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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

Washington, Jan. 1.-Two steam
boat boilers. made In AiddIeport, O.
% not conform 70 the Dimensions
lef the reqairements o. the tpeasury
1 16p6iFsmtnt. though othsEWise Per
~. ~ Qr16Sekee' 'lntro1iSe66 " sb1ll
Friday apthes1ziae ~ issuS - 80
t1Hnetn6 - ~ ohig rjves steoueBl
sssrysng these hoiless.
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EIection OF senator..

Nashville. Tenn, Jan. 19.--Repre-
sentative Dow introduced joint res
olution requesting congress to pass
an amendment to the constitution
providing for the election of United
States senators by the people. The
resolution was adopted unanimously.
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Washington, Jan. 1s.-The mandate
of the United States supreme court
in the case of G.. +. w. Neely was de-
livered to the solicitor general at
noon Thursday, and was forwarded
to New York for execution. This ac-
ton of the supreme court orders the
extradition of Neely to Cuba for trial.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

Chicago, Jan. 1s.--A heavily loaded
freight elevator in the Warren
Springer building, at 1865 South Clin-
ton street, fell from the third floor
Thursday, injuring five persons. The
accident was caused by the breaking
of the safety castings of the car.
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Jenries start. For Cincinnati.

New York, Jan. 21.--Jim Jeffries,
his brother Jack and Trainer Delaney
started for Cincinnati Sunday after
noon. The champion hopes that the
Saengerfest club will be able to pull
off his fight with Rubin there on
February IS.
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Mute. welded BY Mute Minister.

Bristol, Tenn, Jan. 19.-Basil Duke
Scott, prosperous farmer of Mays
lick, KY, married Miss Mollie PEN
dleton, daughter of wealthy Bris-
tolian. The ceremony was performed
without an articulate word. The
minister and the contracting parties
are mlIteS.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

Bellaire, O., Jan. 19.-Two hundred
miners at the Gaylord coal mines, on
the Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad,
struck as the result of dispute over
the question of dead work, the men
claiming the company has not lived
MP to it's agreement.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

Ashland, o., Jan. 19.-Chas. Wor-
,rell, who assisted in binding and tor
turing Mary Leidigh and daughter
the night of August 81. securing 5000.
was found guilty and sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

Warren, O., Jan. 1s.--A lone bur-
glar ransacked the house of Cashier
Fred Stillwagon, of the City National
bank at Niles Thursday morning. He
talked to Stillwagon in jolly mood
thanking him for the plunder. He
locked the inmates in room and es-
capped with diamond rings, watch
and some money.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

New York, Jan. 1S.-Capt. Charles
Belmont, In command of the steam
yacht Saranac, owned by a.. W. osiin-
taFd, and ~ various times employed
% yaehts owned By nAillloupiFes, wss
killed by strollsy . eas' IN Brseklyn. z
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Dry Dock ana Ship building Plant.

Pensacola, Fla, Jan. 19.-At a meet
ing of citizens New York capitalists
made a proposition to establish ex-
tensive dry docks and shipbuilding
plant here if Pensacola will donate
a site of 30 acres on the water front
west of the city. The capitalists will
invest 100000. The site will be oh
tained and work is expected to begin
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

New York, Jan. 1S.-The new Amer
lean association, the ally of the Ma
tional league and enemy to Ban
Johnson's American league, was
launched at the Hotel Marlborough
Thursday
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

Washington, Jan. 1s.-Thursday's
statement of the treasury balances in
the general fund, exclusive of the
s150,OOO, 900 gold reserve in the divi-
zion of redemption, shows; Availa-
BILE cash balance. $l3s.1s7. .o46; gold.
sac. .33S ,3e5.
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Mr.. Mary Whitley Dead.

Springfield, O., Jan. 21.-Mrs. Mary
Whitley, widow of the late William
Whitley, >sr., died Sunday night at her
home in South Limestone street She
was pioneer citizen. having been
born in Clark county, and was the
wife of the once prominent plow
manufacturer.
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New York, Jan. 1s.--John w.
Griggs, attorney general of the Unit
ed States, was elected director of
the Trust Company of America on
Thursday to fill a vacancy in the
hoard
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SUNDAY.


