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    • THE NOHTEERF LOCUST AISD HIS DUPES
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      ——^ " To those who boast a honest Dame , Your censure ' s praise , your praise is blame . " WE respectfully request the attention of the Public to the real question between the Tea Hawkers and ourselves , which Hawkers , instead of meeting the question boldly and fairly , have descended to tbe most -wretched abuse and abominable personalities , ( as witness their last rejoinder j unexampled in its kind ) ending with a most flimsy challenge of no interest whatever to you , viz ., Whether they sell more than One Chest of Tea to our Twenty . Xot one of our principal statements have yet met " with a reply or satisfactory answer . Are they other than we have described them ? "Do they sell Cheap f" If this has not been satisfactorily proved , we repeat what we said in the original Advertisement— " Do not buy our Teas , and ours alone : purchase of others , and see "who supply the best . Bay the Black and Green separately . Do this for three months ; and if you find no saving in price or quality , continue tq patronise the Hawker and his Pack to the end of voar days . " How , is this the language of the Hawkers ? Are not their statements calculated , by their gross personality , to lead you from your interest in the question of Hawking Cheap or Dear Tea ? The second sight of the wily Scot who penned the rejoinders , must either have gone " bock again" or - * lewiiehed" him , -when he attributed " The Northern Locust and hi ? Dupes" to Geobge Thompson , as he never saw it until in print . We glory in that " exposure" of Tea Hawking , for which they say " are to blame ; " for -we did keep -within the " bounds of truth as well as reason , in exposing the unprincipled arts of the craft on-their dupes . Another particular shall be noticed . If any of those one hundred and thirteen ( not 101 ) chests , boxes aad caddies allnded to contained other than Grten or Black Tea , and Fine too , direct from the importers in London , on proof of the contrary vre will forfeit One . Tiuusand Pounds . The original bill of parcels of this same lot shall be shown to any person on application at onr Warehouse , also a Copy at the Northern Star Office . Its genuineness can be tested by the post mark and date , and its truth by Kenwor . hy and Co's charge and receipt , and payments of the same through the Yorkshire District Bank . " We are thus particular as others here ( small fry to be sare , ) h ; v \ e not hesitated to play the same game , and our silence might be construed by such as a proof of guilt . " We tell the Hawkers we are not against " the well-furiiisbed House , " and gaily trimmed wife , they are siehts ( even to a bachelor ) " on wnich the eye xcmiht revel for ever , in ever new and never ending beauties . " Our language shall not be distorted , it is this : — "The rapacity of those pinks of morality , and the credulity of their dupes is such " that a few years enables them to quit the road for the well furnished house , &c . " TFe adduced this fact to show their dupes that m « n who leave their Agricultural pursuits poorer thar rhe generality of English labourers , soon an > .-3 ss these earth ! r ~ b ies . Ang ~ , by Hawking Tea , and it is the more to be wondered at when it is recollected the general ill-feeling there is against the Irish labourer who comes over to divide the labeur , and at- a less price , while thest- wily Scots come and pluck the fruits of the English labourers' industry , and amass wealth out of that all-essential portion of the Queen ' s " Lieges , who are said by these very Hawkers to be iguorant , too ignorant , to be entrusted with Political Power , —this is Capital , and , we will just observe , that were it not for their ignorance in the expenditure of their hard earnings , there would not be a Tea Hawker in England this day month . To the readers of the Star who live at a . distance , and , tbertfore , are unacquainted with us and the extent of our Establishment , we say that we hare a dog , and pay c-i ^ rht shillings a year tax , for the rat catcher , a Terrier , bat nor a broken haired Scotch ; and Horses , j . ot for hunting , but for use in our Trade , and that we have not fired a gun this seven v ars . Itl ~ certainly true that rve have licence to shoot , not with guns , but E-pistles in Scotch preserves wherever they may be ; and , depend upon it , it shall be renewed from time to time , so long as we hare poirdtr left and Scotch vermin to kill . The last shot sppears to have wounded many , as witness their "' tcrif / iiugs" under the torture of the convicted liar criBgisg hypocrite , &c . We trust we shall never be sufficiently Scotch to answer the obscenity of such a personal thrust at private character and reputation as that whici follows the horse , dog , and gun ( see their last replyS ) What has this to do with Tea Hawking . Our warfare is-with it : base personalities shall never carry as to the hearth and privacy of domestic life , marring by falsehood and calumny the fair , proportions of peace snd tranquillity which an Englishman associates viih Jireside , hettrth and home . We reiterate our assertion that we sell Twenty Chests to a Hawker ' s one , mind this a Hawker , not a Alasrer-Hawker , who with the solitary protection of an eleven shilling license , employs a ? many as he likes to perambulate the country—breaking the law , inasmuch as they have no license to hawk , it being an undeniable fact that a Master Tea Hawker buys for others , he letting it out to the understrappers ; like the itinerant organ and hurdy-gurdy grinders , and the Italian boy with white mice ; making tr . e most of their hire , —their wages being proportionate ro their sales . Supposing they do sell two or ten chests to our twenty , in the name of common sense does it prove the pernicious system pure ? This is the question . Why tbev have the audacity to suppose , that if thev get a victory on this isolated point , containing no one principle in itself , or bearing on Tea Hawking , that you will be galled into the belief that ice are icrong , and thty are right , —ihax the fair-dealing Shopkeeper is a villain , and the Hawker an hor . est man , judge ye . We say that it is an unpr incipled method of disposing of Inferior Teas at unreasonable prices , used by , if possible , a more unpr incipled people , to chear tbe Jair Dealer , who pars for a licence to sell , of his just due , who is cut off from the chance of selling by these men , who , ir ; numberless instances , force it upon , or , by stratagem ^ leave it in the houses of their , dupes , thereby entailing certain loss on the buyer . We shall now leave the reader to judge whether Mr . O . can attach an idea to a word of three svllablrs , supposing the three syllables , ; i Scotch Hawker" " or hisThipes , " by way of sample ; and the only idea their ( reasonable ) dupes can attach to these three syllables , is , that Tea of the first qualities , can be bought at any respectable and extensive Dealer ' s in any of our large Manufacturing Towns , at 3 d . to 4 d . per | -lb . less than rhe charge of the Hawker . OTTLEY AND CO . TEA DEALERS , 2 , SOUTHGATE , HALIFAX .

