The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-17 00:00:00

If they hay* to follow the plough in order to get breed and
cheese. But do farmers hunt more than thW forefathers
did We doubt It. Probably If the number of bunting
farmers could be mosetelnedOt would be found that not
ono in ten of the farmers of England keeps a bunter at
aIL A groat deal has been made al the sherry. Well,
farmers mmt plead guilty to that. It Is • custom of the
day in middle-claes houses to bring a decanter of sherry
out when • visitor calls, and In following the fashion
farmers are not exceptional. Most of the sherry con-
sumed is cheap—and naaty. It 6, no doubt, beil for
farmer.' stomachs and brains; but it doe, not came •
very Leavy dreiu upon their pocket.. The 011 home-
brewed its was bette:, for those whose livers could stand
; It, cud nou way thervfore, regret Its disuse in favour of
fiery sherry. tnero era, however, lILIAIy modern customs,
besides that of drinking sherry, which are the reverse of
improvements upon the habita which they have displaced.
In considering whether modern farmers have grown •
especially extravagant in this connection, the question Is,
"Do they spend more money on strong drink than their
fathers spent!' We shall say they do not. Many •
farmer forty years ago squandered more I. a weekly drink.
Ins bout on market day than his successor 'ponds the
weak round upon wine and grog. At farmer.' dinner
parties In those old times, port at about sixty shillings per
dozen, was the favourite tipple, and no one we. thought
of much account if he was lees than • two-bottle man,
while thaws who advanced to the glory of being three-
bottle men were by no means uncommon. A man nowa-
days would kill himself on thirty shilling sherry before
he had stowed away in, say tan years, is much wins as
, big father drank In the form of port, apparently with the
effect of merely rendering his body portly and his countec-
mice rubicund. Farmers have even been twitted with
extravagance for keeping governesses. Poor girls I
1 wanly or twenty-five pounds • year for teaching three
or four boisterous youngstara and expected to " maks
themselves generally useful" as well—they earn their
c-oney ! How more cheaply can • farmer's childrvn be
taught, living as they do in a place remote from all
middle-clam schools I "fiend them to the national
school.," the stern economist would say. But, apart from
close preind.ce, it may be doubted If the stern economist
know, as well as the farmer and his wife know what the
young people would learn there In addition to book-knew-
ledge. Then there is the piano—an instrument of torture
sonietlines, no doubt,. but not very expensive to keep up
altar It Ms once been purchased. The grocers' and
butchers' it...titers have their pianos to prantiee on.
Is the farmer's house alone to be without that great
snares of harmony and discord I The fact is we
have all got Into habits of luxury, and too many of us
spend • great deal snore than we can afford. By all means
let ue set to work to cultivate the lost virtue of economy,
but let not the pour farmer be siuglei out as • Manor above
all other men simply because the Tower of &loam, in the
shave if • quite phenomenal depremion in his business,
happen. to have fallen upon him. Next to the subject of
humeri' extravaganoe, that of landlords' Pete has occu-
pied attention, and the question has been asked, "ought.
landlords to reduce their rental One might as well ask
whether farmer," ought" to take low prima for their corn.
Just now land in this country is undoubtedly worth less
to farm than It has been; and it can consequently only
be ra-lot at • reduction. If the increased competition to
which farmers are now subjected makes land permanently
worth leas to farm, rant must permanently be diminished,
unless some ameliorations, counteracting the foreign com-
petition., are forthcoming. 'Ma rend quewon of Importance
for landlords. ferment, and our legislators to °madder is
whether any such lunellorationa can be found or devised.
It is confidently smarted by an Intelligent clam of writers
on agricultural topics that the removal of the ristrictlons
which prevail geserally in farm leases and agreements,
and which fetter the enterprise of the farmer, would do
much to improve Ms chance of competing snomethally
with the foreign producers. That Is • subject for landlords
to deal with. Bat it is also declared with equal stubborn.
nese that some alteration in the laws MIK-Una the owner-
ship, transfer, and tenancy of land are absolutely necessary
to is.. our agriculture from permanent decline ; and these
are questions which Parliament will have to inquire into.

