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The chances are that you ask somebody to tell you what it means, and the chances are, also, that that somebody will tell you to “look it up in the big book” or to “consult Mr. Webster.” For that is what Americans have been doing now for exactly a hundred years —*“Jooking it up in the big book” or “consulting Mr. Webster.” For it was just one Hundred years ago this sum- mer that a scene of unusual activity was taking place in the print shop of Hezekiah Howe in New Haven, Conn, and just one hundred years ago thi» autumn there came forth the first edition of Noah Webster's “American Dictionary of the English Language.” Now, the issuing of a dictionary is not in itself a unique event, but the issuing of Noah Webster's dictionary away back there in 1828 was a note- worthy event, and in some respects the book itself was unique. Hereto- fore the English-speaking world had depended upon Dr. Samuel Johnson's for authoritative spelling and defi- nition of words. But when the ed- ition of 2,500 copies of the new dic- tionary, each consisting of two bulky quarto volumes of more than *1,000 pages each, appeared, Doctor John- son’s work was already opsolete. For Webster's book listed, defined and il- lustrated with appropriate quotations somewhere between 70,000 and 80,000 words and included 12,000 words and nearly 40,000 definitions which had never before appeared in any diction- ary of the English tongue. Most of the definitions Webster had coined apew, doing virtually all of both the mental and manual labor involved un- assisted. He also did some revising and simplifying, and it is to him that we owe the fact that we write it “honor” instead of “honour” and “trav- eler” instead of “traveller.” But more than that, his dictionary was @lniost an encyclopedia in which he set a standard for accuracy and complete- ness of definition which governs the lexicographer’s art of this date. In fact, nearly all of the later diction- aries have been based upon Webster's work and have preserved his identical words in a large number of their defi- nitions. prone From that tittle editton of 2,500 copies issued in 1828 have grown the millions of dictionaries which are to be found in the homes, schools and offices of the English-speaking world of today, and every one of these dic- tionaries whether it bears his name on its cover or not is a monument to Noah Webster, the Yankee school- teacher and lawyer, who devoted for- ty-eight years of his life to a task which has enriched our language im- measurably. Although the words “Webster” and “dictionary” are syn- onymous in the minds of most of us, but few of us know much about the man, Noah Webster, Nine out of ten perhaps would confuse him with his distant relative, Daniel Webster, the orator and statesman. Yet it is not too much to say perhaps, that the con- tribution of Noah Webster to Ameri- can life will be an important one long after that of Daniel Webster will have been forgotten entirely. Noah Webster was the son of a poor New England farmer of West Hart- ford, Conn., who in 1774, when Noah, Jr., was sixteen years old, mortg. his farm to pay his son’s expens Yale college from which the boy was graduated four years later. Upon the day of his graduation his father gave him an eight-dollar Continental bill (worth about four dollars at the time) and told him that he could do no more for him. Although young Webster had intended to become a lawyer, he had ng means to continue his studies into that field, so he had to resort to teach- ing to make a living while he studied law by himself—so successfully, it proved, that he was admitted to the bar in Hartford in 1781. He was un- able to wait for a practice, however, so he in engaged in school teach- ing, this time at Goshen, N. Y., where he established a classical school. There in 1782, foreseeing that Amer- ica, after separation from the mother country would need to have its own school texts, he planned a “Grammat- ical institute” to include a speller, a reader and a grammar, The speller was issued first, in 1783, followed in 1784 by the grammar, and in 1785 by the reader. The success of the now- famous “blue-back speller,” still fa- miliar to the older generation of Americans of today, was instantane- ous and must have been amazing to the young schoolmaster. In prepar- ing it, he had shown the same skill and sound sense which characterized his dictionary later. It was arranged PP J in a more logical and serviceable man- ner than Dilworth’s speller, the work of an Englishman previously used, and instead of dry passages from the Scriptures, he used interesting, if | | days she hunted the city for her hoy. | The third day she spent in a hospital homely, anecdotes which appealed im- | mediately to the children who for the next hundred years were to be im- pressed by the moral of these stories. Chicago Mother Visits City SEARCH FOR BOY = ENDS AT GATES OF KENTUCKY PRISON | After City in Two-Year Hunt for Youth. Louisville, Ky.