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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9319, 20 August 1908, Page 3

" Waiter, do you mean to. say this is the steak I ordered?" " Yes, • sir/ "It looks like the samo steak the gentleman across the table refused to eat a few minutes ago.". " Yes, fiir; we always try it three- timee before we giva it up. sir."

' $bbr» could be no more convincing proof : tokt Dr Williams' Pink Pills have cured \«liewatism for Sood ttan t .^ at given i*> the fctaiement made by Mr William Clowes. For ' Mghi years he Buffered torture that is almost indescribable Doctor's treatment failed to ' ViXSd him, and the various other me'hcds he - tried were just as ineffectual. Dr Williams'. ' .tlnfc Piils were the only thing able to drive ' 1&& -Bheumatic poison out of his blood. Read .jpiiat^Mj 1 Clowes says: — .:' ''I got a wetting one day on the river trhilst living at Bundaberg, and rheumatism B«t in almost directly after, first in my big toei, and gradually spread all through my .Ifttom, effecting every joint and muscle in Aura. I coula not walk. I saw the doctor, Jrutfhe couldn't, do me much gocd. The Jrh^umatism spread up to my knees, and ijritbjgi a week I was a^ invalid in bed, and Jcnore than three years I was practically '.mit all the time, being completely cr.ppled (tty fingers were all twisted and knotted when >n oxtra bad turn came on. I couJdn t pic* Up. my pipe or hold a spoon, being just a3 -ttelpless as a baby, suffering torture all ihe Hme. At first every joint would aweil op '".fcid be racked with burning stabbing paiijN * ■'*&■■ if I were on fire. Liniments and olnstero did Jtt> good, though I tried every mortal *hjn.gvl heard of. I was bathed in hot salt < and wrapped up in flannel. My wife jbatl . her hands full waiting on me. At $ight time I'd bo absolutely delirious with y i&t> pain. I couldn't bear tho bedclothes on /vfcsfef. *nd if the wife happened to pull the #h*etr over me at all quickly I'd have to shout •frith the agony. I dreaded anyone comi a,j jfcnto flbe room, let alone touching me. I na*l '%o jrtaidy my diot I daren't eat « ny thing «£pb/y I grew very, thin, and the pain &e>v ' jirolh 'joint to joint; I occasionally hobbled for a breath of fresh air. but if you gave .me a thousand pounds I couldn't raise my