Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2388, 28 March 1893, Page 4

Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

THE WORKING MAN'S MILLENNIUM. It is said that " Variety is the apice of life," and that "it adds to its flavour." The poet (Icsac Watts, or Cowper, we forget which) was not very far wrong when he penned this couplet, for certainly if c would be bat a dull monotonous thing were it not for its pleasingr contrasts. In the animal world we have the graceful and shy deer, and the bold and ferocious lion, the huge elephant, and diminutive though destructive mouse ; there is the plain, humble-looking thrush, with its rich song, and the beautiful humming bird whose musical talents (and he has sense enough to know it) are conspicuously absent ; tren there is the monster whale and the tiny shrimp on which it feedß. Whilst in msukind the contrasts are still more marked and numerous, for not only are their 'rjbysical features," bo to speak, different", but they differ intellectually and morally also. In some countries certain acts are considered dishonourable and even criminal, 'and in others the same acts T7ould be looked upon as ligitimate and onourable In Ciiina and India, for instance, we believe, lying is a virtue — we won't say a rate virtue; while among the Negroes of America chicken-stealing is considered one of the favourite nooturnsl pastimes, and perfectly praiseworthy, too — provided they " don't get caught in the act." In this country our tastes differ, and our ambitions carry us higher. We don't believe there is a single bank-teller in the ■whole of the country mean enough to Iry violent hands on a poor unprotected fowl. As to varying opinions on political matters, they are legion, everybody has an opinion of some sort; some thiok that Ballance and" his party are liho willing instruments of the evil one; others think them the only men capablo of ushering in that era of unexampled prosperity termed by some enthusiasts thp Working mien's Millennium; others, again, are loui in their praises of the author of the PuliJic Works Policy, whilst others clamour for „S ir Harry Atkinson; but one and all are unanimous in pronouncing Buchanan's House of Commons Whisky " the Purest and Best in the Market." lim. tow at's Ointment ahd Pn.tio.-» '■Jhcuraatii..ji miJ gout.— These purifying »nd soothing ruincdies demand the earnest uttdntion of all persons liable to gout, sciatica, or other painful affections^ of the muscles, nerves, or joints. The Ointment A ihould be applied after the affected parts have been patiently fomented with warm water, when the unguent should be diligently rubboa upon the adjacsnfr- jkin, unless, the friction cause pain. Holloway'a Pi'ls should be taken simultaneously ta reduce inflamation' > and to purify the blood, i'hia treatment abates the violence, and lessens the frepuency of gout, rheumatism *nd all spasmodic diseases, which spring hum hereditary predisposition, or from in 5" . accidental weakness of constitution. This' ointment checks the local mischief -"'* SiUt restore the vital powers 18