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entitled to agree with Mr.. Ayres to the

entitled to agree with Mr.. Ayres to the
last dot.
In some of the later chapters the au-
thor discusses mistakes which are really
in need of being rectified. Some of the
distinctions which he makes are rather
fine but very necessary, and he justly OBJ
serves that the meaning of many good
old English words has been utterly lost
through the slipshod substitution OF other
words for them. For example, he notes
the continual use of financial for
monetary and ''pccuniary,' and the use
of anxious" for "desirous, "solicitous
or concerned" Another distinction which
he makes is between these four words:
1T is a common thing to see the
word generally used where one of its
synonyms would better serve. Indeed,
there are persons. among them some
clever writer's. that seem to nave ut
tie or 10 acquaintance with any OF
Gcnerallys kinship. IL is easier to
write In an indiscrminating way but
that is not good way to choose If
one would produce what the world has
always been readitst to applaud and
most willing TO pay for-quality.
II am often in doubt whether
should use commonly. generally, usu-
ally. or ordinarily, but / am sure
more frequently use the right word
of the four than ! should If / were not
of opinion that there is always best
one of the four TO use in any given
sentence.
The distinctions between these words
may. perhaps. be intimated thus:
Commonly is opposed to rarely or
exceptionally.
Generally to restrictedly.
Usually to occasionally.
Ordinarily to exceptionally or rarely
Commonly and ordinarily are very
closely allied"
Now. most people use these words with
out the slightest sense of any difference
in meaning between them, and ''gener-
ally is the worst overworked of the four.
II Mr.. Ayres, in this and other cases. can
draw lines of distinction that will stay
drawn, he will confer a benefit upon all
lovers of pure English. New York: ID.
Appleton & Co. $3.50
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24
The Use of Words

Some Ill-Used Words bv Alfred
Ayres, is little book intended to cor
rect some common errors in everyday
speech and newspaper English. The an
| thor begins his work with a chapter nm
The Auxiliaries," in which he discusses
the proper use of Shall" and "wiII''-a
matter which is always likely to be n
Vexed question. There is certainly every
reason why Westinghouse should he
prepared to discuss that or any other
problem, after the struggle which
we have had with the question
whether street cars should stop on
the near or the far side of the street
and 1t viii take every bit of the skilIfuI
casuistry developed in the consideration
Of this matter to untangle the mass of
mixed rules and examples which the au-
thor has contrived to get together. The
ordinary usage is that of will" in the
second and third persons to express simple
futurity, and 'shall' in the first person
to express the same; while will" used
IN the hrst person is used to express de-
termination, and Shall" in the second
and third persons to express compulsion,
as HE shall CO." signifies not that the
person in question wishes to go, but that
he must. while Il shall go" means that
'H' SptdNei mas the intention or going.
Mr.. Ayres, on the contrary, declares that
shall should be used all the wav
around to express futurity. He gives as
an example:
with this accomplished, the Chi
cago scientist believes that he will
(shal) have fairly accurate idea of,
etc, etc
The parenthesis indicates a correction
The author objects to the use of will
In any such connection. But suppose the
sentence had read in this way:
THE Chicago scientist shall believe
my theory"
Would that have expressed futurity.
or would this:
The Chicago scientist will believe
my theory"
Again:
president Eliot's mind is made IN.
He says he won't support Mckinley.
but doesn't know how he will (shaiU
vote"
But would this express futurity?
President Eliot shall vote for Nc
kinney"
There Is no question that the word
will is often used In the wrong place.
but Mr.. Ayres pokes "shalr' into places
where 1t does not seem, to the mind of
the uninitiated, to belong However, IL
anybody can go through the mass of ex-
amples and opinions which is put into
this first chapter, and have any ideas at
all on the question of shall and will when
he has finished that chapter, he is fully
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24
Beauty and the Beast.

