Show qa ra M 41 a a 14 14 41 40 P V 0 ta qa ab 0 V f baj 4 ca 0 ou THE DEBATE Syn Synopsis with hla his grandfather small ramsey la Is watching the decoration nay day parade in the home town the tha old gentleman a veteran loran of the civil war a ve endeavors to impress the young ster ter with the significance of the groat great conflict and many years afterward the boy was to remember his words with startling in the schoolroom a fow few deurs afterward 1 Is not distin gulshen B for remarkable ability though lila his pronounced dislike a are arithmetic and german in sharp contrast to nam mm backma backwardness edness la is the precocity of little dora yocum a young lady whom tn in his bitterness ho he denoma nates teachers Twi chort pet in high school where ho he and dora are lut nisey continues to feel that the ga delights to manifest her superiority and the van dIZO veness he generates becomes alarming culminating in the reso reao gutlon cuilon that some day lie ha will show how her at it a class picnic namey sty IR in captured bus bag and baggage by ullia rust the class beauty and endures tin the agonies of his first love It Ham amseys seya parents object to mills and wish lied taken up with dora dor yocum Ilan iBey kissel milla then atilla suddenly leaven town she marries enters entera the state lata university ind and there t Is yocum again CHAPTER VH continued a 0 concluding lils liln reading which wall wn oral tho volatile bl itchell ninde lise ais of hta his voice in n manner of heathenish boisterousness and presently reclined recline upon a lounge to laugh the better ill ills stricken comrade meanwhile ered so fur far ns is to pare pace the floor door in im coln to pack tip lip rind light out for to homer lie he declared over and over and even oftener he fie rend find reread the card to anke sure of the neptun tty ity of that fatal coincidence colnel denee D yo yc curn 18 if I 1 could do it he vociferated if I 1 could stand tit up there and debate one 0 their dam ole debates in the first place if I 1 had the pill gall to even try it why my roah gosh I 1 you yon dont suppose run im goin botn to pet get up tip there ant ami argue with that girl gift do il youa oua a hot wily boget rill nn education stand up there and argue with n girl before a couple 0 hundred people I 1 my gosh I 1 you rot got to tol I 1 tits his prostrate compain ton ion cne cackled klett weakly you cant ret get out of it youre a goner olo OIL i buddy I 1 ril ill be sick ill he be sick ns as n dog I 1 ill III be sick na as the sickest dog that ever no 0 o use olo ole ninn man the arnt sentor sll lo be 10 on the lie job know kno whether youre burc sick or not and have you there right on oil the spot to t tile the minute tile the prediction was VHS accurate tle the too atio fatherly frat sen seniors lors did nil all that fred said they would rind more for lite lie honor of the frat they the coached the he des I 1 erate ramsey in tile the tech ale of lumen del debate late told him film many more things to say ally than could ho he suld in six minutes arid produced him do de spalding ring and aid bedew eil in the targe larko hall of tile lumen society at eight on friday evening four other twelve minute fl ebrite preceded pieced cd ills his and the sound of atlo in itani icah eark eari wa wan n the sound of gabriel gabrlel Sabr lel practising practicing on ills horn in the lie early rooming morning of judgment lay day the members of the society sat three rows deep along tile the vails of the room leaving a clear oblong of green cur car pet in tile center here were two small desks twenty feet apart the of the debaters dolin upon n u plat forin at the head of the room sat dreadful seniors sen tors tile the ott leers of the society Bo clety rind upon benches near the th plat fonn the deb of the evening were aligned one of tile the fraternal sen seniors st sat with Ita insey arid the lutter latter ng as his time relentlessly crime came nearer inside it a last miserable inis erable ul rin look hero here colburn I 1 got to ret get out a 0 here xo no you tont young fellow aks I 1 dot dol ramsey whispered pas lona slona tely honest I 1 10 to lo honett strother colburn Col huni I 1 got to ret get a drink of water I 1 pot got to I 1 no you fou cant ci tiit honest colbum I 1 got 4 6 Hns lil Ila insey cast his dilating eyes along the rows row a of faces most of thorn them were but as blurs swimming yet he was aware he thought of a formidable and horrible impassive scrutiny of Alm self a glare leeming to pierce through him to the back of tho the belt round hla his waist on BO that he began to shave ve fearful doubts about that belt bout about every fast GnIng and ament of hla his garments about tho the expression of his countenance and ronny many other things jumbling together in ills hla con over rind over lie ahli gaspingly to himself the opening words