The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-05-07 00:00:00

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WATCH'S, CLOCKS, GOLD ,TIWILLIERY,
SILVIS& AND ILICTRO-PLATL

T. tts• Qom sod ROW& FAMILY, IPS
By Spesla Appolataiest to ELLE. us Pizzas a
WALE%

Pius lap Ara-LONDON, Dunn?, AND PAW&

WATCHES.
Of all koda.ag X 0
Aiwa&

MOMS.
Of a kiwi.. of 2 be 1003
Grimm
Lawn, Vilma. Conon, Tumor
Eloatiorm, Donal emiousa, Qom
Cazoroursz, Cosoro- DlsOlo a Mimic' Room
GYPS HALL. SWF
OI*TSI Liman. Boman; no.
airillmsArsaa,D. -
Doug, zro. EGINZILAND 'METRO
PLATE.
GOLD JEWRLLIRY Au Ow sir *signs.
ne Wog /606711.• Doom Somoza
Ba•osucro. noon's nu Azo BaniarAs2
Yaw' Ga. Looms amoviono
Nscw.aoss, Owls Como, dummy
Rums, Bruno Isial. OLLIZT Joao
Me, Cowan, 5113. BzoOSS. pOW. "(4
Illestraisd Oetaloges Wetaboa, Cloak; lswelhaT,
ko, post fres tor 2 stsapi.
Wileabes, Cloak", Javel&ary bad FUN seat to ill peas
at th• world.
Salwar sod Sleatro Plats Ottawas past free If,
Watches repaired by skilled srerkiase. Oid [him,
Jeoellery, Wstabei, Sta, asabbepd. blerebastio
Shippers, ood age supptled. 02221

Steam Factory sit 4 City Elbow Ream—
LIIDGAIII HILL AND OLD BOND STRUM
LONDON.

If YOU VALUE YOUR HILLY!' USE
nt RAGO'S PURR CARBON or VIM&
Al TABLE OBAROOLL. S. ta Bottles, 24.,
yad So. eseb, by all Mamie's, sal by J. L. Exago.
Sol• Kaindastarst, 14, Wtoroan-sersior, C.ozipum-
sQuLaa, LONDON, W.

rriliE BEST IN VESTMENT OF THE DAY
for & smell outlay, and where there 1... previous
kuowlodge of the bum= required, is a LLSONLDII.
GLNORR BEER sad SOD WATT& mamma, ea
the public taste is so mach es the iaereess for
aerated &lake. Tbe Book, of 50 pope of Wasteatiowe
anti inforatatlon, fee warded for three .temps.
8. BaIiNNIT,
13, Foairrox•srawar. HMOS, LONDON, N.
GOOD TS& Ofil&PliS TRAM BUIL
STRONG to nee Bleak Tea, la. 4d., 11. 64.,
2a, sad Is. 6d. per lb.; 40a wee& seat esniape
Dee to say railway staeles it wiedree tows to Basilan&
or Weise, o reseipt of 40s by
PHILLIPS k 00., TN. NilKNAres, 8 KUM
WaLuaivelnik
Prise 'offs' D. Li, la. 44., La. 8L • pries lid tree.
Pexuars a Co. Moe is *wet sad se easseetlee
with say house to Wargeslor, evansse, it Wittily.

rro SERVE THIS SEASON. in Doscassrsz
1 sad LH Nighbeeritood, et Sl et* fo &L the
Groom, IrpotrialEt GLORY." Übe property al Kr.
Bairaue.

" larwor's Ging "10 17 hoods high, • dark brown y
kw godly's, symmetry, sad as • good worker, he is
sot to be gulled la leo County. Ho is ce• ire of
the doh betooglag to Mr. Mayo, a Pozwell, whisk
wo• tat Int gobs at the ISSIS show el the Dorchester
dgrisslousl Society.

