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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1904.

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THE NEW GIBBON: A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE.

BY G. W. STEEVANS.

(Continued from yesterday.)

IV-A BROken race.

The effects of life in cities were apparent and pernicious. But for the unbroken attestation of both printed and pictured records, it would be difficult indeed to credit the fall horrors exhibited by such districts as Lancashire or the Black Country at the end of the nineteenth century. There the wildest flights of hyperbole were equalled and exceeded by dismal tiuti.. and the sun was literally obscured at noond, A host of ungainly chimneys loaded the ar with poisonous fumes which oppressed the hardiest species of vegetation. The inhabitan! :- penned up all day in close factories, or :1:: dimmer and more stifling obscurity of mine harded by night in crowded tenements, we pale, sickly and meagre ; and, by a maligna. decree of nature, the species became more pr. lific in proportion as they transmitted les | vigour to their offspring. The philosopher ut that age observed that the immigrant country men supported the unwholesome conditions c the towns better than the feebler natives, anı that their superior robustness, conferred at advantage in the competition for employment; | but the second and third generations dissolved away in equal langour the pestilent circum. stances of an unnatural existence. The momentary profit of the fathers was visited in debility on the children, and served only to precipitate the speed of this hideous process of degeneration.

As the warlike spirit and mainly force of the white races succumbed to the enervating in- fluence of industrial civilisation, the Govern ment of London relied more and more on the martial virtue of its subject' barbarians. These, whether in India or Africa, were as forward in the field as the British regiments, and under- took, almost unaided by them, the necessary | fatigues which contribute even more than the sword to the successful ́prosecution of a cam- paign. It was, perhaps, an Inevitable conse- quence of the imperial fate which impelled Britons to make war in every clime, since the severities of the Afghan winter, which chilled the courage of the British troops, were scarcely felt by the hardy children of Nepaul; while the Sudanese and Hausas, in their turn, were better able to resist the beams of an African sun.

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said Lord Chatham, is a plant of slow growth. People believe in things that they see, and in a broad sense they are right. What is sometimes called blind faith is not faith at all. There must be reason and fact to form a foundation for trost. In regard to a medicine or remedy, for example, people ask, "Has it cured others? Have cases like mine heen relieved by it? Is it in harmony with the truths of modern science, and has it à record above suspicion? If so, it is worthy of confidence; and if I am ever attacked by any of the maladies for which it is commended I shall resort to it in full belief in its power to help me." On these lines

WAMPOLE'S PEN"ARATION has won its high_reputation among medical But it was significant, if as yet unnoticed, men, and the people of all civilized countries. that the masters of the Empire grew either less They trust it for the same reason that they able or less willing to risk their own troops in trust in the familiar, laws of nature or in the unhealthier regions, and were yearly more dis-action of common things. This effective posed to delegate their defence to a mercenary army. The indomitable spirit of the English gentleman prompted him to seek martial enter prises at the head of the alien levies, whose continual service proffered the fairest chance of action and honour; and the mass of the people, relieved of the cares of personal service, sank contentedly lato the languid indifference of civil life. Black men and brown man, flanked with an increasingly inconsiderable proportion of white troops, won the British victories; and the cheaply-fed British citizens were content to sit and acclaim their prowess from the galleries of the music-halls.

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remedy is palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. It quickly eradicates the poisonous, disease-breeding acids and other toxic matters from the system; regulates, and promotes the normal action of the organs, gives vigorous appetite and digestion, and is infallible in Prostration-following Fevers, SECOND-er loft, Long Loth Anemia, Scrofula, Influenza, Wasting Discases, Throat and Lung Troubles, etc. Dr. W. A. Young, of Canada, says: "Your tasteless pre- paration of cod liver oil has given me having been of all ages." It is a product of uniformly satisfactory results, my patients the skill and science of to-day and is successful after the old style modes of treatment have

In sport, as in its analogue, war, the British degenerated with frightful rapidity. The very word had lost its original annotation and the honourable name proper to the manly exercises of hunting, shooting, and fishing, whose charm consists in matching man's strength and cun-been appealed to in vain. To try it is to trust

to it forever after. It ning against that of wild nature, was usurped you and is effective from the first dose. Sold cannot disappoint by childish or plebeian exhibitions of mere brute strength and agility.

