The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-14 00:00:00

Honour or anima from no condition rime—
Act well your part, there all the honour Ilex.
Worth niekee the man, 11114 went of It the fellow :
The reel le ill but leather or ',moons,"

Thum let us honour all who really work ; and "England
aspects every man to do his duty." Think not honour
in reserved for the rich and great alone. Grace Der-
line's feat of bravery is as much our misled as that of
the good and brave soldier so well known and beloved
here--Oolonel Showell, at tiebartopol., Nelson pouring
his thunderbolts of war into the ships of England'. foes,
at the Nile, is not so honoured at the labouring fisher-
men on the waters of Oennesareth. The abundant
°rope whloh have been vouchsafed to us by the goodness
of Tmvidenee this year, lends me to mention one point
In which the labourers of this minty greatly err—l mean
the enormous quantity of drink they consume in the
harvest, No doubt you wish to quench your thirst in
the paroling heat and toil of labour, but thirst is not
best quenched with beer ,• indeed large quantities of it
or of any other liquid ultimately destroy the stomach.
I am assured that on a large estate in this county the
owner was so disgusted with the quantity' of beer con-
smiled by the hey harvestmen, that he insisted on his
bailiff giving them nothing but coffee or tea. There
will • great deal of grumbling at first, aimoat • mutiny,
but in two or three days the men found that they were
not so heated or exhausted by thirst as they used to be.
They did their work with greater ease. The oast of the
coffee, tea, sugar, !so., and making was £9 lls. 24. ; the
east of the usual quantity of beer consumed would have
been £24 15a—showing • saving in money of £6 lie. 9d.
The men received 12s. each extra pay—an important
addition to • labourer'. earnings for between three and
tour weeks' labour. This proved, two things—Punt, the
absurdity of supposing men cannot work hard without
beer ; and, secondly, the saving to a man and to society
by abstinence from it. I remember myself, when ba-
nning • walking tour under the extremes beat of a
Swim sun, having the notion that I could not do my
work without plenty of brandy and water • I was con-
',tautly stopping at every rill and fountlin to drink.
My guide, • retsina, who knew every path and pass,
end had ;wended on all the then known peaks of the
SWIMS and Savoy Alps, at ones checked me—he said to
me, "far, If lon go on thus you will be knocked up M •
couple of days. You must not drink more than three
or fur times in a day's walk, and it must be kirschwas-
ter (a very nauseous spiit), about a thimble full in a very
small glass of water,' I followed his advise which I
found expellent, and never suffered the least from great
tblat afterwarda. In Ameriat the teetotelers make use
of the fallowing drink :—Five (glop of weter, half-a-
Olen of Molrosal, quarter of • pound of ginger, and it
is said to be the most grateful and strengthening to the
stomach. Wash your mouth as often as you plume, but
do not swallow a quantity of liquid of any sort. Ask
soy doeter who knows his businesa and he will confirm
what I have said. I very much regretted to see that at
the liosnalug day, at Weymouth, the able, intelligent,
aud humane-Mayor of that borough elated that—" The
Megistrstes were of opinion that there could not be too
many licensed homes, gime there was not sufficient
lodging imoominodation at present." Certainly, the
alleged reason warn most insonolusire, for surely it is not
necessary that every one should lodge in a spirit shop,
or have a keg of ruin for his pillow I 11114 ih appears tab*
• DOINIS mode of endeavouring to render a town orderly
and ammoniate to hold forth the doctrine that there
swot be too many public beams. II Is contrary
to jeival .zWin any d,:ini.inniortbato,llllouhils reen
ors t.l sett!! ensue.o
this monstrous doctrine? Has any rigni-r writer
hasarded Inch a statement t The prayer taught us by
God himself is "lea us not into temptation." The
glom upon it ie, "You amid, have too mull ilemple,
tins," Now, from what I have said, I lyou not to
appall that I wish legs than that every English tabourer
'tumid bete his glom or two of beer daily. It is the
epees whieh I would deprecate, and the drunkenness to
width it glom rise, With regard to our vegetable show
today, the laps report moot favourably, and wore
Inc we have ha the beet we ever had. 'fliers wore 60
hibliert, but there was no exhibitor of honey. The
prism offered for attendee°, at gehool and for needle•
work have not elicited as mush anspelltlon a in some
former years, and yet they are all valuable to the labour.
hag slaws, for we must remember that "Just re the
twig le bout the tram'. Molina 1" sod If your children
are out taught whilst quite young they will probably
never read, write, or work well. Is vain, flowerer,
to talk of angelica and schools if cleanliness and
cloossoy Is neglected 110.11011111 i but I think no one ea
deny that there Is great improvement in theme matters,
Always, too, bear In mind that learning alone is not
education. Prole* taught et school may be madly
baffled by evil dimple at lime. Mar, hear.) II
at school children are taught to obey the eosn.
manchnentr and ind them violated at home, how
shall they be trained in the nurture and ad.
monition of the Lord You, fathers and ino.
there, must continue to enforce on your eliddren what
is teught them Before the acquisition of kerning prise
the formation of individual elmreeter, the building up of
moral heb Se, the whole pervading.dboapline of duty a
without these there may be learning hut there is no real
education. I have known many a neigh, clever, Alp.
pant girl pin the chief peas at solaced who his lifter.
wards dons no credit to her mimalled education. Such
ming, if the truthful, boned, Matignon* well.dieoi.
planed child la neglected, simply do unmitigated mie.
Ala, They may raise a cultivated and n 0,114114
people but it by no moans follows they should be eon.
%Mama virtuous. Lastly, I would recommend you
to loin ha well constituted Trion* Societies, or to put
by your savings In the Savings Bank, Of mune the
former gta far greater advantops, extending, for in-
stases, In the County Ftiesdly eatery for lull; and let
flle ware you, at least, that the tables of that society
are well calculated, and that by the oentralisation of the
waded of bugloss; in this town everything is fairly and
bosom.* dowdsoted, gad no load preyudioes are al-
lowed to divert a fraction of the funds from their
legitimate objnote. I earnestly reeoinumnd you to join
It, and that, too, when young, as the payment.% are then
smaller. One word more Wong we part. Let us be
thankful all of us for a year of great meroy—for plenty,
moderate penes. and 00W 60 eithadant harvest, and the
Prospect of • speedy termination to the horrors of the
3ildien Many. 'The Ordinary &Meade of England is
of repoee in the consciousness of her stArrillati
wallet were—juselliiiblng the ELIDE the
wire of intelligent seed peace.

" Diaper than did pinatas% ever mond,"
the forte and armaments of Overhaul were cmveiint
some minds the idea of menace and of futon war. T
_or
may not be despised, but as Cromwell said to ha

soldiers, " Trust In God and kosp your powder dry," so
may Ws say—