—A two-year search for her missing son ended here the other day when Mrs, Helen Shiner, forty-nine years old, of Chicago, iden- tified a police photograph of her boy, now serving a one-year sentence in the state reformatory at Frankfort. After identifying the photograph, Mrs. Shiner fainted. When she re- vived she sobbed out her story. Then she was taken to a hospital for treat- ment of a weak heart, Mrs. Shiner told police that her son, Henry Shiner, known to officers as Fred Johnson, bid her a brief “good- by” and left to follow the years ago. of financial races two Weeks of illness and days distress followed, But Found Her Son’s Picture. through the months she continued, as best she could, a search for her son— always in cities where the horses ran. Sees His Picture. Then, when looking over a Louis- ville newspaper, she saw her son In the background of a derby winner. Immediately she collected her scanty funds and went to Louisville, Two | with a heart attack. The fourth day turfmen and race | followers to whom she talked recalled | the youth from the descriptions she | | gave and told her that the boy was | | known as Johnson and they thought | By 1815 the sales of the speller were | averaging 286,000 copies a year. By 1828 they had risen to 350,000 copies annually, and by 1848 they were up to 1,000,000 a year. As late as 1880 it was still going strong, and it has been estimated that more than 100,- 000,000 copies have been sold since 1783. Webster's fame may rest mainly upon his dictionary, but in a the dictionary owes its existence to the speller, for during the remainder of Webster's life, and especially the | twenty years he spent in compiling | the dictionary, most of the support of | his family came from the profits of this little blue-backed 15-penny book. ! In 1800 he gave up all his other work to devote himself to his dictionary. His original plan was to correct the | errors and supply the omissions in old- er dictionaries, especially Johnson's. So he spent a number of years col- lecting words. Then realizing his own lack of knowledge as to the origin of words he changed his plan. For the next ten years he devoted himself to a comparative study of words, and when he was sixty-six years old, having ex- hausted all the resources of libraries in this country, he went to France | and England to complete his work. | Finally his great task was done, and | in the autumn of 1828, it came from | the press. Not content to rest after | a quarter-century of incessant labor on one exacting task, the sturdy old Yankee set about revising some of his earlier works, In 1840 he published a | revised edition of his dictionary and | he was in the midst of a second re- | vision in 1843 when death came to | claim him. | So the next time you come across | a word whose meaning you do not un- derstand, before you ask somebody what it means, think of the admoni- tion of one chronicler of Webster's career—"If there is one too lazy to take the half-dozen steps necessary to reach the dictionary, let him pic- ture _the Connecticut scholar spend- ing twenty-five years pacing about be- fore his huge semicircular table, laden with dictionaries of all languages from Arabic to Icelandic, so that he might give his great work to the world.” Bubble in a Sapphire There is exhibited in the British mu- gseum a sapphire. weighing nine carats and containing a bubble that appears and disappears with changes of tem- perature. It is believed that a cavity in the gum incloses a quantity of car- boniec acid gas under great pressure. When the temperature is such as to correspond with the “critical point” for the gas, under the particular pres- sure to which it is subjected in its brilliant prison house, it liquefies and becomes visible as a bubble, Valuable Nettle Nettles gre "usually associated with unpleasant sensations, but a species of the plant is widely cultivated in China for the manufacture of a soft silk-like fabric for textile purposes. In strength, beauty and texture it is sald to compare favorably with the finest grades of silk and Is less cost- ly. The “grass cloth” of China has been used for more than 4,000 years. Pineapple fiber 18 also employed in the manufacture of handkerchiefs and other articles. Air Sickness Antidote An apparatus has been installed at! Tempelhof field, near Berlin, Germany, for passengers suffering from air sick- | ness. Any passenger who fears that | he may become airsick may inhale the | antidote, which consists in the main of | oxygen and cinnamon. The mixture has a quieting effect upon the nerves of the diaphragm. » he had “got in trouble.” | With the name Johnson as a clew, | the mother’s trail led to police head- | | quarters. sense | availing, and passengers to be served, but without | teeth, started again. He continued to look backward, where a“searching searchers found. time, recovered his lost property, and | them resumed his journey. Mexican Beuts Wife; Is Kansas City, Mo.