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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1885-11-13, Page 22 THE HURON SIGNAL. FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1115. A SAMPLE LETTER. The Goderteh "Model" 8obool Teacher. Elegant Coxt- position. *,alta.s et as I:Iaratre gtartmeare tr. rusk ttm•arr's Latest a.piMk, Tom We tended Ogles the sacral and •bows that von, mho proferred to luow r domestic aomatiwrN•edgll Clime who have the la+, Rad been illegally t-.ucug at the � (� � h repelled say drsid•see in you, tut the School hoard, whit lapping up the a a r � I odtousue.s of our purpose has to every crumbs that fell from th. treadles,. Yoe sue become eu went est that your friends were ignomtuauusly ejected from the el yesterday are but your acquaintances Bused, and is the contest that (mitered 'of today, and your fneuds of today will I you were relegated w that slum -heap of be your •dvenmnss of tomorrow. The malities to which all hypocrites, Charles DioketUS!jlperieneewith tempersesw mov.g.est- a accred trust is slanderers and cowards must wooer or tin Old Bkcogr'apby. the hands of Owl -fearing men and woe later go Fur a few moults the School ' mut---atturded you a0 ample uppurtnsity Board aud the community alike enjoyed for the display of those 'menu that toad• rflftms. Agin came your opportunity, Nom "alai• •' iNery ' ■aMrsv)d Isles WO have utter alluded to the trite Titus Lytes iu[am,us and 1. rich Beep" as you thought, [sir thieving the 11.W.1114.0 Nr language poured out by Allao Ember', • synonym of hypocrisy, Nu argument, i'rtsw� Lake a guilty sprit that school teacher, .1 this town, aganu nothing but the vilest and mist inalig- could find to, root rtcrpt in deeds of evil, those who dad not agree with b:m. anithat rant souse of the men oppuerd to you, you iuderged from guar forged retirenseet � readers have wondered, it tks saute from a head a hollow as your will. of degrulstoon t.. erect over the rrmatns e s keine experiences are well Perhaps' As in every other ors., your object was of your ruined reputation a cenotaph that worthy of permed :- man was as knavish $ fowl or as fuulish a pelf, prat and setoliety , and you ono- will stand for all lune to vitae • brawn Charles Dickens started in life as • kt:ay., „a we wit be was. W. therefor. tauued to „hurl with the fiendish delight of warm. to the .tenderer, the bigot flare .a o:an..• his latest cuotribuuou to V repw•t.er. He learned shorthand by the d Skorl6a�d s the Star, as a specimen of what a de- praved bean hellish hate and an tll- y balanced brain will permit a man claim• Mg to be educated, to unto• effrontery to appear, you sought out ,la despair. you must take refute within Although we have repeatedly stated an ',cesium, as you still do, for reediest tnureelf, .here, unless you repent, the tenon this school controversy began !hat ,nen httuuii u ,sed to you. Then, aur columns were rayon toot.' ooh sash implicit)!!! pl"Nemewa of your iniquity will constantly after Ingo-In►e Arraying c Wool! , apply the sniurge and the lash. There, ed to reply to anything which had lore- I c AM and reusing the dust of contention where the phatuasuwturu of your_fortuer life will rise up before you with ghnif.eld sins and iva.le ux", each perspeet:veand ever -deepening sii reprosell you with the viktsw of your if. and the hollowness ot your pram - ems. you may be brought to a evaluation f who you ere an.: what you are If you wanner chat -sclerotic of gout aervdity t and sbjaciness of spark that some tecor- ninon of your doun¢euhed services in the temperance cause all laid be forth - of a vitriol -thrower your puiauuuua dia- tribes at wren whose rrputatious you washedto blacken. o every •latfuru , snit at every meeting where you had the and the coward, But the measure • t 01 dismay methods that were the (rah - your iniyuiry is alrca4y full. 5111 tau in hes time. it was as serious• IJcommit- derision t i - . it Aland mot whatevr oda you tom sour business M learning (:reek cxv derision await you. Outwardly reduced ting t memory the whole of the Bleed. riouely appeared in Tee tisuxaL, Allan in order to obscure your motives, yria Lrmbury, who is • moral coward, utter hail the uuperalluied •ulamy to clutch availed himself of the opportunity. tie the houtx• vietury in &cruse you liege has Riven his wrathful epr•thw instead owateit.d to dogrin k even hour since. 1 its slue s. to to the editor of the Nae. who is quite Ti. cowvlete the wretched spectacle ref 1 willing, It well.' appwr, w baud Lis your Wtugleo vane), hypucrsey cul ease. s columns over to any ogle vibe er•old near, you inuuateo en au ndelicata vitli(y the owners of the rival news- paper. We have on severed o ccaains received lettere redeemer upon the obarateer of :he r'i t it of the Star, couch- ed in la&guace ;oat as violent as that ev. Khat you received Wight well ..sed by hoe fa,ortte currapundrbt he called the wacea of utfau,y. But let ag•utat us, but we lure tnvanaule tout rue rewind you that an exotic from the venters to this titer, or put that Munster cannot long ouzo, veall aparasite ' &nary datrib.