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BY EDWARI EGGLESTON.
(earrigune.) peat all their love -talk. an afraid
you'd find it dull. Love can pipe
be had not felt that aevictory given
through any kind of a reed, Ralph
would insult her, he would have
talked love to Hannah when bespoke
missed intentionally. The bulldog,
of the -weather, of the crops, of the
the stern, relentless setting of die
spelling -school.. Weather, crops, and
will, had gone, he knew not whither.
spelling-school—these were what his
And there bad come in its place, as .
words would say if reported. But
he looked in thee Taco, a something
below all these commonplaces there
whieh he did not understand, You
; vibrated something else. One can
did not, gentle reader, the first time
,make love a great deal better when
. it came to you. one doesn't speak of love. Words
The Squire was gaikealed. He had
are so poor ! Tones and modulations
given out all the Atttd words in the
are better. It is an old story that
• book. He again pulled the top of
Whitefield could make an audience
his head forwara.Alen he wiped ;
weep by his way of pronouncing the
111$ spectacles and tut them on.
word Mesopotamia. A lover can
Then out of the depths of his pocket
sound the whole gamut of his affee-
he fished up a list of Words just com-
tion by saying goodenorning, The
ing into use in thoser days—words I
not in the spelling -boo
ed the paper attend
blue right eve. His
.mearre e fixed ,
.01). Mirandy Means that she shudder-'
.ed and. hid her eyes in her red silk
handkereldef,
"Daguerreotype," s
;It was Ralph's turn. e
-"D-ana;dau—"
And Hannah spelled it right.
solemnest engageinents ever made
1 have been without the intervention
ely nnth hisof
itsel ne such a stare
lack left eye speech.
And you, my Gradgrind friend, -
blamed fuss -about tiothilVe Don't held the stick twice out of three were in his favor. Ile saw this, and ;began to give out those "words of
yell so'!" they'll hear Yon three or thee:4, he bad thechoice. He hesitat- became ambitious to distinguish eight in a ni n •
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- four miles. You'll have everybody edla moment. Everybody looked self b,y- spelling without giving the sixth." Listless reholers now earned
leeward tall Jim Phillipe But Larkin matter any thought round, and ceased ro whisper, In
was fond of.e, venture on unknown Ralph always believed that be order to be in at the inaster's final
ems, and so he said, "I take the would have been speedily defeated
master," while a buzz of sunprise ran by Phillips had it not been for two
round the room, and the captain of thoughts which braced him. The
the other side, as if afraid his oppon. ehdeter shadow of young Dr. Small
cut WOORI Witildl'aM' the choice, re- sitting in the dark corner by the
ent on ti
'tween here and (Vey waked up.".
For Mrs. Means lied become so exeit-
ed -over the idea of being caught
allowing Hannah to go to spieling -
school that she had raised her last
eeenteli me !" to a le rneet whoop.
"That's the way I'm treated,"
whimpered the old W0111/111,1410 knew
how to take the "injured innocence"
dodge as well as anybody. "Thee
the way l'in treated. You tillers
take tildes with that air hussy tight
your own flesh and bicied. You don't
lever how much trouble I have. Not
I
you. Not a dog -on' • bit. I may be
disgraced by that air on -grateful
critter, and you set fight here in my
,I
own house and sass me about it. A
party fellow you - r ! An' me a-
t
delvins and a-drud . 11' fer you all my
born day.• _A pur rn son, a'n't von?
Bud did not sae another word.
