A Heart's Bitterness

By BSP.TBA M. CLAY,

Author of "For Another's S n," " A Fair

Mvetory," ftp,

CHAPTER LXII. QUF.EM OK BEATJTV ANT) OF THE EAI.I,

There was a world of anguish in Kenneth's eyes, as so unexpectedly he faced this woman, whom he devoutly and undyingly loved, and saw her in tenfold beauty and charm, with h6r child—Leigh's child—in her embrace.

Tears welled up from his tortured heart, which beat as if it would burst its bounds, .13 he looked at all he had most desired, and so wholly lost. Violet had not seen Ken neth since before her flight; a whole year before. Sho had sedulously striven to for get him. She had been absorhed in mater nal love, and hoped, believed, that for Ken nethlovchadsobered into calmeatfriendship. But when she saw him in his noble, manly beauty, that look of deep admiration, and of ronouncing agony, in bis face, a dagger seemed to pierce her heart, and she grew pallid as a wreath of snow.

But the baby Rupert had a decided and ungallant preference for his own sex. With a babe's instinct he saw that Lord Keith was worthy of his infante, confidence, so he leaped and crowed in hia mother's arms, and held out both both his pearly and dimpled hands to the tall, fair Saxon in the doorway. Then little Violet Leigh was true to her growing womanhood, and relieved the situ ation of its painfullness. She went straight to Kenneth, and holding out her child, said : "My boy likes yon, Lord Keith. Will j'ou be his friend ?" "Always I For ever I" exclaimed Keith, and the words seemed to him as the sacra mental oath. The love that must be rigorously withdrawn from the mother might be safely lavished on tho child. He-took Rupert in his clasp, kissed hia lovely little face, and with bim in his arms greeted his mother and explained his sudden coming. He would only remain to lunch, and return to the castle immediately after. Talk of the improvements of schoole, of cottages, was safe talk, and Violet joined in it heartily. " I want to learn all the duties of a truly wise landlord," sho said, " to teach them to my boy." Indeed, all Violet's thoughts centred in her child—he was her present and her future.

After lunch, Kenneth and his mother went to the library to discuss some altera tions at Lady Burton's dower house, and Edna took Violet and the babe to her own rooms.

The babe waa an endless theme nf talk. He must show all his cunning tricks, and his doating mamma mußt exhibit the dimples in his pink knees, and take off hia tiny shoea and cocks, to show the most lovely little feet that ever were seen. Then Edna must advise as to the style of portrait of the boy alone, that should be painted, and Violet wished a life-sized statue of him, to be made for her own room and how should that be taken ?

"So it will suggest being dead, you know, for Edna, I would surely die if I lost him. He ie my all." Finally tlie boy capered him=elf weary, fell asleep, and the two lovely young women laid him in a littio soft nest on tha sofa, and together bont to admire hia slum bers.

Tnen Violet stole her arm round her friend's neck.

" Dearest Edna, we see each oth6r seldom, but I know you lovo mo well, and I love yon. It is such a comfort, to me to think of you, and plan for your joy. Oh, Edna, I hope the day will come when you will beaa happy a mother as I am, and a far happier wife. I do not, I could not, speak so to everyone—to anyone but you, but to you I must. You know all. But the boy is sush a comfort to me I"

" Dearest Violet, is it no better ? Aro yon not happier now, with him '! I hoped it would be so."

" I think he cannot help it," said Violet, meekly, "he cannot love me—he tiies not to be very cross. But he is nervous, nnd troubled, and something is on his mind, and I know he is far from well. He is so fond of the boy. I shall be able now to keep my courage up, and endure, for the boy's sake. Ob, Edna, I came so near giving way to day, whon Kenneth came in. I hope—l hope it did not seem strange." " Ycu both behaved nobly," said Edno, folding her in her arms, and then Violet wept a little, nestled on her friend's shoul der.

Presently ehe lifted her pretty head. " Thia will never do. My boy's mother must behave herself sagely. Comfort me, Bdnn, by telling me of yourself. Ido not wish to intrude on your secretß, but tell me, dear, ara you engaged to the Marquis of Alwold.''

Edna flushed and dropped her lovely eyes. She might have declined to speak of tbis, but in her i sympathy for this stricken, struggling heart, she desired to lead Violet's thoughts from herself. She said : " We are not engaged yet, dear." " Toll me all about it," said Violet, draw ing her to a seat beside her. "I know ho adores you, and you love him, Edna, l see it in your happy eyes. Oh, my dear, my dear, let no one come between you, let_ no one make you diatr.iat him, oh, have faith, patient faith in the man you love." Edna, with Violet a hand in hers, told her littio Btory. She did not hint of the time wheu she had received her father's advice >or a year of waiting. She aaid : -' I thought we should wait a year, to pive him time to think over his choice. He is one of the first peers of the realm ; and I tha little daughter of a Cornwall vicarage, with fivo hundred a year from a city uncle." "But, Edna. You are so sweet and lovely, you are a fit mate for any king !" .nried Violet, ardently. "I did not wish to marry a man who was dazzled 'by my looks," said Edna, laughingly. " for looks change, and beauty fades like the flower of the grass.". " Eut Alwold, I am ;ure, will not change." "We wer« to see each other seldom, or never, dnring this year," Bmiled Edna ; " but we did meet the other night at the duke's ball, and, I think, Violet, from his £yea, he had not changed then." "•' Surely he has not. And, Edna, when scm .finally say yes—for you will, aa he will ask sou when the year is up—do not bo cruel aud make him wait long; life ia short, and there mo so many changes, we should be nood, awl loving, and happy whilo wo may. You will not stay away from places i bare he may be, Edna';"

•'Oh cert.inly not." •' For he will bo at my ball, and I should be so unhappy if you would not come ; do -j!eise, Edna " " "1 will. I promise you," said Edna. "And you will go with me eometimea wlseu I take baby to ride in the park ? And come to me on quiet evenings ? I must go out some, for JS'orman'a sake, but not too much on account of my little darling." The next morning when Violet met Lord Lei-'h at breakfast, she told him of tha imppy visit ehe had had the day be jora . "' Acd did you moke my peace with that offanrled goddess, Mies Ambrose Haviland ?" «aid Leigh . "Oh, Norman, I quite forgot ;. but it is r.o matter. You are mistaken ; ehe is not angry witb you ; ehe thinks -Rupert perfectly lovely, and ah" ! < coming to our ball." " And will, I suppose, favour us with ncr v eddiog cards ? ' "Not t&ia Eeaeon," •"Isn't she engaged to .alwold?" de manded Leigh. " Oh, co She told him ho must wait a year for her answer—at least a year to make up hia mind-and if he asks again, then Bhe will answer."

" Oh, a whole year ! That ia a cool affair. When will the year be up ? Take another .bit of chicken, my dear."

"Oh, thanks !" said Violet, flushed at the unusual kindncs", as they breakfasted ..-iiono. "The year will not be up ti'i .August."

"That tittle will pass quickly," said wifli indifference.

Then came tfco jiight of Violet's ball, and '"dim was there in tenfold beauty, in a dre?a .•{ pilest naiad-green, ombroidored with ?eed pearls. Admitted queon of beauty, he ..aw her floating through a waltz in the .arms of the Marquis of Alwold.

