The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1904, Page 9

se | my d couldn’t have ng-seemed s was, heart The and ess why this fort- v her perhaps better roses and the river been so (You told who cared Geoff.”) You ce and turned e and sweet- whole sieep- fairy princes d privilege. ou of every one very little talk has said any- perhay the (Did you know his bald, or was that an in- He spoke aggressively al and “zassing” in ed to think you had the colt and And you made Well, I am quite won’'t come to the re- But W ever ever o ving cousin, how absurd of her airs and be “lofty” to he does not seem to be worthy of notice. Don’t let us talk of her, or ore jealous than I am al- I dc "; think ‘she will come to view eit not changed my mind about anvthing since you left, and if T ever flirtedi—which T don’t admit—you have me of it for good and all. 4 tennis party at the Mileses power that is decrees we must g0. If only you had been here, we might have managed to de it together: 1 my love goes with this, and I am always yours, L. (A compromise between the nickname feel 1 that st e AND YOU H ) IN you dislike and my christened one.) Aldershot, Je My Own Little Love—What a sweet letter that was you sent me! Do you know I had an idea you hated writing —you told me so one day—and that you always get some one else to answer your letters for you. Well, that would hardly do in thi would it, Midge? But I did not know that you were s ] § z % HE Russo-Japanese has raised many a perplexing question as to the spelling of proper names. The different spelling of the name of the same place in newspapers and magazines is confusing and has created a demand for some reasonably definite authority, says the Philadelphia Ledger. In a manner =o quiet that very few persons have ever heard of it, Uncle Sam has been conducting a small but very select spelling school for ‘some time, and has issued several install- ments of a new_spelling book that will greatly disturb teachers, scholars, map- makers and a host of other people who would ordinarily be champions in any spelling bee. The prime object is to secure uni- formity in the spelling of geographical names in all Government publications. A board sitting in Washington takes up all place names of niore than one form that may be submitted to it, applies to them a code of rules formulated for the purpose and then votes on the forms suggested by the members. ‘The form recelving 4 majority vote becomes the official one, and under the act of Con- gress creating the board will hereafter be used in all Government publications, including maps. war 'MAKES MANY CHANGES s S S A LS A BB AA L AL SEASS S55555555 | GOVERNMENT BOARD | The forms Allegany, Alleghany and Allegheny applied to five counties, a large city, a river, a mountain range and many smaller have long puzzled zood spellers. Sam now spells the river and mountain Alle- gheny, and leaves the forms of other places undisturbed. Chinese and other Oriental place names heretofore com- pounded are spelled as one word, viz Hoangho (river, China), not Hoang- Ho; Liaotung (peninsula), not Liao- Tung: Niuchwang (treaty port), not New-Chwang. In British Indian ter- """ has taken the place of nd pore,” viz: Cawnpur, not Cawnpoor or Cawnpore. — Russian names in Alaska terminating in the equixalent of of, off, ow or ov are gvi- en the form of, viz: Baranof, Pribilof (not Prybiloff). The island of Puerto Rico (rich port) had its American name fixed as Porto Rico by act of Congress (April 12, 1900). The old terror -Apalachi- cola has been relieved of some of its power to embarrass by having one “p” cut out, as here given. According to the rule, the “h"” in Pittsburgh should be omitted; but the people of that city are very tenacious of that letter, as it appears in the city’s charter. Two pities that are constantly appear- ing M print seldom fail to puzzle a writer or apeller; Baireuth or Bay- reuth is the Bavarian eity ‘noted for B T O g N the Wagner musical festivals, and Beirut, Bairut, Berut or Beyrout is rian seaport where an anti- an outbreak occurred in the summer of 1903. In each case the preferred form is the first one here given. All Chinese provinces are now spelled as one word; so also are the six divisions and the cities and towns of Japan. Korean ports and both sin- gle and compound words, and with a few exceptions Russian cities and towns are single words. Among for- eign place names much confusion arises from the Anglicizing of the ver- nacular, as Livorno (Italian), Leghorn (English), and in very many instnces the vernacular has had to be retained. In the subjoined list will be found the new spelling of places that are seen most. frequently (in . the news- papers and magazines according to Uncle Sam’s spelling book: Acheen, province, Dutch Indies. Amur, river and province, Siberia. Bahawulpur, state and its capital, Punjab, India. ¥ Baluchistan, country in Asia. Budapest, capital of Hungary. Burma, British province, Ind Chile, republic, South America. Dobruja, district of Roumania. Dyea, port of entry, Alaska Eritria, Itallan colony, Africa. Esquimalt, seaport and naval sta- tion. British Columbia. ity N YOU WILS FIND ME BY TH¥ GARDEN GATE, WAITING FOR You. WSSOI NE L EEE55 S50 SRR AE S Fashoda, former French pro Sudan, Afri name o province changed in 1904 to Upper Nile, of fort to Kodok, of vill: » Dabwar. Faroe, group of islands north of Scotlnd. Fi group of islands, South Pacific Ocean. \ Fuchan, tréa Haidarabad, Hindustan, Haiti, island and republic, Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Hakodate, seaport, Japan. Hankau, city, China. Hindukush, mountains, Central Asia. “ Kabul, city and river, Afghanistan. Kamchatka, peninsula, Siberia: Kamerun, mountains and river, West Africa. Kandahar, capital city, Central Af- ghanistan. Kashmir, native state, India. Kharhof, city and government, Eu- ropean Russia. * Khartum, city, Eastern Sudan. Khelat (“Statesman” Kelat), irce and its caplml.