PLAIN TALKING.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 17, 25 August 1893, Page 31

PLAIN TALKING.

We are so much in earnest about this matter that we absolutely refuse to waste one moment of our time in planning and writing out paragraphs of a catching character. There is just this question if you want to stop drinking, smoking, or the use of opium you can do by the use of Golden Remedy No 1. If you suffer from dyapepsia loss of energy, neuralgia, poverty of the blood, or poor appetite Golden Remedy No 2 will cure you. Now this is straight, it ala depends upon yourselves whether you are to go on dragging O n s miserable existence, or be strong, free, and well. Send for circular of cures. Fre3h light is thrown on the religious feuds in Uganda by Henr Eugen Wolff, the special correspondent of the Berlin Tageblatt who ia at present in Central Africa. After making due allowance for the misrepresentations that are current on either side, Herr Wolff maintains that one fact stands out clearly from the dispute, namely that the country has been most unjustly divided between the rival parties whilst the Mahomedans, who wers brought in by Captain Lugard are likely to increase in strength and power to the detriment of Christianity. The Catholics have had the Buddu territories allotted to them, which are much too small for their cumbers, and which consist largely of fever-breeding marshes, whereas the Protestants are not numerous enough to fully occupy the land allotted to them and tbus large tracts have fallen out of cultivation. Amongst a' bar* barous people, tor whom the possession of ample territory U a rine qua non of existence, this fact in itaelf is sufficient to breed the most intense jaalonsies, and it is greatly to be hoped tbat our Special Com. missioner, Captain Macdonald, will rapidly see bis way to re-ad jnjJ ting tbe territorial balance.— Liverpool Catholic Review. Seldom has there been painted a more touching picture of great' ness in misfortune than that drawn by tbe sympathetic hand of r' H. Sherard in the first number of McClurJs Magazine, entitled " The Count de Lesseps of to-day." The brave old enthusiast ruined in body, mind, and pocket, is still idolised by his fellowtownsmen, to whom he has always been a generous benefactor Probably no higher tribute could have been paid alike to his personal worth and to the Faith which inspired him, than that expressed strangely enough, by the unbeliever Renan, when, welcoming De Lessepa to the French Academy, he said :— "You were good to all who came ; you made them feel that their past would be effaced and tbat a new life lay before them. In exchange you only asked them to share your enthusiasm in the work which you had devoted to tbe interest of France. You held that most people can amend if only one will forget their past. One day a whole gang of convicts arrived at Panama and took work at the canal. The Austrian Consul demanded that they should be handed over to him ; but you delayed giving satisfaction to his request, and at the cod of some weeks the Austrian consulate was fully occupied in remitting borne to Austria to their families, or, it may be, to their victims, the moneys which j these outcasts whom you had transformed into honest workmen were earning with tbe work of their bands. You have declared your faith in humanity. You have convinced yourself and tried to convince others that men are loyal and good if only they have the wherewithal to live. It is your opinion that it is only hunger that makes men bad. ' Never,' said you in one of your lectures, ' have I had cause for complaint against any of the workmen, although I have employed outcasts, pariahs, and convicts. Work has redeemed even the moat dishonest. I have never been robbed, not even of a handkerchief. It is a fact which I have proved, that men can be brought to anything by showing them kindness and by persuadingthem tbat they are working in a cause of universal interest.' Too* you have made green again what seemed withered forever and aye ' You have given, in a century of unbelief, a startling proof of the' efficacy of faith." De Leaseps has experienced his full share of human ingratitude, too ; but history will do him justice as a man as a man who achieved great deeds, but failing in greater ones, fell without lots of honour or faith,— Pilot,