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ALL IN THE,ACCENT
Words on Which Common Usage
and Dictionaries Disagree.
LINCOLN AND LIEN AND LION..
An Amusing Verbsl Duel In the Su
preme Court In Which the Lean
Lawyer's Wit Came Into Play—A
Blind Man’s Criticism of Irving.
There are many words so habitually
mispronounced that the correct accent
(1. e., the accent favored by the dic
tionaries) would appear wrong if any
body used It In current conversation.
This, of course, means that common
usages have overriden the dictionary
and established a new standard which
the dictionary of the future will have
to respect, just as those of today
respect the pronunciation of "lien”
that they rejected in the past. Such
words are cocaine and ptomaine, which
the dictionary of the present recog
nizes as trisyllables, thus: co-ca-ine,
pto-ma-ine.
Anyone familiar with French—a lan
guage that may be said to possess no
accented syllables—will understand
Taine’s complaint about London res
taurants that whenever he ordered
potatoes the waiter invariably served
him with butteretr toast.
And of course it was another French
man who made a jest of matrimony
by pronouncing it ma-tri’m-ony.
Mark Lemon records a story about
Lord Chancellor Eldon and Sir Arthur
Pigott. The first always pronounced
the word “lien'’ in two syllables, as if
it was spelled li-en; the latter pro
nounced it in one syllable, lean, just
as it would be pronounced in ordinary
conversation. On this difference Jekyll
wrote an epigram:
Sir Arthur, Sir Arthur, why. what do you
mean
By saying the chancellor’s lion is lean?
Do you think that his kitchen’s so bad as
all that.
That nothing within it will ever get fat?
Lord Eldon’s pronunciation of tills
legal term was not unknown sit one
time in America. Witness an .necdote
about Lincoln. He once appeared in
the supreme court in a case involving
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a lien'upon a plece'of property.
The presiding judge was noted alike
for obstinacy and pedantry. Lincoln,
referring to the lien, pronounced it
"lean." This visibly affected his
honor.
"Li en. Mr. Lincoln,” he gently re
monstrated.
“Very well," said Lincoln. But a
little later he forgot himself and out
came the pronunciation "lean.”
Once more be was corrected by the
Judge.
"As you please," retorted Lincoln,
somewhat nettied.
“Not as 1 please.” came from the
bench. "That is the pronunciation
favored by Webster and by Worcester.
It so obtains at Westminster hall and
also at our own supreme court in
Washington.”
Lincoln had now recovered his con
stitutional good humor. Bowing to
the court he said: “Certainly, your
honor, certainly. I only desire to say
that If my client had kno vn there was
a lion on bis farm for so long a time.
I am sure he would not have stayed
there even long enough to bring this
suit and 1 should not have had the
pleasure of appearing before this hon
orable court”
Of Henry Irving we are told that to
heroic perseverance and hard study he
added almost childlike eagerness to
adopt any suggested improvement In
his manner of delivery. A blind man
once offered an illuminating criticism
on his Shylock. The sensitive ear of
the sightless auditor detected a fault
in Irving’s opening line:
Three thousand ducats—well!
“I hear no sound of the usurer In
that," was the blind man’s subse
quent comment to Irving himself. "It
is said with the reflective air of a man
to whom money means very little.”
The Justice of the criticism was
acknowledged by Irving, lie revised
his reading, not only of the first line,
but of several others in which be now
saw that he had not been enough of
the moneylender.
George Eliot in “Middlemareb” sup
plies a classic instance of the
of ttie accent When Lyndgate. sore
distressed at the failure of all his pro
fessional and financial plans, comes to
his wife for sympathy, she meets him
with the query:
“What can I do?” •
Whereon the author comments:
“That little speech of four words, like
so many others in all languages, is ea
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pable o'f expressing all states” of mind,
from helpless dimness to exhaustive
argumentative perception, from the
completgst self devoting fellowship to
the most neutral aloofness. Rosa
mund’s thlx utterance threw into the
words ’What can 1 do?’ as much
neutrality as they could bold. They
fell like a mortal chill on Lyndgate’s
roused tenderness.”
One of Du Maurier’s best cartoons in
Punch shows a deferential man of in
quiring mind propounding this question
to a professional beauty:
“Ain’t you tired of hearing people
say ’That is the beautiful Miss Bel
size?* ”
"Ob, no,” the professional beauty re
plies. "1 am getting tired of bearing
people say ’ls THAT the beautiful Miss
Beisize?’"-William S. Walsh in Chi
cago Itecord-Herald.
Try to be something in the world
and you will be something. Aim at
excellence and excellence will be at
tained—Boiiea u.
ALFALFA.
What makes the landscape look so
fair;
What blossoms bright perfume the
air:
What plant repays the farmer's toil.
