THE WORKING-MAN'S FRIEND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 91

THE WORKING-MAN'S FRIEND.

Zam-Buk: Balm— The Efficient Heale*

of Wide Utility and Small Cost.

" No home, and especially those of work* ing-men*, should be without a pot of .Zam-J Buk," says Mr G. Ritchie, of O'Sullivanj' street. Wood End Pocket, Ipswich, Q.,\ "My occupation of pipe-fixing necessitate* climbing ladders, an-d recently I had a! nasty fall through the ladder slipping 'froml| beneath, resulting- in a. wound about 2in*' long on my leg. It became swollen andii wa^ very painful, but knowing already thefj value of Zam-Buk, as soon as I arrived), home I bathed my leg and applied the*' balm, and the very next morning the pain 1 had all gone, and in a little while tha sw-elling went down and the wound disappeared. I was soon at work again,which, tor a man of my age f64) is verygratifying, and shows how quickly and well! Zam-Buk did its work. This is not thef only -occasion on which I have successfully) used Zam-Buk Balm. My boys always usa it when footballing, and also for any in-,> juries sustained during their work at the railway workshops. There is no doubtj Zam-Buk is the working-man's friend."

No preparation lias been so successful in? the soothing and healing of all kinds ofi injuries a3 Zam-Buk, the herbal balm that/ is kept handj in almost every home. ZamBuk is -unequalled for cute, bruises, burns,' scalds, stiffness, abrasions, chaps, chilblains, rheumatism, cold sores, eczema, pilse* ulcers, ringworm, boila, abscesses, psoriasis^ and all injured, diseased, irritated, of inflamed conditions of the skin. Is- 6» and 33 6d per pot, of all chemists ant stores.

A new kind of fuel will very soon 1%. manufactured at Los Angelos, for whica it is claimed that it will produce no odoury smoke, or gases, and very little ashes front its consumption ; that no kindlings will b* needed to set it on fire; and that two bricks will last practically all day in si stove or grate. -It is composed of fcuitpita from the canneries, .mostly peach and apricot. About 16 tons of these pits are to be used a day at the factory. The shells are broken up by a machine, and the inside pits, or kernels, are shipped to France, where they are U3ed in the manufacture oi prussic aoid*