29th September.
Wer may search the records of history through and through without finding two other such colonizing races as the Russian and the British. Phoenician, Greek, and Roman, each in his day, did all that was then possible to plant colonies across the sea, the two former with the same guiding principle which marks the British, the last intent on political expansion quite as much as on growth in commerce, and hence more closely allied to the Russian system of the past century, There must necessarily be much resemblance between the methods which have brought about such similar results. Neither nation had done much towards the foundation of the great empire which it now owns until the seventeenth century, and then, while England turned her eyes to the lands of the setting sun, the Russians looked towards the east. Both had a surplus stock of bone and sinew to dispose of, and this notwithstanding that their populations then would appear pitifully small compared with the numbers of the present day. In both the spirit of enterprise was based partly upon the desire to better a somewhat hopeless condition at home, and partly upon the love of adventure which was, so to spank, in the air at the time. England was small in size and without. sufficient land for her most enterprising sons; Russia had land to spare, but it was not for the serf. Hence in the beginning emigration swas spontaneous, Sometimes religious persecution came to the aid of adventure and spurred those to depart who might otherwise have stayed at home, but the great-inducement was the persistent brightness of the star of hope.
On-e established in the new lands the resemblances between the British and Russian pioneers did not cease. Both had to undergo untold sufferings, both failed again and again, Phe early annals are sketched sometimes in blood, sometimes in the more deadly hues of famine and dis-scase. Quarrels arose between the new-comers and the aboriginal inhabitants, quarrels that, with human nature as itis, were inevitable, and it must be' confessed that here also the resemblance in method continues Both Russian and Briton had scant pity for the uncivilized tribes amongst whom they had thrust- themselves when once the blood feud had begun, and the result could not be far different in either case. The savage went down before the better-armed, better-trained white. Later times have seen the courses of the two nations diverge in this respect. England has done much to teach her subject races and to lead them gradually to that higher plane to which she has herself attained. Russia on the other hand has done little or nothing to teach any of tine many tribes under her control. She has indeed done to them as she has done to her own people:-she tried to keep them in ignorance as a matter of policy.
The British task in this respect has been lightened owing to the better stamp of colonist which has gone from our homelands as compared with those who have left Russia, The latter have almost without exception been of the poorer peasant class, utterly illiterate, without even a knowledge of agriculture worth niming. The British on the other hand have sent out an admixture of classes, most of whom in the early times were the very pick of the population, men impied with determization enough to do anything, and skill sufficient to overcome the, unaccustomed difficulties of a new land. It was only the enterprising in those days who would venture thousands of miles from home to surroundings of which they krew nothing but could imagine much, To this day the American nation is reaping the benefits. of this pioneering spirit. There is nothing to be surprised at in the enterprise which marks the American of the present. It would have been more surprising if it were otherwise. As late as forty years ago, the same stamp of countryman was leaving English villages to enrich the prairies and backwoods of the Unitid States, and in their turn to be enriched by them. Australin, New Zealand, and others of our colonies could tel! the same tale, The former in common with Siberia suffered at first from the foolish custom of transportation. The offscouring of the home lands, and, in the case of Russia. crowds of political prisoners as well, were dumped: down in the new land. We long since learnt the absurdity of such procedure, but the Russians have only recently discovered that transportation is good neither for the colony nor for the homeland.
Such other differences as exist between our: colonies and those of Russia are-due' mainly to the characters of the two peoples. It isin the nature of the Briton to be self reliant, of the Russian to be subservient. In name, serfdom was abolished in 1860, but its effects atill remain, and must for generations yet to come, Ib is, however, certain that in the future "Russia will have greater number.of sturdy colonists to dispose of than any other land. She is growing in population faster, her people doubling themselves in about half a century. She knows no Juxury. be British lower classes are beginning to live too well to like roughing it miles away from neigh: hours in bush, back hood, or prairie. The tendency even in England herself is to desert country places and flock for company's sake into cities. The Russian is still peasant, One point in which British colonies have had the advantage over their Russian counterparts has been in the greater honesty of the ruling class, Corruption is expected in Russia as in China. No ordinary Russian seems to have any idea that it-could ever be otherwise, and until education has become more widespread and iv, is seen that in other countries officials can be trusted to do only what is right, there is no hope of reform, Finally it is in Siberia alone that Russia can find room for her people Her Central Asian dependencies are' already full enough, while in Canada, Australia, and Africa, Great Britain has space to spare. a "The Health ana Vigour of an individual depend upon the quantity and quality. of the blood.- When the tissues have been ab work, there are thrown into the blood waste products, and if these be not eliminated but (through any cause) detained in the blood, they influence nutrition and function and finally produce organic disease."—"The Humanitarian." In cases of Scrofula, Scurry. Eczema, lad Legs, Skin and blood Diseases, Pimples, and Sores of all Kinds, the effects of Olarke's Blood Mixture fare marvellous. Thousands of wonderful cures have been effected by It. Clark's Blood Mixture. is sold where at 26.
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