" THE LEAVES OF THE TREE were FOR THE HEALING OF THB NATIONS." 49 



dead bodies cremated. Many streets are keeps going up. This heat fe just what 



impassable on foot Physicians estimate the cholera microbe wants, and gradually 



that no ess than 200 are injured, of whom the line of plague is advancing on the 



J JS nnn e Ano The P ro P ert y loss Wl11 ex ' great cities. The cholera is practically 



!t>4UUO,000. epidemic in Normandy. 



REMEDY. 



An early whole-hearted international combine to restore and righteous- 

 ly protect the planet's forests, and thereby reinspire the long estranged 

 harmony of nature to unite in perpetually singing through her manifold 

 works: " Glory to God on high and peace on earth to men of good 

 will. 



PERSONAL. 



FROM THE HON. MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, NEW SOUTH WALES, 



AUSTRALIA. 



SYDNEY, Castlereigh Street, January 22nd, 1892. 

 MR. JAS. MCLEAN: 



Dear Sir I am glad to hear that you intend proceeding to the United 

 States on an important mission. The vast experience which you possess regarding 

 our various resources of wealth, combined with your knowledge of the population, 

 will materially assist you on your tour, and if you are encouraged by a reciprocity 

 of feeling, your trip may be profitably utilized and prove a valuable factor in the 

 progress of the colonies. I trust that you shall have an enjoyable and successful 

 voyage, and that you may ere long be again amongst us, manifesting your general 

 interest in the cause of settlement. Yours faithfully. 



JAMES N. BRUNKER. 



(From the San Francisco Examiner, April 10, 1892 ) 



"Under the heading of " Australian Parasites" we noticed on the 3d ultimo, 

 the arrival in San Francisco of Inspector James McLean from Australia, by the 

 steamship Mariposa, on his way to Washington, D. C., in order to place a valu- 

 able insect pest eradicating discovery before our agricultural authorities. This 

 discovery Mr. McLean by great research made whilst employed as a forest and 

 settlement inspecting officer, which position he held for many years under an 

 Australian Government. It is now our pleasant duty to further notice that Mr. 

 McLean did not confine his researches to the domain of fruit-destroying insect 

 pests entirely, but to the tracing of cause and effect with regard to the laws of 

 health and disease in the "human plant" as well, and especially relating to the 

 terrible death-dealing disease known as phthisis or consumption. Mr. McLean, 

 who studied medicine in Scotland during his early years, was busily experimenting 

 with a preparation from his insect-destroying specific on sundry consumptives, with 

 marvelous results, in Australia, contemporaneously with Dr. Koch of Berlin. 



" On interviewing Mr. McLean at his hotel, he readily plunged into the whole 

 question relating to health and disease in plant and man with an earnestness char- 

 acteristic of a genuine, experienced Scotchman. 



" Why do you so pointedly couple plants and men together with reference to 

 health and disease ?" said the reporter. 



"Simply because the one law governs the welfare of both, and man is but a 

 migratory plant, subject to decay, disease and death, from precisely similar condi- 

 tions, the only apparent difference being in the methods by which plants and men 

 are nourished from the soil and atmosphere. Humanity, in Scripture, is con- 

 stantly compared with a plant or tree, and we know that He who speaks through 

 the Scriptures is the Creator of both, and knows far better than human wisdom can 



