vice-president, Arthur Bryant; recording secretary, B. A. Higgins; financial secretary and treasurer, H. R. Heltzel; sergeant-at-arms, C. C. Old. Middletown, Ohio-President, M. T. Hawthorne; vice-president, Alma Piehler; secretary-treasurer, Henry W. Naegele; sergeant-at-arms, R. J. Long; executive committee. Henry W. Naegele, S. E. Alexander, Nona Weyer; auditing committee, M. T. Hawthorne, Alma Pichler and Sadie Raney. Milwaukee, Wis.-President, Charles J. Buehler; vice-president, E. E. Perkins; secretary-treasurer, Joseph La Fleur; recording secretary, H. W. Hamilton; sergeant-at-arms, F. W. Stearns; doorkeeper, Paul Lecher; executive board, E. V. Jones, Ed J. Hosig, Frank J. Zimmerman, William Bensemann, C. J. Shurr. Mount Vernon, N. Y.-President, John J. Goeghegan; vice-president, F. W. Graves; secretarytreasurer, Thomas E. Kirby; corresponding secretary, George H. Devermann; sergeant-at-arms, E. L. MacCormick. Muncie, Ind.-President, Harry Sessler; vicepresident, W. H. McClung; secretary-treasurer, Joe Herdering; recording secretary, J. O. Long; executive committee, J. W. Dougherty, Asa Freel and Mark Carvel; auditing committee, H. A. Brown, George Williams and Orval Sutton; delegates to allied trades council, Joe Herdering, Casimir Schesky and J. H. Kirkpatrick; delegate to International convention, B. W. McGinnis. Newark, N. J.-President, W. L. Small; vicepresident, J. C. DuPlessis; treasurer, Theodore Kenny; financial secretary, J. H. Daley; recording secretary, C. W. Dowler; sergeant-at-arms, M. A. O'Brien; auditing committee, Val Augustine, J. T. Hudson and Edward Smullen; executive committee, Messrs. Du Plessis, Finnerman, Hudson, Smullen and Millen; laws committee, Messrs. Throssell, Keegan and Pruden; membership committee, Messrs. Price, Dowler and Miller; sick committee, Messrs. Gibson, Ward and Gebhardt; organization committee, Messrs. Hacket, Edick and Gilmartin; label committee, Messrs. Price, Freeman, Davis, Galloway and Guier; resolution committee, Messrs. Herbert, Lihme and Knapp; delegates. to Essex Trades Council, Messrs. Augustine, Balentine and Small; delegates to allied trades, Messrs. Gebhardt, Hill and Lihme; delegates to state federation, Messrs. Comes, Gottlob, Hudson, McHugh and Smullen. New Haven, Conn.-President, Michael F. Shea; vice-president, William O'Donnell; secretarytreasurer, Joseph J. Reilly; auditors, Ernest F. Hintz, Boyd S. Poole and Frank Walters; delegate to International Typographical Union convention, George H. Sanders; alternate, George Mullen. Norfolk, Va.-President, D. I. Campbell; vicepresident, E. L. Tripp; recording and corresponding secretary, E. W. Gaines; secretary-treasurer, M. W. Callan; sergeant-at-arms, C. P. Dozier; trustees, Thomas Lassiter and C. B. Weston; label committee, A. W. Jacocks, Philip Fawley and C. P. Dozier. North Adams, Mass.-President, P. H. McMahon; vice-president, E. O. Cooke; recording secretary, E. A. Ryan; secretary-treasurer, Robert Tu dor; sergeant-at-arms, Charles Hamel; executive committee. E. O. Cooke, F. T. Roche, Robert Tudor; auditing committee, T. J. Collins, E. A. Ryan, E. O. Cooke. Oakland, Cal.-President, W. H. Mallett; first vice-president, S. J. Mathews; second vice-presi dent. J. F. Patterson; secretary-treasurer, D. L. Beatty; executive committee, G. H. Buckner, chairman: F. S. Clark, John Budge, D. G. Francis, W. J. McGrath; delegates to allied printing trades, W. T. Drake, H. A. Hull; delegates to central labor council. J. Budge, S. J. Mathews, J. W. Sefton, C. D. Rogers; auditing committee, H. C. Closson, W. T. Drake, M. A. McInnis; reading clerk, A. W. Sefton, jr.; sergeant-at-arms, H. A. Hull. Omaha, Neb.-President, Thomas F. Doyle; vicepresident, John Pugner; secretary-treasurer, Roy H. Hinman; recording secretary, Benjamin F. Knight; sergeant-at-arms, J. H. Collins; board of trustees, D. G. Craighead, F. J. Sullivan, Walter Reiner. Orange, N. J.