PUNISHMENT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7583, 23 December 1902, Page 1

PUNISHMENT.

I Social progress has done away, with a great many forms of punishment once administered under the laws of enlightened

people. But nature never changes or modifies her penalties ; she still has the same punishment for the man ■who neglects or abuses hi? stomach, as she had in the far-off days "when Adam delved and Eve span." The physical discomfort, dulness, sluggishness, irritability, nervousness, and sleeplessness which are visited upon the man who eats, carelessly or irregularly have been from the beginning the cvi ? dences of diseases of the stomach and

its associated organs of digestion and nutrition. Dr Morse's Indian Root" Pills cure the diseased stomach, and enable the perfect digestion and assimilation* of food, 30 that the sluggishness, irritability, nervousness and sleeplessness, which result - : rom innutrition, are also cured. We cannot'do better than -use the words of Mr «L g/King, 11, Jersey Terrace, Sydney, whose fxjjgnenee along this, line entitles hisstatem|nfc"tp more than ordinary consideration. ;ilt"is~with the utmost pleasure I testify to the efficacy of Dr Morse's Indian Root gills in a case of chronic dyspepsia. ■ For many yeara I suffered from this dire complaint, with its attendant evils ; have congglji&d doctors and tried innumerable regjgpes, with no beneficial result. At last Ethe recommendation of a friend, I purstsed a bottle of your pills (putting little tb. in them), but -was surprised after n few days to find my digestion decidedly improved, and now I am pleased to inform you that, after a course of your pills, I sin perfectly free from all symptoms, have '» good appetite, and can digest any kind of iood." y- I-- _ — I■■ t

