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—Mrs. Della. Fuller of LaQrange, Ga.
spent Sunday here with her eon Early
Fuller.
—WereeefoedeU months subscription
from Hr. EUm Roberts of Albany, Ga.
srhieh «e oppredato.
—Mu, f. D. Howell and little son
11m Hemoll of lieeon, Ga. spent Sunday
mttfc her son Will Howell.
—Mr. J. 1. Nolon has about eaught I
•p With the plowing once more as he
hoe been in a rush for a good while.
—Dr. J. A. Price drove out and vac
cinated two new boys who did not get
their dose with the rest of the boys.
—This is clean up week for the Re
formatory. We have got all the trees
white washed and it sure improves the
looks of things.
—Our paper run out this week and
we will have to borrow some from the
Milledgeville News if we get our paper
off in time.
—Mr. E. B. Cochran killed another
beef for our dinner last Sunday and
judging from the way the boys eat, it
it sure was appreciated.
—The boys who received boxes from
home last week are Quincy O’Steen,
Pink Snow, Lucius Roberts, Julius
Starnes and Eddie Ballue.
—Mr. W. L. Hodges had a squad of
boys this week cleaning up the third
floor all of the boys hope to be back
in their new dormitory before long.
—Walter Wright one of our house
boys was transfered to another job and
Leonard Wilson took his plaee as dairy
boy and we hope he will make good.
—Judge E. L. Rainey of the Prison
Commissioners and Gaptain J. E. Smith
of the State Farm made a business trip
to the Reformatory one day this week.
—Superintendent J. E. Lovvorn has
had the ground out in front of the
building plowed up and Bermuda grass
sodded all over it, which will improve
its looks.
—Mr. i. R. MeCollough. one of our
old offloera, who ie on the farm now
pidd ue alia visit which all of the boys
was glad Meet him and to hear that
ho was falling along so fine.
Superintendent of Construction J.
W. Reynolds ha* about finished the
new hailding over here and he sure
hae done some good work since he
started it. He will start a building over
at the State Farm next and we wish
him success.
—Mr. E. B. Cochran one of our offi
cers is always trying something new
and he always maxes a success at it.
He made an eggbeater this week and
it sure works fne. If it wasn’t for Mr.
Cochran, we wouldn’t know what to do
around here.
“Will” And “Shall”
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use the auxiliary that belongs to
volition or determination. Any one
of our ten commandments is a gootl
example of this—“Thou shalt not
kill,” for instance.
.“I shall drown! Nobody will
help me!”
“1 will drown! Nobody shall
help me!”
Do you now see the difference?
In the first we have a situation
which just happens that way—
so.ne one has fallen into t he water,
and is going to drown, unless
somebody else comes and is going
^o help pull her out. In the second
we have a very different situation,
one which shows the speaker’s will
dominating herself and others.
Some one has determined—made
up her mind—to commit suicide, let
us suppose, has jumped into the wa
ter, and resists rescue. The fi r st ex
ample expresses simple futurityj the
second volition, or determination.
Do you distinguish clearly be
tween the two sentences, “At ten
o’clock she will leave the city”
and “At ten o’clock she shall leave
the city?” The first is futurity, ex
pectation, and can be tested by
means of tlie phrase “is going to”
The second expresses determination
that somebody else leave the city
at a certain time. It is the sort of
thing that a police official might
say about a person under suspicion,
if determined to get rid of him, or
a mother about a child over whom
she still exercises control.
The big distinction between
siutlll and will, then, is this: if
the idea is simply futurity, or some
thing going to happen in the fut
ure, use shall with I and we, and
will with the oilier personal pro
nouns; as “l shall go to school to
morrow as usual,” “l know that
you will come,” and “He says
that she will be there.” If the idea
i- deiermination, or volition—mak
ing tip the mind, or impressing
one’s will on others, use will with
L and we, and shall wi'h all the
other persons; as, ‘‘I will go, for
you cannot keep me away,” “You
diall take p irt in the program, for
I can make you do it,” and “She
shall do as 1 say.”
In vueshons there is a special
rule to remember, and that is, to
use the auxiliary expected in toe
answer. Shall is ordinarily expect
ed in the first person with I or we.
Will is never proper in the first
person unless it repeats a question
asked by another person; as, “You
ask me, ‘Will 1 go?’—why, yes,l
will.” To say “Will I raise the
window?” is an absurd question,
because it means “Have I made up
my mind to ra : >e the wihdow?”
and nobody knows that the speak
er. It should be, of course, “Shall
I raise the window?” “Will 1 go?”
should be “Shall I go?”
In those questions in which the
subject is in the second or third
person, we should use the auxiliary
expected in the reply. A stenog
rapher would ask her employer :
“Shall you be in your office all the
afternoon ?” for she naturally ex
pects the repiy, “I shall” or “1
shall not.” Hut suppose that some
girl has borrowed a book from her
and she wis! es it returned the same
day. She asks, “ Will you let me
have the hook by six o’clock to
night?” became ^he expects the
promise : “1 will!”
The expressions ‘‘shall of” and
“will of” are entirely unwarrant
ed; as, “I shall of gone’’ for “l
shall have gone,” or “He will of
arrived” for “lie will have arriv
ed.” This use of the preposition of
for the auxiliary verb have is con
fined largely to spoken language
and is frequently the result of care
lessness. It is, however,, a glaring
error in (lie usage of ilie verb.
QUESTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK
(1) Is it true that no private
citizen of the United States ever
cast a vote for President, and what
is the legal method of electing a
president and vice-president r
(2) Please explain just how bath
ing is beneficial to health, besides
keeping the body clean.
Can You Imagine A time When The Future Citizen Will P- 4 Thine of T* e Pa*t?-We