-President, John M. Hague; vicepresident, Frederick G. Johnson; secretary-treasurer, Harry C. Hepworth; recording secretary, Percy A. Miller; sergeant-at-arms, John F. Molloy; delegates to state printers' league. Harry C. Hepworth, Percy A. Miller, Frederick G. Johnson. Ottawa, Kan.-President, E. M. Angell; vicepresident, James A. Martin; secretary-treasurer, C. G. Shriver; recording secretary, S. B. Mills; sergeant-at-arms, S. F. Fraser; delegate to conven tion, S. B. Mills; alternate, James A. Martin. Pana, Il-President, W. H. Kelly; vice-presi dent, W. B. Jordan; secretary-treasurer, Rolland Owen; recording secretary, Lewis E. Jordan; executive committee, W. H. Kelly, L. E. Jordan, W. B. Jordan, C. Chapman and R. Owen. Pasadena, Cal.-President, C. W. Dean; vicepresident, E. H. Morse; recording secretary, M. R. Moffett; secretary treasurer, P. G. Gair; sergeant. at-arms, L. G. McCurdy; executive committee, D. M. Winter, W. R. Kratka, J. W. Hart; delegate to central labor council, G. W. Linney; delegates to Labor day association, W. H. Korstian, H. A. Huff, J. W. Hart, C. J. Stevens, T. S. Heskett; delegate to International Typographical Union, J. W. Hart; alternate, W. R. Kratka. Pittsburg, Pa.-President, Eugene Merz; viceCharles Q. Lafferty; assistant secretary, J. H. Perry; sergeant-at-arms, William Schaffer; trustee, Frank White; judges of election, George B. Hoover, Edward J. Dorgan, William F. Schultz; delegates to International convention, Charles H. Leighley, C. Will Koch. president, T. H. Dolan; secretary-treasurer, Poplar Bluffs, Mo. President, R. H. Smith; vice-president, D. A. Schriver; secretary-treasurer, S. P. Davidson; recording secretary, Lawrence Byrnes; sergeant-at-arms, Miles Thomason; executive committee, L. F. Knott, D. A. Schriver, Hardin Montgomery. Portland, Ore.-President, M. A. Jones; vicepresident. W. H. Gault; secretary-treasurer, J. J. Price; sergeant-at-arms, J. M. McCown. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-President, Frederick Northrup; vice-president, A. B. Caldwell; secre tary-treasurer, James B. Bowen; sergeant-at-arms, Ira Warren; trustee, William L. Lang; delegates to trades and labor council, Harry J. Dalzell, Frederick Northrup, A. B. Caldwell. Princeton, Ind.-President, William Mowry; recording and financial secretary, W. R. Lamb; sergeant-at-arms, Clarence Miller. Rock Island, Ill., Etc.-President, B. W. Newton; vice-president, H. J. Gaspard; recording sec. retary, R. M. Hackett; secretary-treasurer, C. S. Osborn; sergeant-at-arms, W. White: executive committee, C. H. Lohmann, T. F. Wheelan, Byron Skidmore; auditing committee, E. E. Potter, Ed Gear, C. Meerdink. San Antonio, Texas-President, Robert A. Miles; vice-president, C. V. Lancaster; secretarytreasurer, E. G. Koerps; recording secretary, F. W. Horne: reading clerk, H. M. Church; sergeantat-arms, Gabe Hendon; executive committee. E. B. Murphy, Roy Loman, George L. Rine; auditing committee. J. A. Johnson, F. S. Coy, J. F. Sweeney: delegates to trades council, W. L. Hoefgen. J. F. Sweeney, H. M. Tedford; delegates to allied printing trades council, H. Schutze, W. L. Hoefgen, J. D. Nordhaus. San Francisco, Cal. President, George A. Tracy; first vice-president, Philip Johnson: second vice-president, P. H. Desmond; secretary-treasurer, L. Michelson; floor member executive committee, W. A. Gallagher; trustee, W. J. French; reading clerk, Mrs. C. E. Hawkes; sergeant-at-arms, D. G. Lewis; auditors, W. H. S. Gavin, H. Lambert, Con. Schmitt: delegates to International Typographical Union, W. J. Higgins, W. J. White; alternates, D. S. White, D. J. Bruce; delegates to labor council, L. F. Compton, W. J. French, L. Michelson, C. H. Parker, J. K. Phillips, Ben R. H. jamin Schonhoff, George A. Tracy, Mark Wayman, H. L. White; delegates to Asiatic Exclusion League, C. B. Crawford, C. H. Parker, J. K. Phillips; delegates to allied printing trades council, George A. Tracy, L. Michelson, P. H. Desmond. Saskatoon, Sask., Can.