‘geluchlstnn. Kirin, province and &ity, Manchuria. Kishenef, capital-of Bessarabia. Eu- ropean Russia; scene of massacre of Jews in 1903. Kiungchau, capital Hainan, China. Kongo, rivet and Free State, Africa. Kumasi, capital, Ashanti, West Af- rica. v port, Formosa. state and its \ capital, prov- . FOR UNIFORMITY | IN SPELLING NAMES | THAT DAY ON THE RIVER WHEN I KISSED YOU. shed little scribe. It will greedy and 1 shall want a day. I should like one twice a day, but L suppose that's hope- less while there are tennis and boat- g parties and other festivities, espe- cially as eve one wants to monopo- Tize a little n who calls herself M.” T must a name of my own for you. What shall it be? Korea, empire, Asia. Kyoto, city, Japan. Lassa, capital, Tibet. wlaotung, peninsula, Manchuria. Mukden, capital, Manchuria. Nankin. capital, Province of Kiangsu, China. Oudh, ancient capital and state, Brit- ish India. Pamir, tableland, Central Asia. Pechili, gulf and proyince, China. Peking, capital city, China. Punjab, province, British India. Sakhalin, isiand, Siberia. Sind, provinee, British India. Sindhia, territory. British India. Strassburg, capital, Alsace-Lorraine. Sudan, vast region, Central Africa. Talienwan, city, Manchuria, renamed Dalny. Tananarivo, capital, Madagasear. Tashkend, capital, Russian Turk- estan. Tehad, lake, Central Africa. Tibet, dependency of China. o Tientsin, city and treaty gort. China. Tierra del Fuego, groupggr islands, south end of South America. Timbuktu, town, West Africa. Tokio, capital city, Japan (Jeddo, Yeddo, ete., obsolet Yangtze, river, China (old form Yadz- tsi-Kiang). Zuiderzee, gulf, Netherlands. Zambesi, river, Southeastern Africa. Zelaya, State in Nicaragua (formerly Mosquito Coast) . So Miles is still hanging about and giving his opinion i, is he? If any one is jealous, It es me re cause in this direction. Why. you foolish little Midget, your ct has greatest disdain for me. ry well at first, but—well, pose—I offended her or that's enough abe )y really come over with you to the re- view? It's rather unkind of her, isn't it? After all, I'm be her n whether she the bve at croquet darl —and you n roses I got you we ‘What a lucky gue wasn’'t quite a guess eit remember 1 took a lot of those roses. I a you were go ers she thought wou for telling 1 miss you moment and think [ shall g leave next weekend and Manor. C Tell me, Five whole days ter from you! J Every time jumps and the not a word fror not know how I I think it was your lett me. The girl who conld write li is worth loving, I said ta myse then, you eruel little child, ¥ me without a 1 > s it only that t or has anything ha Let me know by return for T am very anxious. Yours, GEOFF. The Manor. July 3 Geoff, dear, I am note gs me the he: you really been wor had w bat I ti best thing is pssible. Your lit- = what you think her if she because, you see, and she did not mean any ha - was just thoughtlessness. She pwill wr to you by to-morrow's post more fully. Your sorrowful M. Aldershot, July 4. Millicent: I may call you Millicent, may [ not?—cag you ever forgive me and let me some day plead my cause with you again What an angel you are! and what a fool I have been! When that letter came I felt as If I should go mad if I did net rush to the Maner and find out the meaning of it. Because you see it was the thought of losing you—the “you™ whom I had loved in your letters— the ideal whom I believed I had re- alized in your lttle cousin Midget, that distracted me so. "And when I met you at the garden gate and yeu said: “Oh, Geoff, try to bear it well, dear; she has deserted you,” I ceuld hardly take in the meaning ef yeur words. For 1 was thinking how beautiful ypu looked with the divine cempas- slon in your face, no longer proud and her. mad she’s ¢ give cold, but all aglow with feeling, and how sweet your voice sounded when you said my name. It brought back all the joy ef these first days at the Manor—those whose happiness I thought I hadfecrd the reason for when I, asked youn cousin Margaret to marry me. You see I had just begun to care & little you, Millicent, that day om the river when I kissed you—and you seemed so cold, so angry with me. (I remember you wouldn’t even speak teo me. Was it—tell me, darling—was 1§ because you cared?) You seemed to avoid me after that and Midget seemed to like me, and then—it all came in a minute and I thought I had found my heart’s desire, I had not time to understand the mis- take I had made; in fact I never un- derstood it fully until you told me yes- terday that she had run away with Miles that morning and been married to him at a registry! Miles!—that in- efiable cad! And she actually cared so little that she tossed my letter over to you—my first love letter to her— and told you to read it and answer it And then she kept my next one wait- ing unanswered all thoae days and told you to write again, temporizing and keeping me away until she had made up her mind.. Good heavens! I do not want to be harsh about her, but I can- not say T envy Miles. I have been reading your letters over again—reading between the lines this time—and I know that the girl T love and have loved all these three weeks is Millicent, not Margaret. Won't you take me back, dear? for I was yours first, though I did not know it, and you, by your ewn con< fession, have only guessed It. May T not come and see you? Let me have an answer soon. I a onging for it. Your shall be longing Eeorr. The Manor, July 5. If vou really eare to come, Geeff, you will find me by the gardem waiting for you. Yours.