Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-15

ry feast of the Twelfth of August. sr. ,s Hgiously kept. Parliament aIwhys s5 | Journs for the first, and nothinv b,, i-, | pending national calamity couI3 ,ar,,,. a
 to meet at the time dedicated to inc o1sr,
 ing slaughter of grouse. S- Nearly all the old university and p,,
 fish public school obssryauoes ana s --s
 toms are intact. Everybody kno1rs ,h..
 Guy Hawkes. is annually officially and ii.s'
 rally searched for in the cellars of nsriis.
 ment house before the opening of parlIs-
 ment The ancient custom of HdoleInc'i
 food and clothing to the poor is s,IiI aS.
 served on St. Thomas day in Kent The,
 unimPeachable custom of uniyerssl ,,-,-
 zlng which, in 1874 alone, brousht tb, national treasury revenue of thirty-ons million pounds, seems to braYely hold its olden own. Over at great Yarmoutb by the sea you will still find in general nss tse famous ancient two-wheelsd srYar- mouth cart, '" little, narrow and lox and with shafts ss long as Cuban yolaute's
 At Coventry the town council meets In S.
 Aary s hAll, structure built for this self same purpose six hundred years sgo. and many of the oldest ceremonies are nrs. served, while every year brings Its Lsdy Godivs processionsls upon which Peepin1 toms with wooden heads and leerlpg eyes .ook eown. English lovers stin nm aursv 70 sst married after the ancient Sco,cb tssnion "a ot consent before vitnssEes a. Gretns Green. "''"' sees 1'
 Over in Derbyshire ia still splsnsi5Iv aiVe the ancient and beautiful rsrsr,or!, 1r well dressiDg;" and in the heart 6f noIosEorth's Land, beside the very sno, Nhere The grand old singer lier. may bs no.t.snT seen that sweetest of all p!ous pastoral customs, 'rushbesrjpy u . no-- mony perhaps 8 thousand years or5~r ,S.I christianity itself. There are more s.ba. sit@ | . .,oss ouns" now sold svery Good Fr,dsv 1ua' ~ o@pn than were eyer S'.- -
 can close his eJps - his pocket 10 that hosry English custom U{ tipping" which holds the classes and mssses 90 firmly to- getheri That aioTious fountsu of child ish pleasure, ths Punch and Jaay show, | hourishes everywhere and in blessed youth | perennial There is sn hundred tima the l cross country riding that there was ,en- tury ago. Some time since l figured Sut | from reliable data that the rentals of shO,t- ing and fishing privileges in Scotland alOns annually exceeded E46g, 6l2. or S2, 300. GOO. whst must they be for the three king doms, and who csn truly cay that these most ancient and inspirating of British sports are falling into dscsyt What would the boys and youth of England ssys to the assertion that ''hare snd hounds" foot ball, cricket and even wrestling and "put- ting the stone" were not immeasurAhly more universal and manfully now done than of yorei And last-because one has to stop somewhere in @ recital which, briefly made, would fill every column of this psper-lt would net be 8 venturssome thing for one who bad tFamped the length and breadth of the British Isles, ss have
 done, to express the firm belief that, two
 Ss day more ringing chatter
 harness, more rattling of Euperbi oeteel H,.-.
 and merrier notes from bugle and horn,
 and this, tco, every whit for pleasure,
 along the grand hedge bordered highways
 of Ssxons, Gaels and Celts, than were ever
 known in Britain's palmiest olden coach
 iug days! EDGAR L. WAKEMAN-