-President, Straub; vice-president, J. Baxter; secretary-treas urer, L. A. Russell; executive committee, J. Barter, J. A. Burns, F. S. Gordon, W. M. Coleman; auditors, Messrs. Coleman, Gordon and Maclaurin. Shelbyville, Ind.-President, W. E. Naugle; vicepresident, C. O. Sweet; secretary-treasurer, Valentine Hey; corresponding secretary, D. W. Avery; sergeant-at-arms, C. O. Caldwell. Sioux City, Iowa-President, Frank M. Kaspar; vice-president, Ora Haislett; secretary-treasurer, F. H. Lawrence; recording secretary, D. A. McKibben; executive committee, W. R. Eastman, George Ewing, G. M. Ginder. Syracuse, N. Y.-President, Frank E. Wilkinson; vice-president, Norman G. Sprague; secretary-treasurer, A. J. Moynihan; recording secretary, A. M. Knickerbocker; sergeant-at-arms, William McMaster; delegates to Thomas M. Gafney, James B. Utting, Charles E. trades assembly, Yarton; auditing committee, Albert W. DeLano, A. M. Knickerbocker, G. W. Fitch; delegate to International Typographical Union convention, William F. Beard; alternate, Michael L. Higgins. Tallahassee, Fla.-President, W. H. Chancey; vice-president, R. R. Martin; secretary-treasurer, T. E. Andrews; executive committee, R. R. Martin, W. T. Collins G. L. Tully and W. G. Palmer; auditing committee, J. G. Collins, Mrs. G. L. Tully and W. T. Collins; delegate to International Typographical Union convention, W. H. Chancey; alternate, Fred Davis. Tonopah, Nev.-President, W. H. Fording; vicepresident, W. W. Chapin; secretary-treasurer, Clyde R. Terrill; executive committee, George B. Lefford, E. L. Walker and W. W. Chapin. Topeka, Kan.-President, J. W. Mitchell; vicepresident, M. C. Pennekamp; recording secretary, Leo von Langen; financial and corresponding secretary, E. J. Gribbin; treasurer, Franklin Barnes; sergeant-at-arms, L. A. Ernich; doorkeeper, F. H. Jones; delegates to International Typographical Union convention, T. B. Garrett, Otto C. Kasten; alternates, Franklin Barnes, I. N. Grandon. Trinidad, Colo.-President, J. E. Pritchard; vicepresident, Maupin Woodson; secretary-treasurer, George D. Single; sergeant-at-arms, R. W. Robinson; executive committee, J. T. Bledden, Maupin Woodson and A. W. Wright. Utica, N. Y.-President, P. E. Kelly; vice-presidant, William Pope; recording and corresponding secretary, A. W. Phillips; financial secretary, Martin A. Dehm; treasurer, R. E. Jones; property trus tee, Thomas G. Jones; sergeant-at-arms, George Carroll; board of auditors, R. V. Boyd, J. P. Howland, J. W. Thomas. Vancouver, B. C.-President, H. C. Benson; vice-president, A. E. Roff; financial secretary, R. H. Neelands. Victoria, B. C.-President, J. L. Neate; vicepresident, J. Chrow; secretary, George M. Watt; treasurer, Thomas Booz; executive Messrs. A. E. Johnson, Stevens and Shakespeare; committee, auditors, Messrs. Pottinger, Butler and Cullin; trades and labor delegates, Messrs. Stevens, Wyatt, F. Pink; sick and relief committee, Messrs. Diggon, Chrow, Ellis and A. E. Johnson; allied trades delegates, Messrs. Dunn, Diggon and F. Forneri; sergeant-at-arms, F. Wyatt. tee, Messrs. Pingle, Thaw and Lowe; laws committee, Messrs. Simpson, F. Thompson and Freeman; sergeant-at-arms, George Mitchell; delegates to label league and label committee, Messrs. Hunter (chairman), Rayner and Ed Stephenson; delegates to trades and labor council, Messrs. Stephenson, Strange and Reynolds; delegates to allied printing trades council, Messrs. Smith, Freeman and Jones; delegate to St. Joseph convention, C. A. Watson; alternate, J. C. Bleaken. Winnipeg, Man,, Canada-President, Ed G. Smith; vice-president, Robert Swan; secretarytreasurer, J. C. Bleaken; recording secretary, E. J. Freeman; board of trustees, C. A. Watson, A. Puttee, W. B. Simpson; executive committee, Ed G. Smith, Robert Swan, J. C. Bleaken, and Messrs. Rayner, Fogarty, Lowe, Whitehead, Wilkins and Kean: auditing committee, Messrs. Simpson, Reid and Wilkins; sick and relief committee, Messrs. Mitchell, Sorrell and Jones; investigating