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The Haslingden Gazette. — 1909-02-20 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

REV. JESSE BATTEN ON HEROISM  Last Sunday evening, at Barnes-street Baptist Church, Aocrington, the Rev. Jesse Hatton preached a special sermon to young people en "Heroism without heroics." Mr. Hatton said that the history of their race had abundant examples of groat heroes. Famous men had 'eft their heroic deeds as an inspired inheritance to humanity. Carlyle had written a volume oz. Hero Worship, in which he had shown the hero in the garb of priest, poet, prophet, king. So they had their long roll of heroes, inspired by patriotism. religion, personal ambition. A great procession of warriors, statesmen, explorers, who :tad fought, toiled, suffered, and died with the whole world looking on. But on the other hand th.y had heroes whose names had never been sung. by poet, praised by bard and recorded by historian. There had been men and women in obscure places whom noble deeds had never been accompanied by the blare of trumpet, the rattle of the drum, or the waving of flags and bannerettes. There were , heroes in lowly circumstances who were over io their midst, whom they met in the street, without oven thinking of their greatness or appreciating their valour. Peace had her victories no leas renowned than war. To attack popular wrongs. to uphold despised truths, to quietly do their duty. to keep quiet in depressing circumstances, to make the best of a bad job, to refuse to give in when everything seemed going against them, to have the spirit that would never say die, required as much eoutsge as to march to a cannon's mouth. The man leaping into the river to save another from drowning, the passer-by who gripped .ho bridle of a runaway horse, the fireman entering a burning building to rescue a woman or a child, the policeman boarding a tramcar to stop a murderous assassin from tiring a revolver upon a street crowd, were manifesting heroism without heroics. 'they were among those who did great feats in ordinary circumstances, who revealed the glory that enshrined the commonplace, and who had blessed the world by following the path of duty. The preacher, proceeding, described many Illustrations of noble deeds that had born wrought by common people in humble circumstances. Then followed a group of youthful heroes, mere boys, whose deeds had afterwards won the praise of all who had heard of them. It was good for them to roalis, that heroistn was possible for them al.. They could emulate the great men in lowly surroundings by doing their duty. They would find a sufficient sphere for these things in their daily occupations, in their homes, in their churches and Sunday schools. Best of all they could respond to the stern and severe demands of Jesus. He called them to a life of self-denial, self-sacrifice. It was an appeal to the heroic side of their nature. To live a true, clean, upright, Christian life in factory or foundry could only ho done by those who had tho spirit of the great. Their Master was the ideal hero, and looking back over a I ath stained with blood He was saying to the youth of to-day. "Who can, who will dare to follow Me?"
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1909-04-03 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

