(1) Common names of people, which are derived from proper names of places; (2) common names of members of political parties and churches; and (3) adjectives derived from names of political parties as well as adjectives derived from other proper nouns begin with capitals.

Examples: (1) He is an American. I know many Germans. (2) He is a Republican. She is a Methodist. (3) There was a Democratic rally last night. She speaks the French language. He showed true American pluck.

Exception

Common nouns, and adjectives derived from proper nouns, are often not written with capitals when they are used in naming articles of merchandise.

Examples: A china plate, china silk, prussian blue, india ink.

Exercise 173

Find in books illustrations of the statements made under §§ 139 and 140.

Exercise 174

Give rules for the capitals found in the following sentences:

1. Washington took command of the Continental Army in July.

2. As early as 1814, George Stephenson, an Englishman, invented a "traveling engine," which he named "My Lord."

3. At the outbreak of the Revolution, Princeton College, of which Woodrow Wilson was recently president, was already an influential institution.

4. In merry England in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood.

5. Finally Judge Pickering was removed from office.

6. Write to your state agricultural college, and to the Division of Publications, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C, for bulletins on growing alfalfa, and its value as a stock feed.

7. Some democrats are not Democrats.

8. In June, 1914, Congress passed the Panama Tolls Exemption Repeal Bill.

9. This was the foundation of the Adams Express Company.

10. In the summer of 1805, Lieutenant Pike made a journey of exploration up the Mississippi River. He went as far north as Leach Lake, and notified British and Indian occupants of the territory that they were under American rule.

11. Some of these fundamental rights, suggested in the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence, were even more clearly phrased in other places, most notably in the Virginia Bill of Rights.

12. The Dutch merchants were interested in commerce with the East Indies; and Henry Hudson, an English mariner in the employ of a Dutch company, sought to find a shorter route to the silks and spices of the East.

13. King Albert of Belgium has always admired the American character; and when be was only the nephew of King Leopold, he traveled widely in the United States.

14. He visited the White House, Mr. Hill took him over his railroads in the West, and he went through the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and a coal mine in Pennsylvania.

15. There are many Socialists in Belgium, but these men have always liked the King.

16. Queen Elizabeth, who is like her husband in character, is daughter of the Grand Duke of Bavaria.