TO BRUDIRS OF PART HOWIE.
rPHAT 410111FaCt rtr•-belkl PART BOMB
" NORIA " trill be at the swim of ereedere or
Oct Hume We eseete, as Two Galore emeh Yore
sad It ed. the Germ. Tbe Greseee Nivea to be
paid if the date el derv*, sad the reselleder es es
before the 4th of Joie next.
"Nona" is • brows bone, i bUus i&4 sisal.
17 howls MO, shertdteal
grad., _•••••
la liersere. sad very the wi vie
preeitslag that b• te_yerre Ihmell to be
see el the meat rambles alms Iluss
ow hoes tatrodesei iste *as was*
-"Noma" vett me •6 ebe Um% Aims leiem:Dos-
ealeas. roomy AMWAY imbl WO he at
lease every modes awl rl.s ea eigileollee to lee
aesema. Len Dalt.
Imam eeselai twarriahmmilis he be eigkerll4
Delliklol‘

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THR AGRICULTURAL LABOURER.
The coudltlon of the Agricultural Labourer Is one of
the leading topics of the day. The demand for high( r
wages, begun he Warwickshire, Is gradually extending
throughout the kingdom, oven to the tat of our own
eounty, and Dorset bai been "sited by a "special" cor.
reepondest of a daily °oaten pantry, to spy out the
thaw:lnns of the land. Ills report stems fa,rl7 written,
and it does not preeent Dorset in the dianal plight to
which people at a distance nadir poem,' et, although
It iodicates diffion:tine In the I..h.nrer's position, and
al— points the rem.. dy—migration to counties where
labour Is lems abundant aid better paid.
.t conference in coulee:ion with this ,übjoet, largoly
attended by the friends of the labourer, ha. been bold
at Willts's Rooms, Si. Jetnee'equare, London. Among
the leading speakers were the Rev Canon Girdleenne,
Mr Joseph Arch, well known in oonneetion with the
Warwleksbire strike, Sir Charles Trevelyen, and Mr
George Potter, with other representative. of Trades
Unions. The following resolutions were nand :-
1. "That this Conference L. of opinion that the airricultural
labourers of llngland dand much hi need of a great and most
decide] improvemeat in their condition, and that improve-
ment can best be promoted and wined by the formation of
unSois throut the agricultural districts for the purpose
of obtaining Increme of wages and such advantages as may be
to moist in carrying out the foregolng resolu-
tion, Maces prenent pledge themselves to glee all the help in
their power—l. By nilerribing to a fund tote called ' The
Agricultural Labourer.' Union Fund.' I. By organising for
0111.04 C of prosiotloc 1. I.l.nheonlptiona, and obtaining
a .'
s
,t 1 other beep a. m eia) ic doomed
1. 'flute central committee berrtl for the purpose of
pc -tooting the establishment of Agricultural Labourer.' Unions I
lli parts of Crest Britain,.
4. That this Conference considers that the regulation of
Agricultural Labourers' Cation. regarding ordinary work, work
I, haneet time, and cLorifying labour according to Its edict-
q oestiiti sre;solrei lc h 11.7.1,{ZotiLuonitlii.i.uhr.ourre. rt.° cae.Lbet bent
dual .11k, end
Judicious and honest committee to compile a wise code of rule.
for the guidance of the labourer. in anielloraUng their condi.
lion, and to provide for them matter."
b. "Tend this Conference respectfully points the attention
of landowner& occupier., and labourer& to the important and
successful •apenritents made In co-opmstire=olture at
lialahine, count) flare, by John Broil Van , and at
Aiesington, in liutfolk, under the auspice. of the late late Mr
Gordon: as also t the 'liege co-operatirs *tore established at
Aisington in 1803, and that established in ISer7 by the labourers
In the employ of Lonl Docie, at Fetworth, Oloooestershine."
o. The last resolution expressed the conviction of the Con-
fer, co that the system .1 •ottling dispute* was far preferable
to -.tikes and I,ck-outs, and recommended agneultural
labooooreto Wabash board. ‘,l arbitration.
The follonag oo.nmunioations shows the differenoes
In wage. la Dorset, Wilts, and btatford. In the latter
*minty 15# wages sod some vary euntantiel
are an
sad In
advance on the wages *Gnomon in
Dorset, la the fan of which, the demand of the
labourers of for 21 • day seems not in.
orbitant :
DonairniMll: DOrchner.—l endues a statement of
the wages gold in this neighbourhood, which I fancy
goes to prove that Dorset men are better paid than Is
generally supposed. The amount of money paid weekly
varies in sonesquence of some employers giving "grist.
lag" Whine, and others refusing to do no. It has often
been stetted that this " pining" is forced upon the
labourers, and not veined by them. l• sontradistion of
this statendat I can refer to employen who even this
year were enspelled to raise their wages beans" they
did not, as others, spare any Wheat. With regard to
drink I may mention that we have none of the Canon's
sour Devonshire," and I am sled tubs able to stets
that the mato= of giving money inteed of liquor is
becoming mese general every year. The dinning' of
the agricultural labourer are for the most pa.t disgrace•
ltd. It may be that the landlord' are awn, of the love
of the poorer claret for excluding pure air; I ran Ind
no uther excuse for them. I see no other nano why
. . . .

