Show BRIGANDS mr adamson representing the bond holders of the bear kiver Ini gation ogden waterworks company has been made to stand in a false light EO it by an interview accorded 1 a reporter A misplaced comma and quotation marks maue him that the of odeil were brie ands or worda to that effect though the gentleman bad intended to convey no buch impression he he hae ben well received in ogden and hae formed an acquaintance that has fv given him a hijii opinion of our peo pie aa a whole and it has been t source of much perturbation of mind to bs placed in the double position of one ready to refer to the people as outlaws yet enjoying their company and holding them in high respect it is due mr adamson that we make this amende honorable for be is an affable rentie y man who ie not liable to fly off on a 1 tangent he is worthy of abo esteem of h i our people s the new york sun is copt busy theae days answering question in grammar and rhetoric or riving space to communication muni cation on those subjects A writer takes up the reason for avoiding the placing of a proposition at the end of a sentence een tence he I 1 conceive the question to relate more to rhetoric than to it may be ad milted that in written discourse there is a familiar solemn style the placing of a preposition at the mid of a sentence is an idiom to which our language 1 strongly atron gly inclined to it prevails in common conversation end ehlts well with the familiar style in writing but the writer or the who is unvaryingly familiar usually induces contempt la serious or solemn discourse oral or written the placing of the preposition be fort the relative to which it relates or if yon before the relative which it relates to ie more more more elevated more logical 1 I know what you think about that word and agrees ai rees better with strength and dignity the question Is therefore one of it can hardly be doubled that the strength of a sentence is materially increased by not concluding it with a bitica true there is noth lne sacred about the last place in the sentence but at least there is much emphatic the mind rests somewhat upon the mean lui of the last word in the sentence ben tence and when this word does not by itself produce any idea weakness in the ten tence inevitably results if familiarity in t discourse be desired you may use apro to end a with bat preposition should not be placed at the end if it is to add to the sentence grace perspicuity logic strength and dignity As this formidable agrees with that unspeakable the laa I 1 am afraid the sun will not print it it concurs with the decision reached by the an that it does agree with the grammars I 1 call AS ft witness ono who wrote better than the hon william his address was Ho leate near york |