for the President, a 'picture' of the girl, we should say, Love of a father, The reception of the President, In Latin the two meanings given for the first and second are expressed by the genitive case, and the former is known as the subjective genitive, and the latter as the objective genitive. Euphony makes the form with 'of' preferable to the possessive case in many nouns the names of persons. Thus, The poems of Mrs. Hemans, The settlements of Roger Wil- William of Orange's reign; This liberty had been extended until we are liable to find the sign attached to any noun preceding the one possessed. We have such sen tences as: The hero of Manilla's mar riage; Moses was the daughter of Herod put John in prison for Good usage requires that the form of expression, words chosen, arrangement, grammatical con are more pleasing to the ear than, struction, everything that goes to Mrs. Hemans's poems, Socrates' or Socrates's philosophy, Roger Williams's settlements. The sign of possession is placed as near as possible the word possessed. If two possessives are in apposition and closely associated, and the noun possessed follows the latter, the latter takes the sign; thus, Peter the Great's reign, When a prepositional phrase becomes so intimately associated with a name as to be almost a part of it, the sign of possession is added to the object of the preposition. Examples: make up style, must contribute to one end, the economy of the reader's efforts in interpreting the thought. The use of grammatical enigmas like some of the ones just given, even if they are grammatical and sanctioned by a certain amount of authority, show, at least, bad taste. It is far better to say, The marriage of the hero of Moses was the son of Phara- Herod put John in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, or the wife of his brother Philip. Adam Sherman Hill, professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, in criticising the sentence, (Foundations of Rhetoric), I bought the rolls at Wright's the baker, says the best usage favors the apostrophe either with the second noun, or with both. So we might say, I bought the rolls at Wright the baker's, or I bought the rolls at Wright's the baker's. He says "the practice of putting the sign with only the first of two nouns that are in apposition can not be deemed absolutely wrong for it is supported by a certain amount of authority." He says: "shop' is understood; and surely we should say 'Wright the baker's shop' or 'Wright's the baker's shop,' not 'Wright's the baker shop.'" Certainly we should not say "Wright's the baker shop," but why not Wright's shop the baker? And if we prefer to supply 'shop' with Wright's instead of after Baker's, what valid reason can there be against saying, I borrowed her, the most accommodating pupil's book in our class. We may omit 'book' entirely by writing the possessive pronoun 'hers' for 'her'; thus, I borrowed hers, the most accommodating pupil in our class. General Rule: When two nouns in the possessive case are in apposition the sign of the possession should be added to the one that precedes the noun possessed either understood or expressed. Frequently it makes no difference with which of the nouns in apposition, the noun possessed is implied or expressed. The sign of possession is added only to the last of two or more nouns that denote possession in common. For example: William and Mary's reign; Whitney and Lockwood's But when the possession is not in common, the sign must be added to each of the nouns or expressions denoting a separate ownership. For example: I studied Harvey's and Holbrook's Grammars. We study Harvey's and Whitney and Lockwood's Gram mars. ST. CLAIR'S DEFEAT. After constructing Forts Hamilton and Jefferson, St. Clair with. his men marched toward the Maumee river, where they were to erect another fort. On November the third, 1791, the army encamped on a branch of the Wabash, supposing it to be a branch of the Maumee. The militia under Colonel Oldham, passed beyond the creek a quarter of a mile, and encamped on a small hill, occupied now by the residence. of Mr. Shafer. General Butler detailed Captain Slough with thirtytwo men, to reconnoiter before the lines. Colonel Oldham told Captain Slough he had seen enough Indians in the woods to attack them. Captain Slough immediately told General Butler what Colonel Oldham had said, and he also said, if he thought necessary he would tell General St. Clair. General Butler was silent for a while and then told Captain Slough that as he was tired he should lie down. St. Clair was not informed of the presence of the Indians, and no other precautions were taken. On the fourth immediately after the men had been dismissed from parade, half an hour before sunrise, the militia was attacked. The yells of the savages were heard, and in a short time the camps were surrounded by the red men. The militia caused a great deal of confusion by fleeing through the first line of regulars while they were trying to form in line. The aim of the savages was true, and the men fell in great numbers. Gen. Butler was wounded soon, but he still tried to encourage the men. St. Clair was sick at the time of the engagement, but he did all in his power to reform the lines. When all of the artillery officers were either killed