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-=it1Ln of the court and Its Method.
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Who has not often-. thought, unless.,peel
flips, be be of the legal profession, if there
were not some way to avoid the e-xasperat-
lug delays of jnstiee from legal technicali-
ties awl quibbles, the sacrifice of fortune
and happiness to the pride of "fighting out"
trivial litigations, and the endless misery of
agoing to lana," which arc indeed an ill wind
•to evert one except the lawyers ; and the
legal element benefited is not often that.
which we should wish to encourage.
"Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce" is perhaps
no longer possible, but there is
abundant room still for the delight-
ful method of settling civil cases at
law which Nicolay Grevstad describes
ander the title "Courts of Conciliation" ill
the Atlantic. One only feels that the sys-
tem is entirely too easy and simple and good
to be true.
In Norway, "every city, every village
containing at least twenty families, and
every parish, constitutes a separate 'dis-
trict of conciliation.' The districts are
small, in order to make it as easy as pos-
sible for the parties to attend courts, as per-
sonal attendance is the main feature of the
proceedings. The court, or commission, as
the statute styles it, is made up of two
members, one of whom acts as chairman
and clerk. These officials are chosen for a
term of three years at a. si)esial election,
by the voters of the district, from among
three men nominated by the city or the
parish council. Only men above twenty-
five years of age are eligible, and the law ex-
pressly provides that only "good" men may
be placed in nomination. The court meets
at a certain place, day and hour, every
week in the cities, and every month in the
country districts. It is not public. - The
proceedings are carried on with closed doors,
and the commissioners are bound to secre-
cy. Nothing of what transpires is permit-
ted to reaeh the outside world. Admissions
or concessions -made by one party cannot
he used against hila by his adversary if
the ease should come up for trial in the
regular courts. But a party willing to set-
tle before the commissioners is entitled to a
certificate to that effect."
Before this informal tribunal all parties
to civil or private cases must appear. Fail-
ure to answer in person—except in specially
prescribed cases, when a representative,
ether than a lawyer, is allowed—ie punish.
ed by the obligation to pay all costa of the
formal trial subisequcnt, whatever be its
decision. This has proved entirely adequate
to insure attendance. A fee of twenty-five
cents charged the piantitf for issuing the
summons, and a second of lifts cents in
case of a conciliation, are all the caste pos-
sible.
The office of commissioner has come to be
one of great honor, and the beat mon iu the
country are selected, nor have the "courts"
been allowed to come into "politics."
Truly, it must bo au instructive and a
npblc sight to see this little tribunal—the
two "good" men of the district—take into
hand with ready tact and impartial wisdom
end human sympathy the hot and vengeful
contestants at feud and quietly to k thenm-
nut of their "caps and bells" of angry pride.
cd The influence of the court of coucilia-.
Lion is brought to bear upon a legal
controversy while it is yet possible to
bridge the chasm by peaceable means. The
iejured party has made up his mind to seek
redress, but before he can rue!' into court
he must pass through the gates of peace.
Here the contestants meet without lawyers
to spur them on and obscure the issue by
legal verbiage. Eech tells his owu story
in his own language, and in a platin, eom-
tuon•seuse way. With the statements of
bath parties before them, the judges reduce
the differences to their true proportions, em-
phasize the uncertainty and expensiveness of
litigation, and endeavor to make it plain to
the contestants that each, by a comparative-
ly insignificant concession, - can have the
matter adjusted at once, save a large
amount in courts' and lawyers' fees, aall,
in fact, gain . more than he :would attain
even in court:" The writer makes the re-
anarkable statement -that seventy-five out of
every hundred cases are peaceably adjusted
in the courts of conciliation. .
Curiously, this ideal method of handling
that most difficult of subjects—human
nature -is part of the machinery of paternal
government, and was founded by a roger
edict in 1795 and 1797.
In Norway it; is regarded as one of
the ceruer-stones of the national system
of justice, and it is not an exaggeration.
to say that any attempt to abolish it would
provoke a revolution. -
The saute naethod of settling their differ-
ences is also in force in Switzerland. Before
ally action, can be brought in.the courts of
dew there, it is necessary for both'litigants
to appear before a functionary known as the
"Juge de Pair," who is elected and is al-
weys one of the worthiest citizens of the
community. Each there states his siris.of.
the case, and the duty of the "Juge" is to
endeavor to reconcile . the differences.. As -
the only persons perinitted to be present are.
the Juge and the litigants; in nearly every
case this effort is suceessfuL. .
broadside from a ship like the Chicago, WO
pounds of metal at one discharge front four
guns, is about $600. It is easy to see that
a day's fighting with a fleet of such cruis-
ers would make a big hole in the pocket of
eren as rich a magnate of the earth as our
Uusle Sam.—Augusta. Chronicle.
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH.
H .f tf e t ople=of. o r County don't kno
another. They can now overecint this &MC
ss
It Differs in Very Material Ways from the
- President's.
In England one universety bears, and
*test English writers; 'ldifer to" rather
than "differ from," though when "pinned"
down usually admit it to- be -incorrect.
