The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1906, Page 6

of gies heretofore to allevi s | When the | society was re- ndeed.| in the Bield In time of war. a to turn -Am nch of the S s o erganized tly, it was the aim of| & President Roosevelt to extend its| Suiits T 1nis ties into the domain of peace. The | = i0 Yidve | Breatest practical test of this policy ¢ o was affordéd by the San Francisco dis- s of ster At the same time ..at the ad- n anta f the new system were made b are manifest the. possibilities for great im P prove » revéaled 4 . e come, Iri. the nat things, when one| nstown, Mi -ontemplates the horrors of Jo nd the floods in ti these great natior bound to occur from time to-timé. When they do occur in- stant relief i necessary, and.the coun- try ‘mugt be prepared to meet the situ- ation. The problem is not for the municipality, but for the nation. If the President’s plan is ied to its logical | c usi the Réd Cross Society will| Zing Diety are disaster has tion SOARED Maxim. - It was, in fact, of an etlieric pature, but though Wwe are no| et fo the solution of the problem, method of arrangement can be de- ' used by of the by the echanical arrangements ed in different vessels. no The >oats on one occ three from the King who ruled thern -part of Poseidonis » ad terially ‘o the the journey to the court of the| welg w leather-like hern . kingdom. A strong ).m\-v| tougliness g ess om= chest which-lay in the center of | b strength was the. generator. Thl»x:\vl w % gerierally e ywed through two large, | ar me s and flexible tubes to either end of the ves- < s comp sel, as well as through eight subsidiary % ite colored; tubes 1 fore and aft to the bul lightér in | warks ese had double openings weig rame work of |.pointing vertically. } B ended & large sheet! When the journey was about to begin | t 2. was pointed downward were opened | r tubes being closed. The | irougy - these im- | \: P with such force t to drive.the boat.upward, while the | air itself continuied to supply. the necs Iruni. When a sufficient e s reached .the "uexible tubé at it t for when vation w: a s 1 wwve been that end of .the vessel which pointed t 4 any -on’| away from the. desired destination was ¥ n or deck. brought -into aetion, ‘while by thé par- i gear tial closing of the valves the current ber end. rushing through the .eight vertical| ¥ restion ‘s was rediced to the small amount t equired to maintain " the - elevation The great volume of the Cur- g now directed ‘through the pointing downward from the at an-angle of about 45 degrees, Iping to mainfa.n the eléva- led also the great. motive eached . prov {without delay. of President of less energy might have!l [t was the Government which first | felt powerless to act. In view of this | cume to the aid of San Francisco with the future may sce a new statute!its bountiful appropriations; it was'the | | allowing the President without Con- agent of the Government who offered Yy O SUND FRANCISC i'the late disaster a suggestion that| it to at once assume control in a|their highest 'service lies in peace? stricken district and relieve all distress | Some one has aptiy suggested that the It could be organized | new San Francisco contain in a public niong the line of the army, at the same | patk a statue in honor of the American time fully co-operating with it. Depots | soldier. Such a statue would not only supplies could he established at|be a token of appreciation, but would every important center and food and|serve as an inspiring recognition of tents held in readiness for an emer- |the nobler purpose of the military. gency. A balahce in the Red Cross| The remarkable manner in which tHe treasury at the national Capital woull | regulars of the American army assisted admit of greater outlays without wait-|in the stricken ecity has called forth ing for subscriptions in cases of un-|laudatory expressions, not alone usnal distress. | throughout the United States, but in The Red Cross has always taken on|the capitals of Europe as well. It is a an international character. It is highly |new triumph for the American army, possible that at one-of the three big | all the grander because there is no de- international conferences planned for | feated foe. the near future the subject will receive| The efficient aid rendered by the mili- attention. Ii{ may be that in the time| ¥ under Generals Funston and to come