And will enrich the wornout soil?
Alfalfa!
What is the crop that always pays.
Which may be cut each forty daySt
Resisting drought, the frost and
heat;
Whose roots reach down full twenty
feet?
Alfalfa!
What grows in loam and clay and
sand;
What lifts the mortgage off the
land:
What crop is cut three times a year.
And of never a failure do you hear?
Alfalfa!
What makes the swine so healthy
feel.
And never raise a hungry squeal;
The wholesome food that never fails
To put three curls into their tails?
Alfalfa!
What makes all other stock look
nice.
And brings the highest market
price;
What fills the milk pails, feeds the
calf.
And makes the old cow almost
laugh?
Alfalfa:
FLOUR MILL ON FARM.
How One North Dakota Man Geta
Greatest Return From Crops.
A North Dakotan realizes the maxi
mum returns from his wheat and rye
crops by converting these grains into
flour which he sells at $3 a hundred
pounds. In his locality it was practi
cally Impossible to obtain good rye,
graham or whole wheat flour, so this
farmer started growing and-grinding
his own grain. As he became profi
cient the quality of the flour improved
until finally his neighbors were annu
ally demanding his surplus at hand
some prices. This keen demand for
high quality flour increased until he
decided that it would pay him to equip
a suiail mili thoroughly and to embark
in the business on a commercial scale.
A stream of considerable velocity
flows through his farm and furnishes
the power with which to operate his
machinery. He equipped his minia
ture mill with a crusher, a grinder, a
cleaner and an elevator. The income
from his flour business during the first
two years paid for his plant and equip
ment and yielded him a good net profit.
This miller eliminates all the charges
that usually go to the middle man. He
annually raises about eighty acres of
wheat and thirty-five acres .of rye.
Some of this grain he sells as a cash
crop on account of inadequate bin
room in which to store it. but more
than half of the crop is converted into
flour to be used for human food.
A gasoline engine is also maintained
as a reserve source of power in case
the water power should give out. The
marketable flour is neatly sacked and
sells for $3 a hundred pounds. An
nually the rye and wheat have a
farm value of about 00 and 82 cents
a bushel respectively where they are
sold as cash crops. At a slight ex
pense as regards time and labor this
shrewd farmer converts his raw wheat
and rye—that in the bulk are worth ap
proximately $1.07 and sl.lO a hundred
pounds—into excellent flour that sells
for $3 a hundred pounds.
Yearly this progressive farmer is
gaining an attractive income from his
milling operations, since he also grinds
grain for liis neighbors. This labor in
nowise interferes with his farm work,
as the greater share of the mill work
is done during the period when field
work is relatively slack.—Country Gen
tleman.
WATER ALIA AYS NECESSARY.
During the winter season of
the year many farm animals do
not receive as much water as
they really need to give the best
results, says the Kansas I’aim
er. This is especially true of
bogs. In cold weather, when all
water left in troughs or other
receptacles is likely to freeze,
the animals do not have the op
portunity to drink -as much as
they otherwise would.
Professor Deitricb. formerly of
the Illinois Agricultural college,
found in conducting a series of
experiments in feeding swine
that a sufficient amouftt of wa
ter is a very important consider
ation in securing the largest re
turns from the feed consumed
by hogs. He found that often
times in securing the best re
sults in the feeding of hogs it
was necessary to encourage the
consummatioß of the proper
amount of water by supplying
some of the food in liquid form.
Those who are feeding hogs
through the winter season should
bear in mind that the supplying
of a source of pure, clean water
at the proper temperature is of
the greatest importance. Per
haps in many cases it will be
desirable to supply a part of the
water in the form of warm slop
feeds. A feed cooker for the
cooking of feeds lias little eco
nomic importance, but such a
device may be very useful in
supplying warm liquid feeds
during the cold season of the
year.
~ 'While fifteen TJancTs played, Gal
veston citizens danced the tango on
Broadway, a new street 300 feet
wide and two and a half miles long.
They were celebrating Texas Inde
pendence day.
Twelve-year-old Louis Copeland is
held by juvenile court officers at
Memphis, pending an investigation
into a report to the police that he
caused the death of his five-months
old baby brother by pouring carbolic
acid down its throat.
George Sterling, the poet, has an
nounced his engagement to Miss
Tuttle, of San Francisco. The wed
ding will take place next January,
when the interlocutory decree of di
vorce granted to Mrs. Sterling is
made final
Col. W. C .Bryanhas lived in Cof
fee County nearly fourteen years.
He is well known to the people of the
county. He would be proud of your
support for Solicitor of the City
Court of Douglas if you think him
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have your support in his race for
Solicitor of the City Court of Doug
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