They "take in" the. newspaper, an expres-•
sion where we economize a word by only -
"taking" it. •
"Attractive," as a personal quality, car-
ries further to the English mind than to
the American, who, for qualities beyond
the social, as in a statesman or commander,
would use "magnetic," and thereby acquire
a finer shade of meaning. A gentleman
asked me if I didn't find the English "home-
ly," which certainly I could not be so un-
complimentary as to acknowledge in an
American sense of the term. Seeiug
my hesitation he changed it to "hos-
pitable," whi.;h most emphatically I cried
assent to ; and assent also to their having
the better of us in that word which
so beautifully conveys its own meaning and
bears not the slightest resemblance to its
American prototype of ill-favored. "Clever"
is short English :for "intellectual," while
the American use of the iword is quite the
reverse. "Sick" is never used but to dis-
criminate the kind of "illness," an adoption
we may wisely make. "Remember" is
"mind." Furniture is not "removed" or
"stored," but "warehoused." - The expres-
sion "top" and "bottom" of the street or
town at first strikes one singularly, but it
is easier said than "upper" or "lower part
of the same, certainly -'conveys - the seine
meaning. "Stores" are "shops," and aswe
go "shopping" why not_ "shop" in "shops?'
It in England we wish to "shop" for a
"spool of thread" we ask for a "reel of cot-
ton ;" for "Canton flannel," "swansdown
calico ;" for "shirting," "calico," though an
English writer on Americanisms asserts that
we ask for a "web of muslin ;' or, if we
wish "samples," it is necessary to ask for
"patterns."
While Americans have been much and
deservedly ridiculed for their abbreviations
of "gents" and "pants," I have seen both
used in England, which does not, however,
prove it a commendable custom, but only
exemplifies the folly of "throwing stones
by people who live in glass houses."
"Draper," "haberdasher," "ironmonger,"
etc., more briefly designate the kind of
"shop" than do the American equivalents.
In pronunciation whatever -tray have
been his verdict as to the relative order of
different words—this unprejudiced umpire
must, if letters have any arbitrary signifi-
cation, give the victory to America. The.
corruptions of the, ignorant have, however,
se engrafted themselves upon the mother
tongue, many times-. even changing the
spelling—as when Rue du Roi became Rot-
ten Row—that the true Briton looks with
indulgent pity upon one who, ignorant of.
the valuelessness of letters in these excep-
tional cases, uses them with the power be-
atowed - upon him by linguistic English
authorities. -
At Oxford you must never betray your
noninsularity by mentioning Magdalen
Cortege, which to an good Englishmen is
"Maudlin." Cholmondely is "Chumly,"
Leicester, "Lester ;" Marylebone, "Mar-
rowbone;" while St. John as a family name
be.iomes "Sinjin." Clerk is universally
called "clerk," though by what rule "e'
eau be made to have the sound of "a" doth
not appear ; perhaps by the sane rule
which to many Americans apply to "very,"
pronouncing it -"vary," until in England it
is &.:counted an Americanism. American
"railroad" is English "railway," and every-
thing connected with it is known by a
different name, some of which better
convey the meaning, while in others we
have the advantage. "Station" -is certain-
ty more correct than - "depot," borrowed
in spelling, though not -in pronuncia-
tion or in signification, from the . French.
In England you "book" at the "booking
office" with the "booking 'lark," while in
America you "get your . ticket" at the
"ticket office" of the "ticket agent."
The "car" is called a "carriage, and
that 'European -vehicle partakes more of the
nature of a carriage than does its American
prototype. The "baggage -car" is a "lug-
gage -van," and, of course, "baggage" is
"luggage;" but why -as it,* neither uni-
'versally "bagged" nor lugged" -not ri-
fice economy to truth and -give to it the
comprehensive Latin name "impedimental"
"Fright trains" are "goods -trains," per.
haps equally significant. "Checks" would
be "brasses,'' if travellerat In England ever
had the good fortune to use them, and .the.
"rails" are callec"nietals,"-neither of which
words conveys ati idea of -the use of the
"metals" or their kind. "Conductors" are
"guards," and as they both conduct and
"guard" the train, have perhaps equal
-significance. }heti about _the start the
"conductor" shoats "all aboard ;' : the
"'gu"."takyoseats," .ao in the :in
terestsard of breviteyur we would have -the
"guard" shout "all aboard:"' "Street car"
is "tram,"eech perhaps equally appropriate,
ao egsin the shorter _would win The
"telegraph operator" iieeomes ."telegraph
clerk ;"W hilg.. "operator ' eonaveys an added
dignify, WO might accept _"clerk"—"olarrk"
never, -Pittsburg .Dispatch.
Canada.'r Product Ahead.
Canadian cheese brings More in the there
ket.than American: elteettee. because Canad-
chill cheese- waket'sinelie only strictly fine
cheese, and -then' sell it "-chit itsn terite,
When we .learn to let that abominable
ak nuner alone and uaake 1011 cream cheese,
and people realize they ran: get it, we *al
have no trouble in obtaining as gond prices.