national boundaries will be|Greely, by the National Guard and the wiped be placed on a feoting that will enable - out for the purposes of Red| University Cadets took various forms— | Cross work. Surely, the offers of aid|from guard duty and fire fighting to to San Francisto irom the four corners | the distribution of provisions. of the globe render cenjectyise | In Germany the military has long less visionary than would at first AP~ | co.operated with the civil authorities pear. | in the larger cities in doing police duty The immediate appropriation by the|and as a fire fighting force. Government was reade possible because | Out of the disaster has been born a Congress was in session. Congress or new patriotism, not the fireworks no Congress, law or no iaw, President| Fourth of July patriotfsm, but a deep Roosevelt would have provided at once feeling of mingled gratitude and rever- for the needs of San Franeisvo, but a| ence toward the Federal Government. the soldiery; it was the Government’ | which opened its storehouses in the | Presidio: it was the Government which fate of distributed tents on the reservation | without the telegraph slopes while the fire was still raging, and the railroad? Both were some | and it was the Government which car- | degree Impaired. 1s there not in this| ried the fleeing thousands by boat from call for a complete system of wireless | the city -shores. Men, who the night telegraphy, and (looking further inte|before, on Dupont street, in hoarse the future) for the airship? | voices, preached the doctrine of an- Armies originally were for the.pur- poses of war. Has there not been in gress to make tion of limited tiopal calamity. What would San Francisco emergency amount in cas have been the lic, sought eager shelter beneath bler| NTURIES waves, now approaching and now re-|the existence of the eight tubes point- ceding from the earth. The elevation|ing upward from the bulwarks. This at which the vessels. traveled was only [ had especially to do with aerial war- a few hundred feet. Indeed, when high| fare, mountains lay in the line of their track| Having so powerful a force at their it was necessary to chahge their course| disposal, the warships naturally direct- and go around them, the more rarefied | ed the current against each other. Now air no longer supplying the fulcrum.|this was apt to destroy the equilibrium Hills about 1000 feet were the highest|of the ship so struck and to turn it they could cross. The means by which|upside down—a situation sure to be the vessel was brought to a stop on, taken advantage of by the enemy’s ves- reaching its destination—and this could | sel to make an attack with its ram. be done équglly well in midair—was to| There also was the further danger of widespread wings. The voices of the Reds have been stilled. Will their tirades ‘ever find attentive ear again in San Francisco? The lesson in city construction has been well Jearned. All that has been expended on public squares and parks has come back a hundred foid. Great Golden Gate Park spread its broad ldwns as the bed of the homeless and canopied the couch with ' her ‘ample foliage. The big Dutch windmill caught the braeze and worked through the days in its mission of mercy. But above all in the count of Jasting good are the faith and love born of the catastrophe. All for which religion has sought in the thousand years of time was realized in the ‘flash of a moment. The message of Christianity reached the human’ heart. The people were molded into & great brotherhood; mold- ed by sorrow, age and by fear, but their vatchward was not “Despair”; it was “Hope.” They have become armed with tne weapons which carried Christian to the Wicket Gate. In the great tragedy were number- less exemplifications of true human sympathy. On the first evening of the fire a vast throng of the homeless had gatheréd in Union Square. They sat disconsolate upen - the green. They were ‘weary and famished. There was nothing to ‘eat. At length a man at one énd of the square procured a bottle of milk, “Pass it om,” he sald to his neigh- bor. “There are xav babies in their arms. bottle passed from hand to hand, each mother pressing it to the lips ot her child and then handing it to her neighbor. In time the bottle had made the complete circle of the park ‘and returned to its source not yet emptied. had feared lest she i the city to another. turned