Nature's Danger Signals.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13644, 11 July 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

Nature's Danger Signals.

Keep your eye open for danger signals —especially' those that threaten your health. If people would only do this, the (iiseases ,'thafc afflict the world would be reduced by one-half, Illness rarely conies 1 on without giving some Earning. You ' may be struck down, but when you think ' it over, you. will generally be able to remember that you had some signs of the trouble beforehand, only you " thought ' nothing, of it-" . ■■< . ; For example, when you lose the sharp appetite for food; when you feel dull and sluggish; when your ordinary work or 1 duties seem to require more than ordinary exertion: when you are more, tired than - usual; when you are constipated, have ] little dull headaches, and your mouth is scummy—these, and other like; signs/show, unmistakably, that; your physical machinery is not in good order. -., That is the time '■ for doing something. ' to ward off an attack of real illness. Your stomach is out: of order,.-and;, it ..will be easier I to rectify it now than _it will be later on. Your trouble is incipient indigestion, the complaint which. Mother. Sel- - Syrup always checks and cures, and which it also actually prevents—as thousands of people know from their owii experience. And don't- forget that it is easier to conquer indigestion in its earlier stages than when it has become chronic. Mother Seigel's Syrup so acts upon the stomach, liver and bowels, that, indigestion is impossible. A purely herbal remedy, containing no' mineral drugs, it purifies the blood, strengthens tlie digestive organs and tones up the system generally^. ■Mr Thomas Butler. 41. Street, Erskineville, New South Wales, writes " I can conscientiously testify to the wonderful efficacy of • Mother .Seigel s Syrup in - the treatment -of .-severe indigestion and stomach cramp. lor several years I was a victim of these, terrible complaints, and what I suffered,,is more shan I can describe. The. cramp seizures used to cause me frightful agony While they [lasted I was bent almost double, ana half 'out of my mind with pain. I could hardly bring myself to eat at all, and when I 1 did' the food only caused goffering ' and .did me no good.' I wasted away to a -mere frame -of skin-and bone,. so weak that I could hardly crawl about. I dared not venture out of doors for fear I should collapse. . "All this time I had been taking medicine," endless medicine, but it. was to no purpose. I only • got . worse. " But at last a ■ change came. I chanced to read -about Mother Seigel's Syrup, and'got some. It relieved me almost - from: the first dose, and by the time I had finished two bottlesi I was free from the awful SLoniach cramp. I' coritnued using the Syrup, gaining health and strength daily, and the result was a complete and thorough cure. At the present time—March 9th, 1908—I am in excellent . health." There is no form of indigestion or billious. - ness that will nqt yield to Mother Seigel's Syruj. _ ,

menfc" shows that' there are only 27 officials who receive more than £4OO a year and that the vast majority of the staff receive less than £250, while the salaries of. many who Lave been in' the service for years are considerably less than the reputed standard of New Zealand salaries. COULD RATES BE RAISED? . Sir Joseph.Ward says that he could at any time, if he would, increase the railway charges so as to earn the full amount. of interest on the railway debt, and that, if required, as much, as 10 per cent, could be taken out. . The gross, earnings for the year 1905-1906 amounted to £2,349,704, and it would seem as .though an average increase in charges of about 8 per cent, would be sufficient to cxtin-;. guish the deficit of £174,988. But; it is . •a- question whether .the Department is iiot already charging all that the traffic can bear, and whether a reduction,, in charges would not be more productive in net earnings, than an increase. Passenger traffic, at least, is very sensitive to alterations in fares, and might fait oft • considerably if fares were even slightly increased. Competition, also, with coast; iiig vessels is said'to be rather keen, aiid , it? might'-be unprofitable to increase freight . charges between places on the coast.' Js is' possible, then, that; it might be necessary to increase.'Cfertain charges by several times 8 per cent., in order that neb earnings might be raised to the point re- . - require a far- greater knowledge than a stranger, can have enabled him to judge of a; matter ;of tHis kind, but one could hardly be other than sceptical in view of the statement Uiat any ; increase in charges could make the railways earn 10 per cent, upon . their, capital N:ost. To do this it. would be : necessary to secure on increase of about .. * 70 per cent, in gross earnings, and to iur crease average freight and. passenger charges by at least 100 per cent. Tliat fcliarges couild be 'thus xajised. without causing a tremendous • falling oif in; traffic it is hard to believe. . • ';: v " ; THE PRESSURE OF TAXES. ' ' But-, if it is possible to relieve the taxpayers by merely the amount of ;tho. . ainnual deficit, not to mention the desir : iibility •of paying ■ part *of the deht, can ony good reason be given why' this should not be done?. If all the taxpayers are Users of the railway,'it is .a matter of' indifference to them whether , &ey pay this amount intaxes \V;iy charges, and, for the sike of sound finance, the; railways shoiild be made to Sam at leiist as much' as this. Bilt it Some teaxpayers do iiot directly or indirectly use the railway,' then the policy of the Department compfels' people wKo" : '|o. - not enjoy the advantages/ of railway : transportation to pay for thpse who do, ind who, moreover, are Aveir able to pdy for it themselves. 'lt is, •no tloubt, desirable that the country shoiild be developed

. as rapidly as possible, but developmentsmay be secured at too . great a cost- « , Cannot bo•sound -polioy,to,. .allow,, v jmustnes to bo carried on .by the Government , at a loss. Government property no. iaxcs, and ' deficit must fall •soottfljj op kter, upon the taxpayers.. , TlM.:'with fcvery extension; of Governmental activity, .'■taxes must infcrease . and if. this ,pioces» , goes on much farther the laxpaycis' bui\dens will be so great iliat it uill b© .difficult to canyon private business, the twof tlie Dominion will be Mtard- '. ifed,,' people and\ enterprise will leave the ■ country, and nothing wijl b« . - Government and its employees, doing busi- . at. a loss, borrowing vaSt sums bt inoney, and:, rapidly descending the road to national bankruptcy. ,