He sat in the ch.141e-y-corner and
whistled "Dandy 1 from Caroline."
iffed theSquire.
you think me s inimental. Two
young fools they ere, walking so
slowly- though the night was sharp,
dallying under the areese and dream-
ing of a heaven they could not have
realized if all , eh*. wishes had been ret bed -room, and Wien Mrs. Means very quiet. Ralp
granted. Of courde they were fools! turned from the chows Bud to finish of prestige he w
Either they were ols to be so happy, her assault upon the sensitive girl, should be easily s
people are fools she could only gntesh her teeth in at the moment of rising he saw in
the darkest corner the figure of a
11, dear Gradgrind, disappointment.
re's no harm in it. Stung :by the intuits to which she weihdressed young man. sitting in
le enough before could not grow inecnsible, Hannah the shadow. Why should his evil
tem enjoy the even. lay awake until th't memory of that genius haunt him 1 But by a strong
re but these lovers walk through the • arkness came into; effort he turned lis attention away
down fools are the , her Boul like a !benediction. The from Dr. Small, air listened careful -
after Is if not harsh voice of the ;_cold died out, and ly to the words , ditch the Squire
triumph. But to thew surprise "ole
Miss Meanses' evince nigger," as 601110
Of them called her in allusion to her
slavish elltd theee great words
with lie peefeet eaee as the master,.
torted quickly-, and with a little water -bucket nerved him. A vict e••• S" — 4 - "11.11g the result, the
SUM& Afd. exultationt and defiance in aver Phillips was a defeat to ono who
bis voice, "And I take Jeems Phil- wished only in to the young whoa -
lips." master. The other thought that kept
And soon all pres int, except a few his pluck alive ;w4 the recollection of
hell a word as
of the old folks,
ranged in opposing
spellers Jagging he
then could, at the
tend themselves Bud. He appro
hosts, the poor Bull approached the • raceoon. "Itleanses' Thinner" beat the master ?
with what grace did not take hot until he was sure beat the master that had laid out
oot of the two of his ganae. When he took hold, it Jim Phillips? Everybodfs sympathy
Squire tamed from place to place
and selected all the hard word's he
could find. The echool became ut-
terly tittle% the escitement . was too
great ibr the oi dinery buzz,' 'Would
divisions.- The Squire opened. his was with a cadet assurance of success. was now turned to Hannah. Ralph
spelling -book and began to give out As Ralph spelled in this dogged way _ noticed that even Shocky bad desert -
the words to the two captains, who for half an hour the hardest words ed him, -and that his face green
stood up and spelled against each
other. It was na long until Larkin
spelled "really" 'nth one 1, and had
to sit down in
murmur of sat&
the ranks of the
nfusion, while a
etion ran through
His diversion bad -educed the effect opposing forces.
he sought ; for nibile his tender- His own side bit their lips. The
hearted mother pouted her broadside slender figure of he -young teacher
into ins iron -clad !eeangs, Hannah took the place of le fallen leader,
had slipped up the't stairs to her gar- and the excitement made the house
dreaded the loss
uld suffer if he
elled down. And
the Scpdre could fli
steadily rose in all
and Ralph's friends
whisper that "may
ed his match, after all !"
But Phillips never doubted of his
success.
"Theodolite," said the Squire.
1 -y -t -e, theodolite," wiled the chant -
"T -h -e, tile, o -d, theod, o, theodo,
pion.
"Next," said the Squire,. nearly
losing, his teeth ir1 his excitement,
, the excitement brilliant every tnne Hannah- spelled
arts of the house, a word. In. fact Ralph deserted him -
even ventured to self. As he saw the fine timid face
e Jim had cotche of the so long oppressed fluSla
and shine with interest; as he looked.
at the rather low but broad and
intelligent brow and the fresh, white
complexion and saw the rich, woman-
ly nature coming to the surface under
the influence of applause and sym-
pathy—he did not want to beat. If
or else some oth Ralph spelled theeword slowly and
• Such a buzz folldwed that Betsey
not to be. Aftercorrectly, and the ennquered chale-
t
Short's giggle could! not be heard, pion sat down in toufnsion. The. ex -
let them be. Th
but Shocky shouted 5 "Haniaer beat element was so great for some min -
They'll get trou
my Harmer spelled dfown the master!" utes that the spellint was - suspended.