Miss Guinevere Pratt was SO beautiful that
She couldn't remember the day
| When one OF her SWANS hadn't taken the pains
TO send her a mammoth bouquet;
| And the postman had found on the whole OF
his round.
That no one received such a lot
OF bulky epistles. as, waiting his whistles,
The beautiful Guinevere got.
significant sign that her charm was divine
Was seen in society, when
TIL ehaperons shifted with their eyebrows a-lift:
"Whatever's got into the men?"
There was always a man who holding her fan,
And twenty that danced in details,
And a couple of mourners, who brooded in
corners,
And gnawed their mustaches and nails.
John Jeremy Pratt wouldn't stay in the fiat,
For his beautiful daughter he missed.
When he'd taken his tub he would HE to his club
And join in a rubber of whist
At the end of year 1t perfectly clear
That he'd never computed the cost
For he hadn't penny to settle the many
Ten thousands of dollars he'd lost.
F. Ferdinand Fife was student of life;
He coarse and excessively fat.
With face like n goats. but he held all the
notes
OF ruined John Jeremy Prattl
With an adamant smile that trimming with
guile,
He said: 81 am took with the face
OF your beautiful daughter, and we'd me she
oughter,
To save you from utter disgrace
Miss Gunevere Pratt didn't hesitate at
Her duty's imperative call.
When they looked at the bride. all the chaperons
cried:
'.she isn't so bad. after air.
OF the desolate men, there were something like
ten
Who took up political lives.
And the cynical mourners came out of their
And married most hdeous wives.
But the beautiful wife OF =. Ferdinand Fife
Was the widest that ever known;
She'd grumhe and glare till the didn't dare
To say that his soul hi own.
She sneered at his ills and quadrupled his bills
And spent nearly twice what he earned;
Her husband deserted. and frivoied and hrted
Till his horrible lesson he learned
lie repented too late. and his hideous fate
Upon him heavily sat
That he Swore at the day when he sat down to
play
At whist with John Jeremy Pratt
He dead in year, and the fair Guncyere
In society sparkled again.
And the chaperons iuttered their fans as they
muttered:
She's getting exceedingly plain
The Moral: Predcaments often are found
That beautiful duty contrives to get round
But greedy extortioners better beware
When dutiful beauty begins to get square!
Guy Wetmore Carryl in the Smart Set.
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CURRENT VERSE.
An Americanpuche..

With hair like silken bronze and tea rose face.
Beside her spouse, the Duke, all wiliowy grace.
Behold her bloom. by many a gazer scanned.
Perehed on the box-seat Of his four-in hand
Two years Duchess; yet you might declare
Her birth was regal. from that pose and air.
Mems hats are lifted; ladies' heads are bowed;
An affuent homage greets her from the crowd
Whose crest-engraven coaches. glittering. pass
Between the Parks grand Gins and fragrant grass.
But always, following like the May winds flow,
Murmurs the voice of gossip, swift or slow:
ga beauty, of course You've heard the doleful
tale:
Her marriage was the most revolving sale.
From somewhere off in Yankeeiand she came;
Nevada, hansas-one forgets the name.
''Her father. out of penury's low LARS,
Had risen among the multi-millionaires.
This Duke Of Hull, besmirched, if not disclassed
With rayaSed income and notorious past,
'Ioaming the States. in cold ennui. had seen
Her girlhood as it lowered at sweet eighteen.
Daughter OF sluni-born upstairs. If you will.
Culture had trained her with triumphant skill.
Fresh from Paris pension did she CLEAN
''Then spoke the ambitious parents, deaf to
shame:
Three million dollars for your dueal name
''Hull unused an hour or two, then tossed them
yes
They dragged her to the altar, passionless.
''Ded four months old. They've had no chill
dren since
learn she's bcamed on by some royal prince.
''But frost is tropic. if report speaks plain,
Compared with her indifference and disdain.
well, so it bides. You've heard what gossip
tells
Touching the morals of these English swells
'''wait' laugh the cynics: all her ice and snow
VIII melt consentient in the overglow
" OF sumptuous Mayfair and those revels high
At castle and park and manor, by and by
Look! that consummate horseman, Sir Guy
ysne,
Close at her carriage wheel draws courteous rein.
''she mods and smiles; there's not man in town
Wickeder than Sir Guy. Observe that frown
''Just Pickering in the dukes gaze and no more;
He knows this London smart set to its core.
.'He knows that here is not the sole Lord Guy
His glacial duchess may be melted by.
% Dollars for dignities,' the bargain read;
Twas clinched. What wonder now that he should
dread
"Some SCATTERING blow from circumstanee?--espy
The insidious feet of Nemesis draw nigh?
Come, it grows damper as the sun droops low
These treaeherous Maytide evening chill one
'fLet US go out by Hyde Park Corner here.
The rhododendrons superb this year.
Edgar Facet in the Smart Set.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Unschooled in Letters and in Arts IMMERSED;
Ignorant of Empire; bounded in their view
By the lone bilowing vedt where they upgrew
Amid great silenees people nursed
Apart. the far-sown seed of them that erst
Not Alvas sword could tame; now. blindly hurled
Against the march Of the majestic world,
They fight and die, with dauntless bosoms eurst.
Crazed il you will demented not to yield
Ere all Is refti Yet, mad though these may be,
They have striven noblest Englishmen did use
To strive for freedom; and no Briton he.
Who to such valor in a desperate field
A knightly salutation can refuse
William Watson
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

