The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-08-05 00:00:00

TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED

Read the New Work entitled
HOW TO ENSURE HEALTH.

Just published for two: stamps..
BY Da. BARNES, M.D., (U.S.)
ALTREATISE on the LAWS GOVERNING
LIFE, and the CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, and
TREATMENT of all diseases depending on Exhaustion
of Nervous Vitality, such as Nervous Debility, Mental
and Physical Depression, Palpitation of the Heart,
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to an early Death; together with Hints on Chroni
Rheumatism, Gout, ' Neuralgia EpilepSy, Hysteria, an
all diseases of the Nervous and alimentary system.

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useful PRESCRIPTIONS for the alleviation of suffering
and the cure of minor disorders, with full instzuct.ivus
for their preparation and use.
Contains also some friendly advice on Hygiene, or th
WAY TO PRESERVE HEALTH.

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Tobacco.

" Black Jack" Brant

arailt4tiOn. Tie demand for holidays has made
perceptible progress within even ten or fifteen
years past, and from the rich merchant and the
successful professional man, down to the clerk
who struggles with a fixed income to pull
against the heavy tideway of advancing prices,
all classes now seek to obtain a change brief
though it may be from the ordinary duties of
life. Of course, in what are termed the upper
ranks of society there is neither the desire nor
the necessity for what is called the annual out-
ing. The fortunate holders of territorial
possessions and of wealth which has been
amassed by those who have gone before them,
would to the middle and working classes seem
to be in the enjoyment of a perpetual holiday—
a never-ending vacation. In such regions life
might well be thought to be one long summer
day—an existence in a sphere out of the range
of clouds and showers, a time of eternal sun-
shine and of prolonged enjoyment. The
dwellers there "toil not, neither do they spin."
Often enough as those who are not so highly
favoured in this life have seen splendid equipages
roll past them in the street, they have been dis-
posed to marvel why such a difference should
exist. The pedestrian may be a man equal in
intellectual gifts to the occupant of the gay car-
riage, but opportunities have not come to him
for making a position in life, or if they have, it
may be that he has allowed them to pass with-
out taking the full advantage of the chances
afforded. But whatever the cause of the dis-
tinctions which exist, there is little doubt that
the popular idea of aristocratic life is that is a
time in which pleasure is the predominant pur-
suit. Yet it was Sir George Cornewall Lewis
who once declared that life would be tolerable
were it not for its pleasures.
The peer and the landowner, who have not to
perform daily labour for their livelihood, have
unquestionably many advantages over the wan
whose removal from the scene of his toil would
mean nothing less than penury for those who are
dependent upon him. To enjoy life as it is, and
to have no anxiety respecting future prospects,
is to conduce to a feeling of comfort which is
experienced only by a minority. The man who
is constantly at work, and is only able after all
to put by a little for a rainy day, may be ever
so much inclined towards deeds of charity and
benevolence, but the claims of home naturally
make the first demand upon him. With illustra-
tions before him showing the vicissitudes of
life, it would never do to go on year after year
without providing for contingencies, however
unforeseen. But with the rich there are no
such reservations. A landed estate which pro-
duces a rent-roll of £lO,OOO this year will yield
a similar amount next, even if it be not ex-
ceeded. Hence, the popularity of land as an
investment, and its constantly increasing price.
value cannot be affected like that of stocks
and shares, by commercial panic or depression ;
it cannot be swept away, like a costly ship, by
a storm sweeping over it. The property of the
landholder is therefore the most secure of any,
and as it cannot be depreciated in value by any
of those accidents which lie in wait for the
ordinary investor, the lord of the soil has a wide
field open for the exercise of philanthropy,
should his inclinations be in that direciion.

Yet it is abundantly clear every day that the
mere possession of wealth does not constitute
iCiat is: ordinarily looked upon as happiness.
The busy worker, whose mind is fully occupied
in the discharge of his daily duties, finds life
pass much more pleasantly than if he were called
upon to perform an operation generally known
as " killing time." After all, time was not
given to man to be treated in this way ; and
amongst the higher classes this is now so
generally recognized that we see the name of
wany a nobleman identified with works the per-
formance of which requires not only time but
labour. Titus the Roman Emperor once
lamented that ue had lost a day; and whatever
pesition a man may occupy in life—whether
prince or peasant—he feels more satisfaction
in having done something useful than in having
passed the day leaving no mark whatever upon
the world in which he lives. It must occur to
most men at some time of their lives that they
were sent into the universe with an object in
view. The man who lays down his life without
in some way contributing to the general weal
may as well never have lived at all. There are
a vast number of means for carrying oat such
a purpose as this. A rich man, for instance,
who laws himseit out for the planting of trees
on his estate confers a benefit not indeed so
much upon the present as upon future genera-
tions. To say nothing of the commercial value
of the trees centuries hence, numbers yet un-
born will be grateful for their shade. No man
need be a drone in the great human hive; and
to the busy bees who work in it the reflection
that

"Something attempted—something done,
Has earned a night's repose"
must often have come home with truth. They
enjoy thoroughly such periods of relaxation as
they are enabled to obtain, and whether they
betake themselves to the sands of their own sea
coasts. or venture to admire the scenery of a
foreign land, they have the satisfaction of know-
ing that, having earned their right to a time of
recreation and repose, they can rightly
appreciate its Lnerits as relieving them of the
strain of the past, and preparing them for that
which is yet to come.

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVERHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.

The proprietors of some sheet mills reported
this afternoon that they have more work in
hand than they had a week ago ; and these
producers were comparatively firm in their
quotations. Manufacturers of bars of the
medium quality were hardly so firm in their
prices. Iron of that class is subject to much
variation, for the price at which it is to be got
is regulated very much by the state of makers'
order books, and by the ability of buyers to
drive a keen bargain. Merchants who buy
largely have an advantage as to the rates which
they are compelled to give for bars over many
other purchasers ; but all allowance made, it
seems only a surprising, considering the prices
of the open market, that it should be possible,
at this juncture, to get from middle men best
Staffordshire bars at considerably within works
prices. It looks as though the time is not far
distant when from such sources best Stafford-
shire bars will be obtainable at nearly £1 under
list prices. At present they are to be had from
leadidg merchants at between 108 to 15s under
list. But there are brands which, this after-
noon, it was not easy to get under the orthodox
£9; and the firms who there is reason to believe
are getting that prices are they who are just
dow most fully employed.
A fair price, considering the quotations of
pigmakers, is being got for boiler plates of Et
good quality. There was more room for bar-
gaining in relation to girder and tank plates,
which are selling at prices that ought to leave a
reasonable margin of profit to the manufacturing
, engineers who manipulate the iron.
Pius produced in other districts were much
°tiered. Northampton bands were quoted at
60s; Derbyshire, at 61s 3d; and Yorkshire, at
62s 61 Cleveland pigs were plentifully
proffered ; some of them by middle men, at
pric9s which were slightly more in favour of
buyers than last week. Purchasers, however,
declined to come forward, in the expectation
that the reductian in furnacemen's wages in
Cleveland, together with certain other causes now
unfortunately operating in the Cleveland dis-
tricts, point to the wisdom of postponing buying
till a lat( I date.
The thin coal pits which usually supply the
needs of the mills and forges, and of manufac-
turers generally, are understood to be in no
better work this week than last. Prices are
upon the without change.