Those things used to be called the wooden walls of England."
The scene was the Naval Exhibition at
speaker was a young man, and auditor Chelsea, in the steamer of 160)
Gften sees in this island.
of thave lithe, bright hired gies one so "And haven't they the wooden walls of England, now 2" she said, as a child might ask when Noah might be expected in Liverpool with his ark, Not exactly," replied her escort tender! "they are rather out of style. Come; I'll show what sorts of walls we have now," and he led her off in the direction of the beautiful models of the great steel ships of war.
"The young fellow was right in assuming, that this country had a big and powerful navy, bat the chances of war decrease with the preparations made to meet it. Besides, the interests that would be put. to hazard grow. constantly larger and nations avoid fighting as long as possible.
This is a hopeful consideration, and if England had nothing to be afraid of beyond the danger of being attacked from abroad, we might sleep in peace. But there is an enemy against which neither army nor navy is of any avail. It defies the gunboats in the Channel and the redcoats on the shore, and Kills more people than are ever likely to fall in battle.
If we could stop the ravages of this foe we should soon be able to sur on distant: colonies with the arrival among them of a splendid class f our surplus population.
allude, of course, to disease. Not to epidemics of cholera or influenza, but to diseases which are at work year in and year out, in every season, carrying off rich and poor alike. Unquestionably the worst of these is the one that attacks the digestive system, the-one from which springs the niajority of ailments, which go under various naines, as, for example, rheumatism, gout, bronchitis, consumption, the several fevers, and others which were formerly, erroneously, supposed to have distinct characters, and to require distinct treatment,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.