The Wingham Times, 1894-05-18, Page 2t
2 <, ;x'. 1,IN(. AMM`I`1MES, MAY 18, 1894.
ThE
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SCHOOL-
la �fn a Snowclt'ift, Slimes- longed to "Thunder and lightning! what a family went in and out through the
HOOSIER K r\:atl:c hint Ftp. tltituag 1 you air, M. Hartsook, , back door, which, indeed, was the
I A' for*Henry 1'ann, '. t.' wee toe '10 \\`hien .t vlph returned no reply front door also, for, according to a
much bel:lured to get ;1u• MIAMI to i execpt a friendly smile- Muscle paid curious custom, the front of the house
BY EDWARD EGGL1 S'1'.ON, "sum" he wits doing, to remember tribute to brains that time. : was placed towards the south, though
anything about the trap. In fact, he But Ralph had no time for esulta-the "big road" (Hoosier for highway)
c'owI:xl;I:n. Ralph put his ]rand kindly on the !had quite forgotten that half an hour tion; for just here came the spelling - 'ran along the northwest side, or,
great bushy bead of white hair from i ago in the all -absorbing elilployment school. i rather, pact rite: earth -west corner of
Here Mrs, Means stopped toll rake
ke which came ehocky's nickzlame, ! of drawing ugly pictures on hi:. slate 'it.
live coal out of the fire with her Shoeky had to pant aL minute, and coaxing Betsey Short to giggle CHAPTER IV, 1 When the old woman had spoken
• skinny finger, and then to carry It ; "sy'lty,Air, •Iiartsook," be gasped, by showiu;; them slyly eros tie.• ''I 'Iow," said firs. Means, as she I thus to Hannah and had latched the
in ber skinny palm to the bowl—or scratching his head, "they's a pond school -roots. Once or twice Ralph stuffed the tobacco into her cob pipe;door, she muttered, ,"That gal don't
to the hole—of her cob pipe. When (town under the school -house," and had been attracted to Petsey's extra- after supper on that eventful Wed- • never show no gratitude fer favors ;"
she got the smoke a -going, she pro- ,Irere Shocky's breathgave out entirely ordinary fits at' giggling, and bad uesday evening; "I slow they'll ap- to which Bud. rejoined that he didn't
ceeded : .for a minute, come so near to cetchiug IInnk,that pent the Squire to gin out the words think she bad no great sight to be
"You see, this yell bottom land ; "Yes, Shocky, Iknew that. What the boy thought it best not to run to -night. Tltey tilos' always do, you perticklcr thankful fer, TO which
'WAS all Congress land in them y , haven't e . all * f.0 further risk ) ' the b.'' i 'r\'' , see, 'g
1 \ ti (f lCC f
about it The trustees COt 1- 1 s, i chl.•1sG 11 th • 1 Mrs. Means 11,. he's (, I tartest ole man in at}. made no reply, thinking
there days, and it• sold for a dol- ' to fill it up, have the ? " four or five long, laid up behind the this deestrick ; and I 'low some of it•best, perhaps, not to wake up ber
lar and a quarter, and I says to < "Oil ! no, sir ; bit Hank Banta, master in- sight of the school tie a the young fellers would have to git dutiful son oil so interesting a theme
My- ole mute, 'Jack,' says I, 'Jack, do you know " an( Shocky took prophylactic. Renee his application up and dust ef they would
keepup as her treatment of Hannah. Ralph
You, git plenty- while s-our're a-gcttin'. , • h standing in < : just now to his "stat " fn long division to him. -' felt glad-
another breathing g spell, n It g 't> 1 ., 1 Alhcl be use sceclr remark.. I. that 11e wags this (� elzln„• to
Grit a plenty while you're a-gittin", close to Ralph es he 4oulcl, for poor and hence ht pstzzl 'd look, for, idler akle smart Words, IO speaks so ' go to arlotber boatiding place. Fl t
.._-_.. I fer _... t.-. be eo-�...... - ins" did not solve polite, too. But la "s ! don't I re. should not hear the rest of the contro-
Ae usual in such member wiles he w s poorer nor vers\*,•
I knowed it wouldn't," and Mrs. "Ilas Henry fella i in and got a eases, he came up in front of the Job's turkey ? Two l ;v yeasts ago,
Means took the pipe from ber mouth ducking, Shocky?" a mesterei desk to le ve the diel nee -when l ' 'ere ' ,
t o c 1 c, came to thc.�b cliggnl 5,
, to' indulge in a good chuckle at the "pts ! no, sir ; he wants to get y ou explained. He. had to wait a minute
thought ofher financial shrewdness. in you see," 1 until Ralph got t! 'ough with sltow-
°'Git a plenty while you're a-gittm',' in,
I won't go in, though, ing Betsey Short, w , o had been seized
-says I. I could see, you know, they Shocky." s with a studying fit, and could hardly
• was a powerful r sight of money in "bit , you see , he's been and gone give any attention �o the teacher's
'Congress land. That s what madet giggle
and tilled bat]: the board that you explanations, she d el rr<tne, to gl„„le.
