HERE AND THESE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 84, 6 June 1913, Page 8

HERE AND THESE.

A KING'S ADVICE TO HIS SON. In his political will the late King George of tiie Hellenes addresses himself to his son, iviug saying, "Love your dear little country. Serve lier and your dear people. Have confidence in them, and may your brothers follow the same example." King George advises lids son to be courageous but patient, "for you are reigning over a soutke. u people whose temper and irritability take fire rapidly, and who at any moment may say and do things winch will probably be forgotten the following day.—Router. CAUGHT COLD AFTER DANCING. "Through not wrapping up ofter a dance my sister and I both got bad colds," says Miss Bertha Scott, 56, Fitzgerald Street, North Perth, W.A. Remedy and as it had done him bo much good when he had a cold we thought we would try it. It gave immediate relief and quickly cured us and now we always recommend Chamberlain's Cough Eemedy to our customers." Sold by G. W. Hutchins, chemist, Balclutha. £20,000 FOR SALVATION ARMY. % the will of Miss E. J. Emery, an American, who died in London, leaving £92,657, the residue of her estate, about £20,000, is given to the Salvation Army for work among women and girls in foreign countries. General Bramwell Boouh and Commission Howard, Chief of the Staff of the Army, are the executors. Besides a large number of other legacies for charitable purposes, Miss Emery left £2 to each of the members of her widows' class at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. NO BETTER REMEDY TOR CROUP "My little girls, Nellie and Jessie, were bad with croup," writes Mr Jas. Burgis, Stanley, Vic., "and would wake up choking for breath. I was' told Chamberlain's Cough Keinedy was a marvellous eure for croup and I tried it with wonderful results. Now, if they show the slfghest sign of croup I give them a dose of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and never hear a sound from them for the rest of the night." Sold by G. W. Hutchins, ch mist, Balclutha. FORTUNE MADE IN SICKROOM. By means of a telephone laid into his sickroom Mr Francis O'Brien, a consumptive, who died suddenly at Coventry at the age of 46. conducted the laTge business of Edward O'Brien, Lid. Mr O'Brien was an insurance agent until the cycle "boom" of the 'nineties, when he took up the selling of machines and developed one of the largest businesses of the kind in the kingdom. Later he added to it a large factory for other goods. ACHED ALL OVER. "I had influensa, with aches and pains all over," says Mrs E. S. Willians, Prise, S. A. '' Was getting worse every minute and did not know what to do for myself until I remembered that a friend had told me Chamberlain's Cough Eemedy cured influenza. I sent my daughter for a bottle and got immediate relief after the first dose and before I had taken the whole bottle was completely cured." Sold by G. W. Hutchins, chemist, Balclutha. BLACKMAIL BY A BOY. A Paris telegraph boy, aged 15, was arrested lately on a charge of attempting blackmail. He and his comrades at a branch, post office had been in the habit cf openinj. telegrams and reading them, in tin; way the boy learned ot an intrigue thai was being carried on by a married wo man. He wrote demanding £6 as th< price of his silence, but his letter fei. into the hands of the woman's uncL, who gave him in charge. The lad confessed, but the woman declined to prosecute. BOUGHT A BOTTLE. '' I had pains in my legs which the doctor said was rheumatism," writes Mr Eobt. Cochrane, builder, Waimiha, N.Z. "His lotion did me no good and I suffered misery. I saw a friend using some ilniment which he told me was Chamberlain's Pain Balm and offered me his bottle to try it. It did me so much good that 1 bought a bottle myself and was soon free of all pains." Sold by G. W. Hutchins, chemist, Balclutha. WHY HE 'VERTED. The Liberal Association of a Kentish village was in great distress at the loss of a former follower, the bailiff of the squire, but it found solace in the reason he gave for his defection. "I'm in favor of this here Traffic Reform," he said (the 'Chronicle' relates), "for I've seen them there motors tearing along across the common at sich a pace that a body's life ain't safe when he tries to cross the road. Talk of your Fr« Trade—gimme Traffic Reform." A MARTYR FOR YEARS. '' For years I was a martyr to liver trouble," writes Mrs Corlett, 112 Clyde Street, Ballarat, Vic., "would get dreadful sick headaches and be unable to eat. I consulted a doctor but he was unable to do me any good. Eventually I tried Chamberlain's Tablets and derived such benefit from them that my health is now perfet." Sold by G. W. Hutchins, chemist, Balclutha. BLACK SHAKESPEARES. The blacks of Central Africa are wonderful in poetry, Mr Dan Crawford, the missionary, said in a lecture at the Bechstein Hall recently. They had a glorious flood of subtle language, a whole set of beautiful idioms, and lovely, subtle, sinuous verbs. They had 19 genders and 19 different forms of one pronoun. In poetry the black was about 10 Shakes pea res rolled into one. "I was guilty of a poor little phrase, 'xltuvwi is. beyond the stars' " said Mr Crawford. "My native boy took it, poured it into the melting-pot, and j out it came in this form: 'The stars are the lights He has left burning along the dark road that leads up to His city.'»