The Poet and Scientist.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 6

The Poet and Scientist.

¥ttfi fcts £G6t Had the irno ecieptist axe &5t WUHgod, They go forth {ni« afrtttee lUtt two friends. Behold them attfoiliug through the summer fields and woods. The younger of the two is much the more activ© and inquiring ; he is ever and anon ftepping aside to examine some object nacre ttlinutely, plucking a flower, treasuring * •hell, pursuing a bird, watching a butterfly ; now he turns over a stone, peers into *he marshes, chips oiFa fragment of a rock, and _ evcryw here seems intent on some special and particular knowledge of the tiling about him. The elder man has more *n air ci leisurely contemplation and enjoyment — is less curious about .'■peeial objects *nd features., and more desirous of putting bini'-elt in harmony with the spirit of the •vaole. Sat when his younger companion t»a-? any fiesh and chaiactemtic bit of in%oimaticn to impait to liim, how attentively ■be n-tens, how sine and di&ciinrinating is hie aprjrecialion. The inteie.sts of the two Jn the universe are widely different, yet in no true t-eme are they hostile or mutually destructive.

al? 7T ! K n U f ,?•""?' th ? nnd- **tened. do thin «Ja% liicke the following statement, inhopc& that others have gone through a similar atifjelion may profit thereby t-For many months Jiav aIDt on sick ; so bad lha.t lite was a bmvlen iiie uici^al depression nnd pljysical prostration \\csc -y*i ctliiiiK tluvt ennuot he dtsoribed. Docloiv fiii'f patenl, me<li< incs I havo tried without itnj iviK-f, but ffettintj wnr j« all tho tiine. As ," forlora bope I culled on Zvj. >Specv t Palmprslon ttwv.my,-,. Quoen-strcet. He examined jne. tmd Aviihotii .^Kiiig it epics' ion, g-avc mo every svnr.rtot' (had. Paid ho \.'ou!d treat me. Front Uic in^t f oaspoonful of his medicine T felt relief, mid idvn been eonsUiiitl?- netting better ever hv\t<\ Words cannot express my gratitude. riu- /tlifivij slcilfinrut 1 nwhe without any *>'>!(( n.i! ion. nnd I nrn willjjjß to verify the same I>. i<-)-c u. J P.— li"spei.f Ad'y youra, R. APA>a)B<JW Vharjottc-strcct, K^icii 'Jcxraee.