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ONE WAY

to fill a barrell with water is to use a sieve. It'n a poor way, tb >ugh. You can do it, but it takes time, patience, care, and much work. So you can go on filling your system with all sorts of decoctions called tonics, bat it issn't the best way when you can get Booth's Golden Remedy No. 2, for that will cure your dyspepsia, poverty of the blood, loss of energy, and all the distress that cms from a sha 1 tered, nervous system. Try ono bottle : you can have perfect health' Bend for circulars of cures.

Says a contemporary :— •' It is not often nowadays that o c hears of clergymen giving up lucrative positions for conecienc i sake. Much however, if the case with the Rev B. P. Darn ford, late rector of Lockinge, Wantage, who has just been received into the Catholic Church, by Rev Father Hayes, at the Jesuit Church, Farm Street Toe living at Lockinge is valued at £450, with a ractory." Mr Darnford's sacrifice i 8 great, bat thank God it ia anything bat unique Mr Alließ, Mr Orby Shiply, Mr A. F. Marshall, and many another whom the woild haa never heard of havo given up all to follow truth.

One of the most versatile litterateurs in London is Mr Fiizgerald Molloy. Ha ie the author of a b ography of Peg Wofliagton, and one of Charles Kean, the actor— two books which have met with much success and deserve it. He is an Irishman and a Catholic, and resides principally in tbe metropolis. His acquaintance with the history of tbe stage in England is extensive. What a rare book is to the bibliophile, an old coin to the numismatologist, or an equatorial beetle to the entomologist, a play bill of the days of Peg Woffiogton is to the dramatic historian. Mr Molloy'a collection of old playbills, from the days of Colley Cibber to the latest attraction at the Lyceum, is an enviable posaeesioo. Another Catholic author whose versatility is phenomenal is Mr Percy Fitzgerald. There is no nook in the wide domain of literature that Mr Fitzgerald baa not explored. Playwright, journalist, historian, antiquary, dramatic author and dramatic critic — it seems the easiest thing in the world for Mr Fit»gerald to write a couple of volumes on any subject whatever that strikes bis fancy. Mr Fitzgerald works as if he wrote for hrn bread. This is not ihe case, however, as he was btqueathed a private fortune which t^e income from bis books has considerably augmented. J

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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 24, 13 October 1893, Page 31

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428

ONE WAY New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 24, 13 October 1893, Page 31

ONE WAY New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 24, 13 October 1893, Page 31