THE INQUEST.  An inquest on tho body Was held at the Town Hall on Monday morning by the Deputy Coroner, Mr. D. N. Haslewood. the fomnan of the jury being Mr. F. Opetishaw. The Chief Constable (Mr. O. Sinclair) was amongst those present. Thu f irst witness called With Mary Agnes Dunne; wife of Patrick Dunne, of 18, Persia-street, who stated that she was the cleaner of the Roman Catholic Chapel, Blackburn-road. On Saturday morning last she was cleaning the church, when slm found a chocolate box wrapped in brown Paper. and tided with a string, under a boat in the church. She took it to Father Robinson, and in her pro-enoe he opened it, it being found to contain the dead body of a mato child. The box and contents were taken to the police station. Sho had cleaned the chapel out on the Thursday previous, but could not say whether the hex was there then or not. She did not think it was. She had no idea at all who had placed tho box there. The doors of the church were opened shortly before seven o'clook in a morning, and with the exception of about a'couple of hours at dinner-time the place was more or less open until half-past nine at night. P.C. Greenwood said that ho received the box, produced, and its contents from the Ink witness. Richard Dirtwistle, 16. Whalley-road, confectioners, gave evidence to the effect that he sold the box on the 25th March to a woman named Ellen Carney for a halfpenny. Ile did not ask  her what she wanted it for. Mary Ellen Hunt. 53, Dowry-street, said she was the wife of John Hunt, a spinning master, but lived apart from him. Her daughter, Gertrude, gave birth to a male child on the 24th March. Her daughter, who was unmarried, would be 17 years of age in September. There was no one present at the confinement. besides witno,s. She knew of her daughter's condition. The child wins born dead. The body was afterwards placed in the box, produced, by witness's mother, Ellen Carney, who took it away on the  25th March. By the Chief Constable: Her mother had since told her that she left the box in the Catholio Church. Dr. Geddie, police surgeon, gave the results of a post mortem examination he had made of the body. The child weighed three lbs. 13 ounces, and was well formed, developed, and nourished. The lungs were solid and presented no sign of there having been breath in them. In his opinion it was a still-born child, and it had not had a separate existence. By the Chief Constable: Many children would die if they had not proper attention at birth. He could not say that this child would have lived had it been properly attended to. One child in four would probably din if they had not proper attention at birth. The Deputy Coroner, in summing up, said there was no question of manslaughter or murder, and whether the police would institute further prco eroding' was a matter for them, and with that the jury had nothing whatever to do. It would be sufficient if the jury mid the deceased was found ' in the box in the manner described. The jury accordingly returned a verdict that ' the chlld was found in a box in the Catholic Church. and that it was still-born.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1909-07-17 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

HOW ANIMALS USE THEIR FEET.  Beasts, having twice as ninny feet as birds. have learned to apply them to ninny uses. They dig with theni, hold down their food with them, fondle their children with them, paw their friends, and scratch their enemies. One does more of one thing and another of another, and the feet soon show the effects of the occupation, the claws first, then the muscles, and even the bones dwindling by disuse, or waxing stout and strong. Then the joy- of doing what it can do well impels the beast Earthier on the same path, and its offspring after it. And this leads at last to specialism. The In• than black bear is a " handy man," like the British Tar—good all round. Its great soft paw is a very serviceable tool and weapon. armed with claws which will take the face Off a elan or grub up a root with equal ease. When a black hear has found an ant-hill it takes but a few minutes to . tear up the hard, cemented clay and lay the deep galleries bare: then, putting its gutta-percha muzzle to the mouth of each, it draws such a blast of air through them that the industrious labourers are sucked into its gullet in drifts. Afterwards it digs right down to the royal chamber, licks all the blaated queen, and goes its way. But the bear is like a sign-post at a parting of the ways. If you compare a brown bear with the black Indian, or sloth bear, as it is sometimes called, you may detect a small but pregnant difference. When the former walks, its claws are lifted. so that thrir hoots do not touch the ground. Why? I hiss no information, but I know that it is not content with a vegetarian diet, like its black relative, but hankers after sheep and goats, and I guess that it: murderous thoughts flow down its nerves to those keea claws. It reminds me of a man clenching his fist unconsciously when he thinks of the liar who has slandered him.—E. H. Aitken, in the "Strand Magazine."  " WHY: IS Jr that Horniman's Pure Tea is most in demand? Because they do not advertise the largest sale in the world, or the cheapest tea the earth produces, but everyone knows that Horniman's ?tire Tea is the best value for money; for the best Is always the cheapest, and, being Full weight without !he package," the consumer gets what he pays fur. If you aro drink. rag Horniman s Tea stick to it. If you ore drinking Gthei tea ate; not satisfied, try flornimads, and you will drink it always. Being blended from the choieet spring crops of India, China, and Ceylon. gua•anteed by the importear so alt. solutely pure, it is 'Always Good Alike." Ask for a packet at your grocers, seo that you pet and don't be put off with a substitute which :s I not just as good. Sold by the principal grocers, confectimmrs, and co-operative societies throughout the world.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1910-04-23 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

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The Haslingden Gazette. — 1910-09-03 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

