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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13460, 5 December 1907, Page 6

A DUTY you;/owe your family. Get rid of that irritability after,meals/ son's Pepto-chlor' cures indigestion. J ■, : "-. "■ . v -. ' '"'.'■' - .'■ ■'-. ■■ ' •'. .' ""■>'"■'' An insight ('into the , amazing complexity of life and conditions, in India is provided 'in.the Statistical'; Abstract, relating to British India, the forty-first annual number of which was issued in ■ September 5 as a Blue Book. Perhaps the most astonishing fact to be - gathered from the Blue Book is that a British-born population of under 100,000 maintains-; a peaceful control -of over more than a miillon square miles of British territory and rules over 230,000, - 000 of the native population. The' native States and Agencies cover an area of ap6ther 675,000 square miles and contain just over 55,000,000 persons. No fewer than 185 different. 1 languages are spoken, while the chief castes enumerated number eignlyfour. The Hindu, religion- is enormously predominant, ihaving. over 207,000,000 followers, the" Mahometan religion - coming next with; 62,400,000. Plague-and wild animals are the two deadliest foes of the native Indian. In the last ten years "as many <ts 4,690,000 persons ,have died of plague, while.: 251,000 have been killed by wild animals and snakes in British India alone. ..,-,. . ■■:. ; Billiousness- is widely considered constitutional' and incurable, but that is a mistake. It arises from a sluggish; liver, and. by controlling your diet for a period —avoiding rich, fatty: foolr—and taking a course of Chamberlain 's Tablets, it- can be permanently cured. For sale everywhere... ;..