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

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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1878.

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Catacombs of book. our public librarke am liable
to become, unlesi monthly replenished with new.
Generous bookivers should look round at the shelves
al our clubs and institutions, and send "the newest
thing out," if good. Too often givers sends lot of
stale old tames which they will not spare room for at
home, to public libraries, just as if they bore the in-
scription—" Rubbish may be shot here."

Some public libraries would seem to get their new
book.. an you may take • house on a permissive lease,
renewable at seven, fourteen, or twenty-one years.

Playing out-of-doors is f course different from
!Ting to drum off the roof f the Corn Exchange, or
I would aek the fine hand of the Mild to roar us like
any sucking dove when they give the unwonted treat
of a military hand at the cricket match at Kingston
Perk next 'Friday. Still, I may hint to them that
over-drumming mounds sometimes like the beating out
of mate.

Calculation 44 dates would prove that my remarks
on the coming gift of the museum site had nothing to
do with stimulating the donor. I am, therefore, more
free to Acknowledge the great genermity which is
about to presenttoDorviliester the ground, And Au secure
for the museum an admirable site, and for the town a
handsome and useful building in the principal street.
I hope • similar discovery of good intentions es ro.te
to be carried out with respoct to the Weymouth Drill
Hall will be made.

"One swallow does not make a summer ;" hut I
hope the builder and the ine,mring•nd I .w behind
the duat-brushen hut week wcre migna fi.r.s.d work-
men's or middle-clam h00.e., each with Its little
garden, on that para,li.e 4 children and carpet-beatens
the Beggar.' Knap.

The footpath nearly opposite the Junction stables
dill ends abruptly, and we have to turn out on the
road from the new unfinished path, which might well
be made to run diagonally at the beck of the threatened
clump. A little fence n.lllld the epace on which the
dump stands might protect a flower-garden, or little
bits of lawn, and Ove this pretty little nook from the
carpet-baster, and spreaders of cinder-ash.

Poddlehlaton's clerical milk-seller thus writes to a
=temporary, Ltd we gladly give hie—
" EXPLUIATION

" Will you be kind enough to allow me to say In your
meg that I kept cows for years without • thought of
Idling milk, and that I undertook the sale only at the
urgent request of my parishioner. and for the accommo-
dation and convenience of many of them Wherecharity
has been needed I hope I have not been forgetful; but it
ha. not been charity, but the porroiasiots to buy milk,
which beg been largely sought of me, and that I have
granted. though at no litt.e inconvenience to my servants,
and not without diecomfort in other way•. I should wawa
prefer mg to Nell milk. T. H. Rove&
Puddieltinton Rectory, June 10th, 1879."

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In his own Musts is the Rector's remedy—either to
diarontlnue the male of milk, which we are given to
understand "answers very well at 4d. per quart," or
to openly, by registration, acknowledge legally his own
acts, if be has not, as I presume he has, already com-
plied with the law. But if he wishes aor to sell, per-
haps the other milk-Gallers ot Putkilelilnton will give
their consent.

Not that I would discourage the selling of good pare
milk. It is so valuable that where the clergyman can
cve there IS DO other Of only one other milk-iseller in
e real thing might be supplied, say at the
very.PLIV the
the clergyman distributing pure spiritual
nourishment from the pulpit and in his visitation., and
the glebe and churchyard grass devoted to making milk
for babes, the rural cWricts would have provision for
body end soul.

What I find fault with is any ides that clergymen,
when they deal with matters of trade, should he
treated chfferently from other men. That is of the
amend of reveretslism—a mild form of that pernicious
feeling which would set the minister on a different
level from hie flock in things earthly—a practice
resented so deeply by shallow thinkers act., alienate a
Large proportion of the people from the Church.

Oh ! the bawl times ! Moburl are they that the cuoto-
&WY of the Dorchester Town Hall clock don't like
them enough to Os ea new faceto poi. old Time. The
dial which looks up High-otroet hal had ouch a batter-
ing and cuto ouch poor figure (or lino ouch poor figurea
left) that to tell the time when it's betsv.vn eight and
one require+ a nice mathematical calculati.us of anglias.
Of course they can't (atm' Ipso to light up the clock,
when 'tie the inuon's tutu to shine.