•a to the waste basket. int Csaa.tie. The day cel come when Embury •letter. which we append in society shall be pruned 1 splash hideous full i, le eIct, ring fat ,nflieting s, Inn¢ aacresceuc.,, and the memory of your so and vicious a screed upon se eacalleut termer infamies will be locked up in the class of readers t. now gets a wider circa -pose annals to people woo will never boon than the limited lief of the .,fur disturb tho &Nitap pied of obscurity into could supply. which you will have forever disappeared I In another letter to the Yter, Embury complains that we have written to "ruin hes reputation " That would he a work of supererogation on our part. Embury's own writing, hu irregular habits, aud hs shameless utterances have long ago "ruined lie reputation. He is a imolai suicide. Never mote the clays Guitean sent out his fulminations-wrledictions, prophe- cies, etc --has anything like our '•wodeP' schoolmaster's epistles been seen. Embury'e wild coy. "Simi me from the McOdircuddyse' should be framed as • and religious influences that fh.wed from companion sentiment to Ouiteau's "Don't her buly alters. You,Thua McGillicuddy. shake your lung, buoy finger at me, who are the antithesis o! .req mural Porter,' en addr.•sieg the district atter- std seem! virtu•, the "Marsh" of uvery trey Here a this literary curiosity : - social and political bittemess, the As Open tetter to ter. Tees. I - y negation o1 all nubility in the lite of Stas, --1 prnp,se to addrrse to jou a wan. have &spired to lead in the cause of few remarks the justice of which ha* /nag reheiun. Yet in thefsae of this mo,atr- bsen estabhstied though their force may "'t• pretension, the editorial c damns of r.matu unperceived by you through the the rag yea attempt. to edit reek with obtusetiers of your d M well WI the language unfit to be used by the most mastery which erratic and v,cti us babas deprated. Well might Burn. ironically have acquired over you. Yuur personal say of your prototype --Holy \Filly -"A merits are %mottle in their kind mid I shall burnin ani a ehinin' light to a' this leave their illustration to thews who have Placa' Men such as you hare ever been the atumhleng-hinck in the way of anti nus seekers. In these days of doubt and scepticism one ei&ntple like yours is an argument in the mouth of thousands. temperate language, perfection in lying, But regardless of coneequeoces, you and cututeut vtlhbu►uou ,f respectable still pursue your tortuous career ; un- silluis hive gte..v you • prumuteuce mindful (lithe signs of the times, you that neither your natural our acquired still wander from synagogue to barrack abilities could eversion. lave •.coned A room ; unable to understand the world, from view But perhaps thecavae which you have meet signally disgraced is that which is bunt up in our inherited aphis cti..ns and to .oar earlier years. it,1u t,ou,rbat corner stone 01 society, list u.o often cast a mantle of shadow over depraved hearts aud gigantic vices. T.., often have lips steeped in infamy uttered ptou. ejacute- u,ma at her veered ahrtnes. Toxo often Dare tum like yourself secured an as- ceudaacy in her councils, and withered Lk• a blast from the desert the moral the microscope vision to p.rexive them. I shall cuubne myself to that aide of your character which is the cis. poo) of social disturbance. Your sell assertion, tn- hen sincerely repeat, there will be performed to your life history a miracle that the world will applaud. That miracle would be, that so great a •cornice were use ied to save so ,.peau a si.ner. Yours, Sc ALLAN Ensue% Orslertch, Nov. Jnd 111185. There is 'oily one point in all the fore - gulag two tedium letter which calls for reply on the way of explatatwu. Em - bury has ingestoualy perverted an inci- dent, and by cruse ratarepcosentation endeavored to make it appear that the penult he is writing against was on New Years day "pacing the postoMee ques- tioning little uirfs ss to whether the prin- cipal appeared in an unfit c,nditiun,'"etc. Ili. McGillicuddy makes this exptane- titn. It having been told him as a •chow,t official that one of the young women in Lsbury's room had reproved that worthy fur speaking to her while under the influence of lignor in school, he But Dickens worked et tt aud stuck to it through thick aud thin, till finally he iaaterwd it. In later years he beseme very wealthy, and the moat renowned story writer .4 ha time. But he uevsr would have done soil he had not worked dust as hard at wntang as he did at teem- ing shorthand. The system of Short- hand popslarly known am Uuruey's u really Meknes. it was first published in 1772, and went through several edi- tions. Thomas Gurney, en animator of the present Gurney family, who report for the two Houses of Parliament, re- published it in 1751, and pieced his 0515 name ou the title page. There is nu reference to Male% in the book, It is a very imperfect system, and requires tiro or three years' practice belure • pers,•u can reed and write it with facility. This was the system which Charles Dickens learned, and for snore years used a re- porter on the Morning retinae. The difficulties which he felt in mastering it are described un the following eetract from the "Batory of David Copp:er- fleld": - Tb. first subject on which I had to consult Traddles was this.