,. a
.me say, t plenty •biteyou'rea !
G- til
,
l 3 barye to step on to fit ahiilcl your so much Not at anything in pa1'ti-
•gittin'.' And Jack, he's wuth lots desk ; lie's been and gone and pulled eular, but just at flings in general.
and gobs of money, all made out of back the board so as•you can't help While Ralph wa • "doing" Bctsev's
Congress land. Jack didn't get rick a-tippin' it up, and a• orrsin' right hi "sum" for her, he i
by bard work. Bless you, no ! Not of you etc p there ." i more difficult quo.
flashed upon him,
seemed i severe 01
once or twice , but
er' than 'tis now, and it pa'n't been; _. to : •" - -
inastcr s presence
themselves easily.
him. That a'n't his way. Hard e.And so you ' cam
work a'n't, you know. 'Twas that There was a huskii
air six hundred dollars he got along voice. He had, th
of me, ail salted down into Flat Fiat Creels district
to tell me."
ess in Ralph's
n, one friend in
,. dor little Shocky.
Crick bottoms at a dollar and.a He put his arm arould Shocky just
quarter an acre, and''twas my s.ayn' a moment, and then told hint to
`Get a plenty while tou're a-gittin' ' hasten across to the either road, so as
as done it." And liiere the old ogre to come back to the sehool-house in a
• laughed, or grinned horribly, at direction at right 'angles to the
Ralph, showing ber few straggling, master's app
roach. tit the caution
discolored teeth. f
ryas, not needed. Sh6cly had taken
care to leave in tha way, and was
Then slle got up and knocked the
ashes out of her pipe and laid the
pipe away and walk d round in front
of Ralph. After adju ting the chunks
so that the fire would burn,she turned
her yellow face to*ard Ralph, and
altogether too cu:
coining down the
Hartsook. But aft
ftl
as solving a much
tion. A plan had
tit the punishment
e. Ile gave it up.
he remembered
how turbulent the Flat Creek ele-
ments were ; ands had be not on ly frightful to him as
resolved to be asd nhirelenting as a by this grinning og
lonesome, blackish tc
5, :1, pair of spectaeles "With tor-
toise -shall rim." Wont to slip off,
ti, A gia:.•s eye, purchased of a
peddler, 1ted differing in color front
its natural mate, pet'pctnally getting '
out of feel's by turning' iii or out,
7...A sit of false teeth, badly fitted,
and given to bobbing up and elo�t'n.
t3, The Squire proper, to whore
these patches were loosely attached.
It is an old story that a boy wrote
home to his father begging hint tp
co e'West, because "mighty Rican
t'u'n gat into ace out here," But
Ralpb concluded that some Yankees
load taught school in Iioopolc Ouinity'
high
who mould not hove held a1 g
place in the educational institutions
of elassachneetts, a Iiawkins had
some New Enghu)d i(1101115,, but they,
were well overlaid by a We' tern
prollltllcialee 1.