THE LOOK I NG-G LASS.
I make an urgent appeal to-day on behalf of the Stafford
Howe South African Aid Committee, which has been sot
on foot to supplement the regular Lynam of racial relief.
Those whom I address are for the roost part this wealthy
section of society—those to whom Providence has been
beneficent and fortune kind, and to whom a few
sovereigns more or lees make no difference. The appeal is
for our eoldiers—for the men who giro their lives for the
glory of their country, and who esteem themselves well
rewarded by • littof riband. The idea dinitiating this Dew
Aid Committee belongs to Mr. Algernon Borthwick, who
found ardent sympathisers first in the Duke of Sutherland
and the Baroness Burdett-Coutte and next in the Royal
and other personages whose BUMS appear on another
page. To the Bareness, England is eternally indebted for
countless acts of generolity : " we are all proud of her."
Her noble heart was touched the moment the truth about
our soldiers in pestilential Africa was laid bare and her
responee was worthy of her. "Now the first thing to do
is to let Sir Garnet Wolaeley have some money. Here is
I:LOCO—give it to him at once !"

A characteristic of English official life is its optimism-
Red tape must not be Interfered with. "If anything is
wanted out at the Cape the Government will see to it." "The
Government have swot out loads of blankets—tons of
norm—heaps of medicaments." "I assure you no private
assistance is needed—our organisation I. perfect, per/est."
Very good; but how strange that these tragic stones of
death from fever, death from exhaustion, death from lack
of proper assistance should he here under our eyes while
we are listening to all this line talk ! The plain fact is
that the official machine all the world over is a lumbering
piece of goods, the wheels of which must be well es
by the first-comers are they can be induced to revolve, and
that in English as in German, Russian, Turkish, French,
and Italian wars private means are an invaluable—l will
say even an indispenaable--auxiliarg to the regular system
of relief.

I have a very vivid remembrance of the ant rendered by
civilians during the German invasion of France. Now,
the Prusaian and Saxon and Bavarian systems of relief to
the wounded were perfect, if you like—on paper. The
relief system worked like a beautifully-constracted
machine—also on paper. There wee nothing whatever
lacking—on paper again ! But God help theme poor devils
who are packed like sardines in this train of forty or fifty
carriages crawling slowly along this scorching noon with
Its ghastly maw of torn and crippled from the bloody field
of Gravelotte. from Beaumont, from Sedan, from a score
of memorable C.4,^4146111 t Gad help these fly-tor-
mented Bavarians, sitting by the roadside after Sedan,
if no private ambulance conies to their salvation
help that group of Saxons and Frenchmen, who be huddled
together this September night on the silent plain unless
some kindly hand gives them water to drink, food to eat,
and • blanket to warm their shivering limbs.
Nothing like consistency. They have started • Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Madrid,
under this especial patronage of a duchess, two marquises,
and other grandees, all of whom invariably attend the
bull-ring on Sunday. They have, however, plenty 'of
humanitarian English—including parsons—to keep them
In countermine. Is fact, never were there so many
English in Madrid as this season, and never yet did they
so much relish the ghastly spectacle of the bull-ring.

" NACNITEN k CAMMILON'S PENS AKE THE BUT."—Publie
Oon.
"They come am a boon and a blessing to men,
The Pickwick, the Owl, and the Waverley Yen."
6d. and 1. per box, at all Stationer "They are •
tressure."—Standaxd. Sample Box assorted, all kinds,
la. hi. by post. Patentees • MACNI% r I C 111EKON, so to
XI, Blair Street, Edinburgh (Eatabliahed 1770), Penmakers
to Her Majesty's Government ()Mee&

