The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-27 00:00:00

IWAN•011.
Palms anb " Oder's."

A thanksgiving awrioe was held at the Congrega-
tional Church on Sunday afternoon, January 18th,
when an able sermon was preached by the Rev. F. A.
Wartaington to a good congregation. A collection
was taken on behalf if the Congregational Asnicittion
of Dorset. Times are certainly looking brighter,
everyone seems busy. Thy road to the lighthouse was
trodden by a great many visitors on Sunday, the fine
weather lured them oat to see how will that work
progressea. Mr. Burt Ls cutting some new roada,
which for breadth met a good example to Mr. Robin-
son. and about 90 hands, with eight heroes and carts,
are doing up the old roads, also through the Dor'stone
estate. Shrubs and trees are being extensively planted
beside them. The new road Is being walled on one
side and Ir m-fenoed on the other, and another field is
let ..ut in allotments, so that it did our eyes good to
tee so many digging and trenching in expectation of
large crops. Altogether the thanksgiving service
came at a bright time, and was therefore much

enjoyed.
The Local Board kindly made a crooning or two
&cress the mud pond down street. We wish they
would remember some of us who live up street wear
blackened boo.ta..

It is generally believed that the Bournemouth Com-
pany have given upltheir idea oflia new Swanage until
the railway comes. Why not build and demand the
railway? If that is their &termination, "Good bye,
bright dream." We hope our I 'cal building society
will save up in right earnest and do it.
We regret to chronicle the sad, early death from
congevtion of the lungs of Adelaide, third daughter of
our esteemed townsmAn, Mr. John Haprom. She will
be lees,ly regretted by • large circle of friends. The
funeral took place on Monday, Tanua-y 19th.

RIDDLE ON SWANAGE AFFAIRS.
TUESDAY, JANUARY' 200.

Lucia: "Well, Kiddie, what du you want?'
Kid.: "0, Mr. Lucia, did you s-e 'em ? Flumm• rs'
'hue loaded with 'iii. Local' and their clerk, and
charley Summers with John Mous be gone as
witnesses to catch the 8.88 down train."

Lucia : " I am Ilorry I mine 1 the sight . What a
relief wnen the triAl is over it will be to us and our
readers."

Kb! : " Why, the trouble will begin then, for the
public in and the es•publican and the petition-signers
is certain they wqn't pay a penny toward the tri.d.
The bailiff will ha' no end a cases on hand."

Lucia: "They are a( t the stuff martyrs are made
of."

Kid.: "But Mr. H. A. Davis is, ain't he? Law,
whet a letter thik wer to be sure. Ho did' gie they
Mission Hallers a aaernen avywey, for they Is the
'my friends and brethren' be spoke to. I brought his
letter wi in., though tweets a nigh chance I got in
Telegram this week Hardy says that there was such
• ran on him that he could ha' mdd five dizen more on
Saturd.y night. They wanted a sermon for Zinday
readen I spec. Hardy had to sell me hiuen, the deep
ole file leanteil tuppense ‘ur en, zo I axed to trust
me the other penny, and 'Cr did."

Lucia : "Thla Davis Downs to have fallen into • ud
state of spiritual pride, Mr. Kiddie. Fancy an
utanspired teacher wr ting—' I have never publicly
taught anything but what is undeniably supported by
the Word of God.'"

Ktd. : "0 er donnt mean zackly what er wrote.
He's no grate shakes at the pen, Ido think. They
Mianion Hailers want en to zty and do Just what they
zay the Bible do zay oughter be z %id and done. They
be all inferable down there."

--1;;;c4;;-•;";-ini.iiit;l•--;"le.uppose you mewl, Kiddie.
Ignorant people are always right—"
Kid : " I zty, Mr. Lucie, doant 'es go runnen down
I afore me vice ; zoonder ha' it done 'hind me, vur
then I slot tempted to break no peace or make no
shocken marks. I knawe I've no book I .men, I wish
I 'ad; but—"
. . .

_ ,
Lucia: " All right, Kiddie, a man may not he
Ignorant of many things thmgh he is no scholar. We
will not fight. Go on. What was it you were going
to say?'
Kid. : Davis do zay he's going to 'silence the
enemy,' he means the Miard•n Hailers, so on Saturday
and Zinday they did zing down street in • way that
bod.:d distinction to Davis if not to the devil."

Lucie: "Pardon me, Kiddie, ' extinction ' you
men."

Kid. : " 'Ti. all the ..me, the highest distinction of
a rocket be extinction."

_
Luc4 : " I say Kiddie, where did that come
from?"

Kid. : "Out o' me yead, Mr. Lucia, that would do
much better than er do. if I didn't get so many
preachers, and so get, what wi superlative evangeli.ts,
roaring revivals, an' Gospel zuab, all in • whirl, like •
rocivt going tip. There be such • row in my brain,
my 'cart doantlnear nothin. I twold Davis how it
would end ; but er went, a the rest, like • lamb to be
slaughtered. ' Davis,' I said, 'doe. min' what you be
twold, and zay what they ray, and then theelt live in
clover and out-live the bead infallible, and ha' the all
to theaself, when thee can preach what thee likes.' Zee
how it ends. He's 'determined by God's grace to
persevere in the work '—of starving himself. Now
grace before meat is good, hut grace to get no meat I
keen% nuclei-atm:4, nor dwon't what to.
Lucia: "What would you advise him to do,
Kiddie ?"

"Wi advise Davis? Re's past that; but if
be wadn't I should ssy :—Mr. Davis, me dear,
missionaries ought to be where there be zomethen vur
'em to do, not maken more seeks out o' the sams yoke.
Go to Lannon' they be all heathens up there, or go
to 'Mericay, where 'es doaa't know tother from which,
and where this'll gie 'en ether room. Pnt the
' scandal' in ye waistcoat pocket, and take a nip o' it,
like I do peppermint, when I ha' had too much o' a
Rude wife, or a guile thing. Mr. Lucie, how 'bout the
weather?"
Lucia "The wind will rise, Kiddie, and we shall
have chills and dust to our eye's content."