•"Ladies and gentlemen," he be-
gas, shoving up his spv'ctaclece and
Ralph walked to the school -house sucking his lips nvc'r his white te'e'th .
with Bill. They were friends again. i to keep them in place, "ladies reel
that air Squire Hawkins was a 'pail'
For when Hank Btinta's ducking andinstid of bucket, I gentlemen, young men and maidens,
Yankee school-master,/that said pail his dogged obstinacy in sitting milk 1 raley I'1u oblighed to Mr. Mains for
ti that called a wet clothes had brought on a serious this honor," and the Squire took'
•cow 8. 'cane,' and ti art couldn't tell fever, Ralph had cakled together the both hands and turned the top of his
big Then
and 1
boys, had. said : S4 a llltlSt head ;trolled half all inch. 1 lien
take care of one another, boys Who he adjusted his spectacles. VTllether
will volunteer
to take turns sitting he was obliged to Mr. Means for the
up with Henry ?" He put his own honor of being compared to a donkey
name clown and „
all• the rest fanorvecl. 1 was net clear. I feel in the inmost •
i "William cleans +and • myself will compartments of my animal spirits a.
sit up to -night," slid Ralph. And most happify'itlg sense of the success
poor Bill had been from that moment and futility of all my endeavors to
the teacher's friend. He was chosen
to
carve the people of Flat Creek (1008 -
to be Ralph's. companion. He was trick, 'ancl the people of Tomkins
Puppy Means no lodger! Hank could township, in my weak way and .
not be conquered b r kindness, and manner." This burst of eloquence
the teacher was in, de to feel the I was delivered with a constrained air
bitterness of his '•esentment long and an apparent senses of e danger
after. But Bill 141 ns was for the that he, Squire IIarvlzins, might call
time entirely placate and he "and to pieces ie his weak Way and man -
Ralph went to sl •fling -school to- 'ler, and of the success and futility of
gether• all attempts at reconstruction. For•
Every family fu islled a candle. by this time the ghastly pupil of the
There• were yellow ips and white I lift eye, which was black, was looking
dips, burning, snioki g, and flaring. I away round to the left: while the
There was laughin and talking, blue one on the right twinkled clew-
andgiggling,and sills g' " ( 1 r
cute to go fro: 11 the "sugar Calc .Ralph. eo a Mirandy, a ; le puffed err a simpering,. and g p � 1, � fully- to«•arcl the front. The front
camp" (or sugar or hard, as they say 1 Hank was entrrcly off his guerd,'look
reflectively. '•His' wife ha(1n't no ,ogling, and flirting and 'courting. , teeth would drop clbrvn so that the
scanning him closer came out with in the East), he st pped and turned and,.with his eyes I fixed upon the book-larnin'. She'd been taught the
'What a full-dress arty is to Filth j SRttire s mouth was kept pearly
• the climax of her speech in the re- back once or twice just to catch one slate on the teacllei s sleek, he sidled 's ellin book wiintt, and had got as Avenue,a s Mines col is to Hoo )ala •closed,
•mark : "You see a how, �,Ir. Hart- more smile from I alpli. And then round upon the broad loose bolyd' fi r as 'asperity' o it a sceoncl tinge. , County. It is an eccasiol'i •.whit 1 is i h roull, and Isis words whistled
sook, the man what gits. nay Mi- be hied away throti gh the tall trees, misplaced by his +wn hand, and in 1 But she couldn't tread a word when llletaphorieally els ribed with this ; T
randy 11 do well. Fat Criek lands a very . happy b y, kicking and ' an instant the othersend of the board !she ryas married, and never could. legeilcl : Choose your .partners. ' 1 (To BE CONTINUED.)
wuth nigh upon a hundred a' acre." ploughing the brorr i leaves before rose up in the middle of the school-! She wasn't overlyismart. Site hadn't Spelling is only a blind hi Hoopole j Tis r —
This gentle hint e<lme near knock- him in his rfeeti delight, saying room, almost st:ril(ixi. Shockv in the' hardly got the Sel se the law allows. County, as is da eine. on Fifth st ruga buttrue :for truth
l Is always strange.