The Briton found his pleasure in bestriding a bicycle instead of a horse, in striking a ten- nis ball instead of a wild-fowl; nor was he even sensible of the degredation that could prefer a mechanical toy to a living creature with a will independent of, yet conformable to, his own. Even the older and more re- putable games, like cricket, football, and skittles, which might have defended themselves as affording at least a semblance of wholesome activity to the youth of towns, were torned by a tuly devilish ingenuity into engines of enervation and decay. It ceased to be fashion- able to join personally in these spasmodic but active pastimes. The populace thronged to hem in thousands, but only to pay for the privilege of witnessing as lary spectators re- creations which were fondly called national. Some of these exhibitions were more than merely effeminate; active corruption was added in allurements to drunkenness, and in a factious partisanship which sometimes blew up to brutal assaults on the umpires of the game, and was always a fertile source of gambling, In their amusements, as in their wars, Britons ceased to play a personal part, finding a sub- stitute for the vigorous sports of their fathers in the force and address of well-paid mer- cenaries, which in a more strenuous age would have rebuked the insolent softness of those who pampered them.

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ACCIDENT IN AN ENGLISH.

COAL PIT,

While working in a Hanley coal pit soms years ago Jobu Henshall lost an eye from a inflammation, which compelled the doctors to spark at the pick-end. The injury set up

remove the eye. Finding his occupation a a miner gone, he has since worked as a gar- dener and at odd work. He is a most respect- able and latelligent man, the victim of repeated misfortunes.

Mr. John Henshall,

Victim of an accident at Hanley..

"I am getting on in years,” he said—"nearly Personal force and military hardihood were sixty-eight-and since I lost my eye I have the price which Britain paid for cheap im done no work in the pits. That is, however, ported food; the other cheap commodities in not the only trouble 1 bave had. For two years I was laid up with an attack of liver complaint, which the people delighted were purchased at a no less ruinous rate. In every department which caused acute indigestion. I also suffered of social life the tendency of this age was the from nervous debility. 1 had agonising pains ame, leading to the concentration of every in the head, and was subject to feelings of industry into huge establishments controlled | giddiness. I was hardly able to eat, and got by a few beads, and succeeding, by the pre-into a very weak, low, and depressed state of ponderance of their resources, in underselling health. Indeed, I used to feel at times like a the enterprises of small private traders. The | man out of his mind, and bot for Dr. Willimama" Landoser of this period bought his food, his pink pills I don't know what would have clothing, his furniture, his books and news become of me. papers, his very tobacco, from companies, stores, and amalgamations, which counted the volume of their traffic by millions and their | profits by hundreds of thousands of pounds, their emporia by scores, and their employees by thousands.,

(To de concluded.)

THE MANGO.

"To see if I could get any benefit,” said Mr. Henshall, continuing his story, "I went to Rhyl, and spent three weeks at one of the con- | valescent homes there. But I got no better: in fact, while I was at Khyl I thought my end. | was approaching, and feeling that I should | rather die at home, I came back to Stafford-

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There is a correlation of ideas between the Mango and India. When one speaks of the The univeral experience of mankind con- W. STUART HARRISON; firms the opinion that the solo defence of its home, it may be, as some authorities have Mango, it immediately suggests the country of

nation against external samity lies in the pre-assened, that the Mango has its real kabliat in servation of robust and high-spirited peasantry, the Malayan Península, and has spread through The British farm labourer had found himself out the tropical and subtropical world from osturally possessed of many of the qualities there. But this theory will not hold water. It requisite for a soldier. His form was vigorous, was found growing and fruiting in a wild state and fnured to hardship and privation. He had on the East and West Coast of Africa. In a natural habit of obedience, and in many in- Mombassa, there is to be found a distinct stances was already proficient in the use of species of Mango, which possesses the curious: weapons, and accustomed by the pursuit of property of fruiting all the year round. A |gamo in simpler operations of war.

retired military officer, who had settled in The children of the factory, from whom it now | Mombate many years ago, wrote to the writes became necessary to recruit the army, had none of these lines that the Mombassa Mango tree of Lhasa capacities; they were feable, in body, was the most wonderful he had seen. The tres insubordinate in temper, and habituated by was flowering all the year round, and it carried experience to a mode of life which rendered fruit in all stages of development. In India, them awkward and discontented in the Geld, the indigenous literature on the Mango is very As yet, however, the British army showed but full indeed. The fruit enters into the folklore few signs of deterioration from the standards of the people, and in mentioned in the most of its glorious history. The courage of its ancient of Hindu books. It enter into the [495 legionaries was unbroken, and its officers, be dietary of the people of this country in all sides training them in peace and leading them stages of development. Whether as a fruit in war with matchless courage and conless, in its ripo atate, or as a favouring condiment, found superfinous energy to raise and discipline, as a medicine, or as a food, the fruit is held in Auxiliary troops hardly if at all, inferior to the the highest estimation by the Indian people. The pits are not carerall. They cure by THE Steamahip British regiments thumsalvar. “Northern Tødía" | Although the literature of the Mango is so action on the blood and on the nerves, curing and the beains of the Nile and Niger extensive, it la mostly "scrappy" and scattered,ts, paralysis, locomotor ataxy, St. Vitar

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