upside -down® might - be righted and placed agaln on a level Keet was accomplished by using the four tubes' pointing downward at oné side of the vessel only whilé the four at the other side were kept closed. = Marvelous things are being revealed of those dark. times, the gloom of which was preceded by long sunlit eras of men’s power and progress. A group| of Englishmen, whose work has been | summarized b, ott-Elljott of London, pursued one series of investigations, Each woman | hood. deprive another. | pend on:nature and archy and cried out against the repub- | This was the spirit from one end of power. Lone family, in a family of fighters with ~ AGO—-POSSIBLY NOAH'S ARK WA {les,” but, like. them, veritable history. | On Sutter street a druggist, fearing 4 water famine, had filled several tanks | on Wednesday morning. Later, when| the people with parched throats streamed by his door, hé displayved a sign: “Water here”: and remained at| his =tore through two days and nights giving it out glase by glass to all who| paused. The supply exhausted, he gave out minerhl water, never counting the cost. He remained at _is store until the flames drove him onward with the | throng. A newspaper man hurrying to collect data on the fire was accosted by a greatly perturbed woman, who asked If | he had seen the proprietor o: a well- known restaurant. “I am a waltress there,” she ex- plained. “I haven't a cent. My only hope is to get part of my wages.” The newspaper man had just $1 in his pockef. He gave the woman 50 cents. She burst into tears. There was no distinction as to eclass The most fashionable women in the eity gave what aid they could. For days they served as nurses in the hos- pitals about the bay. The wifé of a millionaire on Presidio Heights made a great vat of chocolate. | She served it to the women as they| passed her home. More than that, she took those whose strength failed into| her heme and cared for them. A saloon-keeper well known in the city took fi1000.from his safe and dis- | tributed it among. the needy. These are but typical of a thousand incidents. They show the breadth of | sympathy created by the disaster. Maxim Gorky, in contemplating the | disaster, has been moved (0 sav: “Misfortune ‘must teach us brother- They must show us -how we de- its Misfortunes must unite ug into | must we think. not mysterious | nature, the ememy of man, in a family of obstinate investigators of :e::hcv' or wer over eacl e ot I Dot far wealth. but how to be masters of the whole power of the earth, and with it rule for the be fit of life, for happiness of men. For freedom of men, that they may develop théir searching minds, that they may foreknow such misfortunes as those t.at Have occurred in Naples and sSan Franeisco! More knowledge to | megn. more- .labor for the progress of We on our earth are alone in | seience. i the spaces of the universe. Let this solitude’ unite us all in ome family against the emigmas of life! Then life will be beautiful, when men will be rich with knowledge: only then will ien be musters of nature, then all will be equal. And all will bé working for the same #lm. for vietory over nature, over her power, which is- our enemy and which destroys us. “{ pelteve in thq mind of man; I be- lieve that he will divine all, and will | conquer all. ‘I am certain in time he will beforehand kiow what is being created in the dark depths of the earth. And ite will have power to foreless mis- fortunes like that of Sun Francisco. In ail the hard moments of lfe my heart always sings one hymn: Long Live Man®® Others from afar have marveled that we are ‘Strangers to Despalr and that Hope has come 4o dewll with us. What more embiemdtic ¢f hope than Befn- hardt in the Greek Theater; the summit of dramatic art, while the ruins still smolder. Californtans ave a sturdy race: Cee mented by & brotherhood born of the disaster, what limit can be placed to l'their destiny? = Broken walls =¥l | trown down upon the eity, but over of | St. Mary’s Church the shattered front | still shows the mscription. “Hail full of | Grace, the Lord is with Thee." and makes them his witnesses -and - his démonstrations ot the erstwhile existence in the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the mouth of the Med terranean ‘Sea, of a large island wh was the remnant of an Atlantic cont nent, and known ta-the ancient world} as Atlantis. He argues that the de-| scription of this island. given by Plato i# not a fable, as has long been sup- posed, as was- onice supposed of Hercu- laneum and Pompeii, the “fabulous cit-| tific revelation, | ives of the elght bulwark tubes | - give escape to some of the current| being precipitated to the ground unless | Ignatius Donnelly carried on another, | that Atlantis was the region where force through the tube at that end|the shutting and opening of the neces- | and both have located the antediluvian|man. first rose from a state of bar-| which pointed toward its destination. sary valves were quickly attended to.