24 " THE LEAVES OF THE TREE W6T6 FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS. 



rapidly demonstrated to the discomfiture of all disease breeding germs. 

 May we not therefore hope that we have found in the leaves of this bene- 

 ficent tree a real panacea " for the healing of the nations," which should 

 be liberally planted under the very best local supervision through and 

 around every populous centre where sound health is desirable ? and in 

 order to encourage their most pleasing growth, an annual prize might be 

 awarded for the best kept plot of trees entrusted to the care of adjacent 

 residents, on a public " arbor day." Such an arrangement would quickly 

 transform all malaria breeding cities of the Chicago type into health- 

 ful retreats. If the streets were ornamented with eucalyptus fosifolia and 

 eucalyptus globulous (or a more hardy sort such as eucalyptus amagdalina) 

 planted alternately, a most pleasing result would follow, as the foxifolia 

 evolves a profusion of beautiful purple flowers. 



The whirlgig of excitements connected with huge business concerns 

 throughout the United States and elsewhere, seems to have deadened every 

 other consideration, and therefore doubtless the scribbler of this treatise 

 will be considered a silly alarmist. There is, however, one thing certain, 

 namely, that ere long the great ones of the earth will be compelled 

 to earnestly turn their attention to the terrible results now 

 hourly increasing from outraged nature which seriously threaten to 

 depopulate the apparently fairest parts of this planet. As shown by 

 Professor Ellis we, for over five thousand seven hundred years, accord- 

 ing to the Mosaic record of time had been ignorantly slaughtering the 

 earth's forest lungs, before Dr. Priestly, in his scientific researches dis- 

 covered in them the hidden atmospheric regulating treasures, yet notwith. 

 standing his and others admonitions; since then we have continued the 

 devilish work in a more vicious manner. Australia cow suffers immensely 

 from consequent droughts, floods, fires and various insect-plagues, caus- 

 ing universal depression amongst pastoralists, miners, agriculturists and 

 artisans, and hence the existing wholesale insolvency through the colonies 

 extending to the leading banking corporations the latest being one of 

 the most gigantic of those institutions, about which the following dispatch 

 from the S. F. Examiner of April 13th, 1893, speaks: 



A BIG BANK FAILURE. 



LONDON, April 12. The English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank has 

 failed with liabilities amounting, it is said, to 8,000,000 or $40,000,000. No esti- 

 mate of the assets has yet been made, but they are supposed to be large. The bank 

 was incorporated by royal charter in 1852, and claimed to have a paid up capital 

 of 900,000, and a reserve fund of 310,000. The suspended bank has its main 

 branches at Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne and at various lesser points 

 in the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It, transacted 

 a banking and exchange business between Great Britain and the Australian 

 colonies, and had large deposits. The failure has added to the anxiety and con- 

 sternation which recent failures of financial institutions, with Australian connec- 

 tions, have caused. The only reason given for the failure is that there has been, 

 for several weeks, a steadily increasing withdrawals of deposits. 



ADDITIONAL, EVIDENCE OF RUINED DEFORESTED SOIL. 



By the 8. F. Chronicle of April 16th, 1893, we learn that the Pacific 

 Mail Steamship China arrived on the preceding day, bringing Hong Kong 

 news to March 18th and Yokohama advices to March 25th, and that the 

 news consists mainly of disasters by land and sea; how that the people 

 are selling their children to get money for wheat, owing to the existence 

 of a widespread famine in Mongolia and in Shansi, declaring that the 