morning Let t
.And Ralph went oter and congratu- .' '
ing.I AM not
Everybody in the house had shown
lated her. sympathy with one or the other of
whom we writ
And. Dr. Small sat peffectly still in only wise people the combatants, e -eept the silent
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the corner. wise to be happn? Let them alone. the gentle and dourteons voice of did not pronounee very distinctly, shadow in the cor. er. It had not
And then the Stplire called them to For the first time in three years, Hartsook filled heii soul. She recalled i g spellinthem with extreme deliber
a. moved during the •ontest, and did
order, . and said: "As our friend. for the first time incetshe lied crossed piece by piece theiwhole conversation 1 tion. 'm% gave 1pman air of hesign 1 not show any inte -est now ill the
' Hamer Thompson is the only one the threshold of ',Old, Jack Means" —all the coimnonplace remarks i -don which flisap ointed those on his I resalt.
left on her side, she will have to and come under Ithe domination of . about the weathel ; an the. insigni- 1 own side. The • wanted him to' "Gewhilliky cricets r Thunder
spell against nearly. all on Vogler Mrs. Old Jack Mans, Hannah talked tient remarks about the crops ; all I seen with a dash ng• assurance. But 1 and lightening! Li ked him all to
• side.. I shall therefore take the cheerfully, almo4t gayly. It was the mumportant iremarks about the he did not begin e word until he had i SOlaill ! saul But ribbing his hands
liberty of procrastinating the corn- somethino' to ha)Te a cempanion to spelling-schoa. :For, for the sake of mentally felt MO way through it. ! on his knees. "Thai beats my time
pletion of this interesting and exact- lent& to. ''It was stmething to be the the remarks. Net for +1......ke of Lifter UM IllinU - S 'of spelling hard !an holier !"
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hag contest until to -morrow evening. - victor even in a ,,pelling-matcle and the weather. Not for the sake of words Jeems Be, liana% the captain 1 And Betsey Sliori giggled Una/
I hope our friend' Hamer may again to be applauded even by Flat Creek. the crops. • Not for the sake of the on the other side; spelled "atrocious" , hentuck-comb fen : out, though she
earry off the cypress crown of glory. And so, chatting iearnestly about the spelling-schoot But for the sake of with an sinsteacliof a c, and subsided, I was on the defeatediside.
There is nothing better for us than most uninteresting themes, Ralph the undertone; And then :41w travel- hisnirst choice, O'eems Phillips, cone. ; Shocky got up aid danced with
• • healthy and kindly simulation." courteously heIpdd Hannah over the ed over the three years of her bond- ing up against he teacher, This 'Pleaiare- ,
Dr, Small, who knew the road to fence, and they took the usual short age and forward Oner the three brought the excitement to fever -hent.! • But one suffocating look from the
practice, escorted Mirandy, and Bud eat through the like -grass pasture." 'the
to come, and fell her heart on For though ROph was chosen first, ' aqueous eyes of \tirandy destroyed
went home -with somebody. else. The There came up atttle shower, hardly the dim hope pf rebuilding in some it was entirely oie trust, and most of the last spark of Ralph's pleasure in
others Hannahthe Mof the Mean e family hurried more than a sprinkle, but then -.it - form the ironic that had Ig en so the company were disappointed. The Ins triumph,. and sent that awful
on, while
champion, was so ee to InWe a shower just as happy. And she prayed, With more championnlcs„,
who w stood below-zero!feeling up againstall through him.