chill, &unlit, should pour through holes and cracks,
end ill-closing door.; and even this ileum will hardly
do, for in =Amy oases toe typhoid breeding drains mid
pools ma send in their unwelcome reminders. This
wretched state of the habit ztions of the farm labourers
eete me thinking, if, with the exception of moommodi-
tiisn for eiders anis sheperds, it would not be WWr for
the landl irda to keep the cottages, sod here the diagram
in ite entirety. I think; there M • *hangs In the tam
labeling of Dorset; he dram better, or veers more
expensive etotkse at all events. Hls family frequently
dress too much. Mere of the young men go from home
to learn trades. Re "lime' better than he did, though
I dare may he meek! not object to live better than be
does. The pealed evil peettliat to this part of the
emmtry Is the changes at Lady-day. The own seem to
have acquired the habit of slimming, but did the masters
consider the expense of "fetching the goods," and the !
value of the horses upon the farm instead of on the
:Oltat such en important mason, I fancy the fault
not lie with the inaMiltS. Ass rule I believe the
Dorestehire labourer to be a. wdt able to do a day's
work, and opts the present time quite as malentad,
as the men of any other county. The following is the
statement referred to

Shepherds : Weekly wages, ; house awl garden, Ma 20
perches of potato ground, and fuel,free. Egtem-151 fog food
and drink goring laughing sem. ; from La tot. al for every
100 iambs brought to shearing place; g 2 for harvesting, or
Li and Mink ;10i or drink for haymaking; in nom* cam. the
@Ma of *origins iambs.
Carter.: Weekly wage, Ott) 9. ; home and onion, with
20 porches of potato growid, sad fuel, free. Ettraa, Is for
e% cry During' ; £2 for harvesting or gl awl drink; 10s W 41
for haymaking. _ . _ . .

General labourer' : Weekly wage, Se to W.; house and garden I
with 20 perchee af potato ground, and fuel, tree. hem er
"Tut" work.— og lisp., acre, cut, hind, and stitch; a
lOW on Cut Mil as we. No clog: 2. ts 0 per acre ' a MOO
maw.. le MOM MvOlog barley, Se nd. : al •
peach ;a ma can do st pon.isee. Turnip hoeing: "Angling,"
Go per OCR
In the *boa eatement the "fuel " is equal to 4CO
faggots, or 5 to 10 owL of coal; quantity allowed "WM
mach. It gowns low that the present investigation
will prove that the Doreetehire labourer is not so 'li-
poid Oa stated, bet It will hasten the adoption of •
mossy pep..at eel, oad ee. tibeemals Is, Sc.
shire employwi will suffer no pommies., lois, whilst
they pa mwah in reputation. It may elm lead some
mower; Who only regard those they employ as mere
moohines, and care nothing about their dwellings and
their moral audition, to ask themselves, " if I have
any j out groan& for treating my labourers Is this way,
have they not more roman to endeavour by every lee.
timaie Leas to obtain the hir and fall vales of that
which they have to mil?' Lad I believe the present
agitation may go farther yet, and be proditative of good,
by working 00 the prinsiple of 'the dog began to
worry the sae." The testate may MILOS their dogs to
prove to the landlords that both parties have an leterest
In the mattor ; the Loaded proprietors may roue thee.-
selves to do what they can, and so,tholigh that hitherto
111-used beast of harden, the lad, stianot progess
ohocrily under on oaf air weight, badly placed, yet give
him (airplay, aail do not overtax Ms strength, and he
wiil do hie work bravely, and all will enjoy the fruit of
his lamer'. The good of one may be the good of ea—
W. .f. Pope, Goilmanatow Rectory, Dordwata,
Tag Laramie Quarto?: Is Dom:T.—To at Editor,—
SIR, —Many of your readers have writteo me, asking
for informed*o about entiagreent in the North, bed
expressing • desire to be oat there. lam happy to say
that we have lowed work at good wages for very many
persons and we can flod work for many more—for off,
Indeed, whose characters will hem Investigation.
It will sae mush trouble If the., who wish to be sat
off to farms and towns In the north of England will,
when writing to me, bs careful to write their names,
woo whether parried or 'dodo; if they have families,
what are the ages of their caldron ; what sort of
work they sal their children eon do ; whether they
wish to take their children with them at once, and
when they... go. In all inatenem they mat enclose a
stamped directed envelope, and a testimonial ae to
character, he. Their expenses are paid from S:elbridge
or Riandloed Mations to the plasm where they will live,
but In most mem the masters deduot the mount, or
part of It, Is very smell weekly sums. I shall be
sled to hear of large families (the more children the
bettor) who would like to be sent off. The father
would get lee or llito • week to begin with,
and every ohild over eight years and under
13 lyeare amid be employed In the mill a. a
half.timer ; that they would work 6. hours in the
. .