What is the record of six-days' pedestrian
match, go-as-you-pleasei W.
George Littlewood's, made at Madison
Square Garden, New York, in Novem-
Der. 1SsS; 623 miles. 1920 yards.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Who was the father Of Anne Bulien, second
wife Of Henry VIII Of England p B. Y
Sir Thomas Builen. who became Earl Of
wiltshire
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

What was the date Of Vice Presiden, Hobar.'s
death7 J. A.
4 November n, 1889
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

We're as many votes cast for Mckinley in
Pennsylvania at the last election as he polled
there four years ago9 c. g.
No. The figures were: 1900. 712.ss5; 1896.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

How many men compose the naval militia7
z Are any commands stationed along the Great
Lakes? 3. How much saving Of distance would
be made by the Nicaragua Canal in a voyage be-
tween New York and san Francisco? ". J. NJ
About 800 . Yes z 10 75n rniIes
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Who drew up the Virginia plan of the Consti-
tuition of the United States7 2. Was it ae-
cepted? PC
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Neither place nor date of his birth is
known, but London is believed TO be the
one, and 1910 is thought to be not far
from the other.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Edmund Randolph, then Governor of
Virginia 2. He presented 1t without sue
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

What caused The Liberty Bell to crack?
J. u. R.
Much ringing. 1t cracked at its
first ringing after importation in 1753.
was recast several times, and cracked
again many years ago-on July s. 1895.
while being tolled for the death OF Chief
Justice Marshall, 1t is said.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Before long Charles Scribners Sons
will publish My Autobiography" by
Prof. Max Muller. This is book of intl-
mate personal charm and it's pages live
with men famous during the period COW
cred by Prof. Muller's life.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

gested that Mrs. Allen has given to the
Worid love letters actually received by
ner from man socially prominent in
NeW ork and in the South. and the pos
sipiiity has been excitedly discussed in
the United States But Mrs. Allen as
setts that the letters are entirely the Gre
alton OF her own Imagination.
OF Frank Norris new book. THE Oc-
topus." an advance note says:
rms story is founded upon an
actual piece of history almost I'M
known in the East-what is known as
the 'Mussel Slough Affair'-when the
Wheat-growers of the San JOAQUIN
Valley came into actual conflict with
the railroad Cthe Octopus), which
they believed was trying to defraud
them of their land
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Will you name the States whose nicknames are
based on the names Of plants or trees?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24