| world at the bottom of the sea. Atlan-|barism to civilization. | and the current impinged on the land | In whatever position the vessel might|tis was the world before the flood,| .Mr. Scott-Elilatt, however, after due| or air in front and acted as a drag, while the propelling force behind was gradually reduced by the closing of the valve be, the tubes pointing toward the earth were naturally those the current should be rushing, while the tubes pointing upward should be he reason has still to be given for|closed. The means whereby a vessel!the fauna, of history, legend and scien- | through_ which | regard paid hElorir. scientific and lite-| rary. evidence' pins. faith and testi-| mony to: records from the occult which| were compiled -and handed down through. the ages, and to maps that stretching far and wide over the space now flooded by the Atlantic Ocean. Ignatius Donneily takes the testi-| mony of the sea, of the flora, and of | === a suggestion which has been offered. fo the effect that the paper money iss. ‘ the. Trea should be of smaller size. The idea, oddly enough, has had its origin in certain new notes of various denomina- tions, Bureau of. Engraving is print for circulation in-the Philippine Isl- ands. None of these notes has been put forth, but they have excited the admira- has a portrait of General Lawton oR it.| cution of a'vignette -(such as that of the tion of high officials by reason of their Another, for twenty pesos, is ornamented volcano on the twenty-pesos bill) takes a remarkable beauty, and more especially |With a handsome vignette representing a | considerably longer time. on account of their size; which makes them more convenient to handle. than our has a portrait of Magellan, the discoverer | graving when a new |of the archipelago, and the fourth, for two office: to make a picture of hiln on steel; | One of our dollar bills measures seven |hundred pesos, is adorned with a picture jand there is kept at' the presént time in own greenbacks. Inches in length by three inches in width. The Philippine notes ‘are only six inches | . two and a_half inches wide, the difference does not long and Thus expressed, seem 1o ‘be so very great, but when the|currency, which, as a matter of course, is | was two are seen side by side it is observed guaranteed by the Treasury of the United | photograph of himself for this purpose, and | that the area. of the one is nearly one- | States. 1f | provided- with postage stamps of thelr | on the national currency of. one denomin- | onr greenbacks were of the lesser size; we | own—a luxury which they have not en- | ation or another, and possibly on a post-| could fold them and tuck them comfort- | joyed since the American occupation of | age stamp, though not until &fter he is! third greater than that of the other. ably into an ordinary pocketbook; where- | OUR PAPER CURRENCY T00 BIG. — Secretary Shaw has under consideration as, as everybody has moticed, they are|the present they have been obliged to use rather large and clumsy to be thus accom- modated, the result being that many busi- ness men resort to huge wallets, Up to the present time only three de- nominations of paper money have been fromi 20 to- 200 pesos, which the Printed for the Philippines—notes, that is | designs for paper currency and postage beginning to | to say, for two. five and ten pesos. Four stamps has been, of .course, very large. Imore have been prepared, and will 80on To engrave a portrait for a note or stamp bé issued. One of them, for fifty pesos, volcano. A -third, for one hundred pesos, of Legaspi. When these notes shall have been put into circulation the Filipinos will figd themeelves pretty well supplied with paper At the same time they are to be the islands began. rom that time until have been physically. preserved