THE WORKING-MAN'S FRIEND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9319, 20 August 1908, Page 4

THE WORKING-MAN'S FRIEND.

« ZAM-BOK BALM— THE EFFICIENT HEALER Otf WIDE UTILITY AND SMALL COST. " No home, and especially those of working-men's, should be without a pot of Zam-Buk,' says Mr G. Ritchie, of O'Sullivan Street, Wood End Pocket, Ipswich, Q "My occupation of pipefixing necessitates climbing ladders, and recently I had n nasty fall through tho ladder slipping from beneath, resulting in a wound about two inches long on my leg. It became swollen and was very painful, but knowing already the value of Zam-Buk. as soon as I arrived home I bnthed my leg and applied the balm, and tho very next morning the pain had all gone, and in a little while the swelling went down and the wound disappeared. I was soon at work again, which, for a man of mv age. sixty-four, is very gratifying, f»ncl shows how quickly and w 11 Zam-Buk did its work. This is not the «nly occasion on which T bfive suc n e*sfullv used Zam-Bnk Palm. My boys always use it when footballing, and also for any injuries sustained during their work at tho railway workshops. There is no doubt Zam-Buk is the workinsc-man's friend." No prepi ration has been so successful in the sooth ins and healing of all kinds of injuries as Z-m-Buk. the herbal balm that is kept handy in almost every home. Zam-Buk is nnequajl'-d for cuts, bruises, burns, scalds, stiffness, abrasions, cliaps, chilblains, rheumatism, cold sores, eczema, pik?6, ulcers, ringworm, bo'ta, abscessPS; psoriasis, and all injured, diseased, irritated or inflamed conditions of the ekin. Is Od and 3s 6d, per pot, of all chemists and stores. 1 how I don't feel easy. I wish T'd kicked myself down tli^ Jackson Street hill before I meddled with " " ' M'sr G'ogan,' commenced the Chinaman, before Grosan could eet out the door, 'T fororet lit'l mo' tlouble. One man name Ah Sing Wah.hetellee me you no pay him washe© bill. Ho heap mad you. He say he go see other can'date, tellee him you fliend Chineeman ' " ' You lying devil I' shouted Grogan, knocked off his feet by this last audacity. ' I never hired a Chinese laundryman in my life.' "' I no know,' said ihe delegate. 'He go see other man, jus' same.' "Grogan wiped the perspiration from') his face. . " ' Pete,' he said, ' now T know the difference between a politician and a diplomat. Tin's feliow 'II keep his oath and yet double-cross me. I'm outclassed. I've bought these votes twice and he's just starting to sell 'em again.' " Grogan was right. The Chinese intended to keep the stipulation, but still could ruin him if he didn't buy again. For Grogan's opponent to get the story of his- dealing with the Chinese would have ruined him. ' How much,' he said at last to the diplomat. '"Mebbe fifty dollars for lit'l piesent washeeman," he said sweetly. 1 ' *> I'll make it one hundred dollars if you'll stay in this room with one of my men until after ejection,' said Grogan. , "'All light; I no care,' remarked the diplomat, and he did." The chairman stopped. "Did Grogan get the votes?" asked the secretary. "Oh, yes; he got them, all right," replied the chairman, smiling as if at a memory time had taught him to appreciate. "And was elected?" " Uin-m-m, eventually he got his seat. When the votes were counted he was away ahead, but his opponent, who had been given a quiet tip by the delegate of the Chinese laundrymen's union, contested the election on the ground that Grogan's Chinese voters had not lived long enough in the precinct in which they voted to make their ballots' eligible. The charge was true, for 4 the yellow delegate took care to see that they changed their lodgings just before election." "Why didn't Grogan lose hie eeat, then?" '* Wheyi the case was called all the witnesses had disappeared ; at least, that was what t. diplomat said," plained the chairman, ruefully. , The strains of Grogan's approaching bands came faintly through the windows* " By the way, major," asked the sec-T-etary' a& they moved toward the window to watch the jubilant procession, " who was the man that ran against Grogan that time?" " I was," said the chairman.