MEN WHO WERE HANGED. AND THEN FOUND NOT GUILTY.  STRONG ARGUMENTS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.  4" THE PENNY PICTORIAL.'  Is it right that circumstantial exidence 6hould be allowed to send a man to the gallows? Does the fear of the death penalty prevent murder? And whether it does or not, i, there not good mason why capital punishment should be altogether abolished?  Capital punishment In England may be inflicted for four offences—murder, high treason, piracy with violence, and destruction of public arsenals and dockyards; although for over seventy years the practice of carrying out the dealt ?endemic in all eases except murder has been discontinued. Yet statistics Show that crime is less common to-day than it was when the dcath penalty was so muddy inflicted. This is in fact that will need some digesting by the supporters of capital punishment, who put forward the old plea of "deterrence."  Fear of capital punishment will, they say, deter a man from committing an offence for which it is the prescribed penalty. How, then, do they account for the diminution of erinie since the practice of carrying out the death sentence for all elf mees except niurder has been 4iiiciintintted? The present state of the baw as regarik capital punishment is indefensible. Supposing, for a moment, that capita! punishment be justifiable on the ground of deterrence, we are inflicting it to-hay as a penalty for the very crime whieh nothing will deter a man from committing,. •It is more than possible that if death were the sentence imposed for exceeding the speed-limit in a motor-car, no offences of this description would eser be registered.  ARE MURDERERS NECESSARILY INSANE? But murders are nearly always due to influences ' ocer which no deterrent ca. prevail. They are the offspring of passions, of revenge and jealousy, the outcome of drink or po!itical and social wrongs. When a man is meditating the commission of a greatl crime, the passion by which he is hurried on neutralises all other considerations. Ile contrives to shut out from his mind everything which would interfere with his design, and never enters into any serious calculation of consequences. Whilst under the influent* of anger, jealousy, or fear, a man seems to havo lost the use of his reason.  In fact, there is very little doubt that all murders are the result of a greater or less degree of mental derangement. And if we are to put a man to death for a disease of the niind, why should we not put him to death also for disease of the body? This is a point of view brought out very strongly by that remarkable satirist, Samuel Butler, in his hook " Erewohn." In the imaginary kingdom he pictures, men are sent to hospitals for committing crimes, and sentenced to punishment for being ill. From innumerable points of view it seems ahnost inconceivable that a human being should base his defence of capital punishment on the grounds of deterrence; for what—regarding punislunent from this un-humanitarian point of view—is to prevent us reviving the penalty of torture? But let us turn to another aspect of the ease.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1904-07-23 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

CAI:  ICRANKSHAVID LTD„ CHEMISTS. ACCRINOTOM. .1. J. DLAYNEY. CHEMIST, lIMILINODO4.  " Ob. by-the-bye." he said, when he had obtained 'the direction, " can yd give me any idea where Mr. and Mrs. Groom are gone to ? " " Well. I believe they went to Epsom, but I don't know where or to what part," was the answer. . .  Jarrett was not long covering the three ' miles that divided the two villages, and very soon discovered the house that Mr. and Mrs. Dudley had occupied. It was always let furnished, and was then in possession of some I.ondon people, who, when they were not at Saxonhurst. locked it ud. as it was then. He had no particular desire to see it, except in the very faint hope that Mrs. Dudley might have left a photo of herself behind. .  ..... He was about to remount his bike and ride away to the railway station, when the thought struck him that he would inquire at the post-office whether the Dudleys had left any address: he considered it very unlikely, or if the lady had done so, it would be a false one ; and again, it was very doubtful, in the latter event. whe lier the post-office people would give it. It was a general shop, and a young woman was serving behind the counter: Mr. Jarrett put on his most fascinating manner, raising his hat in addressing her. " Yes," she answered, " Mrs. Dudley did leave an address in London, but no letters have ever conic for her." Mr. Jarrett said that he was very anxious to get some clue to the lady ; it was a matter of the utmost importance: indeed, a large sum of money depended upon it, which would be lost to the lady if she could not • be traced within a few days. . _ _ .  The young woman hesitaed—Mr. Jarrett looked more killing than ever. His sweet looks prevailed. It was against the rules of the post-office; they would be severely censured if it were known.  Mr. Jarrett was ready to take any number of oaths of secresy. So it was written down and handed to him—" Elm Street, Regent's Park." Mr. Jarrett thanked her profusely and departed. He put very little eonhdence in the genuineness of the address, but lie had made other discoveries for self-congratulation. He had, he believed, obtained a clue to the murder mystery. The landlord of the" Waggon and Horses " was right: Susan Dicks knew more than anybody else about the death of Jasper Skelding. If he had had any doubt, after his observation of her manner, it was removed by her eagerness to fasten the guilt upon Francis Dudley. But whether she was an accomplice, or had been only by accident a spectator, and then terrorisCd into silence : whether or not her potcher husband had anything to do with it, were points upon which he could tome to no dcosion. For, unlike the police, he hated forming theories, unless he had a good basis upon which to raise them. He had also made certain observations in the house, which might or might not lead to results. I " The next time I visit it, which shall be rery soon. it will be alone. When I have . made my search, I will again turn my nr. and Mrs. Dicks," he said , himself.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1908-10-10 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

