufficient exercise in the open air to keep up a gentle perspiration, would speedily effect a cure. With some persons this headache cones on at regular inter- vals and is the stomach’s signal of dis- tress at having been imposed upon. To take two teaspoonfuls of powdered char- coal in a glass full of water will some- times give relief, or a tablespoonful of lem- on juice 15 minutes before each meal and the same at bedtime.—New York Ledger.

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NO 288 THE LISTENER.

Joseph Chamberlain is said to have lost $250,000 in the attempt to make sisal rais- ing in the Bahamas profitable.

Joseph William Warburton, the British consul at San Francisco, has been in her majesty’s service for 40 years and will soon retire.

Joseph Jefferson says that he considers himself rather young because he recently met Judge Woodbury of Boston, who knew his grandfather.

A. J. Ropes of San Francisco has just made a good photograph of Cape Horn, and is gaid to he the only man who has ever accomplished the feat.

David D. Dana, a borther of the late Mr. Charles A. Dana of the New York kun, is living quietly on afarm in West Lubec, Me., at the age of 70 years.

Hon. Thomas B. Reed has just had him- self photographed in a standing collar and a brilliant tie. Mr. Reed regards this latest picture as the best he has ever had taken. Colonel Chandler, who is now Georgia’s secretary of state, saved Neal Dow’s life in Pensacola, Fla., when the latter, a pris- oner of war, was assailed by an infuriated mob.

Philetus Sawyer, ex-senator from Wis- consin, recently celebrated his eighty-first birthday in Oshkosh and said to a friend, “TI have many friends to reward and no enemies to punish.’’

Martin Irons, the great leader in the 1886 strike, has broken the silence of his retirement and now comes forth to cham- pion the cause of Debs’ Social Democracy. He is at work in Texas organizing clubs.

Mr. Charles Pollock, a nephew of Baron Pollock of the British high court of ju- dicature, recently crossed the channel alone in a balloon, going from Eastbourne to a village near Abbeville in 644 hours. He was not the first to perform the feat, how- ever.

John W. Mackay, one of the California ‘“bonanza kings,’’ means to build in Green- wood cemetery, Brooklyn, a superb mor- tuary chapel, and he wil) have to get a dis- pensation from the Vatican before he can have it consecrated as a Roman Catholic place of sepulture should be.

A skating rink is a rather unique home annex, but John D. Rockefeller is going in for ome. For some time workmen have been engaged on the west side of his West Forty-fourth street mansion in New York sity laying out and asphalting the grounds for a commodious skating pond.

Thomas L. Henry of Pine Station, Pa, died the other day, and his friends made preparations to give him a fine funeral. But the sad event has been indefinitely postponed owing tothe fact that when they were about to put the old gentleman on ice he raised himself up, winked at the prettiest girlin the reom and asked what time it vas.

‘‘For my part,’ said Colonel R. G. Ia- gersoll the other day, ‘‘I envy the man who has lived on the same broad acres from his boyhood, who cultivates the fields where in youth he played and lives where his father lived and died. Ican imagine no sweeter way to end one’s life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power.’’

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ANNUAL MEETING

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The general annual meeting of the Charlottetown Y. M. C. A. will be held in the Y M C A Parlor on Mon- day Dec. 13th, at 8 p.m,

P. S.—This is an intensely impor- tant meeting, as it must be decided whether the Association shall continue or allow the property to be soid under the mortgage. To this meeting is in- vited not only the subscribers, but all who are in any way interested in the future of the Young Men’s Christian Association and Reading Room.

W. C. TURNER,

President

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