;471-1 &idipsdvshoiari in t-b-4--;:i.;1.--41. -clad of
eight years would pt 26 or 21 31 • week, and Its 'dues-
two tree; and the wages would he Wed every dime or
four mantis. Many girls earn very high wage'. I eon
find work tor two or Wee thousand persons at once U
they apply, or.. soon as I can be satisfied sat 3 their
worth.—Oposoz RODGEIB, Congroptlonal
Stalbridge, llay 1, 1872.

WILTSMB: Odatock, Saliebury.-11y farm is three
miles mak of Salsbury, on th• abak—arsa 1,100
acre/.

d.
My head dumdum' received for wages, par
For 700 simel• Imam rtaredoit 14 2 1 V
42 tines, at Is such • 2 2
lusted 43.041 amising time • 110
F. Isilre mos 0 7

£46 13 10

Together with an excellent ',otters sad large -garden,
rent mid zees free. My heed carter has 14, per week,
mad • cottage rent free. Ile eared last year 4.1 9. 4 1
for driving Wm reaping-machine additioual. We last
year extracted the earning. of four of our good able- '
bodied laboarers, when. wages, apart from their wives'
and children's earning., reached from 12. 41 to lii, Id
per week. Mak setters mut, Le per week, aid good
gardens. The day pay 1. 10, per weak, bet piecework,
when wettable, is employed: Our labourers are app.-
nett, seeteated. Immillitdd that they have beer gad
er old during the hay and harvest, free. Mist
certainly my sonvistion is the labourers are better
off than when my experience of them sommeoced—tocos
2.5 years gee.. My experiimee es • laud agent assures
me that, as the wages psiii In the South of England,
the labour is nay as deer as that in Cumberland or
Lloooln. The carter, and others of the labouren who
are mllOO7Ol at extra hours, hare potato ground free.
—Shad P. Stnartif.
Tat WILIIIIIIII AGIIICRILITILAL Lalloollllll Smug,
—The following handbill has been extensively ohm-
lased in the neighbourhood of Devises :—" To &LI I
of agristilt Labour.—amitlemen,—We beg hrahp
to give you notice that we, the labourers of Shrewton,
Maddington, and neighboring parishes, require an ad.
vain, of eve shillings • week wages, nine hours a day.
fourpsnes en hour for erica time kayoed nine hours
• day ; and respectfully to say that unless We obtain
this we shall seek employment eleewbere.—Signed, on
behalf of As men of the above parishes.—Libounr."

BrarroitDamina: Trimicortk.-1 thine that the agrl-
onitural Weimar in this neighbourhood is really In •
b.ttur podtem than he ..e• Not only is there now,
but there hoc been for some year., fell employment for
all industrious steady men, at fair, It not good yeses;
but there Is a real scarcity of skilled labour. By tbia
name men who eau rick, thatch, sheer, hedge, draio,
ha Stafford you know, act *zenith:nal connt7i
many Important Immeshes of maenfacture being curried
em in 11. Theme absorb a large somber of working
men ; still It is no nasommon a: warrens, for them to
return to actintlteral work after a turn in the Black
cowry me the Potted..; and though the wages there
SOMA AM much in excess of Tillage pty, it to soidom
that their morale or position hi improved by the change.
Co-operatire atone are wanted in the v:11 met, the
üboar.e, owns bong too often frithrsd &say in
weld•
mai, an pest, peraltana, sad Mare are far too
tpe for the reel wards of the people. 17e.
MA,
fortnnatnig lbsworkman Lae no sconoraloal
6.4
inkomegni nr= dint The Sent thrives on he.
bet the &Oa labourer adepts very
ealcamabi=gether Widenin" Saw sad Wee
white
Trio,: wheel gent labseiren one la Ws alines
teem Ige le al; mink amois. msd absphirde, vibe

