The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-03 00:00:00

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How TO M. tug 11, CARDIN Hot'.—Of petty faults,
stealing fruit is likely too be one, as the opportimitiea
are many. In the beat of the nom make your boy lay
down Ilia hue and rdioesh himself at the fountain of
gooseberries. I have never ecru any other effeet of this
than greater modesty and 1.. ttsor work. Give liberty
as to this fruit, the best of all, and which it is as easy
to have ant plentiful as an wenn. Tell your little man
that you with give him other fruits when ripe. boo that
he must not take with his own hand, as all theft ie bad ,
to the value of • pin ; and your word of kinelneas, to- .
gether with the word of Go l's law, will 010 far moo re
than spring-guns or man-treps. A further rule of
moral discipline, and roue most eagentiel, is to provide
lor working Moues a constancy of work, met so eraenged
that the boy may know at all times whet he has to do. 1
Timid alters the natural current of his idea., and cuts off
at once a perpetual fountain of falsehoodn. The greet
object of they nter is to get done and away ; but he
sees by this plan that it is of no use to do • thing ill in I
otrier to have it amon over; and lie in afraid to run off to I
idlers, for the reedy excuse of inot knowing what to do
will in no case serve. - Tim moat unnsanagenble part of
his duty is that of gluing inessegen. Two or three that
might occupy as many half-hours are sufficient to con-
sume the day ; new attractions ate formed, whilst old
one*, as with it retouch of the magnet, are refreshed;
and there is no willing return to work after • convene-.
tion. To mitigate an evil which cannot be prevented,
let the missoons of the unfittest person about the house
be few; not on the spur of the moment, and at the
bidding of everybody, otherwise the solid day, broken
in pieces, is thrown away like the fragments of a jar
not tit to be wimple I; hat for onio•la lowed excursions
allot such hours as are followed by a better inducement
to return than that which the spaole presents. All
limaework will be found INII hor the hoy ; -
though trifling as to time._ steels jolts are great as
to pretence, and all out-of-dour work is by them
ryndered nugatory. Get up early none morning,
. and fee the *table duties eutficiently well done; mark
the time that may be requiote, make a liberal allowance
for leas activity in your absence. and ;seine inn the
allowance ; then fix the hour at which the garden work
inust a. lice, some see that the hour is exactly tole
rerved, though the work of the brosein should he left
unfinished. Tliie neglect may be mowed at the breads-
fast hour of rest. There in nu harshness iu this.
hat notely e hat is felt to be just, and such atrietuess in
essential to amoral olincipline ; for what in neglect or
idleness but a neleciesi oof theft? The reareonodoleness of
this even a stubborn youth cannot resist, loud lie will he
brought by a little patience to atm that regularity is a
saving to himself, end • little perseverance on your part
will add to the value of his doexevery the force of a
11.1111 t. liut if you would have rvasou and conscience to
rule, avoid everything that is not reasonable. Show no
passion ; for that alweye eis ekes tile youth think that,
whilst you ',Mena to aim at mending his conacielece,
your zeal is to make the most of his lalmurs. Avoid bad
names, lest you Ripest. Its his eyes to forget what he lies
reed about " Kara," anol "Thou foul ;" end never
threaten dismissal without • true purNose tat eft c it,
should the offenee for which it is threatene I be wfain
rciwatedl. If dismissal be spoken of lightly, it In of
mole effect, end if not put in force after a sermon della.
rations, good cause is given for crating off the rest eat
that in due to your word. It luny Ise, too, that the hoy,
not daring to roil home of his own accord, desires noth-
ing MU much ato to be sent away, in which calm a threat
to that effect is the best sound he C.lll hear, and a strong
iuslucement too also worse, resting as he alms in this, that
he can contrive what to say for himself when lie gets
to the ear of his mother. But as compassion is olue it,
Ems of so little discretion, thst in the eye of the law he
is not held fit to conduct his own affairs, and whose
bread yet depends on the character he attains, it is the
moot buena:ie, at it will prove the lutist auceessful
method oof de ding with him, to explain before one or
~,,, re of Isis fellow-servants flia lose which, in his early
career, he must suffer loy ii dismissal from his place, aMI
to assure him that you will not inflict Nll inuele arief on
his parents without hest sendieog for them, in order to
muke known his faults, and to try the effect of their
admonitions oei his subsequent behaviour.
Dthosusr I MS Ilevbh %Teo eN. --No anudl amount of
sensation has been excited during the week in Glom-
crater, by a revelation of a most horrible character,
which has been made in coennection with the death of •
loan named Claridge. Deceased was a journeymen
baker, and had been in the employ of a num named
Aubrey foor live yeera and • half. A week ago lie was
taken ill, but no eurgeou was Called in until the man
was deed. The toolise then made inquiries, and found
that the deceased, who lived at Aubrey's, made his own
bed ; for the whole five years and • half he wan there
the MOM had never been cleaned ; deceased was enable
to go to tlie water closet without passing through his
meater's shop oer kitchen, which he wee either forbiolden
or oled not like to do; and in his room were founol
several large tubs, filled to overflowing with filth! So
terrible was the stench that several of the jury, when
they went to view the body, were attacked by sickness.

