The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-02-17 00:00:00

BAZAAR IN THS PRIMITIVE METHODIST

SCHOOLROOM.

Special exertions are being made to liquidate the
debt which exiets on the Primitive Methodist °impel
sad Schoolroom, St. Leonard's-rued. On Moadey
evening a lecture was given by ths Bev. W. Taylor,
of Portland, and a goodly company was gathered
together. On We daseday a bazaar took piece in the
schoolroom, and aursatood many sympathisers with
the object and others. Mr. It N. Howard, J.P.,
performed the pleasing task of opening it, and in doing
ec expressed the pleasure it aft irded him. The Hera
J. Traffor 1, M.A., W. Smith, W. Lewis, and J.
Pickles (Weymouth), and W. R. Waugh and W.
Taylor (Portland), addressed those present. The
liev. Mr. Wanes delivered the following original
verses, whiai hi 'modally composed for the occasion

Once mons we meet to play at shop,
From places neer and tar,
Fronds In from eery quarter drop;
To gas our grand bassar.
We've goods by nimble angers made,
And many given, too,
To help on do a roaring trade,
To whom our thank• are duo.
To-day we think we better fare
Than it our usual lot,
F girds are numerous and rare,
And urge • pp:indict lot,
There're things for babies, young and old,
'1 here.", th no for mtniej folk,
There fa things to r Her front the col],
There're thinp to help a
Our good exallayer we have to-day
To opan up the ale;
So started well, &simple say,
We surely canon fall.
U. built the steps at Chapelhay,
That ;triple from afar
With etre mi Ott visit us to-day,
To sate our grand bar.%
Grand folk front Ifeloombe Regis town
Elio • ladders do not fear,
The c mom oral not tumid° down
In coming to hamar.
Our friends have laboured i‘ht and day
To fur ieh our hamar ;
By buying, help to pay our way,
Before you say "T ,-ta."
In the upper part of the room the f sricy fords were
shihited, the etoreArepers being: —Mrs. Pickles aril
Mrs. Wjls ; Mrs. Pitman and Mrs. Wellman ; Mr,.
Hellstt ; Moises Waits, Tilley, and Chick; and Mrs
8 nitb. In the lower room was a refreshment on
fruit stall, prod led over by Mr. Wills and Mr. Ran-
dall respecively. The attendance was satisfactory.

PORTLAND.
WASLIT.I4 Caargt..—On Monday last • very, racy
and eloquent lecture on "Abraham Lincoln," WY
delivered by tits Rev. W. J. Dawson, of London.
Tbe lecturer very graphically described the poor,
nritherle.o boy of Illinois with hie copy of .lisop's
fables. Butayan'e Pilgrim, and hie bible, working hard
to gain koowledge, waiing thr mita Blackstone . corn.
merited'', and hemming in turn roil splitter, lawyer,
politician, a• d President of tho United States.
American pout-cal peculia-itie• were vividly pour-
trayed, showing that when two p polar candidates
are ' run," a thirdl is sometime; made president, as in
CAOO4 of Garfield and Lincoln, the change involving
oleo numerous charges in All inferior Offioo,. down to
the village postmaater, and tx lag the cause of miter-
ing the new president with endless applications for
office. An mousing incident well illustrated this
point. Lincoln having caught einall.p .x, rrqueeted
hie doctor to go down and tell the crowd of
office eeekers, that at last he bad "gut something to
give the whole irf them," On sherd and grumble/gm
found little sympathy eitherffrom L. 1103111 or lecturer.
One each CMG Si Lincaln one day, hying greatly
chocked to hear that G metal Grant drar.k whiskeryi
At a recent temperance Meeting at Whntrarne, Mr,
and certainly thinking tin president ought to recall
him and give command to another, hut being bothered Norton narrated the following ghastly story, for
the truth of which Le pledged himself ;—" 110 might
with too many incompetent geber•le, Lincoln asked
"do you know where he buys the whiskey !—No
tell them something that happened in Poole not Biz
months ago. A woman whore husband warn • drunkard
That is unfortunate, for if rim did I might i.
went to his house and staked for help, but knowing
that her hurhaud was earring 2:14. or 26., a week, he
thbaerrecrioaankedre send
dt
t.
yh
oathteeertotglnlee-r", il'h:ewshaso-wl0Ttnoo:
steeled his heart for duty's sake and had the corpage
manly fur paltry and tr.x.a.ims tales and iden•lets,
o, his opiaion ; ho told the woman he
could
not help
Lioccoln was tall and gauut in figure. his wife very
13.. r as there were awns deserving cases he could help.
abort, Being one day pie sod for • ape. ch during the
war by a mattes* mob, he simply 4k h..
'-' --r A rh ,rt time sioca attar that ehe died in • drunkards
, home, and the son, who had become a drunkard, went
with him and raid "Here
"d ' uteteirs where his mother lay dead on the bed, and—
_d i up
down there gore her • thorough good ihaldse
' when - " I although it might hardly seem crecliti•—.add "Wake
is conduct of the war wee marked by "'Ur". end on
in; ars'hth is e th
liebualmocoongur balcony
laughed llf thri of it and the short of it," r
excitreaent. ! p old woman," and then pulled her downstairs. and
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aDbla PriDaPtaa. i•Ddlatitat° the inamiP44l" a " "
and left her then. Thai was a terrible Cale but true.
dam and resistalatag Integrity and Wee et the