The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1869-01-26 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

WILL—The welfare and safety, the honour and luoutatioe, the plower.) and quiet of oar lives, are concerned in our loving correspondence with ail men. for so uncertain is our condition, so obnoxious are we to manifold necessities, that there is no man whose good will we may not need, whose good word may not stand us instead, or who.. endeavour may not sometimes oblige us. It is but reaeonable, therefore, if we desire to live securely, comfortably, and °niggly, that by all honest means we should en• deavour to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man', hatred is dangeroas.—Baggow.  flooxa.—lt is vanity to pennede the world one bath much learning when one has got • Freat library. As soon would one believe every man is valiant that has a well-furnished armoury. I gums good housekeeping by the smoking, not by the funnels, am knowing that many of them are without chimneys, and more without fires. Some books are merely to be tasted of, viz., first, voluminous books, the task of • man's life to read over ; second, auxiliary books, only to be repaired to on occasion; third, such as are more pieces of formality, so that if you look on them' you look through thorn, and }lO that peeps through the casement of the index, sees as much as if he were in the louse; but others, real and digest carefully, ; do not morel, trade on their tables and contents.—ruoltAß  TEE STATE OF ROES AT THE ADVENT OF ettutertattirY.—The simple virtues of the old repnbli o had long airce paned away. Freedom had taken her eternal flight. The people were debased, and looked on in silence at the perpetration of enormous crimes. After Nero's dealings with his mother, he could still be emperor. The name of religion was applied to • tistem corrupt to the inmost °entre. No one believed in it who had any pretecoe to intelligence. Public honour and justice were almost unknown ; and eon. Tiered provinces were only regarded as victims of oppression. Private virtues had now almost vanished; honour and truth and mercy were little more than empty sounds. Decency itself had departed; and vim Which cannot be named in our day were freely pesotimid, unchecked by public opinion. It was a society where vice had penetrated to the heart of almost every household. That was the most familiar thought which was the most impure. honour had Red from men, chastity from women, innocent)* from children. And what contrasts appeared in that society to their eyes? 'I imy saw one emperor cutting away • mountain to build an Imperial palate,; and another summoning a council of state to decide about the ctooking of a fish. They eau the name and fame and glory of the old republican heroes all forgotten by their degenerate descendants, who now prided themselves in nothing so much as their skill in detecting at a single taste Ole native bed of an oyster or • sea-nrollin. Effeminate nobles wore light or heavy finger-rings to Accord with the varying temperature of the summer and winter seasons, and yet could order a score of slaves to be crucified as an after-dinner pastime. This wail tho time when bloodthirsty myriads were watching the death-agonies of gladiators whose vengeful kindred were raging all along the borders of empire; when Roman eoldiers abroad were beating back the Dacians, Or marching against the Druids, in the Isle of Mona, while Boadicea led on the tribes to the vengeance of Carmilodnne ; and when ROOl4ll citizens at home were scrambling for their daily dole of victuals at the doom of the great ; when he was most fortunate who was most vicious ; and they obtained wealth and honour who, by forging wills, had defrauded the widow and the orphan ; when a fierce copulation, fresh from the amphitheatre, and a nobility polluted by vices without • name and an emperor stained with the guilt of a mother's murder, gazing mockingly upon the death• agonies of martyrs who died in (tames, clothed in the tun 144 snn'est.l; when, for year after year, and generation after generation, all these evils grew worse, till In the fearful words of Tacittis, "They would have lout memory also with their voice, if it had been possible as well to forgct as to keep silent."—lfelenda. llooesehold.  CIIANGE9 Ti AN