The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-11-26

This week our judges have made
rather slow progress. We seem to
higgle TOO much over small matters
and neglect the woightier cases. Al
Judge has more time to play when he
strike tho iron while it is hot. to
do one thing ut a ;imr and to do It
we'll. TO hear arguments In Il case
and then lay it aside till it is for.
gotten is the same as a blacksmith
heating his irons and laying them
aside tin cold and then heating them
over again. In any business u per-
son may. double the burden of his
work by not doing 1t in the right
/, time.
This week there was argued an in
teresting case in regard to the pow
er OF the governor to remove from
Office tho president Of the city
commission of Minot. According
to my usual custom within two or
three days after tho argument, l<*rote
and gave my opinion to the Judges l
think il will be in order to give it
to the press next Eeek. And now for
grammar and composition: l have just
been looking over a History Of Amer
lean Literature since 1870. 1t re-
minds me OF some court decisions. 1t
is too pedautic and it says too much
about nothing. The sentences are not
always in good consecutive marching
order and the subject is often too far
from the predicate. In one sentence
the subject is the title of 20 books and
the predicate is: ARE only the better
known books Of the list" One must
read the whole tiresome list of books
before he can know what is said Of
them. 1t were better to write thus:
These are only the better known
books Of the list" an dthen to name
the books. .
Here is Il terrible sentence for Il
professor of literature TO compose:
Everett. the eloquent voice OF Now
England. correct. polished, fervid.
massing perfect periods to climax.
scholarly. sOnorous OF diction. studied
OF movement, finished, left the pla.-
! form after his efforts. satisfied" Ten
| adjectivcs or adjective phrases
are put between the subject and the
predicate. 1t were better in two SEN
voice of New England, was correct,
polished, fervid. etc. He left the plat
form after his long effort, satisfied"
Good writing is reada Die without the
| leas: fatigue. 1t is smooth. easily
spoken and easily read Here is an
other sentence by the Professor: III
we call the age of Longfellow a 70
mantle period, then this revolt of the
! seventies was a new romanticism, for
| romanticism always in broadcast sense
| seems a revolution against orthodoxy
Read it 'hus: Ii We call the age of
Longfellow a romantic period, then
this revolt Of the seventies was a new
romantic!sm: for in the broadcast
est sense. romanticism is always u
revolution against orthodoxy.
| ChristiansOn j. The complaint av-
crs aud the evidence shows that plain.
TIT came out of the store building
through side door in the dark one
evening about the middle OF August.
| 1909, and run into a push cart stand
| ing in the sidewalk. then against the
open hatchway and fell to the bottom,
4 distance Of five feet" U64 y. W.
| las,
| Robinson. j.: One evening about the
middle Of August. l909-as the com.
plant AYERS and the evidence shows
the plaintiff in the dark came out Of
| the store building through side door,
ran into push cart standing on the
sidewalk and ran against the open
hatChway and fell to the bottom. dis
lance Of five feet
We should commence the sentence
With the adverbial phrases of time
and place and bring the subject close
to the predicate thus:
When the roses kiss the moonbeams.
In the gloam of evening twilight,
And the little birds have hid their
heads in sleep,
1t is then ] love to wander.
With my sweetheart meath the star
light
And to tell her goo-goo stories of the
deep.
Won should mite we'll how, tho al