The record-union., 1897-08-11

who has ben punished for his political
| opinions. The Kansas Agricultural
| College is a case in point. The free
silver Populists and Democrats of that
State dismissed more than half the
faculty of the institution recently for
political reasons This was the first
time there ever was any politics in
/ the school The men who condemn
the action at Brown University should
not pass over the Kansas incident in
silence.
A LESSON IN COMPOSITION.
Stockton Mail: The independent"
says: Professor Bradley of the Uni
versity of California has the reputation
of being very precise in the matter of
his English. In his letter denying that
he alone is the cause of the rule under
| which SO many high schools have been
discredited. he INDUCES in the now
common fad of beginning sentences
with conjunctions where there is no
good reason for so doing, as emphasis.
1t is a fad that is peculiar to writers in
slOp-shop magazines and pretended re-
formers, and is like the fad Of the old
time school girl for underscoring lines
without either rhyme or reason"
The usage of the masters is the su-
prerne law of our idiomatic speech. The
study of all the grammars and diction-
aries ever put between covers will not
give one the ability to write correct,
elegant, forcible English. In order him
self to master our tongue, one must
give his days and nights to patient
reading of the works Of those great
| men =
Those who are tolerably we'll read
need not be told that so far
is the practice of beginning SEN
tences with conjunctions in order to
obtain just emphasis from being fad
peculiar to writer's in slOp-shop maga-
zines" that it is the usage, the frequent
usage, of the most finished of the Eng
lish classic writers.
No man ever wrote, none ever will
write English more pure than the Eng
glish of Thomas Darlington Macaulay.
His compositions We're polished with Wig
liant care. Their finish is absolutely
perfect, without blemish and without
flaw. Not one of the great writers of
English is used to begin a sentence
with a conjunction so frequently as
| Macaulay. And it is this just and ele-
/
to his noble rhetoric the liveliness
which is not the least of it's fascinating
charms.
The prose of John Milton is as splen-
did as his verse. We could fill the col
umns Of the Mail with sentences taken
from Millions prose, each beginning
with a conjunction. And this same,
forcibe popularity of style is used by
| Ya1, lNx-C Cvxrift bxy, lxy
every man who has written English
that does not die.
The accepted translation of
the Bible is the very fount of English
undeiled 1t was that translation, in
fact, which fixed our speech in it's pres
ent form of the English of
] the Bible And in no English book is
! the conjunction so freely used.
The finest sentence ever written is
this: And God said, Let there be
light
The dramatic conclusions of the story
of the prophet and Gehazi is this: And
he went out from his presence a leper
as white as snow"
When Peter, with cursing had denied
his Master, the sacred writer says:
And Immediately the cock crew And
which said unto him, before the cock
crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And
he went out and wept bitterly"
A PROTEST.
Los Angeles Record: That highly
pious and respectable magazine The
Outlook" is not at all pleased with the
worldly way in which Christian En-
deavorers invaded California with their
noisy cries and avidity to see everything.
In fact, THE Outlook" doubts the wis
dom of transporting such vast throngs
over such great distances and under
such peculiar associations 1t sug-
gests that vastly more work might be
accomplished if a c. E. Congress OF
not over 500 delegates were in future
to represent the societies, as it could
be easily handled and entertained
What do the Endeavorers say to this?
GOLD NEARER HOME.
Los Angeles Express: Before start
ing off for Alaska gold fields the vic
: Tins of Klondikitis should try their
hands at some of the gold fields nearer
home These fields are not given the
publicity of the frozen northern fields;
they are not surrounded by the glamor
(
additional drawbacks of easy accessi-
bility-from a miners point of view;
| civilization is near at hand; prevalent
, low prices obtain for grub" and out
fits, and tolerable climate These
disadvantages may be sufficient to de
: ter many, who prefer to hunt for the
: pot of gold under the aurora at the
| North Pole
Right here in Southern California are
mines that turn out 300 pounds of GOLD
every month. In Arizona are severa
mines that turn out from 300 pounds tC
half ton of gold each month. In the
northern part of Mexico and the north
: ern part of Lower California, both easy
of access to Americans, are placers
some of which have turned out a quar-
ter of ton of gold in a month. These
facts are much more easily authenticat-
ed than are some of the frozen truths
l from Alaska.
TOO MUCH MONEY"
/ Merced Sun: If the Klondike mines
, are as rich as they are said to be, they
will doubtless contribute to the max
ing of good times on the Pacific Coast
for the next few years. The millions
that are to be taken out of the ground
; there will not remain in Alaska, be-
cause there is nothing there in which tC
, invest money That gold will nat
urally flow into the States for invest
ment, and the great bulk of it vii
come TO San Francisco as a distributing
point. Good times TO certain extent
, will have to follow, because wherever
money in goodly quantities is thrown
into circulation the wheels of industry