The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-11-18 00:00:00

COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS.

SAT.—Belo,. Major Williams (In the Muir). G.
roper. Esq., G. Warry, Esq.
Josatban Dike. of Piddlobinfon, was sumnionet
fee ne=sittipo help maintain his mother, who is
to the D -oohed', Union. —Mx.
maajlaz Look, shirk to the Guardians. appeared to
peeseenta, mid said the mother was over 70 roars of
awa aed tho Guardians ward for I.s. ed. a wash, prim
oder able bodied earning 10a. a week, and roosisini
eiL • day front the Reserve. The Gitardians had only
gives partial relief as umber eon hid assisted in his
nether% '-e Th. Beach made the order
as tweed.. . _

81., -I bars read the letter of your c irrespotedent,
" Moderation with Toleration,' aul I feel quite sato
that, If be were to b• dealt with by Mr. &Skis him-
ash, we might be reminded of Horaeit's well-knuen
fable of the lion, mad of the terrible result. of daring
Interference. Your mod ilesome correspondent would
be taught • lemon for all time, and, in the words of
the old poet, there would, In this case alio, be
" vestlrie nulls liter 'num." A., however. Str.
Rath.. may p:obably take no natioi of the letter ..1
which I ape .k —for lions are proverbially magas. im nu;
—I think It would be a pity that It. unfairness and
Inoonsistenny should pees unchellenge.i.
Yous ourrespouditat I. unfair. Itt the first plain ha
dam not even quote the suet words of the test which
Mr. Rakes used. In the mooed plaai he makes out
that Mr. Rebus quoted the words ise beteg those of
his Myths Mester. Mr. Bailie. le hsrdly to lgoorant.
He knows very well they were the worde of an apostle
who wrote • letter to the PhiliPidaus—the "M.
apostle, be fact, who, is swills, °mastic, gene
Timothy, what has always seemed to me to be, very
wholesome Wet*, when he argil him to " Drink no
longer wale.." We have 'midair:le of your corm-
pondent's noisiness, too, in hie thou* Mr. &tikes
of dragging back the "1imp.,.... chattel." If thie
grandiloquent phrase le deecriptive of the coif*.
110ROWN PETTY BEBBIONII. wheel-harrow we sometirnes este in the Amt., your
onrreepondent most be In moor, and, in the absence of
3.6.„
lb.
man.
(m..
G... 10.7).
Kr. AK.. positive *Menne, which he doe. not give, I, for my
Iltr./11asit:r."14r.TUt. T's
illter.anilrM7r: Lag,' decanythirissi° itTe: m that bL-, itttklehewr
I.
Anent. figurative, mu It cannot par unrelated. I submit
TIMPOWIT it 7111011171, that teetotalere have no right to evil thenthelve• the
Mt & Barnes applied na behalf of Messrs. 'Eldridge friends of learperanct. To be temperate In th toe of
Pegs and Ga. WI • temporary authority to salt at the alooltolie drinks I. one thing; I, sheath hone .4,4,
Ilwea Ime amid be insert to Arthor W. Plater ia es. them le altogether another Wu, and, I think, not
pima d so* a good thing. WM roar oomepostkell. who

Id Basoombe, of Poddletown, wee somas mid
he • breech of the Klesnentery Eduoatlon Ant, in not
sending bid child to school.—ii. Atkins., sebool
atheadrosee callow, proved the ewe, and said the Wen-
last bed not seat the child to &shoo! 'Mos August
Defsedaat had been previously Geed. and his
Andrea had always *headed very Irregahrly.—Finsd
se.
wales thereat wee summooed for • game trespass
luZparish of Preston and Sutton Points—Marla
emit on Wednesday, November %h, be saw the
lideadent le • field io the occupation of M. Karma
Hs bed a etlik, sod he was boating the gram
ago able watohine him about 10 minutes went to
WS end told him he was doling errant', and that Kr.
Mwitwael•leanunoas him. Hamad be was sorry, and
Too Deed not tell him of it."—lrlead it..
lasaillbi emits.

Is apparently thinswbat venturesome, dare Ii assert
that lir. Mae, is not • Mead of tempireaos ? If he
cannot, why do. be speak of this gentleman dredging
boot the " tsmperauth chario: " I. it nrt out 4r?
Au is it not noleir to describe the uth of a holy
swanks's weds as a " nasty *seer?" And. above ell,
is it not, aft,r all this, outrageously unfair to appeal.
ail your correspondent at the el see of hie letter does.
to Mr. itaikss ":spirit of fairer's'?"
tint your oorreapondent Is at. inoonsistivit. If he
bellev-re that it I, not enouli to be temperate with
&Ir. Rsikth, if he believes there is "many a refers
which -ii ap.ily wt equal and even weightier tore*
on the other side,' why, in the name of rem an, lee. be
I.E. credit ti himself for not being a t ?
Why .10n, h., not go over t the otter ,id,? Tile term
may semi strong one, but I stionatiss character
of this kali •• so abs ante humbug. 'rhere LI at Ithet
more consistlncy ins drunkard.
It is lucensietent, to t • have such a high opinion
of total abstinence, and yet ispsak of its promotrro in
being "fanettcal." It i. evident that. in your o wren-
poudent's oriel's, very many teetotalers are of this
ohareothr, for twins in his letter he guards hieing(
against the error loth which your readers would have
lilies in esprersing that be was one.
Your c irreepondent is Inconsistent even when he
inekes admissions is Mr. H tikes' favour. He speaks
of the rev. gentleman's " uogneetioneni koowledge of
the book." Now. It theme to me that here he might
have mete his strongest point. The original Greek
does not in reality warrant such • us, as Mr. Rsikes
(thirking only of the English translation) ma is of
the passage he quoted. I cannot God that in any ease
the word iferisissids, rendered by our translation,
" mrthration," is noel by On Greek writsrs la any
other those thee thet of "faire..,," or reseonable-
sew," or " fitness, ' or sometimes "kin lases," and it
' with undoubtedly to the sense of " fairothe "—ite
ordioery nthaniag—that St. Paul need the word. It
ia • that which, I think, test,talord might 6110 for
their is Alto with much adv.sotage, and if your zarrea-
poodwat el the not object to " pi-1/04.1 interpretation,"
it is one whieh L seriously tOOMISIIIIII,I him in
partionlar to ponder.
I cannot adopt a better now de phrase than
En ILIKEIA.
Dorchester, November 13th, 1884.