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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7787, 19 August 1903, Page 3

IF YOU WANT A TONIC " ♦ Take the best, and that is Syrup of Hypophosphites. Barntitfc und Co., chemists, Cathedral Square. Price 2s 6d"and 4s 6d. 4045

THE ACHES AND PAINS OF RHEUMATISM. — *■ What awful torture those oJobes and pains give! Who knows tilus "cetter than the tortured victims of rlummatdsm ! But why suffer? There is a remedy at hand — yours for half -a- crown — that' will completely wipe out 1 . yheumatAsm, gout lumbago,«" sciatica, »ndl kindred' Ooimjplaints. Take Rheumo, the scientific remedy — the mediicime that has tTrivcn. aAvay ;paun from many a suffering individual. Riheuimw oonquers rheumatism, kills th© pain,, removes -all swelling, and effects a. dune generally witliin forty -eight bours. Sold) hy chemists and stores, atr 2s 6d amd> 4s Gd per bottle. i n 2 .

A wife afflicted with a dissipated husband was upbraiding him" for not coming home till past three in the morning." Non sense, my dear," he^ said ; " I was home ab one." "I know better," said his wife ; "it was two before I went to bed, and you were not home for an hour." "I assure you, my dear, you are mistaken-. The clock waa striking when I was on the stairs, and I heapd ib strike one-^-repeatedlyl" Motorists who have paid for chickens which they have run over will be interested riri this story of one with which a driver collided. The bird was,not hurt, 'but ho gave the old woman -vrhp owned it a; sixpence, and in return she told him a seciet "When I wants a pullet killed, I sends them into the road, and as like as not ii'a killed and paid 'for, and I ha' my pullet into the barjjain."- " ' -