Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-01-20

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the fragile form that was kissing the sod
so passionately, all unconscious of the
presence of any one, till her own name.
spoken in clear, musical tones, startled
her.
Marian Thorne r
She sprang to her feet, and gazed at the
intruder. Z
II spoke to you. Marian Thorne. be-
cause have right tc do so. You loved
him, but not so much as I did,-there,
don't scream. for am telling the truth.
I worshipped him; he hated me. You
loved him; be worshipped you. That's
all the difference. You we're to be his
wife I was least off! cast off," Oh,
these words will.ring in my ears through
out eternity!"
Marian sank to the ground, covering
her face with her hands, white, stern and
passionless.
Ida Rossitur continued:
1.-The day he deserted me, that day
knew vengeance would follow him. l
knew not what it would be; but when the
papers told me he was dead-had died of
heart disease on the wedding morn-I
felt twas only just. He had crushed my
heart, and had to live. just as you will
live, to suffer till the end. He cared not
for the sacrifice I made to win him, and
now, lying cold and still under the sum-
mer daises, he knows not the fearful sacri-
fee you have been compelled to endure in
giving him up"
With reverential tenderness she bent
over Win6eld's grave and kissed the weep
ing widowed bride; then departed as she
came, silently, mysteriously. leaving a.
lone. in the early twilight, the stricken
girl to bear alone her burden of sorrow.
Words and their Uses.
From Richard Grant Whites new vol
ume. bearing the above title, we quote a
few paragraphs. showing nice sense Of
discrimination founded on practical views
of the subject:
AaaRAvArE.-This word should never
be employed in reference to persons. as it
neans merely to add weight to-to make
an evil more oppressive injury is aggra-
vated by insult. Itis sometimes impro-
perly used in the sense of irritate. as II
was much aggravated BY his conduct. s.
BALANCE 10 the sense of rest. remainder.
residue. remnant tisaa4a amination. Bal
ance is metaphoricaliy the difference
between two sides of an accountable
amount which is necessary to make one
equal to the other. x Yet we
continually hear Of the balance of this or
that thing, even the balance of a congre-
cation or of an army!
BouNr1FUt is applicable only to persons.
A giver may be bountiful. but his gift
connot-it should be called plentiful or
large. IA bountiful SLICE is absurd.
FETCH expresses double motion-frst
from and then toward the speaker; it is
exactly equivalent to ''go and bring" and
ought not to be used In the sense of bring
alone.
CALCULATE, besides its sectional misuse
for think or suppose, is sometimes. in the
participal from calculated, put for likely
or apt: That nomination is calculated to
injure the party" 1t calculated (design-
ed) to do no such thing, though it may
be likely to.
CITIZEN should not be used except when
the possession of political rights is meant
to be implied. Newspaper reporters have
a bad habit of bringing it out on all occa-
sions, when ''person," imam" or "by-
stander" would express their meaning
much better.
COUPLE applies to two things which are
bound together or united in some way.
IA couple of apples" is incorrect-two
apples is what is meant.
DIRT means filth, and is not synony-
nous with earth or soil. Yet people some
times speak of dirt road or of packing
dirt around the roots of trees they are
setting. They mean earth.
EXECUTE. When murderer is hanged
his sentence is executed. the man is not.
A man cannot be execut.d--that is, fol-
lowed out or performed.
EXPECT looks always to the future.
You connot expect that anything has hap
pened or is happening. but only that it
will happen.
GET means to obtain, not to possess.
"He has got all the numbers of the
Country Gentleman" "Have you got
good molasses p g They have got bad
manners" Why will people persist in
introducing the word in such sentences
as these, where it is so evidently super
fuous?
HELP MEEr.-An absurd use of these
two words. as if they together were the
the name of one thing-a wife-is too
common. The sentence in Genesis is
Il will make him an help meet for him''
i. e.. help fit for him. There is no
such word as helpmeet.
L1E-LAY-Persons not grossly igno-
rant sometimes say they will lay meaning
lie down. that they have lay [lain] an
hour, or that the hammer is laying Clying1
by the tracks. Lie means to recline; its past
tense lazy lay there Ill that night
its participles. lying and lain. Lay
(used of present time means to put some-
thing down-one lays carpet; its past
is laid-''I laid it myself" /" its, participles.
lsying and laid. II was interrupted