THE LATE MR HOLLOWAY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1830, 29 March 1884, Page 4

THE LATE MR HOLLOW AY.

(Referee.) With the close of the jcara name known to fame over the entire surface of the iuhabited globe disappears from " Men of the Time." The benevolent proprietor of Mto univoi sally-advertised pills and ointment has passed to the one land where hU ad vei tisements have no place. Hollo way's pills and ointment have boon pi icirdcd on the Pyramids, and n,d\cr ts j d on the North Pole. In all the known tonsrues tlicir virtues have been set foith ; the Indian and the K-qui-iraix have taken the pills, the Patagonitin and the Tartar ha\c tried the ointment The chief distributing agents among the far-off tiibes of the pathless pidhic and the nomads of the trackless desert have been the missionaries. It is a fact which the societies for piopagating the Gospel will hardily venture to deny, that a considerable number of their agents acted in a duel capacity— as physicians for the heathen soul, and doctors for the heathen body, The Bible and a box of pills have been for years past the t*tock-in-trade of adventurous Christians who have penetrated into the vast uncivilised tracks of countiy where heathen dwell. Not seldom has a judicious pill or an opportune dab of ointment laised the missionary to hme anil fmtuno at once, The tna^icil effect of a pill upon an Arab slioikh toims indeed, pait of the standard litcia-tmc of 'our country. The missionary once established as a medicine man and a worker of wonders, his task became comparatively easy, and in writ ing of the Kite Mr Hollow ay his position as a preacher of civilisation must not lie foigottcn. After all, it is better to force our faith down the heathen's throat with a haunless dmg than to plunge it into his chest at the end of a bayonet. A Ilolloway's pill as an agent of Chiistianity is infinitely preferable to a cannonball. The wonderful fortune realised by " the piofessor" was the result of judicious and persistent adveitising. The man or woman suffering from bodily ailments is generally reduced by suffering to a point at which the mind receives the slightest hope of leliif with enger faith. And it is not only the poor and the ignorant who are caught by the cunningly - contnved advertisments which univeisal lemedy - pioviders issue. Who among us, tortured with const intly learning pains, or hara'-pcd with incessant inalility to enjoy life owing to some minor malady, hns not read how ]iist .such a ease as ouis h"as been cnied, and been tempted to "give the thing a tiial?" Take liver complaint and dv s pepM.>, which aie two of the common ailments, and which reducul even a rrieat Philosopher like Cailyle to a condition bosdeiing on frmpoiary ins.u.ity, and made his life a tortuie to himself and occasionally an cfjual tortuie to the good lady v\ lio has left Ills escapades with the kidne\s and bacon on tecoid. Now the lni'ii&h and dyspeptic man is for ever tijiu^ r some new lemedy, in the same hope of dispelling the gieat bank of tog ilouds that 1 oil tor over aciofs the s-ky of his life and hide the sunshine from his wemyejes. When he leads how some fcllnw-cicatuie signing himself M.X., or pei haps signing his leal name w ith "Rev" attached to it, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith, has been cured by one dose of Jubbins' Health Restorer, after spending seveial fortunes on doctors, how tan ho lesist giving lubbins a trial ? And if bj a lucky fluke Jubbins happens to do him a little good, lie sweats by Jubbins all the days of his life. I hive never swallowed any of Hollow.iy's pills, nor anointed myself with his ointment ; but in the couise ot my journeys around the vvoild I have met millions of human beings v\ ho hay c.and they were all loud in their piaise*. Indeed, some of them behev ed in nothing but Hollow ay Did they fall in the file and bum themselves, they applied the ointment ; did they allow a doso of pruss-ic acid by mistake, they look a pill ; it they got under an exptess tiain by mistake and lost a leg — ointment ; if the heart's action stopped fiom old age or accident— pill. Pills and ointment have become part of the faith of mankind, and there aie millions of good people who would look upon the scoiner of their favouiite nostrum as Messrs Biadlaugh and Foote and Ramsey and the author of " The Age of Reason," all rolled into one. Whatever the merits of Mr Ilolloway's pills may have been, he made a good use of the foitunc they biontiht to him. He died at the Season of Pills when his disciples are most prone to worship at his shiine, and he leaves a name behind him, not only on the Pyramids and (lie Noith Pole, bub in the heat ts ot the fellow -citizens he benefited with that ointment which is ''golden," and which is a specific for half the ills that flesh is heir to.

Tin; gieatest tattoo n rs among Euro- ] ear. people are French soldiers and Fiend) criminals. The idler and more disreputable the man, the more time he passed under the ai rest, the more is lie likely to be tattoed. The long vacuous leisure of piisons, barracks and guaidrooms is relieved by the arc of tattooing. Vermilion and China ink are chiefly used, and a vast number of emblems are engraved on the human fiame. Mere fantastic pictmes are the most common, then come amatory devices, licai ts, clasped hands and the like, jmtt lotic and religious and professional symbols, &c. One man was decorated with the pictuieof acartiage, coronet and all, in which a lady sat and witched the efforts of two dooms to control her fiery horses. Sometimes the caricature of Pi ince Bismarck is tattooed. Shoemakers and c,\rpenteis decorate themselves with the pictures emblematic of their tiade 15 . Two foils and a irask aie the " moko," as Now Zealandeiss.iy, 01 tattooed crest of <i fencer ; aguumaker maiks his arm u ith a pietme of a pistol. A man's body sometimes becomes his dosMPr, a recorder of his eireer, and may be of considerable use to polic. Ciiminals often pioclaim their bad luck in the tattooed inscriptions on their arms. Some write "No luck " (pas do chance), some proclaim more poetically that they are " Born undei an evil star." One philosopher has been known to tattoo himself thus (he was a pessimistic jailbird) : " The past disappoint od me, the present torments, me, the future appals me !" — a bitter experience

Referring to the Shropshire Downs sheep the Wannate Times says : — "As we happen to know a little about this bleed of sheep (hailing ourselves from within sight of the Wiekin), we have not the smallent doubt that experience will prove them to be admit - ably adapted to the requirements of flock o\\ ners in New Zealand desiring to carry on an extensive export trade in frozen mntton. They are hardy of constitution, and ha\e great flesh-forming capabilities, without running too much to fat, while they have the further recommendation of producing a class of wool which is increasing in demand. They have come greatly into favour in America, aud iv many parts of the Old Country— even in Leicestershire itself — are displacing white faced sheep, which have been so long the favourites. A Leicestershire man, whose family have been sheepbieeders for genetations, informs us that -when he came to the Colony 12 years ago his friends at Home would almost as soon have Keen a mad dog amongst their flock as a black-faced sheep, but that on his paying a visit to his native country some 18 months since he was astonished to find speckled faced sheep (due to crossing with Shropshire or Oxford Downs) the rule rather than the exception, and learned that the pure Shropshire Downs was fast coming into general) favour. Until now the only breeders of Shropshire Downs in Canterbury of whom we > are aware have been MrGrigg, of Ashbur-; ton ; Mr Medlicott, of the Hook ;' and '' Mr Rick man ; but now that a draft 'has found its way into North Otago we shall be surprised if their t excellent qualities do not speedjly bripg thiS/clwipi cheep