The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-05-29 00:00:00

AN APPEAL FOR PROTECTION.

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May I he a limed to use your C tiumas for an
tepee! ehich I cannot without offence make in say other
way. !Vie mote readily claim your minium., that I have
been myself • journalist. I desire t be let s'one. An
invalid now of some years stauding. I have been compelled
to leek in Bournemouth the seat and leisure, co-abine4
with the salubrious influences of the pleat which
Mee me the only chaste I have of regaining even
Emigrate strength. Mr means are scanty, and
my aocommodation is nmessuily modest, although
not mean. I am indepenleat in 'hi., tbat with
ICGOOCay 1 am able to pay my war and need chariot
from no top. I bare acquont sudletent I besuil •
the sodium of ao invalid'. residence in • strange place. I
have my owa the:loved beliefs. Oirgioat.4 in famitY
traditioes, and ctellietned by the relicious exoeriences
my own We. I Muted Divine otre.c. with regularity.
end reeei•.e the pers eel and Mw.'. .c'optsble nii nittr..
'EWE ck,i1.1... I bumf, oa the. thing, to
chew ttim —maternally at leatt• —I am b. lucre • emote
than my neighbour., and do not eunerfleially or estrin.ible
present greater I:Mignon Moe, toed people
auk to beime their rt•e account td thsmseletrt—in the
reformati n ed the messes. I do wit b lire. that I
especially h•as been singled out foe the minicrations of
the.. good people es Emmet of any recognised defects in
my meaner of living. It ta evidently • pert of • system
brought to boar by the idle and wealthy mi no doubt
weliiintentionei peeplereetallutet excluebr-ly of the fond*
sex, by the way—upon them who from say cense what
...too are compelled to reside is • single in in and to
Peeve aboat without carriages. Since I cons hate I hare
been cmoinually pestered by the visite if penile. who,
without introduction or any memc of obtaining • per
liminary acimsint tact, Intrude themtelves into my smell
seartnsent and alter a few general remarks oa the
weather. proceed to present me with • few tenets.
reed a chapter of the Bible, either mad or extemporarily
frame • prayer, probably glee toms morel admonitions
cowshed in phrases of • conversational cuaracter, sod
recommend me to go to thia, that, or the other church,
very likely without taking the trouble of inquiring
whether Ifo to any church or not. I most dolt I have
found on. or two •xceptions. end am grateful for them.
Bet I wart my right to secure privet? for me mys-If. if
I desire it, end le he protected from the senseless and
often impertinent intresion of people, with whom I have
no sights baste any intervigne at all. If I want charity
I shall (o le vecognieed organiminnt which diepense It
If I want to be taught religious ovine:obis, I shall 'stitch
tor myeelf, and is my difficulties I shall betake myself
he those who from their office and their training are
qualified to melt me. If I want companionship rgbatt
seek it a more congenial spheres thin in the crowds of
welt ...pointed district visitors, by whom this place, and.
I may add from personal cop Timm other wstering.
places aim, is haunted. Believe me, Or. row* kale.
A MUCH-MIND MAN.
Bonniegnoethe May 17tb. BAT