The Czar is dead! Not by the hand of an assassin or a Nihilist, but by internal poison. A great sensation was produced by the rumour that the late Czar was attacked by Disease of the Kidneys, otherwise Bright's Disease. This excitement arose in part from the current knowledge that extreme danger to life was imminent. Even when the first announcement was published, the disease must have advanced to the last stage of development. Disintegration of the lining Membrane of the Organs in question had already commenced, whereby they became incapable of performing their allotted task of carrying off the Uric Acid from the system, which became a poison to the blood. At the same time the natural fluids found their way to all parts of the body, causing dropsical swellings from the feet upwards. Consequently, when the first bulletin was issued the die was already cast, and demise was a question of only weeks or days in proportion to the strength of the Imperial sufferer's constitution. Too soon the end came, and death claimed another Royal Victim to this insidious malady. Kidney Disease makes no distinction among humanity. All are liable to it, from the King on the Throne to the Peasant in the Cottage, but it seems to fasten more generally upon the noble, statesmen, the great in literary ability, persons holding positions of great responsibility and those subject to great mental anxiety and worry. This ruthless destroyer has killed more men and women of mark than have diphtheria, small pox, and typhoid fever combined. The late King of Holland, Napoleon III., the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, Vice-President Arthur of the United States, are prominent examples, bright stars prematurely extinguished by its means. Napoleon the Great once said, "I fear no foe that I can see!" But his name was struck off the living roll by this unseen enemy. So the unfortunate Czar escaped numberless plots and conspiracies against his life but has succumbed to poison by an internal invisible foe. The question arises, is there no lesson to be learnt by posterity from the hapless fate of so many illustrious careers cut short by a single tyrant? Certainly it behoves all men to be watchful over first symptoms and instantly adopt a course of treatment which, taken in time, will be certain to arrest the complaint and restore the patient to sound health. It is contended for Warner's SAFE Cure that it is the only medicine that possesses absolute power to eradicate this disease. Unimpeachable living evidence proclaims the fact in thousands of instances. Men of Rome, you are called the lords of the world, yet have no right to a square foot of its soil! The wild beasts have their dens, but the soldiers of Italy have only water and air.-Tiberius Gracchus. Were the earth accessible to all on equal terms, strikes would be unnecessary as a means of adjusting differences, because employees, whenever dissatisfied with pay or conditions, would be sure of a support from Ja Ja has been steadily passing into the hands of DA " itself to an the Va St go lo D D D The "Age" is now fully aware that there is the exodus of farmers from this land of bondage, and though it announces the fact, dare not announce the true cause, or advocate the application of the true remedy. This omission, however, can easily be supplied. The cause is the robbery of the farmer's profits by trusts, rings, or individual trade monopolists, who shelter themselves behind the protective wall; and the cure is the abolition of the Customs house, so that the producer may trade with whom he will, and pay toll to no man. If Protection was responsible for the condition of the agricultural industry D nine months ago, as claimed by the "Age," it may safely be said to be responsible for its condition to-day, and, therefore, the farmer may well be advised to have done with it once and for all. In further illustration of the condition of the workers in New York we copy the following from the " June 19th: New York World" of "The census of the tenement-house districts of the city has just been completed by the Health Department. It shows a popula tion of 1,332,773 living in 39,138 tenementhouses, of which 2346 are rear houses. "Of this swarming population 180,359 are babies under five years of age, of whom nearly 9000 live in rear houses. "Do all our readers know what a 'rear' A building shut in by tenement-house is? other buildings, without sunlight, without fresh air, without proper ventilation, without proper drainage, subject to the foul odcurs and nuisances of its neighbours as well as its own, and crowded with the poorest of the poor tenement-house population. An average of a little over thirty-four persons to each house, and about five babies under five years old among them !" D D (gold Postage, ES SERVICE & CO Address: MAN holesale Agents for Victoria, ingle Tax League of Victoria. ECRETARY, A. C. NICHOLS, MANNINGTREE ROAD, HAWTHORN. adually abolish present taxes, and in their place raise all revenue by a tax exclusive of improvements, and regardless of use or non-use of the land, ated in country or town. BERS' SUBSCRIPTION, Is. PER QUARTER. 349 Collins Spectator LD GENERAL Publishers, Li PRINT Review of Reviews Spectator Newspaper Melb. Unvrsty. Ex. 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All the back numbers are in print, but early applica Remittances and business communications to be addressed to THE MANAGER, Beacon Newspaper Melbourne. ous FEBRUARY 1ST, 1895. more serious now. Parliament has been prorogued for a short respite, but the issues raised during its recent session will remain, and will engage the attention of the people for many a day to come. Serias the political situation undoubtedly was when Mr. Turner Dictator grasped the helm of State, it is far The Turner Ministry placed the righting of the finances in the fore front of its programme. It committed itself to the serious statement, which is only too true, that in order to keep faith with our creditors, it is necessary to raise additional revenue to the extent of £600,000 a year. This it proposed to do by a combined Land and Income AGE, EXT Bracon Oa St., Melbour OF LABOUR FORGE an vid by both Houses, are, however, ab- cold po ag th do of im se The Legislative Council is mainly Tr responsible for this disastrous failure of the colony to right its finances. It m is true enough that the Land Tax Bill as it reached the Council was full of serious faults; that it had been shorn of any other merit than that of raising sufficient revenue, and doing it in the least oppressive manner. But, as the speeches in the Council show, it was not so much its faults as its merits which au to to ta cit su al an ha secured its defeat. The Council was in the mood to refuse any tax on the unimproved value of land, however perfect; the ge greater its perfection, the more it sa diminished the landlord's monopoly, the less chance would it have had at That this was the Council's hands. the attitude of the Council is clearly C proved by its refusal to consent to the se abolition of the primage duties. There E is no dispute about the evil influence fu of this duty on the trade of Mel-B Protectionists and Free m bourne. and mor |