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Alphabet and Pronunciation   of  Esperanto
THE ALPHABET consists of
twenty-eight letters : abcfidefg
ĝhhijĵklmnoprsStuŭ
v z.    The sounds are as follows :
a is like a in father.
C is like is in ha/r.
Ĉ is like eh in ckaxch.
e is like a in fate, but not so long.
It may be best described to an American as long
a shortened, or short e (as in met) lengthened.
Since none'of the other vowels resembles it. one
may pronounce it long, medium or short, with not
the slightest danger of being misunderstood.
g is like g in £fet.
ĝ is like if in ^em, or / in joy.
h is like en in lozvi—a strong, guttural
aspirate, sounded hll.   Found in very few words.
i is like ee in s«.
j is like y in ret, yarn, boy, ay.
Ĵ is like z in seizure.
O is like o in rail.
s is like s in so.
§ is like sh in show.
u is like oo in soon (oo, not yoo).
ŭ is like w in how and   is  used   only
in aŭ. pronounced ou\ and eŭ, pronounced ehzL.
z is like z in zone, seize,
r is slightly rolled or trilled.
The remaining letters are pronounced
exactly as in English: b d f h k 1 m
n p t v.
oj is like oy in bay.
ojn is like oin in coin.
aj is like y in my, sky, try.
ajn is like ine in shine.
ej is like ay in pay, hay.
uj is pronounced ooy—one syllable.
ujn is pronounced ooyn—one syllable.
PRONUNCIATION—Every word
is pronounced exactly as spelled, and no
letter is ever silent.
The Accent, stress or emphasis is
placed on the syllable next to the last:
BA'lo; ne-HE'la; di-li-GEN'ta.
Every vowel (a, e, i, o, u) adds a
syllable: zo-o-lo-gi-o ; tre-eg-e.
Grammar of Esperanto in Plain Language
ARTICLE.—Esperanto has no word
for a. Domo means a house; viro, a
man, etc. The word for the is la: La
domo, the house; la viro, the man.
NOUNS are names of the things of
which we speak. They are formed by
adding 'o to the root: am'o, lore; ag'o,
an act; bonec'o, goodness; dom'o, house.
PLURAL.—When more than one is
spoken of, we add 'j : kat'o'j, cats.
- VERBS are words expressing action.
If the action is now occurring, the sign
is 'as ; if past, 'is ; if future, 'os : am'as,
does love; am'is, did love; am'os, will
love. The form of the verb is not
changed for a plural noun.
Conditional action is expressed by
'us: (se)....am'us, {if).....should love.
Imperative action, indicating com-
mand, desire or purpose, is expressed by
'u : Am'u min \=Love me!
Infinitive or indefinite action is ex-
pressed by 'i: am'i, to love; est'i, to be.
ADJECTIVES are words which ex-
press   quality.     They are formed by the
addition of 'a to the root: am'a, loving,
affectionate; grand'a, large; bon'a, good.
An adjective usually belongs to a noun,
and if the noun has the plural sign, 'j,
the adjective also takes it: bel'a'j bir-
d'o'j, beautiful birds.
ADVERBS usually express manner,
and are formed by adding 'e to the root:
am'e, lovingly; rapid'e, rapidly. Not
all adverbs end in 'e; see "Primary
Adverbs," American Esperanto Book.
FINAL 'N.—When a verb requires
an object to complete its sense, this object
on which the force of the verb falls, has
the final 'n : Li mortigis la kato'n=
He killed the cat. The 'n is also used
to indicate motion toward: Johano iras
hejmo'n=./a^« is going home'ward). If
the noun is plural, the 'n follows the'j.
An adjective belonging to the 'n noun
also takes the 'n : rug'a'j'n pom'o'j'n.
PRONOUNS are words which are
used instead of nouns. The personal
pronouns are : Mi /, vi you, li he. Si she,
ĝi it, ni we, ili they, oni "one," "they,"
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"a person"; si 'self or 'selves, can refer
only to a third person; that is, not to
the speaker or listener, but to some other.
POSSESSION in pronouns, shown
by my, your, his, etc., is indicated by the
adjective sign 'a : mi'a, vi'a, li'a, etc.
When the noun to which they are related
is plural, the possessive pronouns take
the plural sign, and if the noun is singu-
lar, the pronoun is also singular, even
though it refers to more than one person :
li'a'j libroj, his books; ili'a libro, their
book.
Possessive Nouns, such as John's,
Mary's, father's, are rendered in Esper-
anto by the word de (of): La libro de
Johano=/^»'r book.
THE PARTICIPLE is a word that
always implies action, and thus resem-
bles the verb. Its signs are: present
action, 'ant'; past, 'int'; future, 'ont'.
By its ending, it takes the form of a
noun, adverb or adjective. In the noun
form, it represents the person performing
the act: la kant'ant'o, the person who is
singing. In the adjective form, it shows
the quality of being in action: kant'ant'a
birdo, a singing bird. In the adver-
bial form, the participle shows the fact
of the action, but does not directly con-
nect act and actor: Kant'int'e, la birdo
ŬUgis=jYaving sung, the bird flew.
The Passive Participle expresses
the action as being received. Its forms
are 'at', 'it' and 'ot'.
The verb EST'I (to be) is used with
the participles as follows :
estas am'anta—'ata, is loving—loved.
estis am anta—'ata, was loving—
loved.
estos am'anta—'ata, will be loving—
loved.
estis am'inta—'ita, had been loving—
loved.
estis am'onta—'ota, was about to
love—be loved, etc.,  etc., etc.
(For complete explanations and examples of the
various shades of meaning reached by participles
see The American Esperanto Book).
THE NUMERALS areunu i, du2,
tri 3, kvar 4, kvin 5, ses 6, sep 7,
ok 8, naŭ 9, dek 10, cent 100, mil 1000.
The units are expressed by placing the
lower number after the higher : dek du,
twelve, dek tri thirteen, etc. The tens
and hundreds are formed by placing the
lower number before the higher : du'dek,
twenty, kvin'dek fifty, etc.
Ordinals have the sign 'a: unu'a,
du'a, tTl'a.=frsi, second, third.
Fractionals have the sign 'on':
du'on'o, o\LOn'o=one-half, one-eighth.
Multiples have the sign 'obi': du-
obl'a, tri'obi'e=double, triply.
Collectives are formed with the sign
'op': du'op'e, dcis.'op e=by twos, by lens.
"At the rate of' is signified by the
word po :   po du, at the rate of two.
PREPOSITIONS are words used to
express relation between other words.
They are the equivalents of such English
words as on, over, in, at, by, near, etc.
In English, words following prepositions
are said to be in the objective: at him,
toward her. In Esperanto, the sense is
literally at he, toward she, by they, etc.
We do not change the form of either
noun or pronoun following a preposition.
The preposition JE, which has no
fixed meaning, is used when we are not
able to decide what preposition exactly
expresses the sense. Instead of je we
can omit the preposition altogether and
substitute the sign 'n after the noun.
HOW TO READ ESPERANTO
Upon reviewing the foregoing matter,
the student should find that he knows
the meaning of the following grammati-
cal suffixes : 'o, 'a, 'e, 'j, 'n, 'as, 'ant',
'at', 'is, 'int', 'it', 'os, 'ont', 'ot', 'us,
'u, 'i. The mark ' by which we have
set off the suffixes in the examples is not
used in ordinary text, and the student
soon learns their meaning so thoroughly
that his mind automatically combines it
with the root. Thus, am', the idea of
affection, and as, action in the present
tense, do not convey to the brain two
distinct thoughts, but the single idea
loves. Of less relative importance than
the grammatical signs are the syllable
prefixes and suffixes shown on another
page. They are used with great fre-
quency. Thus, virineto one would find
to contain four words : vir', man ; 'in',
female; 'et', tiny, small; o, a being or
object; hence, a little woman.
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Prefixes,   Suffixes,  Word-Building   Method
Esperanto is equipped with a system
of prefixes and suffixes, giving a wide
range of expression to a very small
vocabulary. Taking a root for the cen-
tral thought, these are used to express
the variations of the central idea. In
Exercise 42, American Esperanto Book,
there are shown 53 words thus formed
from one root. The only limit to such
combinations is clearness.
PREFIXES
BO' indicates relationship by marriage:
bo patro, father-in-law.
CEF' chief or principal:    Cef kuiristo,
head cook.
DE' means from: de'preni, A? take from.
DIS'    dismemberment   or   separation:
dis'siri, to tear apart.
EK' to begin suddenly : ek'krii,  to cry
out; ek'dormi, to fall asleep.
EKS' same as English ex:    eks'prezi-
danto, ex-president.
EL' out: el'labori,   to  work out;  el-
pensi, to think out, to invent.
FOR' away : for'iri, to go away.
GE' both sexes : ge'patroj, parents.
MAL' the direct opposite: bona, good;
mal'bona,   bad;     levi,    to  raise;
mal'levi, to lower.
NE'  not, neutral:   ne'bela, not beauti-
ful, plain.
PRA' means great- or primordial:   pra-
avo, greatgrandfather; pra'patroj,
forefathers.
RE' to repeat or reverse :   re'iri, to go
back ; re'diri, to repeat.
SEN' without, -less: sen'hara, bald.
SUFFIXES
'AD' continued action: kanto,  a song;
kant'ad'o, continued singing.
'Af the concrete ; something made from
or having the quality of: bel'aj'o,
a beautiful thing; SafaJ'o, mutton.
'AR' collection or group ;   vort'ar'o,  a
dictionary ; Safar'o, flock of sheep.
'CJ' affectionate diminutive for masculine
names :   Vil'Cj'o, Willie.
'AN' inhabitant, member or partisan of:
irland'an'o,   an   Irishman;    krist-
an O, a  Christian.
'EBL' possibility : vid'ebl'a, visible.
'EC' abstract quality :  bel'ec'o, beauty.
'EG' increased degree or size: grand-
eg'a, immense; vir'eg'o, a giant.
'EJ' place of action: lern'ej'o, school.
'EM' tendency or inclination: labor-
em'a, industrious.
'ER' a unit of a collection: mon'er'o,
a coin; sabl'er'o, a grain of sand.
'ESTR' a leader or head: urb'estr'o,
mayor ; sip'estr'o, ship's captain.
'ET' diminution of size or degree: vir-
et'o, a tiny man ; varm'et'a, luke-
warm.
'ID' offspring: kat'id'o, a kitten.
'IG' to cause to become: riC'ig'i, to
enrich.
'Ig' to become: rifi'ig'i, to "getrich."
'IL' tool, means, instrument: kudr'il'o,
a needle; tranC'il'o, a knife.
'IN' the feminine: frat'in'o, sister.
'IND' denotes worthiness: kred'ind'a,
worthy of belief.
'ING' holder for a single article: ci-
gar' ing'o, a cigar-holder.
'1ST a person occupied with - kant'ist'o
a singer ; drog'ist'o, a druggist.
'NJ' affectionate diminutive for feminine
names: pa'nj'o, mamma.
'UJ' that which contains: krem'uj'o,
a cream pitcher. Franco, a French-
man ; Franc'uj'o, France.
'UL' a person having the quality of :
grand'ul'o, a large person.
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ESPERANTO-ENGLISH   VOCABULARY
In using the following vocabulary, a working knowledge of the grammatical
suffixes and word-elements is very helpful. With these well assimilated, one can
form for himself a great variety of words from each root. Thus, from LERN'
we have: Lernejo, school; lernigi, to teach; lernigisto, an instructor; lernanto.
a pupil; lernigistino, an instructress; lemejestro, a school principal; lernema, apt
or quick to learn; mallememulo, a dullard, dunce; and many more. From the
root SAF* we have Safo, a sheep; Ŝafisto, shepherd; ŝafino, ewe; Ŝafido, a lamb;
safidino, a ewe lamb; Safaro, flock ; Safaĵo, mutton; Ŝafidaĵo, " lamb mutton." The
inherent lameness of English is well illustrated by comparison here. While it
has veal to signify the flesh of a calf, it must resort to more or less awkward and
ambiguous forms to designate the flesh Of a lamb, pig, colt, fawn; and where
Esperanto has the precise term kokidaĵo, English has the meaningless platitude,
spring chicken/
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anchor
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'adore
to
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affair, biwi-
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ajr  garlic
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ante, of pre*, part,
act.
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cad (hurt.)
separate,
adj.
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■panau scarcely
aaar- appear
by
ar-d. collection
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ar* bow, fiddle
abnsattr- hawk
aatr acquirc
aaar/ pimple [pany
aaaaaaan' accom-
at*r sharp [per
ate—ar graawheav
ab* arte      [man
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aafrrd ancrllaarrle
day
aaf^tWaf   ayaaTCT
rtrir «rch, bow
•rtnn
WUltal' cunning
tfaawaT    itrint
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ate. of pr. part, pax.
mtmMT dttick
•tan* attempt
mtomnf wait, expect
•tMlf'   attentive
•iMt/attest certify
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spsl:
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bib**,
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aar' bar, obetruct
barer kef, barrel
eaaeV coat rail
eawteii' atidt
arnr beat
brrbar fight
baa" bJ(garoVm)
bar beautifulTone
bench
berry
' be» at. animal
____ birch (tree)
barrel' need, want
rood*, aetata
bind (book.)
bird
r* white
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t fair (of hair)
beer' blow
bar' blue [riage
bad. relet-by mar-
bernT boat
»bark (dog'.)
boil (intr.)
bar- boreftr.)
barer shorn, bank
earaar'lx*oVrhe,n
bare' bourne, ex-
bat' boot [change
botat bottle
bar' ox
breaaj branch
bran*    brandy
(prod, of xtill)
bran* cabbage
brat ehalf
brat bridle
brar* brick
brtr ehine (intr.)
bead* embroider
braar •raid
area/ brueh
bru* noire
brat bum (intr.)
... cfaest.breast
brat brute, cattle
btaV lad, urchin
bant daughter
barr toad
aankr ringlet, curl
bta* clod, ball
bulb' bulb, onion
bad* roll (bread)
drone (ine)
citizen
bud
mouth
r* butter
en** ahop
kiitaa' button
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mF aim, otnect
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OmtW brain, mind
oarf certain, aure
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••4BT   tCat, rtTlTiaiir-
otfar' cypher, nu-
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rdg^rw* cigarette
realB*l'    eTIawVll
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oiWbug
tf *»»***'    .uh,   Winder
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faunaf charm (tan
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fcarpeotry
hunt, chare
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chain
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all of it [out
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diminutive*
4u whether: asks
a -queiitio.'i
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of «V after witrdrt
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weigttt or mea-
sure:
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wfcwif>ar' danger
ttanaf thank
tUrt date (time)
w-tier' endive, laat
tt-t of, from, with
pas», part, hy
•>w bectmiing
tllllBlkr' Dec tei
oaxiatr decide (tr.,
ttt«»rr decypbejr
dedicate
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thaw
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afeeasfrT de>ign
uadaf detail
dotru' deetroy
•aV  must, in/it
«erlraeviee, motto
ammrr(the)dtawrt
aanT* deeire, wish
•T Cod
dtba* dehcuchsry
wnwkr to damage
dlfmeter differ
ffffaV define, dee-
dig- dike        [tine
err thick, stout
d*r dictate
diligent
Sunday
da- eav, tell
dtreerr direct, rtcer
dHTd. eeper
------' discount
dispose
dlsput dispute
dkrtBngdi.tinguUh
dtetr- distract
dhnpn'divlne.guces
dleet'd' various, di-
DMsT divide [verse
do then, according.
dm* sweet        (ly
doser- pain, ache
MHf house
(itiee)pity
give      [scot
make  prc-
coddlc
sleep
thorn
(the) back
da* dowry
wrwkp woown cloth
thraah
train (anun.)
' drink (in ex-
ok-a-r/dnig    \e*m*
m drown, wok
two
.i%i*vk»bt
dak» [whflsf
diiring,wbilr,
'hii«(*arv«nt)
c
Shot adv.
evcn.emooth
ebfd. possibility
d*d. abst. idea,
dfi even (adv.)
mmr edify
eduk-educatc rear
afak«Vreal,acto.l
•fltt- have caaact
•ffAiocreaaa
•Or equal
•IV echo
•f A plara aUotv
ted to
mW A  •udden  or
beginning act
•aha'ex-(who baa
been)
•kawtt' excite
' trip
dia patch
outside
'cnaubout
l kn mar example
mwaWrW exerciM
«taB' betush
•lodatexist [oteavf
•J out of, from a-
wnwmmt elephant
*T chuoee
d. propenrity
~f purxle
ainbuth
l'puzxlc[takc
MB' ondcr-
atM/ bs wearied
mettt envy
%t A unit
ern-r, mi strike
'hedgehog
hermit
harrow
except
squaA-oa
hope
__   explore
Meevnr' expreta
•ag be (verb mux.)
eatkrft' esteetn
eetttur' extiruruiah
—tY A chief
•fittfeej  xcaffold   -
■f d. diminution
«tad/    story    (ol
hoiise)
extend (tr.)
____   eternal
mwft avoid
pike (fish)
F
tain, story
fable
factory
IMf-easy
swan**- thread
whistle
file (tool)
fire
compartment
fivrt
invoice
|lar fall       [grass
fal*     mo*',    cut
fas* fold
fair falcon
fan)' falsify
fan,' fams.rumour
faasffy family
fan* cast, mric
do, mske
rarbi* phao'ns
fanartaksonlaaM
fWt-bafwslloruo-
fiour (well)
fast hut (vb.)
fafla* jaws, gully
fanu* favour
Pabsani'Februsry
fa* lass, sediment
luw/tairY
far hidafamce
fab* happy, lucky
felt* felt
' thigh
l:t,nve(tr.)
window
iron
deck (ship)
Perm- shut, close
festival
fasts* banquet
flan* bMrothad
tlbr* fibre
Ik* to rely upon
ftdwr faithful
flur* jtroud
(present
image, re-
fa son
ft* and. finish (tr.)
nag* finger
fttnm  firro
n*fish
fras* flame
Pkan* aide, flank
nar- small (tr.)
Part- flatter
fas* yellow
Digitized bykjOOQlC
nSU\
ntttt
■ patch
r «it, Wit
•   (the
[nick
nat/raft
" far1 Bow
&
W-»
fluid
fklt flute
IW fair (subst,)
l>ftirTve< three tit
a?
hay .    [Am-.
i-r-af (ami
.......     ___(animal)
MT leaf, sheet
faaKT found. start
' spring, fount
___aw' fountain
far forth.out,a way
fergUS   forgot
ftrf/ forge, •mithy
Mm' ■.hap*
totolf ant
fervi'«ti>ve. furnace
tort' strength
fOrtJIt'   strong-  (to
f*«'  dig        [r.oi.t!
fast' post, stake
•Vat/' strawberry
trmj spawn
frawf drcs» coat
frarka* shatter
f ash (son
fl free ma-
fiand/ raspberry
fmf-ojo sweets.
dainties
ffajlA/ fringe
fntp  hit. strike
ftWX brother
flrtor Ivwhelor
rraand   foreign
IrssMf/ rr.i7.y, In ad
■VtaV fresh, new
fripon' rogue
friz' dress (hair)
ffwmaA' cheese
fltMt* frost
fret" rub
Irlf eariy
fruriteg/ rook
fr-irr fruit
frunf forehead
fttx' phthisis
fule/ soot
fulnf  lightning
turn' smoke
fwitfbottc
ijatioi
found
funeral
r funnel
fufur' mushroom
furn   pound
ftlTsVr forage
fttrtox' rage
fusV bungle
fllY foot (measure)
&
ft   gall
g*Joi  rubber-shoe
fmmmt gaiter
grant glove     [tee
•rsaTantt'    guaran-
gsrb' sheaf, shock
snartT guard    [gin
gargajr' rinse, gar-
b-ggas
a-ant/guest
araxat:   newspaper
ars/d. both sexes
gwn*r*X    general
(military)
gont tribe
genu' knee
geet gesture
glass' ice
rflftst* to iron
gtari acorn
g1aa'gla«i. tumbler
gtaf smooth
ffpaiv' sword
flit' glide, slide
gte*  globe
trior* glory
sriw-glue
glut' vwnllow (vh.)
gOrg' throat
graof graceful
grmef degree
graf earl, count
grajn' a grain, pip
gramf great, tall
■rsvj* fat
grat scratch flate
congratu-
grar important
gravesf pregnant
■■ana'' engrave
greas* grain, corn
gTf gruel
grtreV sUtepencil
grircricket (insect)
ftlkse/     to   grate
■*»*•*' frey   [(intr.)
gnat' gooseberry
gru' crane (bird)
grup/ group
gruoV tar        (age
gum' gum, muol-
gurtf barrel organ
gust*' taste
■net/ drop, drip
•iatino, go-
verness     Litary)
' guard
(mil.
guf
Q
garden
gens' groan
avaeT* incommode
gestaraf"   general
A-MUT polite [adj.
avsrssT* germ
«a
gW hump
gtrmf giraffe
Aw) until, as far as
AdT joy. glad
AvT etuoy
Aw«f exact, right
H
ha ah
hair hail
r*aVtochoo  [hnU
aaf   great   room,
hafadj/hadexhala.
lion
haft atop (intr.)
to/ hair
barer harden
hartieY herring
harp'harp   Pes»)
hAŬf skin,   (hair-
have     [hour
haven   port,' har-
ha*a/ ivy
haprr' home
hajt  heatfvb,)
hef clear, glaring
help   help
hepaf liver
herb' grass
rverarf inherit
here/ hero
yesterday
Mpekrit feign
hlrud leech [(bird)
" swallow
porcupine
ho! oh I
to-day
hoar hook
man
honest
honour
hOftt shame
hour
e* barley
raarioA'clock.w'tch
hostf sacred host
" hoof
humble
humour,
dog [temper
Ĥ
chaos
chemical
Mnvsvv chimera
cholera
nor* chorus, ch.-ir
I
I t. of infinitive
some (any) kinJ
lei for some (any)
cause, reason
rn at sortie (any)
time, ever, once
W d. descend of
IdO* idea
le some- anywhere
lel some- anyhow
lOO some-anyone's
If d. causing to be
If d. becoming
M they, them
"""  illuminate
heaT in
em pi re
entangle
hlWW'sST impression
felt, influence
In' <L feminine*
Inoft provoke, in-
cite, tease
NwT d. worthy of
Iwdlgw' indignant
tnehrV toheindul-
IflfavTchild   [gent
hvfesrf infect
Infer' hell
Infill' influence
wag d. holder
hwoeaf iruciate
MT ink
IrwdfcrT indioed to
hkaw ensnare
rtetkr instigate
kNtrW teach
Uveuf island
taavat/insult. abuse
art past part, act,
hvtatst' intend
Inter    between,
among
IntaroOtnterert
httarn'inner, inside
hrtoet intestine
Intrsv/ to plot
Instr invite
le some-, anything
torn a little, some.