| How many signed Declaration of indie
| pendence what were their names and birthplaces
| and how many were Roman Catholicsf
| Fifty-six: John Hancock, born in part
| of Braintree, Mass, that now is in
| Quincy; Samuel Adams, Boston. Mass;
| Philip Livingston. Albany. N. Y; Robert
Treat Paine, Boston, Mass; William
Floyd. Brook Haven, Long Island, n. Y;
John Adams. Braintree. Mass; Francis
Lewis. LANDAU, Wales; Elbridge Gerry.
MarbIehead, Mass; Josiah Bartlett.
Amesbury. Mass; Richard Stockton, near
Princeton, n. j.; Samuel Huntington,
Windham, Conn; Stephen Hopkins.
Providence. r. l.; John Hart, Hopewen,
n. j.; Abraham Clark, Elizabethtown, n.
j.; Lewis Morris, Morrisania nov New
York City: John Morton Ridley, Penn
syivani:t Matthew Thornton, ireland;
John Penn. Caroline county, Va; Roger
Sherman, Newton, Mass; William Whip
pie. Kittery. Me; John Witherspoon,
Yester, Scotland: William Ellery. New
port, r. l.; William Hooper, Boston
Mass: Oliver Wolcott, Windsor, Conn;
Robert Morris, Lancashire, England; Ben
Franklin, Boston, Mass; William Will
liams, Lebanon, Conn; William Paca,
wye Hall, Hartford County, Md; Francis
Hopkinson. Philadelphia, Pa: Thomas
Stone, POinton Manor. Charles County,
Md; Charles Carroll of Carrollton, An
napolis. Md; Thomas Jefferson, Shad-
well, Albemarle County, Va; George Tay-
Tor, Ireland; Edward Rutledge, Charles
ton, S. c.; Joseph Hewes, Kingston. N
j.; James Smith. Ireland; George Ross,
Newcastle. Del; George Clymer PhiIa-
delphia. Pa. Thomas Mexican, New Lon
don, Pa; Button Gwinnett England:
George Read, Cecn County, Nd: James
Wilson, near st. Andrews Scotland:
Thomas Lynch jr., Prince George Parish,
S. c.; Samuel Chase Somerset County,
Md; George Wythe, Elizabeth County.
Va; Ben Rush. Byberry, Pa; Lyman
Hall. Connecticut: Richard Henry Lee,
Stratford, Va; Arthur Middleton. Middle
ton Plantations. S. c.; Thomas Nelson,
jr., York County, Va; Caesar Rodney,
Dover, Del; Carter Braxton, Newington,
Va; Benjamin Harrison, Berkeley, Va;
George Walton, Frederick County, Va;
Frances Lightfoot Lee. Stratford, Va,
and Thomas Haywood. jr, st. Luke's
Parish, 5. C. There were Roman Catho-
lies among them, how many it is impos-
sible to say.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

What was the date Of the bisth Of chaucerg
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Alabama, Cotton State: Connecticut,
Nutmeg State; Kansas. Sunfower State;
Kentucky, Blue Grass State; Maine, Pine
Tree State; Nevada, Sagebrush State;
Ohio, Buckeye State; South Carolina,
Palmetto State.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Who waE the wife of the present Emperor Of
Germany? 2. Who was Oscar II of sweden7
3. What family did the late King Humbert Of
Italy spring froml LIB.
Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 2. He was of
the house of Bernadotte, and before he
succeeded his brother. Charles XIV, was
Frederick. Duke of Ostergotland. 3. The
house of Savoy.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Mexico City: An Idlers Notebook, >"
Is little book Of travel by Olive Percival
1t is precisely what the subtitle indicates
"A notebook. The style is exceedingly
informal, not to say sketchy, and the
book is simply a series of pictures of
Mexico, the scenery, the people, the
buildings, and the street scenes. There is
good Zeal Of the first personal pronoun
in it, but if one does not object to that it
is quite charming. Chicago: Herlert S.
Stone & Coz
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

