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IWM-Sf. tummnti .Smrtlrm. Ami irastht far I Tr h ninnut supply the piani wa,, accept to oihr. hut mm autmii fee lilnatrai.il book !. TT vw full iwrtnailara and .llrtnri n.. Ta.lii.bl. to 'a.tita. M R ari, rA.. a)S4TnJaM twnja. For Baie by SHERMAN & M'CONNkLIj DRUQ CO 16th and Dodro Btai. MYEKS-DU-.L.ON URITO CO., 8. E. Cor. 16th and Karnatn BtU. a M "5k. Va SAYING BOHEMIAN TONGUE Dtiirabilitr of Knowledcof thtLa&naee for Bahtmiaci in Amtrioa. EFFORTS IN EUROPE TO END NATIONS liflluK of Tonjraea and I.ltrratore the drrat Method of IK-natlonal- lalnaT the People unco dependent. y Thce llnea ale wrlltan for Bohemian American, by a born Hnhemlan-Amertunu. The writer knows well that this country In our hom, that we do not think or re turnliiK to Pohrmia. He la well aware Hint the Amcrlrun ldilB are our Ideals more or and with our youth they will lie m moro and more. He knows that a laiiBuagn is only one part of the great problem of every thinking Vernon, that is, Hie Idnal lifi. That aometlmea the at lalnmrnt or the muln UHal requires sac rifices of the smaller Ideal, the Bohemian lai.tcuaRf. He Is trying to write without prejudice, but beliiK a Bohemian nd hav Imc an upjr,eclallon for the beautiful and tho noble ho can not write without feel ing. Mankind U aggregated in various groups that bear different names. For the pur poses of this article let It bo permitted that the term "nation" means a people hav ing the same government. A rare Is a group of people having tho same origin and peaking the same tongue. A nation la rather a political division, while a race is a natural division. Thus the German na tion means tho cltlsens of the German gov ernment, while the German race or Ger mans, those people who are of German birth and apeak German, be they any wheto In the world. A nation has many attributes that are not universally dis tinctive as, for example, language, cus toms, or physical character, like slxe or complexion.7 None of these ara sufficient to distinguish every nation from all other nations. Many different nations have the same ancestry, the same language, t lie same physical characters and tho same customs. What Makes a Nation. The American nation has the same language as the British. Norwegians. Swedes and Danes differ very little In this respect. Switzerland has three official tongues. People having the same attrib utes us named above sometimes found a now government, as was done by the Americans, Mexican, and Bwadlch nations. Identity of Idealx is the force that unit's Individuals into a nation, and difference of Ideals the force that divides a nation into several nations. The power of a nation In a certain direction la measured by the sum of the efforts of the Individuals of thai nation In that direction. Nations are dom inated by varloun Ideals at various times. Onco It was art, at other times religion; sometimes Ideals uf conquest, some have the preservation of the race for an ideal, others Industrial development, A language Is a means (1. e. a tool) for expressing thought. A person Is Judged by his deeds. If his Ideals are good his deeds and words will be good also, be they expressed In any language. Nerthelesa, a lunguage la an important means and a thorough knowledge of a language Is a necessary part of a good education. There are many people all over the world who spend a great dl of time In learning other languages besides their native tongue. The knowledge of at least one foreign tongue la considered an Important part of a higher education. What are tho benefits derived from a knowledge of several languages? Of course. It may be of com mercial advantage, but this depends on condltons. The benefit gained by everyone U culture. Intercourse between the mem bers of a family Is vtry plra.tant. Each member has a different personality and somu different thoughts. The greater the acquaintanceship outside of tho family, the greater the gain from knowing new per sonalities. Ideals and views. A knowledge J . L C. LQWRY E. J. GILLESPIE AMERICAN ELECTRIC COMPANY Complete Lino of Combination and Electric Unlit Fixtures f - , - m ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER CONTRACTORS ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED 1403 Jackson St. Thone Doug. 1481 OMAHA. NED. of language Increases the opportunities In this direction, both in personal intercourse and In reading. Each race has some thing characteiiatlc, something