The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-11-09 00:00:00

THE REV. W. BARNES AT WINTER-

BORNE-CAME RHOMBI'.

Prom "Calel:fides at Home," in the Work!.

Distant • mile and •-ball from the market-town of
Dorchester, Wintarborne-Came Rectory—the home of the
genial and accomplished clergyman who has won fame for
himself and for the stories and dialect of Dorset by •
min of poi Mil of more than local popularity—U'S entirely
out of the beaten track of busy existence, and may be
deecetbed as buried in silence and green trees. The house
Ong, Is low, with • thatched verandah covered by
crimpers, and a theta:tied to P 1.11.11$ ia opting and
ninginney %with •wallows. The Irani.n liMall. but 'eery
inch of it C. °economised, and labyrinthine walks seem to
had mile. away, with the result that one Bads speedily
oisamdf •••tin on the lawn in front of the Masa Inside
aia aga Ilia dining-roomtoll oi books. and • brighter
4.11. the walls are covered with odd... d
ands al art, an. notneetasnotactured and Nome gathered
together by Yr. Barnes in his various peregrinetieet The
Radar bi,ninif is by far the most artistic Snare in ti c
rooa. Be is dad in knee-breeches. black Markt and
.ahanikit eery long black coat, while his whit; hair
SNN dioaldlis on. .

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Mr. Barnes is gessatially the parish priest. and be torsi
his work sod his people as well as hi. poetry. Much of his
poetry springs from his sympathy with his surroundings;
and he likes his talk and his cup of tea at the side of the
peat-fed hearth of his parishioners, whose hearte can but
retched by such a man as he is. Mr. Burnes does not
think very much of the education given in tbe Board
schools, holding that new.faugled tustoods do little more
for the labium than null, him for his walk in life. Why,
ho sank should honest hard.working ratepayers educate
the sons of those who would not work ; or if they were
obliged t, educate them, why should they not also sidinren-
tice them after the education est completed f for, he adds,
sorely stride is ae nee mar us eil.cvino alone. " Each
man, woman, and child in the kingdom,- he said. "should
know how to reed, ante, sad cipher, and there they should
rip COMpia./0/y educed it. If ttio individusl requires
, wid outsin it, as 1 dii:. I wanted knowledge, and
ir it; and ii lie doesn't went in .re, why, hell not he
unfitte I or what lie b ito do in life, as he I. now, with
the smattering they get it the Bead schools. As to
unskillel laloor, there isn't s orb a thing. Use give skill.
Set a man who has never duns it to trim a hedge, and
he'll make three blows a: a Leis, where Vie man who
knows hi. work makes line; and it's the same in every-
thing. Now I kto a. an obi farmer down in the Vol.,
who rent, a little land of me. Sad c goes up now and then
to see me: he bee always stuck to his work; and
although his ton and daiight,r roe t, hounds-404 rode
exceedingly well too—the farm an 4 mi.king were not
it.gleetd ; but he told rue one day be and his wife and
daughter were out milking, and he head his nieces peel
by, laughins sod talking, at an hour when they should
have been at work. Wnere be thsy maidens s-gwine r
said I. 'Ti their suesesic,' said my woifts 'Nearier said
inortaic, and it be miiken.toinie ! Zummaill come it
t at.' And, sure in nth, V.ll3llllat did ; for they've bad to
tail their farm ani go away. It sra.n t the music Bub.
but the music a, inilking.time, that did the
miechief
iii least in the eyes if the old f am. r." . . .
Mr. B rues writes a great deal in his little study, and
principally in the evening.. • hen he rarely joins his
family cud,. there of which he is passion-
ately found. One id...ashler acts as orgent.t ; and Vie
other, having a well.cultiveted voice, leads the choir n
the very priiiiittve Wte church, which is a quarter of a
mile off Its cote( objects of interest area a wonderful
screen nef ore the altar, and tee eiguature of Napoleon
who, when he was Prince Napoleon, signed the
regi.t.a as a witness to some marriage at which he Cal
present