supply their place with true and accurate versions.
Calman Brody—honoured name in many a home—does not write at dictation. He demands to be told every necessary detail of the letter in hand, before setting on paper so much as the date. The people seeking his services have such a habit of repetition, contradiction, and digression, in stating their requirements, that a corresponding record of them would present a most maze-like exhibition. Calman, however, has a systematic frame of mind, and so after listening to the disorderly narrative he reforms the whole and chronicles the message in his own inimitable fashion. He writes in a rather large hand, bold and clear, leaving a considerable space between the lines, not so much with the purpose of swelling his remuneration (which depends on the length of the note), as
from a laudable precaution that the receiver of the letter shall not have to strain much intelligence in deciphering it. It frequently happens that two persons are in the writing-bureau at the same time, with the natural consequences that Calman's difficulties in eliciting their wants are aggravated; for the former fall to discussing their respective joys or griefs between themselves, in utter oblivion of the penman's presence, seeking for mutual advice and sympathy. And when at last the Letter-Writer has began his task, scratching his head and his nib alternately, the continued exchange of remarks and confidences by his visitors, in loud irritating whispers, works him up to such a pitch of displeasure and distraction, that we would fain withdraw from the harrowing sight before worse ensues.
Official Information.
All notices and information published ın the MACCABAEAN as “Official Information shall be regarded as binding and obligatory upon the affiliated organizations, and shall stand instead of special circulars; but this resolution shall not prevent the Executive Council issuing such’ circulars as it may deem necessary from time to time.— Resolution adopted at the Pittsburg Convention.
Secretaries are requested to read this page to the members of their Society at the meeting following the receipt of the copy of the MACCABAEAN.
JEWISH COLONIAL TRUST DIVIDENDS
The Executive Council has indorsed the action of the members of the Greater Actions Comite in recommending that dividend-bering coupon No. 1 should be made over by Jewish Colonial Trust stockholders to the fund to cover the deficit on the El Arisch expedition. We are instructed by the Actions Comite to announce that no part of the money raised by these coupons will be devoted to the East African expedition, but that should any surplus be available it will be used for the purposes of the Palestinian Commission appointed by the Congress.
Secretaries should collect the coupons
and forward them to Secretary of the Federation.
PAYMENT OF J. C. T. DIVIDENDS
Notice is hereby given that S. Jarmulowsky, Banker, of 54 Canal street, will pay dividends on Jewish Colonial Trust Shares on presentation of the coupons. The payments will be as follows:
On unmutilated coupon No. 1, 10 cents per ext{On unmutilated coupon No. 1, 10 cents per £1 share; on perforated coupons no payment will be made for warrants up to 3 shares; on 4 share warrant, 3 cents; 5 share warrant, 13 cents; 6 and 7, nothing; on 8, 7 cents; on 9, 17 cents; on 10, 27 cents. The deduction is due to advances}