If go          [rather
It d. paat tense
hit/ d. profess ion
ltd. past pnrt.
In some-, anyone
HOT isolate
J
It. of the plural
A in fact
to-jacket
jam already
daiMeaf January
Jaf year
J*    indrfirute
canary
candle
eray  fi«h.
aamr rang
>a# head
kmwaar chapel
hav>f goat
■aeatWwhsm
kapt catch
kaf dear
karaf carafe, de-
karh' eosl  [canter
karoT thistle
July
Juri young
jiaxr  to   couple,
harness
JVmr June
JawV petticoat, skirt
lUgCyuet, righteous
Ĵ
ĵahtf jealous
)aŭor Thursday
jet/ throw
JoasTf ju'ffgle
Jufswear [raom'nt
juojust.atthevery
pap
' frame
frail
kaf coffee
fcaA' cage
kahaf dutrh tile
kajand [«red book
kajer   paper cov-
kajut cabin, hut
kaf com (on foot)
kaldron' boiler
kale*   carriage
kallk   chalice, cup
kalk  lime
kalkon' heel
katkul' reckon
kalson   pants
kalumnl   ^lande^
kambl    bill  of ex-
change
kamel' camel
kamen   6re-place
kamer camera
kamp   held
kan' cane
kanab   hemp
kanajr scoundrel
kanap sofa,lounge
karat/ carrot
Iragf/ carp (fish)
karr card, map
karteev cardbcuuv
kaw cash boa
•T steer,
helmet
castle
beaver
hide (vb.)
l' chestnut
kmr cat
ratarrh
fetter
IPamVr* cause
kav* cave, hollow
kavarii' cavern
kaz/ caae (gram.)
k* that (ami.)
tof cellar
keek some, eeveral
havnar' waiter
kacn' kernel
kaat/ chest, box
US what kind of
kJaJ  why,   where-
ksmnt when    [fore
Ma where
hW how. as
Idea whose
Ida what (thing)
Idem how much
«•' kiss
ktu who, which
ktaff fathom (mt.)
Mar* clear, plain
kla*  class, sort
WkWr* key (piano)
Mar* educated
khsV  bend, incline
take trou-
sluice       [ble
boy
to  knc.iJ
goblin, imp
toJW wedge
kait cock
kwks' hip
kaf neck
sausage
colleague
collect
angry
ove
column
colour
torufrr- coIUr
kom' comma
komb' comb      [tr.
kOnseese'commerui)
komare/ trade
kovnforT comfort
luwntocomm isskm
komftaf co ĵ n i n i t -
tomlg clerk [tee
keenaer chest of
drawers
compare
to pity
obliging-
ness
tompwet/ eet(typ*)
kompran'    under-
stand
komun* common
ton' know (be ac-
quainted with)
tondamn'condem n
kwfKfkV stipulation
konduk to conduct
kondur to behave
konfld   to trust
konfuz' to confuse
konk   shell    [infer
konklutf conclude,
konkar' compete
konkura'enter into
competition [ous
xcnscl    be consci-
koneenr*  preserve
konail  to advise
konsor console
konstat   to state,
establish (a factl
ktntrtem amaxc
jMnaba to boiid
hatttaiTfcaslidcisii
office'eom.)
against
to suit. ba>
_ fitting
tonvwia' convince
tor* heart
tor*/ basket
cord (music)
** to correct
body
court, yard
raven
sr
'quail (bird
toW to brood
tsssssrt envelope
tov?' cover
krwA spit(sauva)
kradT grate
taT*js*T pencil
"' damp
spigot
ull
cravat
kre/ create
tr/vef believe
cream [wild
horse-radish
Kow.   in,
[crease
toa*/ burst (intr.)
cry. shout
tap, ;>
skull
lorlpf crippled   (to
krauhook to, cling
kuf sroman's cap
togf bullet
kŭer- cook
ln«y cookey, cake
" cuckoo
f cucumber
pumpkin
tof gnat
taaar* spoon
kwlp  fault,   blame
loea   with,    «sm'e
together
rabbit
cure, treat
toffjA* courage
lutTW curve
curtain
cushion
kut lie (down)
Inrtlrn' custom
kuV tub, vat
kuZ* cousin
kvarikarn altho'gh
kvarrf quantity
Irrar four    [town)
quarter(of
as if
oak
krisf/ calm
kvtsi five
krttana' receipt
V. la the
labor- labour
lao  weary, tired
laoart/ lizard
lac   Uce (boot)
lad" tin plate
laf Uva
lag- lake
lak'  varnish
lake lackey
laka'tax, diarrhora
lakt  milk
lam' lame
lamp' lamp
Ian   wool
land'land. country
lang- tongue
lantern   lantern
lanug-  down, fluff
lard   bacon
to* broad, wide
toto? larynx
toTtTtenrfof eye)
tot leave, let
to*/ last, latest
law) according to
wuW green arbour
tome* praise
tort loud, aloud
tof wash
toT leather
tor read
lege*» vegetable
key/ law
hear hck
tort lentil.
tota»/freckle
keen' lion
letter' hare
larrf learn
tor lift, r„i„
H he. him
■T free
NkC book
■m' «pleen
JW bind, tie
■eT— wood (the. uli-
to-/ limit   [staiKx
MRtoir uied
tot' flu
toT!iimIUa':•
lrrt/d [alphabet)
•tar letter (of the
H-aT, upply deliver
tof entice
to*" to lodge, live
lee? place, locality
kin? teh-axrpe
MT draw lot.
to rent
«"■"play
tof lul asleep    [ne
him Ixvht -.' to shi-
totllt/loina
|WR/ moon
top* Monday
IW wolf
Mawar boot
toPtr chandelier
MtT .older
hrtr otter
M
mmtf     unUsereoed
fchew   (bread
3m-vgic(hou-c
May
■t majesty
(piyfesiion)
' broker
stain, spot
' j«w
irMUiopjpoaites
■talgiailin spiteot
l*1awf breajflt (frjtru)
rnsvn' hand
■«atv-t
lack, want
iTWdvYswmmp [e-ain
tTSl/nasw/   to  bar-
Tuesday
rwa\rtt' rnarfc.sUmp
MaVt' March
amari* inarch
'do mason's
mast [work
' master (of
mesh (house)
' machine
npe
___  piece of fur-
maeV wick  [niture
fivaJT mile
met  badger
turkey
milk (vb.)
self, selves
member
meinory
ntwrnt/ordeifgccrds)
---------' teUa lie
chin
merit   (day
Wcdncs*
IMeT ■eewascnvft
SMV-  sea-gull
■W middle
eaegssr' measure
to I, me
toaY horary
sauareavr «Tmood
■to/ migrate
Mto* mix
t war
ayz* to threaten
g> short-sight
zeY forget-me-
' wonder   (not

asgwasY rnonth
s-rervg world
morn" mountain
miwb' show
■JttY habit, usage
wler! dlr
_   die        [row
martat*' mortnr
MtonT general title
Vi'm rtfm wwaW.
'e, your majesty.
tv"e iwe*r*e your
honour
swaY move (tr.)
3 mill
to roar,( wind
mucus   f&c.
ntot/ much, many
new/ wall
ma-Jaw* muscle
asaujuM-g mustard
mad' fly (a)
assrt' dumb
N
Hr.ofdirectobj.
naej* nation
' swim
' neighbour
nail        [gale
rnightin-
ag/ turnip
watk* give birth,
mmaktf be born,
muta? beget
iBvwa/ nature
nacaw/ necessary
mmmf busiaeae
■ktop iw Into of
■atoa nowhere
rwasel nohow
Mr*M no one's
■awwa nothing
niwilim not a bit
nessm nobody
nog/ grandson
■ttgrT* unfaibngvy
nut/ clean copy
ni we. us
ntgV black
ntVv) level (dim.
AT   d. fern,  .-iffert.
netof  nobleman
Mkr noble
AwkY night
Aw»' name
AAAsw/ number
nwrd" north
mmfmw        (ber
Awtsvaot' Novcm-
Ml well I
RwM' ahadc. hue
■Mt/ cloud
awaf naked
RaPY nape of neck
nwaa' nut
ipjT aero     [(No.)
paaY      number
naat now
war only (adv.)
o
• e. of noun*
abb obey       [ject
Mp%*  thing, oh.
•t\*rT>otd. oVo*v
twofold
abatln  obstinate
«star' odour, smell
•fssssT offend
ataf   to  offer   Us
sacrifice.gift,Sic.)
■flo office (employ.
aff often _ (meat)
•st eight fsion.rasc
•sou' ixmr -o occa-
•kotdsnt   west
•fctebr Oktober
twad eye
afcup' occupy
ei than
•ks o.l
ornar   lobster
OWVW    shadow
cmvjruf umbrella
on' d. fraction»!
and' wave
on)   one.    people,
they :
•fsfcT  uncle
Orrt'r.fut- part act.
oof    d.   eottevtivo
numeral*
Opinf  to opine
oportnn   handy
Of gold        Parity
OrOT   order,   ivgii-
OrwOrV  order, (de-
coration) '
ortfon order.
•rot  ear  ,   [inand
art* orphan
n'OTBanfmus.)
"' east
___/ ornament
00 e. of fut. tense
ooood' yawn
OOf bone
OOtf oyster
Of e.fut.part.pass.
•V «no*
P
otvotVot
paint
to chirp
bv means ol
f perch (fish)
r lose     .
Hr partridge
perish
t to perfect
betray
pssraranson   parch-
porf pearl    [ment
P»w peace
pnofono   patience
pan* shoot, fire
•NT pay
BMtV p*P* (book)
pad   straw
paV pack, put up
ppr pale
ooueaV palace
pauht stake
awJoT touch, feel
fcejpe.br eve!!.!
pen' bread
pantaJon trousers
pontofl' slipper
pop' pope
paupaffr parrot
P»»P«w Poppy
m*** pap" m
papHT butterfly
par' pair, brace
pas JO11   forgave
paean*' relation
pearHT' by heart
psu-of speak
part part
pwtf* party, par-
ptuf pass        [rial
pssoor' sparrow
pssPtaaV pie        [or
paurtf priest, past.
osmV to step [cattle,
pastf pasture, feed
paf frying-pan
pan»* father
pSanf to pause
paV peacock
patrtm' pavement
?*f P*S?
P»A pitch
pear' wood.po.kcr
pajzaut"' lands* aix-
pOtTsin
po*r to pickle
par*   drive,  rhn*v
polf fur      [aw..*
po*V basin
poet' endeavour
pOfsOT hang (tntr.t
pemlk'   painthru-.l.
pane   think
pOStT to repent
permit
platform
peach
weigh (tr.)
past plague
pot' request, beg
pOtof  be roguish,
play the wanton
patrol' paraffin oil
potroooV parsley
pea' weigh (intr.)
pi' pious
ptOtf foot, leg
pig/ mac pic
ptk' prick, sting
pHk'ball(f.plaving)
pill' pine-tree
plntY pinch
plngf pin
plnf pointed
pip' pipe (tobacco)
plpf pepper
pif pear
plHt/ gravel
piaf    to    pound,
pif pea        [crush
plOO public square
plafV please
ptad  plate
plafon' ceiling
puuvd sole (of the
plank floor   (foot)
plat  flat, plain
paxutf splash, clap
plOj most
pfoitf weave, plait
pssw/fuU
complain
tray
pleasure
more
•"* mourn, weep
l further, longer
ay/ plough
poapiece,atrateof
potaT cup. goblet
" ' police
n'buckwbeat
polish
pole
dust
pom   apple
posvortf dagger
" bridge
popr poplar-tree
popor people
for. for benefit
f door        [of
I" hog. pig
f wear, carry
possess
peer niter, Ivhlrtd
poOten'Nt.ititm(mil)
pootuf require, do
POO' pocket [niand
poAr post, mail
peteno  mighty
POV be able, can
pm'n to       great
grandfather
--—' right (adi.)
' chiefly'
precise
prodik preach
prefer' prefer
preg/ pray
press
' prize
pren   take
prae/ print (vb.)
preskau almost
pret ready [lprcp.1
prOtor beyond
pref price
prOIOflt'to present
prl concerning, ah-
prtno' prince [out
ptinolp principle
printemp    spring
prtvat pnvnli|lun.
pro owing  to,  for
the sake of
prOCOnt interest
prooee lawsuit
predukf prod me
prefund  deep
"* to delay
' near
to walk
promise
propose
(one's) own
pieOpeT'   succeed.
prtv try    [thrive
provix   provide
pru'n   hoar (front)
prun' plum
prunf to lend
pruV to prove
-lun,
putV gunpowder
ptlhrSr powder
putnp' to pump
pun' punish
punkf point
puritf la.e
pup' doll
pur- pure
pus' pus, matter
put  p.i.h
put well (.ubst.)
putT to rot
R
rab rob     '[count
rebate, dis-
rabbi
to plane
heel
beam, ray
_____' root
reriVn' horseradish
rafln' refine
rwjd   to   ride   (on
horseback)  [rily
raft  right, autho
rauont  relate
rwnp' crawl
ran' frog   .
rane' rancid
rsutefcdgr, margin
rang/ rank, grade
rap long radish
rapid' quick, rapid
report report
ran to rake
rat rat
i-auk hoarse
rmŭp   caterpillar
rar ravish, delight
rat shave
ra'd.again.back
radakol'   editorial
office
raaj' rule, govern
ragal  regale
ragTi State, realm
raguf  rule
rar king, reign
rakaenpane reward
rafct straight
raf  rail
ram'to row  [chair
retnbur    to stuff,
rampar' bulwark
ran' kidney
renkonf meet
ronvers  upset
raepond' reply
rest   remain [rant
restoraol'   restau-
rat' net
rWtlrciiTi (awake)
rerultaf result
rib' currant
rfbel   to rrtxil
rioW obtain, get
Hfl' rich     [receive
rid" laugh
rrfirijV take refuge
fifuz' to refuse
tigard  look at
rian' iwit
rlkoff reap
rltat'relate to. eon-
rim' rhyme    [ccrn
rtmaiir to notice
rimed' means
rlmen' strap
ring' ring (subst.)
ri|Trib
ripef repeat
ripoz' repose, rest
riprod' reproach
riear' river
ril*" rice
rod*  roadstead
romp' break
rond' round, circle
rank*  to snore
ros   dew
root'roast [anim.)
raatT*     trunk    (ot
r***cceapany (mil.)
raa* rose
rubbish
ribbon   .
ruby
rut r
ruktt
eructate
roll (tr.)
' rust (tr.)
rtcx* trick, ruse
s
«f Saturday
f sand
f arrow
•eut' wise
Mft? sack
salt
salad
salary
willow
salmon
anlf  leap, jump
" salute, greet
same
health
blood
holy
pf soap
rlf to weed
f satiated
eaudrt
aaŭo' sauce
save     [tally)
aoi' (know   (im-ii
science
squirrel
ta)if
r grease, fat
I but
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dry
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sake' sex
sekV follow
saddle
earn' sow
semajn   week
sen without
seno' sense
send' send
aanf feel, percieve
sep seven        [ber
•entamtwr'Srptem-
ser6' search
serf series
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aerur'lock.tKubBt.)
sarV serve
•M six
aezon' season
si   him-, her-,  it-,
one-self,     them-
selves (reflex.)
sJbf to hiss
sitr sit
alef besiege
tiger seal(vb.)
sign' sign, token
Btgnlf signify
allab' syllable, siV-
ab'i to «pell
silent to be silent
slllk   flint
•Ilk' silk
Slml' monkey
sfmll   like, similar
elm pi  simple
slngult hiccup
tlnjor  Sir. Mr.
■Itaf bucket
•Ituaet' situation
akal   scale   (blade
akapet   shoulder-
akmrab' beetle
ekatol small box
akerm' to fence
aktx' to sketch
aklav' slave
akrib' write
•ku' shake
akulpt sculpture
akvam' scaU ifi*h)
amerafd*  emerald
•Obf sober
soclst society
polf thirst
aojf threshold
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aoldaf soldier
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aomor' summer
son' sound (subst).
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so nor'  give out a
sound (as a bell)
aopir' long for
•aft/ absorb
sssrsV witchcraft
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•art fate, lot [age
space
kind, species
"™ mirror
expenenre
ittfe* dis-
burse, cu'iprs'
receive (money)
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•pUT ear (of corn)
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■pUsae/ spinach
aptf breathe
aptrtt spirit, mind
•pit in defiancc<ot)
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aprwn' spur
apart expectorate
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station
•tar stable, stall
stamp,
■tan' tin f [mark
standard' flag
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star' stand
atkt state, condi-
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stork' manure
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atraf street
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streak, line
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atnit ostrich
•tup' tow
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tub under, beneath
aubtf sudden
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eufer* suffer
auftcV sufficient
eufe*      suffocate
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•ukoen' amber
aukcaa'  have suo
auker' sugar (cess
sulfur' sulphur
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Bun' sun
sup' soup
super over, above
•upsur* suppose
supr  upper (adj.)
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surd   deaf
surtut overcoat
tvat arrange mat-
rimony
even' to swoon
■ring swing (tr.)
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iajn' seem
4ak chess
ianoer shake (tr.)
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darg' load (a gun)
Ŝarĝ' load, burden
eat to prize, like
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iallt brace (trout.)
iaro joke
|l she, her
•MtfT shield
Aim' get mouldy
ŝlnd*  shingle
-sink' ham
alp' ship
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smae' hearty kiss
amir smea r. a noin t
«nuf string
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Aovat   shovel
spar' be sparing
■pin  spin
ApruO   sprinkle
cupboard
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AtaT steel
Atat State
Atlp" log of wotvJ
AtaT steal
itof stuff, tissue
AtMl' stone
Atop' stop up
Iti usnp' stocking
Atop' step
Av/ shoe
Auttf  shoulder
Allt shoot outfeorn
Avaf swell        [Ac.
Avft perspire
tobacco
list
Uble
tplank, board
tufday
tmJsaf tailor
tadta' estimate
tauY waist
tmlp' mole (animal)
Umbuf drum
tawvavl however
tapet tapestry
taptA  carpet
tag* cup (tea)
taulg* he fit for
tavof layer
t*' tea
tear tedious
teg rover  (furni-
ture. Ac.)
tagmenf root
teka' weave
telef plate
' time f(anat
tempi'      temple
ten' hold, grasp
tend tent
tent tempt, try
tef earth
tern' sneeze
tarvf terror _
tortoise
tatf grouse
tla such a
tlal therefore
then
tla there
tJol thus, so
tiki' tickle
Ull lime-tree
tlm' fear
tin*/ moth         [es
tint clink ol glass-
tie that (thing)
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tlf draw, pull
title
«U that
tat linen
tolerate
tomb, grave
clip, shear
thunder
tortf wind, twist
tart peat
tern  turn (lathe)
tarn latf knapsack
tart tart
tm through
trrdtoeamfofwood
hractutf translate
trkf hit, reach
trajf feature
trakf transact
tranr cut
quiet
tr* very
U'Mll' tremble
tramp' to dip
tren' drag, trail
trezof treasure
tri three
trlnk   drink
trltlk' wheal
tfO too (much)
tramp' deceive
trotuaf side-walk
troV find
tni'  hole
tmrJ   force upon
trunk' trunk, stem
tub   lube
tuber bulb
tuf tuft
tuj immediately
tuk* cloth, kerchief
tuf tower
turn* thrush
turn turn (v.a.)
tuff cough
tuA* toucb
tut/ whole, qutta
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u c. imperative
u/d. containing
ul   d.  remarkable
fur
um'indef. suffix
umblllk'. navel
una/ nai! (fksger)
unu one
urb' town
ura' bear (animal)
urtlk nettle
IM'e. of conditional
utaf womb
utu" useful
•af use
vag* rcom
vmks' wax
val' valley,
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vaurr vain, futile
steam
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smallpox
warm
nurse (child)
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«vxuY
wake, arouse
sail (subst.)
t fade
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' come
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Friday
poison
vengeance
conquer
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vwf true
a" green fhinch
nrw' rod -» whin,
«•sir work  (liter-
m' worm  [ary)
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wasp
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rwapirt/ bat
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vsVter weather Tele
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vtO row, rank, turn
trtuT see
vloV widower
vlgl' alert
vffag* village
vln  wine
lagrf vinegar
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4* violet
f violin
Vlp' whip
Vif man. male
vtnf virginal
vlrT virtue
vkl   wipe
vftf    glass   (sub-
vkf' live     [stance)
vtzag  face
vlzlt vixit. rail on
vuA' voice
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WkuX* voyage
MM   call
vol' wish, will
VOkHlf  v'llinglv
vohf'   wrap rouml,
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vulp' fox
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UNUA  AMERIKA  REVUO           r**           J___j DE  LA   LINGVO  INTERNACIA ESPERANTO
VOLUMO    III             CHICAGO    JULIO    MCMVIII              NUMERO    VI
KIAM oni laŭdas la praktikemon de la amerikano, oni ofte forgesas, ke
la utileco necesas por la ideala tiel same por la utila. La revoj de
knabo estas idealaj; la pano estas praktika afero; sed sen pano oni
ne povas revi. Se la amerikano metas antaŭ Cio la utilon, li ne eraras ;
sed tiu forte eraras, kiu pensas pro tio, ke la amerikano ordinare ne Satas
la idealan. Kaj treege eraras tiu,. kiu pensas ke la amerikano ne povas
mezuri la utilon alimaniere, ol laŭ la dolarsigno kaj ciferoj.
Ni lasu al fremduloj tiun eraron, sed porni mem, ne lasu nin dum unu
momento klopodi tiel forte je la praktika utilo, ke ni forgesos pri la ideala
belo.    Ciam reciproke sin helpas la utilo kaj la idealo.
La unua idealisto estis tiu nuda homo, klopodanta naskigi fajron per
la frotado de du pecoj de ligno. Liaj kunuloj ridegis, timegis, ludis kaj
adoris laŭvice ; post jarmiloj ili utiligis gin kaj fondis per gi—civilizacion !
