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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 411, 25 February 1881, Page 16

Mr T. Black, Princes street, Dunedin, has received a stock of t"he famous Waltham watches, which be is able to dispose of on most reasonable terras. Messes H. J. Bacon & Co., Dunedin, have decided on bi-weekly sales of farm produce. This should be a matter of great convenience to farmers within reach of the city. A Protestant lady named Ross, who was lately evicted from a holding in the County Limerick under a Protestant clergyman, took shelter in a disused police barrack, near Askeaton road. She was "isited by a body of one hundred armed men, who took her from her house, and placing her in a carriage, drove her to her former residence. They lighted a fire in every grate and warmed the place thoroughly, and told another tenant who had taken the farm since her eviction to have all his cattle removed before 6 next morning, which he did. One cannot walk the streets, or travel in the cars, or stop at public places, and not be sadly touched by the amount of profanity he bears. Boys hardly old enough to talk plainly ; young men just stepping over the threshold into active life ; gray-haired men bending over the grave, all are in fetters to this degrading habit. It matters little what the place or occasion, your ears are rilled with profanity. We can understand how a man under severe provocation might give utterance to an oath. We understand if we cannot sympathise w'tji, a passionate man, beset with little difficulties, wheu he snaps out^ too energetic word. But for a man in common, every-day conversation, calmly, even stupidly, to mix in a dozen or more profane expressions, there is no excuse; and yet it is the result of a habit which has grown upon the American people, and deserves the most severe censure. No boy utters his first oath without something of a shudder. No man with any regard to the proprieties of society, ever swears in the presence of ladies. It is more a matter of habit than almost any vice to whir h people are given. Now, if those who have this wretched habit will brtak it, if only for a few days, and listen to others, they will ccc how senseless, how unmanly it is, and how little necessity there is for it. Ie is the most gratuitous and uncompensating of all sins. It neither give*- force to a remaik, dignity to speech, nor impressiveness io thought. And it is a habit as easily broken as formed. Friends, do not swear. Everybody will think i ruoro of you. — Golden Itule.