, 1875-11-26
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AND 1ra CHAMPION TIE T1MEs."

AND 1ra CHAMPION TIE T1Mxs,"
u the Ea,fDr II Tie Chicago Tribune,
Cu1cA0o, Nov. 25.-A fcw yeazs ago tue Chi
oago Times wsB scizcd with singular Affection
sudden breaking out, 10 to speak. of "ons"
all over It, Tho pnbllc would bo grarely ioform-
ed by that paper, for instance, that tho Hon. So
and-so bad arrived in this city "on yoatorday";
number Of lis friends had paid their respects
to him '4on" last evening, that ls would ro-
maiu in town ION to-day" take his departure
ION Tomorrow" !" md probably reach homo early
"on next week."
ouco sLost editorial appeared in 1efcuso Of
this absurd practice, profssendly in ansner to
communication nhlch dared to question Its pro-
prlsty. Tho editorial, 80 far as l remember,
Was to tho effect that tho correspondent
was Al aae; that to-day, yesterday, to-morroy.
eso., being nouns," ahouid be governed by
pteposlttons, - every QUO not pi.iably ignorant
OF tue s1Mp!ost rules OF GEarum1r ought to know
luis highly characteristics reply seeruod 10 haye
Bilenclng il not convincing. efIeck. and nm
Times, grown bold, thereattor fairly btts,lod
with onH, y thrown In at orery possible place
and on oTery possible occasion. like challenges.
Each individual IL On seemed like o chin on
The shoude. Of the Times. -
Now, show me tic second derned fool that,u
say THIS thing on my nose ia q bile, or that It
gan y once shouted all iufuriatsu 8-foot Terri
totan, ~ the first ~ desned fool " alCnk on With
hln baud on his ear.
~. after time tho disease began to work OF
quent occurrence. until at last they wholly dis
appeared except In appropriate placoe, Tbo
1nnes had seemingly recovered, and Ito "half-
million reudera " rejoicod accordingly. But
active for years. Suddenly aud without warn
Ing, the absuldity broke out afscsb, and tno
eruption y 1uet It tho present titno at its
heIeeht- The following 4re q ssw Of tho samples
that occur IN tho Times this week:
The death OF 6eosse Yeluose, tie EpslIah eoredl.
an, It New York. on last week
Ils ~aasng'mssch terminated on Last
w,tL the closing testimony on to-aa, In tho No
il i, tesssei th. a,seep vessel. foups.r,s T., t,a
Downs during tho stosm on ls4t night :.
Clhln 49, from London dispatch To the AS
soe1ssea IT, & f!css appropriately altered. no doubt,
f. s9e eohn PR. of the whole
PapoE put themselves IN order tha. "ons nav
be introduced wherever possible. Even tbe nor,
feapondcnec te!sgrams, advertisements. and
extracts from exchanges, h1e eoue thronsh and
aoctofad. Thus. for instance:
chsrles Dudley Warner wTs.ss from yent,, n IN,
Hartford Eauranf "a bt9g4r to be esteeued nre.
,eatea hnnsdf On to-day, when we:s On she W..
Docs any ona believe that Charles Dudley
Warner ever Mrdta the sentence AZ shove pr
hat the Hartford Courant evsr. printed .tso7
Rsghzded from grammatical asandpoint the
sasa made out BY the Times il bad one; but
sven II it wore otherwiae, It might, ntii! DO
question how far single nsFspsper ia justified
10 ignoring the classical nn'dels OF tue language,
nd contemptuously overriding standard usage.
The case mads out by tho Times ia 4 bad Que,
A!nco grsmmAI1auB uuuaiy, it not always, class
such words a. "to-day," ''yesterday," etc.,
among adverbs when they relate simply to time,
sod ~ nouns Gully when they arc clearly Bucl,
Thus: He vii. como Tomorrow (Advsrh). To-
DQfrOW fpouD1 nav nHf4F come
The ItHaes, however. insiats that tboy arc al
Ways uoupa. In reality 1t Is matter Of little
tmpoftauce whether they are called pouns or Ad-
verbs. aiuco tue present question Ia TatheF one
Of good usage add rotnel taste than exact
grsmmtr. Certainly there can bs no question
that they are nouns when made to follow prepo-
"thence. !" aud the like, may be- used etLer ~
nonnA o. sdvesbs. Thus; As wont 10 New
York and theuce {adserb) to Europe; or, Ue
vent 10 New York and from thouce (uounl 10
Europe but tue bes. u4age gives the former
However. 1t might not be EASY to demoastra.e
eonclustely 10 ~ minds that to-day and similar
argument, lot mo admit that they arc. Yery
lkely they may properly bo considered AZ sucE,
GrAmmArians bAye found, a.d establisGod Al !.
rule, that "modfyiug subatanttyes that danote
direction sifnb, extent, atc.. plteu stand lu tha
objective casa ungoyerned by pteposItlon." ii
tho words in question aro c!aAssu u uouuo tboy
fall withid this ruls not oi necessity, u some
STOOD IL pAssing), but by usage-sho father OF
I'll Era,nm&ts.
Probably not single suthonty can BE- p,o-
duced TOT thlA ehe1ishsd custon Of tho Tines
ts1ds from that papaz ilsslk ~ Il - ",