The Keenness of Competition.

Manawatu Herald, 30 July 1898, Page 3

The Keenness of Competition.

A GREENGROCER'S COMPLAINT. " Competition is so keen in our neighborhood," said Mr John Burgess, of 58 Prystreet, Darlington, Sydney, to one of our Importers recent'y, " that unless I can drive my horse and cart around I lose my customers, as they will not come to my shop." Mr. Burgess, it must be explained, is a well-known greengrocer in the locality mentioned. " This being so," he continued " when I was a hopelessly bed-ridden cripple, my business deoreased extensively. I was suffering severely from sciatica combined with hip-joint disease: But for Dr Williams' Pink Pill I should still be in bed. I have been an invalid for over nine years The cause of my great sufferings Was being thrown out of a cab whilst going to Botany, the accident being due to the defective state of the tramway line. Falling on my side, I seriously injured my hip. I became an inmate of Prince Alfred Hospital for six months, and was at last dischaaged as incurable. Since then I have had no leas than three different doctors, and they all said my case was hopeless; the last doctor who attended me stated that he did not wish to visit me any longer, as it was j simply taking money out of my pocket to put in his, without being able to afford me the slightest relief. Sciatica then set in with its attendant agonizing pains, first in in the hip and then it appeared to shoot to the calf of the leg and to the foot. I had no desire for food, seep was a matter of sheer impossibility, and instead of getting better I grew gradually worse. I could not move without the aid of crutches, and I I was forced to take to my bed. Asa drown- ! ing man clutches at a straw, I tried all sorts of patent medicines and specifics. I might ' as well have kept the money in my pocket, for none of them did me the slightest good. I feared I was a cripple for life, and hopelessly bed-ridden. Belief, however, reached me at the eleventh hour, and in the most unexpected manner. A lady, residing in this neighborhood, induced me 'to try Dr W illiams Pink Pills for Pale People. I must confess I regarded her advice as a forlorn hope, but it was a fortunate and happy day when I commenced to take these pills, for from the first box'l commenced to steadily improve. After seven boxes of Dr Williams' Pink Pills, I was abe to get up and dress, and after the eighth box could go to market with my horse and cart, and af terwai ds serve my customers. When a man can conscientiously slate that this wonderful recovery is due entirely to Dr Wi'liams 1 Pink Pills, it should silence sceptics and induce olher sufferers who endure the torments that I did, to give this wonderful preparation a fair and honest trial, as I i can truly state it has succeeded in putting I me on my legs again." j A remarkable efficacy in curing diseases ! arising from an impoverished condition of ! the blood or an impairment of the nervous ■ system, such as rheumatism, neura'gia, I partial paralysis, locomotpr ataxia, St. ; Vitus' dance, nervous headache, nervous ■ prostration, aod the tired feeling therefrom, 1 the after-effects of la grippe, influenza, I dengue fever, and severe co)d3, diseases depending on humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc., is possessed by Dr Williams' Pink Pill for Pa'e People, which give a healthy glow to pale and sallow complexions. They are a specific j for the troubles peculiar to the female ; system, and in men they effect a radical j cure in all cases arising from mental : worry, over work, and excesses of any ! matnre. ; They are sold by all chemists and by the Dr Williams' Medicine Company, Wei ington, N.Z., who wi'l forward (post paid), on receipt of stamp 3 or post order, one box for three shi lings, or half-a-dozen for sixteen and sixpence.