THE KEENNESS OF COMPETITION.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 314, 14 July 1898, Page 4

THE KEENNESS OF COMPETITION.

A GREENGROCERS COiMPLAINT. " Competition is so keen in our neighbourhood," said Mr John Burgess, of 58 Fry-street, Darlington, Sydney, to one of our reporters recently, "that unless I can drive my horse aud cart around I lose my customers, aa they will not conic 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 decreased extensively. I was suffering severely from sciatica combined with hip-joint disease. But for Dr. Williams Pink Pills 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 discharged as incurable. Since then I have had no less 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 simply taking money out of my pocket to put into his, without being able to afford me the slightest relief. Sciatica then set in with its attendant agonizing pains, first in the hip and then it appeared to shoot to the calt of the leg and to the foot. I had no desire for food, sleep 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 was forced to take to my bed. As a drowning 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. Relief, however, reached me at the eleventh hour, and in the most unexpected manner. A lady, residing in this neighbourhood, induced me to try Dr. Williams' 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 I commenced to iteadily improve. After seven boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, I was able to get up and dress, and after the eighth box could go to market with my horse and cart, and afterwards serve my customers. When a man can conscientiously state that this wonderful recovery is due entirely to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, it should silence sceptics and induce other sufferers who endured the torments that I did, to give this wonderful preparation a fair and honest trial, as 1 cau truly state it has succeeded in putting me on my legs again." A remarkable efficacy in curing diseases arising from an impoverished condition of the blood or an impairment of the nervous system, such as rheumatism, neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance, nervous headache, nervous prostration, and the tired feeling therefrom, the after-effects of la grippe, influenza, dengue fever, and severe colds, diseases depending on humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc., is possessed by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, which give a healthy glow to pale and sallow complexions. They are a specific for the troubles peculiar to the female system, and in men they effect a radical cure in all cises arising from mental worry, over-work, and excesses of any nature. They are sold by all chemists and by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., who will forward (post paid) on receipt of stamps or post order, one box for three shillings, or half a-dozen for sixteen and sixpence.

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