work longer hours and o from 16s to lfle •
week. Boys, 44 to fie; women, la a day, but few go
cut. harvest mouth, 30. entre and beer. Where beer
is not Riven (and it is a great pity this custom is not
general) dab!. wages for the month. Piecework of all
kinds is "mimosa, at which men earn about Is 31 more
money. Perquisites: 3or 4 tons coal annually, drawn
from the pits, at a saving of 3.1 or 46 • ton. A plot if
Pot•tos ground Is usually manured and prepai•l, from
which 15 or 20 buebels are got, at a soot of Si or Is •
bu•hi I. Some have good.sised gardens. many fair
allotments. Most feed a pig of Er or 20 scores, bought
(rim their master, and paid fur when convenient cut of
extra earnings. Then there are seething, alek, and
medical slabs, to which most farmers subeeribe besides
many other little helps. Cottage accommodiation is
pretty good, but not sufficient; we want 'Wages out
our farms The man who walks 2 miles to and from
work (as several of mine do) wastes one-eight of his
tima—his °apical. Root, vary fro ii hOr to 804 aceord•
iog to number of rooms aid sine of garden. There la •
good echoed in every village, la pot 15, • week with
the above privileges better psy than Itis in • town
without t One is not surprised that men earning only
us or 121 • week should ask for more, and I new no
valid moon for the great discrepancy in coighbourinfft
or even in any, counties, but surely he matter of
regulation of wages might have been settled without
foreign meddling or sin's e tonal writing. Your "Special
Correspondent. like • Itrench cook, can sem.3ll his dish
to order,and your morbidly sympathetic amateur Is just
as likely to do harm as goof. You, sea practical man,
know the ins anil outs' of farming—how ittliaidt it la to
eoonomise labour, and how little control can by sm.
abed where men do not work in muses, or in °ennui-
lion with ateam or some other molar motive-power.
Clocks and belle are of little use when the former Gan.
not be seen, or the latter heard. This I know, that on
most well cultivated farms labour has needled its
maximum, and with horse and steam power amounts to
a second rent. The last mime breaks the camel's back,
and if we are to have more taxes, higher wages, sad
ever increasing oompetition, farmers will soon have to
or, out—" Hold, enoagb."—Geo. A. May, Eeklerd
Park, April =.
The Daily Te/tyroph of Tuesday oontaina the follow-
ing from • "special correspondent," who dates
his letter "Dorchester, Saturday night."
Our estimable bat phlemetio compatricti, the
descendant, of the ancient Dicrotriges, have Naomi'
infeered with the turbulent spirit of the am They
have tired of the oonwireative theology which set before
them as the chief end of • Dorset [01.0.8 existent* the
• art of domestic vegetation on Sc a week. When one
he... or the territorial demigods who shoes this ormat,
amongst them, of She thosiand sere and twelve ban.
sired sere farms in whisk it is weaned out, of the
square miles of *over in which gams preserving Is
studio& like • toe sit, and of the enormous earns whisk
Dorsetahire farmers can afford to speed se machinery,
he may net down the "landed interest" in Dorsetahlre
as an institution which it is not desirable to offend.
When he turns from the 'capitalist to the labourer he
sees weakness arraying itself against strength—the
mole shallop/lag the eagle to mortal combat.
The unsightly belts of furs, and brushwood whiek
render the upper pert of Bank • striking illastration
of Lord Derby's low estimate of English &gristlier%
extend for some diatoms into North Dorset. The
Somerset and Dorset Railway travelers, between
Salisbury and Wimborne, • large tract of land quite as
indifferent as that in the vicinity of the Plait. Bet an
approach to the mast relieves this dusky, d.prpesisg
monotony. The wilderness' of turns breaks Medi