- 1 had heard that many•nren distinguished in various pursuits had beetle life by reporting the debate. in Parliament. Trsddles having mwtiugled newspapers to me, as one of his hopes, I had put the two things to- gether and told Traddtes in any letter tbstt I wished ti. know how I could qualify tb ought it well before repeating the myself for this pursuit. Tneddhe now statement, or taking any public action in informed me as the result of his angel his position of school trutees. to ask the ries, that the Inc.. onechanioal •egoist- rl the first time he met kir if the fact tion aetimeary, except in rare cases, let Mr. Fut, Mr. tlbagelitt , Mr. Burke, Lard Cas•fsa•Ri, Ytttss.uit Sidewalk, .r Mr. l'anuirus wesld work hi gseintanee with shorthand was the *alas e,l prurautiarli we to the peMt.vu cf curcur- etting:c:erk and cashier. lb. hour per day was a!wsye deo (Aril to s!tort iced, tb• rest of ...y time belts set apart for other studies. Heated'an interest igl spire ual things, 1 took a fancy uf be- ouming a *muster of the t..spel. I sat haul t. work fur college. At this timeu Phouuppraphy was ire0•,e et very greet se uto Inc. A friend of mom started a newspaper, sad i had huts opportunities .f np.••rtiwq. Thus practice was of en mimeo tele.. It was o1 tiebeitely more - use to me thin Mrs. H• pv s daily read• t Mit I had during this tone made iaquirks sheat r•llege classes. One difllaeity turned up. The 0.0.1 a aures I (Saud clergieswas to take clergies for the Prat year. od What could 1 dot 1 r d not take to cIassica Wt t, m •hortheed the way openedopenedup•. 10,01'1 with it take logic amt l;reeR, roerting Latin until the ft, year. nllewei • r. la wv at the stage I found olio rth•nJ til -nesti mable value. Every wmie of them lectures was train - tarred Tarred to my apeheisk, and when the s eiaiwttion cams I passed with greatest ease. I have now had three year* at , the Glasgow1'uiversity, and had it not been for your Pheuetic Shorthand I should certainly have been still a bum. Me tum : nod eve-: granting that I had succeeded In my other studies, and furs• ed my way to college. 1 could never duriu. the weenier months here *calm pa,.hed lily labor half so 5.11- Tu it I owe mse y premed lucrativesituati,n,whtch allows me to take my chimes it the won ter, es t„ prepare fur them it the sum - ,,.«r. \\ hen 1 remember this, 1 certain - 1y should be guilty o1 sad neglect were I not to tell you that ,tato your short band I o ., we it all I have labored spe- cially &moue the working clauses t d►sse,rnnate its truth. knowing from and experience that many are falsely per. beaded that it caw be of no use to them. My success to this respect has been cr- awlingly vaned. but many, very many, have, like myself, used & little self-denial to overview the little difficulties cu rrimedwith the study of Phonetic /Shorthand ; and they. like myself, have all reaped a rich reward. I pray that roe will excuse my wntiug to you. be- came 1 feel that at a say duty so tag do. WILLIAM Hot -r... Glasgow, 14th Ample, Ifri2. tate the must tri•lfttlr hoes, omit deliver tM *oat withering dentutsiatiu*• of the profligacy sad carruyties „t ,af aunt sad Mr. Dick ; while I used to sit at • little disuses, with my note .rook ar 07 knee, tagging after him with all rue mere and main. The ipconaatawy and recklessness of Traddiss wore not to be exceeded t,y may reel Ii' Itttrsu. e Iwea fur ar.y derertptwu f t..)Icy. in • oowp•as of • week 51.1 tooled .11 suns ell .alae• to every denoniustt.wt of mast. Sly aunt looked very like so imisievable Chance/1,r of the Eacbegwor, would •. ossivaally throw to au interruption fir two, an "Hear r , r "N. or "Oh "' when the text seemed to uire it: wht:h was always a signal to Mr. Dick a pelf vet country grntleitau to lustily 0th the a' carie cry. '. 1:U• Mr. Dick got taxed with such thinks to ib. course of his Parliamentary .veer. and was made rear nimble for such awful coomae%uences, that lie becueae uncomfoi- taWr rn hei mend souetu,es. 1 believe he actually began to be afraid he really bad beet' dome s uvali 11. ten. lmi. to the saglibilation of the British e.'intiu- tion. and the tutu of the country. (Ate) and often we pommel thele •1e - bates until the chuck pointed to ew:•i night, and the candles were i.untitut down. The result of so much 1!.'I prractioe was, that by and -by 1 Iweritn to keep pace with Trseidles pretty well, and should have. been .quite triumphant if I bad had the heist idea what my no•:es was so or not. He happened to meet thorough °se lience no it, that is to say, i when I was a boy not 18, rod 