through the inconceivably long centuriés that | have: elapsed since the ancient good asd | | eVl days of “Atlantis, and gives dates| and accurate data “which are open for| investigation to the duly qualified.” He | treats of the origin and territorial loca- tion- of the seyen subraces which suc- vessively peopled the vast antediluvian cvontirant, the political institutions they | espectively evolved, their emigrations to.the other parts of .the world, the arts and sciencés they develope.. the man- ners and customs they adopted, the rise | @nd decline of religions. “\The -subraces were: The Emoanal, the Tlavatli, the. Tolter, the first Tura- nian, the original Semite, the Akkadian, and lastly, the Mongolian. . Of these the Toltec developed the highest civiliza- | tion _and organized the. maost powerful empire, ruling the entire ceontinent of | Atlantis -for fhousn.nds of * years, in! great materidl power -and glory.” Hun- dreds of thousands of years latér ome. f their rémote family. rtaces rulad plendidly in Mexico and Peru, long ages: hefore. their degenérate descend- lour stamps, surcharged—that is to say,! | with the words “Philippine :Islands” | across the face. ‘The labor- for the engraving division in- | volved by the creation of $0 many new requires four or five months, and the exe- | | 1t is, by the way. a regular task of the Bureau of En- President comes into | | the vaults a complete series of the Presi- ‘dents engraved on a gcale suitable for us " in the printing of money. When Mr. | Roosevelt came into the White House he And far theusands of years ths divine dynasty ruled not only all the king- doms into which Aflantis was divided, but the islands on the west and. the southern portion of the adfacent land to the east. These initiate Tulprs re- tained eonnection with the occult hier- wrchy which governs the world, acting in harmony with its plans. = This wa the goiden age of the Teltec race. On the comtinents of North and South America the race spread abroad and flourished, and thousafids of years later established the empires of Mexico and Peru. . The City of the Goldén Gates was the home of these ancient mperors. It iay on the east coast of the contiment. close to the sea, and about 15 degrees nerth ef the equator. A beautiful wooded parklike country surrounded the city. Seattered over a large area of this were the villa residences of the wealthier classes. The city proper was built on the siopes. of a hill which rose from the plain about 580 feet. On the summit lay the Emperor's, [ e R b e L from the earth a neéver ending stretch of water supplying first the palaces and the fountains im the gardens, thence flowing in.the fdur directions and fall- ing in cascades inta a canal or moat which encompassed the palave grounds and thus separated them from the city, which lay below omn every side. From this canal four channels leéd the water i through the four quarters o: the city to .cascades, which in their turn sup- plied anothar encircling canal at a lower level. - There were three such canals, fo ing a concentric cirele, the outermost and lowest of which was still about the tevel of ‘the pizin. A fourth camal at this loWwest leveli of rectangular design, received the constantly flowing waters, and dn'Its turn discharged theém into the sea.” The city was thus divided into_three great belts, sach hemmed in by canals. . In the upper belt, just be- immedlately asked to. pick. out @ ints were conquered. by the. fiercer tribes of the north. - About wars, all -thé -petty kingdoms were united in one gredt fédeération, with a recognized . Bmperor. at its head. The second of these Emperors wasan adept. | | sooner-or latér he will inevitably appear | dead. 00,600 years aige, after great | low the pala¢e grounds, was a citealar racecourse and large public gardens Most of the houses of the court ofcials lay onthis belt, and here alse was the Strangers’ Home, a palace where all strangers. who might comeé to the city were entertained. w power to propel the vessel through the a air, The steering was accomplished by w ' the d arge of ‘the .current through ing this tube, for the slightest.change in ci developing its direction at once caused an'altefa- | s e airboats .were “tion in ‘the vessel's course. { v “ Was gene- But constant supervision wasg not re- | 1 inknown | quired. When a long journey had to T " my with defin- be taken the tube could be fixed so as ect This| to néed no handling till the gestination | ¢ r ed by .was almost reached. . The -maximum scier ne ed the speed attained was about. 