tween individuals is failure to comprehend 'The must fruitful source of contention euch other's meaning. Such error' ari more often tan not, from different indi duals attaching different meanings to the same word. And this being true of people employing their common language vin domestic negotiation, how vastly greater is the danger of misunderstanding between people ignorant of each other's language! Interpretation and translation are not exact sciences. A political dispatch written in one language may be rendered in another, so as to soften it, or make it appear more stringent, at the' will of the interpreter; ud that, (oe, without any indefensible departure from the original. Some years ay there was almost a rupture between the United States and France, owing to an American minister, imperfectly acquainted with the French' language, attaching a dictatorial meaning to the very innocent word demander.
Nations are more widely divided difference of language than by colour of ski rivers, mountain chains, or even oceans. The Englishman and the Australian, born at opposite points of the world, converse like brothers, while a Chinaman of Swatow and a Chinaman of Canton, natives of the same country and both supposed to speak Chineve, find it convenient to talk together in a barbarous sort of English which they acquire from British and American sailors at their ports, so greatly does the Chinese language differ in various parts of the Celestial Empire.
Some of the world's greatest thinkers hold the opinion that a time must surely come when there will be but one language spoken throughout the world. They" base thei belief upon the obvious facts that every transit becomes cheaper and more and education more diffused and of a standard. Trade, by bringing all n: together, and uniting their interests, is another great factor that must not be lost ight of. Enter a good drug store in any country for a bottle. of Mother" Sei you please, and ask, by its Enalish Curative Syrup, and it is a thousand but you be immediately supplied with shat you desire, so universally that grest remedy known and esteemed.
Ith Tune, 1903, Mr. J. MeJohnns, Yorel Vlei. Mossel Bay Div Colony, says: "A few weeks ago a coloured man came into my store" appeared a mere skeleton. and comply of pain in his chest and lungs. He asi my opinion, and I recommended him to try Mother Seicel's Curative Syrup and a Sei Plaster. He accented my advice and Another letter. dated 17th June. 1903. from Mrs., W. Smith. of Graham's Town Cape Coloty. is equally satisfactory. Mrs. Smith says: "Three years aco T was much troubled by pains in the besd, which were so severe at times as to cause me to yom and badly affect my eyesight. To add to my misery, my teeth would frequently ache for days and nights continuously, until I thought I must go mad. Yellow patches appeared on my chest and back, caused, I was told, by an affection of the liver. I obtained-medicine from several physicians, but without experiencing the slightest relief.. I had sbundoned all hope of being cured when a doctor advised me to try Mother Seigel's of that remedy, there was a change for the Curative Syrup. After taking a few doses better. I continued to take the Syrup for a time and was soon completely cured, All of my ailments have disappeared and I now enjoy the best of health.
The remedy of which Mr. MeJofinns and Mrs, Smith speak so Gighly is the standard medicine of the sixteen principal countries of the world; but there is no nation by which it is not known and esteemed, and no language in which its use has not' been commented upon with gratitude.
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