1 left it - her in the post -8c , and quietly asked a perfect and entire command of the 11 can hardly believe the inexorable truth her. She .aid it was not so. She was mystery of shorthand writing and read- r --nigh thirty years ago : and i have put the only person asked, sad it was the log, was about e.tuat in difficulty to the Jsued the calling of a reporter geder cer- right thing to de. '1'o a fneod of Eon. mastery of sax languages ; and that it i out.stauces of which many of by breth- bury's who was standing sear by at the might perhaps be attained, by dint ,tfren here, and my brethrer.'s suacees•rs, tome, the trustee repeated the converse- perseverance. in the course of t few I can furor ao &daqu•te conception. tun, saying he was glad to learn that years. Traddlet reasonably supposed I hare erten transcribed for the printer the awry was untrue. This was to give tbat this would settle the business : but from toy shorthand notes important pub - the teacher's friends en teppunuwty to I, citify hobs, that here indeed wore a I he speeches an which the strictest accu Marge derby the should it be repeated. few tall trees to be hews down, Orme- acy was required, anal a mistake an which The action of Mr. Meelillic.ddeal set date., resolved to work wy way on to would have been to • young man serious- Factoone to be aahamed sit.' ot► Dian through this thicket. axe W hand.. I ly compromising, writing nn the palm „f conjure s slander ; he would"or at "I am very much obliged to you, my my hand by the tight of a dark lantern, tempt to trace to tis wares, or atoplt.... Treadles '" said L '1'11 begin to- i in a t•st-chaoe and four, gallopnne The remainder of the diatribe is en- i w, .crow-" (through a wild country lhnuoab the dud worthy o1 serious notice. However, the ' Traddlea looked astonished, M he well • of the night, at the then surprising rat. mac himself furnishes the text for ani might ; but he had no notion a yet .1! of fifteen mites se hour. Th last ties I oma at Elmer I were about. But, as to reading them atter 1 had got them, 1 might as well have copied phi Chinese inscriptions on t an itngliw1 5 csdtaeiiuu of tea-chests, or the golden characters ,on all :1.0 great red and green bottles iu the chyuinti mops 1111 There was nothing Lir it, but t•. turn ibeck and begin all over attain. it was very hand, but I turned back. th.ueh with a heavy heart, and began 'ahem dusty and methodically to plod over the same tedious ground at a snails pace stopping to examine minutely every speck in the way, on all sides, and mak tog the must desperate effort, to know theseelusi"e characters by sight where - lever I set them. i He wM very young at the time to he so persevering. He MRS a mete boy re- porter when at last he got the thing (earned. He ronunts,. : I west into the galheey of the h, use of common es a parliamentary reporter article which appears in anothereolumn, which dealt with facts, and not with intpresaiona, suppositions, hallucinations, or any fancies arising from • crapulent cund:ti.0 of body, end a disordered state of mind. broad analysis of that WWII of fungus- Jou, still persist in separating Arse- ' - like excretions which in you corresponds tier fretn pndessi.n ; and, Pheriawe like tyvtttas.ha•ad titMY►ttat. • • • s • to what in other men u called brain, praying in public places, you continue to _ reveals in you a preponderant of the be • survival from that hypocritical sae The women and children of Road Arab I did nut allow try resolution, wttb aainwl over etre mural ; of the rw►ee (til when psalm -singing and navel prayers families work, la old times, hater allow- reaped tai the Parliamentary De4tea, to were • uaJibcation for office. Happilysal. It wWI one of the iron) I began to over the charitable ; u! egotism over q ed to wear imitation jewelry, wbetber.f veneration, Thu., there is found in your the office of hcb, of trustee was then. et.nes or neral ; the jewelry, este for heat immediately, and nae of the irons meuJ and mural constitution no brio unknown. French eiviliratio.n is however, feet I kept hut, and hammered at, vita a for principle, nu sub stratum for masala, Your tae: attempt to serve )Donal( breakingdown such prejudices. Vise verses,' I may honestly admire. 1 no f etedation for religiva, Nature Ise- through a public trust forma a distinct ancient designs, especially of necklets, boWfht an approved whose of the sole,. of commons, aid I have worn my fret by int destined you for a cuusumate b chapter ,n your sordid and ignoble war- art myat of atencgtaphy (which cwt mending to write iu a preposterous pee hype_ age crow reputed in bre Ind wit out •- J t in un from a• lei sn int roe' ;and ed into in the old hoose of beds, when we used prejudices - your moralea medley of a nes d peepkxit that brv.tlght me, in to be huddled Oka so many sharp a few weeks to ,� et►r.6ge• sit tbt my rapturous condition. a rer7 , good (scheme of this art in it ; I'll work identify, for the amusement of a friend, at it •t the