The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-12 00:00:00

TEMPUB PVGIT.

"A gathering of SOO of the notalarties of rank. wience, on
and fashion took place yeateroay at the mansion of Mr. Jous
Pixosa, Arlington-street, Plccodily. to celebrate the comple-
tion of submit' ne communication between London anti Bom-
bay, by the successful laying of the Falm nth, Gibraltar. and
Malta, and the British Indian cable lines."—Courf Journal.
doth the spark of our wires outpace e'en the fleet foot of

Chronos !
Miracle-florae...re sre—aitting here in the mansion Oi
Goalplng thus, at, our ease, over Continents, Hemispheres.

Oceans,
Saying to space, " Be no more," and to be/Bed Time, "Get
thou behind me!"

Vet one achievement remains—who among us will see it
accomplished?
Only to turn this power, with the ends of the earth of movers.
Ind,
So to account. auto use it for un's. talk, t ilk to the purpose,
Talk that 66.11 lawn earth', evil, and make its good larger and
Larger;
Talk that the ends a the world Into brotherhood's bondage
shall gather ;
Talk that shall forward kis work, who guideth the path of tho
ligbtuiog!

OUGHT A MAN TO BEAT HIS WIFE?
Ought a man to heat his wife? Yes, most assuredly—in all
that is good sad virtuous.
Yours truly,
WOOLIVICIL

(Prettily put.--slcor.)
No. because—
If. instead of • blessing. your wife prove a curse,
Remember! you t.ok her for b. Her, for worms.
So 't surely be hard your fair helpmate to beat,
II • trifle of Nita you find with the sweet.
EusanirsrriA.
Els Experimentia (it is • lady's handwriting) amuse in point?
Has she been "taken r-111.1%

Certainly; if he edshes to prove himself to he (beyond dis-
pute) it. a liar; 214, • lot 3rd. ard. a coward. His part of the
Marriage enice will prose him • liar; his want of discrimin-
ation in choosing a wife that requirot beating, a fool ; and his
ill-treating • weaker thing than himself, a coward and A
BRUTE.

A BACIRLOR.
(But why this energetic language? Is this a female bachelor.
JI'DT wooden
Certainly not ! If she Is mild, she won't need it ; and if she
Is not mild, she sill lie. "tartar" sod for prudential motives
he had better not try It on !
Baoorirrics.
[Broomstick seems to know.—Jror.

Of course it would be very unkind of a man to beat his grife ;
but be ought be excused ludicting au occasional smack on the
lips.
Q.R.
IA 14 R-lous reply.—Jrzr.]
DEAR Joor.—ln snow ir to I..ur query No. 2. "Ought a man
to beat his .rife" I beg to .iiform )ou my answer is, "
F.A. W.
[This is evidently to the point. —Jour.]
The other 173 i answers nest week.

SEWAGE-FARMING IN BOTH soßrs.
TUN CUICHUT6II TI•INING-11111, AND =WADI CRON.
Or all the trot. :hat PA LMIIINTON in hi. long life-time .poke,
And there were many and grave unea too, for all their Jaunty
cloak,
lie never 'poke a truth it more concern. Jon .1.11, to face,
Than when he once defined is. "dirt" as 'Clatter out of
place."
There'n dirt of many aorta about, ait we all know too well,
By witness both of mul and some, of sight and touch and
men,
We cannot look Into ourselves but La.'s joke Peen.. apropos,
'II dirt were trump., whet .plendld hands too many of us
could show!"

There's the dirt of dirty money, thst sticks to hands and
heart*:
There's the dirt of dirty dealings, that infects our shops and
There's the dirt of dirty labour, that darkens the light of daY 7
There's the uirt of dirty pleasure, that poisons our rare play:
With the dirt of uncared-for bodies we map life's strength and
spring
Ti, dirt of uncared-for dwellings we as plague-seed broadcast
flog;
With the dirt of speech, God's birthday gift to the arst create
of men.
We foul the waters of knowledge and life, by dint of tongue
and pen.

