RHEUMATISM. ITS CAUSE AND CURE.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 128, 31 May 1904, Page 2

RHEUMATISM. ITS CAUSE AND CURE.

First-, what it it? It begins with a dull, aching feeling in an arm, leg, or in the back. You'd think you'd given the limb or tho part a good knock. When you rosb and then move suddenly it hurls terribly. Sitting in a dry wuini room you perhaps don't feel it. Uo into a cold or damp )>ln-ee — back it comes. To-day is fine — jou'ra free. To morrow wet — it grips jou again. Then Iho limb gets stiff. If jt'e rheumatism in the hand, the fingers hurt when Mruightoned. If it's in tho arms or log«, you feel afraid to move them. If you don't move them they got more stiff. Sometimes so stiff that thoy won't bend. That's why to mimj must walk with sticks. One clay you foci it in one place, another day in* another. Not 'content with attacking limb*, rheumatism, if not driyon from the system, finally attacks the valves oftheheart and causes death. Bile Beans drive it out. It's nn acid in the blood, thab's how it travels from limb to limb and place to place. Dilo Beans punfv the blood from j this^ acid. That's now they drive rheu- 1 mn tirnu out. Mr. J. L. WiUianie, a pro-.} miiteHt footballer and athlete, of Norwood, Adelaide, S.A., has proved this a , ( fftcti and fciiy*!— •" About three months , ago 1 wns laid up with a severe attack , of rheumatism, which confined mo to the house for twelve weeks, uncj kept mo 1 from business. I could not walk about ' the house without mipporting myself by tho walls and furniture. The doctors' medicines did me not a bit of good, so I gave Bile Bean« a trial. The pain and •wollintf in my legs bognn to decrease with tho flrtrt done. Tho third day after taking them I wns able to get on my boots nnd hobble up (0 business. In Ichh than a month I wne rfuito cured, and by nothing but Bilo Beuis. Thoy are the j best medicine I ever tried, and I can 1 honestly recommend them." Thus, by correcting the liver's action and purifying the blood, Bile Beans have a worldwide reputation for curing Biliousness, Headache IniHgeation, Constipation, Piles, Debility, Female Weaknesses, Norvotisnens. Bid Blood, B*d Breath, Anremia, Disturbed Sl*op, Loss of Appetite, Rheumatism, nnd by giving tone ti> tin 1 RVHtom will ward off coughs and colds iiilo Beans aro obtainablo generally at 1^ lid or 2* 9d family size, containing three ihnca the quantity.