Commons, where I haven't the spot oft which I "took" an election half enough W do : Ill take down the speech of try noble friend, Gad Russell. speeches in oar court for poetise -Trod- I It was in the midst of a lively tight kept dies, my dear fellow, I'll master it "' l up by all the vagabonds in the vicinity, and under such peltin/ run that I re- member two rood natured colleagues, who chanted to be at leisure, held a pocket handkerchief over my notebo ek, after the meaner of • state canopy to an ecclesiastical procession. I have worn my knees by ermine on them on the old beet row o1 the house • F1 buy • book" said I, "with a strolled auto the castle yard there too erne your s celled principles are fare against ened.ty and dereluped o h hods f I}s*aacua. The must pe Phinft useful pattern a one formed of two rows of nt fish- t m - ed by repetetioe ; this oo a in r very effective, and vas - fore the world theme 'abort' characteris- tics the illustration of which was necessarytt, complete a character uuetue in moral and social turpitude. Our schools are not objects for contests. for rage of Lagoa a powerful amen,. n rigue, orfor y iso g r hanging see you a o (hoard, as was afterwards emnnstrated, that you might lead your Machisrellisn principles and your Munchausen veracity to the support of a contemptible clique whose appetite at the public crib was insatiable. To the exclusion of an old apoybtb•t,ma and cant ; your rehp iew, • h•sgt he shapes mach dented ' ' •NOTA•R STORY. profanation of the communion to which P dark tioa. The Cheer! that were nog upon you been.¢. I*iifnrtanat. as sue ars by has beside the dots, which isweb aposition meant such The following letter, addressed to the your natural ounattution • the emacation• a thing, sad is seek a petition soros. editor .f the Pdeemt,, Journal, shows of your earlier days were not such WI p t part at n lalda All "'- Moat neck ornaments ha e ha R g thing else, .purely different ; the woo - would produce any amelioration of the these Y Aar attempted t makes them pendent., folbwisg ]lipptari precedent ! dertni vagaries that were played by cir- deletenous effects of • ane-•eded develop You thrust ynunelf apo, the School One r� deonntive design r oo*pnesd ' cles ; the una000aatable eoosquences mere, and the natural baseness of your d disposition is to the present day reflected in • couutenanra tit to grass a Paptau orgy. It manes be said of you, r may be mid wf many Ixommeut men, that you sprang from the gutter. Unfortun- ately fur the society into which you Aare by an inscrutable Providenoe been allowed fur s time to intrude, you have brought the gutter eking with you to supply you with the ammunition which reit poly e.o,gen,al occupation demands. ill more unfortunately for society. the f I b attended the repmattiss of a rapoly seams¢ cut'.are trent •ad diaturted by a rig ask roekst stand for "dwdtantageosa' tctence and t, break those obligations Wgl I Fad fixed thele wretches rn my s0000scieusnees of defect which marks of chains torsed of fat rings ; the Ent that resulted from marks like lies ' legs ; chain farteas tight asoosd the theme, the tie esodoes effects of a curve is a while the others deemed is inoreasiog uloid plana :sot only troubled my wale *north, oiliest te the hose • this u a log hours, bat reappeared before me in al taken 1 had op►"d my oma most favorite pattern for wilding !reale. my 'eP'1m J• The is•kiaic lights Give almost the effect bltndty, thriseth these dilfichltte., sed and active member, you thrust ynur.etf of chain armour. The whole female had Egyptian ted the alphabet, which was an upon that committee which you desired Egyptian temple in itself, there then apo to manipulate. For many months there P"Pulatioe of Tiemlten (Oral) del-1117____"hin pared • procession of new horrors, diaphyiny is their ears • clutter 0 you sat interlarding the debates with hoop made with t.' hood. called arbitrary charades* r ; the most pious platiuedes, and on every possible p n serpents' t detpotfe characters 1 have ever kmown ; rtraiaitori .wt•Ilowing the pitiful morsels Dtyfhteoed by colored glass moor a dab who insisted, for instance, that • thing that fell hewn the table. Hungry and of rope eswel. Even babin arms bee the wear i eaa hoops, tbt,ugtr the...."w little wra beginning of a cobweb, d .int avaricious, you dud net .raphe to •ti8e "eapeetattos," sad that • pig acrd . ink tb w ' ht the .sew o your character has you m.tsi being cheap, and the rb*ti.. verb - in all your enterprise.. Your abilities dor. vt good p, asses. and rale 'ming negative, 700 hare imp,•wd upon you by your declaratiou of pt mind, I found that they had driven without the delaberalem aud candor .ice. But, Loner there was none, the The Fnrr Cardinal Poiissa ,.f rep !al everything .lee .sit of it ; thee, begin- without mark the actions of hone.t men flickerine rurhlight of conscience had ing the system an the stomach, tM nine again, 1 forget them ; while 155. egdwyored to identity yourself, for endo lamina