Rosascu Wsvga.—Bent Table Water known. I prefer
it to the other Mineral Waters before the public. (Pro-
fessor Wanklyn's Report). Bold everywhere. Retail 6s.
per dozen Pinta; fit per doein Quarts Original poetises,
esotainint 50 Quart Glass Bottles, 99•, or 100 Pint ditto.
465. —The Moshe& Company. limited. 35, Finsbury-circus,
London, E. C.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS—The chlefest wonder of modern
times. This incomparable medicine increases the
appetite, strengthens the stomach, chsases the liver.
correct. biliousness, prevents flatulency, purifies the
system. invigorates the nerves. and re-instates sound
health. The enormous demand for theme pills throughout
the globe astonishes everybody, and • single trial con-
vinces the most sceptical that no medicine equals
Holloviay s Dills in its ability to remove all complaints
incidental to the human race. They are a blessing to the
&Abdo& and • boon to all that labour under internal or
external disease. The purification of the blood, removal
of all restraint from the secretive organs, and gentle
aperitive action are the prolific sources of the extensive
curative range of Holloway's pills.
Frrs.—Eraerno Fry on Fauna filmanne.—A
certain method of cure had been discovered for this
distrewdng complaint by • physician, who is desirous
that all sufferers may benefit from this providential
discovery ; it is never known to fail, and will cure the
most hopeless MO after all other means have been
tried. Full particulars will be sent by pout to any
person free of charge.—Address :—Mr. WILLIAMS, 10,
Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park. London

RICRITT'S PARIS BLUR. The marked
superiority of this laundry blue over all others, and the
quick appreciation of its merits by the public, have been
attended by the usual Inmate, viz, • flood of imitations,
the merit of the latter mainly consista in the ingenuity
exerted, not simply in imitating the square shape, but
making the general appearance of the wrappers resemble
that of the genuine article. The manufactuers beg
therefore to caution all buyers to see " Reckitt's Paris
Blue" on each packet

VALUABLE DIRCORRT FOR THE 11A111.—If buy hair is
turning grey or white, or falling off, u.s" The Mexican
Italy Renewer," for it lea peierfeele reams fie n
0 Er Whits kok to its original oolour, wlthoones:ise:
he smell of most " Restonira" It makes
he hair charmingly beautif oh, as well as promoting the
growth of the hair on bad spots, where the glands are not
deceyeet Ask your Chemist for "THE MEXICAII HAIR
RICIIRWER." prepared by HiVIRT C. GALLUP,43, Oxford•
. street London, and by Chamista and Peri umers every-
where at M. dd., per bottle.

Ant ice TO Monists I—Are you broken in your rest by
• sack child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth 1 Go
at once to a chemist and gets bottl, of Mass Witexow's
Somme, Sy err. It will relieve the poor sufferer
Immediately. It is perfectly humans t to
taste, it produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the
Child from tain, and the little cherub swam " as bright
as a button. • It soothes the child, it softens the gums,
allays all pain. relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is
the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhea,
whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs.
Wiruilow's Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers
everywhere at Is. I per bottle. Manufactured in New
York, and at 193, xf ord-street, London.
Tama Americus" AND HOARERNMS.—AII 'awing
from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will be ngTe
ably surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by
the use of" Brown's Bronchial Trochee' These famous
" losenges" are now sold by most respectable chemists in
this country at In. lit per box. People troubled with •
" hooking cough," a " slight cold." or bronchial aff
tonna try them too soon, as similar troubles, if allowed
to program, malt in serious Pulmonary and Asthmatic
Sea that the words "Brown's firceshial
Tro▪
ches" em on the Government Stamp around each box.
—manufactured by Jos" I. BROWN and liens, Boston,
United Maims Depot, 493, Oxford-street, London.
YU:WUXI I—FOR MR TIZTII SOD BRRATIL —A few
drops of the liquid " Florilbae" sprinkled oo • wet tooth-
elan produce a pleasant lather, which the=
olesnass the teeth hem all parasites orhtrities,
the game prevents tartar. stops decay vas to the teeth
• psenliar nearly whiteness, sad • delightful treirreace
to the breath. it removes all unpleasant odour arising
from desserd teeth or tobeceo smoke. "Tb, Fragrant
barb, F a &beer to the Mae, sad the grestest toilet dis.eet
loriline, base composed Part of homey and sw
coveryoi the age. Price 9s. 6d all Chemists and
erf opera, Prepa?d,by MOAT GLLI.I.:P. 493, Oxford
treat, London. '
Ron,. Ds„„,,Lunp 'inst.—is the best, the cheapeat,
the mast fashiMishle sad the most thimble of my article
Pi. Q.,„,„,weit has no rival either
or utility- utility. It is made a selected and easisegl
weals produced in new colours and mixtures for the
14.9; As° la light weighted Yanss fur an
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3d , and 2a. kar yard. Extra
for gentlemen s suite and boys'
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factors cut any length, and pay
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