French statesman. who had been Sc
:iously in for some time past, is dead.
Lord Curzon is anxious TO return
10 I:nrland to hr 'eady for the
,!angc in the ministry. Conservatives
ii;,c picked him. iar premier
William f. Sandell & Co.'s bank at
NV Baltimore. Mich, was broken
into by cracksncn who forced open
he safe and secured about $500.
The Beers have captured train
laden with mining materials between
Hrugspruit and lialmoraI. The pas
sengers were robbed Of everything.
Several clerks in the dead letter
office of the post Office department
have been dismissed on charges of
having bought packages at the dead
letter sale. knowing in advance their
contents, and falsely representing
their character in the catalogue.
A dispatch from Curacao, Dutch
West Indies. says the relations be-
uela have not improved, and that the
United States minister, Mr.. Francis
Loomis. has sent strongly worded
note, which is even described as being
practically an ultimatum to the We
icZuelan government.
John ii. p. Sheridan, superintend-
ent of the money order department
of the Havana post Office, was re-
lieved from duty, after Special Agent
Z. NJ. Hamilton and Acting Postmas-
'er II. ii. Harrison had confronted
iim with evidences of n shortage of
$1,000 in his accounts and obtained
a full confession of guilt from him.
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Metropolis, ILL.,, Jan. 19.-John N
Green, highly respected man OF
this city. was arrested here by the
sheriff of Jefferson county for this
murder of a young man named Coop
er in that county. said to have beer
committed 12 years ago.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 19.-F. w.
Hergst, of Shiloh, for IL years grand
treasurer of the United Order OF
Trecbnnd, has admitted that he ID
short in his accounts $k70O. He has
agreed to resign. The order is pro-
atected by his bondsmen.
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Tramp. Biamed For the Fire.

Columbus, o., Jan. 21.-The ornate
entrance gate to the Columbus Driv-
ing park was burned at an early hour,
entailing loss of $1,000 to the asso-
citation. The fire is supposed to have
originated with tramps.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

Leipsic, o., Jan. 21.-Jossph Cling
rich, of Continental, was robbed of
e2aa and his gold watch while asleep
1t the Junction house. Two young
men about town, Win Thompson and
Sam Guier, were arrested.
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Completing plans For the Circuit

Cleveland. o., Jan. 1s.-Ban John
sor, president of the American
league, was here Thursday in consul
tation with the managers of the local
club. Later he and Charles w. Som
ers, of the Cleveland club, left for
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington to complete plans for the cir
cult
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-24

|, opslity ~ M qtsptity makes De
Ki&tt LAtlA Helly Rieexs such yelu-
alhle llttl4 Nxar PILL. W..R. Smith =
The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15

sional session he goes to the Capitol in
the one-horse carriage which the gov
eminent maintains in the White House
stables for his use. The same horses,
Kendall and Ramrod, a pair of bay
geldings. have taken turns in drawing
the Presidents message bearer for al
most decade. Arrived in the Senate
chamber Maj. Pruden, carrying the
large white envelope under his arm,
advances to a position before the pre-
siding officer and says:
Mr.. President. the President of the
United States directs me to submit a
message in writing"
With this announcement he hands the
package. which is held by the official
seal, to the reading clerk and proceeds
to the House of Representatives where
the ceremony is rpeatd. Clerks in the
two houses Of Congress read the docu-
ment aloud simultaneously, and mod
ern newspaper enterprise enables the
general public In all parts of the coun-
try to become cognizant of the con-
tents of the message by means of spe-
cial editions of the great daily Jour
nails quite as promptly as the law-nlak
ers seated In the halls of Congress.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15

