Show IS THE SOUL OF W WIT IT Is IN his annual message to the newyork legislature on the ad instant governor hill began by announcing that it would oe be the briefest document ot of the kind on record saying that his bis conclusion conc lulon in that respect was wan reached not because there was not an abundance whereof to speak but he fully realized that the one who gave suggestions ta nels eness aid aa d brevity conferred s considerable gift upon bu business ind and active men ja in this active age j in addition to which the messaged message is 8 more ii like 4 e it 1 to be read and nd than it it t were a long drawn out affair f con ori substantially no more this f his wag was doubtless a ment meat to oe be assembled solos who up to that time had bad generally fixed them selves in their seats ano and braced up tor for an ordeal lasting a couple of hours at least and to be strictly impartial it is necessary to 10 say mat f roin from no one have they suffered in that respect more then than from the present executive ample experience peri ence enee vigorous style and s splendid bendid education make the discussion topics a matter ot comparative ease the governor admits this and then like a good and proper nian man does not wait for the lashof lash of public opinion or the tb protest of imposed lo legisla gisla r tors before reforming be takes taken the initiative upon his bis his bis own motion and affords the relief in a way sup and at a time when it is most welcome when the same old persecution is expected acted he then proceeds with a condensed recital of the subjects requiring attention at the bands of the assembled representatives of the ing without unnecessary form or verbiage to state exactly what he thinks to be done or not dope done as well as briefly pointing out some of tile the ways aud and means avat available lable in relation to each subject and when he has baa done this without more cdo he drops it pd nd in like manner takes up another adoth opta it ph through ough the same process and a so on to the end which be reaches reache in jess ess hai three t ordinary newsy newspaper er tae 14 reader may think that even in id ta that at space coated containing wag say gay words a fr gret t muy many wasted ones oust be a and that governor willis kilps work work could still 1 11 aoe b e i proved improved I 1 upon pon boog soo as s it is ip ilk I 1 my this F Is but t the beginning thi the first rot exert eifort a aped vb ft the work goes on what is pow performed i Is s s sure gr to be up improved roved peep op put those who have looked looked abon a whole newspaper page of si six p pr seyen sevin columns occupied pied by mand tats and other governors will say that t the e 0 slight quality evera of prolixity prolixity in which mr H hill 11 1 has as andul indulged eo 4 is not to p e mentioned let the entire work be put together pra and i nd applauded as a step r n ta the e right direction especially when then P as it t appears 0 us as front from a hasty review t the spears e document Is ie a most able abe one flowing 10 1 wh patriotic P purpose 0 sparkling 1 g W wih good sense pew aop bristling 9 with hue a e po points to there is a tendency e y athe V a 4 great many 0 officials 0 11 and 0 others to spread themselves ves 0 oyer over its as much apace as possible every time they ha baye an opportunity to reach the pub lie ic eye or ear these taape are not peculiar to any elaas or community but exist here there and aad everywhere their tuna of garrulity barrull ty to Is very ductile and tortious given ao 44 idea or a mental birth called such sometimes by courtesy and it can be drawn out to as great a length as though it were golden which it generally is not nor anything like it and it it occasionally diverges from the monotony mono meno tony of a walking match lor for a moment it invariably gets back to it its former shape and condition without apparent effort this is all wrong and it if those who are thus afflicted cannot I 1 like governor hill reallie without being told in plain words that they have no right to make oder peo pie miserable when there is no corresponding reabon good they should be in formell I 1 af pf Q it lit id a way that will ill make them remember reme diber it thereafter there niter nor mor is it to be concise to to the point of abruptness or faculty let enough language be employed to folly freely and fairly convey the idea and when it is M conveyed cease speaking or take up another thought and treat it t in ia the same way anything more is amalid catlon cation resorted to to in nine cases out of ten to show the victims how longwinded the wilter or speaker is this is a persecution which un unfortunate fortunat unfortunately ely cannot be reached by law but it ca can n be in themay the way herein suggested suggest td in tile the language of an eminent editor po ploll it it do down 6 |