Estas en Ameriko centmiloj, kiuj bone konas kaj komprenas tian rilaton
inter utilo kaj idealo; ke ili reciproke provizas fundamenton unu por la
alia, kaj en la lasta analizo ne ekzistas inter ili diferenco—Cio ideala estas
utila, kaj Cio utila estas ideala.
Tial klopodante je amerikano por nia afero, ne hontu konfesi, ke Esper-
anto ne portos al li bilionon da dolaroj. Klarigu simple, ke gi donos al li
lokon en la unua rahgo de progresemuloj; kaj ke, per gi, li helpos siaparte
al la iom-post-ioma kunfratigo de la homoj.
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IT TAKES a considerable quantity of a peculiar kind of aplomb to
put into print the sort of advertisement we give you this month—you
will recognize it when you read it. Even those who do understand
will sit up and say " Mm ! " but they will think again and say: "Well, it's
all right; the man wants the faith of his readers, and straight talk is one
of the ways to get it." But this for the few who simply can't understand it:
Go, study astronomy. Go sit in the dark for an hour out in the forest of
waving shadows on the border of Creation, and ask somebody, a hundred
billion centuries hence, to tell you how much it matters, this difference
between us. What ho, little brother to the celluloid collar, a truce to your
pretenses, and mine ! I am a fool in the strong joy of knowing it; you're
another, and you waste'too much effort to keep from finding it out!
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WORLD   PROGRESS   OF   ESPERANTO
IT MAY BE said, with comparative
accuracy, that.few modern people
who read the review and make
a fairly supportable pretention of keep-
ing pace with the world's progress, have
not learned something of the history of
Esperanto and the general movement for
an international language. It is not the
purpose here to give a history of the
early movement, nor to reply to the
the many arguments against it. It is
well established in history that new
ideas and inventions remain the sub-
ject of ridicule and opposition from
the unthinking long after they have
become firmly established in merit and
usefulness. For over three hundred
years the enlightened world has be-
lieved that we live upon a planet; but
in spite of this there are still schools of
elegance and culture where this is
sturdily denied and ingeniously con-
tradicted.
All arguments against Esperanto are
reduced to ashes by the red-hot facts
in the case. People can and do ac-
quire a reading and writing knowledge
of it in from one week to three months.
People can and do learn to speak it
from books alone, and to speak it with
far greater accuracy than the average
person can learn to speak any foreign
tongue without actual residence among
the natives of that tongue. People can
and do understand the Esperanto of
foreigners with a marvelous minimum
of difficulty. All for the reason that
the   language   is  based   for   the   most
part upon root-words and sounds
which already exist in the majority
of languages , contains few vowels,
with such broad distinction between
them that confusion is impossible,
and is absoutely phonetic. To cov-
er the world's progress of Esperanto
even briefly would require a volume of
several hundred pages, and it is possi-
ble here to present only a very inade-
quate synopsis of it:
ALGIERS.
Some time has passed since the arrival
of the little mimeographed newspaper,
"Afrika Esperantisto." That has been
the sole source of information concern-
ing affairs in North Africa.
ARGENTINA.
There was no organized Esperanto
movement in Argentina at the date of
latest information  from  that  country.
Several prominent newspapers have
given the language favorable reviews
and it is expected that organized propa-
ganda will result in the near future.
AUSTRIA.
The group at Vienna is taking on
great activity and promises to be well
represented at the Congress in Dresden.
AUSTRALIA.
From all parts of the continent come
inquiries about the language, and one
may believe in the early establishing of
an association by the Esperantists there.
BELGIUM.
It is remembered that Belgium first
gave official consideration to the claims
of Esperanto as an international lan-
guage, sending its representative to the
congress in Cambridge. Now comes the
information that the study of Esperanto
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is compulsory in the military schools of
that   country,   and   in   Antwerp   they
teach it in the public schools.
BOHEMIA.
The Jubilee Exposition, which cele-
brates the sixtieth year of the reign of
Emperor Francis Joseph I, will take
place in Prague, from May to October
of the present year. The managers of
the exposition are using Esperanto a
great deal for advertising the affair, and
several of the Esperanto gazettes of
Europe have issued supplements about
it. There will be an official invitation
to the participants in the Dresden Con-
gress to visit the exposition.
BRAZIL.
The    latest    information    from    this
countiy concerns the formation of new
groups in the cities of Parana, Pouzo,
San Paulo and other places.
BULGARIA.
The Bulgarians will hold a national
Esperanto congress  this year,  at  Shu-
nien.
CANADA.
The group at Toronto is quite wide-
awake and strong, and 500 persons at-
tended the lecture of M. Privat in that
city.    There are several other groups in
the Dominion.
CHILI.
In the coming December there will
be a convention of scientists from the
two Americas, in Santiago. Among
them will be several Esperantists, and
there will be an effort to interest the
congress in the languag.
DENMARK.
Esperanto is progressing well in Den-
mark.    They   are   constantly   founding
clubs and arranging courses.
FINLAND.
From "Finna Esperantisto" it is
learned that up to date more than 0,000
text-books for Esperanto have been sold
in this small but very progressive
country.
FRANCE.
There has been founded in Paris an
Esperanto resort, where they keep a li-
brary, games, etc., and one can always
find  Esperantists   and  speak   the   lan-
guage. It is open from ten in the morn-
ing to the same hour in the evening,
and the monthly admission card costs
ten cents. It will be a fine thing for
travelers. In Rouen, the city council
has given the Esperanto club a room,
which is open every evening except hol-
idays. An Esperanto summer resort has
been arranged at Neuville-Sur-Saone.
Many eminent and energetie Frenchmen
advocate the organization of an inter-
national Esperanto academy.
GIBRALTAR.
A daily newspaper published at this
British military city gave not long ago
an account of the enthusiastic reception
of Dr. Yemans, am American Esperant-
ist who now lives in the Philippine
Islands. The international language is
constantly growing among the soldiers
of all countries.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The yearly convention and consulta-
tion of the British Esperanto Associa-
tion will take place in Edinburgh, the
6th to the 8th of June. On account of
the growth of the business of the Asso-
ciation it now has a new office and
rooms in the Museum Stations Build-
ings.   133-136   High   Holborn,  London,
w: c.
HOLLAND.
The General Military Journal now has
a regular department of Esperanto.
HUNGARY.
There is a central propaganda society
in Budapesth, though the general edu-
cational and political conditions of the
country seem to retard progress. The
predominance of Magyars in political
affairs and their suppression of lan-
guages other than their own makes even
the idea of a neutral language quite
unwelcome.
INDIA.
According to a report by the secre-
tary of the society there, the Esperant-
ists met every week in Calcutta during
the eight months preceding January.
Our American friends in Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc., who
thought it useless to meet in the sum-
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mor, might get a lesson from this.
Summer in Calcutta is as warm as—
well, select your own comparison. The
movement also prospers in Jetpur, Jam-
nagar, Surat, Ahmedabad, Rawalpindi,
and other places.
IRELAND.
The Irish Esperanto Association was
formed early this year, as an outgrowth
of the movement in England.
JAPAN.
The central propaganda society of
Japan has about one thousand mem-
bers, and the minister of education has
given the language every encourage-
ment. A Japanese-Esperanto magazine
is published at Tokyo.
JAVA.
Throughout the Dutch and British
possessions of the East Esperanto is
well disseminated, and a society exists
in the island of Java.
KOREA.
From both Russia and Japan the Es-
peranto propaganda is invading this
country and will doubtless make a
growth commensurate with the general
advancement of the country.
MADAGASCAR.
Esperanto   was   "planted"   in   this
island by the French, and has made re-
markable growth.
MALTA.
There has long been a strong Esper-
anto movement in this little island, and
the "Maltese" have issued many
brochures and a periodical.
MEXICO.
The Mexican Theosophical Society
has propuscd to the World Theosophical
Union the taking of Esperanto as an
official international language of the
Theosophists.
NEW ZEALAND.
In this distant island Amerika Espcr-
a nt is to has    subscribers, and of course
there is sold also "The American Esper-
anto Book."
NORWAY.
Norway has no national society for
Esperanto propaganda, though there is
wide-spread interest in the language
and a number of text books available
for Norwegians.
•     PANAMA.
Many Americans living in the Canal
Zone and the Republic of Panama are
interested in Esperanto.
PARAGUAY.
On the border of this country is be-
ing organized a co-operative colony,
managed by Americans, but expecting
to embrace in its citizenship people
from all nations. The official language
of the colony is tobe Esperanto.
PERU.
This was the first South American
country to take up Esperanto, and the
legislature voted a small subsidy to the
propaganda of the language. Peru has
had an Esperanto periodical for four
years.
PHILIPPINES
There is in Manilla a strong society of
American, Spanish and Filipino Es-
perantists, and they publish a good ga-
zette in Esperanto, English, Spanish and
one of the island languages.
ROUMANIA.
In the present year there was founded
a large society of Esperantists in Ga-
latzo. They publish a good journal,
"Rumena Esperantisto."
RUSSIA.
An unauthenticated report says that
they are teaching Esperanto in the
naval school at Vladivostok. That city
has been for a long time the home of
skilled Esperantists. In St. Peters-
burg there is a new magazine, the name
of which is "Espero." Thus the two
in St. Petersburg and the "Pola Esper-
antisto." now published at Warsaw,
make in all three Esperanto publica-
tions in Russia.
SAMOS.
In  this   small   island,   inhabited by
(! reeks under Turkish  rule there is a
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large and enthusiastic Esperanto soci-
ety, which has published several works
in Greek and Esperanto.
SCOTLAND.
The Esperanto movement in Scotland
is a part of the British, the Scots be-
ing members of the British Esperanto
Association. There are strong societies
in'Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other cieties
of Scotland.
SWEDEN.
From the files of the official gazette,
"Esperantisten," it seems that Esper-
anto is not progressing much, although
there are no signs that it is losing
ground.   Certainly   it   is   not   growing
there   as   rapidly as in other countries
of northern Europe.
SWITZERLAND.
One of the most noteworthy things
of the present time in Switzerland is
the acceptance of accounts and checks
according to the scale of the inter-
tional auxiliary money, which the
Swiss clearing house, at Geneva, has
done. These checks are not alone ex-
cellent propaganda matter for the
cause of an international language, but
wi\l greatly help in conducting inter-
tional business. One can have specimen
checks on request, from "Esperanto,"
No. 8, Rue Bovy-Lysberg, Switzerland.
In The Field of Practical Use
THE DEVELOPMENT of the
practical side of Epeianto must
of necessity follow at some
distance the van of the propaganda, but
as the possible applications of the
language are almost without limit we
may expect to see a tremendous growth
of the practical side within the next few
years. In fact, everything which has
been accomplished in that direction so
far may be regarded as comparatively
notliing except as indicating the trend
of affairs.
THE RED CROSS.
The International Red. Cross and all
peace societies have been besieged by
representatives of Esperanto for some
years. There is an international peace
society composed wholly of Esperant-
ists, and the Ried Cross Society will
send a delegate to the Esperanto Con-
gress at Dresden in August. W. T.
Stead, the well-known London journal-
ist and publisher of the Review of
Reviews, in attendance at the Hague
Conference last summer, openly ex-
pressed the opinion that the Esperanto
Congress was more of a peace-bringing
affair than that of the Hague, where
days of valuable time were consumed
in the necessary translations. .
CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR   SOCIETIES.
The United Societies of Christian En-
deavor, which have made such great
progress in the United States and Eng-
land, are using Esperanto to extend
their propaganda in Continental Eu-
rope. With 8,000 British societies and
956 locals on the continent, they publish
their official organ in Esperanto, thus
making it available for their members
in any part of the world. The Chris-
tian Endeavor World, organ of the
movement in the United States, has had
an Esperanto department for the last
two years, in which is now appearing
serially a translation of the Book of
John.
GOOD TEMPLARS.
The Good Templars now have an in-
ternational password in Esperanto. At
their recent international convention in
Washington, it was recommended that
all members learn Esperanto, especially
all delegates to international conventions.
The great amount of time lost in transla-
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tions  was the  usual convincing  argu-
ment.
POLICE.
The international European organi-
zation of police, government detectives,
etc., has taken up Esperanto as a prac-
tical means of facilitating the pursuit of
criminals and the performance of other
duties which require a knowledge of
more than one tongue.
MASONS.
Esperantist Free Masons held a con-
ference in Cambridge, England, last
summer, and there is widespread en-
thusiasm among Masons throughout the
world regarding the possibilities of Es-
peranto in the international affairs of
their order. Many Masonic publica-
tions in the United States have pub-
lished favorable comment on the lan-
guage.
THEOSOPHISTS.
There is a general movement among
Theosophists in the United States and
Mexico for the adoption of Esperanto
as the international language of the
cult. If seems certain that this and
dozens of other movements which must
support an international propaganda
will soon be using Esperanto.
COLLECTORS.
The person with a hobby for collect-
ing anything—flowers, butterflies, ores,
stamps, post-cards, etc., finds Esperanto
now fully developed for his purposes,
as the first adherents were drawn largely
from this element. One can have cor-
respondents in any part of the world.
A Chicago young man has a collection
of 4,000 post-cards, from seventy na-
tions. There is hardly an island large
enough to appear on an ordinary map
but has its Esperantist.
ADVERTISERS.
Hundreds of small advertising enter-
prises have made use of Esperanto,
though at this time no large undertak-
ings, such as an American mail order
catalogue, have appeared. There is in
Europe, however, a profusion of Esper-
anto tobacco, Esperanto whisky, Esper-
anto temperance tracts, perfumes, med-
icines, tooth-powders, boot polish,
pickled herring, etc. The Oliver Type-
writer Co., the Hammond and Yost
Typewriters, the makers of the Ideal,
the managers of the Prague Jubilee Ex-
position, are a few among many adver-
tisers who use Esperanto. The London
Chamber of Commerce, in its educa-
tional department gives regular exami-
nations and grants diplimas in Es-
peranto.
SCIENTISTS.
There is an international scientific
society of Esperantists, which maintains
an office at Geneva. Hundreds of the
members are now collaborating on a vast
encyclopedia of scientific and technical
terms, which will provide a complete
vocabulary for the scientific world.
SWEDENBORGIANS.
The London office of this church is
issuing propaganda matter in Esperanto
and many of the members and pastors
in the United States are enthusiastic
Esperantists.
SOCIALISTS.
At the triennial international con-
gress of the Socialist Party at Stutt-
gart in 1907, strong pressure was
brought to bear for the adoption of
peranto as one of the languages of
the convention; which, representing
some thirty million people and publish
ing propaganda matter in over a hun-
dred languages, uses French, German
and English in official work. The plan
is to make Esperanto at first simply
auxiliary to the other three.
CATHOLICS.
Emile Peltier, a French priest, pub-
lishes an Esperanto monthly in the in-
terests of the Catholic church, and
among many books and pamphlets has
issued a prayer-book in Esperanto. The
l>ope has given Esperanto the apostolic
benediction.
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
A strong international protective so-
ciety (Esperantist) for women was or-
ganized in 1907, and now has members
in nearly every country of the world.
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CHAUTAUQUA IDEALA KONGRESEJO
CHAUTAUQUA    AN   IDEAL    CONGRESS-PLACE
BENEDICT    PAPOT
CU VI iam CeestisCe Chautauqua?
ĉeestinte tie, vi scias kial ĝi
estas ideala kongresa loko ; ne
Ceestinte, vi volos scii. Chautauqua
estas bela vilaĝeto kuSanta inter ombri-
gantaj arboj sur la montetaj bordoj de
Lago Chautauqua, jealtecode 1400 futoj
super la marnivelo, kaj 700 futoj super
Lago Erie, kiu nur je dek mejloj inter-
spaciĝas. La vojagon tien oni povas
fari de ĉikago, Cincinnato aŭ Nova
Jorko en dekdu horoj, kaj la fervojoj
donas rabatajn prezojn.
La alironta vojaganto, kiu enŝipiĝas
sur la fortika vaporŝipeto kaj transiras
la lagon havas belegan vidon Clean de la
arbara urbloko. La Kolegio, supre sur
la monteto, la Hotelo Athenaeum apud
la lagbordo, la konstruaĵo sur la enSip-
iĝejo, estas la unuaj termarkoj, kiujn li
ekvidas ; poste, kiam la Sipeto alprok-
simiĝas, li estas impresata de la agrab-
leco kaj pureco de la Cirkaŭaĵo. La
amaso da blankaj vestoj apud la lagbor-
do, la boatoj nagantaj sur la malgranda
golfeto, la malrektaj vojetoj kaj la kom-
fortaj privataj somerdomoj inter la altaj
arboj gojigas la okulojn kaj forgesigas
al li la varmon de la vojirado. Tiam la
atendantoj Ce la enSipiĝejo—la flirtado
de la poStukoj—la varmaj akceptadoj !
Kaj ricevinte bileton, la vojiranto fine
estas en la urbloko.
Elirante el la enSipigejo sin trovas la
HAVE YOU ever been to Chau-
tauqua? If so, you know it is
an ideal place for a con-
gress ; if you have not, you will wish to
know. Chautauqua is a pretty little
village nestling amidst shady trees on
the hilly shores of Lake Chautauqua at
an altitude of 1,400 feet above the sea
level and 700 feet above Lake Erie
which is only ten miles distant. The
journey thither may be made from Chi-
cago, Cincinnati or New York in about
twelve hours and the railroad rates
have been greatly reduced.
The incoming traveler who boards the
stout little steamer and crosses the lake
has a beautiful general view of the
wooded grounds. The college, high on
the hill, the Hotel Athenaeum by the
shore, the pier building on the point are
the first landmarks that he recognizes,
then, as the boat approaches, he is im-
pressed with the neatness and cleanli-
ness of the surroundings. The throng
of white dressess on the lake shore,
the row boats plying in the little
bay. the winding roadways and the com-
fortable private villas among the tall
trees delight the eyes and make him
forget the heat of the journey. Then
the expectant ones at the pier, the
flutter of handkerchiefs, the warm
greetings. Finally after obtaining a
ticket at the gate, the wayfarer is at
last within the grounds.
Emerging from the pier building the
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vojaĝanto antaŭ belega maljuna arbareto,
kie   la  malnovaj   Chautauqua'anoj kun-
venadis sub la arboj; kaj, maldekstren
irante laŭ la lagbordo,  preterpasante la
miniaturan   Palestinon   laŭ  ĉiuj detaloj
reproduktitan, kaj la Virklubejon, li al-
venas al Hotelo Athenaeum.  Grimpante
la   krutan   monteton   antaŭ   la   hotelo,
flanke  de  ravino  ornamita per kampaj
arkaĵoj   kaj   ponto,   li   due  atingas   la
Amfiteatron,   kie  6000  personoj   povas
komforte sidi.      Sin turnante dekstren,
li  preterpasas la   Administracian  Kon-
struafon, la C. L. S. C. Konstruaĵon, la
Informan Oficejon, kaj atingas la grandan
senarban   placon   rlorornamitan  Ce kies
fino  staras   la   Kolonado,   la  komerca
Chautauqua'a centro.    Preterpasante la
Kolonadon   laŭ   la  ombra Pratt aleo, li
vidas   Kellogg,    Normal,    kaj   Higgins
Hall, kaj fine sin trovas antaŭ la Kole-
gio, sur la supro de monteto,   de kie  li
havas  belegan   vidaĵon   de  la lago kaj
ĉirkaŭa   kamparo.      Malsuprenirante al
la lagbordo kaj reirante al la enŝipiĝejo
li vidas la pli malhumilajn domojn ; kaj
irante flanke de la lago,  laŭ facila aleo,
ĝis la alia limo de la urbloko, li alvenas
al   la  atletika  parto kun ĝiaj banlokoj,
gimnastikejoj, knaba, knabina kaj atleta
klubdomoj.
Grimpante laŭ la ravinego gis la ar-
baro, transirante la kampan ponton al
la Domego de Kristo, kiu malfermigos
la nunan someron, irante laŭ Pratt aleo,
preterpasante la grekan templon nomitan
Hall of Philosophy, li ree alvenas al la
Amfiteatro. Per till Ci mallonga prom-
enado oni ricevas bonan komprenon pri
la topografio de Chautauqua, kun ĝiaj
malgrandaj dometoj kunproksimigitaj,
ĝiaj malrektaj aleoj, ĝia gajeco kaj pur-
eco, la misteramanierolaŭ kiu gi forigas
ĉiujn malagrablajojn, ĝia propra almos-
fcro,  gia  bonvola sintenado al Ciuj, per
traveler faces the beautiful  old grove
called Miller's   Park,   where   the early
Chautauquans met under the trees, and
following the shores to the left past the
Men's Club, along the miniature repro-
duction of Palestine in all the details of
its topography, he arrives at the Hotel
Athenaeum.   Up the steep hill in front
of the hotel, along the ravine decorated
with rustic bridges and arches he next
reaches  the  large   Amphitheater,   with
seating room  for  6,000  persons.   Then
turning to the right, he passes the Ad-
ministration building, the C. L.  S. C.
building, the Information Bureau, and
reaches the broad open meadow studded
with flower beds, at the end of which
looms the Colonnade, the mercantile cen-
ter of Chautauqua.   Going past the Col-
onnade, along shady Pratt Avenue, he
passes, on the left, Kellogg Hall; then,
crossing one ravine, Normal Hall, Hig-
gins    Hall,    the    Hall    of    Pedagogy
and    finds    himself    before    the    Col-
lege Building on the summit of the hill,
from which he obtains a beautiful view
of the lake and the surrounding countiy.
Returning to the lake shore and coming
back towards the pier, he views the more
pretentious cottages; and, following the
shore along easy paths to the other end
of the grounds, arrives at the athletic
section with its bathing beaches, gym-
nasiums, boys'   club,   girls'   club, and
athletic club.  Then up the big ravine to
the grove, over the rustic bridge to the
Hall of  Christ,  which  will  be  opened
this year, along  Pratt Avenue  to the
Greek temple, called the Hall of Philos-
ophy, and back to the Amphitheater!
This short walk gives a fair idea of
the topography of Chautauqua, with its
little cottages huddled together, its
winding ways, its cheerfulness and
cleanliness, its mysterious way of elim-
inating all that is disagreeable, its pecu-
liar soothing atmosphere, its attitude of
good-will    towards    everybody—all    of
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AMERIKA    ESPERANTISTO
kio cio Chautauqua malsimilas aliajn
lokojn.
