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

From Paul/.

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1879.

FROM THIC WHITEHALL RETIE,.
,
1 IN ZULCIAND.

; Whether the British soldier has deteriorated, or the
name of Zulu has dbuilayed him, or the Cardwelltan
management tilled the ranks with cowards am well as
undergrown boys, I know not ; but it is • fact that
there has been a ' run" in alnioet every engagement we
have had as yet. At Gingthloro • company of another
regiment came back, as well as the dOth, but were
fortunately st,pped before they got to the laager. If thia
happens on. fsiaeslarm what will it be in real attacks
For the credit of salaamed addiers I mty say that the
"Old Die-hards" did not belie their name on the occasion
In question.

Commanders disagree. Wood ordered every eron of
liquor to be sent away from his leaser at and
allowed no sutlers near the place ; wh,lst Glyn permitted
a civilien canteen to be cot up in the very centre of the
small fort at Helpmakaar. The consequence was that
drunkenness and the triangles were daily spectacles in
the latter place, scarcely ever in the former.

" The ruling Passion strong in" Natal A dandy
Guardsman doing duty with the draft of the 21th some
two or three nights ago had to bivouac. and just as dawn
was breaking be wu seen to draw from his pocket • brand.
new pair of white kid gloves and then pull on his muddy
ammunition boots.

To kill time between races there is no more pleasant
companion than egress widow, especially if she be of an
inquisitive and unchardable turn of mind. Said one to
me, as we strolled round the coaches" Do you see that
lady in drab I that's her sister on the next drag but two.
They never speak now ; the one on the drag was engaged
to A., and the other sister, after her bridesmaid's dress
was actually ordered, stole k'a heart and her sister's
fieww4.* "Did they elope r "Not quite so bad as that;
but the elder sister, finding A. kissing her younger sister
ln the billiard room, whither they had gone to inspect
some of the newlyourived 1,011.V.U, broke off the math."
" And then, what r I asked. "What I Why the yoanger
one brazened it out and married A. ins quiet way six weeks
later. The elder sister sold herself for £l4 OOP • year and
no H's, about eight months later, and keeps her husband
In capital subjection ; she Pays she is happy, but the only
time that I saw her meet A., and I think it was the only
time that the two had met since the rupture, she blushed
(though who cut him) in a manner which told me that the
oil Pore hail not hailed, and that she would undo the past
If she could."

Paint seems to be not so much in vogue this week: last
year I saw more artificial eyebrows and cheeks on the
lawn among really young girls than I ever saw before.
This year I only spotted three really bad cases, and those
among older and passes. belles. One girl, in all white.
whom I noted painfully painted at a reception in Park
Lane last season, now is courageous enough to reform,
amt wear her own lilies and roses an good and as genuine
that I think she must wonder as much as I that she ever
was tempted to make a whited icpuichre of herself and
to deceive thereby none but herself. While she did so the
daub was unmistakable. and neone who did not know het
could say whether, under the lacquer, she was not as
yellow as a guinea and as withered as an autumn leaf.
Now anyone can *ea the wont and also the beet of her
face, and that It is the best anyone will admit, for none
bat • very shortsighted eye can be deceived by war •
paint

It liras • coincidence. certainly. that the Patheti.
couplet—
Pray, Alice, pray, my darling wife,
That we may die the self-astne day I
Should be so nearly mallard in the cue of the Ltureate's
ow. brother. April saw Um grave dosed over Mules
Tennyson Turner, and before Ito was ended it had been
opened again to receive the body of his widow. A
skulls inmanos of being "in death not divided" was
afforded a few weeks ago by the demise of 84 Walter sad
Lady Threalyan.
"Poor Mrs. Bagot r 53 says everyone in the Irish
metropolis, and thereto a enteral feeling that the decision
,'.out the costs Le very hard lines on the fair defendanL
These same costs are tv be counted by thotutandn and the
ram only now beginning I At least, corny learned friends
think and bete, believing firmly es they do in what they
call the corpus of the estate.