Ohio appreciates this, and is trying- to `ori-
act a law compelling cheese made m ,that..
state• -to .be - branded "011ie full-ereatn,"'
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Have still a fully assorted
stock of staples, Dress
Gorda, Prints, Gloves, Hosi-
ery,
Gents' Furnishings,
Boots and Shoes; etc:
What IV Costa to TOM fs Ship.
It costs m.•ney to inn a big ship ' fter it
is ready for Rea. The first-class ships like
the Chicago, "Baltimore and Philadelphia
carry about thirty officers, 300_ . enlisted
men and a marine _corps of from forty to
sixty meth and officers. The officers of a
first-class ship of the fine arre•the following:
Captain, Lientenant-Commander, four Lien-
tenants, one Junior Lieutenant, two En
•
signs, nine Naval Cadets'Meclieal Inepee-
tor; Surgeons, Asaistant - Surgeon, Pay -
:esters "Chid Engineer,.: 'Assistant Engi
neer,. Chaplain, Captain at theariues,
The expense• of
_ :Varner.. and ;:Cat�ezYtx r '
inaluti.inva t -cease, rneet;rn>er<uaser;
._ �_k enol, re airs 'anii
In all lines we claira.. to have as good, and
in . the majority of cases, better value than
can be obtained elsewhere.
Our Sugar at 28 lbs. for $1.00 is
just the thing for the Preserving
season.
Regarding
G EM
OF THE
co1INT ` 'Y. o I-ILTyi 0
Which has been long needed and looked for. The siva is four feet; by--fiv$ feet
mounted on linen and wood rollers. Six coloring are used, which
makes it very distinct and effective.
THE SCHOOL SECTION NEEDS ONE,
THE FARIVIER NEEDS ONE,
THE BUSINESS MAN NEEDS ONE
PRICE, $3.50,
Published by
W. Cooper & Co., Clinton, Ont.,
® i3ookaellers and Stationers'
School Globes and; all kin.03 of Maps and School Supplies. Write for prices and
our traveller will call on On.
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As we are anxious that there
shall be no scarcity of jars, such
as occurred last season, we would
advise those requiring Gems to
secure them now and so avoid the
rush and the possible disappoint-
ment when the preserving season
is at its height.
A: large stock now on
hand.
When you come. to Gorrie
don't fail to call and see
our stock.
•'t)bin state." -"Ohio s' andard"-'end "flliq
stsirrtinsd " "The brartd shall ciao sir a the
sta> me of fi::ctory aand its location 'the
skate's brand small indicate cheese male'
`nil k front ► one -stroll: of
�Larnd'ard",
of: the;
We are always willing to quote
and leased to -see you, for
prices... pleased �
we know our prices are right and
willsuit you. .
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A FINE LINE OF
PfiIRLR, BOX, a d t3D13K3toVes.,
JUST E,Eii^L+ IVD.
Special Value in Cook Stoves.
Special Value in Heaters.
Special Value in Drums.
Special Value in Cutlery
S`. TE i 1JI NATURE
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Every Variety.
Ekve Trcig6in
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A Choice Selection of,m43^-wi3z1.1a,thp Goods
Highest Cash Price Paid for HIDES at EEPIiINa.
TTN"CIPARE
of every description, on HAND and made to ORDER
Repairing of all kinds promptly done.
THE GREATEST OF THEM9ALL
18 THE NEW PREMIUM
aliv.'n to every subsetiber. new or old, of TSB
ti L.l;KLW SMPIItU TOS 189% Thousands of
dollars have boon spent in its. preparation.. Its
sue( is tally assured; it is a highly valued
soup enir of the greatest statesman and the most
honored leader ever known in Canadian history.
"Chia beautiful Memorial Album contains 15
full-page illustrations of interesting scene is
connection with the history of Sir John, and
presents to the thousands of admirers of our late
chief many new and valuable portraiture&
READ THE LIST.
Full a..P'ortraits of Sir - Jolla aa*
Baroness Mncdonatid t Birthplace-,_
Jahn in 6laasgow ; Pot;alt. or =
when n a young main ; Portrait t.
:*siethear, the only one ever. p
Old Uennesteed at liirrfrsttGrt.
sir John during the lielteilieU-
5:mtrn.etl fel Sir Jebel itesid
Interior of Senate Chant,
isng the Guard of lienor 1i
Ssi;:to;-3' crior View of l;
dent. w•Iih funeral Pro�c iaik rs
the foregromu4 t View of_ Enstterla- -
I',Vlta te_i! _stttidbats. with Funeral. Plea.
cession passing; Fine ricer City flare Klass -
ton, Draped in Mourning, its it- appeared
the day sir .ioiaan's Body reached Kingston
and Lay in Slate ; Breve at Caterwaul Cense-
- ter, whit Fieral• Tributes from bio 'Thous.
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Beadle your Orderseanly. With tON=- tr LLfli, and get Teti ` EIEKIL for one seer
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