100 miles an perf <k row liour, but always' { e form of longl Do Americans yun to “werd fads?” |acute ‘mind can conceive about the | Has simple spewking snd writing gome ETowth, decadence and permanence of | out of date in ke effort (o be pie- . ";h‘ ”"‘ }"‘.“ UG o on ter 16.the e taresque? Dr. William Everett of g " 10 old fogy 18 not wholly hos- oston declares that there dre many to the changes in e He Bew. expressions’ that vex n former w5 that.new words wiil come up, gemeration, although he admits thap 408 be Koows that some of them or some siang terms sre aceeptabit be- | SO0 He kuows that we cannat put 7 our finger on. t year when ab | se expressive, hut altogether the .and shaw d our language man of declining rears has scrions ab- | knows wi it was W Jegtions to The mmurt mew whrases of ""‘“‘ be Shme esifieh . ywas il veited, and he m: wrandckildren. aws. sribl suppos: ar the decline of | valuabic additions roughly reconciled is not slang, real gup. Such a word The peculiar effect on nind of a drug like opium veeds a word Lo express that nas @ real vernac- like stupor. On the d, Wgeh a friend #o. sound more “rritated by what al- make poech sony an? icarned child from own the was te trained, | ways scems the affected revivai of a Le misses iouely ta the {dead word. Wken Browning revived v . e day, cven | Winsome and coined artistry, pe # ihe tone uf & pe hups he was enric Z the English which he him- |loague from old stores and new q in® foiming. He |rics, perhaps hc was not. I hope raadehildrer do |i# not egotistica! to say that I haye learned |rerely heen morc irritated Lhan when haps even (@ former pupil of mine, meanjng to say what | be complimentary, dcclared .ant as a his parents’ lips Latin teacher in college I was “win- changes Wwil! come. Horace |2ope” Winsome! Charming, capti- g 16 when Horace hgs | VAting, winning, even, #f my too homan admirer so pleases, but “win- is his rer rac rlands gre: but to s ot propose to trans- |a “bud” of 17! «rks in-the Ars Pocticar. | Wkere the chief annoyance comes cannot, be translated, and he |to the ear of a thoughiful student of cne of the meny proofs that |language in middle or past life is In master of language must be ! the straining: after novelty which own tongue, and (hat the substitutes for words and phrases that satistactory. knowledge | do thei? whole work with *clearness, 6 of the matter with- [force and elegarce,” to adopt the re- as absurd as tothink |frain of our teachers of rheterfcal As if a teacher of Livy was a correct “idea of @ man ; mechanism, other words. which gdd nikin of an..anatemical mothing to any of thesc qualities. The ‘or . those who wcinnot | substituted words are generally geod ¢ it ) o pead Ladit—bicanse they wom't—le! nough English and fill a place in suflice to say thut everything thnt an ispeech, but-they are not the worda {gin with. then—have our iadies given up wearing jewels? And have both sexes given up wearing, clothes? One | would think so {o read the way In which docorative metal work and |3t is ail “jewelr, | Jewelry that come sSpontaneously to the! mouths of cultivated people, andcon- sequently they have.an air of would- be smartness, as i€ the writer was above common folks' talk. ks Some instdnces of these fantasticali- »s will explain my meaning berter than any statement of theory. To be- bodily raiment are generally deseribod. " and “clothing.”! Now and clothing are all right enougl: as descriptive of the articles in Massachusetis, dealer in jewelry, or # dealer in clothing; when large stocks of ornaments &nd garments are 1o -be obtained, are eorrect terms. But to say a lady was robhed of her “jewclry,” when the value of all her jewele to gether was rot nearly a hundred dol- rs, or that a trunk of clothing was ft at the station, when it contained single suit not werih $15, it is too sily. Does nobody ever make up nuowa- days? Or does he uever make any- bedy else up? Or, lettig alone propo- sitions, which are running riot in cur- rent English, tumbling ir and drop- ping out by no rule, dees nobody ever wake, 6r wake another person? It is all “awakeén” active or neuter. Half the world “awakens” and then |t “awaKens” the other ialf. Now here aguin, “wake,” awake” #nd “Awaken” are all good Knglish words: perhaps the second of the threé has the largest usage among the more serious writers. | But te thrust that extra syllable upon every unfortunaté mortal who has to be & hero in the never remittéa trag- edy of getting up (“rising” or perhaps eoven “arising” I suppose some of my prim spinster friends will prefer 1 should say) i1s too ponderons and pe- dantic. Ben Jonson's Catiline told his friends to “wak Milton's Satan told him to “awake’; neither conld wait for that extra syllable. Some thirt:-seven years ago I wrote a boy’'s book.. I spoke of the teacher, | thing. ERICAN PEOPLE T00 SMART IN THER or the boys, having “found out” some- in the least meant, used the word again in the next chap- ter. Whaereupon I was treated to this marvelous comment: “Colloquial; but is not discover or ascertain better in a printed book.” Whereupon Mr. Proof- reader got quotations from King Jamcs’ Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, Dry- den and Addison, all in passages of the most ejievated sentiment. 1 suspect he discovered s good deal about me and ascértained several things about au- thors hitherto unknewn to him. But thal was a generation ago, and such fondncss for Latin words was a rélic of a1 older generation yet. My first tutor would say, when I had read five lines i Latin, “That will suffice.” Yet he was a capital teacher, and a very noble feacher. One thess champion of @ity years ago, who could scarcely hear at all, when in spite of an ear trumpeét he failed to catch what you said, would reply, “What did you observe?” The great gun of Andover Academy, one of the six or eight “Arnolds of Amor- ica,” used after prayers to say, “The following individuals are’ requested to understanding what he remain’’ He meant, “The boys whose names I shall read will stop.” ~ Such things have gone out. Instead thére came in, under the influence of muech Carlyle, an elaborate Latinizing of our language. Old Hagon ‘“tocks were dug up and new (ferman grafted on thém. Hence we got "unndydn(," bad enough, but’ better than ‘‘view- point.” Theére ate ng' more ‘résults” or “events” except ‘In athletic sports; all is “outcome:” there are no meére “prospects,” all are “outlooks”—where's !HGIQMIH Jn this adoption of German tom- pounds thére has beén a vast gain for those Writers who are paid by the mod- ern system of words, I have an article of 1500 words to write; there s a ver- tain ldea wnich in ordinary talk would roquire four words; let me turn it into oné compound word, and 1 have left 1499 for my other ideas instead of only 1496, (I have not acquired thre¢ new The proofreader marked it; not | I disregarded the mark, and| TALK? ideas, 1t will be observed.) What a|state than to a single instance, yet| and France have struck against trans- | 2cted in my life either with of with- | | mitting these élegant comtour, or as out “hesitancy.” I saw announced in| Humpty Dumpty would say port-|& Boston paper some time ago a sgr- manteau words as one, when “Com-|Mon on the “Joyous Bipeetancy of | pagnic de Navigation a Vapeur” is five! Heaven.” Why not the joytul—better Who was the priggish person who or- | SUIL the glad expsctation? Such a| phrase would be like the idscourse on | deéred us old fogies to discriminate be- tween “healthy,” “healthful” ang|'he€ experience of the saints of al| “wheleésome,” a distinction that I re- |25 the form adopted is painfully up | gret to see is favored by so thoroughly | to date. The heaven that raises “joy- | | 3 ous’” éxpectancy” is hardly inhabited by Paxter ar Cooper, Henty Martyn or,| James Walker. Why do people say | “rental” fhstead of the simple “rent”?| Whcn the colléctor of Boston tells the congressional committee that the Gov- érnnment pays a “rental” of %0 many | thousands of dollars for warehouse premises—when the committee of a| pafish siys the expenses aré hardly | paid by the “rentals™ of the pews, don't | they mean simply “reat” and “pew rents,” and why don't they say =07 When some generalization is entered into, some average struck, some sensible a writer as Professor A S. Hill. The old authors use them indis- critrinately, or rather, feeling the great advantage of possessing synonyms, used them to differentiate sounds rdther than sense. But nobody regards sound in prose now; scarcely in verse; it-is all for the eye and what is called the wind. When Mr. Webster uttered | his thrilling deseription of the White murder, he spoke of Captain White asleep as a “healthful old man.” Mod- ern purists would insist that it wds the | sleep lhat was healthful, the sleeper healthy. The old, that is the true. vy St usage would use either adjective with Z:{;"’;.