contracts *noted. oor irndresistible pr auto on ett �wD� b.rwels and the blood. With •a healthy fe,spicking wmenb ,wit the Idropped the other .J.t•sa is shoat pest ental and sordid, is till thole owe,. T action of these organs sieknees n►an..t * sats that enlist the sympathy and su rfeesed to teethe the depravity .4 the uses almwst heart-br.akini, pot y p mese. Burdock Blood Bitters seta of the position Uhnetian element nctpal and w deplore the incapahty pnmaptly epee the weansrestoring in Thais might Imre been quite heart -break• se you have brought at omnis discredit thine ta, a healthy ase ' of the cnairma•t whom you now for •, g, but for Dura, who was the stay and w pm the lastest movements and addi- hypocritical purpose w loudly venerates. anchor of any tempest -driven bark. Z tsunal infancy, if po.e•ible, upon yourself. In the contest between the In•pecturand ibs imrbetial into the political arena you hives car- the Principal as W their reepectna rithts to send Matthew pArn Arnold to rime and rod all !bis petty Aril., and manoew•es and duties, your character received its es characteristic your ghoulish nature erownmt illustration and its amine Germany a iegeirw roto the tryst.* of rd Ups. like have owned the ninon •tone of inf.tny. N ithout any attempt tris 1'• p' ,:gm to centime the position assumed by the A minister approached a mischievous article. ▪ of n he ride (e journalistic lis •roti. urchin shout twelve years old, and laying rtiolw of the ode of journalistic wthia P *iO ynr immsa. 05 .5 Num, M bee ed t ad t slime and to windy him to order to drive ►r hard upon hie a►oalder, the ad- odene rnviov a sine• torr leu dread hiss son, I beli.v. the rM beton 1 n, and left m imbecile I timer be ,f an use to • savvy I tried flntdench, and sisndrr -"the meanest 'Aim temp his powitie,a. Daring this pen- began. 1 7 J mese of hell"- has fl..wed from y..•ir ' cels .occurred that deeps/44o' episode ow dtvd hM tot hnityf fou. 1 heiiere penal etagaertng abeet the paper r if it ' ether heanehee of education ; they were NP. Year s dell that at ones stamps you he hea, loan, was •rgniRe•nt Mp'y of were in • fit • • all to hard for tae. 1 esteemed to your pa es fast as your mush event Ann,the etch scratch in the Eches. was • marled oak in the forest of dif ie. ty, arid I went on cutting them down, one after another, ries tn. or tit• encouragement Seam with such vigor, tb.t is three or fear of the would be gev.tlem.n of the place, months 1 oma in a eneeittee lost mak. an I end the e•,11iery clerks, Really persuaded experiment on one of our crack speakers me to give tt up, and give my time, d 1 in the common, Shall I ever forret would wady, t, soomwehnmg sore useful, b ow the creek speaker welk.d off from WI they alleged that shorthand world that Pitman • system of Shortland, en- titled Phouogr.phy, can be learned by a "navvy" with ease. At tke ate of fifteen i made a lntd attempt to learn Taylor s shorthand. Por *early two years i worked very hard, bat it was of un rtes ; I meld write a little, and wM sxoeedmely pmod of it. bet the pride left me whets trying to de- �i0Td6 of �1Sa0171. cipher what 1 had written. Shotty after du. I gave it up. acrd tee lay whole at twtints acid time tbi -I 5 The Pains .d Lumbago. aching beak acid hips, with all weakness and sore- ness, will speedily vanish trader the treatment of Hagyard'a Yellow oil, • remedy which say be taken ist•rnaliy and applied eateraaLy. It is • positive cure for loin. 2 Fun 1 nluuj�. Little Bertha : "Yea, mamas*, T took Three 'emboss est of this drawer.' Mam- ma : "That was very naughty, my chdd; t i will forgive, b..•wuse you confessed tt\ Littie Bertha: "Then give me ot mamma, fur 1 really took eel two. e "W are your views regarding the Chews Oedema 1- asked a reporter of as airtwueeeyed knight of the wash- , board. "Three cent.* colitis, ten coarse shine. ; 5' cent.e cuff," waa the answer. "Are you married r asked the padre of a ,ran who was arrested for variety. "N.., 1 am not married, but my wile is. - "No "No trifling with the ooart." "8ere.5 save us ' I'm not trifling with the oosrt. I was married, but got a divorce, say wife gut married alms, hot I dills ',eel ate mos married, bet ery wife is.„ Repressible' mother to a fire year old delinquent • "New, Mary, when you my your prayers tonight, you mutt tell God ot that nauthty Thing yoga said to *.