But tho indifference was merely out ward ; ;lis heart was on tire witb jealous fury. Oh, to be able to stop that marriage ! Oh, to be able to palsy on Alwold'a lips that

marriage offer! Oh, to keep the girl he loved and could not possess at least unwed ! He could not, he would not, see her married to another ! Ho felt that if her wedding day dawned he could not livo to see ita Bet- Ho saw Edna at a<-?emblio= ; ho tnok Violet to tho opera reraeatodly because Kdna would bo hi the opposite box ; he touched iier hand in tbo danco ; he rode beside her carriage in the pari:, anil hour by hour hie repressed frenzy grew, until it waa veritable madness.

If there was a man on earth whom the Marquis of Alwold doubted and disliked, that man was Norman. Lord of Leigh. He believed him to ba a thoroughly bad man. Be bad greatly pitied Leigh's beautiful young wife ; he wondered how Violet could endure the eoeiety of such a man. And now ho heard that Edna, his beautiful, apotlesf, high-minded Edna, had for a year been engaged to this Lord Leigh ! He shivered at th 6 thought. " Putting men on probation of a year waa a way she had." Leigh had courted— left her ! Lord Alwold had often said that his own heart had beon pure and free of other loves, and that he would not marry a woman who had been engaged to other than himself. He had elected the dignified, gracious, lovely Edna queen of hia heart. She hod been Leigh's love before hia! Could he love her more ? No !no ! Fickle, vain, capricious, coquettish, capable of listening to love's words from Leigh—she waa not made for him ! He must tear that cherished image from his soul—at whatever price. Edna wondered that she did not Bee Alwold again that evening. But then she had seen him, and Bhe was sure she was beloved. That was enough of happiness for one day. Love's young radiance rilled her soul.

For Leigh, he had shot his poisoned arrow, and waited to see hia victim fall. On sweet dreams of herloverEdna's tender heart waa fed during several days when they did not meet. Then he waa present at one of Lady Burton's mornlng_ concerts—but grave, conatrained,!unlike himself. It waa when one of Bach's finest fugues was thundering through the room that Alwold, who had placed himself by Edna in a window, said to her, in a low, stern tone : "Tell me, was Lord Leigh ever your suitor in Cornwall?" .

Edna flushed crimson. The memory of bor girlish foolishness of nearly four yeara before distressed her. Oh, why had he heard of it from some stranger ? But she lifted her lovely, troubled eyes to hiß, and faltered :

" Yes." " Yea! Ho was your lover, and you put him on a year's probation, as you have me !" cied Alwold, indignantly. " If I could only explain," began Edna, tremulously, " It needs no explanation, only the simple fact," said Alwold, still iv low, but increis ingly imperative tone. " Was it so, or was it, not?"

"It "was so," eaid Edna, simply: "but" — she lifted her eyes in imploring shame, but Alwold was carried away by Mb jsalous pain. "Enough. That enda all between us, he said.

Wounded to the heart, Edna mastered herßelf so far as to bow, and say softly ; "Yea, Lord Alwold." He turned abruptly from her. The room seemed to reel, but Bbo grasped tha window draperies for support, and looked out into the street. befora her eyea, and the blood surged heavily through her heart. She did not know what music pealed about her, or what praiFe was said. Then she heard one verse of a ballad some one waa singing : •' Fair maid, beho'd. thine imacre there AB fair us false 'hy fiancee fall ; But, who tho worth'es3 sm'li would share, That aheds its light alike on all." She turned, the words reiteraling in her brain. She only saw that Alwold had de parted. Sho stole from the room with faint, unatearly steps. Whbn tha gu6Bta were gone, Lady Burton found her lying on her bed, cold, white, almost rigid. She was not able to moot that evening's engagement, nor the next; but the third day, hearing, casually, from Keith that "Alwold had gone to Franco," she sum moned her courage, and reappeared in society. But the lovely Edna visibly drooped. Her aoft shell tint paled ; her voice had a mournful melody; her lovely eyes wero as violets drowned in dews ; and Lady Burton, shocked at a change which she could not explain, left London before tho season was over and took Edna to Keith Castle.

There was then no temptation to Violet to remain in London ; and Leigh, triumph ing in hia dastardly work, agreed to return to tho Towere. He had been gambling heavily, and wished to go over hia steward's accounts. The results were far from satis factory ; they shocked him, and as usual, when ho was moody, he went to hide him self in " The Earl's Folly."

CHAPTER LXIII,

"ENOUGH ! THAT F.Nn.-i ALL BETWEEN US 1" At that sight, Satan entered into the heart of Norman, Lord of Leigh. "For love ia strong as death, and jealousy is cruel as the grave." He felt ready to Bacrafice all honour, humanity, manliness to keep the beautiful and innocent Edna from his rival's arms. Then a most malign, dastardly plan sug gested itself to him, and in the whirlwind of hia rage he was carried away to accept it.

For a minute the good blood and breeding that had been his, the remnants of man liness, revolted at his vile treachery ; but as he hesitated the waltz onded, and the mar quis led Edna back to the Lady Burton ; but as her hand left his arm, the eyes of the noble young pair met, under tho intense gaze of Leigh. Tho marquiß looked into the blue orba of Edna, adoration intense, beseeching, and from these lovely eyes an unconscious flame of pure and tender love leaped towards him.

The marquis suroly needed no fuller an swer to his suit; that look should havo told him—did for the minute—that Ednn'sheart tttn his.

Leigh, read that much, and his madness culminated.

The marquis passed along toward a window, and stood leaning against it, watching tho forming of a now set ot dancers on the floor. Not far from Alwold Colonel Hartington and Gore wero stand ing. Leigh went over to them and whispered to Goro : " Anna is in the conservatory." Gore, obedient to tho hint, moved awuy and left to Leigh hia place by Hartington. Lord Leigh did not see Alwold, but stood with hi 9 back to him, but certain that he waa in full henring.

"A splendid assemblage of fair women and brave men, cousin," said Leigh to the colonel. "In such a gathoring it is hard to tell where to award the prize of beauty. Lady Grace Churchill is charming in her gold brocade." "Sho is indeed. But—with oil respect to your wife and mine, Leigh -Miss Hivi land is surely queen of the ball." " She ia—looking very well," said Leigh, tranquilly surveying Edna, who had jußt given her hand to Keith : " culling homage from every parti, as a bee honey from every flower. But Miss Haviland is an old story to me. I was engaged to her for a year once." " What, Lsigh ! You and Misa Haviland engaged ?" "Yes. When ->ou were iv India, I had that happiness." "In the name nf wonder, how did you give up such an houri *" " There's the old song, you know : "' If she be not fair to me. What care I how fair she be !"

" But then she was fair, very. But I told you wrongly. I offered her my hand—and —she is very coquettish—and she put me on a year's probation—it ia a fashion she has —waiting for whatever might happen, you see, and—what happened was—l saw Violet, and that finished me. Violet is cer tainly to-night in white lace and wild roses, and tho boy thrives in wondrous fashion." Having thu? doubly stabbed Alwold and the colonel, Leigh walked away to speak to other guests, and the lovely_ and in nocent girl whose fair name and simple his tory he had darkened, unconscious of the wrong done her, finished her dance with Kenneth Keith.

