The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24

Is wonderfully at fault In the first place there
was no arrangement made fora 'ietuorst ration.
bniaio Biii was not to- fire the big gun, for
1t had already been fired from Sonrlan: the
squire was not 10 make reform speech, for
the time Tor reform speeches was past rh, ljc,,-
pte having on the eth inst. made the last sDeecI,
on that subject. 1t only remains to be seen
whether thcu VIII or the will OF 1t vulgar tyrant
is supreme
As TO the contemplate fling on the powder
question, that Is n little too thin! Sympathy
from that source when there WAS Il question of
three cent piecey Bosh! Much more likely
would the odd grain be bit in two to make the
exact weight, on a sale at a usIriot:s p~oiii
sympathy indeed! Wonder ir Col. Miiik in
Wouldn't let us have little if we would send
IN our requisition before he leaves for the
tront As blank cartridge would do US here.
Justice" concludes his very able paper on th,.
SITUATION thus y !: so. Mr. Davis cnHnces are
fraud they Cwho y have committed may elect
MN. which would be their just attributes
Just dttlibutcS! Die ynu ever hear the like
M EdltorF Just attributes! Well, WE'LL
The Cdnbria Herald Of last week also. con-
signed Fair Play" but us there is no fair pIb,.
~ IN II, nor any sense either. would only SAY to
ms scrIhhter that, Hs his littI" dish OF living
nuustnsc is dated on Sunday. he s.,nuIC obs1rva
me law, ana ais'ain from ae'Ude work on the
i'oiu u"S' Dye, o9e! REFORM
CHEST SPRINGS, Nov. Is, 1876
Mr.. EDITOR AT a teachers examination last
summer the following sentence was submitted
for anal ysis:
Sweet vale OF Avoca how calm could 1 rest
Il
best
Now the controverted part is the principal
sentence, namely. .'how calm cOuid | rest -
10 slraightea this il would read Il could rtst
how calm Il" the subject could rest the
Bredicnte' md calm" nn ndverb modifying
rest, or an adjective iti predicate; and :hcSc
two cases are tHe two horns of the dilemma.
How OF course modiies rest"
Now your humble scribhIcr thinks that
calm Is an adVerb modify ing the verb rest, -
while others maintain that rest is an adjec-
tive in predicate.
Clark's Practical Grammar. page, 24o saws
that 1T will he noticed that the adjective in
predicate does not madVR the veri. 1t des-
crIbcS the subject by the aid of the verb Now
II calm Is AN adjective in predicate ii des-
crihrs the subject 3y the aid Of the verb
JUST ask the question, How could rest -
Ihe answer is. L could rest culfn''-or calmly il
sh buId he when correctly written, the form
calm being allowed by poetic license. Calm
here evidently modifes the verb rest acc, .r,l-
Ing to any ones common sense.
We Will just place two similar sentences to-
gctitcr:
How calm conld rest=I could rest how calm
How sweet could sleep=1 could rest how sweet.
Now any one may see that these two sentences
arc similar: ana lay may also see the a hsurdi-
ty of the position thu. either calm or ''swcCt'
is an dj-ctivc describing = IL for 1t would be
absurd to say l being how sweet could sleep.
sweet here does not describe Il :; neither
does calm" describe"I." Sweet or sweptiy
it should be. evidently modincs sleep" and as
'swcel" bears the same relation to sleep
modifies rest aud is an adverh. y. ID. II =