about 18in or ?oin in breadth. It is stirrounded by a, low wire fence, the insid« of which and the whole "ground" are oovered with greeoi cloth. Miniature wickets faoe each other, about 27in apart, and the places of the fieldsmen are taken by receptacles which may be moved to suit the bowling. The ball is aibout an inch in diameter, and of composition. It is "bowled" from' a kind of catapult worked by a player, who can vary the pace cunningly. The. ; opposing player defends his wicket wifen s a wooden bat Bin long, of which. 6£itt are handle and the remainder the blade. The latterY; breadth is but: half an inch. The boundary fence is marked off into divisions, counting- one to four runs to the batsman; The batsman sits behind his wicket and strikes with the bat held in one hand. He can be oat only by being caught in one of the receptacles, "bowled," " hit wicket," or hitting the> ball twice. Both Dr.Gnwe and Mr G W. Beldam, of Middlesex aC.U., pUyed e^bitjan, games, the latter scoring 170 6dd. ; .The sjets, which will soon be, ivailaible for the public, will be sold aii prices ranging from 15s to £3 ss. Players of the national gam© will be amused by a angular incident which ai friend oftmiine 'withesßed' at- a?; locdlrcricket ! match last Saturday (says a writer in the "Birmingham Mail "). The batsman skied the fball 'befcweeni the, wickets, and stood still- for a moment or two" watching its aerial flight. Then, ; as the bowler reached the. middle of the pitch to make the catch, the batsman ran, with his head lowered, either, by . accident or intent, against the bowler, whoni he upset. It so happened, however, that just at the moment of collision the ball came down and hit the batsman a aevere blow on the back of the head, causing him to fall to the ground in a dazed condition. The bowler regained his feet, and, considering that the batsman's charge had. been •deliberate, appealed on the ground of wrongful obstruction of the field. ■'■■ The umpire: answered in the batsman's favour, whereupon the . bowler did what most players would have done before, i.«., went after the ball, which had rolled some yards away. By this time the batsman had recovered his ' senses. Looking round, he realised the- situation, and, too dazed to regain his feet, started to crawl in. This he just succeeded in doing before' the bowler, running with the ball, •had: put the wicket down. The series of events, as can be imagined, provided a | laughable spectacle, and as most of the fielders held an opinion opposite to that of the umpire, the idea that poetic justice had been meted out by the descending ball caused them considerable satisfaction. ' ' Some pad feeling has been caused in Australiaby the action of the New South Wales . Association in substituting a, local thirteen" iv plate- of the Best of Australia team for the match against tlie Australians. ■■" Felix," in referring to the matter, characterises the action taikem as an affront to Victoria . and South -Australia, and , con- | tinuea:— This is an; aspect of the matter 1 that .deserves consideration. The two cricketing bodies of South Australia and j Victoria were- asked to • 00-operaite • with New South Wales in making the selection of the. "Rest." Those two bodies cordially ; acquiesced, and so soon as the team is chosen, the New South Wales Association, evidently ac,ting in conjunction with, the Australian Eleven, say, "We don't like tlie team; the match is off, aaid the Australians will play thirteen of-Netw South Wales." It seems t<o me that this course of procedure, is neither more nor less than deliberately flouting the Associations of Victoria and South Australia-. These bodies had only' one aim in view, , 'And that was to appoint selectors wlio would do' their best to pick the beat ,men. Giffen, and Layer were their representatives, amd if these two picked me«n whom the Sydney selector would reject, that is no. reason why the New South Wales Association should step in and cancel the match. Such a tiling has never happened before in Australia that I can recall. But there is no "blinking the . fa«t that the New South Wales Association in recent seasons has fcried to dominate the position. In their ow» discussions and debates asperity is an ingredieiiit seldom wanting, and when they deal with our Association the tone of • correspondence adopted is of such " stand and deliver " style that even the legal element in our list of delegates feels forced to express strong dissatisfaction. "A County CricketeT " contributes to "The Asian," India, the following readable remarks on the Australians: — "The plain English of the Aiistralians' success over hare is that they aire better, fighters, have more grit in them, and suffer less- from nerves tham English cricketers, with one or two notable exceptions, of which the chief are Hon F. S. Jackson, George Hirst and Wilfred Rhodes— they ' go all the way ' more than our men do, as they proved in the Fourth Test at . Manchester, when the Englishmen were winners all over at* lunch time on the third day,; and yob they managed to get us out, and. that's the hard fact you've got to face. Just as at the Oval, never mind the luck, they did not getf Jessop out when they might have done sa and had to face defeat' by aiwicloet. Man for man England's best eleveou-^a veary difficult eleven to name ! — is better than the Australian side, but thej just 4>eat us on (

the post by dint of pluck and thoroughness, atidlast, tiut by no means lea-st, by their marvellous a,nd unerring collection of singles and saving of singles. Twnty to forty singles saved per innings, added on to a like number 'sneaked,' means a tremendous advantage in. a three days' match. If they bat first) it "means an extra 60 a* least for England to get' in the fourbh. innings, and if we bat first it means quibe tha.fe number lesa for them to have to make. Everybody who saw them bat will bear witness that Wha* I write is true with regard to thair faculty from the first pair down to Janes and Saunderg, of picking up every single going 1 begging. And when no singles are go* ing begging, for the tenth wicket Jonerf ' swings t'ha mallet/ and it's generally four at some unexpected corner of the ground. And if he is not playing, and you have got eight of them out, 'Little Eva' Trumble picks up a fifty-meirchant. from his bag and comes leisurely to the wicket to| get 'em, come what may. As bowlers they have the best in the world in ' Little Eva. —you can have Rhode®, Hirst and the lofe in, Trumble is to-day facile princepsT-a. useful set in Saunders, HoweM, Noble, Hopkins and Armstrong, though I shall be surprised if you do not find the firsfcr named' s fasb delivery mentioned adversely in; 'Wisden, 1903.' There is not a more illegal delivery in class cricket to-day in. my opinion, but as this vexed question is one of opinion entirely, so will you doubtless find sound judges who will tell you Saunders's every delivery is quite legal."