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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8885, 19 September 1890, Page 4

THE CRUISE OF A WATEUBUR V The " Cruise of a Waterbury " in Aloßban seas is not a myth. The facts as published in our Saturday's issue are simple statements which speak volum'fl for the practical wprth of the Waterbury watch. TheB9 timepieceß were put upon the market for the purpose of supplying a demand which existed in reality but was little dreamed of twelve yeara ago as a possibility, The very idea of furnishing the great mass of boys, laborers, farm hands, mechanics of the poorer as woll as the more to well-to-do classes — the bare insinuation that such j could be accomplished seemed a Utopicn dream. When the Waterbury Watch ;fli£t appeared it was treated with derision, nud for adeoade hasbeentbe'Jbuttof wouldbe funny paragrapiristß; yet it has lived, thriven, and by sheer force of intrinsic merit won its poß't'on, proving a veritable blesning to those whose means ware limited Millions of Waterbury Watches have fonud their way into the hands of practical, earnest people. They have educated those wearers to a sense of the necessity ,of carrying the time of day. They have stimulated the trade in higher cost watches and brought maty good general customers to the retf'l vu eh dealeis. All through these years the funny have derided the Waterbury. At last comes tidingH of the servio* performed by a Waterbury assisting che navigation of a vessel in the tempestuous Alaskan waters. The newspaper scribe . seizes the^ opportunity to denounce the statement as a sea yarn, but — the newspaper man was too fresh on the saltwater narrative — a corroboration was forthcoming from the Navy Department and the newspaper man is — a here ? JOHN.AVERY New PLYMomrf HEAPING THE PULL BY 212 VOTES {From Modern Truth.) • The great success and popularity of: an article has now been confirmed by a Post Card Competition inaugurated by The Chemist and Druggist, a copy of which reaches nearly every dealer in medicine in the United Kingdom, the colonies, the Continent, and in the United States. Tlio publishers recently conouved the id6a of ascertaining from the trade the , most popular preparation for catward application now being manufactured and sola. \\ nn this object in view they invited a post card competition, each dealer to name the preparation which was most popular with bis customers. The publishers received 635 post cards with the following results :—: — S; Jacobs Oil 384 Elliman's Embrocation ... 172 Holioway's Ointment " ' ... 32 Alcock^ Porous Phristera ... 19 Bow's Liniment , 7 Perry Davis' Pain Killer ... 7 Vaseline ' ... ... 4 Cuticura 2 while eight other outward applications bad one voto each. j It will thus be seen that St. Jacob? Oil was named by 384 different dealers as being the most popular remedy, leaving 251 (lees than half) to be divided among 15 other remedies ; showing conclusively that St: Jacobs Oil to-day stands proomineht ariioh'g all other proprietary medicines for outward application. In j f act. the Bales are more than double those of any other proprietary medicine in the world, and 10 times greater than those of all other liniments and embrocations. This wonderful success rests on the solid foundation of merit (acknowledged everywhere). It is advertised only for imcb uilinonlß as it will cure, and hence it possesses the confidence of all classes of people, and has become a household word in every civilised country. Its success and popularity has become the subject of comment by almost the entire press of the country ; in many instances the leading articles of large and influential papers have been devoted to the details of what seem to be almost magical cures effected by the use of St. Jacobs Oil in local esses cowing under tbe mmediate attention of the publishers. St. Jacobs Oil is endorsed by statesmen, judges, the clergy, the medical profession, as well as by people in every walk of life. The curative powers of St. Jacobs Oil are simply marvellous. It conquers pain quiokly and surely. / It cures even when everytbing else has failed. It has cured thousands of cases, of rheumatism and neuralgia which had resisted treatment for the greater part of a lifetime. It has cured, people who have been crippled with pain for moie than 20 years. After the moßt thorough and practical test, St. Jacob's Oil 1 has received Six Gold Medals at different;' international exhibitions for its marvellous 'power to conquer pain. It is used extensively in the leading hospitals and dispensaries of the . metropolis and provincial cities, and also on board her Majesty'B troopships and the Cunard Steaui Ship Company's' flebt ! A GATHERING OF INNOCENTS. A unique gathering took place a few monthB r at;o in one of the back State townships of America. Several fetes in hono of golden and silver weddings had followed' one another in qmVi- sdecessiori and a number it giddy old bachelors, nob to be out of the switt, oonceived tbe idea of giving a. ball and banquet, to which none' should be invited but those who had passed fifty years or more in single blessedness Invitations were accordingly issued, a most enjoyable evening resulted, and rumor hath it that more than ontj venerable couple have decided upon join' ing issue in the near future. One incident occurred, however, which teaded to slightly mar the otherwise complete succeßß of the "notion." An impetuous, flighty, and fiery old maiden whose presence had been solicited — whose age for tbe past ten years' bad fluctuated in a most ' marvellous' manner, between 40 and 45, but who 1 would never own up to a day more than ; the latter — indignant at being, invited, set out in atcold drizzling rain to Waylay and chaetisf the "mean old snake" who had po designedly (to her mind) insulted ' her.' She missed her game, but returned borne with a severe cold, and was laid up next day with a bad uttack of rheumatism. On learning tbe occurrence, her would-he host' hastened to send her an explanation, to-i gether with a bottle of that famous painconqueror, St. Jacobs oil, which, aa it' always does, so speedily rt.ieved'tier sufferings, that in gratefulness of heart she' surrendered unconditionally, accepted his apology and "mirubile dictu," attended the banquet.

Great American Medicise w b! s t o n» s Fatonfcoß and Sol» Iroprietorw IFUANK WRBTOX, WBSTON'S WIZARD OIL of Healing Gams, Balsams " ' Vegetable Oils, and Bore Medicinal Herbs | ii gnarantood to core Rheu. matlum, Gout, Neoragia, Bpraini, files, Diarrhoea, Toothache, Headaohft, Lumbago, Wonnd«, Barm, Cramps, Ouolera, Spasms, Sore or Inflamod Byes, Earache, Oontraoted Oorda or Mußoles, t Faiusin the Bids, Bore Throats Ars retailed "by all Ohomiiu ond Storekeepers fchronghont the Coloniei, BIQO BEWABD.— I will give the above fIBWABD for information lending to tbe DETKOTION and CONVICTION of any p«non making or offering for »le, any npur*>tu «ir Ooioxiii* Im*AnoK of WBBTO&'i ff 2ABD OIL, Bigned FBANK WESTQfI, t&bw A own regmff lftPW* . f SWSJB AC9,