Edna's heart was swelling with joy. She loved Alwold infeusely. To be in the room with him, to have heard his voice and looked into his eyes was a whole heaven of joy to her ardent, soul. He still was true, and the swift weeks would roll away, and she could yield her heart to him who was its chosen king. Her face lit with re doubled beauty ; her eyes shone like stars. The Marquis of Alwold s*w the illumin ation of tha face he loved, and his heart, grieved and filled with dire suspicion, re peated the words of the poet:

•' A naarn upon tho myrtle fell, >'rom dewy evcniog's purest sky: Twas like the gHnce I love so well, DearKva, from thy moonlight eye. " I looked around the summer grovo On every tree its lustre shone, Fo- all hud felt that look of love Thu niily my.-ti 3 deemed its own !"

He had not been there Bince the fatal day when Bart Kemp had come thero to him. When he entered the upper room, the sunlight was fallintr over the leopard skin lounge, and over Helen Hope, who lay aaleep. (To he Continued.)

THE PINCH OF POVERTY.

(By Geo R. Sims )

WfIEX I started out on my second day's tour of inquiry among the labouring popula tion of London the weather was remarkably mild for December, and this was all in favour of the class of workers to which my attention was to be directed. Severe cold intensifies the distress among many elates of artisans and labourers, so that I ex pected to find the outlook much improved by the genial condition of the atmosphere. I was considerably disappointed. Among the waterside labourers, the great army of men who work on tho Thames wharves, I found a pretty general chorus of complaint concerning the scarcity of work. At the lowest calculation it is estimated that over one hundred thousand mon find occasional work ut the waterside on the Surrey side of the Thame3 alono during the season. At ono wharf I know of, at a busy period, as many as 500 men may be seen at work at one time.

Waterside labourers may be divided into three classes, viz—The regular men ; the men known to the foromen who take the hands on, and naturally prefer old hands to new and untried men ; and the casual mon, who ouly got taken on when the regular and known hands want supplementing.

The average wagea of the first-class aro 24s a week, of the second ISs. and those of the third rarely exceed 10s. The work to bo done in return for this payment is hard and exhausting. Somo of these poor fellows, inauy of them none too well nourished, have to di.-ng about loads varying from one hundred woight to two hundred woight aud a half. Many of them havo to unload barges and walk along a narrow plank with a heavy lo id upon their backs, and it is by no means a common occurrence for somo of them to slip off tlie plank into tho water and be drowned, or to fall down and have their ribs crushed benoath tho weight of their burden. Somo of them have to use a larco hook, an instrument which enables thsm to take hold of large bales of goods. In the hurry and scurry of tho work they frequently strike themselves instead of the bale with this hook, and sus tain serious injury.

The competition for this waterside work even in busy times ia keen. As soon as there is a demand for labour and wages incroase, over come hundreds of un fortunate fellows from Ireland, und thia in flux is rather augmented l.y groat rushes from such places ac Liverpool and New caßtle-on-Tyne. When times aro bad aud other trades and employments discharge their hands, the ranka by tho waterside labourers are further augmentod by hundreds of mechanics, who flock to tho wharves and the docks in Eearch of a casual job to enable them to keep the wolf from the door.

One can always get a pretty accurato gauge of the state of the labour market by spending a morning or two nt Bankside or at the dock gates. Whon you find numbers of printers, painters, en gineers, carpenters, masons, and other skilled workmen hanging about these places in search of v job, you may be sure that hard times have come upon the handicrafts, und that a long spell of exceptional distress among tho working classes has set in. Crowds of such mon are to be seen now, standing with despairing faces in the early light of the raw cold December morninys, waiting disconsolate at the gates of the waterside Paradise, in which, could they gain admittance, they would lind at least a little focd for their starving families. Poets and painters havo pictured flcsp3ir for ua many a time and oft, but ho who would realise despair for himself—the despair not of one man but of hundreds of men, he who would behold a vast sea of fares lapse in one short tiash of time from eager hope to dull dismay—should stand on a winter morning among thn don"-c mob of waterside and dock labourers when the foreman closes his book and growls out " No more mon wanted to-day."

Many of tho men turn on their heels with a ourao at their ill-luck and slouch away. Some of them go back heavy of heart and broken in spirit to tha horaj where the wife and the little ono.-, hearing the breadwinner's footstop on tho creaking stair, know that it means another day of misery and starvation. But some of them refuse to accept their fate and hanj; about doggedly and obstinately, rooted 10 tho spot by a dim Micawboriau idea, that per haps something will turn up. Among a group of man like these I loitered the other morning in the neigh bourhood of Bankside. Poor fellows ! their scanty clothing and pinched, careworn laceß vouched but too thoroughly for the truth of the storiesof hardship and privation which I gleaned from their lips. I picked out only the regular waterside labourers', in tending to deal with the recruits from other callings on another occasion. Thoy were all loud in their complaints of [the general slackness of work. Some of them attributed this to bad trade, others to tho rush of "out siders " to the wharves—tho rush making the supply of labour vastly iv excess of the demand. " It's bad enough now," saidjono gaunt famished looking fellow, who had hung about Bankside for a month, and only" succeeded in getting two days' work during the whole lour weeks, "but, Cod help us when the winter sets in hard, and the barges can't get up the river !" Aa the groups broke away, and the mon went off in different directions, 1 rnude my way, in search of lurther information, to tho homes of a few regular waterside labourers whose addresses 1 had been able to obtain.

In a dirty narrow alley, in no way im proved since the daya of tho great outcry, I found the houße inhabited by Samuel Phipps,,a waters de labourer, who had been a regular Banksider all hia life. Groping my way up a flight of crazy stairs saturated with filth, 1 reach the top floor, and find Mrs Phipps at home. She haa been in tho hospital, ahe tells me, apolo gising for the awful condition of her apart ment, and hasn't been able to put things to right yet. A husband out of work for a month, five children, and a wife away ill is an excuse for a lack of tidiness in the "home, and I accept it. Phipps waß in good work through the summer ; now he is out. They have been living on a few shillings a brother who waa bet ter off had lent them. But this brother ia out of work now, and sup plies have Etopped. A loaf of bread has served the family for food for two days. The rant ia four Bhillinga a week for t*-o rooms, and Phipps has pawned all his things to pay it. I venture to ask Mrs Phipps why, in the days when they were doing better, they did not quit this filthy place for one of the nice littio aitisau dwellings erected in tho neighbourhuod. Thero is information for the student of remedies in her answer. " Why, tir, I did try ; but two rooms in them placeß is 5s 6d a week, and they won't let yuu have one room, which is .Is, if you've got more than two or three children ; and then, if you gets a week be hindhand, as you must do sometimes, ihoy takes your things directly." Asked if her husband seemed hopeful of getting work, the woman said he did not; on the contrary, ho came home more "down" every day ; for if the c were hundreds of waterside labourers out of work now, what chance would there be for him when the cold weaher cjime ?