against the refreshing verdure that clothes the *balk
bills. The peat eoloured flats whim imperfect drainage
has coax, d into rearing mane wheat are exchanged for
loamy bottoms, o .pable of growing anything that eia
be planted in them. The population undergoes a
corresponding improvement. North Dorset has
evident difficulty in anstaining hamlet, and villages,
which shrink as far apart from each other as they can
get. But immediately on entering South Don't you
return to urban civilisation. Dorehestor bore is •
provincisi town of some energy as well as respeetehilliiy.
Though it adheres to the cramped and promisees"s style
of iiiteeture wichga it learned in the days of Kiss
Atheistic' it does sot go to sleep es its histerieal
reputation. It has modern life in it, and ma 'sodas" •
considerable bustle on Its weekly market days he
vitility is drawn from a ommaratively narrow distriel
mentos out towards Bridport on the meet and Wey.
=oath en the meet We. Bet my imehiss today
have not taken either of these direetimis They have
led me mere Into the centre of the county, semen the
sharply.delleed hills among waists the &oar threads
its way to the sea. The reed oat of Dorchester shades
Itself for some distance under • beautiful "mom of
Mem. Than it messde a hread.fisoksd hill, on widish
mosedoss 'solarium aro Wag made for the appromphing
Agricultural Mom Beyond that it gets Wined he the
shadow of • cover b.lcnglng to the principal landowner
In the district, Lord Dollester. This spreads out far
miles oil either side of tins highway, and atoms for •
time every myroptom of resident saltimitioo. When
you regain glimpme of closeted lel& sod sproutiog
wheat, you are on the mellow of a model Doesotableit
village. Piddlotown moopies the ant at • great ridge
width shuts out the sessirsuisan environs ef
from the genuinely mei sentre of the ecueby. It
rejoices in most of the essentials of dandiest feudy
The moire takes • direst and fatherly leteres. la Id;
villagers He haa built them from time to Mem num.
btrs of good cottages, sad he has furnished them with
ground for garden allotments The Meanta be has
"sleeted for his forms aro men who make tbn beet of •
bad system of labour. They pay the fall standard wages
of the county—oftener, I believe, the nine CZ
, maximum than Use eight shlithig 1111111111/11.
privileges as • matter of right and aortae have alsneet
diet nt ..‘ Dorsetshire, they linger on saleroom is
Piddletow... One of them is the molest pertmisite
, gritting, under which each labourer ma slabs • bushel
r—...us use, as the
_naltae.....waw
of five "hiltless. When wheat was liable to thistem.
Maui which lest it up as high ashen or twelve Willa.
• bushel, "plating" gave the labourer soars sestuity
for having always • moderately them loaf. Of late
years the customary price of the wheat luis mere=
represented Mt market value, it helm bet the
quality.,. of skied which does not gaud high at Mark
On one or two farms about Piddlelown.
"gritting" has been temporarily, perhaps pere.an.ntiy
suspended; hat the Imo have reosived liberal Dom
pensatioe M an addition of • shilling • seek to their
I oath wages. The potato greed, wMth seems he
'vail throughout the whole of the West of Begln.d, Is
graitei here without any of the deswharks and quell-
Smarms that are being introdeeed elmwhere. Small
kindnesses are alio prastiaed by the farmers, widish go
• loos way in promoting friendly feeling &moos' the
labourem A man would very seldom he related • tram
of straw foe his pig when be is so fortanste sato poems'
me. In • meaty so well Muttered, it would be herd
If something were not doss tr help to keep his pet
boiling In winter. He stands • chimes peevided he
be faultless as a labourer, and properly deferential MI
so inferior, of having sa bandsedweight or two Mire.
wood delivered at his deer In add weather.

