THE DARK SIDE OF BUSH LIFE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2571, 21 October 1893, Page 4

THE DARK SIDE OF BUSH LIFE.

Every spring there arises a versifier who sings in tuneful jingles the beauties of the bush, and at the time nearly everybody agrees with him. For in early September the bush is very, very beautiful. There is the wonderful honey scent of the blackwood, the sensuous smell of the musk tree; and to all men who are not blind there are beauties in the star-shaped flowers of the supple-jack, and the graceful curve of the fern frond, and in the heath bell, red and white, which grows best when the land is hungriest. It looks very well then, does the country, turf underfoot, and scent in the bush on your flank, and aloft the cloudless blue. But like everything else it has its faults. A few months hence and we will see in the bush the arid season, the turf of the spring is the dust of the summer, and the heat shimmers and trembles whenever it strikes a white stone. There is no water in the land, the face of the sun-baked country is horrible, and everything but the sun is dead—sound, air, motion. And with all its drawbacks there is a mighty charm in the bush, a charm which the most luxurious city can never possess. Despite the bad food of the bush, the food which invites dyspepsia and all its kindred ills—the loneliness, the miserable wage, there are men who have stood by their beloved bush for a decade or so, and who are still ready to stand by it through good or evil repute. The bushraan has few luxuries, and wants no more. But he insists that Warner’s Safe Cure is as great a necessity to him as his blanket and billy—and that the Cure is the one corrective of the bush dyspeptic. Mr 0. Mulholland, of Charters Towers (Qld), writes: — “ Charters Towers, Queensland, Dec. 2,1892. —Warner’s Safe Cure is a boon to men like myself who spend their lives in the bush. I have known it to cure cases of liver complaint and bush fever. I suffered for ten years with diseased liver and kidneys. On two occasions I was under the care of a doctor. I have spent much money on doctor’s fees and medicine, only to find myself very little, if any, better for it. My constant pains had made life miserable, and I even longed for death at times. Thanks to Warner’s Sa c e Cure and Safe Pills I am now able to do a day’s work with any man. For since taking the Safe Cure nearly two years ago I have enjoyed the very beat of health. My mates, to whom I have recommended Safe Cure, all speak well of it, and say there is no medicine that can come up to it.”