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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 198, 14 July 1903, Page 4

One hundred and fifty million pounds per year are spent in the German Empire on spirits, wine, and beer. Chief among the reasons given for this excessive use of alcohol is the compulsion to drink to be found on every hand. In quite a number of trades it is the custom to pay workmen part of their wages in drink, or for the inspector himself to keep a beer or spirit store, which the men are expected to patronise. Amongst the educated classes beginning with the students at the universities, every opportunity of having a glass of wine or beer is eagerly taken advantage of ; in fact, the whole social life of Germany, is based upon the enjoyment of spirituous or mnlt drinks. The man who refuses a drink of wine or beer is sure to incur a certain amount of ridicule, and it is a widespread dogma that " a proper German man," and especially a German student, must be a good hard drinker, or he is looked upon as a milksop.

Frederick Williamson, says an exchange, sued the New York World for £IO,OOO for publishing a statement that he had committed a murder. The jury assessed the damages at 3d, on the ground that newspapers could not avoid occasional mistakes. Mr Baume. who is one of the new members, delivered his first speech last week, and was warmly complimented by the nextspeakei, Mr T. Mackenzie, the latter saying that a speech of so much matter and material had been soldom heard in that House. He proudly claimed Mr Baume, who is one of the members for Auckland city, as an old Otago boy. Mr Baume received congratulations personally from all sides of tne House. At present the doctrine of Sandow—the Gospel of Strength—holds' sway. It is the fad of the hour, and much more sensible than the majority of fads —than Ping Pong or Tiddley winks, for example. But when the fair sex goes in for physical development, where are we ? 'ls visions about ? or is the Caucasian nearly played out ?' Our grandmothers—dear old bodies that they were —went in for the back board, etiquette, courtesy and and an air of delicate languor ; with them it was a woman's part to be soft and rounded and gentle and flaccid. But the modern woman—the grandmother that is to be —goes in for cycling, dumbbells, hopping, and muscularity in general. No soft and rounded outlines for her. What she longs for is knobs and knobs and roils of muscles; a softly swelling bosom, rising and falling like the ocean to the inconstant moon is of none avail. Biceps, triceps, flexors, and extensors occupy her thoughts. When in decent condition, she should be strong enough to lay the average man across her knee and—well, treat him in a maternal manner. The poets will have to recast their lays of love to suit modern conditions. Hand me down my banjo, and, Mr Printer, start another shot !—Cromwell Argus. A postcard has just arrived in Vienna which took nearly six years to travel from Lemberg. The postal rates on inland cards having in the meaatime been raised, the Post Office actually fined the receiver double the deficiency in the postage. A Cough is Not a Disease, but a Symptom. It indicates that the lungs and bronchial tubes are inflamed. This inflammation often leads to pneumonia. The surest way to ward off pneumonia is to use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy on the first appearance of the cough or cold. It always j cures and cures quickly. A. Manoy sells it. The Greatest Danger from colds and influenza is their tendency to result in pneumonia. If reasonable care is sued, and Chamberlain's Cough -Remedy taken, all danger will be avoided. It will cure a cold or an attack oi influenza in less time than any other treatment. It always cures and cures quickly. A Manoy sells it.

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