&’fi y;;.e';p‘.,r::y y;:r.ar:‘duvr(;p« jéither noun. But just try “healthy” in- | guch a coined word as ~rental~ but istead of “healthful” in Mr. Webster's description, and see where has flown the enforced pause in the middle of the word, that gives the nacessary de- |liberation to the luzry' Which its im pressiventss requires. But poor Mr. | Webster had never studied the Century Dictionaty. thouglt in many parts of | 1 generally speaking the people who use it think it sounds a ltue bigger than “rent.”” And the words suggest modern use as a verb. “ans wholly glven up lettiug and hir- | tng bulldings? Why slwdys “to lease” | and “to rent.’ turning founs inte verbs as if one was an impressionist :"”g; £ l: 1: d “Forceful” is né doubt x legitimate word, as far back as slukeml‘r‘e; but tor generations nobody used it exce pocts under. pressure of meter. The familiar worc also as old as Shake- speare, was “forcible,” to which forceful,” if used at all, was hardly an eqivalent: now most writers utterly disdain the familtar and seek to give force to their writings, niake every man and thing “foreeful,” decidedly suggesting. a modification of Sir John Falstaff's phrase, truly they deserve to the country he had the injurious repu- tation of Writing his own. Is thers to be i futwre no more | “hesitation” “expectation” of * - tion?’ Are we all to be subject to “hesitancy” and “expectancy”? I felt as one does who seéés an old friend after a long absence wheén I came upon “hesitation” n an an h novel yesterday. The forms of these words as at present used are no doubt legiti- mately developed; they would, by the general analogy of, language, refer rather to a comtin and protracted DR. WILLIAM EVERETT ON WORD FADS. be callgd, “O most foreeful Feeble" It blessing It must be, instead of the lum- | tney are absolutely forcing out the old | looks. too, as if “masteriy”—i. e, ia {bering about ‘“steam navigation com- and familiar forms, with no difference | the style. of a master—would be. pany” one can wuse the straightfor-fof meaning and no poss.ole gain to! wholly -banishéd to give way to “mas- ward single c¢ompound word, dampf- |any element of expresdion. I am de- | terful” which means imperious. schirtahrtsgesellschaft. I have heard | cidedly given to hesitation; perhaps| “Conservative'—dn -excellént and that telegraph companies in England | morbidly so; but I protest I never| necessary word in is true sense. It first won extensive eurremev about 1812 when the Tory party in England had been knacked flat ‘by the -nrst refori act, and Sir Robert Peel rallled what wis left of them and in no 'long time built :ID .the new 4 vigorous Con- servative party—a party’ profes not adverse to all clz:n‘ek pbu(.l.:dl’-tu- ing that changes shall be made with a view of preserving and not destroy! | the essentials of the English ml‘?‘-— jon. A comservative statesman, a con- servative policy, a conservative temper, are plivases plain, simple and.indjspen- comes a new set of writers—I believe the innovation start- ed in the ‘Stock Exchange—whe use tiie word to mean timid. cautlous, mad- erate. reasomable—a samut of meanings, not one of wi property belongs to the original word: “Sym- phony Hall was open to the puble lase night for the first time. A comservative estimate puts the audience at $000. Conservative of what, in the name of Ruskin or Lowell? AS if a conserva- tive politician was not oftén reckless and unreasonable i temper. and a con- servative policy wholly undiscerning' My objection to all these words is | definite; they aré most mate English, of no mfit age, and to be found ih Food dictisn- aries; but they have taken the last few years pu as t-al"-: tashions, tortured and strained ow* of their original meaning, sapplying no veal need. but ousting other woras whieh haVe hdd eyrreney aliks in ale- vated amd In familiar sty)« for genera tions. Their prevalent 18 awing te . A desire to be f6 put a little . - nx“(:x ::mz AN Shap Ints e e a1 m! commonplce, h solig #nu useful Lucic use o:l.:::-':;.unu sense nor music, and ouly gratifias their authors, who feel, after ‘wueh words from thefr pen,