George Augustus Sal a lias related how the Dardanelles were once “ forced.” It was in 1877 that “G. A. 5.,” visiting Constantinople, found, one fine morning, an American corvette in harbour. He at once boarded her, and inquired from the Yankee captain how he had contrived to bring a war-vessel of such size through the Hellespont, “Oh,” said the captain, “tho Governor wanted to stop us, saying that under the capitulations wo could tp,ko nothing through that was bigger than a. gunboat; so I said, ‘Well, Governor, this is the smallest we’ve got ’! Of course, tho coffee and cigarettes wore handy. The Governor shrugged his shoulders and sat down; I sat down too, and—here we arc!”
CURED THE EWSSEMGE 10a Munn Street, Sydney/N.S.W. 3/9/1914 *' My little grandson suffered from infancy with a weak chest. He was nearly always troubled with a severe cough, and was very puny. After taking ‘SCOTT’S Emulsion’ ha coughed much less and his appetite greatly improved. Now he eats and sleeps well, and, having become quite fat, looks a dif® ferent child, and is never troubled with a cough.” (Mrs.) J. Meldbum. A course of SCOTT’S Emulsion casts out coughs, colds, bronchitis and chest weakness. Ib relieves the worst catarrh and overcomes the weakness and after effects of influenza, mea-i sles, scarlet fever and whooping cough. It replaces weakness by health and strength. For more than forty years « fjhaa t doctors have recommended scorn Emulsion IMITATED BUT NEVER SQUALLED.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3216, 3 November 1915, Page 9
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