commit Zanesville, Ohio-President, D. T. McWilliams; vice-president, A. P. Woodford; secretary, R. W. Hocking; treasurer, H. L. Shryock; reading clerk, T. V. Mount; sergeant-at-arms, C. W. Dutro; delegate to trades council, T. V. Mount; trustee, T. V. Mount. BEGONE DULL CARE. I would strongly advise every one who has been worried by too many English grammars to read Thomas R. Lounsbury's "The Standard Usage of English" (Harpers). Proofreaders are not purists -they can not afford to be. In fact, the purist or precisian is the printer's natural enemy. There is, therefore, much comfort in Professor Lounsbury's defense of the language as it was and is against those who have written of what it should have been and ought to be. To make clear what I mean, let me try an imaginary sentence or two: Our mutual friend narrates that the ship laid towards the two last wharves which are being built thro' the tireless efforts and stamina of some reliable people in our midst. "For to fully appreciate the situation," says he, "I had rather we were given a donation or that even rich females would loan us the ducats, and so learn people something, than that the greed of the mob, than whom none are more idiotic, should be proven our sovran." Professor Lounsbury is, of course, not respon sible for all this, but he has justified a good many of the words and expressions I employ. One or two of them are archaic and almost all of them have been the subject of fierce denunciation. "Mob," for instance, is one of the vilest coinages ever perpetrated. The two sentences are enough to make Dean Swift, Webster, Goold Brown and R. G. White turn in their graves, and I hate to think of what might happen if some one sprung them on the New York Sun without a word of warning. I by no means present them as a model of style-merely to show that much is at least permissible, and that continuous good usage will sanctify anything, though the heathen rage and the grammarians imagine vain things. W. MATCHES. Brooklyn, N. Y. AMONG "style" items on an American paper the order stood that "balance" (referring to financial statements) should always be rendered "remainder." A new arrival was duly notified, and took it literally, without any limitation. Hence when a piece of casualty "copy" fell to his lot there was justification in setting it up thus: "John Blank, working on a three-story building in Twelfth avenue, lost his remainder, and fell a distance of fifty feet."-Ex. APPROVE not of him who commends all you say. -Franklin. For May pension assessment. 73, Ottumwa-For May.. For May pension assessment.. 74, Belleville-For May.. For May pension assessment. 75, Burlington For May... For May pension assessment. 76, Terre Haute-For May... For May pension assessment. 77, Erie-For May....... For arrears eight-hour assessment. 78, Fort Wayne-For May... For May pension assessment. 79, Wheeling-For June.... 80, Kansas City-For May.. 81, Bay City-For May. For May pension assessment. 82, Colorado Springs-For May.. For May pension assessment.. 83, Hebrew-American-For May. For May pension assessment.. 84, San Bernardino-For May.. For May pension assessment. 85, St. John-For May... For May pension assessment.. 86, Reading-For May.... For May pension assessment.. 33 75 26 50 25 7 65 4 85 630 5 47 16 20 14 58 42 75 32 06 34 20 I 20 31 51 41 85 38 20 40 50 40 47 60 214 20 206 87 6.00 19 35 13 14 122, 123, For May pension assessment. Wilmington-For May... 37 35 36 90 41 40 For May pension assessment. 5 14 124, Bloomington-For May.. 26 55 32 20 13 50 126, Butte-For May. For May pension assessment. For supplies.. 17 97 40 35 10 10 40 55 75 32 40 25 82 43 20 For May pension assessment. South Bend-For May.. 21 04 42 75 For May pension assessment. 77 85 92 45 765 129, Hamilton-For May. 62 10 535 4 15 For May pension assessment. 32 15 130, Halifax-For May. 21 60 For arrears eight-hour assessment. 5 00 13 09 49.95 131, Bohemian-For June.. 50 6 30 2 70 88, Hannibal-For May.. For May pension assessment.. 