*is• today Morisco. ive-yearrild : I needn't. " Maltase, takes shank s, "No. you needn't t Why not r' Pi,. - year -,.Id, triumphanuy : "No use. He beard it. ' "For what we are about to receive alis/ the T.xd make us truly tl., bIsi " de 'witty murmured Dewsbury, eithee with. folded hands at the diaper table. Then Joukint disdainfully over the dishes est before him he snarled : "Doom gra- cious, Maria, bow rsaay tames do yoe want me to tell you that 1 do•'t Parker for cabbage and corned beef more than three times a week '" pbsgb, as Ceeteen tees lead s non into many thee • ploughboy. At seventeen I am- errors, but it jtnubes wove. poles for, and won, a medal et the pariah The fruits of tree windier, are modesty pltwghint match : sue this made ate fur- sad haatlity A vain or proud masa r, get all about shorthand and everything in a positive sense, as ignorant incl else pertaining to education for one whole If a man empties hie pure ion, kis year. 1111+ master's son, thefts student Mid, 00 man eau take 11 .0.7 from kim. of the Glasgow University, utgwd ns An investment in knowledge always pays Mutest - strongly ft/try your Phonetic Shorthand, the b..i iuterutt. He at last prevailed, and for one munch Beery day u s little hl., and rWr whole i wrought st is I had to cnevertheless that 1 iii. a bat • day repeated. Tberet"re got on .nd.rtly,o but omenhells.three Gs• every day ea if It would be the it op in order to devote the whole of my hail time to the plough. At the ego of nine- tem 1 left faun service. got *..Tied, and The man who t canna. pct se. ►nom began narvyin¢ issteed. With my the wr rld mold get along withee" bpm, navvytng 1 began your shorthand again *en find out by sticking • needle into • To sag k.,, no ries. in the )rtaahty knee 111111 pond and thea withdrawing it and anything about u, sad so none could ad- lookipg •t the bole. meld cosine ve it. The lehnuehte of assn enemy. I erttety, WI the nosrnamon the press and the A�agl,a ..f the party of ,.f AMU'. and divider, sea num unfit for A ler thm,a was walking down street which bol h t trod rod any `..ration on • civilised c,ornunity. s fe. din arc• is cotmp•ny nth two I which other men dm at the monies .f• ,The anwhrr on the •vlv,nt of a Mew Om asked how •feltat woos P large fellows r nur.elvea 4 you ora. yon ave u u , \ n e people outside were eon,ntumti �Tuone sen wive felt uncommon y smart. *.a scotch id, that biuen,ssa of sport ! illi Pw'f 1m h u.ted bet Year. while the 'told was shekel, two such the p, to Sasail air ih i Beery cooat4 ye of 1 hands at the premiere of merea•ed peace "Feel, ' mid ha, ''why like • sharp Me sees. to..wrr high in the farm ooh Soar twat toe„ to note the rrscrtbed esreise, seat it to deeper plunge nolo a fresh sore of In. sod 'octal happuneto, you, Thomas Me- �" la. aid, T accepted the pi -epees' . aud p yams, the, „sees ••f which stick tier ekes l Oillicuddy, with the e.daver:.ws aspect The fhlluwiag us • genuine Hihernian night after night. a:m.st every n.ttat, ynu, and had the satisfaction to End that le ewer mink cements. B. often hu 'f • lunatic and the stealthy step of an advertimment flaming from Killer. Ger • long time, we had a sort a private you .aw your .•y to grant me a eertifi taasta. tae •s. Jabs fftwrrw• agmia1 nitres soee.dsd to plow• plats ' •'ass•un, were peeing the (,oderich pot war. Jame O'F••gsaty ; she had in her Parliament to Ruekinrham street, after t cote to teach toe matte art 1 •hall Guide, and infamy t dsgrace that today ''fere• lueet„.nunt little girls as to ares two Imbue and • Guernsey cow, all 1 euee home Trus the beams' Co*- never forges the day t peer hoisght le The writ has hew isaoed Inc • ewer ab en, of tour p•litieal and sera! pro. I whether they had ever seen the Principal black' with red hair, and tortni•eabdl isessa 1 .o.w caked std wr granted the was d ttl•etbus is tit. Jn►e, 11. B twads'•lint r in •e unfit ttwditn.n before lee teseths behind her ears, and lie black i should hkw to see each s Parliaetent th. soh...I-r.om to teach It t., nt keit r -"laver us from eel Mc(:dlic n by the migration of Sir Lennard Tilley. ark Cowardly and �nr•Iwrt, arrogant Kut the dee oweeteei wee mot far' *pets all down her back, which meinq anywhere else. Hy seat and Mr. Dusk f rand. Mr Pitman, your humble nor- Poreteetion .n 17th and voting ma the snit *secant. instnealing and fake. yes' ntr end yon ap•w.tily received tM pun •wfrlly ` rgrr.entw'd the I;oeernssaat •x the Op- 1 Tani. • "ns• ry. ' who was never lartkt 24th irol gir Johw did not wait It mak through life unn. ,tw.f h publiclebwnt dew to yew imeneeivelrle I A .,.,flew„►. pawing Mroeah nee (41=m (as the ease might lis,. and 'shorthand by • personal teacher, preen* thf bet . writ • n f,41s• slug sme0ahte an no void. ..f Moor, m - !Inflames and year gator � our yuAl.e ,.Ilkrsr aur Ifeow<rd by imam !ea, with the assistaees • ng to rnetr.ct .,t wet tahal Pm"?' avi v+f►t t►e ewrt•ta • h hf f ' i h' ~' Teen erne these doss neves ( lark aud was advised to em.mptarn tw� R}•nher or • vodrw • of par itnw.rl•re • n t0 • opwitt, latah e/ the ss.mg the '.mot machine which y,•u 1M the peeeop•1, ohm's he did the . i mations, perti hem bwf re trhas tom toawry, lige Mimi& to rho is ell he mt of � This would not do, it was quite clear. !shorthand smite inwardly reselviet that 1 was flying too hitt, and should norm flatboat but sicksesa shook' ever prevent get on, •o. i resorted to Traddlee for i se frees mastering it now 1 bought a advice ; who suggested that he would Manual of Phonography'' who 1 15sit dictate speeches to me, at prune. trod simmered the 'Phnnogrwphie T.seher." with sora s mal