The Nevada County picayune., 1907-11-28

me only piece or really pure Hleid ture ever officially issued from the White house is the proclamation ap- pointing a day of thanks sgiving. All other papers written by the president are business documents, the phraseol- ogy of which Is technical; but this an nual message to the people is always a painstakingly worded and grateful composition. A fairly illustrative ex- ample will be found in MT. Roosevelts proclamation setting aside the last Thursday of the present month for the Thanksgiving os 1906.
 It Is the duty of MT. Loeb (who runs the machinery of the presidents busi- ness, arranging all his engagements for him) to call MT. Roosevelt's atten- tion to the fact that Thanksgiving ap- breaches, and to remind him that a proclamation must be written. or course, 1t requires considerable time to do this, and so busy man as the chief executive of the nation might be excusable if he handed over the task to some subordinate, contenting him self with affixing his signature. But custom demands that the work shall be performed by the president himself. .5. Accordingly, when. the proclamation has to be prepared, the, president de votes some time to thinking out anew shape in which to put the more or less stereotyped ideas which are to be e{- pressed, ana, as be does so. jots down few memoranda in pencil on paper pad. Then, touching a buzz-button. he simmons one of the dozen -stenograph- CTS who are always in attendance, and dictates to him carefully the wording of the document, It Is short-not more than 400 or 500 words-but daintily and tersely phrased. This, however, is onyyS d rough dpAft. Itis copied in tybescribt by taie steheErApher, with lines tyieelthe; ordinary distance apart, so as to be convenient for corrections and interlineations. and in this shape is handed back to MT, Roosevelt. He alters 1t bit modifying sentence here and chapging. a. word there, until '{l slfts Him D*hetedfen . fair copy is made, oagain submitted for corTec- tior, and HnAlRS sent over to the de partment of state. :
 At the department of state the proc .-laHation- -heauItullY -engrossed ou | xreat hheet U fPe paphment by a sc}erhxgxlS sAlitdin tnGAind of pen ;ra sngpip. fris q constderable task. and occupies some days. at the end of which the document Is sent back to the white House to racsive the presi- dents signature. and is thereupen re- turned to the department to ba signed by the secretary of state and sealed, with the great aeal9of the United.
 TMs syaA by the way, is a sort 'oi federal fetfch. ~ It Is the most sacred of all things that belongs to the gov ernnfan t: yanaaHp print of it is ever al lowed to be given away or suld-;. though. of course 1t is attached to all military and naval commissions. and to various other executive documents. It was made by 8 New 1ork )eweler at a cost of sl0,000y and Is kept in. d beautiful rosewood hox-, at the state department. In order that 1t may be used for stamping the Thanksgiving proclamation, printed order to that effect must be signed by MT Roose3 welt.
 The depattment of state is the per. manent depository of executive procla. nations. All the Thanksgiving proc ever issued- by the presi- dents. pf the United States are. filed away in it's ,archives--back even to -lEs5 when George Washington set aside. the 18th day of February, that year, as date on which the people should thank God for exemption from foreign war and from insurrection." Consequently, the engraved preclamA'