of the sentence with it ollor senior had advised lint blin tp begin ills it and us as the moment of 0 hui preme agony drew close tills whispering ia g became continuous in ina milking toy my first apen ranco before tills honor llo blo membership I 1 feel constrained to gay in III making my first appearance before tills lionor bla membership I 1 fee constrained to it say buy lit in finking my first appearance ice before this ho norble mem it had come the announced the subject of tho the fourt courtn li freshman twelve minute debate and dorn yocum lilt hitherto herto by It llanis anisey uy row rose find vent forward to one of the minnil decks lit in tile open sl space chero she stood composedly 8 film pretty figure in white Bl members embers in III It amseys neighborhood were of it brief and hushed commotion and a alerce whisper you canal 1 you net get up tit therel there t and the blanched atallo cumo came forth und find placed himself nt at the other desk ile iio stood before the silent populace of morgue rind it seemed to tin that tits lila features had and forgotten that lint lie was supposed eup posed to be their owner and in control of them lie he felt that they were slipping nil all over ills his face regardless of his wishes ills head lie as a whole was subject to an if alon oil riot not before known by him it desired to move in eccentric anya of if its own devising his legs alternately If inhered arid under no direction but their own and his hands clutched clied each other fiercely behind tits his back lie was not one cohesive person evidently but nn an assembled collection of parts which hold relapsed each into its own individuality in spite of them he somehow contrived contrive tile the semblance of a bow toward tile ho chairman rind the semblance of another toward dorn of whom lie wits was but hazily conscious then lie opened tits ills mouth and not knowing liow low he fie halt had started tits his voice going heard it am i it if frim a distance in huking my first nince before tills honor ho norble blo membership I 1 feel restrained to say lie he stopped short abort rind thenceforward shook fisl V ila he came to the Lori longest gest of at all his hl pauses here and the awful gravity of the audience almost suffocated him illy bly after n long pause lie mi ringed to repeat his opening stopped again swallowed many times produced n handkerchief and wiped olied tits ills face till in net of necessity then nat tin nn tion the subject assigned to inc file he li said Is in resolved that germany tit td rind mid legally leRi ill justified in fit hel bel ginns I 1 this subject aps assigned to lite to tf he be taw subject of tills this debate ile himself to piteously round found brea till IK ig tiff dlf hault but faltered on again tills subject Is the subject it la is tle subject that van assigned to tile me on a postal card then fur for n moment or tio ho tn lit aai a miraculous spurt of conal dance price arid cont limel rather rapidly 1 I feel constrained to say may that the country of belgian Bei giam I 1 menn n ann tills this country has been by alie lie Invaded I 1 incila ty fly the german ampire and my iny aub eject tn in this debate la Is whether hether it ought tu to or vot not ruy my being the Infer native affirmative I 1 dinean that I 1 rot got tn prove that germany Is morly rind legally justified I 1 wish to state that ile he caused again lengthily then struggled on 1 I have been reque requested cited to abate that the german imly imi that it certainly right for those dutch germana I 1 mean they rot got any more business in belgium than I 1 have myself hut but I 1 1 I feel constrained to say euy that lint I 1 had to accept whatever aide of tills this debate I 1 got on the postal curd card arid and 0 so o I 1 am constrained to take inke the hie ade of the lie dutch I 1 mean the Cler clemmans mans thu the dutrh dutch are sometimes som eUnica callea 1 I istivan tile the germans are times called the dutch lit in als country hut but they arent dutch though bomb eon times culled called dutch in tills country well and sti BU so well tile war began lust laid august or about then anyway ifrid U lite german iriny invaded till the BIN glan tinny after they got there the lite began birst they cuine came there find then they cons coni Illen ceI invading well what I 1 feel lio ilu castle chuc to tin tile longest of nil all ills his amuses imi iBi ficai and timid the awful gravity of the aud audience lence located hirr him well lio fie concluded it dont look too right to ine four minutes I 1 tile the tin nn cd fur for infuses had worn awny it grent drill dent more of tills terrible interval than had tits hla eloquence aik opening oik statement ait for the negative bilya D yocum pour mill isles AS ian began to speak Ila Ita insey it a little relief but only a 11 little III bout about the iio saine amount of relief