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In antiquity the training of an orator
Waa almost itrl e'lat orate en affair as the
training of a rave horse is. with us. Not
only the voice, taut tate whole ratan, phy-
laced, intellectual arid mend, was care•
fully' prepared, with eonac:ientiout mi.
nuteneisof detail, for' tate great business.
ret life, the making of spetecl►eti. [n Lis
�svate m of education tete development of
the voit: naturally held a large •place,
tend the piamaseua, or voice driller, was
an indispensable accessory, not only of
every school of oratory, but of many
farmed orators. Of the methods of the
phonascus we know little, hist we find
hints in seine of the °leasieai writers that,
like 'certain of his ljrof a sional brethren
in Galore recent days, #'e' was not distill -
dined to magnify his office. Seneca, in
fusee of his letters, warns his friend
against hying, vocally speaking, in sub-
,jection to hid phonascus, and implies
that he might as well keep another artist
to superintend' his walking. In our own
day the pitonascua still survives in pub -
,
tic life, though perhaps more as .a lust
ury than an acknowledged neceasaity.
Btx Hone SPEECHES.
A celebrated novelist, dramatics author
rad orator, who passed over to. the great
taajority many years ago, used always
to "put himself under the gu.idane° of s
'vocal mentor before delivering a speech.
Every tone, ,every pose and every ges-
ture was carefully prepared and Indus-
triously 'practiced. under the direction
of Mr. Frederick Webster, brother of
the celebrated comedian, Benjamin Web -
tier'. . That.the elaborate training of the
ancients was eminently successful is
shown. by the powers of endurancs
which it is clear they must have pos-
sessed., They habitually Spoke for five
nor six hours, and even longer, and; in
order to appreciate their staying power,
it must be remembered that they spoke
in. the open air, amid all the tumult of
the forum. which was capable of hold-
ing 80;000 people, and with an amount
'of vigor of action of which the -gesticu-
lations of an Italian preacher aro but a
pale reflex. •
Longwindedness was at one time 'cul-
tivated as a fine tart by Roman orators,
when they had to plead before a judge
whom they supposed to be in favor o1
the other side. These prototypes of out
modern obstructionists were aptly termed
meratorea, or delayers, because they
n Iaosiponed as Earns possible, the passing
of the sentence. The abuse finally
seethed such a height that a. law had to
be passed limiting the length'of plead-
angs. in public caves to thea tinning out.
'eel one clepiiydra. It islnnpossible to say
een:aotty what period of time this was
(equivalent to, as the Water clocks of the
Romana were of different sizes, and the
tepidity of flew must have varied under
different circumstances; from twenty
stninutes to half an- hour may, however,
Ibe taken as roughly representing the
average length of a speech under title
'strict system +of "closure."
k'RESENT NEED OF TRAINING.
If the Romans carried the Culture et
the speaking 'voice to a pedantic extreme,
we, on tlieother band, undouhtedly neg4
beet it .too much. ' It is nattiest we speak
less, but that we have less appreciation
than the ancients had of oratory as a
eine art, and we are therefore more tol-
erant
ol-
+eranteof miimbbing utterances and slov-
enly delivery. Many an, inarticulate
:speaker, who in these days hums and
Shaws through an hour or two of dreary
;platitudes, would have been hooted down
in five minutes by a Greek or Roman au-
dience.
The comparative decay of orators In
modern times it dude to. the diffusion of
cheap literature; the 'function of the
(public speaker has been to a ,Treat extent
Made obsolete by the daily newspapers.
Information and arguments On political
(natters, which had formerly to be sup-
plied by word of mouth from the ros-
trums,
ow
hums, are now served up, spiced to each
reader's taste, by innutherable "able
editors."
But though the necessity for what I
May call professional orators no longer
exists, a large part of the business of the
state in a free country must stili be car-
ried on or controlled by talk, and the
living voice must always have a.power
of ,stirring and swaying popular senti-
Ment—the Collective feeling of large
masses of men, which is something more
than the sum of their individual feelings
-far beyond the reach of the pen.