e
. . stayed. behind a minute to speak to they reached the: box -elder tree by faith than ever before, for deliver- the sehool-mas sr was a famous ' "He's powerful sMart, is the (mu-
_
Shocky. Perhaps ?.t was because the spring l It *as so thoughtful in , mice. - 1 or love brings; faith. Some -
Ralph saw that Hannah had to go Ralph to suggest? that the shade of where on in 'the sleepless night she
alone that he suddenly remembered the box -elder is dense, and that
having left something which was of Hannah might catch cold! And it •
no consequence, and resolved to go was so easy for ;;Hannah to yield to
round by Mr. Means.', and get it. the suggestion! Just as though site
• had not milked he cows in the open
CHAPTEF, V. lot in the worst ftorms of the last
T1M WALZ HOME. three years! A)* just as though the
house were not' within a stone's -
Yon expect me to 4 deserible that throw! Doubtleis it was not prudent
walk. You have had enough of the • to stop here. Mit let us deal. gently
Jack Meanses and the Squire Haw- with them. who -would not stay in
kinses, and the Pete Joneses, and the an earthly paradise ten minutes'
rest. You wish me to tell yon. now longer, even thqugh it did make
of this true -hearted girl: and her _ purgatory the hotter afterward? And
lover; of how the silver moonbeams • so Hannah stayed
name down in a shower—to use "Tell me yotl.r circumstances,"
Wbittier's favorite metaphor—through said Ralph, at list. "I am sure
the maple boughs, flecking the - can help youin semething."
frozen ground with light and shadow. "No, no! yougannot," and Han -
You would have me tell of the even- . face clout -V. "No one can
ing star, not yet gone down, which help me. Only eime and God. I
shed. its benediction on them. But I pause go, Mr. Haresook." And they
shall do no such thing. For the walked on to the front gate in silence
moon was not shining, neither did and in some constXaint. But still in.
' the stars give their light. The tall, happiness.
lack trunks of the maples swayed And they cam to the gate, Dr. 1
and shook in the winclevhich moaned tligaiglied.pa4 them in his cool, I
• 'through their leafless boughs. Novel-
' ists always make lovers -walk in the
moonlight. But if love is not, as the
eynies believe, all moonshine, it can
At least make its own light Moon-
light is never so little needed or
heeded, never so much of an impor-
. ',Luce, as in a love-seene. It was at
the bottom of the first hollow beyond
the school -house that Ralph overtook
the timid girl walking swiftly
through the dark. He did not ask
perndesion to walk with her. Love
• does not go by words, and there are
times when conventionality impos-
sible. There are people who under-
! stand one another at once. When
•
elsie soul meets anothet, is not by
pass -word, nor by hailing sign,nor
materious grip that they meter=
. This subtlest freemasonry in
the world is this freemasonry of the
spirit.
Ralph and Hannah knew and
treeted. Ralph had admired and
liftendere,d at the (pike (Image. But
•-.,$t vele "then, in the unaccustomed
Aft:edible of ereed4e, she spread her
tic little, that he loved her.
eeen her awake.
es, Mims Amelia, wish inc. to re -
ROY'
stood at the window. The moon was
shining now, and here was the path
through the pasture; and there was
the fenee, and thele was - the box -
elder.
She sat there a long time. Then
she saw some one t ome over the
fence and mils: to tit. tree, and then
on toward Pete Jones's. Who could
it be ? She thought slic3 reeOgniZed. the
figure. But she 4s chilled and
shivering, and she egept back again
into bed, and dreamed not of the
uncertain days to t ome, but of the
blessed days that is ..re past—of a
father and a mother nd a brother in
a happy home. Bu somehow the
school -master was th ge too.
"I fell as if I c,ou be grandilo-
quent on this inter ting occasion,"
twisting his scalp r und, "but raley
I must forego any such exertions. •
It is spelling you ant. Spelling is
the corner -stone, t; e qrand, muter -
lying subterfuge,of t good eddication.
I put the ok prepared by
the great Daniel. ebster alongside
the Bible. I do raley. I thing I
may put it ahead of the Bible. For
if it wurn't fer spellin' books and
Ach occasions as these, where would
the Bible, be ? I sho kl like to know.
rhe man who got ewho compound -
el this work of extricable valoo
was a benufactor t the whole human
•ace, or any other."L Here tM spc-
aeles fell off. The Squire replaced
bent in emne coati ion, gave the top
f his head anotheie twist, and felt of
ds glass eye, while poor Shocky
tatted in wonder, '-and Petsey Short
'oiled from side tojside in the effort
o suppress her gingle. Mrs. Means
and the other oldg ladies look the
ipplause they could nee spode.