To leach the home of John Thurston, tho next waterside labourer on my list, waa a task of Boine difficulty. The 'Now Cut" waa a good plain address, and the number on the door was large enough to be seen, only the number was over a shop. I in quired in the shop and was informed that I must go through the next house, and after inquiring again of a young woman woo was coming through the pass sage, I commenced a somewhat perilous ascent. On reaching the tcp of the first flight of stairs I had to Btop out of a window fiame (the window had been taken out to mako a doorway of the space) on to tho roof of a low building. In the middle of the roof was a skylight, the glass of which had been shivered to fragments, so that only a few ugly looking spikes still adhered to the framework. In one corner of the roof abutting on to another building was a hugs heap of dirt and cinders and household re fuse. The dangers of the roof on a dark night must have beon great, for eight feet below lay a yard, and there waa nothiog to keep you from making a false step off tfre roof and going ovor into tho yard but an old bit of wood nailed up aa a barrier about six inches from the ground, or rathor from tho roof on yliich you stood. Turning sharply to the right, you entered the nest house, also by displaced window, and then you wore on the high road to John Thurston's room. Every man, woman, and child living in this house had to enter from the other and brave the roof, tho broken '

skylight, and the crazy protection from a fall into the backyard. Thurston was out " looking for work " A bright looking little girl of ton gavo me my information, her mother also being " 1-ioking tor work.' They M-ero nix in l„;ai!y nn.l l-c.i m or.o l„iZ room-rent . r >'Cl, K-miei had been out of V-.lk "On, ever -o long. il. wont, every day to try antl get it, but didn't. In along alloy in the neighbourhood of Bauk-dde,called, 1 believe, Mo-a-alley, wliilo in searoh of a waterside labourer named Stone, I was) particularly struck by the number and t.ho cleanliness of the cats. Two white cats wero sitting on a doorstep, and wero so bonutifnlly snowy that they would have been an ornament to a Duchess's drawing room. Tho cats kept themselves clean. In the latter particular they set a lsplondid example to thoir two-footed fellow odgem. Stono waa at home. He had just returned, having given up all hope of being taken on. The family ot five wero living on the few shillings tho wife earned by charing Charing in these parts doesn't mean 2s Oi a day and as many hearty moals as the charwoman can cram into tho ten hours, with a little something cold and " promiscuous " from a friendly cook to take home with. ner. It means only a shilling a day and a „mall share ol the food of a working man's family.

Tho Stones lived in two clean decent rooms, for which they paid fislila week. Tho man had only had'a few days' work for the last six weeks. "There's thousands of waterside labourers out o' work, sir," ho said. "It's nearly as bad as last winter now, and it's getting worse every day. Mechanic! out of employment aro coming to our work from all parts." Mrs Noal, a near neighbour, and tho wife of a waterside labourer, told me that her husband "was putting in about one day in three. Thero wero five children to keep, and tho rent was os Gd for two rooms Neal hadn't been ablo to earn moro than 12s a week for a long timo past, and now he was earning loss.' Sho used to go out with i.!..-ig:« of an eveuiug anil null them outside the Surrey Theatre, but you stickoiiUidoatheatroalll.be evening und not sell half your flock now." The people wont to the theatre, bat thoy didn't seem to havo any money to epoud outsiiio like thoy used to havo. Tho next two waterside labourers whoso homos I visited vera in woik. Ono had been out for a week and no.v had trot, on again ; the other was a " regular," or ivhat at tho docks is called ;i " royal," und was jd pretty perinanont employment, But tne wives of both thoso m«n congratulated themselves on boing in good luck, for their husbands had told them, and thoy know from the neighbours in tho same line, that tho distress among tho watorside labourers Win great, and increasing every day. Further investigation only resulted in a repetition of tho same tale, and when 1 took my notj-booK, and went over tho cases that I had written down with the officials who had inquired into them previously in ordor to sco if tho children's school foes might bo remitted, 1 found all tho information given me by tho mon and their wives to be sub stantially correct. Two features of the " Pinch of Poverty'" came out prominently during my inquiries. Ono was that at the present time tho women aro tho principal breadwinners, aud the other was a strung proof of thu increase of poverty in the fact that in theotiicial returns made to the School Board vt-itot* thore aro avast number of families who havo coiuo down from three rooms to two, and from two rooms to one, since last winter.

Tho "pinch" thi i winter is furthor in creased among a cortaincla's by tho failure of tke hopping season. During the " hopping' many of the poor people make a littio money which they invest in buying bits of furniture, clothing, and other " pro perty." On theso when tha winter and •smck trade sot in they live. That is to s,iy they pawn them tn pay tho rantaad to buy food. Bur. tho hopping having failed they wore unable to invest tr. any property, and so in thousands of instances the people are even less prepared to meet, the winter than thoy wero last year. They havo nothing pnwnublo to fall back upon. Pawning is thy first thing to which tho poor resort when the won comes to the dun-. Ono by one tho house hold gods uro Hung to this fierce wolf tn -top his pitiless pursuit, but ho only pluses a moment to swallow the prize, aud then on he come* again ac tierce and hungry as ever. From the earliest ago tho diililinii of tne; poor aro initiated into the mysteries of pawning, and they look upon it as a recog nised ieattire nf everyday life. In an infant school in South Lo-idou tha other day the teacher was explaining to the c'nildran the parablo of tho Prodigal fion Said tho Teacher—"And now all (he prodigal son's clot lies urn gone an ! lie h-is no food tVhatmust be do?"

To which a littio girl, three nnd v hall years old, immediately responded, " Why, pawn his littio gai's boots and lings." i hiding that tho waterside labourers were so 'largely recruited by the artisan das'OS out oi work, 1 cams to tho conclusion that there must be an exceptional amount of distre's among those men wiic in certain cases are accepted as tho b >na lido "working classes." The paor earning precarious livelihoods uro frequently put on one side aa cases of "chronic poverty." Funds and organisations shun them ulike. Thoy are hopeless. But tho artisan ch'.sj —tho engineers, tho printers, tho painters, thu the various smiths and Wrights - are recognwod, and their wrongs and sufferings are allowed to be worth discussing.

Having proved by the bad trade of tho hawkers and the influx of mechanics into tho ranks of waterside labourers that vast numbers of artisans aro unemployed, tho next stop in tho present inquiry lies among tho a o mon themselves.

Having mado my own inquiries, and satisfied ~ myself that the distress exists, and that unless a magical change takes place there will bo .-H much need for a Mansion llcus-j fund this winter as thero was last, I called upon Mr Hunter, of tho Farm House a gentleman intimately ac quainted with the circumstances of a big artisan population. Tho Farm House is the centre for tho distribution of children's dinners and much non-pauperising assis tance in a densely-crowded neighbourhood. Mr Hunter assured me that, among tho artisan class in his neighbourhood the distress was "exceptionally" groat. Let me quoto a few itistaneos, taken hap hazard from some cases which came under my notice. They aro mostly in the artisan class.

Thomas Clark, painter. Te>etotal family. Wife and six children. Out of work seven weeks through bad season. William Hammond, painter. Discharged, after many years' service, through shorten ing of hands. Four children. Wife just confined. Bed pawned. Tho mother's milk dried up 'rom want of food.

Richard Hard wicks, a ship's engineer. Has tramped England over in search of work. Family have pawned twenty pounds of things to livo on and aro now destitute. Thomaa Haslines. portmanteau maker. Wife and seven children. Ono child in the Evelina Hospital. Doctor says its illness is eausad by starvation. All the family starving. Can't got work, owing to the sla-kr.e'ss of trade.