ing Ralph down. /lad Flat Creek over and over agait "How rte looked F til alt a are some in
land been worth le hundred times at me! how he dict look. !" And when 1 1 1' eing for its own
a hundred defiers an acre, and had Ralph came up to he school -house 1 Flt C .k district there
he owned five hund •ed times Means' door, there was Sticky sauntering spelling for its
five hundred acres, ie would have along from the othejt• direction,throw_ smelling the
given it all just at that moment to ing bits of limesto ie• at fence rails, r Battle from aft 1 a come to try
• have annihilated the Whole tribe of aucl he gulped the chipping fellow stuck tip that she tutnecl up het nose their slKill m this to eminent, hoping
• Meanses. Except B d. Bud . was a s they had ,von
giant but a good na toed one. He
-thought he would e ecept Bud from
the general destr•uetian. As for the
rest, he mentally pictured to himself
the pleasure of attetiding their fu-
nerals. There was: one thought,
however, between hfm and despair.
Be felt confident thatithe cordiality,
the intensity, and the presistency of
Iris dislike of Sis Meads were such
that he should never inherit a foot of
• the Flat -Creek bottomx.
But what about Bud ? What if he
joined the conspiracy 'to marry him
to this weak-eyeci,weak-headed, wood -
nymph, or backwoods nymph ?
If Ralph felt it a misfortune to be
loved by Mirandy Means, he found
himself almost equally unfortunate
in. having incurred the hatred of the
meanest boy in school. "Hank"
Manta, low-browed, smirky, and
�erafty,wasthefirst tosuffer• by Ralph's
determination to use corporal punish-
ment, and so Henry Banta, who was
a compound of deceit and resentment,
never lost an opportunity to annoy
the young school -master, who was
obliged to .live perpetually on his
guard against his tricks.
One morning, as Ralph walked
towards the school -house, he met
little Shocky. Wllat the boy's first
name or last 1181110 was the teacher
did not know. He had given his
name as Shocky, and all the teacher
knew was that he was commonly
called Shocky, that he was an
orphan, that he lived with a family
nanrecl Pearson (tier in Rocky Hole
to save his gizzard wlt,t we meant by
'low and by right sz err. But he's
larnt our ways now, n' he's jest as
You
civilized as the.
r.
c5 of us, `i ort
wouldn't know he'cl1 ever been a
Yankee. He didn't 'tay poar long.
Not be. He jest =tiled a right rich
girl! He! be ! " And the old woman
grinned at Ralph, Ind then at Mi. -
randy,. and then at he rest,' until
Ralph shuddered.. 11
bulldog ? Ile ford
calling again the of
mark of Bud, "Ef
feel himself by i.e-
.-remembered re-
ult wunst takes a.
ogling was so
o be fawned on
•e, whose few
eth seemed ready
to devour him. "He didn't stay
pear, you bet a floss !" and with this
holt, heaven ancl y:lrth can't make the coal was deposited on the pipe,
him let go." Aird to- be re -se -eel to !and the lips began to crack like
give Bank and the sylaole tic: :1 (810 • parchment as each puff, of smoke es-
ing to be seen good lesson. • caped. "He married rich, you see,"
road with Mr, "Just setp rem cl behind lee, • and here another significant look at
r he got over the I Henry, and you •an see how•I do the •y oung master, Ind another fond
this,"s''11 k t 1 a
face, while henry I
into the ice-cold wi
school -house.
anti went down But schools' was slase in the Avenue. But as th
ter beneath the days, and besides, • book-larnin' don't .society who ove d
do no good to a woman.Makes her , sa Ke, so in Flat r
"Why, Heart'• !', cried thllph, stueh up. I never knowed but one were those who love
jumping to his feetiwith well -feigned , gal in illy life as bad ciphered' into own sake, and wh
surprise. "How diel this happen ?" i fractions, and sllh was so dog -on a r, '
out andseated hint by the fire. .one night at a apple-peclin' bekase I
to
Betsey Short giggled. ! tuck a sheet off' the bed to splice out in theirfreshen the laure
school -days.