"I app'iut Larlein Lanham and
Buchanan eaptiugs," said
the Squire. And the tivo young men
thus named took nistick and tossed it
•ii•hyln av
VSUCELL V UALA,
'leen heard half It mile. "To be a•
muter& along the road after ten
oclock with the maeten! Who knows
iThether he's a tit tan fer anybody
to go with? After in rvo. been and
gone and done fer That's the
way you pay mei Disgrace me •
Yes, say disgrace me You're a
mean deceitful thing, Stuck up be-
kase, you spelt the master down.
Ketch me letthe you got to spellin."-
school to -morrow night! Ketch Mu!
Yes, ketch M1, I say:"
from hand to hand to decide 'which
should have the "first choose." One
tossed Pie stick to the other, who held
1 it fast just where e he happened to
tateli it. •Then tab first pieced his
hand above the second, and so the
hands were alternately changed to
the top. The one'iwho held the stick,
- last without rOtillt flit the otha
ter, • saul old Jack to Mr. Pete Jugs.
speller.
Jim Phillips .was a tall, lank "He'll beat the whole kit and tuck
stoop -shouldered. 11 f011ow who had of -mu afore he s thiough. I know'd
never distiuguisked himself en elle: i he was smart. Th4t's the reason 1
other pursuit that. spelling. Except i tuck him," proceeded Mr. Means.
in this one art of 1 spelling he was of ; "Yeas, but he d4't lick enough.
no account. He could not catch well • Not nigh," answeikel Pete Jones.
or bat well in . ball. He could not ' "N0 akin', no land V, says I."
throw well enough to make, his mark 1 It was now not so 4 mrd. The other
in that famous Western game of bull- ' spellers on the opg site side went
pen. He did not succeed well in any ' down quickly under the hard words
study but that of Webster's ameii:. i which the Squire dave out, The
tary. But in that he was -- to nee - master had mowed, down all but a,
the usual Flat Creek locution—in , few, his opponents ?had given up the
that he was "a hem," This genius 'battle, and all had4 lost their keen
for spelling is in *me people a sixth i interest in a contest eo which there
sense, a matter off intuition. Some : could be but one coMusion, for there
spellers are born, 61 not made, aid was only the poor s
mathematical prodigies that crop out where he was least
Ralph Hartsook ran'
their facility reminds one of the 1
every now and tlien to bewilder the, was the Squire's en
world. Bud Meade, foreseeing that ! the smaller scholars
tillers left. But
against a stump
expecting it. It
om, when one of
r poorer spellers
Ralph would be pitted ag,ainst Jim , rose to spell agents the master, to
Phillips, had warned hie friend that !give out eight or tdn easy words,
.Tim could "spell fike thunder and i that they might havgsome breathing-
rgi te • g," and. ' that it et -1 , I spell before being slaughtered, and
powerful smart speller" to beat him, !then to give a poser or two which
for he knew "A heap of spelling.- • soon settled them. He let them run
book." To have "spelled down the lalit tie as a eat does a _doomed mouse.
master" is next thing to having ,Ther,P was not but one person left on
whipped the biggest bully in Hoopole , the opposite side, and, as she rose in
County, and Jim had "spelkel down" her blue calico dress, Ralph recoge
the last three masters, He divided nized Hannah, the bound girl, at old
.
the hero-worship :of the district with Jack Menne s. S le had not attended
Bud Means. 'eehool in the district, and had never
For half an hour the Squire gave spelled in spelling -school before, and
out hard -words.. What a blessedwas choseei last as an uncertain TM^
thing or crooked orthography is! tity. The Squire began with easy
Without it thereicould be no gelling- words of two syllables, froiiilento echotils. As R. 1 et discovered his ',age of Webster, so well know
he became mom all wine ever thumbed it, as "baker,"
'me. Tie was now from the word that stands at the top
would -eventually of the page. She spelled these words
opponent'e niettl
and more eau
satisfied that
beat him. Thp nom neeeeng,e". abeent an uninterested manner.