beneficial. Through a translation Into a foreign lan guage it loses its national character, its national color. Iangaago and Patriotism. Just the fact that a knowledge of a lan guage makes possible more confidential Intercourse with people who speak that language Is a sufficient reason why every one should make a reasonable effort to retsUn his mother tongue. When people speaking the same language meet in a for eign land, how It draws them together, and If they are countrymen they are at once like brothers. Then the love of parents. brothers, sisters and relatives! Docs It not demand that they Bhould be spoken to In their mother tongue? What do they and their countrymen, think of a member of their circle who la ashamed of his mother tongue, tries to forget It, tears it out of his mouth and casts it away? How can a person who hss the Intelligence und feeling that distinguish him from the lower creature commit a deed so mon strous? Only he who knows Bohemian songs knows the ennobling feeling that thrills the heart at the sound of a Bohemian song. Some one has said, "Let me write the songs of a people and I will let you write their laws." Songs have a very strong moral Influence. Valoo of Bohemian. The preservation of tho Bohemian lan guage by Bohemians in America Is desirable because It broadens the mind and affords a means for more confidential Intercourse with the people speaking that language. It would bo contrary' to American principles if used as a means of attaining visionary dreams of race preservation. Borne people go to the extreme with their mother tongue. Thero are thoso who try to forget it, are ashamed of It and deny It. Often t!?y are children of parents who only know their mother tongue. In every raue there are individuals of n liom the raee is ashamed. Lint lie who i ashamed of the Bohemian race certainly does so through a lack of knowledge of its history. A Bohemian who knows the history of his country knows that he does not neel to be ashamed to say. '! am a Bohemian." Then there are some who brag of their rsce and try to magnify themselves bv re lating Its deeds. They do it in sueli a Puiuntlng manner that It offends other po ple. Why should not a person simply t.-ll the truth, neither belittled nor exaggerated That he is a son of a certain race Is not of his own will. It is an accident for which he Is not responsible. "I'm a Bohemian" has In America a meaning according to our d -eds and our lives. Brothers, let us strive to give it a meaning that would win us the respect of our American fellow citizens Theoretically, It rems that thu small races of mankind are bound to disappear. The trend of modern evolution la consoli dation and large organization. ' l.augaiiai of Kerope. Mr. Bryan J. Clynch writes in the May Meiscnger: In ETurope. at the beginning of the nine teenth century, or fifteen ears later, at the congress of Vienna. French, Knglisli. Gvrman. bpauiah. Portuguese, Italian. Kus flan. Turkish. lutch, iJunisli and S-din wre the only langunges recognised as Ihiropvan, either in an official or literMrv sei.se. The lu.l five 'Were almost unknown outside their own lands, and evrn in town neatly without litoiary use. French t the universal language of diplomacy and the uducaied clHsaes everywhere in con -r-nation, and even used by foreign a-iutlbts like Humboldt and Cervier. In Hungary and in 1'oIkiuV vn before tne loss of ird. pendrucc. lji;n a tLe ofnoial lun gauge of public business and law. and German or French that of conversation for the educated i The national tongues In both those countries had a position not unlike that of Irish in Ir- land during the eighteenui century. I'oi.ditlona were viml lar with the old national languages of the various states of Hie Aiirtrlan dominions, of the Cl.i latiaji races In Tuike, and even Of Belgium and Norwnv. To ti e .ln.-at. jclusees thrv'igli K-iroi generally, eiguty years sgo, all these were looked on as mere local dlalecta like those of tlm peas, antry of Somerset op Yorkshire In English speech. They had no recognition In publlu or official life and their diapreai'ance with the spread of public education was sup posed inevitable. The statesmen of Europe at the time, almost without egception. not only shared these opinion, but held that the extinction of the smaller languages was desirable nn political uroundx Metternich, the Austrian Bismarck, was decided in that view. He utmed at moulding the numerous races nnd provinces of the newly named empire Into a national unity of language and national feeling like France of the revolution. His policy was not loudly announced, but was steadily carried out during morn than twenty years after Waterloo. German was made the language of the collent.