JACK'S ABOUT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2373, 14 August 1886, Page 3

JACK'S ABOUT.

''••"■ Sailors and their -adventures have ever | been a favorite subject with poets, 'sofjg Vritefs, and novelists. Dibdin, Campbell, ifarryat, Scott, Cooper, Russell, and ' Harinay, have depicted Jack to us in such,., fascinating form that :ire .havo com'o, to. • ' surround him with a : halo of romance, yJB endow'him with.' every virtue of I: 'W6ißni, and chivalry,.. Nor."are we '''•'■• wholly unjustified in doing this. The / «ailpr, take him all k alibis a fine bellow ■X'j-Mmplo, loyal, -brave, and honest, and . wshouldnovef permit our judgment of. • .' his character to/be warped by occasional '• illustrations'of exceptional vices. His '"'occupation is of a kind to. inspire .'in : the duliesfcand'cibstiuncultured.nature thatw awo and revorence for. tliQ pojvw hy.whom •>, the ocean iaruled. He\daily'teco&nises ' the fact that but one plank rests between ;'" and ■ eternity. Ho is' constantly ■'• - retoinded that his skill and strength are :; '.but as a babe's when the Lord of the storm and the Ru'er of the winds puts ']■'■' forth "Kb hand. Subjected to these im-~ • ; tyresaions. and necessarily" prompted; to :'/;•' .'high thought' and humble trust, the' •' :; -., liSofmust bo in a bad case indeed, who Is an ttiiredeeiuabksdoundrel. Perhaps the best' evidence of his nobility of nature "'.. is RiVeii in'hisready' susceptibility to ;' 'refined influences. •'• Take Jack fipra the:. forecastle and'giveh.iraa Command! and ■•■•■'- probably no other man with superior advaritagoi, iso rapidly develops into the. ■ frUuk and--cordial gentleman, whoaccepts" T hw-position as h08t:to-his passengers as ■jagnfldently and easily-as any person of r 4K^rth'atid'ppsitioh; •- ; ' • ..-Mn tekxng.thesef.icts into consideration , •; we mtfsfcrerh'etib'er. that :the sailor's life '"' itf'liatd 'Meed';' noij 'only has he to ; ''-Mcitißfehperiltolife,:bu'tthewnditions; •' ; - "-'of hte t #ccupation* t Wre -such air'lay the' '■ " '•'g^dii ! 'bf i; diaease 'in iiianjr forms," Sub-

.iectW,-Oqld, on?' day, .grilled; ,'the iieit, fepiejilto the stiffness of a deal tidard, .pr .panti'ftgin a ,hht 'fore«wt}e ( -fc'fld praying '-fdu i'ibd,' <is -.the.-ship" rolls - in the-dolr • drjlinV iti Equatorial ffelta-r-his Constitution iV'siifijected, to extraordinary strain'and 'trial. "At" this 'moment in hospitals all over the world, .puof Juck lien stricken down •'by ; .'kidney and liver complaints, rheumatism, aj?ue; : and.Bhattered bones. Yet his .hope ftnd confidence are inexhaustible; and so far as moral influence are concerned, in fighting sickness, he is possessed of exceptional powers of resist-, ance. • • ■'.- : "•'''' : .

But powerful as the will may be, in crushing back the assault of disease it is not enough. It assists the action of medicines, but it cannot, accomplish a cure •without their aid. As an illustration we find Captain John Balfour, of Latrobe Terrace, West Geelong, - thus testifying to the value'of a remedial agent. 'Tho Captain says: " Having tried many dif, .fevent medicines for liver and kidney dis-orders,-1 must say I know of none to equal Warner's safe cure and safe pills. I havo recommondbd them on all hands, arid will, confciiuio to do so." This is a pretty:conclusive testimony to the -wisdom of resorting to tho uso of a specific whose replitafjon'aod virtues have been established by long and exhaustive flxperiouco. Many a sailor, in every part of the world, could this, day ondorse •with.ready gratitude tho statement just quoted. And this is a reflection which rises superior to any sordid commercial question. •It is doubtlesa pleasant to make inoney; but the gratification is tenfold, and its influence becomes purified and ennobled, when it- is charged with' the- knowledge that thousands of the human race have boon relieved by •the process.'