The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-06-26 00:00:00

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safety from keeping all their wits about them than from
any rail fence, even were it Ma: what may, in a private
minikeep in wild geese. witaessee who told of
rZHugh Little's last acts seem to have agreed more or
srin their evidence that be wee not intoxicated ; but
those who have oome sewer Moved numberless instances
of this kind, r I have, knew that the answer to the
question—whether the death wan caused through intoxi
eating drink—may be wonderfolly vaned according to the
mind and prejudices of the respondents. I have been at
an inquest where the deceased had, in a rate of stupid
drunkenness, laid on a limekiln already alight, and been
auffoe.ated and consumed half-way up his body. Yet at
the Inquest the fact of his having been drinking wee care-
fully concealed from the outer world. Se, at the inquest
on Hugh Little, though. witness owned to haring eold him
I bees and stopped him when he bad too much,
It was not without some dilliclity that the Coroner
elicited that the pour fellow had, in that "glans-
too-much" state, got a wouud from whence the blood
' flowed for three-quarters of an-hour. With such a loan of
blood, one con hardly suppose Little to hem been in a fit
state to take care of himself that night, and I should have
I been better satiefled had that evidence, which Superinten-
dent Vickery offered, been taken, for it promised to tell
how the artilleryman was brought to another place, and
attended, even later than when he was in the Chapelry
Tavern. Strict supervision over themselves must be
practised by the Men who have to return to the cape-
perched Fort at night, and If the men helped each other
mutually in this way, that would be more mete' than a
I railing around the rampart«. The Royal Artillery, as
I well a. other people, moot remember and act on the wise
advice—', Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it
ere the issues of life."

If we had to rail round every place over which a man
might fall, what a deal of railing there must be at the ex-
pense of the Harbour Fund ! In the very heart of our
town opens a wide gulf, toe harbour itself, to say nothing
of the Backwater, into which the unwary may fall and
meet their death in a way far more likely than an
accustomed artilleryman from the ratuparte of the Nothe.
'Tis a wonder, sure, that some of the youngsters who dart
In among the potato trucks and creep about the new
stogies, do not bring ,their parents to grief by falling
victim, either to the Scylla of the crush of business or the
Charybdis outside the Quay.
Theme little gamins are not all so fortunate as tiny
Aimee, the Waniltin who had learned that he must work,
but not yet learnt the better COW "Work thou in
well-doing." With his Industry, which be showed in
piching up other people's iron bolts and nuts, little Beale
will, I hope, earn some binding-screws of his own,
whereby to secure himself for his time in his proper part
of The social railroad. The child is admitted (preatly
owiag to the oiled feather of Supt. Vickery) into the
Indrorial School at Bath, and there will be taught not
only. I hope, how to work as society will approve, but also
to fit himself for the conflict with the Evil, and so to
revenge himself on that "Everlasting No" a hick had
begun to say to him—" Behold, thou art fatherless. out,
cast, and the Universe is mine (the Devil's)." May little
' Beale and thereat of tbe children prosper so as to encourage
our Dovil-fighters in Weymouth and in that greater Wey-
mouth, the whole county of Dorset, to raise up another
industiirl hohool, where yet more erst-despairing gamins
may pluck up spirit to say and act to the Evil—" I am
not thine, but free, and forever hate thee.. Ay, more, to
learn that philosophy of Love, that cultivates out of "a
dark wasteful Chaos, a blooming, fertile, heaven-encorm
Ipassed World."—Thatilu, Thomas Carlyle, for teaching tut
those words.

Some of our nature-taught people have been showing
how much they need somethlng more distinct than
Nature's voice only. I have heard a tale via scene where
dancing was part of the evening's entertainment, and
applause followed the dancers till one of them varied the
performance with boxing, until he came off with a couple
of thrashing., and an uncomfortable feeling that he might
be called, for his bretich of the peace, to appear before
some of thp most distinguished inhabitantsof the borough,
—to wit, the magistrates. Nature-teaching was rather et
fault here, for the temper ruffling, and the face hammer-
ing took place on (Carlyle again) one of those "Glorious
summer twilight& when the Sun, like a proud conipieror
and Imperial ta.4kmaster, turned his back "—see Sartor
Itesartus, gentle reader, for the rest.