"Sed," vi demandos, "kial elekti tian
malgrandan lokon anstataŭ granda
urbo por havi lakvinan internacian kon-
greson?"
Tial ke interne de tiu Ci urbloko regas
Chautauqua Instituto, pro specials lego
de la Stato New York ; kaj dum la lastaj
34 jaroj, sekvinte sian celon antaŭenigi
la intelektan, socian, korpan, moralan
kaj religian bonstaton de la popolo, estis
la afero de Chautauqua administri ama-
which makes Chautauqua so different
from other places.
" But," you will ask, "why select such
a small place instead of a large city to
hold the Fifth International Congress
of Esperantists t"
Because within the grounds, by
special legislation of the State of New
York, Chautauqua Institution rules; and
for the last 34 years, in pursuance of its
aim to promote the intellectual, social,
physical, moral, and religious welfare
of the people, it has been Chautauqua's
business to handle large crowds. The
village   grew   for   that   purpose,   the
A  VIEW  OF  THE  LAKE
segon. Por tio kreskis la vilaĝo, pro
tio efektiviĝis la tuta administracio, kaj
ĝi facile povos prizorgi 40,000 personojn.
En la centro mem de la urbeto staras
la grandega Amfiteatro, loko de la Ciu-
taga Cefkunveno, kaj estas sennombraj
kunvenejoj kie dudek diversaj kunven-
etoj povas samtempe kunveni. ĉiutaga
ĵurnalo, oficialaj afiŝoj Ĉiumatene metitaj
en oportunaj lokoj tute tra la urbeto kiel
eble plej faciligas la disvastigon de sci-
igoj. Bona muzikistaro, kvarteto de
soloistoj   estas   pretaj   helpi   je amuzo.
whole organization is perfected for that
purpose and it can easily take eare of
20,000 people.
Right in the center of the town stands
the large amphitheater for the principal
meeting each day, then there are num-
berless halls where twenty separate sec-
tions of the congress can be accommo-
dated simultaneously. A daily newspa-
per and official bulletins posted each
morning in convenient places about the
town simplify to the utmost the dis-
semination of information. A good
band, a trained choir, a quartet of solo-
ists  are  ready   to   assist   in   entertain-
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Palisaro Cirkafi la vilaĝo estas sirmilo
kontraŭ malbonvena enŝovo. ĉiuj aran-
ĝo) por plenumi oficialajn aferojn estas
apude, oni ne perdas tempon kurante
tien Ci kaj tien, Ciuj oportunecoj por
socialaj interrilatoj estas donataj.
ĉu vi rimarkis la klopodojn de la Eŭ-
ropanoj por atingi tiun ci saman celon,
elektante kvietan vilaĝon, Weisser
Hirsch, por sociala interrilato post la
rapidego kaj movego de la Dresdena
Kongreso ? Chautauqua kunigus Dres-
denon kaj Weisser Hirsch.
inent. A fence around the town insures
protection against unwelcome intrusion.
All the accommodations for the transac-
tion of official business are at hand, no
loss of time running to and fro is en-
tailed, all opportunities for social inter-
course are afforded.
Did you notice the efforts made by the
Europeans to reach this very end by se-
lecting a quiet village, Weisser Hirsch
for social intercourse after the hustle
and bustle of the Dresden Congress?
Chautauqua would combine Dresden
and Weisser Hirsch.
Kaj Cion tion, post la fermo de la
somera lernejo, kiam forestis la amason,
la esperantistaro povas havi por si mem,
nur petante pri ĝi. ĉu vi bezonas pli
da kialoj ? Sed tio ne estas ĉio. Chau-
tauqua Instituto ne estas nur somera
lernejo, kiel iuj erare'pensas ; estas in-
stitucio kiu laboras la tutan jaron, hav-
anta sian propranpresejon, sian propran
gazetaron, sian propran grandegan in-
fluon tra la tuta Usono, kaj ĝi havas
milojn post miloj da fideluloj, kiuj, kvan-
kam eble Ciuj ne farigos aktivaj esperan-
And all this, after the close of the
summer school, when the crowd has gone,
the Esperantists may have to themselves,
merely for the asking. Are further in-
ducements needed ? But that is not all.
Chautauqua Institution is not merely a
summer school, as some erroneously be-
lieve; it is an institution at work the
year round, with it's own press, it's own
publications; its own enormous influ-
ence throughout the United States: and
it has thousands upon thousands of
faithful followers who, while they may
not all become active Esperantists. will
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tistoj, helpos la movadon pro Chautau-
qua. Tiu Ci pova ilo helpos vin—se vi
petos pri ĝi.
Sed peti vi devas 1 Ne nur momente
pensu, ke Chautauqua Instituto petos
pri la Kvina kaj poste petos pri via
ĉeesto. Chautauqua rigardas vin kiel
granda amaso disigita tra Usono. Ĝi
prezentis al vi la unuan okazon kukveni
kaj pretigi viajn planojn ; ĝi volas helpi
vin, sed tute ne intencas antaŭiri aŭ
iamaniere sin intermeti en la adminis-
tron de via afero.
help the movement for Chautauqua's
sake. This whole powerful machinery
will help yon—for the asking.
But ask you must! Do not for a mo-
ment imagine that Chautauqua Institu-
tion i3 going to get the Fifth Congress
for you and then ask the favor of your
presence. Chautauqua looks upon you
as a large body scattered throughout
the United States. It has offered you
your first opportunity to come together
and to make your plans; it is willing to
help you; but it does not propose to take
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Nun estas tempo por agado. Mal-
granda Svedujo, kun pli malgranda log-
antaro ol la Ŝtato Nova Jorko, Jus havis
unuan nacian kunvenon, kaj ne timis
ordoni al siaj Dresdenaj delegitoj inviti
la Kvinan, konfidanteal tio, ke ĝi trovos
en la lando nur 1,000 esperantistojn por
garantii laelspezojn. Estas plimulte da
esperantistoj en Usono ol en Norvegujo,
Svedujo, Danujo, Hispanujo kaj Portu-
galujo; ĉu la usonaj esperantistoj timas
entrepreni tion, kion la svedaj esperan-
tistoj kuragas fari ?
Alia bona kaŭzo por havi la kvinan Ce
the lead or to interfere in any way with
the management of your affairs.
Now is the time for action. Little
Sweden, with a smaller population than
the state of New York has just held its
first National Convention and was not
afraid to instruct its delegates to Dres-
den to invite the Fifth Congress to meet
in Stockholm, depending upon its ability
to find within its borders 1,000 Esper-
antists in order to guarantee expenses.
There are more Esperantists in the
United States than in Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Spain, and Portugal together;
are they afraid to undertake what little
Sweden dares dot
Another good reason for holding the
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Chautauqua estas, ke, el la vidpunkto de
historia intereso, ni tute ne povas kon-
kuri kontraŭ tiaj lokoj kiaj Ĝenevo,
Kejmbriĝo aŭ Dresdeno. Tial, io tute
malsama, kio aliloke en la mondo ne
ekzistas, estus bone akceptitaj de la
fremdlandaj esperantistoj. La plimulto
venos tra Nova Jorko, kaj povus return-
eniri tra Washington kaj Philadelphia,
vidante tiamaniere kelkajn el la grandaj
urboj kaj parton de la lando.
Cio, kion oni necese bezonos por havi
sukcesegon, estas unuanimeco de celo,
organizado kaj agado. Kiel la Philistine
diras : "Ne estu pasaĝero—klopodu pri
la antaŭenirado de tiu Ci Sipo ! " Kaj
estas multaj manieroj per kiuj vi povas
helpi. Vi povas fariĝi bona esperan-
tisto en unu jaro se vi provos ; aŭ,
estante mallerta esperantisto vi povas
superi en propagando. Malprosperante
je ambaŭ klopodoj, vi tamen povas esti
bonega organizanto. ĉiaokazevi povas
esti fidela, vi povas aliĝi al la asocio,
pagi la kotizaĵon kaj aboni la ĵurnalon—
nun—Car prokrasto estas danĝera. Ni
antafienpuSu la aferan flankon tia-
maniere ke ni allogos la aferistojn de la
lando kaj ni laboru ! laboru kune ! kun
nur unu celo !
•Memoru lamalgrandan eblecon, ke la
eŭropanoj baldaŭ Ŝatos la transiradon de
la maro, kaj ankaŭ, ke ili trovos la
vojagon tiel kosta post jaroj kiel nun.
Eŭropanoj ne ankoran lernis pagi la
vojiradon de delegatoj. Tio estas tial
ke distancoj kaj vojaĝelspezoj estas ne-
gravaj. Hi devas lerni kaj ni devas
instrui ilin pri tio ! sed farante tion ni
eble devos helpi ilin. Bone, tio estas
de vi juĝota. Certeco estas, ke se vi
decidos havi kongreson, vi havos ĝin.
Plie, se vi tion nun decidos, vi havos
dekoble tiom da esperantistoj la venon-
tan jaron kiom nun, kaj la ĉeestantaro
Ce la kongreso estos tiel granda,  ke   la
Fifth International Congress at Chau-
tauqua is that we cannot hope to com-
pete from the point of view of histori-
cal interest with such places as Geneva,
Cambridge, or Dresden. Therefore,
something entirely different, the like of
which exists nowhere else in the world,
would be welcome to the foreign Esper-
antists. Most of them would come
through New York and might return by
way of Washington and Philadelphia,
thus seeing some of the large cities and
part of the country.
All that is needed to achieve success
is unanimity of" purpose, organization,
and action. As the Philistine says:
"Don't be a passenger—get busy help-
ing this craft along!" And there are
many ways in which you can help. You
may make yourself a good Esperantist
in one year, if you want to apply your-
self; or, you may be a poor Esperantist
and yet excel in propaganda work. Fail-
ing in both you may still he an excel-
lent organizer. At any rate, you
can he faithful, you can join the
organization, pay up your dues, and
subscribe to the paper—now—for pro-
crastination is dangerous. Let us
bring forward the practical business side
of Esperanto so as to enlist the business
interests of the country, and let us work !
work together! for one purpose!
Remember that there is slight chance
of the Europeans growing fonder than
they now are of crossing the Ocean;
probably they will not be better ahle to
afford the trip five years hence. Euro-
peans have not yet learned to pay the
way of delegates. This is because dis-
tance and therefore cost of travel an;
unimportant factors in European coun-
tries. They will have to learn, and we
shall have to teach them; but in order
to do so, we may have to help them.
Well and good; that is a question for
you to decide. One thing is sure, and
that is that if you make im your mind
to get the congress you will get it. Fur-
thermore, if you insist now on having it,
you will have ten times as many Esper-
antists next year as you have now; and
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eŭropanoj devos labori   multe  da  jaroj
por ĝin egali.    Fine, se vi deziras havi
la  kongreson   Ce Chautauqua, vi povas
havi la helpon de Chautauqua.
Kion vi faros pri tio?
at the congress there will be an attend-
ance that Europeans will have to strive
long and hard in order to equal. Last-
ly, if you want it at Chautauqua you
may have the help of Chautauqua.
What are you going to do about it T T
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INTERNATIONAL MONEY.
Co-existent with the demands for an
international means of communication
is the necessity for a fixed international
standard of value. While such words
as dollar, piasetcr, ycg, shilling, may be
rendered according to the Esperanto
spelling, the words themselves convey
no definite idea of value except to per-
sons who are familiar with the various
coins and units. For the purpose of
having a standard of value instantly
understood by any Esperantist, there has
been unofficially adopted the spesmilo
(value in U. S. money $.4<S7f>) which
means to the American half-a-dollar. to
the Englishman two shillings, etc. Its
value has a definite gold basis, fixed by
the International Scientific Office, at
Geneva, Switzerland. The clearing-
house of that city now issues check
blanks in which the money of payment
Is spesmiloj and a table showing the
value of this unit in coins of all nations
is printed on the back. The Scientific.
Office, 8 rue Bovy-Lysberg, Geneva, also
sells blank check-books, at ten cents
each, which one can use in drawing
checks for sprsmiloj on his home hank.
The use of the checks will doubtless
prove a means of wide publicity for the
international money plan.
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DR. YEMANS IN AMERICA
Dr. H. W. Yemans, an army surgeon
at Manila and head of the Esperanto
movement in the Philippines, is now in
the United States after a tour of Spain,
France, Switzerland and Germany. Dr.
Yemans is making an energetic effort to
have this country  represented,   through
the War Department, at Dresden. On
bis European tour he was much in the
company of General Wood, who became
a convert to the language and is using
his influence in its behalf. The Ameri-
can consuls at Geneva and Madrid have
also submitted favorable reports. All
of our readers who can possibly swing
influence at Washington should at once
have letters on the subject addressed to
the Surgeon General.
Nemesis is flittering after this maga-
zine on thirteen wings. On the 13th of
April we received a hundred subscrip-
tions, and on the 13th of May, eighty-
two. The unlucky part of it all is, that
a howling sea of uncharted nothing
foams between the average of 13 and
that of the other and ordinary days.
"Avast, there, ye mendacious and de-
liberate son of a sea cook! dust off the
furniture in the fo'cas'le, put a tuck-in
the merry jib-sail, overboard with the
starboard bunker an' 'eave that lead!"
Esperanto clubs are notified that in
future, any club which has sent us an
initial order or for any other reason
been allowed the club rate of 80c and
$1.20 on our book and magazine combi-
nations, may send in single subscrip-
tions at tins price for club members.
This is not by way of showing special
favor to the clubs as against individ-
uals; but as it costs us time, labor and
money to secure new subscribers we are
more than willing to allow a reasonable
discount to those who work with us and
for us.
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E.  K. HARVEY,  SECY   AMERICAN    ESPERANTO		ASSOCIATION
THE COUNCIL of the American
Esperanto Association has been
balloting to fill the vacancies
caused by the recent resignations of
Messrs. Stephen W. Travis, of New
York, and Otto H. Mayer, of Chicago.
As a result the new councilors are Prof.
Benedict Papot, of Chicago, and Mr.
Ward Nichols, of Philadelphia. Both
gentlemen are well-known, ardent Es-
perantists, and have done much for the
language in their respective localities.
Prof. Papot has been very influential in
bringing about the coming Chatauqua
Congress, and Mr. Nichols has recently
been elected president of the Philadel-
phia society.
The A. E. A. has chosen to represent
it officially at the Dresden Congress two
of its councilors and two delegates-at-
large. They are well known: Prof.
Viles of Columbus (president of the A.
E. A.,) Prof. Grillon of Philadelphia,
Mr. Lewis B. Luders, who attended the
Geneva Congress, and Mr. W. M. Ampt
of Cincinnati, founder of the movement
in that locality. With such a delegation
America will be well represented.
The American Esperanto Association
has sent to Mr. Edmond Privat a resolu-
tion expressing in highest terms its ap-
preciation of his work for Esperanto in
America during the past six months. It
would be an excellent thing for Esper-
anto if each nation had some foreign
samideano traveling around in its bor-
ders teaching the language, as does Mr*-
Privat. A hand of twenty such mission-
aries engaged on a salary by the Centra
Oficeio and exchanging countries each
year would be better even than a set of
schools on the Berlitz method. Who
will donate the money to finance this
scheme, or at least enough to try it for
five years—Carnegie or you?
A set-of examining boards has been es-
tabished by the A. E. A. to issue to
Americans upon examination a teacher's
license of the grade (A. p. K.) used by
the British and French associations. A
large number of candidates are trying
and several have already passed. For
information apply to the American Es-
peranto Association, Fenway Station,
Boston, Mass. -It is well to remember,
however, that the examination is quite
difficult and that the standard is kept
very high.
An analyis of the first hundred an-
swers to a recent circular to members
of the A. E. A. reveals several interest-
ing facts: One club and six members
disapprove of the new constitution, and
ninety-three members approve. Thirty-
eight persons express their intention of
being at Chautauqua during the conven-
tion and a total of 123 tickets would be
subscribed at five dollars each if the
Fifth Congress would be held in Amer-
ica.   This is very encouraging.
How the times do change! The old-
est and most conservative school in New
England—the famous Roxbury Latin
School—gave to Esperanto a prominent
part in its commencement exercises held
in Boston June 18th. One of its most
promising scholars, Mr. Ralph Beatley,
'09, translated into Esperanto from the
French of Fenelon a dialogue Alcksan-
dro kaj Diogcno, which was considered
so good that it was delivered at the ex-
ercises by two of Dr. D. 0. S. Lowell's
class, David Craig and Frederick Black-
wood. Among the hearers were many
of the most noted educators of New
England, including the well-known as-
tronomer, Prof. Percival Lowell. The
dialogue made an excellent impression
on the audience.
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ESPERANTO   ORGANIZATION
THERE are, without doubt, thou-
sands of Esperantists and Esper-
anto students in America who
know nothing whatever of the ex-
isting associations. In your own county,
in your own town, somebody is studying
Esperanto, who would like to meet you
and "talk it" with you. Others have
begun the study and dropped it because
they could not have assistance or asso-
ciation in the work. Much more can be
done, and much greater pleasure de-
rived from the study of the language if
we affiliate with those about us. For
the purpose, therefore, of enabling Esper
antists to "get together," *ve publish
here a list of addresses by states of per-
sons to whom each Esperanto resident
of that state may profitably send a postal
card. In cases where we are aware of an
existing organization, we give the ad-
dress of the secretary of the organiza-
tion. Where we do not know of an
organization, we give the address of one
of the active Esperantists, who we have
reason to believe possesses time and in-
terest sufficient to compile the addresses
and undertake to frame a temporary or-
ganization. In any case, we guarantee
that the person receiving your address
will preserve it and file it with the state
organization the moment this is brought
into existence:
ESPERANTO SOCIETIES AND CLUBS.
American  Esperanto Society,  Edward  K.
Harvey,  Secretary,   Massachusetts   Institute
of Technology,   Boston.
ALABAMA:    Arthur  P.  Bean,  Hnntsville.
ALASKA:    R. H. Geoghegan, Fairbanks.
ARIZONA:    Miss Grace Bernard, 619 Third
Street, Phoenix.
ARKANSAS:    Dr.    Wells   I.e   Eevre,    1501
West Second Avenue,  Pine  Bluff.
CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles Esperanto
Association; Ralph Bond, 232 South Hill
street.
Auxiliary Language Association; Prof.
James Main Dixon, University of Cali-
fornia, Los Angeles.
San Diego Esperanto Society; Dr. C. G.
Gearn, 2545 Front street.
San Francisco Esperanto Society, 1101 Oak
street.
Esperanto Club; Geo. F. Gillett, Care J. K.
Armsby Co., San Francisco.
COLORADO: Colorado Esperanto Asso-
ciation; Mrs. Maude W. Miks, 2622 Gil-
pin street, Denver.
CONNECTICUT: New Britain Esperanto
Club;  Rolland  B.  Moore, Box 700.
CUBA: H. C. Henrickson, Empedrado, Ha-
vana.
DELAWARE: Clarence J. Conwell, 113 W.
30th Streef,  Wilmington.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBA: Washington
Esperanto Society; Charles W. Stewart,
1211  Kenyon street, N. W.
FLORIDA:   Prof. U. G. Morrow, Estcro.
GEORGIA: Atlanta Esperanto Society;
Mrs. Wm. Worth Martin, 570 Spring
street.
Emory Esperanto Club; Jack Dempsey.
Emory College.
Esperanto Society, Mercer University, Ma-
con, Ga.
Atlanta Esperantista Rondo, Mrs. Geo. D.
Exlev,  125 Park Avenue.
IDAHO: Boise High School Club, Otoe
Montandon, 818 Washington Street.
ILLINOIS: Illinois Esperanto Associa-
tion; Edwin C. Reed, Rockford.
Chicago Esperanto Society; J. Howard
Pearson, 551 South Waller street.
Englewood Esperanto Club; Mrs. T. E.
Powell, 6633  Wcntworth  avenue,  Chicago.
Elgin Esperanto Society; Joseph J. Burita,
114 Crighton  avenue.
Rockford Esperanto Society; Derwent
Whittlesey, 1815 Elm street.
University Esperanto Society; Lester Ries,
106 N. Romine street, Urbana.
Licbniz Esperanto Club, Adolph Kroch, 26
Monroe street.
INDIANA: Indiana Esperanto Association;
Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, Evans-
ville.
First Indiana Esperanto Society; Mrs. Wini-
fred Sackville Stoner, Evansville.
Juna Espero Esperanto Society; Miss Julia
Bierbower, 610 Upper First street, Ev-
ansville.
Non Nobis Solum Esperanto Club; Miss
Sadie Rucker, 1205 Chandler avenue,
Evansville.
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AMERIKA    ESPERANTISTO
Indianapolis Esperanto Society; Miss Mary
McEvoy, 210 East Ohio Street.
Korespondanta   Klubo,   Marshall   White,   224
Water Street, Evansville.
Teachers'   Club,   Prof.  Julius  Stover,   Evans-
ville,  Ind.
Kuracila  Klubo,  Dr.  W.  L.  Royster,  Evans-
ville,  Ind.
Terre Haute Esperanto Club, J. Cliff Ander-
son.
La   Eelicha   Klubo   (Kindergarten),  Winifred
Sackville Stoncr, Jr.
L'Espero Klubo, Miss Mamie Lee, Erie.
New Harmony Esperanto Club, Miss Anna B.
Ford.
IOWA: Des Moines Esperanto Club;
Charles Gay,'24th street and Ingersoll
avenue.
Esperanto Club; E. Bilz, Iowa Hotel, Des
Moines.
Sioux City Esperanto Club; L. J. Belt, 1723
Fifth avenue.
KANSAS: Kansas Esperanto Association;
R.  C. Voran, Pretty  Prairie.
State Agricultural College Esperanto Club;
E. M. Lewis, 530 Humboldt street, Man-
hattan.
Lewis Esperanto Club; Dr. Elmer E.
Haynes,  Lewis.
KENTUCKY: Wren J. Grinstead, Rich-
mond.
LOUISIANA: Rev. S. G. Butcher, 2420 Ca-
nal Street, New Orleans.
MAINE: Portland Esperanto Society,
Herbert Harris, "The Churchill," Port-
land.
L'Espero Esperanto Society; Mrs. A. D.
Bird, 40 Camden street, Rockland.
