The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-02-28
AN EXPENSIVE WORD.
lRnl We, iu New York Mercury,

thhl Nye,i In NeW Nork MeteaFy.l
 Much that Is annoying in tAts life is occaSioned by the use of a high priced word where cheaper one would do, Ia these days of failure. shortage at both ends and 6nancial stringency generally, | oten wonder that so...e people should go on, day after day. using just as sx- uava9ant language as they did during the flush times, When 1 ge, hard up, the 6rs, thing do Is to economise in my expressions in everyday conversation. II there Is a marked stringcney in busi- ness, lay aside my French. then mv Latin and finally my German, Should the times become greatly depressed and failures and assignments become ire quent, begin to lop of the large words tn my own language, beginning with ineomptehenaibllity," unconslIlation- ah,y," etc, etc.
 ulius C,csar's motto used to be, " Avoid an unusual word AS you would rock al sea" and Jule was right about 1t, too, lArge and unusual words, es- pecially in the mouths oi ignorant peo- pie, are worse than Rough on Ratss in a boarding. house pie,
 Years ago there used to te pompouS euss in southern Wiseonsin, who was selt-made man, Extremely so. Those who used to hear hun assert aga,n and again that he WAS a self.made man. al. ways felt renewed confidence in the Creator
 lie rose on. evening in a political meeting, and swelling out hts boaom, A, hIS eagle eve rested on the chairman, he sad.
 "Mr. Cheerman move you that the cheer do appoint committee ~ three to attend to the matter under discussion, and that said committee be clothed by the cheer with ominiscient and omnipo. tent powers"
 The motion was duly seconded and the cheerman sad he guessed that lt wouldn't be neeessiry to put t to vote.
 "l guess il will be all right. Mt Pink. ham. guess thcrell be no dseIivity to it."
 And so the committee was appointed and clothed wllh omnlseicnt and omnipo- tent powers, there being no declivi,y to it.
 We had self made lawyer al one tune in the northern part uf the state vh0 would rather ind Acventy-fve eeai word and use il in a speech where 1t dld not belong than to cat & good square meal. He was more fatal to the kings English than O'Dynamite Rossa. One day he was telling how ms,hodieal one oi the county officials was.
 Why" said he, never saw mAn do SO much and do 1t SD easy. Hut the secret of i, iS plain enough. You see. he has a regular rotunda ot business every day"
 lf he msant anything, 1 suppose he meant routine Of business, bu. q man would have to be mind reader to follow hIm some days when he had about SAX fingers of cough medicine aboard and began to paw around tn the dark and musty garrett of his memory for meth eaten words that didn't mean anything.
 4 neighbor ef mine went to Washing. ton during tho Guiteau trial and has bcen telling us about it ever since, He Is one of those people who don't want to be close and s.inRy abou. what they know. He likes 10 go through life shedding in. formation right and left. He likes ta get crowd around him and then tell how hs was iii Wsshias;af; s: .he Sine ei the "poI moftise examination"
 Boys, you may talk as you're a mind to, but the gtcates, thing 1 saw in Wash. ingion," sad he, was Df. Mary Walker on the street every morning riding one of these philosophers"
 He painted the top ol his fence green, last year, SO it would "kind oi com mbinate with his blinds"
 II he would make his big words com binate with what he means iiule better, he would not attract so much attention. Bt he don, care. lie hates to see b:R, !:: ~c:d lcahng around ~i.h nothing 10 do, so he just throws oae in occasion. ally for exercise, ] guess.
 In the Minnesots legislature. in 1897. they had under discussion bill 10 in- crease the per diem of members from three dollars to five dollars. A member of the lower house. who voted for the measure, vas hauled over the eozis by one ef his constituents and charged with corruption in no unmeasured terms. To ali this the legislator calmly answered that when he got down to the capital aad found out the awful price Of board, he concluded that his "per diadem ought to be incTeased, and so he supported the measure. Then the belligcfent conssi- tuent said:
 "l beg your pardon and aequis you of all charges oi corruption. for legislator who does not kBow the difference be- tween a crown Of glory and the price cf days work is too big a blaake.y hiankeA fool tn be convicted Of an in~ tentional wrong"