THE WONDERFUL FOOD BEVERAGE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 21

THE WONDERFUL FOOD BEVERAGE.

Do not use drugs, medicines, and so-called curatives. What ! Is there any other means by which tone and vigour can be promoted, and the rosy cheeks natural to health restored? Certainly. There is a valuable discovery that meets your case entirely. But what if I have much and hard work to do? It is no matter whether physical or mental labour is meant, or even if an excess of either has to bo accomplished, causing undue jadediicsh ancl tiredness, with disinclination for further effort or exertion — in any case the discovery referred to will be of inestimable ,service to you. ■ ; Ah ! but I want something that is pleasant and nice, not nasty or unpleasant, nor, on the other hand,, sickly or insipid. ' Have you this? • - ■ . ..•;•. Yea ! your needs can be satisfied to .'the letter. The evidence of medical men and the public is conclusive on this point - • What does this evidence prove? It proves that'Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa as a Food Beverage possesses nutrient, restorative, and vitalising properties which have hitherto been non-existent.

It aids the digestive powers, and is invaluable to tired men and delicate women and children.

It has Ihe refreshing properties of fine tea, the nourishment of the best cocoas, and a tonic and recuperative force possessed 'by neither, and can be used in all cases where tea and coffee are prohibited. It is not a medicine, but a unique and wonderful Food Beverage, prepared from Kola, Cocoa, Malt and Hops. The wonderful African Kola-nut which it contains has concentrated powers of nutriment, and imparts stamina and staying powers, adds to powers of endurance, and enables those who use it la undergo greater physical exertion and fatigue.

Merit, and merit alone, is what is claimed for Dr Tibbles's "Vi-Cocoa, and the proprietors are prepared to send to any reader who names the Otago Witness (a post card will do) a dainty sample tin of Dr Tibbles's "Vi-Cocoa free and post-paid. Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa, in B£d packets and Is Id and 2s 2d tins, can be obtained from all Chemists, Grocers, and Stores, or from Dr Tibbles's Vi-Cocoa (Limited), 269 George street, Sydney.

The schooner Ivanhoe has arrived at Cooktewn from New Guinea, bringing 2000oz of gold, of which 680oz are owned by Reynold's party, and 2600z by Christy. It is reported that tho miners are doing well. At Giva a cutter from Mamba lost three bags of gold, wcrth £1400, off the cape. The divers worked for five daye, and found one bag caught on thfl anchor. The other bags were also recovered. They were rewarded by the owners with. £50.

