The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1894-09-29 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

OCCASIONAL JOTTINGS.  [The Publisher does not hold himself responsible for nor identify himself with, the °Odom expressed in.these Jottings.]  The football season has begun. A young fellow was playing for the Matlock Swifts on slaturday, when one of the opposing team "accidentally trod on his leg and broke it." Another, playing, in another match on the same day, dislocated his knee-cap. Yet another, playing near Bradford, had seized the ball and was running head downwards, when he was tackled by two or three opponents and received such injuries to his spinal column that he died on the following morning. A Coventry player was also in the list, his arm being injured.  •-• This is how a Belgian paper reported ft match at Brussels :  "A vigorous kick announces the beginning of the game. A. number of young men are at onoe seen rolling on the ground. As soon as one of the players, bruised and lacerated, seizes the ball, a mob pursues him, throws him over, buries him beneath a pile of arms and legs, and seizes by force the precious prey, which the brave fellow presses to his heart. The frenzied and brutal strife lasted more than an hour. Many _passers by, noticingthe pitiable condition of the pNyers, inquired if there had been an accident. No, none whatever,' was the reply; "it is only the English amusing themselves." -• With the approach of winter, there is a recurrence of the suicide epidemic. News. paper writers are writing, and preachers preaching, on this gruesome subject. But being without practical experience, so to speak, they can only recapitulate facts and appeal to religious sentiments. It is suggested that there is something wrong with the state of society. Bo there may be, but still mote with the state of the individual. On the one hand, it is suggested that a man ought to have the right to kill himself if be has had enough of life, and that the law should have nothing to say; on the other, that the verdict of fel° de se should be restored and its consequences employed as a deterring influence.  Tramp, tramp, tramp, the vagrants are marching. Thy come, not as single spies, but in whole battalions. Bad trade and the short service system in the army, it is said, have contributed to the multiplication of itinerant mendicants. Another prolific cause, which should not be lost sight of, is the crushing out of the unfit' in the btruggle of life, caused by the increasingly keen coinpetition. There are those who, from physical and other eauses, are constitutionally incapable of holding their own. '[hey mustnotwork for less than Trades Union wages; that; would be a crime against their fellowmen. What are they to do?  A land nationalisation oonference has affirmed that the" time is ripe for the enforcement by the nation of its right to the eontrol of the revenues arising from land, the term ' land ' being taken to include all the resources of nature the use of which can be controlled by man," and demands for democratic local authorities Parliamentary powers to "compulsorily acquire the fau ownership of whatever land within their boundaries they may consider to be necessary for the public use and profit." It would be interesting to know who, in this , connection, is" the nation" (as apart from 1 individual members thereof) ; what is moult ' by " nationalisation " (whether the spoils in question are to be seized, i.e., stolen, or paid for, and if the latter, by whom), and finally, how long it would tale, when this sort of