The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-03-17 00:00:00

TlitE STOI, 3'.BRIDGE OBSERVEE).

taral ills lies, we hold, ready to the farmer's
own hand, is within his own grasp. He
sbould educate himself in those methods
adoptAl by his competitors which enabl.
them to undersell him; nay, he should d,
more, he should so impi oYe on the working
arrangements in vogue abroad that it might
be no longer worth the foreign.er's 'while to
offer his'goods ii English markets. How? •
i3y education. It will no longer suffice for the
agriculturist to plod along in the old ruts and
sing the ancient song, " There were my
fether's customs, and so they shall be mine."
He must put science and his wits to work.
and treat his industry in the light of modern
knowledge. Intelligent observation and
inventive ingenuity have revolutionised agri-
culture. It is now a skilled profession as
praetised in perfection; and those who expect
' to engage in it profitably must study assid-
nously to master its mldus operandi, if they
would succeed. The members of the Commis-
sion on Agrieultnral and Dairy Schools,
whioh has just issued its &lel report have
arrived at the conclusion that those who beat
n 3 in the farming race abroad do so by virtue
of their larger knowledge, and not by reason
of any natural advantages of climate or other
adventitious aid. They recommend the estab-
lishment of large numbers of working agri-
cultural and dairy schools under Govern-
ment patronage end with State support, as
existent in many places abroad, to the end
that our farmers may in the future be men
who go moch more understandingly to work
than at present. We endorse the recommen-
dation most heartily, believing that if
culture is to become once again a paying
eccupation, if we are to gro iv our own gr tin
and butchers' meat, and produce our owe
eggs an:l butter better and cheaper thsn
they can be brought to us feom other lan Is,
can only be done by elucating the fer.l.:er
n the sense snggested.

COMMENTS ON CU BRENT NEWS
GERMANY mourns, with one accord, the loss
of its revered Kaiser, silver-haired William
of Tiohenzollern, who lifted:the Fatherland
once again to its ancient high estate among
the nations, and governed with statesni-inlv
strength the great people he gathered into
mighty unison. The hand of the res:A.irer of
Taetouic glory is stilled in death, hut the
splendid Imperial fabric he consolidated
stands on its firm foundation, the fittest
m,nument to the foremost figuro of the
eerturv. The career of the late Emperor
from that dark day on which he fled, a little
led of ten, with his weeping mother and
blonde-haired brothers, after the disaster of
Jena, right on to the time. more than four-
score years later, when sorrowing myriads
surged to get a last glimpse of his clay-old
fo.-m, lying in majestic state in the g!oomy
Dorn Kirche at Berlin, has been a romatiti,:i
one indeed, and will furnish a the no wo..thy
of all the eloquence of the most gitte I writer
whese pen ever traced history's deathless
page.
• •

The bereaved German has one eons ding
solace in the heavy affliction which has be-
fallen it. Kaiser Wilelm has gone, full of,
years and honours, to that bourn from.
whence no traveller returns ; but Kaiser
Fritz, loved and idolised of his people, reigns
in his illustrious father's stead. For mon:hs
past the life of our princess Royal's husband
has hang tremblingly in the balance, and
from day to day none dared to feel with con-
fidence that he would be spared to wear the
Imperial crown. At the call of du.4., the
Royal sufferer left the couch by the Medi-
terranean shore towards which the eyes of
Europe were turned in anxious sympathy, to
take up in his own bleak capital the licavy
responsibilities of sovereignty. That his
precious life and that of the Empress Vic-
toria should long be preserved is the ferveut
wish, not only of all in Germany, but of
everyone who would see the concord of
Europe maintained. There is no more
earnest desirer of peace and international
amity among the earth's great ones than the
gentle Emperor Frederick, master of the
military art though he be. His nobly-
worded proclamation on succeeding to the
seeptre may almost be taken as a guarantee
that grim-visaged war will not waste the
Continent while he is reigning. May he, his
much-lamented ailment notwithstanding,
govern Germany and exert his pacific influ-
ences over the policy of the Powera for
many a year to come.

Strcet toget e•. The other man Wag; cariyin4 the
hag, and rte. r Lcla S.reet he took it from him and
left, him, an he k Lot wards gave the ham and bag
to Baynba,m." lie charged Vale who said "Y a
who made the charge?" itnd witneFo said NU.
Hop on. Witness thn elv.rged them toga ti), r.
attd Vale 'laid "IVlay totin't you fetch t:te man wit
did steel the ham. I stole the ham off him." Mr.
Mr. Hoptou, the prosecutor, identifi-,cl tip. lam
which was wo.th 103. The hs.rn was 5p01...1
though he'ng p.a.- in a bag wi-h leeks or ocions.
Vale said he topic the bag from Thatcher in a joke.
l'be Bench considered the case proved and fined
defendants X 2 each, in default one mont',, and
culled Thatcher before them and severely ro.v-e.-
manded lint, and also cautinued Newnsno f‘ r
ing p:!isT,:ers to ride in his master's van.
Po n nuat!ier of perscns were sum-
moned f r non pa,ymett, of pier rate aid wec
ord.' ed to pay.
BOARD OF GUARDIANS. Mr. P. Pargeter prz-
sided Ht the weekly meeting of this board yesterday.
Admitted into the house during the week lO, Ma-
charged 14, dead 0, remainin; in the hou.e 501,
co.resp-tnding week last year 569. Oat-door relief:
! Kingswieford £5l is 61, Stourbrid4e 43 7s 51,
Helesowen £336' 91, non-resident pauper 4 131
6tl, total £129 9s 2d, against £1139, 81 last ya.tr.
Mr. F. A. Hibbert, wit., was hch.ourab:y
mentioned for the Caancellor's Prize Poem at
Cambridge. ..vas educated at Ft. Chad's College,
Denctone, and isia native of zille-,sinity,