--17Ftiril—eee.;17. i7ZITI Se seem,— dep;ade • great deal on
the gram of its auaeralaa. Wises they smile bier
volently it stop a certain degree shadier of starratioa
than ekes they have to frown reprovingly. What
might hope's if in • moment of empress displease:,
they were to withdraw their Ig.triw and firewood, the
meet vivid imaginstion in Fierst gannet ismadve.
Theban, money vales of hamar in the parish is jest else
shillings per week. I met one Waits, thick-spoken
individual trudging home this afternoon who teamed
me, with exemsble beadle pride, that he had bees
1 glottis( ten shilling. • weak ler the past two pan, bet
1 hie expressions indicated that Piddletows was not
blamed with m uoy labourersup to hie lev•L Afterwards
he added so ex planation, whish disooented his triumph.
He wee • (carman, sad had to be at the sondes of his
wattle os "Sundays sad working days." Menem, all
his privileges had been coommuted tor the extraehillfsg.
He ooald Maim neither potsto.gronad nor ittera w, arid
:
his homes is Piddktowa, which melt him tess_peses l
• week, if at some distance trots hie . He was
sot animus that Ma minter obinised • pod shilliaire
worth for the additional wigs: yet it had never
'stored his mind that a new dlap.aagloa might arias
in which labourers like himself would not be metent
with tea shilings a week. He had heard ea • mesa,
bordering on the Incredible, that in the next parish of
Whored St. Andrew the whole of the mem had mm-
based and given notice t 3 their madere that they would
strike if they were not paid two shilliap per day.
Fiddktewe had not dreamed of say push Mmisordia••
goo as writing to • master about wager, mash lam had
it dared to think of such. millesains as the pomade@
of a weekly lemma of twelve ehilliap.
Clow to the mese of this soseenation there wee •
row of two storey coetagee, elandieg at some diseases
from the road, In the middle of well-kept prtletes.
Vier had the substantial, orderly apparatus which
Implies good designing and liberel expeediture. I ex.
peeted to hear them described as model cottages of five
or six years old—the earnest of mmfortehlo, decent
housing for Piddietown. They had, however, stood
there • quarter of • wintery, sad were still la moderaes
repair. Moat of them were esicapied by temate along
standing, who, on savant of their reepeelability, pea
only a rental of £5 per annum for 1b.... of as assay
hoes. On one side of the stair, widish weeded Maims
directly from the front door, there wee • sieliag-reem,
and on the other two kitchens, one behind the other.
To, upper Door was divided into three bedroom.: My
chaperone here wee • woman of the Maas from which
Chancellors of the Le oar ought to be drawn whoa
wii some to female l'izliasuenti. She had reared •
mind dozen of a family in the hones she was 'bowies
OM Her husband had never sensed, till within the
pat month, more than eight Wilkie and eixposse •
week, out of which had to be set aside the landlord's
two shilling., and then about foarpeses • week fee the
sick club. Between the prides and the pelsto-groaad
on the farm they had always pews • aeflelleesey of
vegetables. When they could buy one they had fed a
pig, but, failing their home-grown beams Dm/ bed
rarely tasted meat. The six shill whisk remained
in bare sash for victualling the family would not have
provided dry bread, had the mother not eked it eel by
..er ono eerniogs as a cher woman. By dint of en.
wearying toil and Spartan thrift she had edwated her
children and started them ly in the world, all
but the youngest, • little prmr:tatAb ill at school. She could
not explain, when it was done, the !superhuman pima-
iag by which it had been accomplishe4. thedilak
heroine sash, was, she ha,' lea pity for herself than foe
neighbours whose draggle for existenae had bees harder
even than hers. Few of the Wives in the village meld
obtsin 111 light In-door work thet fell to her lot. They
had teen obliged ti go s.fieig. mmt "take, fee
the
market price of • day's hoeing er reaptng, eometiatee
as little as sixpence, and rarely more than sighkimaaa.
The fouhde beagle flourishes still in Dorset. To-
day, on the road between Dorchester and Mamma,
I there were ea may labourer, of that sex so of the
other to be seen shambling aloag in heavy boots with
their hoes MVPS that:shoulders, or sitting by the way-
.l4., with • sodden sad salky expeemien of wearinese.
Farmers do not care tor emplopms them a" aim
.than thecape wyoutiareld
beforintheto
the bands
leta t
I, a
rthzt
task. Sly.
master—burger. Dorset Instimehly desseese krma
both parenta shall be breadwinners foe the had,. u
it had to trust to or, It would have to go torthmtati
0,, half „atm... The women' pert vatientataad
this mnditioa, sad, bard-festered m leek, they
ectl4zwy
brawny perform thole doable daty. hera to
boos • good ohosaotoo it hese am well SI ta the field,
Is, the sassrain lis• mesh et there dams* ended'
saber hie sentrei. In al wises Whill hhs whetherthey I
are he he imbed est et the way ander a am*
Malawi ..4 off be b. In 14_6" a pain et ham in
see et the now astaph 4 no .1111 OM