or wounded, and a great number of the men were killed, those remaining were anxious to retreat. A charge was then made against the Indians to open the way for the retreat to Fort Jefferson. St. Clair was among the first to open the way, and then fell back to look after the wounded. The ground was covered with snow at the time of the battle. There were thirty-seven officers and five hundred and ninety-three privates killed and missing, and thirty-one officers, and two hundred and fifty-two privates wounded. Major-General Butler and Lieutenant-Colonel Oldham were killed. St. Clair said, "I have nothing to lay to the charge of the troops, but their want of discipline, which, from the short time they had been in service, it was impossible they should have acquired, and which rendered it very difficult when they were thrown into confusion to reduce them again to order, and is one reason why the loss has fallen so heavy on the officers, who did every thing in their power to effect it." Washington held no prejudice against St. Clair after he learned the full particudars. The Indians now thought they could drive the white settlers across the Ohio. Many bloody scenes took place, and the whites were forced to withdraw within the forts. General St. Clair resigned his command, and General Anthony Wayne succeeded him. General Anthony Wayne's expedition can be best told by pupils north of here, but it resulted in a treaty between the United States and the Indian tribes August 3rd, 1795 at Greenville. Although this treaty was signed at Greenville, yet we feel the effects of it; for this place was the cornerstone of the boundary lines; one going southwest to the mouth of the Kentucky river, the other southeast to Loramie, then east to the portage between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas rivers, then north to the mouth of the Cuyahoga river at which point Cleveland is now situated. In February 1792, General Wilkinson with a body of men came to this place for the purpose of burying the dead who fell in St. Clair's defeat; but a deep snow prevented him from finding many of the bodies. Those that could be found were horribly mutilated. Again on December the twentyfifth, 1793, a detachment of General Wayne's army arrived, and, after pitching their tents, they had to carry the bones out in order to make their beds. The next day, these bones were buried in trenches, six hundred skulls being found among them. This being finished, a fortification was built and named Ft. Recovery, in commemoration of its being recovered from the Indians, who had possession of it in 1791. All of these bones were taken up in 1851 by the citizens of this place, and were placed in thirteen coffins representing the thirteen original states, as it was supposed that each state was represented in this battle. As the coffins would not contain all of the bones, a box was made for the remainder. On the tenth of September of this year, these bones were reburied in the village cemetery, and in 1873, while digging a cellar under Mr. Krenning's store, a coffin was found which was supposed to contain the bones of General Butler. This was also buried in the village cemetery. Almost one hundred years after the battle between St. Clair and the Indians, the bones of the fallen. heroes were again removed from their resting place. A centennial was held at Fort Recovery on October the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth, 1891. A large crowd was in attendance and was addressed by Governor Campbell, Judge Hunt of Cincinnati, General William Gibson of Tiffin, Honorable T. J. Godfrey of Celina, and others. On the sixteenth the bones were removed to Monumental Park their final resting place. As we look out of the northwest room of our school-building we can see the last and permanent resting place of the heroes of 1791, surrounded by an iron fence, and the flag of our country floating over them. Their graves are situated in the eastern part of the park, and near them are three cannon and a number of cannon balls sent by Congress to this place. The park is not yet completed, but it contains one hundred and forty-nine. trees, and soon all that will be needed to complete and beautify it, will be the monument which those soldiers, who, more than a century ago, gave their lives for their country, so much deserve, and which we as a town would so much appreciate. In looking through the history of our country we can not find a place so long deserving and so much neglected as Fort Recovery. We think if Congress would spend a little time to review the history of this place we would receive the hard won, fully merited, justly due monumental appropriation. ELVA RICHARDSON. THE RELICS OF FT. RECOVERY. We pupils of the Fort Recovery Schools have much to inspire us in our study of History. Standing on the school grounds, and looking to the north, our eyes rest upon the last resting place of the heroes of 1791; to the eastward, toward Loramie, the old Indian Boundary line; to the southeast, toward Greenville, the ever winding trail of St. Clair's march; to the westward, the site of the Old Fort, and the battleground, upon which more than six hundred white men perished at the hands of the Indians; to the southwest, the Old Indian Boundary Line stretching toward |