—A fine of $10— 10 cents for each blow he struck his wife—was assessed against Francito Solorio, old, in the Kansas City (Kan.) police court recently. of assault brought by his wife, Mrs. Santos Solorio. beat her with a cartridge belt, strik- ing her 100 times. rio admitted the charge and said his | wife had accused him falsely of mis- | conduct, that the past five years and had been shot at and chased by dogs | was brought tain, near the Fire Tower, Wamsley, his body, a few days ago. The bear was old and weighed about There she found her son's picture. Officers told Mrs. Shiner that | | | | he had been arrested in Lexington for | | theft of an automobile and was sen- tenced to serve a year in jail. She says the boy is only fifteen years old. She is now determined to wait for his | release, and then to take him home. False Teeth Tie Up Whole Rail System Elizabethtown, Ky.—Railroads in- | variably boast of the times their | crack trains run on time. But it was | different in an emergency on the | Hodgenville and Elizabethtown rail- | road. A. G. Bush, veteran engineer, | had just started his run from Hodgen- | ville. He leaned out of his cab, | sneezed, and his false teeth went to | the ground. | The train ran nearly half a mile be- | fore he could stop, reverse his engine, and back the train to the scene of the disaster and tie up the whole system. A search of minutes was un- | Bush, with freight and | some party was stiil active, and before he had gone out of sight one of the waved frantically .at him, indicating that the lost had been Bush took his train back the second | Fined 10 Cents a Blow Mexican, twenty-eight years Solorio was arrested on a charg Mrs. Solorio said he Before Judge Fred R, White, Solo- { Sheep-Killer Slain Oakland, Md.—A sheep-killing bear had been preying on flocks for many times Cheat Moun- by John who fired two shots into down on 800 pounds. WO WEST PRy¢ SEDANS &y on the maiket 2,000,000 WILLYS*OVERLAND CARS AND GOING STRONG ? with quality,beauty and style dominating In definite dollar-for-dollar value there are no 4-door enclosed cars on the market comparable to the Whippet Four and Whippet Six Sedans. The periected Whippet Four offers such desirable features as full force-feed lubrication, silent tim- ing chain, extra leg room and powerful 4-wheel brakes. The new Whippet Six, in addition to these, provides a 7-bearing crankshaft, Invar- strut ‘pistons and many other advantages. Such notable values as these Sedans are possible only because of the skill and ex- perience gained in the production of more than 2,000,000 motor cars. Hat ns SIXES Four-cylinder Touring $455; Roadster (2-pass.) $485; Roadster (with rumble seat) $525; Coach $535; Coupe $535; Cabriolet Coupe (with collapsible top) $595. Whippet Six Touring $615; Roadster $685; Coupe $695, Coach $695. All prices f. 0. b. Toledo, Ohio, and specifications subject to change without notice. Willys-Overland, Inc., Toledo, Ohio. WILLYS-OVERLAND, Inc. TOLEDO, OHIO " Study “Why at the zoo?” “I study my parts” explained Dim- ple Simple, queen of the screen, “Eh?” “The script says I weep crocodile tears, Where is the crocodile tank?’ Not a Chance There will never be a monument to an unknown politician.—Atlanta Con- stitution. We live not to ourselves; our work is life.—Bailey, MOST people know this absolute antidote for pain, but are you careful to say Bayer when you buy it? And do you always give a glance to see Bayer on the box—and the word genwine printed in red? It isn’t the genuine Bayer Aspirin without it! A drugstore always has Bayer, with the proven directions tucked in every box: Aspirin 1s < RR the trade mark of N Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacld Title Writers Discovered Mark Twain would have been a great title writer for the movies, Pho- toplay Magazine observes. “Everybody,” said Twain, “is al- ways complaining about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” (Change weather to picture and it is still good.) “Parts were good,” wrote Mathew Arnold, another title expert. “Parts were original. But that which was good was not original, and that. which was original was not good.” The Editor’s Son “Did you ask dad if you could marry me?” “Yes; but he sent me a rejec- tion slip.” Never is work without reward, or reward without work.—Horace. DON'T THROW THAT TIRE AWAY GUARANTEED Reclaim It With a A VULCAN SELF RVULCANIZING PLASTER 8 E And Get All the Mileage Out P of It, For Any Size or Kind A of Tire Sither high pressure or Bal- No mechanical cuts or t ” oL or br * one be nore conver : VULCAY P. 0. BOX 147 ALES CO. : OSSINING, N. Y. Company Manager Wants Some Others to Join Him | . . : : . | buying producing oil wells while price of oil is low—and pay for them from oil produced. Details BOX 1111, CISCO, TEXAS IF used when retiring, relieves smarting scald = ing sticky eyes by morning. ROMAN TRY. V4 At Druggists or 372 Pearl St., N. X, City. alth is below Men Over Forty. 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