Frederic Smith, warehouseman. Wi'o und seven children. Di-ir.hargnd through sleekness of tr-ide. Parted with home for food Par-ed with la»'ii bir of property to buy sugar to make sweets to sell in the streets. Man and children suffering from scrofula caused through starvation.

Robert Elliott, shoemaker, out of worl for weeks, through slackness" of trade Wife sn-1 threi children. Wife had mi* carriage, and wai forced to go out immedi ately af'orwarda to earn v few halfpence. though scarcely able to crawl.

I havo fifty more such ca««s in my note book, all riullel from ono email area, Thore is no vine, no drunkenness, ma im providence in any of them. They are nil cases of sober, industrious people, who are forced out ot employment by the bidncss of the times.

With thoiisnnris and Ihou'andfl of such cases in our midst, and knowing that their number will be increased and crmidrapled when tho real winter como.s, if. seems to mo folly, to put. on all schemes of relief, nnd to leave thn unemployed to BnJ their chief friends and champions in the leaders of tho socialist movements.

| la a future article I hope to show oven more conclusively than I havo yet: done how severe is the "pinch " just, new, and how great a necessity exists for some scheme of relief for tho unemployed workers of Lon don. Thero should bo nn d«lny in tho mat ter, for tho wintor's iron hand may grip labour by tho throat and squeeze the life almost out of it at any moment; Thore is yet time for us to attend, to the cry of our poorer brethon. and to mini-.j-.er to their wants with a good grace. If wo delay wo may yet have to listen to tho complaint of the unemployed ; but thero may bo tri undignified hurry about the proceedings, and circumstances may havo arisen which will rob our benevolent, dosigns of that spontaneity which is their most valued characteristic.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It is a need which, evbn whon dropped by chance, rj rings up a flower.

HENRY GEORGE.

Mis First J.ifcrary Work ill «\nlifoi\4,Li. ,'ls A boliTbticcaneer. Hot He Came to Write and Publish "Progress anil Poverty." Now that Henry George has achieved notoriety, if not fame, and his name hasboen

connected with tho highest ofliea within the gift of the people, a roviow of liis career will not prove uninteresting. "Hurry i!oor«re, as he was popularly known, vwis born'in Philadelphia in IS3D. Ho__loft a mercantile house in that city in 1857 and enmo to tho Pacific coast. He was then quite a boy, unci soon after his arrival here lie joinoei a party ot prospectors, who trieri their luck in British Korth America. This was in 1858. Tho life of the miner, how ever, did not have any charm for young George, and the following year ho returned to S m Francisco aud resumed his par tially acquired trade of type-sottintr. Ho worked in variant- ntiiees of the city and became a fair compositor. He was not .ii tlnffuished anions his leilowr.for any special trait, but was rather a liapp;, -sc .-lock sort of a fellow. His life was not: di?tiiifiuished beyond thai, of any other of HOC) men of his callinsr in tlio city. In lSfi.'! and 1804 ho waa employed in tho composing-rooms of various nowspaper otlic:-?, and occasionally tool; up the pen or pencil to writo locil items. In the latter part of tha year ISG-i he was em ployed in tho eomposinp rooms ol tlio "Alia," then conducted by Mossis Mao- Creflia!) & Woodward. As n I'llibuster. About thi=> timo a scheme was on foot amonj,' a certain element in San Francisco to orjranieo v lilibuitoriiirr expedition, with tho v.-.vt.-rii coast of Mexico as tho objec tivo point, and Harry George boeame one nt tho active spirits of the rintorpriso. This fact, is new particularly brought back to recollection by the lato despatches from tho Erst, which conveyed tho information that a lorgo number (if hid lolloweM and believers in his doctrino of the community nf land ownership intended to make a descent upon somo cl tho northern States of Mexico, whero it was proposed to in augurate a colony of socialistic republic. There wero to bo realised all tho idcaß of the author of " Progress and Poverty." It is an open quostioti whether or not this pro joot was suggested by Mr George's remem brance of his scheme of ISfil 5. A short account of this ntl'iir will be of interest. At one time and another in tho early hi-tory of California, filbuatering expedi tions of groater or loss size wero organ ised for descent upon the Moxican or Con tr-il American coast. While one or two of these projects, liUo Walker's and Crabb's, have been embalmed in history, and have altmut n world-wide reputation, thoro wore many upon a Fiitall scale which were hardly hoard of outside of thoso immediately interested. Of such a char acter was one in which Henry George played tho part of a leader, During tho latter part of tho war of tho Rebel lion there was a largo number of men in San Francisco whoso moans of subsist ence wero decidedly precarious and who woro roady to take part in any schomo which promised a living and adventure, and if thoro wero a spico of danger in t.ho enterprise so much the moro willing wore they to engage in it. Consequently there win not, in tho period mentioned in the annals of San Francisco, any great ditli culty found in onlis'ing men in such a scbemo. iionry Coorgo was one of tho loading spirits in tho ontorpriso, and was given the position of Lieutenant. The first thing necessary wa« to provide means of transportation, und to this cid an old ship, the Bronte, was chartered and was anchored out in the 'stream. Tnithor were tii';on tho rank and file of tho oxpediiion as fast lis they were enlisted, and .«) impecuni ous wero most of them that I hey wero con tent to accept tho amplo meals and comfort able quarters provided without, going too much info detail as to what was to be c:: ---pont-cd of them. Thither, too, woro taken stores of arms and ammunition as fast as lin.ney could bo raised for their purchase. Two or thre.i cannon of fearful and wondor fii 1 nonftruclion were also procured and mounted in warlike fashion on tho deck of tho old merchantman, which had never before seen anything more warlike than tho belligerent hundspiko and the nn'.li com pelling rope's enri. Tho Spanish ftlnln. Whilo tho ostern ibln object, of tho expedi tion was a descent, upon tho Mexican coast, with very vague ideas of «i:i' was to bo done after tli.it locality was reached, the impression spread abroad that anotKbr obj. cf was in viow, Up to tho rime of the completion of the Central Pacific Railroad all o ; tbofhipments ofgolddu«t and bullion made from California were <-~rit thence by the Paiianin steamers. Tho story ran that onco a suitable number of mew and the requisite armament were obtained, a favourable opportunity was to bo watched when an unusually largo shipment of bullion was to be mado by Panama. A couple of days before the steamer was to fail the filibustering ship was to loave tho harbour and go down tho coast a short distance in tho courso always taken by the steamers. Then when tho treasure ship camo iv sight it was to bo boarded, tho coveted bullion and dust transferred to tho ocean high wayman's hold, and tho steamer then sent, on her way. Whon tho ttoasuro was se cured, the filibusters would then be in readiness for a quiet sail down the coast to some Mexican port, whore tho company wero to disembark nnd immediately pro ceed to enjoy themselves upon tho pro ceeds of thoir strategy. This was a scheme worthy nf the old timo buccaneer of the Spanish Main, but this plan of thoir latter day imititors, ii such in truth it wore] failed almo't in its inception.