The deceased had been suffering from lestbsenin
ilisemie for years, and kis hands and mins were covered
withan smitten; but what is wurse still, cm rverdsy
night, Aubrey first used his bread truck to carry away
his elth from the water-closet, and at half-past eleven
the body of Claridge wa., placed en the IMMO truck and
conveyed to the mortuary-mum at the cemetery—a dis-
tance of a mile, the ',musters crying "shame" Pro-
ceedings will be taken against Aubrey by the Board of
Health ; and his conduct has excited the warmest indig-
nation.

DUTCHER'S MEAT.—The newspapers of the week have
publiehed reimrte of several very amines meetings. At
Bristol and other iilaces a number of working people and
shopkee; era have met to protest against the price of
butcher.' meat—which is, in fact growing awful—and
to pledge themselves against consuming any
of it until it
is mold on more seasonable terms. The resolution to
abstain from butcher's 'heat, so long as it cootinnes at
its present prices, is perfectly legitimate, and is, in fact,
the very result to which bieh prices ought to lead. Is
nosy even be doubted whether the more opulent clones
ought not to take • hint from the.* protestors. The
rise of price has mmuesticombly arisen chiefly from
natural cense* ; but it is likely that the general extra-
vagance of living produced by the prosperity of the
country hat prevented wealthier households from putt.
jog in force the equally natural check on price which
consists in caution in purchasing, and thrift in consum•
Mg. Meantime. one source of the present dearness is
lamentable. because it springs from • species of igno-
rance. The extraordinary rise has only taken place in
the finer kinds of meat, which, in this country, are con-
sumed by rich and poor alike, al tto the exclusion
41 the remeiniler. The cie.rser vies of sheep and
oxen Sr.: still hut slightly beyond their ordinary cost.
hi In pi y because the Jensen.' for them is now, as at all
times, very vli1lt; and no change in the price of
choker meat will induce the pour to onixame them
freely. Here we have one among many important con-
sequences of the national iguorence of cookery. Large
quantities are daily, if not exactly thrown away,
mimed in the most wasteful manner, simply because
they are of • kind which does not easily lend itself to
eny of the three rude and elementary operations of
roasting, boiling, and frying.
Tue LoNLoot Slum BILIGADE. - Our Metropolitan
readers twarcely need to be reminded that luring the
last ten years an extensive end useful street agency has
sprung up in the ',him of what is popularly known as
the Shoe•lffsck Brigade. The brigade consiets of several
regiments of companies, belonging to various societies,
and distinguished by their uniform, not only of red,
white, and blue, but of yellow, green, and brown as well.
There are, in fact, at present nine societies in operation,
each of which has a regiment of shoe•blecks stationed in
a *emirate district, and dietinguiehed by a uniform of its
own. These young shoe-blacks lmve by their honesty,
diligence, and eivilitr secured the confidence and esteem
of the public. Few who are accug ~,,, ed to our groat
thoroughfares will hove failed to mark their neat dress,
their cheerful countenances, modest speech, and respect-
ful behaviour ; while the report id the societies shows
that not only thousandie but hundreds of thousands
habitually avail themselves of their humble but useful
services. The Blacking Brigade is now in fact an estab-
lished institution, one, too, that is both convenieut to
the public and highly beneficial to the boys themselves.
It not only gives them the likens of obtaining • tempo-
rary livelihood, but, hy training them to honest, indus-
trious, and obliging ambits. tits them for obtaining per-
manent situations. Thousands of poor destitute boys
who had no means of gaining a living, have in this way
been reclaimed from the streets, antlers now filling res-
pectable situations both in Australia and at-home. Many
of these youths thirty years ago would hive filled our
prisons, or have been transported to Botany Bay. They
are how usefully employed either in the army or navy,
or in houses of business in this country, or in the forests
and sheepwalks of the colonies, These shoe-black
societies rescue annually some hundreds of our juvenile
street Ar.bs f a hopeless career of vagrancy and
crime, and tern their industry to public account. This
valuable acency has, however, been assailed of late by a
species of illegitimate oprosition, that threatens its very
existence. The worst class of street Arabs have entered
lute a very offensive and lark% rivalry with the society
boys. The.e vecrant boys obey no rules, and are sub-
ject to no eutliority. So serious has this evil become,
that the ehmehlack societies have unanimously agreed to
weal to the wain/rilleo and the public for Koine mea-
sures to be taken toward.: its speedy and effectual &...140-
;neut. They lieve drawn up a dispassionate memorial
stating their grievarce, and praying that then boys may
be protected in the enjoyment of the stations allotted to
them. soil so enabled to pursue in quiet their useful and
legitimate calling.