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The Wingham Times, 1894-05-18, Page 2t 2 <, ;x'. 1,IN(. AMM`I`1MES, MAY 18, 1894. ThE • 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 sick and nervous headache, nouraigia, and biliousness are immediately and permanently cured b. Starks p°seders. All medicine dealers :ell then at 25 , cents per box. It is odd but tru4 that one can best judge of a m man's carriage when she is walking. Heart Disease Relieved in 30 Minutes.—All cases of organics or s) m- pathetie heart disease relieved • fn 30 minutes and quic=kly cured, by Dr. Ag- new's Cure. Sold at Chisholm's Drug- store, Wingh am. A kiss is the anato tical juxtaposi- tion of two erbiculai muscles in. a 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. "C. 1. flood & Co., Lowe1Mass.: "Oentlemen In .Apr) last, through the effects of a dose of strychltine taken in inistake for another drug, 1 Ivan laid up. In sit. John, for ten days. After this 1s siever seemed to regain hay former health, and continually stif. feted from indigestion and heart palpitation, for which I could get no relief. I thought 1 would try flood's ''sarsiiparilla. After taking ono bottle, I felt a little better, so eon.- tinned using the remedy until f had cousum.ct lex bottles, I found myself gaining strength Cures Hood's» and flesh every day, and;am now as healthy as I Was before taking the 1ioison." r. W.&itMott, representing the seely Perfumers, S0 MelbourneAvenue, Toronto, Ontario. Hood's Plana cure liver Ills, eonstipst-cm jaundiod, biliousness, talk headdaolta, itiellgnertt mfr. '"LTR ;T-13iZC M 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