lions on the Pacific coast, but on the
other occasions, owing to hardness in
the completion of the document, less
than forty-eight hours has interviewed.
1t has been necessary at such times
for the press associations to telegraph
the full text of the message to all the
prominent daily papers in the more re-
mote sections of the country. This
has entailed an expense of thousands
of dollars for telegraph tolls alone.
Each member of Congress, when he
takes his seat to listen to the reading
of the Presidential message on the
morning of a session Of the National
Legislature. finds before him a print
ed copy of the document similar to
that furnished to the newspapers. Yet
this is not the form in which 1t reaches
the presiding officers of the two Houses
OF Congress. The copy of the docu-
ment which is formally presented for
the consideration of each body IL in
manuscript, and the preparation and
delivery of these copies are among the
important duties Maj. o. l.. Pruden, as
sistant secretary to the President, who,
next to the chief executive and Sec
rotary Cortelyou, probably has more
to do with the evolution of a Presi-
Dental message than any other one
man.
Maj. Pruden's FIRST duty in the mat
ter is to prepare manuscript copies
of the message-one for the Senate and
the other for the House of Represen-
tatives. For this task he is well quail
flied, being a marvellous penman- Mai.
Pruden, who has been denominated
the Sphinx OF the White House." be-
cause of the jealous manner in which
he guards state secrets, was attached
to the White House staff by Gen. Grant
and he's held the position ever since.
In addition to transcribing the annual
message and other Presidential state
Tncnts--which unbroken precedent de-
crees shall go forth TO the world in
plain penmanship-MaJ. Pruden pre-
pares the Presidential commission for
cabinet officers and other important
Presidential appointments. In some
instances the limited time intervening
between the completion Of a message
and. the hour at which IL was necessary
TO present the document TO Congress
has necessitated extraordinary exer-
ton on the part Of Maj. Pruden- For
instance, in the case Of the last mes
sage prepared by President Mckinley
the assistant secretary worked all day
Sunday and Sunday night In order to
have the copies ready for the Senate
and House OF Representatives on Mon
day morning. In order to prevent the
recurrence of such an emergency Pres
ident Roosevelt, when he assumed Of
nee. declared that henceforth. when
time was limited, the advisability of
departing from time-honored custom
and sending to each branch Of Con-
gress a typewriter copy OF the docu-
nent would be seriously considered.
The delivery OF the carefully prepar-
ed copies OF the Presidents most inn
portant official declaration is another
duty that develops upon Maj. Pruden.
On the opening morning Of a congress
The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15

tional reforms In English grammar.
The present writer will content himself
with specifying certain ameliorations
OF grammar which, perhaps, may
serve, like the ten rules for amended
spelling proposed in 1883 by the Eng
fish and American Pathological Asso-
Citations, or the list reported by the
American Committee in 1886, as start
ers for more ambitious movements of
reform. The list is as follows:
I'd. Drop the so-called subjunctive
mood altogether. 1t is moribund in
much Of our best prose, and can be
allowed to die out OF our poetry with
no injury TO rhyme or reason, strength
or beauty.
"(2) Drop infected forms for the
past tense and past participle making
all new verbs, whether introduced
from foreign tongues or made within
the language itself, conform TO the
type Of hit, let, etc In America, In
particular. drop gotten.
49, Avoid the use OF differing
forms for verb and noun. Follow the
model OF boycott, under rule two
20. Avoid the use OF plural forms
OF nouns, making all new substantives,
whether borrowed from other Lam
guages or born Of the mother tongue,
conform to the model of sheep, deer,
etc.
90. Avoid the use of Greek or
Latin names for new things Follow
the good example Of certain scientists,
and name them after their discoverer
the place of origin, etc. Make new
words here conform to the model OF
gatling. ampere, and the like.
"(6). Avoid the use of feminine forms
Of nouns previously employed with
reference TO males, letting the thought
control the grammar. Drop particular
ly authoress. poetess, etc.
go. Avoid forming adverbs by in
Fiction, using for all new words of this
class the same form for adjective Cor
other world and adverb
"(S). Omit the conjunction that
wherever possible. For example, in
such cases as know that he Is
dead
"(O. Use but and as as full-fiedged
propositions.
"CO)J Drop whom. using who for
both cases.
"GD. Ceasing the attempt to dis
tinguish between who and that and
that and which, let the fittest sur
vie In each instance.
"G2). Use the pronouns compound
ed OF self and their plurals both as
subjects and objects
"uO. Drop the apostrophe in the
possesslve case.
"Other suggestion might be made,
but these cover sufficient ground for
the present"
The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15