There is hurnan dirt as there'. household dirt—a dirt that eats
and breathe.,
A life that festers In our streets, as the elth in our sewers
seethes:
Refuse, still swept by the bosom of the Force, with Its 'Come,
move on r
To the hideous human dust-hole, where too much, ere this, has
roue.

Some of this dirt, In mercy to it and to ourselves,
We oispose of, smell and early, where the baby farmer delves?
Sowing the small starved Corp..., laudnum-eodden'd is,. re awl

there,
Under railway-arches—ln rubbialstaaps—Just out of the gas-
light's glare.
But haby-fartners are few, and the life In human dirt is tough,
And in •M 5 of coil and hunger and kicks atteet-Arab grows
into rough ;
And human dirt accumulate. -dirt-babes born to dirt-wives—
'Nl it swells our rates and cumbers our gaols, and perplexes
us oat of our lives.
And all the while this human dirt's but " mstter out of
The !natter of immoral 11011111, reduced to this evil case I
. . _ . . .

The life that ehoulil flowthrough ENO trid's veins, for strength
of work sod play,
Left In fever-slums to fester, or In plague-streams 'oak away.
Ho eioealy hold. the parallel Itrixt dirt in natter and man-
-Delzt the foul contents of the tcarenger's cart, and the load

of the prison-vao—
That le as true of the icreeN above an 1 the sewers below.
Two NI reams of precious matter, misplaced, to waste are lot to
flow:

Than bless the strong stomachs and kindly hearts and far.
seeing heads of thoa)
That from either foul and festenng stream have not stopped

ttr turned the no;
;
But have maid to the misplaced matter, "Thy right place take
again,
Do goisl work and brood blessing, not waste and plague, for
men."

(lod tilevi our reerhir.farmerr. be it dirt of man or mire
They tmke to turn from filth to food, from 111 to good desire;
Whether unto the field, they give what from the fields was

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Or In what once showed God's imago bring God's image out
again.

Whether they turn to yellow corn, peen rye-grue, Juicy

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Port,
‘Lo,retable succulent. or luscious•berricd fruit,
The auwage that pollutes our •trum., or toners at our gates,
For the fattening of fevers and the ripening of rates—
Or culture into .elf-respect and train to useful toil
The pestilent Stroet•Arab that lived by sin and spoil ;
That knew of Law nought but its gripe, of JUatil,) but her
'mord •
Wh.me gOnal wa. 111, whose right was wrong, Hell a Jest, and
uod • • ord.

blew run sewage-farmer.. I say sad yag in—
file•. their tillage—he 't Of ce: ur be tof bum o Endo !
For their every loae I there's a blowing the m aSld • cone
the Ico., Limier the sun:
Look neer-Lilleut spun of nekl or man to God's We is re-won.

DR. Lieu& Bishop of Ki'more' died suddenly on
Fridsy morning, at his residenee, in Garen.
INTIRESTING TO LADlza. A t this season of the year
toe iwportaat process of blesel.ing and devolving Isom
.nd linens for spring and satniner wesr oimmenoes. We
would therefore particulvrly call the attention of our
fair readers to the Oleofiel I Stareb. It Is now resin.
lively used in the Royal Laundry, and her Majesty's
laundrvaa pronounce+ it to be tte fineet starch she ever
us.d. When yom ask for Me OlmulftteL, me that you gel il.
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Riou RD WRAVIDL —This wall-known Methodist
preacher and Revivalist was aljudged on Tuesday at
the biscole.field Police-court to be the father of the
illegitimate child of one of his servants. The Rev. Mr.
Webb, of Chorler, said that the defendant had ad-
mitted to him that he had taken libertiee with the
girl and that be bad coafeseed to his wile, and abed
her forgiveneta. An order for 2. 6d. per week wan
made, and Mr. M'lntyre, barrister, who appeared for
Weaver, gave notice of appeal. The oho has created
peat menestion.