slippages, ads to *y 1 .nmsrtslp devoted Ore hoer. per day) weakness. V try revel"' 1„e t r (ri.n to it. and in lees thus four months 1 Let out anyn5e lay that he cannot govern his posuons, n•* hinder theta from breaking out and carrying him to action : for what h• can do betore a primo or • Brest man, he can do •lose, or ti the presence of God, if be will. Charity of speech is M divines thing as charity of action. The tongue that speaksth no evil r..lonely a the head which 'teeth alms. To judge n0 one harshly, to mucuneiere no man's mo- tives, tc Wiese things see what they mem to he until they are proved nthar- wies, to temper jedtmrit with morel* surely is quite as good as to build op churches, establish asylums, and to found collages o 7 le of Es*.ii' 'i shorthand h paha nton ores t' b.. t on r. rte s o tit r.ne ip, at w need t► A sag a m our after career to Le r•wlled w,tho sit clerks. athuwisr•sd aMusishiat hawse- .loss. 1<irhtwen 1. ean.hed t yid with amyl, assiduity for the pttrpues' •ha roe and self atasemsnt, thew dayshere been ahused here by some d ,M loris valuer (hem. Standing to the .elves. and tIry lye t,.,► . full aMfos _ mem ofwrtwr ef tillifymg when ,mm. .,..Li.. your .1.” prnv«I you to posses the eunntng l reeeste ..f this place, and 1 rime toe • bible, with hos finger in the pace to keep . My mater saw any teieue a< as t rm- anJ ern.•w of the viper. hist not this it •s d rand you � the Hare. End his right arm floenettwt provem,et, .sit put waw int., the ofllr., r ampatti ra, tnteihreteelly an,l mon•la.. to , P acquaint yoe f I un er. y PRION inches of 551.5 fall at Dee 1 d Trsddl Pitt, peeler clerk. i b /why mid tri* of bre. beset ,•f nun , there day •h"ti it see ani theytrMttpet. ' amyl• his hes es, WI Mr. i , 1 e • sheet time my se- take, Pak., petards. • r4 THE BOOK AGEN It was with shsulute dismay that oriud net "It us a b„..k agent Now • tin ik agent was the tet r etaatence She was mild std us, as vied by uaturu as by tee dod their self assertiou, their imp rity, were tau much for her. She b their erect, though always aj•ic RAIL She had Dover been known cap: the Retches of one, and had 1 everything, from "Th. Lady's 1 Journal" to "The Hares and Hi eases." 1)n this occasion able had sitting. reeding, by the Fre t -1t w ufthe dn u¢room, .which cogent w s vire of the front porch of her • cutta;e, aud, hearing • knock, ht cooaciuusly looked .out. Heuer ht clamatwi. No sooner had she spoken, than. int bo,.k and shawl behind her i ;nay, she retreated out of s•,l.t "How no you kuue," saui her ter Helen, *drawing to the ea "that it is a book agent : Now Helen was altogether tl.e eat girl iu Elmdal.. Yet she had ,o( der own, and woo riot afraid nook agents, though sheconndete the modern spirit of evil, "con seeking whom they might devour this morning she looked, if prettier than ever, in her ugh bodice, slightly ripen in frost dretes coming to the elbows, ooh were finished with soft lace ru with • skitt of thy mine dark ♦ draped close to the p.rwae w as all its graceful cutlinee. "Haw do you know • ah • stood at one side of this window, set a peep. Whet she saw w well built y -.ung man, clad to ,ng suit of gray. "lie doesn she added. "so very brazen, of thi.k. "They're all alike. seed the parent. "Didn't I We him, nen, 1.01 coming out of Mr. Moore's d `ew minutes ago Ir. Moore was :he rector, next door neighbor. "Heald ways ge to the clergym.a; y You tan see for yourself . he's cel ender his arm.' Heist took another peep. S ✓r here was the iiev,tab:e p books, .-r maps, or 5 cnett.ing. intruder' aria.' , "Never yon mind. mother.' • 'Yoe just stay here. and I11 :nim in five minutes.- Heim, inutes."Heim, nettling her crimps tiaat nod, and not waiting fur maid to go to the door, and stood bravely in the ins it effectually to the book The tall figure outside re al :splaying •rather pleasing shale.] by dark-br,rwn hair. "Well, ell, I must my Le moue,- thought Helen to Jest than the atrsoger to •ugly : Mrs. Cone 4, I believe Helen said to herself, cutiroe he got the name at that s one of their tricks. a«s answered, shortly "Yes, sir '.Ie she risible I The stranger asked this iter its smile in ha hart "No, sir " said Helm, ill certainly 1 crept ar?rund the gentler. egWd : "Will, really, my buys with Miss Cam -- "Oracles. thought g. it ua all. Dear simple Why did he do so • • Ail tba wkiie the et tare a calash hate-' Never use them.' int more shortly that: esti more defiantly than possible, in the centre "&tia dun t wait to loo last she added, L.oi.in her, with no et; rasa 1500. The young man peen "He must be r.ew thnueht Helen : "he's Sent as others. "Ali said t'.e ii p5011e, ''1 think yon stand : but atamm "Um from Firmin came titer. from M wnrl,t •top "i declare," tho "they're jest too His 'victimized p wants to play her ori Her indignati„n limit, and she said. • • Please t.. undo never take anythit grit day'. til ith thew word the door in his fee nesly, sad nn tr mother. "There. mamtr she entered, "yo little derision. 14