asking: Shall we bury, embalm or
cremate?' He replied: If these fail,
try dissection He knew the other
three would be tried any way.
Then there's the boy who said:
Faith is believin' what you know amt
So. He's now studying for the minis
try.
IAN old Irish widow was sitting on
the curb, tired out with carrying her
basket of washing. Two granddames
stopped near to discuss the past
summer.
+" I went to Long Branch, and 1t was
nothing but Irish, Irish!
Yes, and went to Saratoga, and
it was nothing but Irish. Irish, Irish.
tool
Then the old washerwoman arose
in her wrath.
Why didn't you go to hades? faith,
there's no Irish therel'
II remember the day was born. II
was bitter cold. came into the world
without clothes. was astonished. /
spoke OF it to my parents. They had
no explanation when taken SO suddenly
except the old excuse that 1t was Gus
tomary. What was custom to me at
that age OF life? All you care then is
how you look. / never felt so embar-
raised in all my life"
Ex-Justlce Henry Z. Rowland: "In
the midst of life we are--in Brooklyn.
This is a land Of milk and honey,
with occasional deposits of coal and
iron.
THAT was like the Irishman who
wanted to reduce sixteen to one to its
lowest terms, so he called 1t nothing
to ate
Boston is town so antiquated that
the streets are bent double with age.
They know the language so well that
the little children advise each other
to read Emerson before they outgrow
1t. When q little Boston girl fell from
a ladder her mother cried out: 'Dari-
ing, how did you fair
Vertically. mammal
Chicago Is such a rapid town that
a man gets ahead OF his future before
he can get really started on his career.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15
B. II. Levy & Bro.

chief executive to write his message
out in long hand. President Cleveland,
who is rather a laborious worker and
some of whose messages to Congress
were somewhat lengthy, found the
preparation Of such documents sore
tax upon his time. The late President
Mckinley and President Roosevelt
have both had recourse to more mod
ern methods and have dictated large
por tions of their message to Secretary
G. B. Cortelyou.
In later years, however, there has
been no rule for this. In some instances
President Mckinley dictated practical
ly an entire message, and then, again,
in the case of some OF the compare
lively brief messages submitted on spe-
cial occasions, as during the Spanish
American war, entire documents were
written in his own hand. The business
of the government has now attained to
such proportions that 1t is doubtful If
1t will ever again be practicable for a
President to set out to pen personally
his entire letter Of advice to Congress.
Moreover, If the present occupant of
the White House has husbanded his
time in one direction, he has made a
more liberal expenditure of 1t in an
other, for, whereas. former Presidents
were wont to incorporate bodily in
the cabinet officials, Mr.. Roosevelt in
sisted on rewriting everything submit
ted for embodiment in his initial pres
idential message and infusing into the
recommendations his own personal
convictions.
Probably no man who has stood at
the head of the nation was enabled to
prepare a congressional message with
less apparent effort than the late
President Mckinley. He had a habit
of jotting down suggestions and re-
cording lines of thought at odd mo-
ments, and thus the general trend OF
the discussion seemed to literally shape
itself. Coming to his duties as chief
magistrate only few months before
he must present an exhaustive declar-
alton OF policy, President Roosevelt
methods In the preparation of his first
message. Almost from the outset he
adopted the plan OF seeing no visitors
after 1870 o'clock In the afternoon, and
thus gave up the hours after lunch
each day almost exclusively to work
on the message. Not infrequently he
devoted a portion Of the evening to the
same task, and on the only occasion
during the early weeks of his admins
tratlon when he visited the theater he
departed after the first act In order
IN get In some work on his message.
After a presidential message has
been dictated to the secretaries or
penned by hand It is transcribed in
typewritten form, and after revision
by the President, is sent to the govern
ment printing Office to be put In type.
When the proof" comes from Uncle
sans big printing establishment It I'M
dergoes another revision, and perhaps
this may be repeated several times.
There has been a sreat difference In
the tendency OF chief executives TO
make alterations In their messages
after the documents were In type,
The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15