"What a quare 'boy Shocky is !" Sllccky was so ti kled that he could.
remarked Betsey Short,with a giggle. hardly keep his set.
He just likes to wonder round alone. file boys'whe i` ere in the plot
I see flim a-cominl out of the sugar looked very serious indeed.
camp just now. He's been in there Ralph macre sol ie remarks by way
half au hour." And Betsey giggled of improving the ccasion. He spoke
again ; for Betsey short could giggle strongly of the ut er meanness of the
on slighter provgeation than any
other girl on Flat Creek.
When Ralph Hartsook, with the it was as much t ice b -to get your
quiet, dogged tread that he was fun at the expo ase of another as to
cultivating,- walked into the school- steal his money. ndwhile he talked.
room, he took great care not to -seen all eyes were tar led on Hank—all
to see the trap set r him; but he except the eyes o Mirandy Means.
carelessly stepped i over the board They looked sim'pdeingly at Ralph.
that had been so lnicely adjusted. All -the rest lookid at Hank. The
The boys who wile Hank's confi- fire had made btu face izenv red.
dints in the plot were very busy over
their slates, and took pains not to
show their disappointment. .
The morning session wore on with-
out incident. Rai)ah several times
caught two people looking at him.
One was Mirandy.. Her weak and
watery eyes stole loving glances over
the top of her spelling -book, which
she would not study. Her looks
made Ralph's spirits sink to forty
below zero, and tong aI,
But on one of the backless little
benches that sat in tlje middle of the
school -room was little@ Shocky, who
also cast many love'�lances at • the
young master ; gran es as grateful
to his heart as Mirallly's ogling—he
was tempted to call,•it ogring---was
hateful.
"Look at Shocky," giggled Betsey
Short, behind her slate. "Flo ' looks
and sinning clear down to his shoes
at the thought of the master's kind
words.
one who could play so heartless a
trick on a•scho• ate. He said that
the table cloth, which was rather I "I 'low,'' said Mr.. cans, speaking
short. And the sheet was mos' clean as the principal school trustee, "I 'low
too. Had -n been slop on more'n
' our friend the Square is jest tlhe•man
1 willst or twicet. But I was goin' j to boss elle 'ere consarn to -night. Ef
fer to sad" that w11en+Squire Hawkins • nobody objects, 111. app int• hint.
married Virginny Gray he got a Cense, Square, dol, t be bashful.
heap o' money, or, what's the sante ` Walk up to the trou h, 'fodder or no
tiling mostly, a heap o' good land. fodder, as the man sad to his don -
And that's bctter'n book-larnin', says ke .
I. Ef a gal had gone clean through There was a gene al giggle at this, i
all cddication, and got to the rule of and many of the y ung swains took
three itself, .that would -n buy a occasion to nudge tl c girls alongside I
feather -bed. Squire Hawkins • just
'put eddication agin the gal's farm,
and traded even al' of ary one of
'ern got swindled„1 never heerd no
complaints.” '
Shocky noticed that. Beset' Short • And here she. looked at Ralph in
noticed it, and giggled, The rnaster•'triumph, her hard face splintering
wound up with anliappropriate quota-, into the hideous semblance of asenile.
tion of Scripture. Iie said that the : And Mirandy erase a blushing, gush-
person who displaced that board had ing, all -imploring) and all -confiding
better not be encouraged by the look on the young master.
success—he said success with a cur- • "I say, ole woman," broke in old
ions emphasis—of the pre ent experi- Jack, "I.say, wot is all this 'ere
fleet to attempt, another trick. of the spoutin' about the Squire ter ?" and
kind. For it was set down in the old. Jack, hating bit off an ounce of
Bible that if a man dug a pit for the "pigtail," return'cl the plug to his
them, ostensibly fpr the purpose of j
making their sec tate fir.
but really
for the pure please (e of nudging.
The Greeks figured 'Cupid as naked,
probably because he.wears so many
disguises that they cduld not sciceb a
costthnle for hint.
The Squire came to the front.