MARYLAND: Ernest B. Fiedler, 902 S.
Charles Street, Baltimore.
MASSACHUSETTS: Agricultural College
Esperanto Club; E. Victor Bennett, 25
North College street, Amherst.
Boston Esperanto Society; Edward K. Har-
vey, Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology.
Esperantaj Pioniroj; Wm. J. Graham,
Perkins  Institution.  South   Boston.
Beverly Esperanto Club; Frank A. Foster, 12
Lenox  street.
Esperanto Study Club; Charles II. Morrill,
76   Merrimack street,  Haverhill.
Kantabrigia Esperanta Grupo; Mrs. Estellc
M. H. Merrill, 45 Bellevue avenue, Cam-
bridge, Mass.
Harvard Esperanto Society; N. W. Frost,
32  Hollis Hall, Cambridge.
Marsh   Esperanto   Club;   F.   W.   Wool way,
77  Union street, Newton Center.
Worcester  Esperanto  Society;   Herbert  K.
Cummings,   Worcester   Polytechnic   In-
stitute.
Concord   School   Esperanto   Club,   Thos.   R.
Herbert.
La Verda Stelo, Miss Marie Heddermon, 111
M  Street,  South  Boston.
North    Brookficld    Esperanto    Club,     Miss
Achsah  L.  Witter.
MEXICO:   A. Morin, l'a Aduana No. 4, City
of Mexico.
MICHIGAN:    Rev.  G.  Davis, St.  Ignace.
MINNESOTA:     Winona   Esperanto  Club;
Thos. B. Hill, 309 East Fifth street.
MINNESOTA:    St.    Paul    Esperanto   Club,
E. J. McKinnev, 405 Charles Street.
MISSISSIPPI:    Capt. W. Beeson, Male Col-
lege, Meridian.
MISSOURI:    St.  Joseph   Esperanto  Club;
Mrs.  Josephine   Riley,   807   North  22nd
street.
MONTANA:     Good   Templars'   Esperanto
Club; Harry C. Walsh, care M. M. Co.
NEBRASKA:     First   Nebraska   Esperanto
Club; Mrs.  E. A. Russell, Ord.
Nebraska City Esperanto Club; J. T. Morey.
NEVADA:     Searchlight   Esperanto   Club;
Dr.   E.   W.   Newell,  Searchlight.
NEW HAMPSHIRE:    Miss Grace L. Hub-
bard. 61 Center Street, Concord.
NEW   JERSEY:     Hammonton   Esperanto
Club; Miss Laura K. Scguine.
NEW  MEXICO:     Esperanto  Club;     Miss
Alice D. Blake, Trementina.
NEW YORK:    Auburn Esperanto Society;
Clarence  F.  Welsh,  Recorder's Office.
New  York  Esperanto  Club;  Andrew  Kan-
gas,   1061   Prospect  avenue.
Brooklyn   Esperanto  Society;   Durbin  Van
Vleck, 154 Hancock street.
Zamenhof Esperanto Club;  Fno.  Elsie  Briet-
enfcld, 221  East 68th street.
OHIO:   Columbus Esperanto Society; Miss
Carrie Southard,  1432 Highland avenue.
Esperanto Club of  Ohio  State  University;
Charles W. Park, Columbus.
Cincinnati Esperanto Society; Grover Peacock,
3449 Wilson avenue,  Avondale, Cincinnati.
Toledo    Esperanto   Club;     II.    S.    Blaine,
Box 999.
Pcrrvsville Esperanto Club; L. S. Van Gilder.
Edmond Privat Esperanto Club, J. E. Ilcidct,
337 Fourth Street, Toledo.
NORTH  CAROLINA:   Jozef Jordan,  Win-
ston.
NORTH  DAKOTA:    Geo. T.  Larsen,  Gril-
land.
OKLAHOMA:    C.    T.    Barnes,    Oklahoma
.City, Box 765.
OREGON:    McMinnville     Esperanto     Club;
Arthur  McPhillips.
Rose Citv Esperanto Club, Chas. C. McDon-
ald, 292 Weidlcr Street,  Portland.
PENNSYLVANIA:      Philadelphia    Espe--
anto  Society;  E.  Clive  Hammond,   1711
Summer street.
Warren Esperanto Club; W. L. MacGowan.
Esperanto   Club   of   Pittsburg;   K.   C.   Kerr,
1100  Allegheny avenue.
Pittsburg Esperanto Society; Miss L. Sanford.
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AMERIKA    ESPERANTISTO
Grove City  Esperanto  Club, Arthur Hewlett.
RHODE ISLAND:    Providence  Esperanto
Group;  Frederick  E.  Cooper,  11   Hayes
street.
SOUTH   CAROLINA:    Truman  J.   Pickens,
Easley.
SOUTH    DAKOTA:    De    Smet    Esperanto
Club, Vincent M. Sherwood, Dc Smet.
TENNESSEE: Rufus W. Powell. Westel.
TEXAS:    Dr.   E.    D.   Chase,    2020    Market
Street.
UTAH :    Peter J.  Holt, 175 W. First Street,
North. Salt Lake City.
VERMONT:    Rev.    C.    H.    Rowley,    North
Craftsbury.
VIRGINIA:    Jamestown   Esperanto   Club;
Leo. V. Judson, 101  Wood  street, Nor-
folk.
WASHINGTON:      Seattle   Esperanto   So-
ciety;  Win.  G.  Adams, 309 South 27th
avenue.
Esperanto   Club;   Miss   Georgia   Melville,
Pacific Seminary, Olympia.
Societo   Esperanta   de   Spokane;   R.   Kcrk-
hoven care Inland Printing Co.
Tacoma  Esperanto Society, J. L. Wood, care
Acorn Printing Co.
WEST    VIRGINIA:    Wheeline
Club; Geo. B. Wilson, Care National Bank
of West Virginia.
Shepherd College Esperanto Societv, Prof.
Carl W. Littler, Shepherdstown, W. Va.
WISCONSIN: Esperanto Club, Menominee
Falls, Wis.
WYOMING: Capt. H. G. Nickerson, Lan-
der.
CANADA.
ALBERTA: Carstairs Esperanto Club, Miss
L. A. Whidden, Box 103, Carstairs.
BRITISH COLUMBIA: Miss Emily H. At-
kinson,   Revelstoke.
MANITOBA: Marshall Crossland, Stc.
Amelie.
QUEBEC: Grand Mere Esperanto Club, El-
wood  Wilson, Grand Mere.
ONTARIO: Toronto Esperanto Club: Max
A. Frind, 133 Yorkville Avenue.
NEW BRUNSWICK: Dr. J. Baxter, Water
Street, Chatham.
SASKATCHEWAN: Esperanto Club, Chas
W. Noddings, File Hills P. O., via Bal-
carres.
NOVA   SCOTIA:    E.   S.   Harrington,   Kent
ville.
YUKON:    Chas. E.  Sandquist, Dominion.
NEWS   OF   THE   LOCAL   CLUBS
COLUMBUS, OHIO.
The State University Esperanto Club
litis elected Miss Emma Rower as its
.secretary to succeed Mr. Park, who has
gone to the University of Cincinnati.
Prof. Viles, who recently resigned from
the faculty of the school, will spend
two years in the Latin countries of Eu-
rope studying their languages.
DES MOINES, IOWA.
The Des Moines Esperanto Club,
taught by R. B. Stone, meets once
each week. The study of Esper-
anto was taken up about three months
ago. Lively interest is manifested by
members of the club. The class has
adopted the American Esperanto Book
as the text. In addition to that, does
considerable supplementary work. Y\'e
have nineteen enrolled.
E.   Ililz,  Secretary.
MOUNDSVILLE, W. VA.
From August 1 to 9. at the Mounds-
ville Chautauqua, Mrs. Stoner, of Ev-
ansville, Inuiana. will teach  an Esper-
anto class each morning. Three after-
noon lectures will also be delivered by
Mrs. Stoner. Every Esperantist in the
state is urged to be present.
PORTLAND, OREGON.
The secretary of the Rose City Esper-
anto Club, Chas. J. McDonald, has just
been elected a member of the Oregon
legislature. He takes office next Janu-
ary, and will introduce some legislation
looking to the promotion of the interna-
tional language in that state.
FILE HILLS, SASKATCHEWAN.
The club at this place is reported
closed for the summer after an inter-
esting season's work, with constant in-
crease of membership. Mr. Noddings,
the secretary, whose full address may
he found in the Club Directory, has vol-
unteered to register and correspond
with all Saskatchekan Esperantists, and
we earnestly request every one of our
readers in the province to write to him
for the purpose of forming an associa-
tion.
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SIOUX CITY, IOWA.
The Sioux City Esperanto Club has
been holding weekly classes. The be-
ginners use the text book, the advanced
class reads Krestomatio and talks on sub-
jects suggested by the president. In
the summer the meetings are held every
two weeks. The club is preparing an
outing in which only Esperanto will be
spoken, under some penalty—one of
those being suggested being the enforced
pronunciation (100 times) of malestim-
indulegaco. "So far," writes M. C. Mc-
Conkey, president of the club, "we
have aimed at a good foundation rather
than spreading our influence, but next
fall we will have enough proficient mem-
bers to begin a good campaign."
FONTANELLE,  IOWA.
An Esperanto club of fourteen
members was founded at thio place
not long ago by Mrs. A. H. Mc-
Dermid, who has also given lectures
on Esperanto at neighboring towns.
This enthusiastic esperantistino will dis-
tribute "Elements of Esperanto" at the
teachers' summer school in the same
county and give them a talk on the com-
parative advantages of the language.
PENNSYLVANIA ESPERANTO
ASSOCIATION.
This Association was formed in May,
the first meeting to be held on the 16th,
in Pittsburg.
It was decided to draw up a set of
By-Laws for the Association, secure a
charter from the State Courts, elect offi-
cers and enter upon the work of build-
ing up a membership, composed of so-
cieties and individuals, at once. The
organizers, being located within easy
reach of each other, were to form a
majority of the General Council during
the formative period, so that the many
details might he worked out with as lit-
tle delay as possible. They provided in
the by-laws that the first annual meet-
ing of the Association should be held in
the second week of October, this year,
by which time it was hoped the organi-
zation would he completed and the As-
sociation ready to elect officers on a more
geographically equitable basis.
From the first the organizers met with
the most hearty responses to their over-
tures from the Philadelphia Esperantists
Messrs. Ward Nichols, A. M. Grillon and
others assisting them in many ways. Af-
ter several meetings were held the by-
laws were adopted and under them the
following officers were elected:
President, Prof. W. B. Sterrett,
Washington; Vice-Presidents, J. D.
Hailman, Pittsburg, Prof. A. M. Grillon,
Philadelphia; Corresponding Secretary,
Kenneth C. Kerr, Pittsburg; Recording
Secretary, John M. Clifford, Pittsburg;
Treasurer, John P. Bell, Pittsburg;
Directors: Ward Nichols, Miss Alice
P. Ervin, Philadelphia; James McKirdy,
H. W. Fisher, Pittsburg; Dr. Andrew
Graydon, Homestead.
On Wednesday, July 22nd, at 10
o'clock in the morning, a meeting of
the Pennsylvania Esperantists will be
held in Chautauqua Assembly Grounds
under the auspices of the Association.
A program is being arranged which will
include addresses by several prominent
Esperantists, of Pennsylvania and
elsewhere.
About the middle of June invitations
were sent out by the Secretary to over
five hundred societies and individuals
in the State and from the responses re-
ceived at the time of the writing of this
article, a week or so later, there is ev-
eiy reason to expect that Pennsylvania,
though last to join the ranks of the or-
ganized States, will not be the least.
STORM LAKE,  IOWA.
Prof. George Fraeker, A. M., D. D.,
and one of the active Esperantists of
Iowa, has just organized a club of
twenty members in Buena Vista Col-
lege, at Storm Lake. Prof. Fraeker is
president and Miss Maude Hawkins, of
Hull, Iowa, is the secretary. Prof.
Fraeker will attend the Chatauqua Con-
gress as the representative of the club.
A recent issue of the college paper,
"The Tack," contains an interesting re-
view of the international language ques-
tion.
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EN LA KVALITO de konstanta
medicinisto de Sidor Karpoviĉ
mi vizitis I in por sciiĝi ban
sanecon.
Sidor Karpoviĉ, komercisto de virinaj
kaj infanaj manteloj, jakoj, "sakoj,"
jupoj kaj de aliaj objektoj de tiu Ci speco,
marSis largapaSe en la Cambro, kaj tio
Ci estis malbona signo. Kaj mi divenis
la kaŭzon. Tio Ci estis vera malfeliĉo.
La edzo de lia fratino, liabofrato, ankaŭ
komercisto de virinaj kaj infanaj man-
teloj, jakoj, "sakoj" jupoj kaj de aliaj
objektoj de tiu Ci speco, subite mortis.
Certe, tio Ci ankaŭ estis granda mal-
feliCo, sed ne pro tiu Ci malfeliCo Sidor
KarpoviĈ ĉagreniĝis.
Lia bofrato mortis, lasinte vidvinon
kun kvar malgrandaj infanoj, unit pli
malgranda ol la alia. Antaŭ la katas-
trofo la edzo zorgis la komercon, la
edzino la mastrumon kaj la infanojn.
Nun la edzino devos preni la profesion
de la edzo dum la malfeliĉaj orfoj restos
izolaj. Tiel la orfoj per unu fojo perdis
ne sole la patron, sed ankaii la patrinon,
kiu nun ne havis la tempon porzorgi ilin.
Certe, tio ĉi ankaŭ estis granda mal-
feliCo, sed ne pro tiu Ci malfeliCo Sidor
KarpoviC nun Cagreniĝis.
Apenaŭ la bofrato de Sidor KarpoviC
mortis, apenaŭ liaj efemeraj restaĵoj,
parolante noblastile, forlasis la valon de
la ploro, la kreditoroj de la mortinto
Cirkaŭis la vidvinon kiel vulturoj kadav-
ron kaj postulis de Si la pagon de la
Suldoj.      Hi  ne kredis la aferlertecon de
la vidvino kaj timis por sia mono. Al
la virino minacis bankroto kaj malho-
noro. Sendube tio Ci ankau estis granda,
tre granda malfeliCo, sed mi denove
devas ĝin diri, ne pro tiu Ci malfeliCo
Sidos KarpoviC nun Cagreniĝis.
La afero estis alia. Car la bedaŭrinda
vidvino ne estis ĵusnaskito, Si sukcesis
la tagon mem de la katastrofo kaSi en
tre bona loko tri kvaronojn de la kom-
ercaĵoj. Tial, kiam la kreditoroj venis
minacante aresti la magazenon, Si kom-
ence ekploris por veki en ili kunsenton
kaj simpation kaj prezentis al ili piloreske
sian teruran situacion ; sed Car la kred-
itoroj, post konvena kondolenca esprimo,
precize klarigis al Si, ke simpatio kaj
mono ' ne veturas en sama kaleSo," Si
revenis al la prudento kaj diris pli trank-
vile :
"Vi uzas mian malfeliCon por premi
min, kaj tio Ci estas kruela. Cetere, se
vi insistas, mi estas preta pagi ... 40
kopekojn por rublo."
Kvardek procentoj ? Vi Sercas I " ili
kriis.
La vidvino estis tre serioza, pli serioza
ol Ciam. Si tute ne Sercis. ĉu oni
povas Serci, Jus enteriginle la edzon ?
Tial la komercistoj same serioze respon-
dis, ke ili volas ricevi plene la Suldojn
aŭ ili arestos la komercajojn.
'Tio Ci estas via kruela rajto ' " diris
la vidvino malĝoje. Kaj Si mem kon-
dukis ilin en la magazenon.
La komercistoj, homoj de granda
sperto, tuj komprenis la aferon,     Ili ek-
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semis grandan konfuzon, poste provis
veki en la koro de la vidvino senton de
honto, dirante ke Si riskas malhonori la
honestan nomon de sia feliĉega edzo,
k.t.p. Sed la vidvino, dirinte, ke Sia
edzo mortis, aldonis fingromontrante sin
mem :
"Vivanta hundo estas pli zorginda ol
mortinta leono."
La komercistoj komprenis, koleris kaj
minacis akuzi Sin je friponeco kaj anonci
Sin falsa bankrotinto. Tiam la vidvino
diris kun larmoj en la okuloj :
"Se vi akuzos min, kaj mi estos ares-
tita, vi unue ne ricevos eC kvaronon de
la Suldo, kaj due vi devos pagi por mia
nu-tro, por mia logo en la arestejo kaj
la vivsubteno de miaj infanoj. Sed re-
memoru, ke mi ne kondukis la aferon,
kaj nur mia feliCega edzo povas esti kul-
pigata je friponeco. Cu mi devas re-
spondi por li ? Tamen, se vi volas
akordiĝi, se vi pace aranĝigos kun mi . . .
tiam mi pagos 50 procentoj. Tio
estas mia lasta vorto, Car pli mi ne
povas doni. Nun agu kiel vi volas.
Plendu al la tribunalo kaj faru elspezojn,
se vi volas peki kontraŭ Dio."
La kreditoroj foriris kaj faris konsilon
inter si. En la fino de la finoj ili kon-
fesis ke la vidvino estis propradire tre
lerta komercistino, kiu saĝe utiligis la
feliĉan okazon de la malfeliCa morto por
dikigi al si la poSon. Kiu estas mal-
amiko de si mem ? 50 procentoj sub tia
cirkonstanco, kiam Si povus pagi nur 40
kopekojn aŭ eC malpli, estas konsider-
inda sumo, por kiu, se oni metos la
manon sur la konsciencon, oni devas eC
danki.
Tial la kreditoroj revenis al la vidvino
kaj anoncis al Si sian konsenton. Ili
prezentis al Si la kambiojn, la kontojn,
Ia memorandojn kaj aliajn dokumentojn
por ricevi 50 procentoj de la Suldataj
sumoj.
La vidvino elpensigis kaj diris :
'Mi tre dankos vin por via helpo,
amikoj. Sed vi ne estas la solaj kred-
itoroj de mia feliCega edzo. Estas
ankoraŭ aliaj. Estas Kilin, Jukin, Sed-
lov, Bannikov, Uecki. Kunvenigu Ciujn,
kaj se ili konsentos ricevi la saman
porcion, mi pagos al vi per unu fojo, kaj
vi defariĝos per unu ekbato."
"Al kio ni zorgos pri aliaj ? " diris la
komercistoj. "Kaj se ili ne konsentos ?
Se ili yolos la plenan sumon ? Ni povas
decidi nur por ni."
"Miaj amikoj ! " klarigis la vidvino.
"Cu vi volas min ankoraŭ pli malfeliCigi ?
Mi'pensas ke mi estas sufiCe malfeliCa,
perdinte tian edzon ..." Kaj la vidvino
ekploris.
"Sed kion vi volas ? " demandis mire
la komercistoj. "cu ni estas sorCistoj ?
Cu ni povas devigi fremdajn homojn
konsenti al nia akordo, se ili ne volos ?
Virino, kion vi enmetis en vian kapon ? "
Pardonu, miaj sinjoroj, Cu vi ne
komprenas ke la solidareco estas la
animo de Ciu afero ? Pripensu unu mo-
menton 1 Jen vi venas kaj konsentas
ricevi duonon de la Suldo de mia feliCega
edzo. Bonega 1 Vi ricevas Ia sumon.
Sed post vi restas ankoraŭ aliaj kred-
itoroj. Ili certe postulos rublon por
rublo. Ili rezonos : Jen la vidvino lib-
eriĝis de la pli granda parto de la Suldo,
kaj nun Si havas por pagi kompare mal-
multe. Tial ni persekutu Sin kaj puSu
Sin en senelirejon.
La komercistoj interrigardis sin.
"Si estas prava 1 Diable prava
virino ! "   ekkriis unu el ili.
La aliaj aprobe balancis la kapojn.
"Tial mi permesas al mi doni al vi
konsilon," daorigis la vidvino, modeste
mallevante la okulojn. "Elektu inter vi
homon honestan, kiun vi plej konfidas.
Ke tiu Ci homo kolektu Ciujn kreditorojn
laŭ  la   registro,   kiun   mi   donos al vi.
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AMERIKA   ESPERANTISTO
Kiam li estos ricevinta en siajn manojn
Ciujn kambiojn kaj kontojn, li venu al
mi, kaj ni ambaŭ aranĝos la aferon laŭ
nia farita decido—por 50 procentoj."
La komercistoj konsentis kaj foriris.
Hi elektis inter si Ivan KostiC, mian
kuzon. Li estis homo energia kaj sam-
tempe kreditoro de la mortinto, kiu Sul-
dis al li 8,000 rublojn. Post intertempo
de semajno li kolektis Ciujn dokumen-
tojn kaj venis al la vidvino.
Kaj nun okazis cirkonstanco, kiu klar-
igas la koleron de Sro. KarpoviC. La
vidvino ekzamenis la dokumentojn kaj
trovis ilin en ordo. Mankisnurla kam-
bio de 8,000 rubloj de mia kuzo.
"Kaj la kambio apartenanta al vi,
sinjoro, kie ĝi estas ?" demandis la
vidvino.
"Sinjorino," diris mia kuzo kun mieno
de senkulpa Safo, "Vi scias ke la pag-
dato de tiu Ci kambio venos nur post tri
monatoj. car mi bezonis monon, mi gin
diskontis, la diskontisto gin rediskontis,
la kambio transiris kelkajn manojn, kaj
nun mi ne scias, en kiu urbo gi estas."
"Kion do ni faros ? "
"Se vi fidas mian .promeson, mi ĵuras
al vi, ke kiam, en la pagdato, la kambio
revenos, mi elaCetos gin kaj mi gin re-
donos al vi por 4,000 rubloj laŭ la
agordo. Se vi estas nekredcma, mi estas
preta subskribi al vi la promeson, ke mi
devas gin redoni al vi por tiu Ci duona
sumo."
"Ne, sinjoro! Mi preferas, ke vi sub-
skribu al mi ricevon de 4,000 rubloj je 1'
konto de la kambio. Tiam per si mem
rezultos ke mi Ŝuldas al vi la duan
duonon."