-s. the higher courts and the" official ailmlnlslrn. tlou everywhere except In the Italian prov. lncen of AuHtria. l'olish was Ignored l.i Gallciu. Cierh In Bohemia and Moravln, and even Magyar In Hungary, though 1; still bud its national government as si dls. tlnct kingdom. In Hungary officials, nobles and business men nil used German at the time in their dally life. In the Polish provinces of Prussia the policy of Germanising was tarried out still mora strcngly by the government. In the Russian empire at first the government paid less attention to the language used by Its subjects. After 1S30 the Russlflra tloa of the empire by a common language was taken up with even greater violence than In Prjpsla. The use of Polish was even proscribed as criminal in public places or In the instructions of 'Catholic prle9ts to their congregations. .Tho short-lived kingdom of the Netherlands gives another j Instance of the same antipathy. J Dead" l.sstsifn Nnrvlve. are taught In all of them and Spanish. Italian. Latin, Greek and Hebrew In most of thein. Besides these the following Ian guages are taught In the universities named below: ChlcagcRwedlsh. Norwegian. Sanskrit, Avwtaii. Old Persian, Lithuanian. Old Bulgarian. Gothic and Japanese. Columbia-Scandinavian. Old Irene n, Gothic. Icelandic and HouniBjilHn. Cornell-Arabian. Kthioplc. Assyrian. Cop tic. Old Saxon and Old Norse. Harvard'-Celtlc. Russian. Polish. Portu gese, Dutch and Bohemian if some ono de- "johns" Hopklns-The same languages as are usually taught. Ijelai d Stanford Jr. The same languages a :iro usually taught. Ml hlgan Old Humane and the same lunguages as are usually laugni. Miiin.Kota Scandinavian und the same languages as are usually taught. Nebraska The same languages usually taught. WiHi-onsIn old Saon. Gothic, Sanskrit, Arabic and Assyrian. It seems that almost all iwssuue ihh as are Norte, guages arc taught In our universities. The most Important condition for obtaining tho teaching of a certain language Is a demand from a tufflclent number of students. At the s.une time, the support of the cltlsens of the state exerts a strong lnufluence. r. W. POl'BKA. Ams, la., December 13, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LORD COLORADO'S ANTELOPE HERDS So Plentiful that There Is Agita tion for an Annual Owen Season. Railroad men running Into Denver on the prairie lines from the east say that ante lope are becoming so plentiful In the vicin ity of Fort Morgan. Wray. Brush and Akron that herds of from thirty to fifty are no uncommon sight, and many of them have become so tajne that they race along the railroad tracks for miles. The law against the killing of antelope contains u iluuxc allowing their being hunted f n m October la to October 25 In 1917, for .the llrst time In several years. During the tait lew years the antelope have bwn increasing rapidly. They fre quent the neighborhood of the smaller towns and many families In Fort Morgan have captured oung antelope and mine J them as pets. Th y have also Increased In the South. Middle und North parks, al though they frequent the prairies mora tluin the mountains. It Is said that the cactus covered plains In the counties) In the eastern part of Col orado furnish the best adapted place in the country for tho rearing of tho young of the antelope. The young ars usually bum In a hollow scooped out of tho sand by the mother, In the midst of a thicket of cactus. In this way the baby antelope are safe from tho depredations of prairie wolves and coyotes, who are not able to penetrate the cactus thicket, while tho mother can Jump over the hedge without Injuring herself. The coyotes are only feared by the young antelope, the older animals being able to protect themselves. An agitation is now spreading among sportsmen to have the short open season of antelope provided for- next year perma nent for a week each year. They clulin the animals" have Increased so In the past few years that no injury will be done In a short open season. Tho reason for quail, however, which will also open In 1S07, will probably be abolished by the com ing legislature. Denver Republican. Bare Pledge of Minneapolis Hastness Man Whereby He Prosperrtl