Many of tho "old timer* " employed in tlio newspaper cilices of this city yet re member tlio of tho original organi sation of tho cnterpri-Ji?, and they tell with great gusto of tho collection that was taken up among tlio compositors in oris of tho cs tiibHelinionts for tho purchase of n sword with which tlio r;nll.".nt f/ieutonant George wafto assert a dignity ai an officer. For a while everything pro°rro«eed favourably lor tho schema of the treasure hunters, and ifc rosily looker] as if the plan miyht bu successfully carried out. But in an evil hour a whisper oE tlio roal ob joct of tho expedition reached tho ear" of a zealous p.itrolmr.n of tho police force, nnd he at once proceeded to " work it up," A watch wns put upon tlio loaders, and one dark night., just as some of them wore a'jout pnihing off from the wlinrf with a boatload of muskcto, otc , a party of officers pounced upon and marched them oil' to the satinn, whereanexplanntionw.iH demanded. As soon aa Mio arieiit became known upon tho ship there was a hasty exodus of all hands, and for «eo!:c not a man e.juM bo found who was willing to ackno'.vlnuiro that he knew anything about; the affair. Ko ovort ant beeo conimiitcri, no one waj chargod with haviti)* violated tho law-, and tho snhomo dropped out c( notice un'.il revived by tiw riospntnhes alluded to. A ProChtiioso Writer. After this fiasco George hetfan c.ontrihut insr to variouH papers, aad duiinctho three followin" joirs hn die) reportarittl work on the staffs of various jnirn.il.->. ]n ISO!) ho went to Sacramento and occupied a position on tho" Capitol Register" anowepnper owner! and edited by eic-Governor Rifilnr. When tlii" gentleman fell -ick Mr f-ioomeassumo ! the editorship and control of tho mnnojfa. ment of that journil, durintr which timo in udltoriftl was 1 .which stated that it was an unqmß-.innablo fact that in tho course of time the Chineio would bo natura liaed and bee ima votors, .ft' thi? pan wore curried out by the Kep-iblicfui'-, all of t.Jio Chinese would puppnrb the Uepuhliiian ticket, and for that j'ea-*nn George agreed that the Democrats rmfcht u< fake tho in iiittiveund eecura for all timn (ho Mon golian vote. His object did no , ; meet with much favour, especially wilih Mr Biglor, who?o ratio »'(w ho great ."it. reading thn editorial that lii= niclinepf v.-a« thrown off and his health was fo hearty that ho rushed to the oflino nnd discharged Mr George ut on-?o. Mr Goorpe then took an activo pait. in tho political fight for tho ro election oi Henry B, Hai«ht to the offloe of Govornor. Ho etumped tho State and dici flnorgetic work After tho ballots showed that Mr Haight was beaten, O.eorue returned to Sun Franoieco and resumed hi-3 type-sotting and repnrtorial work.

In IS7O he was a tytw-setter in a little building at Clay and 8 ipsomo streets, in which a largo number of poriodicals wore at the timo printed ; among tho vest tho "Times," owned by Alvin?a Hayward, which waa afterward absorbed by tho "Alto." Whilo employed in tho "Times" ooinp'sing-room, George began to writo editorial articles of a philosophical and abstract character. These found their way anonymously to tho editorial rooms, and attracted some attention. Inquiry revealed the fact that George was the author. Ha was transferred from the composing-room to the editorial rooms.

A Newspaper Proprietor.

About* this timo-1871-he began the agitation for the establishment of a one cent evening paper, which culminated in th" organisation of the " Post, Publishing G, urn,inv. 'Of this publication Henry <;., 0 r,,(. ' William M- Hinton, and crank M-, !■■'■• i iw :i j--.tr l-ulilu: I r/.nior s .fiiij in Sacramento, wore tie proprietors. Hoorfo had put no money into the con .-,-n ' but received his interest for his labour. Ho wan tho literary head of the journal. Thomas Newcomb, well known Throu"Tiout tho city, waa tho city editor, and Robort Ferral, now a lawyer and a politician, and Miss Hart, comprised the editorial force. Tho " Post " was n bright and newsy sheet, and attracted attention from two causes-its sprightliness and choapnoas, being sold for 1 coot. In those days nickels were scarce in San Francisco, and pennies were entirely unknown. lo unvble the newsboys to make change, Goon'e imported nickels and pennies and the innovation took because it was a novelty. Gcor-'O first gained personal prominenco by a fiorco and persistent 6ght against somo feu captiins who had maltreated tluvr crows ' Not only did ho a«sail tho offenders i-. hi-'Vap.-', hut"ho carried the matter into courts, personal!v defraying tho expenses. Kid subsequent career was no less rhce queied than that previous to tho_cstab.isl._ ment of tho " Post." Be remained with that journal until 1572, in the mean time taking an active personal interest in Demo cratic politic-, of which faith the "Post was then an active exponent. In that year he stumped New York State in the in terest of Horneo (Ireo'ey, whom Mr George supported in tho "Post." lis returned to San Francis;.-o and rotirod from the I ost in October, IS7:">. Senator Jones, of Ivevada, probably to further his political ambitions advanced 00,000dols toward tho purchase of a press nnd other equipment for the " Post, tiiking stock in the concern to that amount. Thie made Mr Jones the largost indivicinal stockholder in the concern, the stock of which was widely scattered, every employee holding shares and accepting stock in par: payment of wages »" August. 1875, tbo liwik of California collapsed. Three days ultor llalsfon's ill-fatoddeath Jones proposed to sell his stock, declaring that he had to h-u-o tho monoy. Mr Hinton attempted to raise the amount, but foiled ; Jones fore closed, and J. P. Jackson became the nominal proprietor, and remained so until recently. "Progress and Poverty" In tho mean time tho Legislature had croated tho office of Inspector of Gas Meters, and subsequently Governor Irwin .-i-riointed Geortro to the fut, position, which ho'hold for four years. It. was at this timo that his thoughts woro earnestly turned to llio land ques tion He had a fair library and devoted himself assiduously to it. He applied him self especially to politico-economic sub jects, and had a particular fondness for the French land theories. His chief source of inspiration, however, was thu rathor scarce work of Father Patrick Lavollo, gi-'iog an ncount of four years' litigatbn in tho English courts over the rights of tenants. Tho views of Patrick Ford, of the "Irish World," also charmed him. It was during his period of rest at the State's exponso that ho wrote his now famous work—'' Progress and Poverty." The work was written and rewritten under his hand and subjected to tbo vigorous criticisms ot his closo personal friends, to whom he road tho manuscript with much persistence. He was almost invariably advised not to publish ii. Ha was not.howcvor, to bo discouraged, and Mr Hinton finally published 500 copies of tho work. Subsequently tho platos were transferred (o the Appletons at Now York, but Mr (leoru'o belioved that tho price uas too high and leit San Francisco to superin tend trio publication.

Boforo'leaving hero in ISSI his friends tendered him a farewell banquet, which was given at Campi's, and wan largely at tended by nowspipjr writers and pub lishers.

Finding himself unablo to accomplish anything in Hew York, Mr George finally wont to England and succeeded in having " IVogi'OPi' and Poverty published there at (id. At iho same time tho «»ork sold at l.'iOdol. hero. Idol, in New York and subsequently at 50 cents. Tho Irish Land Leui'iie, recognising Iho potent influence of the work, issuing it at 3d. The book had a marvellous salo, und it is estimated that it has netted its author fully 40,000d01.

As a matter of hit-eery, and as an in for esting fact in connection with Mr George's life, should bo noted his marriage. About nineteen years ago he war, wedded in Amador county, this State, to a very hand some young woman of Irish parentage and a very staunch member of the Komnn Catholic Church. She urged George to taio an active interest in the cause of Ire land, and whon Mi-h,-iol Davitt made his first visit to the coast, lie did so, and from a hurnblo follower became an active lender.