A book calculated to be of considerable
use in its line is an Encyclopedia of Ell
quette," by Emily Holt. Under this some
what pretentious title, in a book not so
very large for its name, the author has
collected information as to the proper
way to behave at dinners, balls, we'd
dings, luncheons and all the other func-
tons of fashionable society. 1t will be
most valuable to bewildered people who
are not familiar with the little usages of
social life. and it covers practically all
the ground that there is. (New York:
Mcclure Phillips & Coz
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Walter A. Wyckoff, the author of THE
Workers" has written nothing on that
subject for the past three years. He will
reappear in the April 'Scrbners" with
the first of four or five papers founded on
his experiences as "A day laborer
Brentano's have for immediate publica-
ton n novel by +. Frankfort Moore. en-
titled Nell Gwyn, Comedian
THE Love Letters of Liar" that an
tedate THE Love Letters of an English
Woman" having been printed in 'The
Smart Set" last September are soon to
be published in book form by the Ess
Ess Publishing Company. These letters
written by an American man to an Amer.
lean woman. sparkle with American
brightness The envious have rashIy sug
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

THE True Story of Captain John
Smith by Katherine Pearson Woods, is
among the spring publications. Miss
Woods has made an exhaustive study of
the career of the foremost explorer AMI
adventurer of the most adventurous era
of human history; and from historical
sources on both sides of the ocean she
has undertaken to construct the first sci
subject of as fierce historical conten-
tion as any figure in modern history; and
Miss Woods efforts has been to weigh
the evidence in every case and to present
the facts
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Doubleday. Page & Co. announce the
spring appearance in book form of Mas
tiers of Men," the story by Morgan Rob-
ertson now running in the SATURDAY
Evening Post
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Frederick D. Chester, bacteriologist of
the Delaware Agricultural Experiment
Station and director of the State Bac-
THEOLOGICAL Laboratory, has just com
pleted "A Manual of Determinative Bac-
teriology." The work aims to arrange all
sufficiently described bacteria in such
way that they can be determined by the
laboratory worker.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Mcclure, Phillips & Co. have just pub
Hshed THE Railroad" a collection of
short stories selected from "McCmre's
Magazine" This volume is the second in
the series of Stories from McClures.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

The scenes of the story in George Hor-
toms new novel, Like Another Helen"
are laid in Greece. 1t is dedicated, by per-
mission, to His Royal Highness. George
of Greece" High Commissioner in Crete.
''Joscelyn Cheshire" the dashing tale of
Revolutionary days in the Carolinas.
which by serial publication is attracting
considerable attention to it's author Sa-
rah Beaumont Kennedy. is to be pub
lished shortly in book form by Double
day, Page & Co. 1t contains some very
real pictures of life. including the con-
ditions in the dreaded prison hulks of
WaIIahou Raw
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

"a very battling tale. full of movement
and mystery from start to finish,' is said
of the forthcoming novel by Neil Munro.
entitled Doom Castle" great deal of
picturesque Interest and a complicated
plot are attached to q grimly romantic
old castle off the coast of Scotland.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24

Messrs. Herbert s. Stone & Co. will
bring out this spring an edition in one
volume of The Love of An Uncrowned
Queen, by w. II. Wilkins, NJ A. 1t tells
the story of Sophie DoroIhea, the consort
of George l, and Count Konigsmark-a
story as passionate and romantic as that
OF Mary Stuart and Rizzio.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-05-15

The land of the LUCKY DIME OIL
COMPANY is owned in fee simple and it
comprises tracts in the Bullock survey,
close to the big gushers. and in the Will
iams survey. Both these tracts are in a
wells. We also own in fee simple tracts
in the M. Pivetot survey on Pivetot Hill
along side of a natural Sulphur Spring
and adjoining the holdings of the Enter.
prise Oil Company. which Company ex-
poets to begin boring on May IS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-24
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