"Pardonu, sinjorino, tion Ci mi ne
faros I "
"Kial do ?   Cu ne estas al vi egale ? "
"Ne ! Se mi subskribos tiun Ci ricevon
kaj poste mi efektive ricevos de vi 4,000
rublojn, tiam mi povos fanfaroni, ke vi
pagis al mi plene, kaj miaj konfidintoj
diros, ke mi trompis ilin, ke mi konsilis
al ili kontenti je 50 procentoj dum mi
mem ricevis 100."
"Sed mi diros al ili la veron."
' 'Sed se ili ne kredos vin ? Ne 1 Mi
konsentas oferi 4,000 rublojn, sed mi ne
volas perdi mian komercistan honoron."
La vidvino enpensigis. ŝi suspektis
embuskon. La tuta Suldo estis Cirkaŭ.
60,000 rubloj; sekve la operacio metas
en Sian poSon 30,000 da pura pronto. La
tuta demando estas, Cu Si perdos el tiu
Ci sumo 4,000, se la sinjoro trompos Sin.
Prokrasti la tutan aferon por atendi la
pagdaton de la kambio estis neeble.
Unue la kreditoroj volas la monon tuj,
minacante tiri Sin al la jugejo. Sed pro-
ceso estas malbona afero, graveda je
neatendaĵoj. Due, dum la tuta tempo
de la proceso Sia komerco estos neebla,
la komercaĵoj difektigos en la tenejo kaj
farigos ekster-modaj. Fine elspezoj,
tuta perdo de la kredito . . . Ne I Si
devas konsenti. De alia flanko, sub-
skribita promeso preni duonon por la
tuto ne havas forton antafl la tribunalo . .
Tial la vidvino diris :
"Bone! Mi scias, Sinjoro KostiC, ke
vi estas honesta homo, kiu ne volos ek-
spluati malfeliĉan vidvinon kaj la orfojn
de la mortinto, kiu vin amis. Mi volas
nenian subskribitan promeson. Via vorto
estas por mi pli forthavanta ol fero kaj
stalo."
Tiel la vidvino ricevis la subskribitajn
de la edzo dokumentojn je la sumo de
52,000 kaj pagis 26,000 kontante. La
kreditoroj estis tre kontentaj, kaj mia
kuzo ricevis de ili rekompencon de 2,600
rubloj.
Post tri monatoj li prezentis al la vid-
vino la kambion kaj postulis la plenan
sumon. La vidvino indignis, kriis,
ploris, sed nenio helpis, Car la kuzo
minacis per proceso.
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ioj
Tiam la vidvino dentogrincante kaj in-
sultante devis pagi. Oni ne povas bank-
roti je 8,000, kaj ĉiun trimonaton oni ne
povas bankroti ankaŭ.
Nun oni komprenas, kial Sidor Kar-
poviC', komercisto de virinaj kaj infanaj
manteloj, jakoj, "sakoj" kaj de aliaj
objektoj de tiu ĉi speco, marŝis kolere
en sia Cambro kaj insultis mian kuzon
plej indigne.
"Sed, Sidor KarpoviC," mi rimarkis,
"propradire mi ne komprenas la kaŭzon
de via kolero. En la fino de finoj mia
kuzo ricevis nur sian propran monon."
"Kaj lia promeso ? Lia promeso de
honesta komercisto preni nur duonon ? "
"Jes, lia promeso . . Sed kial kaj kiel
li promesis ? Oni minacis, ke li, en
kontraŭa okazo, ne ricevos eĉ kvaronon.
Pardonu min por la ekzemplo, sed se mi
iras en arbaro kaj oni kaptas min por
tranĉi al mi la gorĝon, kaj mi, por min
elaCeti, Juras pagi difinitan sumon, Cu
mi efektive devas pagi ? "
"Jen ekzemplo!" sarkasme ridis
Sidor KarpoviC. "Kompari rabiston
kun komercisto ! "
"Tute ne ! Mi ne volas diri ke kom-
ercisto estas rabisto. Sed du diversaj
homaj povas fari similan aferon. En
unu okazo oni diris: monon aŭ mi
prenas perforte la vivon ! kaj en la dua:
duonon aŭ mi prenas perforte la tuton !
En ambaŭ okazoj estas tre nature ne
plenumi ĝin, se oni povas."
"Vi parolas tiel, Car vi ne komprenas
la komerciston vivon."
"Mi ne estas komercisto, Sidor Kar-
poviC, sed mi pensas, ke la parolato
estas simpla ĉiutagaĵo, ne speciale kom-
ercista afero. Cetere, mi ekzamenos ĝin
de komercista vidpunkto. Via bofrato
subskribis kambion, t.e. faris skribitan
promeson pagi. Bone ! Mia kuzo faris
buSan promeson cedi al via fratino du-
onon de tiu Suldo.  Bone! Sed via bofrato
aŭ lia heredinto ne volis plenumi la
skribitan promeson. Kiel do vi povas
postuli ke alia plenumu ĝin ? Se la
unua estas honesta homo, kial la dua
estos fripono pro la sama konduto, pre-
cipe se la promeso pri la donaco ne estis
propravola ? Mi povas montri al vi, ke
al mia kuzo estis tre facile ricevi ne sole
siajn 8,000 rublojn, sed ankoraŭpli."
Li efektive ricevis pli. Oni pagis al
li 10 procentoj da rekompenco."
Ne ! Li povis ricevi ankoraŭ. alian
monon."
"Kiel do?"
Kio malhelpus al li deteni ankoraŭ
fremdan kambion de kelkaj mil rubloj,
pagi el sia propra poŝo la kondiĉitan
duonon kaj poste postuli de via fratino
la tuton ? "
"Tio ĉi estus ankoraŭ pli granda fri-
poneco. Sed vi ne povas kompreni ĝin.
Vi ne estas komercisto. Vi ne havas la
komercistan etikon."
"Komercista etiko ? Kio gi estas ? "
Jen ! Vi eĉ ne aŭdis pri tiu ĉi besto ? "
diris Sidor KarpoviC sarkasme. "Laŭ
la komercista etiko buSpromeso superas
kambion kaj Cion skribitan. Se vi pro-
mesas al mi buŝe, vi devas plenumi la
promesiton, car mi ne povas vin devigi
per forto fari gin, ĝuste pro la manko de
via subskribo. Tial unufoja rompo de
buSpromeso faras vin nekredinda por
Ciam. Kambio estas afero tute alia : se
vi ne pagas, mi povas vin devigi per la
tribunalo fari gin."
Jes ! " diris mi ridante. "Same
kiel oni devigis pagi vian fratinon ! Jen
kio estas via komercista etiko!"
Mia fratino? Vi pensas, ke se mia
fratino pagis 50 procentojn, oni kalkulas
Sin malhonesta komercistino ? "
"Vi parolas malprecize, Sidor Kar-
poviC! Si estas nur duon-malhonesta
komercistino, Car unu duonon Si pagis."
Mia kunparolanto ridis.
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AMERIKA   ESPERANTISTO
Mi jam diris, ke vi nenion komprenas
en nia komercista etiko. Duonbankroto
ne estas malhonestaĵo. Montru al mi
komercistojn, kiuj neniam bankrotis 1 Vi
trovos nur maloftajn unuojn, Car Ciuj
aliaj bankrotis du, tri, kvar kaj pli da
fojoj. Multaj bankrotas tre regule, kiel
se ili havus bankrotfebron. Kaj oni ne
plendas. Unu bankrotas al alia, la alia
al tria, detala komercisto al maldetalisto,
maldetalisto al centra liveristo aŭ fabrik-
isto, fabrikisto al siaj kreditoroj. La
homoj estas ligitaj per solidara bank-
rotado. Unu mano lavas la alian, kaj
ambaŭ estas . . . "malpuraj ! " mi finis.
"Ne ! Puraj 1 Propradire estas tute
egale, Cu oni pagas unu al alia la plenan
sumon aŭ nur duonon. EC la regnoj
konfesas tiun Ci principon en siaj inter-
rilatoj, Car tio estas la bazo de la Un-
iversal Poŝta Unuiĝo."
"Sed estas ja komercistoj, kiuj ne
bankrotas. Se duonbankroto ne estas
malhonestaĵo, kiel vi nomos la konduton
de komercisto Ciam paganta ? "
"Mi nomos ĝin lukso. Ciu barono
havas sian fantazion, kiu ne estas deviga
por la meza sana homo. Devigaj estas
nur la neskribitaj leĝoj, la komercista
tradicio, la komercista etiko, kaj Ciu, kiu
rompas ilin, estas fripono."
"Tiu etiko estas kimero, kiu ne ek-
zistas. Ne estas komercista etiko. Estas
homa etiko, homa gojo, homa nazkataro.
Kaj se iu parolos al mi pri botista etiko,
pri tombista ftizo, pri librotenista naz-
kataro, pri kandelista gojo, mi ridos
rekte al lia vizaĝo."
Sidor KarpoviC fikse rigardis min kaj
demandis :
"Cu vi efektive farus ĝin ?"
"Certe mi farus gin 1 Kial vi min
rigardas tiamaniere ? "
"Mi esperas, ke vi estas medicinisto,
vera medicinisto ? "
"Kia stranga demando I "
"Prezentu al vi, ke malsanulo vizitas
vin. Tiu Ci malsanulo estas ftizulo,
kankrulo, degeneranto, mallonge, homo
dangera por sia intima apudulo. Ni
supozu, ke li havas fianCinon kaj pretigas
edzigi. Cu vi avertus la fianCinon aŭ
Siajn gepatrojn pri la dangero ?"
"Hm .. tio Ci estas malpermesata. . .
Sed mi povas averti la malsanulon
mem."
"Kaj se la malsanulo estos obstina
kaj volos edziĝi? Kio? Vi silentas?
Jes certe vi silentos ! . . . Aŭ ni prenu
alian ekzemplon. Mi, via paciento, Cesas
konfidi vin kaj invitas alian mediciniston
por kontroli vin, sed sen via alesto kaj
scio, Car mi timas ke via samprofesiano
ne volos fari al vi honton kaj nomi vin
fuŝisto. Se la nova medicinisto sciigus,
ke mi havas alian kuraciston, kiun mi
volas kontroli, Cu li volus helpi al mi?
Kio ? Vi denove silentas ? Sed tamen
en aliaj cirkonstancoj oni havas la rajton
kontroli, kaj estas tre multaj kontrolistoj
en bankaferoj, en fabrikejoj, en konstru-
ado, en fervojoj, en terkulturado kaj en
aliaj profesioj. cu mono, domo, vagono,
rikolto estas pli grava al mi, ol mia
sano, mia vivo? Kial do vi medicinistoj
ne permesas al mi savi Ciurimede per
kontrolo tion, kiu laŭ mia opinio, eble
falsa, sed tamen laŭ mia firma opinio
estas la plej kara al mi ? Jes 1 Vi med-
icinistoj havas medicinan etikon, kiu
malpermesas al la kuracistoj malsekretigi
la malsanojn, eC kiam ili estas venenaj,
aŭ kontroli vian kuracon. Jes, Ciuj pro-
fesioj kaj metioj havas diversajn etikojn,
kaj ne sole diversajn etikojn, sed eC
diversajn religiojn."
"Kion vi diras ? "
"Tute simple! Cu vi ne aŭdis, kiel
butikisto ĵuras per Ciuj sanktuloj, ke la
prezo anoncata de li al la aĉetanto estas
la plej malalta, ke gi estas lia propra
kosto,   ke li  donas   la   komercajon   tiel
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malkare, Car . . nu, Car li hodiaŭ nenion
vendis, aŭ Car ĝi estas la lasta restajo,
aŭ Car vi mem plaĉas al li, k.t.p. ? . . .
Vi ĝin certe aŭdis centfoje ? "
"Tio Ci estas simpla malpiaĵo aŭ mal-
saĝaĵo debutikisto."
"Novaerarol La butikistoj estas nek
malpiuloj nek malsaĝuloj. Por povi ion
gajni kaj decidigi la aCetanton, ili faras
escepton en la apliko de ĵuroj, kiuj kon-
sideriĝas kiel nulvalorantaj ekskluzive
en la afero de ilia speciala profesio. En
Ciuj aliaj regionoj la butikistoj estas piaj
homoj, fervore pregas en la temploj,
lernigas al siaj infanoj la religion, la
komunan religion de la Kristanoj, ne la
specialan de butikistoj."
"Cu ne ekzistas ankaŭ specialaj polit-
ikaj ekonomioj, kontraŭaj al la gen-
erate ?" mi demandis por kaŝi la
embarason.
"Kial ne ? Por privata homo Ciu mono
estas kapitalo. Sekartludisto gajnas, li
grandigas sian kapitalon ; se li perdas,
li malgrandigas ĝin. Sed de la vidpunkto
de la regno, tio estas nek grandigo nek
malgrandigo de la kapitalo, sed nur
simpla transigo de mono el unu poSo en
alian. Same ekzistas Stelista politika
ekonomio, Stelista etiko, Stelista punkto
de honoro, Stelista tradicio,  k.t.p."
Mi silentis de konfuzo. En mia koro
kreskis suferanta sento, kiu baldaŭ akre
dihnigis. Tio Ci estis teruro. Efektive,
la homaj interesoj estas t-iel dividitaj,
tiel kontraŭaj unu al alia, ke la bono,
moraleco, pieco de unuj estas malbono,
malmoraleco por aliaj. La feliCo de
unuj baziĝas sur la malfeliCo de aliaj.
Ne estas homa etiko: estas etiko de
medicinistoj, de Suistoj. Ne estas homa
politika ekonomio: estas politika ek-
onomio de agristoj vilaganoj, de labor-
istoj, de fabrikistoj. La bela granda
or-monero Ŝangigis je rustantaj kupraj
moneraCoj, makulantaj la manojn de tiuj,
kiuj ilin uzas. Mi estis tiel konsternita,
ke mi forgesis, ke mi estas inteligenta
homo kun universitata diplomo kaj ke
Sidor KarpoviC estas malklera komerc-
istaCo, kaj mi diris :
"Mi dankas vin por la leciono, Sidor
KarpoviC I Sed diru, kion oni devas
fari por kunigi ĉiujn tiujn etikojn en unu
homa etiko, ĉiujn profesiajn politikajn
ekonomiojn en unu homa politika ekono-
mio, k. t. p.?"
Sidor KarpoviC atente rigardis min,
fermis la malfermitajn fenestrojn kaj
diris mallaŭte:
"Lasu tiujn Ci senutilajn demandojn 1
En Rusujo tio Ci estas dangera temo."
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EL    "TUTMONDA    ANEKDOTARO"
En la Lernejo
Diris instruisto dum la gramatika
instruo :
"Ni nun votes formi frazojn knn per-
sonaj pronomoj: mi, vi, Ŝi, li, k. t. p.
Se ekzemple la patro dirus 'Mi foriras,'
kionrespondus tiam la patrino al patro?"
Lernanto:   "Vi restos hejme."
Nova Bubeto
Patrino: "Sed bubeto, jam denove vi
batiĝadis kun Pepito, kaj kia nun estas
via eksteraĵo! Jam ree mi bezonos
aĉeti por vi novan vestaĵon."
Fiicto: "Hoi Vi do nur vidu Pepi-
ton ! Lia patrino bezonos tute novan
bubeton."
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THE    BEGINNER   AND    HIS   TROUBLES
"I am overwhelmed with amazement
that you do not have more of the depart-
ment 'The beginner and his troubles' in
the journal. I am quite sure it would
be acceptable to ninety per cent of your
readers," writes M. E. Collins.
That sometimes surprises us, too.
But it never overwhelms us with amaze-
ment, for when one comes down to that
page he ardently wonders what to put in
it and what to leave out. Just to please
Mr. Collins and the rest of the ninety
per cent we seize the first sentence of the
last manuscript received, evidently from
a beginner:
Jen estis unufoje homo, kiu lokis
siajn retakaptilojn.
Here is a sentence grammatically
above reproach. It is excellent English,
too : There was once a man who had set
his snares.
This is the trouble of the beginner,
the advanced student and even the ex-
pert—thinking in the mother-tongue,
especially when translating.
Jen means behold, and while not neces-
sarily emphatic it usually applies to
some occasion of surprise {look/), some-
thing to command attention, now. Used
in this way, there has no reference to
place, has really no meaning, being em-
ployed to "limber up" the sentence. So
estas alone is used, and not jen estas
or tie estas.
Unufoje means once, one 'dime," but
it does not convey the evasive sense of
once upon a time; it is mathematical, and
the precedent of twice, thrice, etc. If
you want the word for a wholly indefinite
date, it is better to use iam.
Homo means human being indefinitely,
and viro a man.
Loki for set or place traps,   is  not so
good as arangi, or pretigi.
The author of this translation writes
good English, and probably reads Espe-
ranto fluently. But he must read much
Esperanto literature before he can write
good Esperanto. For example, the aver-
age fourteen-year-old American has been
using English thirteen years and can
write a grammar school essay, but he
has not learned to write matter which
would look well in print.
Don't try to write Esperanto for pub-
lication while you are too young. Be
glad that you can read, and do so—read,
read, read.
That for the beginner whose grammar
is "perfectly good." For the beginner
whose grammar is bad, we can only
advise careful study of the text book.
We have seen a post card written by a
young lady who is supposed to have
been an Esperantist for a year, in which
she calmly says mi voli al fari for /
wish to do. Why not, indeed ? The
vocabulary says that wish is voli, to al,
and do fari. She had studied the vocab-
ulary, but not the grammar.
id
Editor: I would ask your criticism on
the following sentence : Venu kaj la-
boru (aŭ labori) en mia gardeno. I
notice that many writers use the infinitive
labori, but it strikes me that the imper-
ative laboru should be used, as it has
the same force as the imperative venu.
Which would you regard as correct?
— W. L. C.
It is simply a matter of preference,
either form being correct, though perhaps
there is a shade of difference in mean-
ing. In English, come and see me and
come to see me are both correct, though
probably the fanatics who strive toward
the ever-shifting goal of "scholarly
English" use the lattet form.
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LA    KUKUNJANA    PAROHESTRO
Esperantigita el la Franca laŭ A. Daudet de
Benedict   Papot
La abato Martino estis paroĥestro de—Kukunjano.
Tiel bona kiel la pano, tiel vera kiel la oro, li patre amis
siajn Kukunjananojn: por li, lia Kukunjano jam estus
paradizo sur la tero, se Iiaj Kukunjananoj al li donus iom
pli da kontentigo. Sed, ho ve! la araneoj ŝpinis en la
konfesejo, kaj dum la bela paska tago restis la hostioj en la
fundo de la sankta kaliko. Tio vundis la koron de la bona
pastro kaj li Ciam petis de Dio, kiel favoro, ke li ne mortu
antaŭ ol li estos rekondukinta al la Safejo sian disigitan
aron.
Nu, vi vidos, ke Dio lin aŭdis.
DimanCon, post la diservo, supreniris Sinjoro Martino
en la katedron.
ft                ft                ft
Li diris:
Miaj gefratoj, vi kredos min se vi volas, lastnokte mi
trovis min, mi mizera pekulo, ĉe la pordo de la paradizo.
Mi frapis :    Sankta Petro malfermis al mi.
"Nu 1 Estas vi, mia bona Sinjoro Martino,'' li diris al
mi, "Kia bona vento alkondukas vin ? Kaj kion mi povas
fari por vi ? "
"Bela Sankta Petro, vi, kiu tenas la Slosilojn de la par-
adizo, ĉu vi povus diri al mi, se mi ne estas tro sciema,
kiom da Kukunjananoj vi havas en la paradizo ?"
"Mi havas nenion, kion mi povas rifuzi al vi, Sinjoro
Martino ;   sidiĝu do, ni vidos la aferon kune."
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LA    KUKUNJANA    PAROHF.STRO
Kaj Sankta Petro prenis sian grandan libron, malfermis
ĝin, surmetis siajn okulvitrojn :
"Lasu nin vidi: Kukunjano, vi diris—Ku—Ku—Ku-
kunjano. Tie ni estas I Kukunjano. Mia bona Sinjoro
Martino, la pago estas tute ne skribita 1 Ne unu animo 1
Ne pli da Kukunjananoj ol fiŝostoj en meleagrino ! "
"Kiel I Neniu el Kukunjano ĉi tie ? Neniu ? Ne estas
eble I   Rigardu do pli bonel"
"Neniu, sankta homo. V'idu mem, se vi kredas, ke mi
Sercas."
Mi, Dio mia, mi piedfrapis kaj kun manoj kunmctitaj mi
kriegis por kompato.
Tiam Sankta Petro diris :
"Kredu min, Sinjoro Martino, vi ne devas tiamaniere
malbonigi al vi mem la sangon, Car vi povus per tio havi
apoplekcion. Post Cio, tio ne estas via peko. Viaj Ku-
kunjananoj kredeble pasas iom da kvaranteno en la purga-
torio."
"Ha, per bonfarado, granda Sankta Petro ! Farigu, ke
mi povos ilin almenaŭ vidi kaj konsoli."
"Volonte, mia amiko. Jen, piedvestu tiujn Ci sandalojn,
Car la vojeto ne estas tre bone. Jen estas bone 1 Nun voj-
iru rekte antaŭen. ĉu vi vidas—tie,—malproksime—Ce la
turno ? Vi trovos tie arĝentan pordon tute kovritan per
nigraj krucoj—dekstramane. Vi frapos, oni malfermos al
vi.    Bonan tagon.    Restu sana kaj fortika."
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Kaj mi vojiris—mi vojiris 1 Kia vojirado 1 Miaj haroj
stariĝas pripensante pri tio 1 Malgranda vojeto, plenigita
de dornarbetaĵoj, de karberoj kiuj lumadis kaj de serpentoj
kiuj sibladis, alkondukis min al la arĝenta pordo.
"Tok,  tok!"
"Kiu frapas ? "  diris raŭka kaj plenda voCo.
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BENEDICT    PAPOT
La paroĥestro de Kukunjano."
"De—?"
"De Kukunjano."
"Hal   Eniru."
Mi eniris. Granda bela anĝelo, kun flugiloj tiel mal-
helaj kiel la nokto, kun vesto tiel hela kiel la tago, kun
Slosiloj el diamantoj pendantaj delazono, skribadis,—kra—
kra— en granda libro, pli granda ol tiu de Sankta Petro.
"Fine, kion vi volas kaj kion vi demandas ?" diris la
angelo.
"Bona anĝelo de Dio, mi volas scii—mi eble estas
treege sciema—Cu vi havas tie Ci la Kukunjananojn ? "
"La—?"