Alter ho had secured a publisher in Enc laud, Mr Georgo made a lecturing tour through England, Ireland and Scotland, which was a financial success. Upon hia return to the United States ho located in Brooklyn, and for a timo served as private Secretary to Abram S. Hewitt, llio million aire, with whom ho has since contended for the Mayoralty of New York. After a second trip to Enghuid, Scotland and Ireland lie roturnod to New York aud opened a print ing otlico at IG, Actor Place, where aro pub lished his own and other books of liberal and advanced thought.

His prominence in New York politics is too recent to need roforonco at this timo. What prominence ho is to achieve in tho future remains to be teen.

A MISCHIEVOUS ELEPHANT.

Stranso Freaks Which Cost the Owner a Considerable Sum.

WHEN one of tho Kiralfy Brothers' company reached Dotroit ono Monday recontly the trained elephant Brahmin was taken to the stablo of Goorge li. Gloss, 45 Adams Avenue oa-'t, whore tho advance agent had eocured auartors for his imperial highness. Subse quently Mr Gloss prosentod a bill to tho Kiralfy brothers for Hldols. for " damage of tho elephant," which came about in this way: Brahmin ia a very docile animal ordinarily, and considerable of a comedian. When first went to Mr CIo-:s'a establishment he was very friendly, particularly towards Mrs Closs, for whom he would perform various onto tricks. Tho fir.->t day in the strange birn ho observed the men drawing water through tho hydrant and lending it through a hose to a tub same dis tance away. When ho found himself •'dona he inserted the free end of tho hose in his mouth and with his trunk turned on the water. Thero he stood and allowed the water to run for no ouo knows how long, but presently Mrs Closs visited tho barn, observed what wan going on, and then noticed that tho elephant was hioeoughing. Quickly she turned tho water off but his hiccough did not stop. Then she telephoned to White's Theatre, and the keeper camo up to look the animal ovor and said that Brahmin had in ull probability im bibed at least a barrel of water. The next day tho elephant eeurara as well a-< ovor, hut his supply of drinking waler was guarded, and in lookius; around for a substitute he found a live gallon can nearly full of coul oil. Ho pullel the cork from the can, tipped it over, and tasted of the oil which poured out. on the floor. Evidently he didn't rolish it, for ho seized tho can with his trunk, whipped it on tho floor, rtnel then stopped on it. Then he went for everything in his reach. Ho trampled on the bushel baskets, harr.merod the penstock with tho barn shovel until the shovel was battered out of shape, after which he pulled up tbo penstock. Next ho threw a peck measure at a hanging lamp, ruining both, and Pnally wound up by tearing the oat spout and the hay shuto. Mrs Closs, hearing tho rumpus, run out, to find the stable iron amazed and poworleast, each trying to quiet the animal, but without effect. ' Calling the animal loudly by name, sho \vk!3 considerably astonished, os wero tho stable mon, to soo him stop his destruc tion, and turn upon her with tlie mildest eyes and the most meek demeanour possible. With his great body swinging slowly to ■Mid fro and his oars fanning the air, he Wtti.'.ed until MrR Closs said: "Soe what you've dono " Then, with the greateet de liberation, ho picked up several destroyed articlos ono by one and laid them on the floor iv front of the lady with an air which plainly said : " I've got through with 'em, you can havo 'em now."

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1887

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Prepared only and sold tvLo'e».ilo unci retatl by tho proprietor, V. B«ccharu, ClieniNt, St. Helens, Lancashire. Emtteud. iv boxes at. la HC *nd 2a *1 esch.—;-"od by alt Drue;gißt.a and Pateut llcdiniu). Dealers throughout tho ool antes. M.B.—mil dlreotlona are given with eaoi 801. TTBaTINfi'tJ pOWDEE, "KEATINQ'B POWDER" " KKATING'S POVVDKR KEA'I'INIi'S POWDKIt RUGS FLEAS MOTHS BEETLES. This Powder is Quits: Harmless to Ani mal Life, but is unrivalled in destroying fleas, btißs, cockroaches, beetles, moths in tui-a, and every other species of insect. Sportsmen will find this invaluable for destroying fleas in their decs, us also ladies for their pet dop;s. THIS ARTICI.K HAS FOI'KD SO GREAT A SAT.S that it li.au tempted nthcr-H to vend a so-called article in inrtaticn. The Public aro Cautioned that the tins of the genuine powder bear the autograph of THOMAS KKATINU-. Sold in Tins by all Druggists. KKArfNG's WORM TABLETS KEATING'B WORM TABLETS KEATING'S WORM TABLETS A Purely Vegetable SwEErMKAT, both In lppoarance and tasto. furnishing a most agree jble metliod of administering the only certain r?^r?7rc, £or r 1 I . N ' rKSTINA3 ' OT I'HRKAD WORMS. It ia a perfectly safe and mild pre paration, and is especially adapted for Children, sold In Tina by nil Chemists and Druggists. Proprietor: THOMAS KEATING. Lnvr«m, rpIMB-TABLB FOR SPARKES'S BUS leave aroh hill. leave augklakb .„ . „ .. (National Bank>. B.IQ a.m. (Cox's Creek) 9 0 a.m. O.SO „ (Rtchm'd Avenue) 10.16 „ 10.0 „ (Cox's Creek) 11.0 „ 10 55 „ (Abattoirs) 11.15 „ 12.20 p.m, (Hotol) 1.6 p.m. 1-35 „ „ 2.1S ~ 2 0 „ (Cox's Creek) 3.0 „ 2.55 „ (Abattoirs) 3.15 „ 4.25 „ (Rlchra'd Avenue) 6.10 „ 6.10 „ (Hotel) 6.15 „ «15 „ ~ 6.20 „ 6.66 „ (Richm'd Avenuo) 7.45 „ SATURDAY NIGHT ONLT- Leave Arch Hill .. 6.30 and 9.15 Leave Anokland „ B.EO, 0.15, and 10. Bpeoial 'Bus may b chad at any time, night or oar, at Lowest Rates, H. SPARKES, Proprietor.



Prosecute tne Swindlers II It when you call for American Hon Bittera (sec green twig of Hops on, the white label and Dr. Saule's name blown tjo the bottle), tho ven dor hands out cnythinir but American llop Blttere, refuse It and shun that vendor as yon would a viper: and II he has takon your money for a?iylhina else. Indict him for the fraud aud oao him for dnrr.airoo for the BTrlndl*. and w< 4*lll cajr | tv Llucrullj fa: U-si oeavlctioji.



