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The by-laws of the Knights of Arabia leave but little doubt as to its object. By-law No. II reads: "We, as Knights of Arabia, pledge ourselves to aid, comfort, and protect all Knights of Arabia, especially those who are wounded in obtaining our grand object. "III Great care must be taken that no unbeliever or outsider shall gain any insight into the mysteries or secrets of the Order.
And by clamor of edict and By-law Mrs. She has demonstrated over it and made it sacred to the Mother-Church: "The article 'The' must not be used before the titles of branch Churches "Nor written on applications for membership in naming such churches." Those are the terms.
It was like her to call America a "nation"; she would call a sand-bar a nation if it should fall into a sentence in which she was speaking of peoples, for she would not know how to untangle it and get it out and classify it by itself. And the closing arrangement of that By-law is in true Eddysonian form, too.
Now rule four," said Edna, waiting, with pencil raised. "Shouldn't we have a by-law now?" asked Cricket. "For instance, By-law one: 'The club will buy foolscap paper to print on, and will take up a surscription of five cents to buy it with." "Subscription," corrected Eunice. "I should think that would do."
The statute, however, goes on to provide absolute freedom of employment or trade for all skilled mechanics in any town, although not freemen thereof, whether they dwell there or not, any town or guild by-law to the contrary notwithstanding; so that this important statute may be said to establish the most enlightened view that there must be absolute liberty of employment granted any one, only that they must not conspire to the injury of others.
Van Camp, on this Monday night, it seemed more stupid than ever. The club had been organized in the spirit of English clubs, with the unwritten by-law of absolute and inviolable privacy for the individual. No wild or woolly manners ever entered those decorous precincts.
This they had not courage to do; for, in case of the return of the Bourbons, they would lose their heads. "Thus," writes Louis Blanc, "the crown of France was voted as a simple matter of by-law regulation." After some amendments of the charter, the vote was taken. It was a tumultuous scene, and there is some little discrepancy in the number of votes given as the result of the ballot.
But my new friend, who stood at my elbow, came to my rescue. "Take his bags," he said, "you've got to. You know the by-law. Take it or I'll call a policeman. You know me. My name's Narrowpath. I'm on the council." The man touched his hat and took the bag with a murmured apology. "Come along," said my companion, whom I now perceived to be a person of dignity and civic importance.
It could lose him his place, but it would not be fair, if it happened before the edict about "Understanding Communications" was promulgated. The By-law book makes a showy pretence of orderliness and system, but it is only a pretence. I will not go so far as to say it is a harum-scarum jumble, for it is not that, but I think it fair to say it is at least jumbulacious in places.
If he should forget himself and think just once, the By-law provides that he shall be fired out-instantly-forever-no return. "It shall be the duty of this Church immediately to call a meeting, and drop forever the name of this member from its records." My, but it breathes a towering indignation!
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