no hnrd nnd fast rule on the Biibjeot. Similar consideration would bo given to surfacemen. . iih repaid m examinations of cleaners and firemen in the locomotive department, in future nil examinations would ho carried out by the locomotive engineer in the different distriots, or a specially sole clod qualified officer sent from headquarters. That would prevent tho delays complained of. It was the practice to altprnuto locomotive duty on Sunday trains, and if any particular driver had a grievance that the practice was not followed, ho should make representations to tho proper quarter. Houses uero provided for the accommodation of employees where possible, and bathrooms would be provided on application being made, at a proportional increase in rent. Carpenters wotijd be permitted to purchase foots at the scheduled rates at which tliev were supplied ro the Department. Where men wore absent from homo on departmental business nn allowanco would be mode for cost of meals. Overcoats wero not at present included in the departmental stores, but if a sufficient number of men applied for them, • they would bo procured and supplied at contract rates. The Minister did not favour a Government tailoring establishment for the manufacture of uniforms nnd such articles, it was better to have them supplied in the colony. Stoves would bo fitted in brake vans used on nislit goods trains on the Otpgo section as the opportunity occurred. Members about to 'be' superannuated would be furnisl-ed with all information regarding the dnte of entering the service, etc., but the question of counting provincial service, for computation of superannuation involved a law point. ITis own opinion was that a man's full timo should count, but the superannuation question was wholly governed by statute, nnd the ruling on the legal aspect of the matter wns against tho inclusion of Provincial Government servants. As to allowing broken servico to count, it seomed the right thinfj to do, but it must bo remembered lhat when tho rates of contributions wero fixed broken service was not reckoned with. Whatever alterations or variations were made would have to be undertnken by the legislature. Ho thought it ought to be amendod to provide for the counting of " provincial time "—(Hear, hear)— and ho would ask his colleagues to consider the matter, and if neco^snry bring it before Parliament, because he believed in dealing fairly with all members of the servioo m this respect. This concluded tho list of requests to which tho Minister had been able to in a .large measure assent to. As to the remainder, he pointed out that thoy involved Urge financial considerations and j mattors of policy. The amount of money involved in tho general applications ran I into a, mm that no Government in the I world could ask Parliament to give effect to. A member of the deputation niked jf it was not possible to hnvo reconsidered the request for increasing the remuneration of low-wages men from 7s to 8s per day. Thnt, eniu Sir Joseph, would alone run into something liko £50,000 a yenr. If they g«v« the increase it would !end to trouble in ofcitor departments of the Government gervioc. Mr. Warren said that seoond-rato gangers had received nothing, while n&arly every obhor branch had had some sort of an increase. The Minister recognmod tho hardship. They wer» endeavouring to better tho condition of men in tho service as circumstances warranted. There were sorao things they could not do. Mr. M'Cul'.ough snid this question of a "living wago" had engaged tho serious attention of the conference. The Minister said th« general appropriations under the Railway* OiaM»iHeaUon Act would come before PitrH*metit thii AowrioDj and he would submit tho whol« question to Cabinet with the view of goeing whother they could legitimately give «ny inoremea. There wero other departments of the service to be considered. The conference perhaps hardly renliied what it w«a nskinc, but he repeated thnt the olainw involved JD165.000 ft year independent of whnt he had already authored, and they amounted to a good many thousands. ITo would co into the mntter with -tho General Manager, and it an improvement conld bo fffeoted in the position of low. wage men it would be done. Mr. Watson reforred to the wages of shunters <7« 6d per day), aua asked for consideration of their olnims. Tho work was reiponsible and dungerous, nnd men were employed in the work who wero not graded aa shunter*. These, he thought, ought to be graded nnd entitled to receive whatever benefits accruing. The Minister promised to onquire regarding the grading of these men. The position was apparently biomjht about by tho promotion of first-grade shunters to ot'har positions. As to the giving "ensuats" of throe years' service the rioht I of appeal, he agreed they ought to havo i that right, and if he hod promised that four years' service would carry with it tho right he would give effect to it. In the three years, however, it must bo remembered thnt a man was practically in his trial, nnd it might become necessary to dispense witlv his services at any tim» during thnt period. Mr. M'Cullough urged that a man should be put on the permanent staff after three years. There were men with a record of seven and fourteen years' service who were clnssod ns "casuals.' 1 The permanent hands recognised tho injustice of such cases, and would, he believed, be willing to work short time with the others when necessary pro\ided tho long-term "casual" was made ■a, permanent hand. Tho Minister was prepared to go into the matter again and see whether tho percentage of "casuals" taken on the permanent staff could not be increased De-aling with the nppi entice question, Sir Joseph showed by returns that they w«r& well withjn the limit in proportion to journeymen employed. Ha could not see his way to grant lodging allowance tp memheis of the Second Division and maintenance men, but ho would see if something further could not bo done for tho latter, and also for the relaying staff. As to preftronce of employment being given to members of the society, it could not be granted. He had gone into the matter carefully. The Fociety no doubt j was discharging valuable work, but it j would be unfair to make him, as the ndI ministrative head of the Department, to say thnt men who did not belong to the society must be put out of the service. It would be said that he wns coercing a- man through the •society, and it would cause hardship if a man with one year's servioa, but a member of the society, should have preference over a servant of, uny, fifteen years' standing. It was the business of Iho society to u<o suasion to get men to join. He believed with the Judge of tho Arbitration Court in giving preference of employment to unionists, but that was not the same thing as sa-y-ing to n mnn "You must belong to thin society." In reply to a request thnt gangers, platelayers, and surfacemen should have a weekly half-holiday, the Minister said that in tho face, of n report from his responsible officers it would not be safe to grant such a concession, but he would consider whethei ho could not allow gaugei s nnd surfacemen going to nnd from their work when .iver four miles awny nn extra allowance ot time. Tho wages of milling machine workers eamts under the schedule of the classification Acl, and could not be interfered with He could not consent to pay maintenance men wet or dry. They must necessarily

be on th» spot, but it wns not commiUory for thorn to work when th« weather was wot. Finally Sir Joseph dea.lt with specific on*es of personal grievances, and in closing the interview (for which he had be«n thanked by tho Prewiden<) said ho was glad to have had the opportunity of going into tho matters, and ho would look into those which biul been specially referred 10. Now that the headquarters of the society had been rrmo\od to Wellington, he hoped that tho executive would be chosen in such a way as not to make too great demands upon the service — from the point of vierr of delegates from a diotanco having to attend the meetings. He woe willing to extend all facilities possible, and he had every desire to promote the servico as for as possible. The interview then closed.