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      TO ALL REQUIRING THE AID OF MEDICINE . rpHE truly enlightened and liberal-minded Phy-X sic-2 E 2 is among the first to recommend sech a Medic-ice as EN OUT'S PILLS for the cure oJ Imnian maladies . That sreat and exalted medical -c-iarscter , Abernethy , hesitated not to declare , that all diseases were to be cured , or greatly alleviated , oy an observance of diet alone ; and none more than himself pronounced , as ignorant and absurd , the conduct of most of his medical brethren : he treated with contempt their ridiculous notions of heaith and disease—said they were mist of them rogues and fools ; aud the world is well acquainted to the extent he went , when he did prescribe a medicine ; and the simplicity of his injunctions upon all occasions when disease presented itself under any form' Read my book "—' Blue Pill at night '—' " Draught la the morning '—\ Ear and drink less "—' that ' s all you want . "—If the patient observed , ' 3 Iy doctor says so and so / what was this great man's Tepiy ? 'PshaT your doctor's a fool' —and often would he add—' Now yoaknow more than half the Doctors in tee world . " -The world may infer from this ho-rr little he valued the almost endless variety of Drugs and chemical preparations with which the m 3 teria inedica , phannacopo ? ia , or doctor's books , as they are called , are filled ; and if he could consider that to cure , nearly all kinds of diseases , calomel pill aad nauseous draught were all-sufficient in the way of medicine , how much more ought to be valued a n ? -i ;«!) e compounded of purely vegetable productions , free from that poisonous mineral calomel or Hrrcury ? Such are Enouv ' s Pills , which aTe now JT ^ tiy called the all-sufncient medicine for mankind . Mr . ENOUY , founder of that useful And philanthropic Establishment , the " Natigxal Institution of Health , " , Seymour Street , Euston Square , London , in preparing and offering to the public this invaluable medicine , has been guided by tie truth and simplicity of nature ' s functions , , setting aside the confusing and conflicting theories ufthe schools , which have served only to obstruct tae path of true science , and in operation , to injure the animal functions , hy destroying the "balance which the different portions of the human frame should enjoy with each other—he has come to this rational conclusion , warranted too by experience—£ ? t it is only by keeping the blood in a proper state of purification , through vegetable media operating cireetlv on the juices whence the nutriment of tbe blood is drawn , that health can "be maintained , and disease prevented and cured . To effect this object the ' all-sufficient medicine for mankind ' is admirably adapted . It is infallible in its power of bringing t-orrupt humours from whatever part they maybe 5 ode-ed , causing them to be conveyed through the bowels , and the other channels ordained by natnre for the removal of all impurities of the body , so that the good blood may then run smoothly on in its due course , —the only source of health , ^^ It would be impossible to enumerate the cures produced by this medicine through the country , » Effiee it to sav , thousands have been cured of almost every kind of complaint within the last seven years , is consequence of which it is inereasingin popularity aad cemaad daily . The following letter from an eminent medical gentleman , will shew the estimation in which these fills axe held by the profession . I ^ eedg , Pebroary 12 , 1838 . Hy Deab Sib , —I have mnclrpleasure in adding B testimony , if such indeed were wanting , to the efficacy of Enouv's Pills ; they are admirably adapted to the cure of that species of Dyspepsia , which arises from enlargement of the stomach and large mtesnnes , as well as the mildest and most eertam Aperient Pill -with which I am acquainted . I am , yonrs , rery truly , JOHN HEPWORTH , Surgeon . Thig invaluable Medicine is sold in boxes at ls . lid . each , by W . C . Stafford , Chronicle-office , Doncaster , "WHO IS SOLE WHOLESALE AGEXT Sv ^ Sorksime , and "b y whom any retail agents in « n * district can be supplied ; ana their names * oded to the following lint . SUB-AGENTS . Hrs . "VSTLSON , Post-office , Rotherham , Messrs . WHITTAKER , Ir is-office , Sheffield . Mrs . WILSON . Bookseller . Eawtrr . Mr . J . HiATON . Bookseller , te « g .