lgalthesise cheek on population, by delaying marriages I
until It pleases him to Lair the young maple. A I
hors to let would be a phenomenon in Piddlateen.
Wore it to get abroad re months b,lotehand (Madam
Nokia was glair up his plasm or going to be turned
out, the qrstion of who woe to anocced him would
• erne Pima Simian gossip into convulsion . The village
bat hardly ',it recovered from re agitation canoed by
the last row of cottages built, thongh they are now
eiseeral pars old. They Lave form-il a fahlorabk
quarter in Piddletown' and oonsursed rents which go
oasiderably b-yond the ri sob of 9..eweek hose'
holders. lam giving the lowest eaters.° I heard in
sayleg that some of them cat their tenants £7 per
annum. But they me utiineitiosahly good hooves of
their elms, substantial in structure' end conveniently
arranged. The old eatages are let from year to year
down to Eli
On the Inither side of Piddletown wt exchange the
dominison of hold flehe.ter. an I ?quire liry flier for that
of Sir John yli,ui, I and Squire 14 turel. The lait•r
premium paternal government on • minute scale in the
hatakt of Hilboree St. Andrew. He has intrados:ad
moot of the improvements eulogised by Kr. Darrell
with the egartion of model 'Dotty/es, whir ere atill
wanting, Use eau understand his feeling a Conservative
Maderness for the whitewashed mud.walls and the
nuirgroan thatch plated there by his ancestors. They
see • poetic feature in the landscape over whir he
presides; and if eddies(' to iodating rheuinatiiiin or
ape on nopostio tenant., theism° physical condictions
widish a Dorset MOD rip. at to present themselves as
naturally as his eye teeth. Althorns °oar's do
ossairlouslly succumb to old age and get pulled down,
but no other form of inuovati,a 16 pergolas,'
smart rem. I could sot meet with any one
able to determine boa many limn it was since
the youngest of them was ball,. It was much
teeter to tram • universal conselousnes if the groat
need there was for • &sea or two more. Build
iug will be as indiffereet investment, however, at the
current restate, whir only average a shilling a week.
=berme housekeeping is seusibly ameliorated by the
squires leniency as • landlord. But his kindness is
devoured with eccentricity. In respect of garden
alletemeta, the village is under • sumptury law, which
restricts holders to about fire probes per head of their
lanslliee. They have the consolation of paying a popper
eons natal of tampers per porch per annum ; but the
earth-banger gases at their hearts. They aotuaily
soviet not only more warms% but more garden ground.
It is • long suide for their imegioations from their
own limited cabbage beds to the thousand-sere lams
on whir they hare to labour for the good of other
men's pockets. 2,10 t that the farmers of the pariah
are scything else than petlemen whom it shoali be
a pleasure and an honour to work for. They are,
It le true, lukewarm •11 to the rasa Inatome
of " misting " and potato. ground; but they have
dropped readily into the groove or modern philan-
thropy. They support a very fair school, and some
time age they helped to establish a village realist-
✓eem whereby, beam •Mk In this room lodgee
✓adio( Oonserative r taught by the heal
press was tempered with 'Warr of lees fruitiest
Journals, which have bees anwittiagly subscribed for
• by his parrs. Treason protested Ist, libe lamp.
' Last Saturday night the Labourers net ia thie very
reading-room, and ersierted • disloyal wariest°
against their beeevolent employers. It was ezereseed
' In the foem of en intimation that after the 27th of
April, "We, the undersigasd, troll nee and all
' Merite to work any leave fee less than two shillings
1 per day of nine hours.' An Wastrel note was addressed
be each farmer in the parish, baring the signatures'
' of all the me. In his employee at. One of the
! siparodes was deputed to deliver the ultimatum',
whlel was done accordingly on Monday morning.
' This comp le not likely to seemed so well Si tide.
' eseme, for daring the week some of the men grew
aarvows, and withdrew their names. The rearms be-
lieve thee there is plenty of labour t be purchased at
Iliopeeiesnl pros, aad arm ol them argue that it wortl4
• be bad for the men themselves to increase it. Their
ladasenter to remain in Dorset would be strengthened,
and that, astordieg Is the farmers, is the root of all
the evil. If the staples labor of the array would
have rase eastagh tr Usurer itself to arther market,
the reatakrim sould be beret paid in 0012•NOODOO
were they Daly to pet what wee saved in poor rates.
U 4 m the ruling system of salivation Dorset needs
°sly mashlary sad gamekeeper. Isis
saga seeking week, and SOW who have ore escaped
teem it are lalatured enough to return.
[lle far the Daily Telegraph's "sposial," We under.
read that the labourers turned out amorllng to their
allimerm lost Monday, and all the able-bodied and
rang ear relater sa strike, ikon& • few of the older
elms have retuned to their work. Or farmer hoe
may his careasdeft, and we are not sorrier to hoar
Mae be is disposed to rasa& She Ski a day dotards&
Uhl, atighboan will. The ear rat to seeure 124 • week
Wier of ear premed da or 10a. It is importing
So not, that the collagist here belong to 31eire Hamel,
sad S. his. this labourers are Warted for rem at is
a week. So the labonrers think, that as the farmers
deal peovids them with wraps at a Is., they should
mot reap the benefit of the Squire's kindlier, bat
give them more wages. Here too, the labourers have
so fuel. What will be the result ot the strike does
✓eappear, bet it is elves 'siker' like • "fedora hope,"
for the masa have no Vilest. base them, and Irk a
Wise.]