A MIT touching story reaches me from Canada, with
this Princes, Louise for its heroine The wife of an
official (whether &With or Canadian it boot+ not here to
myl wee invited by Her Royal Highness to Dal • visit to
Government Harm, end a suits of spertioente was placed
at her disposal. Unluckily, and, as it turned out, disas-
trously for the guest, she earl her child were attacked by
marlatina of the most virulent description, and the
infant died. During the whole of the Hines, of mother
and child not a day passed without the Royal Princess
paying two visits to the pick chamber. Assiduous etten•
Slot i.e mild expression for the affectionate demeanour
displayed by Her Royal Manes, towards her friend,
ant, seri as wee the mother's lose, ha grief was softened
and soothed by the kindness and sympathy of this
heroic daughter of our Qireso. As long as acts like this
are done in secret by members of the Royal Family, so
long will the nation feel that it is ruled by a dynasty to
whom danger ts an unknown attribute.

The Cocoa or Keeling Islands 'tura been sneezed to the
Government of Ceylon. It ii not however. intended that
Gurernor shall tske forrogl pot,. pion of the Islands.
Russian egrets have been examining the locality.
evidently with sinister views, and it wet therefore deemed
nereasary to take steps for their annexation. Therm
small islands OTO ...rut .5 a petting ststion OW no • pro-
laid, point for the intended direct telegraph cable front
Men to Australia There Is one excellent harbour.

A prettr scandal will soon be divulged in one of the law
court• of Pada Ail yet it is only whiapered hut as It
wancerns one of the beet known of Rmuldican magistrates
It is, of courm, much cuirmeed in legal circles where it
I. known. The defendant might have aspired to the poet
of garde des waltz abo-it rqnivalent to our Lord
Chancellor. had not the consequences; of • youthful
indiscretion marred his prospects. Whilst yet a barrister.
he had Needed the mum of a young wife, and had
obtained for her a separation da carp et de tries+. This ts
like our jodicial separation. and does not enable the
parties to marry again :so that the intimacy which sprang
up between the learned counsel and his fair client was not
wconling to strict morality, nor to the article,' of the code
nail. It prevented him from rising to the top of his pro-
fosiiion, bat it did not hinder him from becoming •sernifor
for one of the wine-grovring deportment, of Fra-ce. The
past was no lesson to him; Ins inflammatilo nature was
destined moils to bring him into trouble. It happened in
this wiee: A retired major of s covalry reeiment wish. d
for a bureau de tabaa, to enable him with the proceeds to
eke out his small pension. Hie wife waited on the senator,
and asked him to obtain it for her husband. This h. did,
and the erif• was dole grateful, indeed: so grateful that
she could not refine him the only reward he craved at her
hands. The old, old story waa re-enacted. She was
supposed to be at her mother's, awl letters came from her
there every day: but unfortunately one of the ex-magis-
trate's bitterest 1111•Mirle WRIV her in the company of the
legal Don Juan, in tlae south of Trauma The too
confiding husband was informed of it. took the erst train.
but arrived only In time to god that the turtledoves bad
flown. lhe deoription, however, left no doubt in his
mind as to their identity: and thus it is that the ex-
magistrate and Radical senator will appear as a co-
respondent.
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. _
ON next Saturday. the 214 Instant, it is expected that
the romopitoo stone of the new Didratinne Lighthouse
will be laid by the Dacha.; ofE iluburgh. Sweaters:in
wonderful structure has withiffevel the fOrro of storms and
ma for more th er • century. and bet for defects in the reek
on which it stand., it might berm endured for an indetleite
period. The old tower wee 73 font, the new one will be
over 60 feet higher, and thus is likely to be 'visible at •
distance of 17 miles. Since Saseaton's meccas there hag
not hien much deviation in the contours of ezposied Belt-
houare, and the new struc•ure will he to souse extent but
an enlargement of the old one. The curious system by
which all the stones in • couree were on wrought as to he
dovetailed Into one another will be followed. It wee
intended that the lighthouse should be erected by a con-
tractor, but as the tenders were high the Trinity House
Lorpo' reoon connived to have the work carried out by
workmen in their per, and under the ruperintandence of
their own officers. The granite in obtained from Moore
Shearer and Co.'n quarries. end is worked into thane on
land, where the stones are temporarily erected in order to
tent their forms, The deeign is by Ur. J. N. Douglas, the
engineer to the Trinity House. In • work of this kind the
whole world bris an interest, and the progress of the
masonry will be watched with anxiety. —.I ratites&
TRZ Olit of the London Board Schools has been this
week before Parlisoient, although no advantage was
gained by the speeches which were delivered on the
subject If reboot, are to be erected, it is too much to
expect them to be without cost, and hitherto no one has
been Ode to point one any instatur of extravagance under
the Works Committee. The buildings are often set
pleming to behold. betas anuccessere eneetitsof mak.ials
hut not been employed in their conetruction. h• Rev.
Mr. Roger,, who is one of the most efficient member, of
the Board, has published a very Main etatement of the
manes which have led to the unexpected outlay. In the
first piece, • Mem number of children lied to he provided
for. Already selioobt have been built for 170721 children,
and provision had to be made for more. As to the
acerb the sites are expensive, and the playground around
the school nereseitate. the porchese of half an acre, or three
quarters, of land, which means paying from .C.i.000 to
£lOOOO. We have sheerly eoticod the covresPondenui
between the Bowl and the E location Department with
regard to boor ,wing power,. It has teen re-published.
end, as all the triter, we before the reader, it affords •
weber opportunity of judging of the merits of the awe
than when the lettere appeared with Intervals between
them. On a oerueel the Board spprarts have the hest of
the argument.. Objection was raised against ten schools
where the cost ranged from £l2 to MB oar heed, but' in
each cue there was a fair ex phioafion. One of the notes
states thee it has been fount, as a rule, that *chords to
accommodate about SOO children can he built at £lO PK
head to be accommodated. Selo 4. with accommodation
for • larger nurnirr decrease in coat, but schools for a
smeller number Increase in cost, the reason being that a
cerrein numb. r of charges are necessary in all schools,
whether the number be smell Of great. A &rare.