As everybody knew that she would
knew more abut t ethe epelling-book
than old Noah Weeister himself. As have to go down as soon as this pre -
he stood there, enith his dull face and IhnhiarY skirmishing,' was over,
leug sharp nose, „his bands behind everybody began to get ready to go
his back, and 1114 voice spelling in. home, and •already there was the
fallibly, it seemq to liartglok that buzz ef preparation, Young men
were timidly asking girls if "they
his superiority 'Vise lie in his nose.
could see them safe home," which
• Ralph's eantiott ness answered II
WIN the approved formula, and were
double ,purpose ; it •enabled him to
lidding in mortal fear of "the
tread surely, :Ind it wes raietaken be' in:
Jim for weakness, Phillips was now mittol." Presently the Squire,
thinking- it time to close the conteet,
emdident that he should carry off the.
pulled his scalp forward, adjusted his
scalp of the iburth Iselexileuftster
before the evening was wee. He glass 4'ye, which had been examining
eagegly, confidently, brilliant- his noee long enough, and turned
jy. 8toop.shouldered ns he was he over the leaves of the book to the
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It may bave been merely a pardonable t
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v:ier:Iit roughih
s:
noted from a poet, and is surely par- ,.
shad read)
donable, as. being due to the pride of cold one , in
over -fondness for his home. The plain tion of tit(
truth, Aowever, is that Ottawa is most heat appiie
beautifully situated, and any ordinary, ,
ufacture. vi
average, .every -day man, who is not a an over, for
poet at all, will, when he visits Ottawa, !tob
im,itena(!
edileu
speak many words in praise of the scen-
ery round about; what the Marquis of
ally couple
Lorne called "that fair city with its are made st
crown of towers"
The chains,
Ottawa, with a population of more
eral use, ar,
than. 45,000, hasfrom i•incl been growing rapidly of
late years, and its people, whose proud-
the -i- inch c
'est best used to be that it is t'peanost ing a tem
pictures esue capital in thc„world," are house,squareo
now predicting that in tb8' future it will
itr.01b.
,
be a great mannactUring and railway il
centae. The gdat water -power afforded Adniiralty
chains ov
liiiiibe
•
ha_,ve r -milling centre in the Domi ion. loWiiince made Ottawa .the chief
. by the OhjAtere and. the 'Rideau Palls
greater str.
In
Possess sev
o-,
, The Chaudiere Falls—so named the g produc
'
first of the early Jesuit missi poles in each sec
whas they voyaged up the ttawa s iila re
River in their canoes from th t. Law -
equal i, e n- g
rence.camp in sight of the geld of mist
, aiddroe or awleollaasPcttoinsi
4 "kettle—resembling heshape the rim
of a huge cauldroniti' over which the
waters of the Riveli, Ottawa, the third st
greatest river luefoltnne in all Canada,
, . pour into the,eeething Chaudiere, which ' T
is here seleetween the provinces of On-
. sear3a1,1ypill
_he pro
taria atld'Quebec. In the immense lam
ber 'is at the Chentliere, ebout 200,- Yoraba$s .,
Jure
. 00 , 00 feet of lumber are sawirevery
Munn:ter. During the busy season, the healing o
ed. laY electric light. era they s
mills, in which thousands of men are
The other waterfall at Ottawa is the among th
employed, work at night, and are light -
dean River leap into the Ottawa. The 1 I grow friends. If nut hdl l es i
Rideau Fall, about half a mile from the
Rideau Fall, which is 60 feet hi height, Others ar
Chaudiere, where the waters of the Ri-
is divided by Greett•Island. It is a sing- iftscaetilic ,a ,b,
abuse the
niarly beautiful fall, and takes its name : spoken by
from its resemblance to a ourtain—ri- ' "Parsever.
dean. Government House, the vice- thread foll
• regal residence of the Governors Gen- i .._ .