John Bright's exquisite purity of Style
would have made him a most effective
writer, but vetould his great speeches, if
cut up into leading articles, have stirred
the national heart as did' his burning
Words, thrown red hot among u living
masa of enthusiastic hearers?
On the whole, I think we use the voice
in public even more thaw the alieients,
and there is, therefore, all the more rea-
son for its being properly trained, Good
epaak[ng is nowadays important, not only
trent the artistic, but from the business
point of view; and even for "practical
*nen"' It cannot be a Waste of timo'to ao•
quire so valuable a faculty. -81r Morell
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an 1 English Gold Plated and Rolled plated Jewellery of all descriptions,
d•meriean ,and Swiss Watch( s, Canadian and American Gold and Silver
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thin,; we buy, therefore our customer's may be sure that we are at ne
disadvantage as compared with others.,
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W it'gliain,
in order to make room for our large Xmas stock, now ordered we
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90,337 09
Cash Income for 1588
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Surrender Values, and Liberal Policy Conditions, Popular Science Monthly.
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Motel lowers of CrinsInals.
The bearing of edaeation on the char -
eater and reformation of eriminalil is dis-
cussed lay Dr. kianfilton D. Way in u pet
per on the physical and industrial 'Orlin -
tai; of that class, which Is publiAt'rl by
,:he Industrial klducation association. The
author assumes that "it is a teistuke. tel ,
suppose that the criminal is lnaturally
bright. doral failure and blunted Intel•
,left, as a rule, go hand in hand, If
bright, it is usually in a narrow line and
self repeating," The criminal's malprac-
tice has its origin in blunted or non-de-
veloped nervous areas, and dB indicative
of wrong headedness. Whatever may
be said, of the motives or incentives that
led to crime, the fact remains that the
head of the criminal is wrong, The time
has gone by in which to argue that to
educate the criminal is to make hint
a mare accomplished and successful
Scamp. "It is through physical and
mental trainingand their composite la-
bor that the slumbering germs of man-
hood are fructified, m..turing undera
firm and unrelaxing discipline."
The criminal's mind. "while not'dis-
eased, is undeveloped, pr it may be ab-
normally developed in certain directions;
the smartness resulting -therefrom par-
taking of low cunning and centering
about self, He is deficient in stability
and will power, and incapable of pro-
' longed mental effort and application.
Ilia intellect travels in a rut, and fails
him in an emergency. His moral nature
dharos in the imperfections of his physi-
cal and mental state." A training is ad-
vocated by the Author that will awaken
the slumbering fecalties, and thus set the
mind in a normal condition.„This train -
ing
rain
ing had beat not be given by ersons con-
nected with the prison, for it might
thereby be unpleasantly associated with
penal features, but by teachers brought
in for the purpose. Dr. Way gives an
interesting relation of experiments which
he has made with prisoners in accord -
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Goo/JAI' Atm' T.
' ' Wingham Oat
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Butter and eggs taken as cast in ex,;ltange for goods.
Pa E. RO i iRUS,
,ti't'1N(III.3d, CItr sorts•—osorvi ,yr R�
• Black Is Whito..
The word beak (Anglo-Saxon bloc,
bunk, bleak) is fuudamentajly the same
as the old German blaeh now only to be
found in two or three compounds, as
blachfeld, a level or plain; blachwahl,
the scum which floats on top when silver
is melted, and blachfrost; and it meant
originally "level,” "bare" and was used
to denote blackness, because blackness is
(apparently) bare of color. But the nasal-
ized form of black is. blank, which also
meant originally bare,.and was used to
denote whiteness, because whiteness is
(apparently) bare of color. The same
word was used to denote the two oppo-
site things. From which it would seem
that black is white.