'La Kukunjananojn,—la anojn de Kukunjano,—tial ke,
estas mi—kiu estas ilia paroĥestro."
"Ha 1   La abato Martino, Cu ne ? "
"Por servi al vi, Sinjoro anĝelo."
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"Kukunjano, do, vi diras"—kaj la angelo malfermas
kaj ekturnas la foliojn de sia granda libro, malsekigante
sian fingron per kraĉaĵo por ke la folio glitu pli bone.
"Kukunjano"—li diris kun longa ekgemo. "Sinjoro
Martino, el Kukunjano en la purgatorio ni havas neniun."
"jesuo 1 Mario 1 Josefo 1 Neniu el Kukunjano en la
purgatorio ?   Ho 1   Granda Dio 1   Kie do estas ili ? "
"Nu 1 sankta viro, ili estas en la paradizo. Kie, diable,
vi volas, ke ili estu ? "
"Sed mi venas ja de la paradizo—"
"Vi de tie venas 1   Nu ? "
"Nu 1 ili ne estas tiel Hoi bona patrino de la an-
geloj 1 "
"Kion vi volas, Sinjoro paroĥestro ? Se ili ne estas en
la paradizo nek en la purgatorio, ne ekzistas mezoloko, ili
estas—"
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110                               AMERIKA    ESPERANTISTO
LA    KUKUNJANA    PAROHESTRO
"Sankta Kruco ! Jesuo, filo de Davido 1 Hovel hovel
Cu estas eble ? Cu tio povas esti mensogo de la granda
Sankta Petro ? Tamen la kokon mi ne aŭdis kanti I Ho ve I
Kiel mi iros en la paradizon, se miaj Kukunjananoj ne estas
tie?"
'Aŭskultu, mia malleliĉa Sinjoro Martino, tial ke vi
volas, ĉiel ajn, esti certa pri tio Cio kaj vidi per viaj propraj
okuloj kio estas, sekvu tiun Ci vojeton, kuru rapide, se vi
scias tiel fari. Vi trovos maldekstre pordegon. Tie vi
sciiĝos pri Cio.  Dio donas tion al vi."
Kaj la angelo fermis la pordon.
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Estis longa vojeto tute pavimita per ruĝaj fajraj karboj.
Mi Ŝanceliĝis kvazaŭ mi estus drinkinta, mi faletis 1 mi
estis tute malsekigita, ĉiu haro de mia korpo havis ĝian
guteton daŝvito, kaj mi spiregis de soifo. Sed kredu min,
dank' al la sandaloj kiujn al mi pruntedonis la bona Sankta
Petro, mi ne bruligis miajn piedojn.
Kiam mi estis sufiĉe paSinta, mi vidis, maldekstren,
pordon—ne, pordegon—grandegan pordegon, kiu estis tute
nefermita, kiel la pordo de granda forno. Ho 1 infanoj
miaj 1 Kia vidiĝo 1 Tie, oni ne demandas al mi mian
nomon ; tie, ne ekzistas registrolibro. Per amasoj, plena-
porde, oni eniras tien, miaj fratoj, kiel vi eniras, dimanĉon,
en la drinkejon.
Mi Svitegis, kaj tamen mi malvarmiĝis, mi frosttrem-
iĝis. Miaj haroj starigis. Mi flaris la brulodoron, la rost-
igitan karnon, ion kiel la odoron kiu disŝutiĝas en nia Kun-
kunjano, kiam Elio, la hufforĝisto, bruligas, por bati ĝin,
la hufon de maljuna azeno. Mi ne povas spiri en tiu Ĉi
malbonodora kaj brula aero. Mi aŭdis terurajn kriojn, ek-
gemegojn, blekegojn kaj  blasfemojn.
"Nu ĉu ci eniras aŭ ne eniras ? " diris al mi kornport-
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BENEDICT    PAPOT
anta demono, min borante per sia forkego.
"Ml?   mi ne eniras.      Mi estas amiko de Dio."
"Ci estas amiko de Dio 1 Nu, malbenita favulo I kion
ci venas fari tie ? "
"Mi venas—Ha! ne parolu al mi pri tio, car mi ne
povas pli stari—mi venas—mi venas el malproksime—mal-
fiere^por demandi vin Cu—Cu—hazarde—vi havus tie Ci—
iun—iun el Kukunjano ? "
"Ha ! fajro de Dio 1 Ci diras malspritaĵojn kvazaŭ ci
ne scias, ke estas tie la tuta Kukunjananaro 1 Vidu, mal-
bela korvo, rigardu—kaj ci vidos kiel ni aranĝas ilin tie Ci,
ciajn famajn Kukunjananojn 1 "
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Kaj mi vidis, meze de terura flamturniĝo, Grandan-Kok-
galinon,—vi Ĉiuj konis lin, miaj fratoj,—Kokgalinon, kin
sin tiel ofte ebriigis, kaj tiel ofte skuis al sia malfeliĉa
edzino la pulojn (batis Sin).
Mi vidis Katarinon,—la malgrandan malbonulinon—kun
Ŝia suprenturnita nazo—kiu kuSiĝis sole en la garbejo—vi
tion rememoras, santaŭguloj ! Sed ni preterpasu, mi jam
diris tro pri tio.
Mi vidis Paskalon, la glufingrulon, kiu faris sian oleon
el la olivoj de Sinjoro Juliano.
Mi vidis Babe ton, la postrckoltantinon, kiu, postrikol-
tante, por fini pli rapide sian garbon,Cerpis plenmane el la
garbejo.
Mi vidis mastron Grapason, kiu tiel bone oleumis la
radon de sia puSveturilo.
Kaj Dofinon, kiu vcndis tiel kare la akvon el sia puto.
Kaj Tordulon, kiu Ciufoje kiam li min renkontis dum mi
portis la sanktan hostion, preterpasadis, kun la Capo sur la
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112    •-,                            AMERIKA    ESPERANTISTO
LA    KUKUNJANA    PAROHESTRO
kapo kaj la pipo en la beko—tiel fiera kiel Artabq—kvazaŭ
li renkontus hundon.
Kaj Kulon kune kun lia Zetino, kaj Jakobon, kaj Petron,
kaj Tonion—
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Kortuŝita, paligita de timo, ekĝemis la tula aŭdantaro,
tiu vidante en la mal/rrmita infero slan patron aŭ stan pat-
rinon, stan avon aŭ avinon.
Daŭrigis la bona abato Martino:
Vi bone sentas, miaj fratoj, vi bone sentas, ke tio Ci
ne povas daŭri. Mi gardas viajn animojn, kaj mi volas, mi
volas vin savi el la abismo al kiu vi estas ruliĝantaj kapon
antaŭen.
Morgan mi eklaboros. Kaj laboro al mi ne mankos.
Jen kiel mi faros : por ke ĉio fariĝu bone, oni devas fari
Cion orde.   Ni iros laŭvice, kiel ĉe Jonkjero dum la dancado.
Morgan, lundon, mi aŭdos konfese la maljunulojn kaj la
maljunulinojn.    Estas nenio.
Mardon, la infanojn.    Mi baldaŭ finos.
Merkredon, la junulojn kaj la junulinojn. Tio eble
daŭros.
Jaŭdon, la virojn.    Ni tranĉos tion mallonge.
Vendredon, la virinojn.    Midiros:  "Ne dim tro multe."
Sabaton, la mueliston 1 Tuta tago ne estas tro multe
por li.
Kaj se ni finigos dimanCon, ni estos feliCegaj.
Vidu, miaj infanoj, kiam estas matura la greno oni devas
rikolti ĝin.  Kiam estas elverSita la vino,  oni devas trinki
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BENEDICT    PAPOT
ĝin.      Jen sufiĉe da malpura tolaĵo, oni devas lavi gin, kaj
gin bone lavi.
Tio estas la beno, kiun mi al vi deziras.    Amen
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Tiamaniere okazis Cio. Oni faris grandegan lavadon.
De tin Ci reinemorinda dimanĉo oni flaris la bonodoron de
la virto de Kukunjano de dek mejloj ĉirkaŭe.
Kaj la bona feliĉa pastro, Sinjoro Martino, songis pos-
tan nokton, ke, sekvate de sia tuta aro, li supreniras,
procesie, meze de ekbruligitaj kandelegoj, de nubo de bon-
odorfumo kaj de kantantaj ĥorknaboj, la luman vojon al la
Urbo de Dio.
Kaj jen, la rakonto pri la Kukunjana paroĥestro, kiel
ordonis, ke mi rakontu gin al vi, tiu Ci malbonegulo Ro-
manilo, kiu estis mem alia bona fratulo.
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LA    INVITANTINO
VV.    J.    PHOEBUS
KELKAJN jarcentojn en la estin-
teco unu greka marmoristo, Sro.
Pigmalion, elhakis sufiCe belan
inan homsimiiajon, kaj sukcesis vivigi
gin virino, kiu tuj devigis al li, ke li
edziĝu je Si. En niaj tagoj, kiam la
franca pograndisto de bronzaĵoj, Sinjoro
Bartholdi, fabrikis en sia fandejo la
diversajn membrojn de la famekonata
Diino de la Libereco, li ne volis, ke oni
tie kunmetu ilin en homan formon. Eble
li ne kuragis riski, ke la figurino fariĝu
vivanta fraŭlino, kiu povus proponi
edzinigi je li. Povus ja esti neoportune,
havi en la domo virinon
tiel grandan, efi se oni ne
bankrotus aCetante por Si
unu Capelon. Tial Bartholdi
preferis luigi Sipon, kaj
sendi la disigitajn pecojn
trans la maron al Nov-
Jorko, porlasi rekunigi ilin
tie, sen dangero al lia per-
sona libereco. Tamen,
Sajnas, ke ia timo, ke Si
vivigus, estis tute senfun-
damenta, Car post lerta
kunmeto de la membroj kaj
pli ol dudekjara staro de la
figurino sur Sia granita
piedestalo en Nov-Jorka
haveno, Si gis nun tute ne
viviĝis. ĉu pro tio oni
devas Sin kompati? Ho
ne, se kredindaj estas la
vortoj de la Predikanto, filo
de Davido, rego en Jerusa-
lemo, kiu iam anoncis :
"Kaj mi trovis. ke la mor-
tintoj, kiuj antafl. longe mortis,
estis pli feliĉaj ol la vivantoj.
Kaj pli felifJaj ol ili ambafl estas
tiuj. kiuj gis nun tie ekzistis. kiuj
ne vidisla malbonajn farojn, kiuj
estas farataj sub la suno."
Alivorte, se la nunaj kon-
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AMERIKA    ESPERANTISTO
II:
diCoj mondaj estas tiaj kiaj la tiamaj (kaj
ni timas, ke ili estas), nia senvida, sen-
kora bronzulino estas pli feliCa nun-
state, ol Si estus, fariginte vidantino de
Ciuj malbonaj faroj farataj sub la suno.
Sed estas al ni ankoraŭ permesate, kon-
servi kelkan esperon, ke iatempe eble
venos tagoj, en kiuj Si povus vivigi, sen
suferi troajn dolorojn ; tagoj, kiujn an- '
taŭvidis Robert Burns, kantante :
"Ni preĝu. ke farigu ti'
Kaj nepre ti' fariĝos,
Ke sur la ronda tera glob'
La homoj kunf ratigos."
car la neatendita iafoje okazas, kaj car
ne estas absoluta neeblaĵo ke ni gisvivos
tagojn, kiujn Si povos toleri, Ŝajnas kon-
silinde doni al la estimataj legantoj pri-
skribon pri la Fraŭlinego, tiel ke, se ili
iam vidos Sin forlasinta sian piedestalon
kaj marSanta tra la landoj, ili povos
tuj rekoni Sin kaj ne forkuri, timante ke
Casas ilin /ditto, aŭ eble Sinjorino Cef-
diablego mem. Kaj por trankviligi Ciun
fraŭlon kaj vidvon, ni sciigas al ili kon-
fidencie, ke Si ne edziniĝos je ia aparta
hometo, estante jam fianĉinego de Sro.
Tuthomaro.
La Nov-Jorka Stata leĝfarantaro lasta-
tempe faris legon malpermesantan ke la
polico mezuru aŭ faru fotografaĵon de
persono gis kiam gi estos juĝita kulpaje
krimo. Mi ne scias kiu mezuris nian
diinon, sed jen Siaj Bertillonaĵoj :
FUTOJ   COLOJ
Alteco de fundo gis torĉo - - 151 1
De fundo di* piedestalo gis torĉo 305 6
Longeco di mano        -                            16      5
Longeco di montra fingro    -                   80
Rondmezuro di montra fingro 6e
dua artiko                                            7      6
Kapo, de mentono gis kranio                  17      3
Trans la okulo - - - - 2 6
Nazlongeco - - - - - 46
Longeco di dekstra brako - - 42 o
Maksimuma dikeco di dekstra brako 12 o
Dikeco Ĉe talio         -        -        -        -    35      o
Largeco di buŝd - - - - 30
La tableto. kiun ŝi portas en la mano.
estas:    Ionga        -          ""237
larga - , - - 13 7
dika        -        -        --20
La kolosino pezas 450,000 funtojn.
La bronzo sola pezas 200,000 funtojn.
Kvarkek personoj povas stari sengene
en la kapo, kaj la torĉo povas enteni
dekdu homojn. La Stuparo kondukanta
de la piedestalo gis la kapo konsistas el
154 Stupoj, kaj de tie gis la torĉo estas
/adder el 54 transbastonoj (angle,
rounds).
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LA  ĈIELO  LIN  BENU!
Metodista pastro rakontis al mi antaŭ-
nelonge pri sia lasta nesukceso. Enir-
ante la oficejon de loka semajna ĵurnalo,
li diris al la redaktoro : "Mi estas pet-
anta monhelpon por sinjoro de gentileco
kaj inteligenteco, kiu bezonegas mal-
multe da kontanto, sed kiu estas multe
tro fiera por sciigi pri siaj suferoj."
"Ja!" ekkriis la redaktoro,* supren-
puSante sian okulŝirmilon, "Mi estas la
sola virfijo en la vilago, kiu respondas
al tiu priskribo. Kio estas la nomo de
la sinjoro ? "
"Bedaiirinde," diris la pastro, "mi ne
havas liberecon por sciigi."
"Do tiu devas esti mi," diris la re-
daktoro. "Estas mi—estas mi sendube !
La Cielo vin prosperu, Pastro, en via
bona laboro ! "
— Esperantigis Mrs. E. A. Russell. Ord. Neb
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CORRESPONDENCE
FOREIGN POSTAGE.
Editor:—Is there any way to tell the
exact postage required to send cards to
foreign countries other than constant
inquiry at the post office?
D. W. Newton.
New Rockford, N. D.
Yes. Ask the postmaster to give you
printed matter containing such informa-
tion. The one-cent rate applies to Can-
ada, Mexico, Cuba, Panama, and terri-
tories of the United States. All other
countries within the Postal Union, which
includes most of the dry land of the
earth, are two cents.
HE WANTS TO KNOW.
Dear Sirs:—I would like to suggest
that for the benefit of the new converts
to Esperanto you publish an account of
the aims and purposes of the American
Esperanto Association; also, whether
there is any way to unite with the
Association, what the cost is and if
there is any symbol of membership. I
consider that Amcrika Espcrantisto
needs very little to make it a most per-
fect paper for the language. Is your of-
fer of books for town libraries only, or
does it extend to school libraries as well ?
Hubcr La Moreaux.
R. F. D. 2, Zimmerman, Minn.
The A. E. A. is so busy cutting its
teeth that it will not sit for its biogra-
phy. It is less than three years old.
The green star is the international sym-
bol of Esperanto, but the A. E. A. has
no special badge except the red badge of
courage, which is worn pink to avoid
confusion with the international "reds."
Not to mention a perfect paper, Ameki-
ka Espekantisto needs about twelve
thousand things to make it just a com-
fortable paper. Most of these are silver
discs with our national prevarication
embossed on the front: "In God we
trust." Our library offer extends to all
libraries of a public or semi-public
nature; that includes, of course, those
of the schools.
WANTS IT AT N. Y. C. COLLEGE.
Editor: As to that Fifth Congess,
We know that our language aims to
make all men brothers; that for this to
be successful all things must be distrib-
uted equally; and for the last, every-
thing used or justly desired by all
should be owned by the government and
given gratis, though indirectly paid for
by just taxation. Now, the College of
the City of New York is the only one
where these conditions prevail, and.
what's more, successfully. It's audi-
torium, seating 2,400 people, is open to
all public uses, and could easily be ob-
tained free. I therefore propose that
the Fifth Congress take place in New-
York at this college.
H. D. Jacobson,
College of the City of New York, June
1, 1908.
The "brotherhood of man," "our
dear language," our holy cause," and
kindred expressions used in connection
with Esperanto are misleading in a way.
Socialists, anarchists, Christians, Mo-
hammedans, all bclive in the "brother-
hood of man," though frequently hav-
ing such differences of opinion as to
how it shall be brought about as to in-
volve them in direct battle one against
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the other. Certainly Esperanto has
nothing to do with public ownership.
To be sentimental about the language is
a matter of individual choice.
ESPERANTO ON REPLY COUPON.
Samuel St. Thomas, of 272 75th
Street, New York City, is of the opin-
ion that it is possible to have Esperanto
added to the various languages in
which the text of the international pos-
tal reply coupons are printed. We
cheerfully delegate the details to the
gentleman who' makes the suggestion,
and all who are willing to help push the
matter may write him. By the way, the
coupon (concerning which we occasion-
ally receive inquiries) is a slip of paper,
exchangeable in any country for a stamp
of five-cent value. It can be purchased
at any post office and costs six cents.
Thus, for small amounts, its use is
cheaper and more convenient than pay-
ing the ten cents exchange on a foreign
money order.
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WHAT CAN HE DO?
Dear Editor:—I want to call your at-
tention to the fact that many persons
whose names appear in the list of corre-
spondents for the exchange of post cards
never reply. Is this proper? If you
can suggest any remedy I would be very
glad to hear of it.
Curtis B. Lore.
Ill W. Market St., Danville, Penna.
There is no way to compel people to
reply, but there are two ways in which
to avoid the inconvenience or annoy-
ance. The first is, advertise for your-
self. When I wish to employ help, I
never write to those who have adver-
tised for work, but put my own adver-
tisement in the "Help Wanted" col-
umn. It is a foregone conclusion that
twenty will apply for the situation and
nineteen be disappointed, but I would
rather disappoint nineteen people than
be disappointed nineteen times myself.
The other way is to join some corres-
pondence society which periodically ex-
pels all members who fail to send re-
plies. How to find the address of such
a society ?   Again—advertise.
A   HATFUL   OF   SUGGESTIONS.
My Dear Editor-. Seeing you have
set apart a column for the views
of your readers and at the request
of triends, I want to communicate a
few ideas touching Esperanto prop-
ganda in Usono, which ideas, given
in all humility, are to be taken strictly
on their own merits, if they have any.
Our great lack is unity. The Ameri-
can Esperanto Association is not what it
ought to be—the first force for Esper-
anto in the country. The commercial
firm, The American Esperantist Com-
pany, as it avers itself, is doing more
for the movement than any single agent
in the country.
A. E. A. lacks unity because it lacks
an official organ. No effective national
society can do without a periodical
means of communication with its far-
scattered members. It is true that,
Amerika Esperantisto supplies this-
medium by courtesy, but we need more
tiian that. In short, why cannot the
Amerika Esperantisto be officialized?
It is the pioneer paper in Usono, the
largest and best-supported. Let the
National Congress vote first of all on
this essential matter. The whole paper
need not be run by the Association. The
Germana Esperantisto has " an official
part" which alone contains the work of
the Association in Germany. Let Mr.
Baker's company and A. E. A. com-
bine. This seems to me to be the prac-
tical way of combining.
Another idea—why not a clause in the
constitution constituting all Esperant-
ists ipse facto honorary members of A.
E. A.,—as does the B. E. A.? This is
an easy thing, but a good one, I think.
Make it known that all honorary mem-
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bers and club's will be enrolled on re-
ceipt of names. No dues, of course.
Active members of course to pay dues
and to alone have voice in ordinary gov-
ernment.
Let us work for the Fifth Congress.
The work will do us good, even if we do
not get that Congress.
Let us not forget the small Chautau-
quas, of which there are 200-300 in the
country. For instance the Moundsville
Chautauqua is to have Mrs. W. S. Stoner
teach every morning and deliver three
afternoon lectures. Just make known to
the Boards of the various small Chntau-
quas the work of the main Chautauqua.
In order to have none but earnest peo-
ple as active members of the local
groups, would it not be well to set up
an examination corresponding to the
"Atesto pri Lernado," passing which
alone constitutes one an active member
locally?
All but my first suggestion I regard
as rekomendindaj. My first idea, touch-
ing an official organ, I regard as abso-
lutely devigoX It seems to me essential
to our further progress.
Yours in the work,
Hubert M. Scott.
1312 Purdy Ave., Moundsville, W. Va.
it
THOSE  HEW ROOTS.
Dear Sir:—I think the following inr
formation should be printed in every
issue of Esperantisto, viz: The name
of the International Organization (if
there be such), with name and address
of the secretary or person to whom mail
should be sent; the names of commit-
tees, with the addresses of the proper
officers to whom mail is to be sent,—for
instance the "Lingva Komitato." the
"Scienca Assoeio" which asks for lists
of technical words without saying to
whom they should be sent, etc.; the name
and addess of the national organization
in Usono; and such information; for all
of which I have searched in vain in va-
rious publications. Also, all new words
ns fast as adopted by the Lingva Kom-
itato, or seem to be coming into popular
use without their sanction, should be
added to the root dictionary, or men-
tioned somehow. I consider these points
of information to be necessary for one
Who wants to keep up with the proces-
sion, and I do not know otherwise how
most of us can obtain them. Other
points of this nature may suggest them-
selves later. With best wishes for your
success in your rather thankless task of
running the Esperantisto, I remain,
Yours very truly,
Wm. A. Lewis.
Rutherford, N. J.
This magazine is not run for thanks,
health, glory or politics. The publisher
publishes because publishing is the bus-
iness to which he was trained, and is
with and for Esperanto because he likes
it and sees plenty of work to be done.
Amebika Esperantisto is a low-browed
publication with one hand on the public
pulse and the other feeling for its pocket
book. There! And if Mr. Lewis will
undertake to compile a list of new roots
in general use, defining "new" as those
not contained in the American Esper-
anto Book, we'll gladly publish them.