is better t
eras of Canada, takes its name of Rideau ;
Hall from this waterfall, from which it ;
is only a stone's throw diptant. Across i
along which, before its junction -with '
i 0 t Ftheil ln supt tg
head shou
the Ottawa River, opposite Rideau Hall,
is the mouth of the Gatineau River,
1 -
;3above the chandler°,
the Ottai,va many are most picturesque
. brawling rapids. vive her w
The finest, widest view in Ottawa is
that obtained from Parliament Hill,—a
,t,1esof the
steep. bold promontory rising 100 feet
nznelliileigs1
from the River Ottawa, its sides thickly aaheat.
wooded . with evergreen. its summit stimulate
c
cronnecl with the national°titer loor bnildings and
• . their "crown of towers." From Perlin,- :inrdc,nninatfiat)ant
meat gm you -look across the river,
over miles and miles of country, to the perstsetutts;
,
bine Laurentian mountains- along the
far northern horizon rim, and in what-
: the breathi
ever direction your gaze falls over this can be be
vast panorama, it falls somewhere, if the
p6levresositii is tiseason be summer, upon the shining
curve of a riverto swallow. •
The .Parliament buildings are built of . a • °I in a fe
cream -colored sancletone- from the vicin- should be z
ity of Ottawa. The dressings. stairs, quiet for sc
small gables and pinnacles are of Ohio •
freestone, and pleasing variety is given
by the relieving arches of red Potsdam :
sandstone over the door and window ; Here are
openings. ' The roofs are of Vermont The poe
slate of dark color, variegated by light . worthless
green bands. In the central bnilding, : ing a poe
which is 475 feet long, are the House of —thet'e go
Commons and the Senate chatnbers. .A. Vanderb
massive clock tower 225 feet high rises a sheet of
from the centre of the building. From 000,000—th
its satiainit every tight when the House The Uni
is in session a. powerful electric; light and a quer
shines forth, which is visible from all it an “tittp',1
,#1 parts of Ottawa. This idea has been 00—that's
borrowed from London. where a light is The ale'
always shown from the great tower of worth ;$5 a
the Parliament buildings at Westudn, r.00—that
oter, when the House is in session at.73eTleinettr
Bachat
night.
'othe main building, and con- nem
fleeted with it, is the Library of Parlia- • lady c
ment. ,The library building is octag. able bonne
onal in form, with flying buttresses, It one that c
is much • like the chapter -house 'Tice ditc
of A cathedral, It cost VW,. day and sh
000. The inside fittings are . of earth for
the finest material and svorkmanship. The edit
The soft tone of the carved wood in cheek for
which the whole interior is finished worth a
fornissa suitable setting for the riehly- Lutheran.
PO tinted bindings of the books,
Half way down. to the ther is the
. A
"Lovers' Walk," winding for about half Queen V
a mile around the face of the and ctirions 11
shaded by the overhanging foliage of celebrated
trees, through which in the hottest sum- ! ditch, and
mer heats—and in summer Ottawa is num in
one of the most torrid spots on the globe Queen's lif
—the sun does not pierce, but only sil. i 130 finely c
ver gleams of the titter below. able throat
The fined Vial, Of Parliament Bill and 'r
tabled. from the east end of Dufferin I A T as
all the Government buildings is that ob. A
Bridge. This bridge, which was built and der
ir when: Lord Deffeein was Gbyeehorgo;ini e'r hie n
Gpans the deep gorge from lei
General, pans
tajor's TIM, where there is &large ap getting int
beautifully -kept park with an artjj1ial whibiltIto
lake, fountain and. -winding wab3i and Mos-
avennes. Along the bed at, gorges
runs the Rideau Canal, Wilieri was -btlilt 111,
7147 by the British faevereineut for ;xperinu
military purpoees, 'connect Quebec is wade fou
with . It it lee miles ! produced a
eatudppeer
ects the raver Ottawa 'owl o ab
with Lek tario at Kingston:
vie •
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