Manawatu Herald. [Established Aag. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, OCT., 11, 1904.

Manawatu Herald, 11 October 1904, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. [Established Aa g. 27, 1878.] TUESDAY, OCT., 11, 1904.

A good general servant is advertised for. Tenders close at Sanson at noon tomorrow for the right of working the Shannon ferry for iz months. The first entries for the Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.’s Himatangi stock sale of the 17th inst. are advertised. The Levin Farmer has been enlarged to 36 columns. The additional reading matter contained should still further popularise The Farmer, and we wish the proprietors every success. A very warm straight spoken letter by “ Sportsman ” was received at our office too late for publication in to-day's issue. The letter deals with last Saturday’s football match, and will appear on Thursday. Yesterday morning, before A. Fraser, Esq., J.P., Thos. Hayward was fined ids or 48 hours’ for drunkenness; this morning the same offender was again before the Court charged with a similar offence, and was fined 20s or 7 days’. Those in fear of ragwort being poisonous to cattle will be pleased to know that Cr Coley at last night’s meeting explained that he had placed a herd, also sheep, in paddocks of this much dreaded weed as an experiment, without losing an animat.

“ Never was glad for this impediment in my speech but once.” said the man from the country. “When was that?” “ Fe-fe-fellow asked me h-h-how much I would take a-a horse, and while I was t-tryin t tell him £zo he offered me £30.” From October 29th to November 4th, is the time allotted this year for the Salvation Army’s self-denial week. The money raised will be devoted to foreign missions, rescue and social work, as well as the general maintenance and further advancement of agencies in this colony. General Booth, according to Col. Gilmour, is to visit New Zealand again next year, and is due in the Colony about May. He leaves London early in the year, and, after calling at Western Australia, goes on to South Australia, thence to Victoria, and across to Tasmania. He then leaves for New Zealand. Mrs Thomasson, daughter of the late Mr Samuel Isaacs, of London, and neice ot Mr John Bright, by the will of her husband, the late Mr John Pennington Thomasson, formerly Liberal M.P. for Bolton, becomes one of the richest women in England. As residuary legatee Mrs Thomasson will have apparently at her absolute disposal about £x,000,000. An Italian, formerly consul at Montreal, who has been jilted by the daughter of a wealthy merchant at Vicksburg, Massachusetts, is evidently determined not to be out of pocket as a result of the broken engagement He is suing the lady’s father for money spent in the course of the courtship t the items including postage, fruit, chocolatesj bananas and flowers, and the Signor has even had the happy thought of adding the amount of £lB6 for “ 464 hours spent in eoilftihg said daughter, at 8s pet hour.” The game of football is responsible for a remarkable death. One of the on-lookers of a Premiership match between East Fremantle and Perth was a Mr Thomas Kennedy, a well-known commercial traveller, and brother of one of the Perth players. He was barracking vociferously for Perth, and at last worked himself up into such a state of excitement that he fell down in a swoon. He was picked up and conveyed to a room in the grandstand, where restoratives were applied, but without effect, and he succumbed to failure of the heart.

The naivete of the wife of our bosom is usually amusing, and if, perchance, we take a “ night out ” we know we know we must plead guilty to one sin or another. It may be that we have been playing cards and losing a few shillings, whereat we are scolded , we may have been winning an odd shilling or two, wherefore we are fined ; but usually, however mild the night might have been, we are first greeted with "John Henry, I can smell your breath —you’ve been drinking!”

“ I want you to repeat every Saturday night, before yon lie down, these words I am going to teach you ; if you forget them, to rise in the coldest and darkest night and repeat them twice. The words are these—write them down : * Life is a fight. Millions fail. Only the strong win. Failure is worse than death. Man’s internal strength is created by watching Circumstance like a hawk, meeting her every spring stiff and straight, laughing at her pitfalls—which in the beginning of life are excess, excess, and'always excess, and all manner of dishonour. Strength is created by adversity, by trying to win first the small battles of life, then the great, by casting out fear, by train ing the mind to rule in all things—the heart the passions, the impulses, which if indulged, make the brain the slave instead of the master. Success for which alone a man lives, if he be honest with himself, comes to those who are strong, strong, strong.’ When you have finished that, I want you to repeat I No ’ aloud for ten minutes. The time will come when you will rejoice that “ No ” flies, instead of moving reluctantly to your tongue."—Gertrude Atherton in “ Rulers of Kings."