us that frit felt by it bridegroom when it Is the brides turn to respond resi mild riot not really relief tit nt sill all hut but merely the slight relaxation of it continuing st r kill the now looked nt at I 1 efin sey fit no inore than people look tit ot a bridegroom but lie failed to perceive any substantial mitigation of ills hla rightful frightful lie ho had not the he reino text idea of what nhat lie lind osuld jr iri setting forth ills nibe case for germany and lit lie hilea that it was as ills duty to listen closely to dora lit in order to be able to it refute tier argument when lila ills two closing fell due but lie in was conscious of little moro more lhnn ills bis condition ills legs had now kone gone beyond nil devilry and lie lind had to keep shifting ills weight from one to the other in order even to hope that their frenzy might escape general attention lie ile realized chilt dora was speaking rapidly idly fill and cond dendy and nd lint taint somewhere lit in ills ill assembled parts lurked it bit of him that objected to her even more than usual but site she lind used half f of tier her time tit nt least before lie was able to gather tiny any coherent meaning from rom what slie she wits saying even then lie he caught only a fragment akere and there and for the alie rest so fur as ramsey was concerned she die might as well have been reciting the Siv swedish edish alphabet in spite of the rather startling feebleness of tier opponents statement dora doia went vent at tier lier task as earnestly as aa if it were ere to confute some noine monster of casuistry thus having demonstrated that all war la in wrong she said approaching at pro aching tier her conclusion it Is scar scarcely necessary to point out that whatever the actual circumstances of the invasion lin aslon mid arid whatever the status of the case in international law or by reason of or the german oath to respect the neutrality of belgium which of course was grossly and ills dis violated all tills this I 1 say la lira dies anil ant gentlemen of the lumen 0 so o clity till tills Is beside the point of morals since as I 1 have hae shown all war nr Is wrong the case may be simplified no la follows all war mar Is morally wrong quoit quod ernt erat demons germany Ger ninny invaded belgium invasion Is war germany therefore did morill moral wrong upun upon the legal apul side ns as I 1 began by pointing out germany confessed in the the violation lol atlon of law laly therefore germany wa was 4 justified in n tin the invasion ln islon neither morally nor legally but wits both morally rind and legally wrong and ovll evil ladles Litt lies rind and gentlemen of tile lumen society I 1 the refutation of my luy opponent I 1 ifer her opponent appeared appen to be having enough trouble will his lega without ig any added cares upon himself lil in the lie way tny of refutations reputations hut but the majour loua dora had find calculated tile the length of tier statement with ith such stich nicety thul the chairman announced tour four ml till almost upon the instant of tier lier final syllable sellable and nil faces turned onie once more to the upholder of the affirmative refutation unit and conclusion by the the mr it II two minutes therewith hanifey coughed us its long as lie could cough coi iRli and when lie felt that no more should ile be done in tills way ay lie ho wiped ills his face aaen an act of necessity rind legan flent gentlemen lemen and indies or ladles indies aind in making the refutation of my in opponent I 1 feel that hat I 1 feet fed that hardly anything tins uny thing more ought to he lie ile paused daok looked ced helplessly nt n t ill illi his i incont roll able legs rind resumed 1 I biru supposed to ninke make the lie deputa the refutation of my opponent rind I 1 feel fee that I 1 ought to lay quite a deal more in the first place I 1 feel that the invasion ints ims taken place I 1 am supposed andow I 1 got a postal card that I 1 nm supposed to be here tonight well W in n talking over oer tills ON mintter with a couple of if sen seniors lors they told me I 1 wan sup blip posted to claim tills invasion was mas morly rind legally till nil right well here hy by some gome clience cli ince the recollection of a word of if doras flickered into his chaotic mind arid he had find a brighter rno mo I 1 aly y opponent sald abi proved nil all war Is wrong or ilk flirt anyhow an how slip she said she proved it t was aoa wrong to fight no mutter matter what well if she it a girl anybody that to get tier lier to fight could grobly ilo do it lie ile did not add dd that lit lif would ile he the person to oake ake the ez ex if dorn f a girl nor did thu thought enter his film mind until an hour or so later well he fie added 1 I suppose there here la a little moro to be said it be become contes understood that ramsay is i a woman hatt hater TO dl CONTINUED |