The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-26
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

". - AhNAA 1LhkbOAs
John Company. the Honorable East India Com.
pany. once was sole proprietor OF 90 much az Hin
dnstAn might be made 10 yield by sedulous ehakinE
Of the pAEodA tree. The india merchants nrst
received their charter In ie00, In 1900 II was made
perpetual and they were settled in q monopoly
OF the Indian trade. BY this charter they were
empowered y maintain an army and q navy and
. political sybtem of their own whereby the india
Council in London's LesdenhAll street exercised
q wider sway than did the Parliament OF Great
Britain in WestminsteTs Palace Of Sc. Stephen.
4 rival Homnany was chartered during the Eng
lsh revolution, but In lT0s the two trading est1n-
lishments weie LmalEamated. In 1874 Pitt fathered
an india measure which took away from the Hon
orAble East India Company Its political powers,
In 1913 the trade monopoly was rescinded, In 1884
the whole of The company's trading rights were
swept away In return for an annuity of sba0,ooo
payable for forty years. redeemable at the end Of
It's term, az the Governments option. for El2,UUU,'
600. The mutiny broke out before the term had
nun much more than half Its course and in i35S
when that grave revolt was put down the com
pAny was dissolved and Hindustan passed 70 the
sovereignty OF the Crown. The days OF John
Company were not inglorous days. for they were
the days OF such mon as Give and Warren Hastings,
Of Lawrence and Wellesley.
Yesterday l noted that an English reviewer OF q
law book written by en American author strongly
took 70 resurrect that doctrine" / observe that the
Century Dictionary states that the word resurrect
- IOllOQultls ~ Hubtt however, DC IN NCIy HGHCIdl
use In this country. as The ear OF no American with
whom | have spoken 70 offended by i. / have been
be produced in jus,i6cason Is this word found
among the blacklist OF recognized "Americanisms,"
T. 4. STREET.
The fault upon which objection 10 the word 10
based Is that II is formed by analogy where 10
analogy exists. As protection, for an instance,
lie naturally derived from protect. a t~ransitlve
verb. Il has been assumed that under resurrection
Hnunf AmilaYlv he n tFAnEitiyf ySYh tn FeStiFreCf
This is not the case; resurrection is'a derivative
form Of the Latin rtSurosTe, a ncuteT verb. Resur-
rect Is for that reason objected IN In England and
has obtained no currency, although the custodians
Of that branch OF our common speech seem 10
manifest no hesitation In employing resurrcctioner.
In which the same fault obtains. Bartlett, In dis
cusSing the word as an Americsnsm, derives his
earliest citation from Benton's "A~brtdgment OF the
Debates OF Congress-" Vol. W., where In speaking
OF the founders OF the Government. who are all
gone-their bodies buried In the earth. their works
buried under rubbish and their names beginning
TO fade away" this author adds: Fl resurrect the
whole"
A writer uses the expression Nothing new
word something" for he word nothing" should
be be placed Iusei before @" he word tns Sso onSSsl a. n or I before e
the word newt In other words, should the eI-
preston In his book read something new under
the SUM- or something new under the SUM-
The marks OF quotation serve to set out plainly so
much of the matter as 10 In form the direct words
OF another. Therefore there could be no j~ustInca-
ton for Including within such marks the state
ment something new under the sun" when II
was thoroughly understood that the original state
ment was nothing new under the SUM-" II should
In strict ~propriety read something new under
the sun: and in that case II seems scarcely worth
the dignity OF quotation niarks. 1t used 10 he
held that the commonplaces of Scripture might
be used without assignment OF credit on the ground
that they were thoroughly familiar TO everybody.
but perhaps Il may be Just as well 10 restore the
typographical signs because OF the growing feeling
that the Bible is by no means so familiar as once
1t was.
What Is the origin OF shack as applied TO a house
Of the poorer sort The word is largely used in
The Century Dictionary assigns II TO a dIslectIc
sense Of the verb TO shack. Simplifying to hole up.
as an animal about to hibernate. This seems
better 10 nt the form of the noun than Its mean
ing. As the word - wholly American and when
arSt found comes out Of the West II is not at all
unlikely that the pioneers adopted the word from
their Mexican neighbors. The Spanish OF Texas
and the whole Southwest clear through TO Cali
fornia has the word jscal for Just such q dwelling
hastily thrown together OF all sorts OF Immediately
available material. From It's proper pronuncia-
tion Of hAcal 10 shack calls for no greater degree
Of violence than marked the general demeanor
OF the Gringo 10 the Greaser. This derivation
nnds support In the fact that the expected inter-
mediste form shackle has, though infrequently,
been noted In Western speech.
| have a friend whose tenure OF the letter H is
precariouS they will drop out of his speech in
that / may Tell him that will stick in mind and
cause him 10 mind, not p and Q. but Ht
Probably a hopeless case, II coDgenltal. and
seldom is q lasting cure possible unless the case
be taken In hand early. Charles Stuart Calverley
once dealt with the topic, thus:
Choose judlciously thy friends; for TO discard them
Is undesirable.
Yet It Is better to drop thy friends. o my daughter.
than TO drop Thy HIS"
or one may cite from Catullus that Roman Arrlus
picked up superabundant HIS, another form
Of the same faulty speech. and has gone on record
rs calling the lonlan Sea Hionian.
At the Centennial Exposition some Interest was
pIcited by q statue In butter. Who was the sculptor,
WALTER II. GRAY.
The sculptor was Mrs. Caroline S. Brooks, wife
,fA Missouri farmer: the subject was the sleeping
Iolanthe done IN alto rillevo. She had done similar
work al county fairs and these successes led her
o make an entry at Philadelphia. In the Paris
her entry OF the same subject was re-
ec,ed for the art exhibit but admitted among The
larry products, Her Iolanthe was reproduced In
Marble for the Chicago fair. In addition she did
Iome little work In character and portrait busts,
,utter being used as the modelling material.
Are the following parts embodied In sentences
o kindly. &c" and and the consent OF the owner
absolutely necessary, &C." the verb is, under
TODD In the latter THOMAS HENRY.
As TO the latter there can be no objection II the
be otherwise properly inserted into the
eatence. The former Is doubly deiectve: the
innnitIve TO kindly" Is rarely tolerable. and
he unwarrAnted use OF endeavor as a t~ransitive
erb with personal object will not stand analysis.
Kindly advise II the Mlkado Of Japan has become
convert TO the Christian faith, or II you ever
ueArd or saw anything 10 that effect.
S. LELAND.
The MIkldo is not Christian. " there we're any
as TO this point II should be dispellod by re-
AllinC the terms in which Togo aScrbed to his
overeiGn's virtues the victory Of his feet.
What Is the salary OF Mr.. Bryce. the BntIhh Am
DIssHdort WILLIAM EdISTok.
His salary is stated al $4,000. In addition his
supplies him with the embassy for a
and maintains It and provides an enter
tinment allowance and various smaller funds.
Who In the author OF the quotation about never a
Hw OF God or man runs north of 5Sr 4, d p.
Rudytrd Kipllng.