ALBERT. Albert House, Farringdonet., lon. don. for a box of GRASSHOPPER OINTMENT and Pilo, which is a certain cure for a Bad Leg, Housemaids Knee. Poisoned Hand., Abscesses. Swollen ClAnds, Ulcerated Joints, Carl:ma-I.e. Bunion'. etc. Of all Chemiete at la. lid. sad 2a ad. per box  Barracks. It is the lot of tho stoker to ho regarded as "the /gam of the Service." Un. doubtedly raw stokers are apt to kick over the traces of discipline; but the stoker of fact is a very different person from the stoker of fictionTaking them all in all, British naval stokers are an extremely fine body of men. Personally, I like stokers, and believe in them. I like to yarn to a stoker about his work. Usually he loves it and glories in it, once you come to the mein himself, and not the mere outer shell of talk about . _ . . .  " the Service hernia dog's life." and so on. I would not advocate the remission of • single day of Stoker Moody's sentence, because naval diseipline is naval discipline, and it must rest absolutely on the punishment of the sinner. Yet this I know about the stokers at their worst. That fateful night when the Naval Barracks "mutiny" was in full blast, I saw Lieutenant Collard standing conspicuous with a white muffler, right among the stokers who were shouting and yelling in the Barrack Square. I saw Moody and other Makers speaking to hi inthere; noise was a deal more in their hearts than murder. This whole thing was a drunken spree—though " Mutiny at Portsmouth." made better headlint•s, and the headlines had to be written up to. Well, whatever atokers may or may not be, they will be all right on the day of battle.  The most capable and most disliked body of men on shipboard are the engine-room artificers— •• tiffies," as they are usually called. They are frequently tinged with revolutionary ideas, which are much out of place on board a man-of-war; but they are wonderful people for accomplishing difficult jobs in record times and for competence generally. In conclusion, there is a thing needing mention in connection with the whole engineering branch of the Navy—engineer Officers. " t iffi les," stokers, and the rest. In all our records of naval disasters there is not one single instance of any one of them shrinking from the particularly terrible death hanging over them, and which has generally overtaken some. Above, in the free air, a man has some chance, be the worst %hat it may; below, ;  he has none. The engine-room complement of the Victoria. carrying quietly on at their job till death conic—death in steam and flame and agony. knowing for many long minutes beforehand what was coming, unflinchingly watching this death slowly come—is a picture of which the British nation has heard far too little. On a smaller smilo this incident has been repeated since morn than once. From the highest engineer-admiral down to the most scallywag, good-for-nothing. second-class stoker, there in one thing that every soul in the engineering branch tiiay be utterly depended on to do—to carry on his job till death, if tho need arise.  IF jA YOU BAD HAVE LEG