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A GOOD EXAMPLE.
Myles J. Murphy, of Weehawken, has
a column article on Esperanto in a re-
cent number of the Catholic Union and
Times. Several American Catholic pa-
pers have gone to considerable trouble
to "knock" Esperanto, and if we are
not mistaken the Union and Times is one
of them. However, any religious or po-
litical paper will be fair enough on mat-
ters which do not concern their politics
or religion directly, and when these take
occasion to editorially libel Esperanto,
they will usually print a well-written
reply. Anyhow, the best propaganda you
can make for Esperanto is to be contin-
ually writing something good and send-
ing it to "ye editor."
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Amsterdama Pioniro.—The Dutch-
Esperanto organ of the Esperanto
movement in Holland. In the May
number: News notes from Holland and
the world in general. The address of
Dr. Zamenhof in London; a fable in
Esperanto, from the Sanskrit; and two
poems. The number, 10c; by the year,
85 cents.
Esperanto Card Game.—Mrs. Wini-
fred S. Stoner has compiled a card game
which can be turned to good account
in memorizing Esperanto words. It is
simply a set of 200 cards, containing
each ten words, numbered. Each num-
ber represents a different series of words.
With these cards, there is practically no
limit to the various games which can be
devised, and the inventor quite appropri-
ately names the scheme Cio. The small
edition printed by way of experiment
is nearly exhausted, but we understand
that another edition will appear. Price
$1.00. Address Marshall White, 224
Water St., Evansville, Ind.
Complete Course in Esperanto.—This
is a 32-page booklet for use by the pu-
pils of Mr. Geo. M. Freeman's corre-
spondence school of Esperanto. Using
the American Esperanto Book as the
main text, the "Complete Course" in-
structs the correspondent student in the
manner of study, provides additional
examples and instruction, etc. Well
prepared and printed, and is quite a
testimonial to the stability of the corre-
spondence school. Full particulars of
the course may be had from Prof: Free-
man, at Sinclairville, N. Y.
Esperanto en la Servo de la Dia
Regno.—"Esperanto in the service of
the Kingdom of God" is the beginning
of the title of a new monthly folio, pub-
lished at Mulheim a. fohein, Germany,
Freidrich Wilhelmstrasse 66. The rest
of the name is "Monthly Reports on the
Spread of Esperanto in the Young
Men's Christian Associations," making,
all told, the largest title and the small-
est periodical in the Esperanto field.
Price, one mark, or 25 cents, per year.
Address the publisher. From the first
issue we learn that the Y. M. C. A. has
7,600 locals, with a total of 761,000
members.
Lingvo lnternacia (April).—Prac-
tically the entire number is filled with
important official and semi-official mat-
ter. Prof. Cart has an article taking
the public further into confidence re-
garding the recent "Ido" controversy
and along the same line P. Corret has
an exhaustive article on "Adjuvanto
and the Delegation." These, with Cir-
cular 13 of the Lingvo Komitato, which
contains the final letter from Sro.
Boirac, President of the Committee, to
Prof. Ostwald, for the delegation prac-
tically fill the number. Dr. Vallienne
has an article on the mental processes
of the Romans, there are two poems,
one on "Beautiful Death" and the oth-
er "After a Rain." Forty-eight pages.
The number, 20 cents; by the year,
$1.80.
Lingvo lnternacia {May).—"The Fu-
ture of Human Flight" is a well-writ-
ten and interesting popular study of
the aeroplane, which the writer consid-
ers now a practical, undoubted solution
of the ages-old problem of the air.
"The Old Guide" is a story from
Jean Rameau, translated by the Es-
peranto Group of Neuchatel, Switz-
erland.    There are some official papers,
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Prof. Cart writes a letter to Prof. Jes-
perset and Corret continues his stinging
papers on "Adjuvanto and the Delega-
tion." The sum of his remarks is that
De Beaufront, for years leader of the
French movement for Esperanto, tried
to smuggle Adjuvanto, his own inven-
tion, through the Delegation in a box
marked "Ido" and has been caught in
the act. The accusers present consider-
able evidence, and the French society
seems likely to undergo a change of
president. For the rest, book reviews
illustrated monthly of Esperantoland.
For May: "The Singing Society of Mo-
and news notes, forty-eight pages, 20
cents; $1.80 per year.
Philatelic Esperanto.—This is a new
one, "published in behalf of the Esper-
anto-speaking collectors of the world."
Mr. Julian Park, of Buffalo, is the ed-
itor. The copies are numbered and are
for circulation among the members of
the society. From Number Four, Vol-
ume One, we get at first the impression
that the journal is a joke, since every
blessed line of it is English and not Es-
peranto, as the title slyly leads one to
expect. Closer examination, however,
reveals the announcement (still in Eng-
lish) that the publication will later ap-
pear in Esperanto, French and English.
La Suno Hispana.—Monthly of 16
pages in Spanish and Esperanto. (In
all reviews appearing in this magtizine,
articles mentioned are in Esperanto un-
less otherwise stated, even though the
titles are translated into English, as is
done in the present number for prop-
aganda purposes.) In the May num-
ber Sro. E. Cauo has an article on ama-
teur treatment of a disease in dogs.
"Dresden, the Congress City," "The
Permanent Committee of the Con-
gresses," a sensible article on the bar-
barous custom of piercing the ears is
contributed by Dr. A. Mellin; some par-
allel notes in Spanish and Esperanto
with the conclusion of a translation
from Anderson by Dr. Zamcnhof, re-
printed from an old issue of Lingvo In-
ternacia.   The number, 10 cents; by the
year, 75c.
Verda Stelo. — The sixteen-page
monthly organ of the Central Mexican
Esperanto Society; Spanish and Esper-
anto. The June number states that a
delegate from that country will probably
attend the Chautauqua convention to
help create enthusiasm for the Fifth in
America. The leading article is in Span-
ish—El Latin y el Esperanto. An Es-
peranto poem, anecdotes, news notes,
etc., fill the remainder of the number.
Every propagandist should have a copy
of the Mexican journal. We have the
numbers for April, May and June. By
the copy, 10c; by the year, $1.00.
Pola Esperantisto.—One of the most
important of recent additions to the
the periodical literature of Esperanto
is this Polish-Esperanto propaganda
and literary monthly published at
Warsaw, the home of Dr. Zamenhof,
inventor of Esperanto. Among the
editorial staff are some of the
oldest and best writers of the language,
including Dr. Leon Zamenhof, Dr.
Bein (Kabe), Leo Belmont, Antoni
GVabowski and A. Kofman. "Kabe"
is well known as probably the best Es-
peranto writer, and Kofman is not only
a charming writer but a sociologist of
keenest perception. In the April and
May numbers he has an allegory on
"The Living Truth" which is quite
worth reading. (We have all numbers,
January to May; per copy, 15c; per
year, $1.15.)
Jnternacia Scicnca Revuo.—A scien-
tific magazine of general scope, wholly
in Esperanto; official organ of the In-
ternational Esperanto Scientific Soci-
ety. In the June number: "A N«w
Theory on the Movement of Bodies in
Space"; "The Ideas of Sro. Le Bon on
the "Birth and Death of Matter"; an
archeologieal study by Dr. Sallin ; an ar-
ticle by P. Dejean on the international
time-meridian proposal; "The Natural
History of Love" translated from Max
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Nordau; notes and correspondece on
various subjects. (We have on sale the
numbers for March, April, May and
June; per copy, 15c; per year, $1.60.
The British Esperantist.—The leading
article in the June issue is an essay on
'' Ethics,'' written in the form of a con-
versational storiette. It is charmingly
written by A. Kofman, and is one of the
best replies we have yet seen to the
question, '' Can Esperanto ever possess a
literature of Its Own?" It is a terrific
arraignment of modern so-called moral-
ity, written by a man who knows well
where lies the road to better things, and
the futility of pointing it out. He dis-
misses the subject flippantly with the
words.- "Leave these useless questions
alone; in Russia this is a dangerous
subject!" One turns with reluctance
from this literary gem to examine the
remaining contents of the journal, al-
ways good: "The Jackdaw of Kheims."
has been well translated by J. W. Eg-
gleton. Su Ke Lo has an article on
"Esperanto and the Chinese Lan-
guage." Five pages of book reviews
and news notes in Esperanto, two pages
telling (in English)) of progress among
the British clubs, and a long-needed
article on "How to Start and Keep Go-
ing an Esperanto Club." This number
also reprints John Kendrick Bangs' hu-
morous poem about Esperanto, from
a recent number of The Century Mag-
azine. Price of the number, 10c. By
the year, 85c.   Order from A. E. Co.
; Espero Pacifisto (Jan., Feb.).—The
bi-monthly organ of the International
Esperantist Peace Society reviews the
work of its first three years of existence
and confesses that much more money is
needed to carry on the business. Some
of the best Esperanto books have been
.■issued as supplements to this magazine.
In discussion of "The Language Ques-
tion," M. Moch, the editor, says that
three things most of all are needed in
propaganda   work:     First,   discipline;
second, discipline; and third, discipline.
Amikejo kaj Pacifismo are discussed by
M. Roy, promoter of the little Esper-
anto nation. Papers on international
arbitration, the peace movement in gen-
eral, annual report of the society, etc.,
complete the number. Single copies, 15
cents.
La Vangfrapo.—This little comedy,
"The Slap," was written by Abraham
Dreyfus and has had a great popularity
in France. A deputy, a duellist and a
servant, with no stagesetting, are re-
quired for the performance, which re-
lates to "an affair of honor" as such
affairs are understood in certain Euro-
pean circles. After much belligerent
talk and some actual violence and recip-
rocal slapping, the belligerents make the
following arrangement, dictated by one
of the principals: "We will go to the
duelling-ground; you will hold out your
arm, which I will scratch; you will fall
to the earth; afterwards we will eat din-
ner and draw up a report for the pa-
pers."   Paper, 52 pages; 25 cents.
Intemacia Socia Kcvuo.—A monthly
(soon to be changed to semi-monthly)
Esperanto magazine in opposition to
Militarism, Capitalism and Clericalism.
The May number: "The Liberals and
the English Proletariat", by Harmel;
an editorial by A. Duthil on the value
of thinking as compared with mere
reading; "Reflections on Individual-
ism," translated from Devaldes by R.
Louis; "The Social and Psychical Ele-
ment in Christianity"; "A Letter from
Japan," by Osgi; Constitution of the
General Labor Federation (Confedera-
tion Generate du Travail,) from Dele-
salle, translated by Buokin; Reports on
the social movement from Argentina,
Australia, Belgium. France, Germany,
Spain, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portu-
gal, Uruguay and United States. By
the copy 15 cents. Per vear, $1.40.
A. E. Co.
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REMARKS
When you prepare manuscripts for
any publisher on earth, write one line
and leave two blank spaces following it,
and keep it up in this proportion. It
is barely possible that the editor will
want to make a correction or interline
some marks for the printer. Use a type-
writer. If your matter is not worth
typewriting the odds are that it is not
worth printing.
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Never cover more than one subject on
one sheet of paper. For example, if
you order books, preach a sermon and
write an editorial on the same sheet
you will have saved $.001 worth of pa-
per and will endanger the immortal
souls of one order clerk, one editor and
one book-keeper, besides your own, if
you have any.
Any club can have copies of our
American Esperanto Book, on sale, sub-
ject to payment when sold. For the
reason that many clubs and not a few
stores are doing this, we must insist
that if you want the premium book sent
with a given subscription you ask for it
when ordering. Some keep this book in
stock and give it to the subscriber first
haud. Others do not. Make clear what
you want, please.
The girl at the subscription desk
sends this little message, with her kind
regards, hoping you are well: "When
you go on a vacation, or make a tem-
porary change of address, do not ask to
have your subscription address changed,
but simply request the sending of cer-
tain numbers to the temporary address,
and always, in writing about your sub-
scription,   refer  to  the   permanent  ad-
dress. Just remember that we have an
opera-house full of subscribers in every
state, and some of them with standing
room only.''
Begging your pardon for any seeming
tendency to flit about, we ask you to
observe that Amerika Esperantisto is
now giving a new address—235 East
Fortieth Street, hut still Chicago—
always Chicago. Previous quarters have
been temporary, but we now have a
large office in a new building designed
expressly for a syndicate of periodicals
—The United Religious Press. Our tel-
ephone is Douglas 3113, private ex-
change to all departments. To visit us.
take any South Side elevated train and
change for Kenwood line, stopping at
Vincennes Avenue. Half block south
and one east; or, take any Cottage Grove
Avenue car to Fortieth Street, get off
and walk a block west. As the cover of
this issue was printed and most of the
advertisements electrotyped before the
change was made, the new address is
not "played up" in this issue; mail to
any previous address, however, or just
plain '' Chicago'' reaches us promptly.   •
And again, though your check for a
dollar is a most gladsome sight, it is
worth only ninety cents in Chicago un-
less drawn upon a city bank—New
York, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis,
etc. Ten thousand dollars in checks
from country subscribers means, in the
end, $1,000 paid out for exchange
charges. Plain Ben Franklin stamps.
good for one cent apiece, for any small
amount, are better and cheaper than
money-orders. One dollar bills, which
are found in a wild state only east of the
Mississippi, are also accepted at their
face value.
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FROM THE TIME when a handful of grasshoppers for en-
tree, with wild berries for dessert, failed to satisfy the
growing needs of the human animal, his life has been a pro-
longed game of hustle. The hustle was good for him—it de-
veloped his wits, heightened his forehead and stood him up on
his hind legs to lord it over the rest of creation. Strange to say,
however, the individual does not appreciate this great blessing;
we are perfectly ready to do all our hustling vicariously, and
the only terms on which we willingly consent to stew in our
own personal sweat is when we call the thing "sport." Chasing
the grasshoppers, gathering up the clams, beating down the
nuts and milking the cows we call labor; certain it is, too, that
no sane person wants to labor. So the whole problem is, and
for time out of memory of the race, it has been to eat the hop-
pergrasses without chasing them and to gather eggs where our
hens have not laid.
Various devices indeed have we used to reach this end.
Sometimes we put brass rings in our noses and the people who
hadn't brass rings in their noses came and worshipped us and
fed us; sometimes we put a stiff club in our hand, and the
people who owned smaller clubs fell down and.paved our path
with broiled lobster and stewed prunes. We have robbed, mur-
dered and enslaved, so long as that was the fashion. It is out of
fashion to do those things directly and openly today, therefore
it is not profitable, and because it is not profitable it is out of
fashion.
As a matter of fact, there is more or less of real work at-
tached to any way of getting a living, but because in three forms
the effort is reduced to such a small minimum, these stand in
sharp contrast to all others, and every mothers' son of us is and
has been all his life, trying to get into the habit of making a liv-
ing in one of those ways.
These three methods are called rent, interest, and profit.
Rent consists in owning real estate and in making a low-
browed fool pay for the priviledge of living upon it. It is
good, and supports our best families.
Profit consists in using your noddle to create fictitious
values, and is the only one of the three games in which there is
real fun or which requires much brains. To buy five cents'
worth of laundry soao, make it into twenty packages of Dr.
Grabband Skinnem's Marvellous Corn Soecific and sell it to a
crowd of suckers for a dollar per specific, is a fair samnle of
the profit game, high and low. Usually, the size of the percent-
age is the measure of the abilitv of the profit-taker.
Interest is where you come in. You do not care to sell corn
cure.  You meet the genius and buy the soap for him, taking his
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promise to repay you the five cents, with a little added money.
Interest is the most stupendous fiction in which the human
mind ever indulged. It is based upon a mathematical impos-
sibility, and every interest game is a losing game. Figure it for
yourself. Value the Atlantic ocean at one cent. Suppose that
"creation" was a hundred thousand years ago. "Invest" one
drop of water at a septillionth part of a cent, compound, five-
per-cent interest. Why, man, twenty earths of solid gold
wouldn't pay the bill today! The only answer to the interest
problem is—death. In every forest, part of the trees are dying,
and in the business world part of the enterprises are always
dying and repudiating their debts, capital, principal, interest
and dividends.
But since the span of human life is so short, and most of us
are more concerned with present and pressing problems than
with pure mathematics, it is quite possible to select, if one is
possessed of good average gumption, investments which give
reasonable assurance of paying their interest charges for one
human life-time. An industrial concern can well afford to pay
interest, or dividends, so long as it is GREEN AND GROWING,
just as a farmer can afford to buy seed-grain if he has a field to
plant. He can pay any reasonable interest on the cost of that
grain, too, for he expects to reap twenty-to-one or a hundred-
to-one.
Make a note of those words, GREEN AND GROWING.
Therein is the whole solution of the interest problem.
INVESTING IN ESPERANTO.
Two years ago, in a Texas town, an old man laid a copy of
O'Connor's text-book of Esperanto before me. He was far ad-
vanced in years, and was putting his affairs in order and prepar-
ing to give up his place on earth. And he said: "Young man,
there's something that will GROW." I took a note of the pub-
lisher's address and wrote for the book. After many years in
printing and country newspaper work I was touring the country
then as a lyceum entertainer, but that little book and the little
scheme worked themselves into my thought-system and insist-
ently repeated:
"Young man, THERE'S something that will GROW".
It was all perfectly plain—there was to be an Esperanto
magazine in America and yours truly was to sit on the main
desk.   But how and when?
Returning from a lecture trip which left some unusual dol-
lars in hand, I published the first number of AMERIKA ESPER-
ANTISTO. For four months I hustled about, giving lectures to
support myself and the paper, never discouraged or doubting
the ultimate outcome for a moment. Then it dawned upon me
that as I was compelled to sell the victim a book before he could
read the paper, a book was necessary to the life of the paper. It
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was too big an undertaking, so I wrote a western publisher
about the scheme and he responded that he could handle the
book. I slammed it together in two weeks and took the "copy"
to see him. With the manuscript still in my trunk I described
the book to him and he said: "It's too big for me to publish,
but if you'll get it out I'll take a thousand copies."
Stung! No—not at all. When you can sit across the table
from a man you never saw before and sell him a thousand cop-
ies of a book that only yourself has ever read in manuscript—
nobody but a born pessimist could "kick" at that. But he saw,
and there was the reason—Esperanto is GREEN AND GROW-
ING.
That set fire to my smouldering optimism, and I squandered
$3.50 for a Pullman berth on the trip to Chicago, rented a room
and hired a stenographer to do the rough work while I went
out to place the manuscript of The American Esperanto book.
Ten, twenty, thirty interviews followed with ten, twenty, thirty
publishers, in ten, twenty thirty davs. One of them even exam-
ined the manuscript, or said he did. Most of them had never
heard of Esperanto. I found a publisher who agreed to lend
me $150.00 for sixty days if I would pay him back $150.00 in
money and $150.00 in royalties. I bought $150.00 worth of type,
had it sent to my bed-room, told the electrotypers to call every
day for the page-forms, and in six weeks the plates were ready
for the press.  I can still set type when vou git me riled.
In the meantime, of course, I had disoensed with Miss Bir-
mingham, the stenographer, and otherwise reduced expenses.
I could have used the $3.50 which the Pullman berth—in fact,
the auarter I gave the porter—but what's the use?
The pleasant spot in the whole memory—or rather the two
pleasant spots—are the bulging eyes of the landlady that time
I handed her the thirty-five dollars room rent. She was waver-
ing between thrifty delight at the return of the shekels she had
mourned as lost and cantankerous disaopointment because her
gloomv prophesies as to the sad end of "folks what tries t' re-
form der world" seemed slipping awav into the twilight.
GETTING CLOSER TO THE POINT.
Why am I telling you this?
Under the bridge which spans the river are concrete piers,
set down in the sand, to solid bottom. Men dug and dug for
weeks in cassions laying those foundations. Thev are out of
sight. They don't beautifv the landscape. They don't even make
a noise. But they had to be there, just the same. Two years of
steady digging are in the foundation, and the beginning stage
of this magazine has been passed. It is no longer an experi-
ment. But because I want it to be a big success and want your
help in it, and am going to ask you, a little farther along in this
advertisement, to put your money into it, you ought to know
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just how and why it began and how the foundation was laid.
There has been no scratching of the surface. And I am not one
bit more confident of its ultimate success now than when one
edition was delayed two weeks for lack of two dollars to pay
the postage.
But come down to date and up to the point. Publicity by
means of the printed page must be the power behind any great
popular movement. A strongly-built system of advertising
constitutes a great part of our propaganda for Esperanto.
The system used by AMERIKA ESPERANTISTO has been and
is to convert the individual to Esperanto by selling him a book
with which to learn it, and a periodical to "jog up" or refresh
his interest in it. When he pays us $1.50 for book and magazine
he must not only pay the full cost of both, but must pay the cost
of convincing him that he should take up Esperanto. And we
figure that every Esperantist has a personal, proprietary, re-
ligious interest in the pushing of the propaganda, and is quite
content to have us give him back full value for part of his
money, and to spend the rest convincing his neighbor. That is
the kind of foundation we are laying—propaganda, propa-
ganda, and always more propaganda.
We need more capital in this prapaganda. I told you a year
ago that we needed $100,000, and it is just as true today, but I
don't expect to get it. Now, I'm going to tell you what I think
you can, and will do, for Esperanto.
We need an equipment fund of $5,000, a stock fund of about
the same sum, and a working caoital of like amount. These
will relieve our "growing pains" for a while, at least, and that
much is imperativelv necessary* It is not needed for expenses
—we take reasonable care that expenses and receipts shall just
about balance each other; but we cannot possibly take full ad-
vantage of the opportunity open to us to push the propaganda
of Esperanto without a large increase of capital.
Those who invest this money will not be managers of the
business, but, in the last analysis, thev will be its owners; their
investments being preferred above mine as to principal and in-
terest.
You can reasonably exoect to get interest or dividends only
when you invest in something that's GREEN AND GROWING.
Esperanto is on the road to BIGNESS.
IF ESPERANTO WINS OUT. American machinery and
American business methods have foretold that the biggest Es-
peranto publishing house in the world will be in America.
If it is in America, it will be in Chicago.
Have YOU any idle capital which you are willing to invest
at 7 per cent per annum, semi-annual cumulative dividends? If
so, write and say HOW MUCH you have, and III enlighten you
as to our proposal.
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Sewed, opens flat, easily carried in pocket. Free with a yearly
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