GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 95, 17 September 1914, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

I' The, feelings c.f a statesman pondering whether lie will liave peace or war aw 'difficult for the ordinary man to 'imagine (say,, a contributor to the lon'don Chronicle). There is a strange story concerning Bismarck during the evil leal days before the war of 1800. 'His subordinate, Keiulell, was an ateomplisherl] pianist, and, as OaiVt-Du'lT puts it in recording the story, used to [ fulfil towards the Chancellor "the I function which David fulfilled towards Saul." One evening Bismarck was nnhisually moody, and Kendell surpassed j'himself at the piano. At last Bismarck I'said: "Tbanlk you, my dear Kendell I you have soothed me, and done me so much good; my mind is made up—we shall declare war -against Austria!" The Mercantile Gazette has received a letter from a well-known business man who makes an annual visit to each part of tlie country. He lias latelv been travelling through the West Coast of the North Island, and he writes as follows:—"As the leading commercial paper in the Dominion, you will, I think, be interested to bear* that on this trip I have found business improving. On the first news of the outbreak of war, there was some inclination on the part of customers to curtail their requirements, but that feeling has now disappeared, and everyone seems to have settled down to the opinion that, war or no war, business must be. proceeded with, and during the last fortnight my returns compare quite favorably with thos« at the same period last year." BEAN'S ESSENCE. Owing to considerably increaard manufacturing costs, the price of my preparation, BEAN'S ESSENCE, has been advanced from 1./6 to 2/- throughout New Zealand. It was either, this or reduce the (juality, but "as the best euality of ingredients only" are ever admitted into HEAD'S ESSENCE, the slight increase is justified, and users assured of the best always. One bottle oi HEAN'S ESSENCE makes a pint of the best cough, cold and throat remedy, and saves Kls for your pocket. Pay your chemist or grocer 2s for HEAN'S ESSENCE and get the best that money can buy.—G. W. HEAN Chemist, Wanganui. "' The Daily News for Good Printing.'