Ralph made an inventory of the t
agglomeration which bore the name
of Squire I•Iawkins, as follows
1. A swallow -tail coat of indefinite
age, worn Oilly on state occasions,
When its owner was called to figure ;
in his public. capacity. Either the !
Squire had grown too large •or the.;
feet of another lie would very likely pocket. d coat too shall.
fall in it himself. Which made all' As for Ralph, he fell into a sort ofmost lhellolnenal A air or black k abnormal, ani—
es the i
the pupils look selenul, except Betsey terror. He had at guilty feeling that expected apparition conceivable in I
Short, who giggled. And Shocky this speech of the old. lady's had Flat Creak district where the'
wanted to. Anti Mirandy cast an somehow committed lulu beyond re- preachers wore no c(t, in the sum -
teacher was
look at Ralph. iAnd if the call to Mirandy. r He did not see leer, and where a bldek glove • was
Iy was sickof• not; love-sick, ht ecertain- visions of breach -of -promise the thought
suits, never :Eeon except on the hands of the
y But he trembled !it the thought of an Squire.
When school Was "let aut,i,' Ralph avenging big brother, • 8. A wig of that: dirty, waxen
gave Hank evenry caution that ere "Harmer, you kin come along, too,• color so common to wigs. This one
could about tit sing cold, and even ef you're a hind, $ when you git the •showed a continual i>;ielination to slip
low, and that he was the most faith- _ as if he was a-goin'tq eat the master lent him hiss o crcoat, very much dishes Washed said Mrs.„Means
fuI and affectionate 011i1d in tllc, up, body and soul."against Hank's ' had'to off the owner's shadf been pate,
school. On this morning that I speak And so the form oil wore on as � ; � ,111. For Ilam. the; bound girl, as ShC Shnt and latch- and the Squire had frequently to
of, Raiplt had walked that I k usual, andthose rvlt laid tee trapobstinately refined to go home before eel the back door. The Means family adjust it. As his hair had been red,
. the .school was dismissed. had built a new house In front of the the wig did not accord with his face
to avoid the company of Mirandy, i had forgotten it, t emscives. The Their the ha: ter. walked out in a old one, as a sort of advertisement ofand''
But not caring to sustain his dignity morning session w s drawing to a quiet and subdt •d way to spend the better, isthe, hair un grayed wase shri-
p bettered (.il•cumstallecs; all eruption discordant with a countenance sllrl-
longer than was necessary, he loiter -close. The fire in tete great old fire- noon recess 311 the woods, while of seedily feeling ;
g, but when the new Veiled by a�•e,
ed along the road, aclmilillg- the place had burnt Io. . The flames, Shocky watched his retreating • foot- building wie completed,
trunks of the maples, and picking up which seemed to SIT ek • to be angels,sups with ' g they it forl 4. A st e edge f row jawof whiskers
,1reE'cit• 1 t now •tt >.S I 1 loving admiration.. .ultl(1 tlrs�htielvc's unatlle to occupyit hedging the l
i u 1 and 1 lien. Just as bad disappeared, an now the bra ht tli • • . 'ee „ g e tc ge of the , and chin. g (Iuprls ilei in the seer(,' •cattva:=-(•(t •!ul\'thi11 ri •'"
. 6 else. than a lumber rooltl, These were dyed a frightful dead -
he Was about to #,"•o o11 towards tilt coals, which had played the part of the question of who moved the: bowies.. and so, except a parlor which Mi- black, such a color as belonged to no
x
',Meal, he a :n�;lit sight of little 111e11 and reprep az1(1 houses in Bill Means said he'd list Mink did it, randy had macre ars effort to " beard.-
lir1xkz rultrti::; :swiftly toward him, Shocky's fancy, had taken on a white , which sot I3et.,(- Short M < , ' , t furnish feted. • hair he root that eves ex-
„, ,l• tit ail un- a ltitic, (tit hour, of the bltssftll time fetid.: At the rafts there was a
;emit looking fiopi side to side, as if at1(1 downy covering of ashes, ttll(1 controllable giggle, And Shocky when :somebody should `s t r' .