To any ono who shall point out a flaw
in this etymological argument I shall
endeavor to be grateful, provided he does
not disturb the very satisfactory oonclu
cion. This I should naturally resent. It
may help him to a conclusion and serve
as a further support to nay Fontention to
point out that black in AngIceSaxon actu-
ally means "white" as well es, "black,"
so that it is not in its nasalised form only
that the same word is employed to ex=
press opposite things Why is this, un-
less that to the .primitive mind both
white and bleplt appeared to agree in
being bare or yoid of color, and for that
reason to deserve the same. name? And
here I cannot help harboring a suspicion,
suggested by the old German blachfrost
(which appears to be nearly obsolete, or
only toed ice some localities), that our
"black frost" meant originally a frost
bare of accomplishments, (tailor, rime„,
and it is a coincidence only that it should
be black in color and blecken the vegeta-
tion. But we have long lea hold of the
original meaning, and believe it to refer
to the color.—i' oteg and Queries.
Just a Fit.
If a hoyseea coat that lite him ha
sometimes pets it on before he knows it;
or we may gay the same thing in other
wornlst "A Guilty conscience needs no
accuser."
Twq 13eheol boys had quarreled and
finally had engaged . in a real stand up
fight; The teacher got wind of the
affair and called the combatants 'before
him.
, "Ile struck me," said one of the boys.
"He said I stole his knife," said the
other,
"I said somebody stole it," said the
first boy.'
"Well, you meant ane," replied the
other,
"Why, Charlie," said the teacher, "if
Willie had told me that somebody had
stolen his kttife, it would not have made
me angry. I should net have thought
that he meant me,"
"Well, but you don't (teal," was' the'
ready answer.—). ind Words.
A New Sannnor Itesort Crass
A spasm of excitement agitated the
crowd on a fashionable hotel piazza la_.
Sunday When a well known belle sallied
forth gowned in shimmering gray, and
her Slender waist encircled by a yellow
belt lastenei with a diamond buckle, Per
a moment there was silence; then a few
murmurs and lifting of eyebrows, and
then' presently, one by one, the other girls
aseAnt their own rooms to talk it over.
Ti .ry the effect of a surreptitious yellow
lb&ter round their waists? Oh, who chives
ay? Not, I, for one. But it is feared to new
a'„raze hat broken out at the summer re?
ACTS AT THE SAME TIME PE
THE NERVES,
THE LIVER,
THE BOWELS,
and the KIDNEYS
This combined action gives it won-
derful power to cure all diseases.
Why Are We Sick?
Because we allow the nerves to
remain weakened and irritated, wad
these great organs to become clogged
or torpid, and poisonous humors ere
therefore forced. into the .blood flue
should be expelled naturally.
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1 COMPOUND
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Why frightened ovsrDlsordere4Bidasyd
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Six for k oo. *
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Tie Meet Suecee.fet Relied,' ever die -
covered, as it is certain in its effects and
does not bitter. Read prdot below.
$turrev1LLe. P. Q.. Hay 5.1880.
Da. D. a KSXDar,L Co., Enoebnrgh Falls, Vt.
Gentlemen have used Ken -
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and also in #case of lameness and
nom, ohne and round Unsure
sure inevery respect. I cordlatty
r000mmead It to all horsemen.
Vary reIpectfully your,,
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KENDALL'S SPAVIN. CURE;:.
Sr. Taoists, P Q., April 22, SEt1.
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which was suffering from Influ-
enza m a very bad form, and can
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Cure made complete and raptor
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Ins oneof your valuable books entitled °ATrva-
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tfullly,WiratilEox.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUREe,:
Fonr'ELwca, Ilex., May 10 1889.
Iia, B. Y. BaSDMa Co , Euosburgh- Falls Vt.
Gentlemen:— I always koep your Falls,
Spavin Cure and Blister on hand
and they have never retied in
what you state they will do. I
have cured a bad case of Spavin
and else two cases of. Ringbone
of years standing on mares which
I bought to breed from, and have
not seen anyslgns of disease in
their offspring: Yours truly,
b..1. O'Carm.
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•DR. B. J.- KENDA*�T. CO„Euosburgh Falt,Y't;.
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I have made the disease of
.FITS, EPILEPSY or
PALLING SICKNESS
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