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West Coast Times, Issue 9444, 10 December 1892, Page 2

See \l»urik vage.

'«YE GOODE OLDE fTMES/ BEFORE THE DAWN W TBE INSURANCE, BOOK AND ADYEK. TIBING CANVASSER EB&. AN Illustrious Ancestor says ;— " BSay we noycr want a friend or si bottle to give bim." Had he lived to tbje prcucot time, he would' have been a little mor« explicit, and would no doubt havocspressed himself thus : " Hay we never want a friend or a bolt'e of Buchanan/ House of Commons whisky to give hiini. No particular'age, however, has tbo monopoly of good things, and although ia tbe olden ticdes they were content to drink rude, raw spirits, which no one ae*. oustomed to euch a pure, delicately flavored spirit as the beforensmed braila r would dresm of imbibing now. thkf managed to exist (though we can hardly* tell bow) without U. and without mstij' o'ber little luxurifß a'ao, wliioh we Ufa 'acoutitomed to consider indispensable, it life for them bad fewer delicacies an3 oadr»7 forts, by the law of. compensation it hat/ fewer worries, troubles, and annoyance also ; if their education, according to ou, standards, wan lamentably incomplete their disgestive organs were all the bettei for it ; and if they bad but few books with which to while away a leisure hour, they were not molested by tbe übiquitous book canvasser. Neither was theirlife rendered bitter and burdensome (we write feelingly) on. account of tbe persistent newspaper advertising canvasser ; nor were they i&> daily terror of the " excessively polite" mi Durance agent who figuratively roami about like a roaring lion, seeking whom hi* may devour; This accomplished gentle* mau first of all completely bewilderß"hiif p/b'6r victim with interesting statistics «|f to the' tontine system, the ptofit ajßtem; tbe endowment system, the annuity system, and many other systems, as th? showmen sayf», ".t°° numerous to "-intuition," and then (heartless being) frighten* Ijim with yariouij mournful, thooefr strictly moral, reflections touchmg . tS«'-, . "nearness of death, tbe uncertaintf ot life," etc. The Bohemian book canyasiiejr, , as a rule, does not come to stay ; like th* '~ *^ smallfpxj scarlet and typhoid fever, -he ascertain nunSbW^an'oVtlteJir" ; prudently migrates to a h less sultry clnWj* but the advertising and insurance cjlhy •,' yasser, like the' croup, whbopln'g^cdffgii^' .- and influenza, a£e always' with us. JBta^jry forefahers! to have lived before r tbese' products of our modern civilisation were etolyed. Wo cannot but tbink, however that they would have been much bapptor had tbe splendid- House of Commonr --, Wbisk'y been procurable in tbwr ««y«