:la d of being seen. the great half -Burnt back I( laylistened innocently. "sit up” with quarter of an inch of white, giving
*Well, Shocky, what is it?" and there smouldering like a giant asleep . lint that night Bud said slyly : was almost alnrosttgunoeeupi unoccupied, and
lclthe ing' be en stuckronieg the 'whiskers the o
aplx'arallCG of have
Thousands testify to the fret that
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It is odd but tru4 that one can
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when she is walking.
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A kiss is the anato tical juxtaposi-
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state of contraction.
fir. 1; Warman
Toronto, Ot tailo.
A Narro l
v� _Escape
Took Poison by Mistake'
'Bad Effects Entirely Eliminated by
Moods Sarsaparilia.
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"Oentlemen In .Apr) last, through the
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for which I could get no relief. I thought
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taking ono bottle, I felt a little better, so eon.-
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lex bottles, I found myself gaining strength
Cures
Hood's»
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DR. BOURINOT, C.M.G.
THEY SHOULD BE C
PnL"lane' Our mlxumplein
of Representative Instl
Interesting and Insert
Parliamentary Procedu
"The conduct of Pt
was the title of a recent
J. G. Bourinot, C,M,G,,
little interest in a co
where every man is call
time or other to act in a
and is conllequently bo
versant more •
or
e less s v
mental principles and i•
govern public assembl:
He commenced by a
period of the world's hi:
one characteristic above
inordinate love of ta;
tersely said that "the v
liament were those whc
silence," but those were
three centuries ago. T
nium of lawyers, politic
One could wish in thesi
vivid of the Pytllago)
the establishment of a
But, as it is, a country
ion, with its frequent
its free government,
municipal system, its 1
Assemblies, its eccle,
scientific and literary,
be swayed s a eel morn or less
other words, debate,
The ancestors of the
emerged from the fo
lands. of Germany and
ways the right of die
assemblies the questio:
these days, however, 1]
itig of spears, as in
meetings of which •
have a constant as
These old publir,,.fneeti
by dukes or,jiesretogas,
ealdormerefrom who:
to these prosaic times
and often abused desi
man. In the filtratio
name has undergone
modification, but nev
quite sure the modern
name can certainly n
fortablo than cowl
of other days, when
works, sidewalks, s
suburban i:nproveinei
overweening civic a;
necessities of our civ
to make municipal ta:
bearable,
Common Law o
Dr. Bourinot then
all meetings, from th
ward. village, town a
to the complicated ses
are more or less cove:
ing principles of th
Parliament—that sys
conventions which
from the elaborate sy
fish prototype of,all
blies, and establish
prescription in this e.
fisting conditions, .A
'the differences 'of lav
relatively few—the n
motions and arendn
one of those different
do exist they should
all assemblies in Ca
permanent code of
order' and debate for
The lecturer then
historical sketch of t
Canadian Parliamer
Newark a century a
the basis of the rule:
cednre that govern
in the Dominion, T
of Lower Canada m(
an old stone builclin
orally known as the
and overlooking. a
mountain, river and
Parliament of Uppe:
in a small frame bu
tance from the hum
ark (Niagara), belor
dark river, seeking )
the great lake not
that day to this the
guided the Legisla
Canada, to conform
ticablo to the parlia
of the parent • sta.
Englishman, famili,
Commons, looks do'
on the Canadian He
recognize the fact
presence of an asset
essential British 1
still observed,
' remit, Iioctl
Dr. Bourinot th,
phase of his subjec
state briefly the re
• rules that should g
in Canada. Every
tinily its special )
peculiar organizati
should be, and are
those old rules of
regulate debate, t'le
questions, the intrc
bills, the proced•
the, Whole and of
and, in short, each
are well calculat
deliberation, full
legislation, 'Firm
impartiality, and
every one an Opt
himself on the Sub;
tion, are the esse
chairman. He she
ly independent pas
no active part in
public meetings;
the Chair ion to
only when an equs
is the most expedie
business and soeiei
it is necessary le
with the general e
the explanation 01
tions affecting the
of large assembli
nurnosos, this ar