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1110D1111 VAST NMI.

Were TOO tan times more fallen and defiled, _
A touch of shame would bid you spare a child.
Yoo,'t.'saallel Why force us then eee
A child's form moving where no child should be.
A rhililfsne at your feasts of dance and drink.
Where own speak out whatchildren should not think;
A child,. lips taught to " liquor up." and smoke.
And langh aloud 4 every dubious joke ,•
A child's mouth ',meting. ehilillike, of its fame
In childhood'e blindneei to the sense of chew.;
A chili you make no child? Have ye not read
In your desobierl old Bibles bow One said—
In Maven their angels me my father's Noe r
yne uppermof of women," hick i place,
Deugh tem of England, fresher, fairer far
Than any swarthy. foreign beentim are,
With eyes like somas' era. Imperial dames,
With eon syllables of Seem names,
Who eye • guinea for • gold hair-48.
And flings copper to starratlon's my.
Who licosdeant mow sweet looks end smiles and vows,
And quarrel only with • patient non. ;
4Mbiriqnll to b4old your pwtraits set
For public view beneath a ballot pet:
Well- pi (WWI 10 see your rids and boys consort
With titled heroes of Pen mei. cm:le—
-1 think you too have somehow had • band
In plonghing up the MC.rn'e of the land.
ilicA if you; who in high conclave rule
The destinies of Mrs. Orundes school*
Declined promotins into Your Ant class
Drunkard and gambler. spendthrift, rake, and sea;
Cut short with silence or contemptuous frown
Ts. prurient talk of feat men of the town;
Forebore to maths*, and intrados"'
The elms of men that's " tighr or loon ;-
Refused to suitors fresh from Phrrnes arms
The weddirst.present of your daughter's charm'
For love, foe rear, aye for TOUT own sweet sakes
Them would ire fewer drunkards, mew... mi.
FARMERS AND THEIR ADVISERS.

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Who hoe hatter right than a fanner of from three lona'
hundred acres to hunt / Whose crepe an ridden over
Who can ao well chow the straight way after the boon&
m di., farmer / Who breeds the hunters I And who so
often make. a ten pairod note, or three times Mat amount.
out./ a hone he boa traiord I "Gentlemen riders may
make up their mind that when farmers maw to follow the
bounda hunting, in arable districts at any rate, will be
doomed. As to the lode of time, people cannot know
much about forming who think that • farmer needs to be
standing over hailascore lebourere the whole day while
they are peoughind or fearing. ceilidhs is likely to take the
pleas et see at them idsteele, and mown free tiro to three
a Nem who have from three to ti an
ouissmaemai
:Mg emetike, not be eteatioa these who ea
apinior sok. Win Pot las to iambi's •