The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-09-18 00:00:00

DEATH BY DROWNING AT WORDSLEY.

An nquest was held on Tuesday, before Mr. E.
B. Triorneyct oft, deputy-coroner, at the Marquis
of Granby Inn, Audnam, touching the death of
Fred. Harry Warrender (18), ofJohn Street, Words-
ley. The deceased, who had been employed as an
auxiliary sorter at the Stourbridge Post Office for
over two years, got up at half-past four o'clock on
Friday morning last to attend to his duties at the
Post Office, but did not put in an appearance at the
offize. Nothing more was heard of him until Mon-
day morning, when a passing boat brought his
dead body Co the surface of the canal.—Mr. Francis
Knight, postmaster, Stonrbridge, now stated that
the deceased was a quiet, respectable youth, and
that he had no complaint against him, nor had he
had any complaint against the deceased at any time.
—As there was no evidence to show how deceased
got into the water, a verdict of "Found dead" was
returned.

SAD DROWNING CASE AT BRIERLEY HILL
Mr. E. B. Thornycroft, deputy corona., held an
inquest MI ruesday moruir)g last, tuuching the
&Itch of Joseph Thomas IlinglPy (12), son of
Edwar I Higley, 50, Level Street, Brie, ley Hill.
The father was visiting &June ftiends at Walsall on
Sunday mc.rning, and the deceased, instead of go-
ing to Sunday school, went along with a number of

companions to bathe in a canal at Hart's Hill'
Deceased got out of his depth, and Daniel Hingley
(10), broihei• of deceP.sed, held out a silk pocket
handkerchief, which deceas.id (-taught 11(11 of, but
the hanlkerchiel slipped out the younger bother's
hand, end deceased smk. Neither (ieccased nor
any of his companions could swim, The dead body
was found by John BluL.t, a glass blower, of
Brickilu Street, Hart's Hill, in a depth of seven or
eight feet of water: A venliet of "Accidental death"
was relurned.

LORD LYPTELTON ON COUNTRY LIFE

AND EDUCATION.

The ani.u.tl gatherings under the auspices of the
Worcettelslire Union of Workmen's Clubs and
Institutes were closed on Tuesday evening with a
public meeting in the Farmers' aud Merchants'
Hall, Evesham, under the presidency of the M iyer
of Eyeshan (Hr. II E. Haynes) ; the principal
speaker being Lord Lyttelcon.—llis lordship, dealing
with one or two evils which the work of toe Union
was calculated to mitigate, if not remedy, said
farmers told them that if they were looking for a
man to drive a straight furrow or thatch a rick .
neatly, it was more difficult to find him than it used
to be; and although wages as compared with
thirty years ago were higher, yet thy did not get .
the same amount of work done. That was a ve y
serious thing from the employers' point of view and
they unanimously said it had tended to aggravate
the depression of agriculture. There was also the
clearest proof rf a steady migration from the country
to the towns, which seemed to be an :irresistibte
tendency of the time, and was attend4.l by most
deplorable consequences. The population was be-
co ring less healthy probably less moral, very likely
less intellectual; and in all probability it would be-
come lees numerous as time went on. Touching on
the causes of this migration, which he described a
a most difficult problem, he asked if there were any
particular attractiveness about the occupations a
man would have to undertake when he got to a town
like Birmingham or London. If he were a very shup
fellow he might become a clerk, but that was a
terribly oyercrowed profession, and ualess a man
had exceptional opportunities it led to very little.
The employmen was monotonous and dreary to the
last degree, and after all it was Bnly the favoured
fow,j who could obtain clerkships. Generally speak-
the. man from the country become a labourer, and
in a large town there was no calling more hopeless.
The labourer ives the mere beast of bardee, carry-
ing heavy weights all day long, wthout the least
prospect of rise or improvement. If a man were
nimble with his fingets he might perhaps go into
one of the great factories and get fairly good wages.
But how monotonous and unietellectual was his
work I The enormous sub-division of laboer tended
to make the factory workman a mere machine His
whole lifetime was frequently employed in such
minute jobs as polishing a needle or drilling a hole
through the head of a needle, He would be sure
to do it well; but what a wretched hopeless work
to be employed upon Compare it to the labour the
men who migrated from tne country left behind.
Could anything be mo-e beautiful to a man who
was even only half-instructed than to watch the
silent operations of nature, to observe the growth
the crops, nod note the influences of sunshine and
frost and dew and heat and cold 1' A in ,n only re•
quired to be put into the way of seciug tile beauty,,
the mystery, and the diginity col' this sort of work
and he would never be tempted to go into the grime
and smoke of our great towns. While he would
not say a word against the Education Act, it seemed
to him that they were in a transitioeal stage if
education, and were reaping all the evils of it. He
wanted to see their people efficient workers and con-
tented men simply because they knee they were
not likely to be better off elsewhere, and beeause
they were satisfied with the occupation to which
they had been called. It was in this particular
that he thought the present system of education in
the country had its grave shortcomings. It seemed
to be ill .auapted to its purpose and incomplate, and
is left off too early; but the worst thin, he could say
of it was, that it was unsettling, and did not teach
men the beauty and happiness of the state of life
in which they were placed. It was sometimes said
that the object of education was to enable a man to
rise out of the sphere in which he found himself,
and get into a better one. He took leave to say
that was an utterly false and mislEa liug view, He
believed that in a school .where they hal to deal
with a large proportion of the sons oz latoarers, the
object of the schoolmaster should be to turn out a
good, efficient body of labourers. Taey must take
men as they found them; and the fact remaiaed
that, however high and elaborate their system of
education, 99 out of every 100 labourers' sons would
in all their attempts to turn them into second class
clerks would only to be,a mischief to themselves,
to the country, and to the distric s they were
tempting them to leave. Adverting to remedies
for the evils he had pointed our, his lordship said
slightingly of the mil ovemeat of which the outcome
might be said to be the" Teree acres and a cow. "
. lie believed there was a magic in proprietorship
and he thought, although it was impossible for
everyone to possess land of his own, the time might
come when every man might, if he pleased, reap
his own crops and enjoy the fall effects of his own
labour. If that were the widespread practice, it
would take away from the irksomeness and dis-
agreeableness which agricultural labourers seemed
to feel in their present life, and form a strong
counter-attraction to the attractions of the town.

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