OS?\ k POSITIVE CUBE | ?fe ,-s 8 /or every form of 4*^wlw[ |Jyk skin and blood \mw <JSfiJ DISEASE J§s?S / V UTROIVt Scrofula on Neck. Eczema on Scalp. ] [PIMPLES to scrofula j Drcun-nrruTWri nr-tOI'S nnmillatlng Enip-l/lUTrfinRA nESOT.VENT.thenewßloqdPan. T.-rIGURINO nt ..,. .m,.i, i irr.i . j ,-„.,., 1,i 11r ,.ti,., anil Aperient, cleatißss the Blood tinlis, Jtehincr and I.i.n ■ - ■ '■; ~- ; . j ..,,.,„_,, „,„,>l' ..II In, an.l I'oiEonon. 'I'- ■"■' ■'• """ '■;''■-' '"i"';"'" .".' ~.'. ','.'::.i'.. i,.. r„- :■,„,.:.., an. Minis r.-in.AVS the CAUSE. Hem* '.';;'.'. W.i VlV.;' i : C:;%i.':a'' : ar.! '-vlip', "v-i : :'>"f-<"- '"'/' ' : ""' r ' I *'- Permanently, and economically iiair', •/.'-..„ ir.''.e.r> ■■ -i-i ■■*■ , •»<• ';?;;* ;! ; ,'.;> ft™.;! ti«- okklt'skin (aiwadnii' ,1.1-... i.i.sni. i- ... .1 ,;.„,-',.. .-.■„;,. P-..-.1 ■ i.-i .-\:.-r.i;i! e.-,-;,;i)-n.iH.!y allays Itching cmd .' evil,, aial.i.evi'.-ei A ami «.i .I.Li.A ._...-. - ,„,„.,-. , ;1; . t |,,:,,,■!,:„ , the . i.nl and Scalp Of Hnmon, ..-l.iii c-ureJ '-"" I*-" ll '.i. '"i •" •"■■' ■-~•,-.- ■,:.,: 1..-.,..:. .. , ,l. stv.-ys Dead Skin nndiieen, I,i..'li'.mi"," Pruritic.'H a " a .'"I f %,?ji'lr «v r--^-od r Lv a ai ~ Soap, an exquisite Skin Beautia« .. nor,. |-„-. iili.-.r :o >■','■'>'<■:''•■!.;■ ~'',,,] '-, ii„.,!e all. and Toilet liequisite, prepared from Crmctrai, warm bath with COT cc raß . .;- ( ",. n(U nßa s in treating Skin Diseases, Baby pli C ai...nof (Jutic ;i:a the 11reatti-. ..• -:,: ; , Burnishes, Prickly Heat, HuhJ. ""VfY'.p.Hl.fJ "ehitig feeffei of Sualiurn, and Rough, Chapped, or Greasy Bkln. '' tne'rikln 'mil Scalp, when all other means fall. Cutlrllra Kemertles are the only real Blood m nn „wr Work on thp Skin. PuritU-rs and Skin Beantitiers free from merenry, A Wasmincwit Po£»»' ™°™ °"J JTlteo" Senle, lead, zinc, or any other mineral or vegil with Engraved Plat . ' ' ,' ~on'whatsoever. Guaranteed ahsolutely . fy the Analytical Chemiat. of the State j v- . ■ r I -.v.- 1 ci-n a terribit- siiti'ei, r tin' > >~:. :, hiiEetls. !vVm''7)'' y .--i-.'- J , : "' , iii'.-''=''.-ia'ai.'d In'ood; have li.enj F „ r Sale by all vendors of medicine. Price, '. ' ohll .. .) to shun public places by reason of my .lis-,OcTloein, 50cte.; large boxes, $1.00. CDTIODBaTS Hiurhv- humors; have had the best physicians; SoAP jjj ctß . CtmoOTtA Insolvent, *l-00. ,;:;:,.::,„ I:! •,,,;„:•;-,.:.- of dollars, and got no relief, wholesale Agents, New South vValeB.R. Towns until l l us.,l tho Ct-ricußA I'.EMnnn.s, (:„., Sydney; Victoria, Felton Grimwade & Co., have cured me, and k-ft my akin and blood a»!j r< . lljollrn( ,; South Australia, A. If. Bickford & . r lire as a child's. Send to any wholesale dnnce'Ut ,;„r,., -,i„!:-.id,-; (li:een»iand, Elliott Tiros. & Co., ■: named in the oppasit.- eoliiinu, for " How to <Jure;] tr j ,i,ai,e; New Zealand, N. Z. Drag Co., Aucfc Bkln and Blood iiseases," land and Dunedin. OR AODKESS WITH 6TAHP, . POTPABID BY THB . - X Towns & Co., New South Walen. |Potter Drug & Chemical Co., Bo»ton,lT.g.A TANGYEST LIMITED, 119, BATHURST-ST., SYDNEY, KEEP THE LARGEST STOCK IN AUSTRALIA OF ALL KINDS of ":f ENGINES, BOILERS, PUMPS, AND LIFTING MACHINERY, 1 And respectfully request intending Buyers to forward particulars of their requirements before ordering. TANGYES, LIMITED, 119, BATHURST-ST., SYDNEY IMPORTANT PUBLIC NOTICE. OPENING OF THE NEW OUTFITTING AND TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT, OW GiTJESIsr & FOET STS, Ka£ tho p'.e&snre to annoonss tb« opening o£ the -a'uotb premitea with a New tad W*U •ciectsd Steck of ;- -';" MEN'S, YOUTHS', & BOYS' READY-MADE CLOTHING, SHIRTSi HAT 3, COLLARS, TIES, PCRTMANTIaAUS, TRAVELLINO BAGS, RUGS,ta.; A solenclid cssortrnsnt cf New Zealand Clothing, made from Mosgicl, Oamaru, Kaiapoi and Roslyn i weec'. to suit the most Fastidious: also, English and Scotch Clothing in great variety. Boys' Knicker Suits, a specialty, sizes f-om Q to 10 ', Boys' and Youths' Trouser Suits, the best ssiecton in the Colony. A splendid assortment of Men's Working Shirts, Flannel Under* Parts, Hats, Macintoshes, Oil Clothing, &c, at prices that yifl defy competition. v- Our Stock of Gent's Mercery is the prettiest in the colony, comprising—Gent's Umbrellas, Merino, Cashmere, and Lambs wool Hosiery; Fashionable Collars and Ties, White, Regatta, and Crimean Shirts, Josephine and Dent's Coloured, White, and Black Kid Gloves, Driving Gloves, Portmanteaus, Brief Bags, and every requisite for the Travelling Public. TAHLOKfX6 SEPAETffiENT. j|| I have to announce that this Department is under the Management of am efficient West End Cutter, and Gentlemen can select from the Largest Stocl of Tweeds and Coatings in the City. TROUSERS to Measure, from 13s. SUITS to Measure, from 60s, || The abova Largs and Well-assortad Stock i» eniirsly NEW. and haa bean boughh well In depressed market from the leading manufacturer? ana importers on the most favorable terras. All Goods Harked la Plala Figaros. W. G. ALLEN'S aim frill be always to keep fatti with tho public, end bnainsu v.ill be conducted an the moit leslttmata and itralghtftirwsrt prlncJplSi. An lnip«otlon rejpectfttUT InTlUd. W. G. ALLEN, T4ILOR, CLOTHIER, HATTER, AND GLOVER| No. 1, VICTORIA ABCAJDM, OOfiNHS 07 QUB3SK AKD 70RT STBSBTS, AX» ARQADB. yr Gash Only, REKVBEfiVfIBER IiISTH & GAUGHEYVI i GREAT Farther and Special Reductions in Every Department until Arrival V !of New Autumn and Winter Shipments, EST EXPECTED EARLY IN || X SMITH and GAUGHEYy^i IMPORTERS, jf STREETy^ NEWMARKET.