HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 7

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

HOW TO TREAT A COUGH

Coughing is Nature's' effort to remove the phlegm or mucous from the inflammed' surface of the lungs'. When the mucous is thick it ulings. tenaciously to the weakened ad r passages, -and requires quite- a, paroxysm, of coughing to re lease, it. Constant coughing not, only exhausts the sufferer,' but leaves tlie deUca to -tissues of the lungs very sore, and lender, and weaker than ever to combat a, cold. Baxter's ..Lung Preserver is the scientific method, of curing a cough. This valuable medicine goes straight to the seat of the trouble, and renders coughing! unnecessary; because it thins tlie phlegm before it. , leaves the lung? ;<vnd': stimulates the mucous membrane to throw ,it ofl". It speedily, reduces the Inflammation, soothes the lungs, and drives tl*e, <;old : out. A tickling cough is caused through, inflammation m the "throat, but can be speedily relieved, by the right remedy passing over the affected, surface. -Every' one /who IfaV used-Baxter's Jiang Preserver knows what a delightful sense .of t . comfort this medicine gws to tlie inflamed organs. the. relief is immcdrcito. ; Tt never fails, .never disappoints. It's famous beeaiise it cures.- It' will cure you.

The Magistrate's Court at Geraldine was occupied on Tuesday (says thV-Lyt-' telton Times) witha case tliat presents spmo extraordinary features,' and calls aloud for inquiry into the conduct of the police m that district. An old man of 70 appeared in-the; Coiirt 'on crutches to answer a charge of having been drunk m the borough on.; January 18 last; In order to sheet home this momentous indictment, a, sub-inspector, went out from Timaru to assist the local policeman m conducting 1 tho prasecution, ancl the country-side was scoured for witnesses, one heinrr brought froni as fay afield as Ashburton. The accused himself was re. presented by counsel ; {he case occupied a whole" morning ; "and" sixteen' witnesses m all. gave evidence. .And all this on a simple charge against a- very old man, a cripple at that, who! was conclusively proved to haVe had three drinks between one O'clock arid 'three': on a Saturday afternoon ! Some of the/witnesses swore positively that he was ' ; others! rather more numerous, declared that he was sober. Those who called him drunk had seen him across a road or passed him on a bicycle, m a- cart or a gig; those who called him sober had every one spoken to him, and even done business with him after he had taken the last of the three drinks. On this evidence — which is very fully, reported m the Timaru newspapers : — the Magistrate found 'that the old fellow was not "drunk," but "intoxicated," and fined him 20s and costs. A careful perusal of the evidence leaves us quite at> a losaj to amderstand the extraordinary decision. .•-.-. , .