Plaanelally. I If O Roberta, a hardware merchant at This short sketch of Kuropean history m W(stern VVIUJe. North Minneapolis siiirnir t ia mii.vier eenrurv toi nit-mar tne congress of lenna Indicates sufficient!) the condition In its time of the old Kuro pean languages which had ceased to hold a place In courts or In general literature. They were lucked on ajtke by statesmen and aclmiliflc scholars as dead or dying, and If In the latter condition It was thought by practical men that the sooner they die the better. How far fheso expectations have been rcaJIxed Is next to be examined In tho history of the ntnetenth century. Gradually there came a revival of these small "dead" ?) languages. The first (ubout IMI.i was the Greek tongue which had not been heard In politics or literature siucc the fall of Constantinople In 1463. Then followed the me of the Magyar tongue in tho Hungarian Parliament about 1S06. Hungarian literature of today has a prominent place In European culture, and In politics It Is the language of nearly :, 0U).." of people. At tho aume time the Bohemian tongue had a renaissance in Bohemia and Moravia. Further there fol lowed the revival of the polish and Croa tian languages. The movement progressed into Dalm-.ttla and Servla. Then followed Bulgarian, Flemish. Norwegian and Fin nish. The growth of Polish literature dur ing tho last leniury is a striking instance of the vitality cf national language under political subjection. At present a move ment for the revival of tne Celtic tongue Is in progress. Ancient extinction would be more prob able If ancient tyranny reigned. Hut mod trn poli'.ica! lllerty does not hinder racial lite. What Bohemians Mar Ho. It is very desirable for us Bohemian Americans to preserve, and, if possible, to Improve our knowledge of our mother tongue. This because of its cultural value aus as a means for more confidential ltuervuuree with people speaking that lan guage. This object could bo much better attained if the Bohemian language were taught In those American universal where a large number of Bohemian students is In atleuduuce. t!y this means a knowledge of Bohemian would be cultivated among edu cated Bohemian-Americans. The know the circumstances of our Bohemian-American people und could de them more good than educated Bohemians from Europe. The writer sent inquiries concerning the Instruction in foreign languages to some of the leading American universities. The aonwers show that French and German was distrustful of .his fellow men as busi ness partners, so he drew up a written agreement with the Lord. This was in May, l!Ti. The Inscription he wrote on the flyleaf of his ledger of each succeeding year was this: "I pruinlw, a. the Lord shall proper me, I will act us HiG steward and give to lli-n as follows: If I muko tl.iMi annually. l,ty. ti.OOO, So; 2.500, ti20; ftt.OM ll.OMi; r.'. '."L'M." Roberts claims that ho has prospered by carrying out his agreement until lie his reached the last mentioned figures. He says he ha; no deiine to go back to his old method of doing business before In made the agreement, nnd, In fact, wou'd be afraid to do so, for he Is certain that his present business would i.ever have grown to Its proportions If he had con tinued along tho old lines. Mr. Roberts holds that the Lord needs not only preacheia und missionaries to help Him carry out His woik, but that He needs practical business men as wMI. "I take an Invoice the first of r.ach year," ssid Mr. Roberts, "and I balance accounts with the Ixird. keeping his ae- i count separate. I sometimes llnd It I necessary to borrow his money, a i small portion of it. but I always replace it with Interest. Just as I would dj wer I dealing with a Nicollet avenue business man. "I Would have been by the first of the year able to give one-half of n:y income t-'.ww as I agreed had recent risforlun? not overtaken inc. I made two trips to Call. foruia for the bsnefii of my wife's health i She died last week. ' "The linll mhr m laf r.i-1 n ti T V,u.l during the puic of n.l Other business men lost their all, bin I told the Lord tha: half of my business was his. snd although I went brok. 1 did not complain. I begun to profper again right away. Things came my way that I i.ever dreamed ubout. "No, I am not a religious fanutic, I am Just a pluln Metholist church worker, who believes In following the od'i.oiilt Ion of 'he Bible." Chicago Chronicle. 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