The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-11-20 00:00:00

-"..11 RANDOM NOTE OF AN IDLE EXCIOLIDON."

There wan aime talk about the perils of the sea, and a
landsman delivered himself of the custom try nonsenta,
about the poor mariner wandering in far oceans, tempest.
tossed, pursued by dangers, every storm blast and
thunderbolt in the home skies moving the friends by snug
firesides to compsnsion foi that poor marin,r. and prayers
for his -uceour. Caplain Bowling put up with this fur a
while, and then Luna mit with a new view id the matter.
•' Come, belay there I I have rea 1 thin kind of rot all my
life in poetry and take ant suelt like rubbage. Pity for
the pour mariner ! sympathy for the jgor winner! All
right enough, but not in the way the poetry puts it. Pity
for the mariner's wife all right again, but not in the way
tho poetry put. P. Look-a-here whore life's the safest in
I the world? The poor mariner's. You look at the
statistic*, you'll are. S don't you fool away any sympathy
on the poor mariner's dangers and privations and suffer.
inc. ; leave that X+ the poetry mit Ire N's you Inok at the
other cites minor.. Here is Captain Brace, forty years
old, been at sea thirty. On his way now to take command
of his 'Mit, and anti •nth from Bermuda. Next week he'll
be under way : easy tittle,; cmnfortahle quarters;
pamengers, sociable company ; just enough to do to keep
his mind healthy and not tire him : king over bin ship,
trim of everything sun? evertor. Iv : thirty years' safety to
learn him that his profession ain't a dangerous one. Now
you look lack at hi, home His wife's a feeble woman:
she's a stranger in New Tick; shut up in blazing hot or
freezing odd lodgings, son toting to the season ; don't know
anybody hardly; no company but ber lone.meness and
her thoughts ; husband gone nix months at a time. She
has trims eight children ; five of theiti she has buried with-
out her Inuit:mil aver getting even on them. She watched
then, all the long nights till they al, —he comfortably
ma the sot; she f Bowed thorn to the grave, she hear I the
ehala fall that 'awoke her heart,—he comfortable on the
sea; she mourned at home, weeks and week+. missing
them every olay and every hour,—he cheerful at sea,
knowing nothing about it. Now look at it. a minute,
turn it over in t our mind anti size it: nee children born„
she among stranger+, and him not by to hearten IPT ;
buried, and him no. by to fort her ; think of that!
Sympathy for tile poor mariner a perils i 4 rot; give it to
his wife's It tol lines, where it belongs! Poetry makes out
that all the wife worries about is the dangers her
husband's running. She's got substantialer things t
worry over, I tell you. Poetry's always p tying the poor
mariner on account of hie perils at sea : better a blamed
sight pity hiito for the nights he can't eleep for thinking of
how he hail to leave his wife in her very birth pains,
lonesome and friendless in the thick of diseame awl trouble
and death. If there's one thing that eau make me madder
than au., her, it's this satiny, al sinned maritime poetry I"
MES4IOI. nnin:Len PUBLIC Vl'lqnn. —lt really in a
difficulty to vary the words of praise which the
work', brined by this enterpriring firm demand every
month, they Sr., a invariably good.
Wiid Poie, es, which, when ounplete, will
form one of the mo-t liand•ome s.f drawing-room table
books, reaehesi its ti Ii number, (61. each), and Ilea two
esmaisita e,,10ur,4 platen, the Yellow Iris, and the
White nil Deal Nettles, with lucid and compre-
bench e letter-prem.
The So, is a new isttne which ought especially to
Cdinnnmii itself ti Engli Innen. The illuntrati ins ire
fall of ti.zoas, and the reading is full of stirring awl
exciting matter.

Once more Norwieli I. eharged with twittery an I e irein
Om. It i. state 1 that petition. will he pr. ,en'.d iv I. Pat
Libel. de and Con.ervative. in cosnectivn with ..oin.'ol
the late monicipal election. there. A. much a. a peind
per beat I. alleged' to nave teen given for vote..
Friday ni resting aby in el Within. Ad.on, aged 11,
living in Riling Lane, Weduwb m ury. coinitted
lninnirell. The hoe wAn the .tes.• .n of .I.hn
smith, and WM (133ttletitit. EP-relit:l lip the latter, who
1,4 Saturday best him in a brutal manner. The whole
lousily lived in a .tote of revolting ..suil .r, and were
alined literally stars Mg.
A athoestotts LEI". —On arrival of the lair down
troin, on Thursday night, attic Witham
I Junetion, a pitoenger informal she .tati ii ina.ter that
another messenger loul Mins*, out .if th train al.out two
Iriek. Mr. I: Igeouruhe, ti. ',mien master, ins.
141..114P1y 'sent two men up the line to ....arch for the
man,and tsirgrilpiled to Fr victor them ti atvi the
drivvr of the bolla.t train, that iv.. foltrwing a ton after,
ti keep a good look out. The balla.t train went on steady
ith men in fr..nt with hand I stop., and they found the
~.an by the side of the line al. tilt half way
between Ffollte awl Witham stativw. Fortunately he
wa, wit 1111 l eln her', but be terOitosi a term severe shaking.
It 1.330,1 the old ...tau hail been to I' utile awl hail been
drinking.
theism° AND FLOGGING. -- A Ceylon c irrwpondent of
the Italelt.di If nnr4ral Aerneel nal. in 4 letter to Mr. Talleck„,
(rem tt It (reesdeed Noveost—r, 1474 remark* am
—" lain I 111 it the like i. ii•rontly rested wisong.t
Etiglisfinkm is I 'eV mmii 'hot the extr..tne penalty and
it .1.1.4i,14 311.31113..0.441.V 34 4 4 :stmta t i the R itteria mint.
It I. no ;intr. tpient thieg for a tuati who ha..tolen coffee
to is, se Irelti.t.fi tO ta. Mar: iltitorisontfolellt mind t., he
marched .ineil to tin., public 41134). and there remit,* 70
Am.. At iin execution which I recently witnemed here
tno men i tol a. ex...101.4mm; the &op fall wan ton
short, awl one fellow Wpm hy the convict** leg., while
another wetted on hi. idorilder. *),ive. The tinfortonote
wretch, hanging on the rope, in hid ag may drew up his
leg., that rai.ing the fellow hulling thee. tea,. tti the
ground. Three p. 4 mia were executed last month in