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Otago Daily Times, Issue 9195, 15 August 1891, Page 6 (Supplement)

WILL CLOSING EVERYBODY INJURE THE SMALL TRADER? TO THK EDITOR. Bib, —The cry that closing everybody alike will injure the small trader is contradicted by the fact that the provisions oi the Shop Hours Bill have been actually in practice for years in Oamaru, Timaru, Temuka, Geraldine, Ashburton, Waimate, Milton, Invsrcargill, and other places, aad no one has been injured. This should be sufficient for the Legislative Council. And we have not heard of any injury to the large number of small traders here who recently closed, and who remain closed in the belief that the Shop Hours Bill will soon close everybody else, which is bat fair, otherwise they will open again. Fancy the absurdity of closing, say, a. boot shop where three employes ate kept, and allowing another boot shop an the other side of the street to remain open because it is managed by a family of the same number I The thing won't work. The watchmakers and jewellers here recently agreed to close at 1 p.m. on Saturdays, but one stood out and upset the thing. Such has ever been the case. The selfishness or pig-headedneß3 of the very few should not be allowed to mar the moral and physical development af the many. The time is ripe for legislation. There never was a better chance far the Legislative Council to distinguish, itself. But unless every* body is closed the bill will be worthless, DJd time permit, 10,000—aye, 20,000-.signatures could be got to the petition in favour of the bill now going round the city. Hardly a single refusal has been received; it has only been two days in circulation, Hoping yon will aid as, —I am, &?., August 10. Fob thh Right. OUR J.P'S. TO THB EDITOR. Sib, —Before a person can obtain a commission in our volunteers he requires to pass an examination. Would it not be advisable to have the same apply to our J.F's ? I have no hesitation in saying there are boys in the Fifth Standard with equal (if not more) brains. Take for instance a case in the Police Court last week. A man was charged with stealing a book. The party to whom the work belonged is told, that it is not fit to be sold—in other words^ '■■. an, immoral book." May I ask those gentlemen on the Bench if they perused the wort: thoroughly before arriving at their decision. From the hasty way it was disposed of, I presume they did not. From the fact of seeing an engraving which did not suit their refined taste they con.demned it at once. I have one of the books in question having purchased it about 12 months ago. There are over one hundred illustrations and not one of them is immoral or has a tendency towards it. Should a like case come before them again it is to be hoped they will use a little more caution, and not judge on an article which to all appearances they know nothing about.—l am, &c. Dunedin, August 6. 0.8, P.S.—Since writing the above I have been informed the woik in question has been retuin,edi to its owner, having passed through the Inspector of Police's hands and likewise the customs department. We may now consider it purged of i all impurities (if any).—O.B. How many people are there who are perfectly well, who do not have headache nor stomach.ache, and are perfectly free from all manner of pain, who get up every morning brimful of energy and elasticity P If we would take our constitutions as Nature gives them to us, and, instead of tearing them down by dissipations and neglect, would make it a part of our daily lives to cultivate vigour and vitality, increase our strength and husband our physical resources, we might go on improving until we were SO years old, for a well-cared-for brain grows until that time, and why not the bodily,vigour as well? Instead, we begin very early to draw upon our reserve force and are sometimes bankrupt at 35 or 30. In such a state of affairs as this, the most that can be done is to put on a stop-cock which will cut off all waste of vitality. Let the stomach and liver have ss easy a time as possible; stop business and all worriment and retrench expenditures in every way possible. Do exactly what a bankrupt man would do who had been living too rapidly and who wished to reform and retrieve his fortune as far as possible. By improved nutrition the size of the daily supply stream can be somewhat increased, but remember that we can only get the tank full again by proper nutritive and restorative tonio treatment by a timely and faithful use of that great remedy Clements' Tonic. This medicine is an essential food to the corporeal system, it ia the greatest restorative of impaired energy ever discovered or prepared. In cases of nervous debility, general weakness^ neuralgia, and eon-> tinned1 toothache its action is sure, prompt, and effectual. 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Clements, Newtown, N B.W.—[Advt.] —In the town of Kallies, Pomerania, a great potato oountry, the entire population of between 3000 and 4000, shut up their homes, leave the keys with the mayor, and scatter all over Fomerania to the potato harvest, leaving the mayor and bellringer alona in oharge of the town.