A writer in a Napier paper takes up the crudgcls in defence of the retail butchers. He refers to the general im pression that "though the price of cattle and sheep is at present lower than it has been for a considerable time, yet wo do not hear of the retail price of meat com ing down to its old level," The writer points out that the price of sheep has been abnormally high at tho freezing works, and that tho butchers had to give relatively higher prices, and besides had to buy forward, at these prices, to enable them to keep up their supplies. On that account the retailors arc not in a position to lower prices on the very day on which the freezing companies declare their buying prices indicating a reduction, as they have to work oil' the stock already bought, Further, the farmer docs not in all cases accept the reduced price ollercd for his sheep, and it is doubtful if sheep in any great numbers have been bought at the reduced prices. While on tho subject of mutton the correspondent gives tho following inter esting figures indicating the price of fat sheep during the past live years,— "Wethers, Ewes, s. d. s, d, 1807-98 8 0 5 0 1898-99 8 8 5 8 1899-00 9 0 7 0 1000-01 12 0 10 o End of 1901 ...1« 0 10 0 Going back a stage further, to the early days of freezing, many owners of wethers only realised from '2s Gd to ss, and some

AFTER MANY YEARS

01 suffering grant agony with pains in the buck and head, Miss Ethel Brooks, Kcw, Victoria, found a complete cure-result from the uso of Dr, Morse's Indian ltoot Pills. It is such cases us this which establish the soundness of the good results obtained from their use. "Diseases which originate in the stomach must he cured through the stomach." Every other organ depends on the stomach for its vitality and vigor, for, by the stomach and its associated organs of digestion and nutrition, the food which is eaten is converted into nutriment which, in the form of blood, is the sustaining power of the body and each organ of it. 