CC-OPERATIOtf IN ENGLAND. I "Last fall," says Mr Henry Demarest Lloyd, 'in his work on "Labour Co-part- j nership," v I went through Great Britain ; to see what was being done in the field of production by the co-operative societies. I saw' again the now familiar • 'jnarvels of the distributive stores, which ; Jn one generation have grown to a membership representing one-seventh of the British population — and that the picked seventh, — and doing a business, manufacturing included, of 272,000,000d0l a . year, with a bank of their own with de- j posits of 16,000,000d01, and turning over \ 200,000,000d0l a year." " But that does j not represent all that the growing copartnership of labour is achieving for its own benefit. In addition to the numerous business establishments and factories set up, farms are owned and worked , by the co-operative societies, and worked ] successfully. The difference between the co-operative systems described by Mr 'Lloyd and the State-fostered system of ; which experiment has been made in Kew ; Zealand is striking. The elements of ' success premise self-sacrifice and pa- \ tience, neither of which characteristics , have, anfortunstely, been pre-eminent in the men .attracted m Government cooperative works, nor rould fchey be in , the men that State co-operative farms • would be likely to attract. In view of the vast accretions of capital in the < hands of a few in older countries., the '■ -labouring" classes have found the only ; road to a reasonable existence along the ■ lines of co-operation. But such, co-opera-tion is not necessarily antagonistic to j capital. On the otherf hand the 20- . operation of the capitalist is welcomed. | Mr Lloyd says : " Capital takes its place \ as a wage-earner along with labour, and j both after receiving their earnings — in- '■ terest for the one, wages for the other — , share in the profits or losses , both sh?.re also in the ownership and management, j 'Even the consumer is recognised as one of the constituents, and shares in the ,' profit he brings, and can share in the control by becoming a stockholder.'' . Labour co-partnership is a vaotly different s thing from trades unionism, although j it is recognised that the latter has done , a jgreat deal to improve the conditions ■ of labour. The latter is, unfortunately" ; for all concerned, too often hostile to ! capital, too aggressive in. Us operations, j and anything .but conciliatory in its I attitude.- The. working partnership of i Jabour, on . ihe other hand, does not de- '• sire> to kill the goose which lays the golden egg, but rather wishes to create capital of its own, while providing new , outlets for the capitalist. This is surely , a better spirit in which to attempt tho solution of the difficult labour problem than, the attitude of defiant hostility so !' often assumed. Mr Lloyd, in the course' of his -investigations; found "that co- ! operation had taken firm root in Eng- j land, Scotland, and Ireland, and that j fresh developments were being inaugu- j rated from time to time. There are, he ! says, two great central store denibcra- ! cies in Great Britain — the English Co- '. operative Wholesale Society and the j Scottish CcT-operative Wholesale Society, | —and these societies either buy or manu- ' ■ f acture the goods to be sold to the retail | co-operative stores. In the English '■■ ' branch there are 1046 societies which are ' shareholders, and in the Scotch 283. ] But the wholesale societies have no ; monopoly with the retail societies, which j need not buy a shilling's worth from them unless they so desire. Owiug to the more general education of the people \ . and their greater thrift and intelligence, ! "Mr Lloyd says, co-operation has from ; the beginning flourished more in Scot- i land than in England. Co-operation is j siot, however, wholly free from the bane | of cupidity " The English wholesale j society at Manchester favoured profit- ' sharing at the beginning, as in its Leicester boot and shoe works; but when the Society grew to be a millionaire there*" 'came the millionaire spirit, and profit- j sharing died out. Rochdale had the | same experience. There was profitsharing there at the beginning ; and its ' succsso, Mr Holyoake tells us, was bril- • liant while it lasted, and would have continued 00 but for the cupidity cf \ outside shareholders, who put profit- : sharing to death. In their demented im- j petuosity to become rich they sacrificed i the chance of honour and honourable ' profit."' The most commendable fea- ! ,ture of the co-operative principle j amongst the peasant classes is that it | Jias .inspired them with a new hope in i giving them property, and the acquisi- [ Oior. of property has made them thrifty. ' The leaders of the co-operative societies ' - are capable business men, and throughout the whole field of labour co-partner- ■ •hip fch.ere is an undercurrent of altruism [ (jhat fe surely the. harbinger of a higher j type of manhood and womanhood. The 1 social surroundings of the partners are . uot forgotten; ;iere are public institu- j 'iions of various kinds for the amusement, *Si *he edification fif ; jgjg workmen* and ,

pretty glints of natural beauty, as at Nutclough Glen, near Paisley, have been added to the labourers' estate. At Kettering, in England, Mr Lloyd found copartnership better illustrated than anywhere else. - The movement started with ft co-operative store whose .first capital was borrowed from the wholesale, which aots as banker to many of the retail concerns of Great Britain. The co-operative store was started in 1866 with a membership of 60 and a capital of less than £100, the store being started in one room of a dwelling house. One of the working men was appointed storekeeper. The project Tsoon . attained success, and 30 years afterwards had a membership of nearly 4000 with a turnover of £80,000 a year. The store has a penny .bank foi the children, a coal department, three bakeries, a butchery, and an educational department. There are 15 branch stores in the town of Kettering alone, and the co-operative societies claim a membership cf 4000 out of a population of 25,000. "Rugby is still stronger, and there are places like Desborough wmch are practically all cooperators." • The first productive enterprise entered upon at Kettering after the store had proved a success was the Kettering Boot and Shop> Manufacturing Society. The first quarter's operations proved that the ventere would 3'acceed, and in the second year the society bought a piece of land upou which they erqeted a four-storey building, which hr.s been added io several 'nines since. Work at tae factory has been continuous ever since it started, and the hours of. tabour are £8 a *reek, while other factories work 54. There is also a clothing cooperative society which has attained important dimensions, and is housed in a magnificent pile of buildings owned by the co-operators. A co-operative building and contracting society resulted from the defeat of a strike of carpenters in 1893, and in 1895, its first year, did £6000 worth of work. The Kettering corset-makers started a co-operative society recently, so that the cooperative industries of the place are being steadily augmented. Throughout the United Kingdom, as Mr Lloyd has shown, the movement has spread until about one-seventh of the workers belong to the societies. In the United States co-operation has taken firm root, while in several European countries the movement is proving a success. " After f>o yeara of struggle," says Mr Lloyd, "it has had 50 years of living prosperity, and a greater prosperity ■is coming into view. It has. achieved an economic footing of a hundred million of property . Co-operation has won the right to be accounted the most impoft- • ant social movement of our times."