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      LABOUB & HEALTH , HALIFAX . ¦ HE 5 RY TIFFANY , BE GS Leave to return Thanks to his Friends an the Public in general , for the liberal Encouragement he La- rrcfived -ince he emend 'the Premises in Socthgate , Halifax , which was carried on by his late Father , under the Sign ot " Labottr and Health , " ar . d hopes V > y strict Attention to the " \ V ; -nt > ar . < i Convenience of his Customers , to nit-rit a Share of Public Patronage and Support . l | S | p' Hot Dinners every Day to « uk lhe Wanti of . Persons who may W inclined to call , at the usual Low Prices . N . B . Good Ale , and Bottled and Draught Porter of t ! e Fir .- 't Qualitv , alwavs an Hand . " % ~* . The following Newspapers are taken in , viz : The Sun , ( a London Evening Paper , ) the Northern Star , and the York CNmrant . tj , l ; f-,- « - j ^ t ^ i iCft , ie-3 'B iiaA

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      The Nohteerf Locust Aisd His Dupes

      THE NOHTEERF LOCUST AISD HIS DUPES

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      VOL . 1 ; No . 24 . SATURDAY , A # Etlfc 2 ^ 1 83 & K S ? fourpencb Halfpenny , .- ' ' = — ¦«¦ QRFlVBS HHJJNfi ^ pga aUARTBR .- , r

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 28, 1838, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct346/page/1/