The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-03 00:00:00

gotun talk qnb Strut ethics.

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I was not precast, of course, at the annual general
meeting of the Poole Conservative Association to hear
Mr. Schreiber's " brief but stirring address,' although
It was repeated to me in full the day after it was given.
Mr. S. seems anxious to " seize time by the forelock"
with a vengeance. His speech was brief because he
hadn't much to say, and stirring because the mud of
Conservatism needs stirring.
--
I think, however, I shall go to the Antelope
to-night to hear Mr. Bentinck, the pioneer of
Parliamentary obstruction, who has initiated us in
Poole inta the secrets of pocket borough manufac-
turing. But we don't live in a pocket borough yet,
and time right h mm. gentleman will h..ve plenty to do
to be returned a.min for his own seat.

The Darscl COllllO Chrontcic, a paper I vory
seldom see, grew very spiteful the week before List
with the Poole Town Column for daring to dismiss the
mud question, and it denounoss ae heretics those who

dare go into the question of figures in the muter.
Doee tha 110.0. think that its pr,judiced remarks will am,et the me, ham of the Poole Town Council, f.e
ti at that body cares one whit for what that laPer&_
about it.. where! Y.

Nr. Then, again, let me inform the condulore f
that awfully dull Conservative organ that at a cord .4
a thousand pounds eight Acre?, of la, '.l are ""g made
worth about five times that
.rtlel, and that if the
programme of the Town t`on,ml ha I been earrie4 out
th It land would have hen more or less the property
of the rate, avers, and now it is n..P. Will the
deny that ? lite...use if it will it will d anything. •

A Mr. Watts, of B ,urnemouth, ha., at his own
expente, been kiml enough to enlighten tat is, 41,4
paper as to how to get meat at oh I all tho pries
we now pay for it. As ca ay a% de..riv for hutchor.'
tn,at in Poole as our Bourcemouth orixim,opsnl, mid
our loc.ll expenses Ave about half as much as thry a.
there, it is reasonable to suppose that our btechere are
making their torturer.

A correspondent, who carefullystudied my paragraph
of buit week (at least an be gars), writes me a long letter:
but the writing ism, bad I really catm r.qul a rpiarteroi
It. Ica make out a few words of it, OF mrh. Ti,tre
are " poetry," " romissory not' for £l,OOO
"stayed him from bankruptcy," " ingratuude,"
" sold his birthrigh.." If anyone al read the lettet
he is welcome to try to do an. but I cannot PIA, ig

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I fail to see the connection of any of thtae he In
sentences with anything I naid last week, don't you?

can't he tell lies, though'" This nmark
simultanewtsly uttered by two Poole tradesmen as they
were leaving the Cuns••rvstive Hall meeting the other
night, and I futuid that it applied to one of the
speakers. •
I listened a bit longer, and then I heard—" Of mom
he wouldn't insult us by asking us to helieve slush lies ;
they a-e o ly intended to go d..wn the throats of the
working men."

I don't know if it is to-nivht, or to-morrow nigl.t,
the next night that a wonderful necromsncer, juggler,
low comedian, and versatile al tist ii comin; to give.
performance in the town. I did hour hh. name, an /
fancy they called him " Professor Large Nfinidling
nutty Ravenous Ifivlstink." He will pnoluce horn hii
pocket a wh le borough, wake a pudding in a hat, and
then a pie—a mud p.e. Let's hope h.. won't throw too
much mud about; but if he does it will soon brush olf,
and the dust from it will in all probrdility go into
his own eyes.

Poole is to be pay with all these varieties. Ball'. •
rifle supper, a concert of the Musical A/0404
I advise the Foresters to begin to build their hall tioon.

I saw a poor man coming out of ths Town Hall the
other lay; he had heen after relief. I naked him ,1 he
got anything. "Ye, aixpenc-." " Why nre 1,11 in
distress? there's plenty of work for ii able man
like you at the La lies' Walking Field." "I went up
there, air, and they wouldn't have me, 'co,, as ti..w /
bad no 'hovel, so I went and bought one and went up
next day." " Well, of course they took you on th.m,
becluse you are a good strong man." "NO sir, they
didn't ; they said they didn't want me. I see how it
is, air; that's all a ' politic ' job, thnt Walking Field."
He might have been farther off from the mark thin hs
was then.

In order to gain their own selfish ends
Some don't mind stooping to blander our friends;
They seem to think it cc ipitsl lark
To fix on someone to stab in ihi dark.
Much mischief th-y do, and they hove the knock
On each hit of truth some. great lie to tick;
Then woe betide him they men to sttack -
Hell very soon fled himself em hie bees.
If ho is nervous, or timid, or shy.
Fearing to soy to • liar "Yyu lie
It is their delight to worry ,nel tea.°
(Not always do they mes t with such as these).
It you &set understsnd these words of mine
Read the Telegram for January nine ;
Mich inform diem you from it will ah,M,
And what I refer to Ito, iete quite 'Jain,
The Town Council met together so talk
About alarms field where ladies on walk.
Was" ac.utloo" tithe., who did
id
out
himsd,rylaaon7l:3sen.
With ccor,ri,n.liko whip ~ thhoe
Ode whom he rp eke of as "the tether of hi
Msy the losson he taught he never freet,
From lies may it purge the whole Fury lot.
Tag WANDIMIR, in Note Telegram,
Longfieet, January 26th, 1880.