Some Presidents have practically re-
written their missives, to the discom-
future of the compositors, while others,
notably President Mckinley, have, as
a rule, made very few corrections.
The manner of handling a presiden-
tial message at the government print
ing office is very interesting, for 1t is
here that there exists the greatest dan
ger of disclosure of the contents. Con-
siderable secrecy must be maintained
as to the import of this great letter of
advice, for were it possible for stock
manipulators and spectators of vari-
Gus kinds to learn in advance the char
acter of some of the measures advocat-
ed the financial and business stability
of the country might be momentarily
shaken as a result of the INSCRIPTIONS
efforts of such schemers to enrich
themselves. Once, during the Hayes
administration, a presidential message
was stolen, and the theft is reported
to have netted the perpetrators many
thousand dollars, but there has never
been a repetition of the loss. The mes
sage from the time 1t is delivered at the
printing Office until 1t energies in PAM
phlet form ready for delivery at the
White House is solely in charge of one
official, who is held responsible for. its
safe keeping. Presidential messages
range in length from 10000 to 10000
words, and in preparing such docu-
ment for the typesetters 1t is cut UP
into pieces, so small that no compost
tor can gain any definite knowledge Of
the subject under discussion. The work
is also so distributed among hundreds
of typesetters that 1t is impracticable
for any group of men to compare
notes" with a view to ascertaining the
import of any particular part of the
document.
The assembling of all these various
masses of type Is entrusted to a man
of known reliability, and the same
care is exercised with regard to the
employees who print the documents
and bind them. Much the same sys-
tenn is followed that prevails in the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving,
where currency is printed Each sheet
of paper which Is issued for use in
printing a Presidential, message, must
be accounted for ere the workman
to whom it has been entrusted is al
lowed to leave the building at night.
The printed copies of the message
are delivered at the White House, and
from there distributed to the various
newspaper offices throughout the
country, a courtesy extended in order
that the newspapers may not be put
to the Inconvenience of hurriedly plac-
ing in type this enormous document
in the few hours intervening between
it's presentation TO Congress and the
hour at which a majority Of the daily
papers go 10 press. Each newspaper
agrees, OF course, not to divulge any OF
the contents OF the message In ad-
vance. In some instances the 'ad-
vance copies" Of the message have
been issued TO the newspapers six
DAYS in advance Of the date OF delivery,
thus allowing time for the document
10 be transmitted by mail TO publica-
The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15
REAL WIT AT CARNEGIE FEAST.
Some of the bright Things Said at
Deimonico's Saturday Might.

beim0nfco's Saturday Might.
From The New York World.
Andrew Carnegie: II never though
I'd be president of this society for
three times. When you, Mr.. Mayor
elect. get to be president OF the United
States, which is not at all unlikely. I
pray you viii not serve more than two
terms; II might embarrass you.
II want you all to remember this
you cannot all succeed in dying poor.
Some Of you Scotchmen will persist in
leaving something behind you.
Tonight we're as Hieland as
whiskey and as lowland as haggis.
IT'S like the higher criticism said
an old woman who believed in IL. Now,
take the doctorine of total depravity-
it's as guild as onny o. them II you
only live up to It,"
The Rev. DR.. Lorrimer: II wonder
why so many OF you leave the Land
o. Cakes II you love II so we'll AS
the old Scotchman said: II We all went
back II wud be bra thing for Scot
land, but what calamity for the rest
OF the wurruld!'
I'VE only leave Scotland so as to
give other people a chance to be born
there"
Mark Twain; "It's like the old wo-
man who wrote Of her great distress
First Mary 6ied, and then the cal
iant--the shepherd dog. Then husband
died, and at last the COW. but l got
10 shillings out OF her hide
This remainds me of the school boy
who said: A lie is an obomination In
the sight Of the Lord, and an ever
present help In time OF trouble.
There was man whose mother
in law died. and he received telegram
The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-15
IMPROVING TUE LANGUAGE.
what Prof. Chamberlain of Clark
University Proposes.
From the New York Post.

II TVHI LIIE 4NEW IUTh 4 VNls
Prof. Alexander +. Chamberlain of
Clark University. Worcester. Mass. in
writing 10 Science on the English Ian
gauge and notifications, says: "Phon-
etic spelling must triumph in the end,
and as complete victory waits for free
speaking and free writing. e., Ian
guage untrammelled by grammatical
artihcialities. Not a MISUNDERSTANDING
Volapuk. but English with its face TO
the future. foreshadows the true world
language. Phonetic spelling has already
made a good beginning, which sug-
gests the possibility OF similar inten-