Show It I DILL XIES BUDGET I Much that is annoying in this life is occasioned by the use of a highpriced word where a cheaper one would do la these days of failure shortage at both i endu and financial stringency generally 1 often wonder that some people should J jo on day after day using just as cxtrav agunt language as they did during the f flush times When I get hard up the r first thing I do is to economise in my expressions 4 ex-pressions in everyday conversation If there is a marked stringency in business I lay aside Jiret my French then my Latin and finally my German Should I the times become greatly depressed and assignments become frequent I begin to lop off the largo words in my own language lan-guage beginning with incomprehensibility incomprehensi-bility unconstitutionality etc etc j Julius Cnjsars motto used to be Avoid an unusual word as you would a a rock at sea and Julo was right about 1 it too Large and unusual words especially 4 espe-cially in the mouth of ignorant people sire worse than Rough on Eats in a boardinghouse pie Years ago there used to be a pompous cus in Southern Wisconsin who was a tlftnado man extremely so Th6so vhb used to hear him assert again and again that he was a selfmado man al vsiyB felt renewed confidence in the Cre jvforHo Ho rose one evening in a political meeting and swelling out hit bosom as his eagle eyo rested on the chairman he said saidMr Mr Chairman I move you that the cheer do appoint committee of three to attend to the matter under discussion Hud that saypd committee be clothed by the cheer with omiuisoent and omnipotent omnipo-tent powers The motion was duly seconded and the cheerman said ho guessed that it wouldnt be necessary to put it to a vote I guess it will be aU right 1Ir Pink ham I guess therell be no declivity to that thatAnd And so the committee was appointed and clothed with omniswnt and omnipo tent power there bein no declivity to it Wo had a selfmade lawyer one time in the northern part of the State who would rather find a 75cent word and use it in a speech where it did not belong than to eat a good square meal He was more fatal to the kings English than ODjnauiito Kossa One day he was telliu how methodical one of the county Officials was Why said he I never saw a man do so much aud do it so easy But the secret of it la plain enough You see ha II j hui a regular rotunda of business even day If ho ineant anything I suppose he meant a routine of business but a man would have to be a mindreader to follow him some days when he had about six fingers of cough medicine aboard and began be-gan to paw around in the dark and musty garret of his memory for motheaten words that didnt mean anything A neighbor of mine went to Washing ton during the Guiteau trial and has been telling us about it ever since He is one of those people who dont want tobe close and stingy about what they know Ho likes to go through life shedding in formation right and left He likes to get a crowd around him and then tell how he was in Washington at the time of the post mortise examination Boys you may talk all youre a mind 4 to but the greatest thing I saw in Wash ington says ho was Dr Mary Walker on the street every morning riding one of these philosophers I lie painted the top of his fence green last year so he would kind of combinate yith his blinds lie would make his big words I com binate with what he means a little better bet-ter he would not attract so much attention atten-tion But he dont care He hates to see 4 a big fat word loafing around with noth ing to do so he just throws one in occasionally oc-casionally for exercise I guess In the Minnesota Legislature in 1887 I they had under discussion a bijl to in ciease the per diem of members from thr a dollars to five dollars A member I oi the lower house who voted for the I I nieaVuro was hauled over the coals by I one of his constituents and charged with corruption in no unmeasured terms To all this the legislator calmly answered that when he got down to the capital and found out the awful price of board he concluded that his per diadem ought to be increased and so ho supported the measure Then the belligerent constituent constitu-ent said I beg your pardon and acquit you of all charges of corruption for a legislator who does not know the difference between be-tween a crown of glory and the price of a days work is too big a blankety blanked fool to be convicted of an intentional wrong Xevi Yorker Uv T r s a |