89, Chattanooga-For May.... For May pension assessment.. For May pension assessment.. For arrears eight-hour assessment. For May pension assessment. For May pension assessment. For May pension assessment. 96, Glens Falls-For May.... For May pension assessment. For supplies.. 99, Jackson-For May.. For May pension assessment.. 100, Norwich-For May.. For May pension assessment. 101, Columbia-For May.. .......... For arrears eight-hour assessment. 102, Ottawa-For May. For arrears eight-hour assessment. 103, Newark-For April and May. For arrears eight-hour assessment. For May pension assessment. 40 50 39 82 427 50 107 50 15 20 70 For arrears eight-hour assessment. 133, London-For May.. For arrears eight-hour assessment. 17 29 I 50 134, Paducah-For June... 36 00 For May pension assessment. 31 95 16 20 25 15 17 55 9 39 15 17 55 16.85 1665 13 55 814 65 95 95 822 05 7 00 67 50 10 00 39.50 292 50 20 00 318 52 135, Oneonta-For June.. For May pension assessment. 136, Duluth-For May... For May pension assessment. 138, Austin-For May... For May and part June pension as 104. Birmingham-For May.. 3 00 54 45 50 00 145, Jacques Cartier-For May.. 105, Goldfield-For May.... For Journal subscriptions.. 7 20 146, Charleston-For May.. 8 10 For May pension assessment. For May pension assessment.. 106, Madison-For May... For May pension assessment... II 35 147, Ashland-For February and March. For Feb. and Mch. pension ass'm't. For supplies... 16 20 10 40 20 30 605 II 43 15 27 45 3.50 21 67 9.00 6 00 7 65 4 67 44 10 22 05 24 00 15 10 35 5 15 27 45 23 12 8 10 8.95 2 90 6.30 4 65 28 35 29 70 I 50 56 25 20 00 40 29 21 15 13 50 7 20 4.93 I 50 For May pension assessment. For supplies.. 19 45 For bal. Apr. and May pens'n ass't For supplies.. 126 35 6 30 153, Meridian-For May. For May pension assessment. 154, Ann Arbor-For May... For May pension assessment. 155, Shreveport-For May... For May pension assessment. 156, Bowling Green-For May. For May pension assessment. For Journal subscription. 158, Springfield-For May.... For May pension assessment. 160, Columbia-For May.. For May pension assessment.. 161, Fall River-For April and May. For arrears eight-hour assessment. 175, Pueblo For May. 162, Jacksonville-For May.. For May pension assessment. 163, Superior-For May.. For May pension assessment. 164, Kewanee-For April.. For April pension assessment.. 165, Worcester-For May. For May pension assessment. 166, Adrian-For May.. For bal. Apr. and May pens'n ass't 167, Schenectady-For May.... For May pension assessment. 168, Muskegon-For May.. For May pension assessment. 169, New Albany-For May.. For May pension assessment. 170, Tacoma-For June... For May pension assessment. 171, Elgin For April.... For April pension assessment.. 172, San Antonio-For May. For May pension assessment. 173, Dallas-For May.... For May pension assessment. 174, Los Angeles-For May. For May pension assessment. 8 40 20 25 15 95 9 00 8 20 4 05 2 77 II 70 7 81 -For May.. For May pension assessment. 201, Victoria-For May. For May pension assessment. 202, Seattle--For May.. For May pension assessment. 203, Bluff City-For May.. 204, 205, For May pension assessment. Kingston-For May.... For May pension assessment.. Jamestown-For May... For May pension assessment.. 206, Sedalia-For May.. 207, 10 20 37 80 48 45 166 80 863 18 35 30 4 50 For May pension assessment. For May pension assessment. 214, Pendleton-For April.. 215, For April pension assessment... For May pension assessment. 216, Springfield-For April and May. For April and May pension ass'm't 218, Sioux Falls-For May.. 12 15 20 70 17 57 25 20 4 10 22 50 20 93 For May pension assessment. Eureka-For May.. 7 47 9 90 For May pension assessment. 6 90 209, Lincoln-For May... 60 75 For May pension assessment. 57 71 210, Capital-For April and May. For April and May pension ass'm't For supplies.. 39 15 29 44 65 211, Oshkosh-For May. For May pension assessment. 212, Pawtucket-For May. 213, |