Headache, Indigestion and Constipation.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 910, 15 August 1907, Page 21

Headache, Indigestion and Constipation.

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

It will interest sufferers to know that a valuable medicine, called Frootoids, has been discovered, which is now completely curing each of tile above-named complaints. Frootoids are elegant in appearance, and pleasant to take, and, what is of the utmost importance, are thoroughly reliable in affording quick relief. You do not require to go on taking them for a prolonged period, as is necessary with some medicines, which even then are mostly disappointing; you simply take a dose of Frootoids when ill and repeat the dose if necessary, but generally one dose is quite effective. Frootoids are immensely more valuable than an ordinary aperient, in so far that they not only act as an aperient, but do remove from the blood, tissues, and internal organs all the waste poisonous matter that is clogging them and choking the channels that lead to and from them. The beneficial effects of Frootoids are evident at once by the disappearance of headache, the head becoming clear, and a bright, cheery sense of perfect health taking the place of sluggish, depressed feelings, by the liver acting properly, and by the food being properly digested. Frootoids are the proper aperient medicim to take when any Congestion or Blood Poison is present, or when Congestion of the Brain or Apoplexy Is present or threatening. They have been tested, and have been proved to afford quick relief in such cases when other aperients have not done any good at all. It is of the utmost importance that this should be borne In mind, for in such cases to take an ordinary aperient is to waste time and permit of a serious Illness becoming fatal.

Frootoids act splendidly on the liver, and quickly cure bilious attacks that antibilious pills make worse. Many people have been made sick and ill by antibilious pills that could have been cured at once by Frootoids. People should not allow themselves to be duped into contracting a medicinetaking habit by being persuaded to take daily doses with each meal of socalled indigestion cures that do NOT cure. Frootoids have been subjected to extensive tests, and have in every case proved successful in completely curing the complaints named. A constipated habit of body will be completely cured if the patient will on each occasion, when suffering, take a dose of Frootoids, Instead of an ordinary aperient; by so doing, the patient will require doses only at longer intervals, and will so become quite independent of the necessity of taking any aperient medicine. Frootoids are only now being placed on the Australian market, consequently you may at present have a difficulty in getting them from your local chemist or storekeeper; but ask for them, and if you cannot get them at once, send stamps or postal note for price, 1/6, to W. G. Hearne, Chemist, Geelong, and a bottle of them will be immediately forwarded to you post free. Chemists, storekeepers, and wholesalers can now obtain wholesale supplies from W. G. Hearne, Chemist; Geelong, Victoria. N.Z. Branch Office: No. 11, First Floor, Hume's Building's, Willis-street, Wellington.

otherwise authorised or allowed by the said Act and its amendments to sell liquor without a license. Sub-Inspector O’Donovan prosectued, and Mr. T. M. Wilford defended. Mr. Wilford app'ied for an adjournment of the case until after the decision of his Worship on the charge against Mrs. Weiss was delivered, as he would frame his defence in accordance with that judgment.

N.Z. LICENSED VICTUALLERS’ ASSOCIATION.

ANNUAL REPORT.

The annual meeting of the Licensed Victuallers’ Association of New Zealand was held in Wellington on the Sth inst.

The report presented said, dealing with conciliation and arbitration matters, that up to the present time only one place and one local association has suffered from “workers’ demand,” but, as in the near future quite a number of districts are promised invasion by workers’ agitators, the matter will become of more general interest, and the proposed amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act will be awaited with no little anxiety, especially as the fact must be admitted that few concessions are granted to employers, and fewer still where those employers are assoc’ated with the liquor trade. The question of legislation, always in the past an absorbing interest to the trade, is invested with more than ordinary importance at this session of Parliament, firstly from rumours that are in the air, and secondly from the known predilections of at least three members of the Cabinet. POSSIBLE LEGISLATION. Dealing with this phase, the report proceeds :—Of .licensing amendments proper, your executive is of opinion that the question—notwithstanding its importance —will not receive any consideration at the hands of the present Government, or, if introduced, has no confidence that the trade will rece’ve equitabel treatment. The executive by resolution decided to interview the Premier on the subject, but, owing to the illness of Mr. Hall-Jones, and the late arrival of Sir Joseph Ward, no opportunity has yet offered. The proposed Shops and Offices Amendment Bill is more menacing than at any previous time, from the fact that this year the trade will have the organised opposition of the Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union, and the Trades and Labour Council, b oth of which have pronounced strongly in favour of the statutory halfholiday being given to hotel servants from i p.m. Each member of the association will be able to estimate how far his business will be affected if such a proposal becomes law. The Minister for Labour has foreshadowed very drastic changes in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and as there is little doubt that the ramifications of the Employees’ Union will soon be spread over the entire colony, any amendments must of necessity be of the greatest interest to the trade. In any district where the Act is brought into operation one effect alone is the material increase in the wages-sheet. Many members will remember the important part the Health Department played at the annual meetings of Licensing Committees. And the question arose in more than one district as to whether the suggestions were not bordering on tyranny, and as such should be resisted. In any case, it is quite clear that any proposed amendments to the Public Health Act should be closely scrutinised to prevent injustice accruing to the trade. The executive will yield to none in its desire to promote the utmost cleanliness throughout hotel premises, but its protest is recorded against expensive and useless experimental fads. It is quite possible to introduce clauses into harmless-looking Bills which may become most oppressive to the trade; indeed, for some years past the side-wind legislation has been more harassing than direct Licensing Bills. With regard to licensing amendments, the executive is not prepared to recommend any action unless any such Bill emanates from the Government, as private measures on this question have ever been futile and abortive. It will thus be seen how arduous the duty is of watching legislation, and the work is not minimised in sessions where no trade legislation has been enacted, as at such times the watch-dog has to exercise greater alertness to guard against surprise. NO-LICENSE.

Referring to the question of no-license, the report states: —Unofficially the executive has been informed that Mr. W. Thomson, the secretary or organiser of the Otago Association, has been to America to ascertain how no-l:cense is working in the prohibitory States, and the executive quite concurs that any reliable

information bearing on the question may be advantageously used at the forthcoming election in 1908. But, seeing that this colony has, unfortunately, five districts working under “no-license,” your executive is impressed with the opinion that in these districts data of a startling character is available far more calculated to appeal to the people of New Zealand than any that can be adduced from the distant Sta.es of America, which have now been exploited ad nauseam. The committee strongly recommends that steps be taken at the annual meeting to provide for exhaustive and reliable information being obtained as to the working of no- icense in each of the prohibited districts of New Zealand, and that such data and statistics be tabulated in convenient form for dssemination prior to the election of 1908. ORGANISATION URGED. The need for organisation is also touched upon, as follows:—In the last annual report the executive expressed diffidence in approaching this question, but its present, feelings are almost -those of despair. The oppos ng party, though not having one cent’s worth of interest in the liquor question outside the fat salaries paid, is yet concentrating all its energ.es to bring defeat and disaster on the trade. Oppressed with liabilities from last election of a magnitude to discourage the most ardent fighters, it rises with renewed vigour, and is making greater and more combined efforts than heretofore. And the battlei-cry of the no-license party is more organisation. Contrast th'.s with the action of the trade, which absolutely resents the very name of organisation, and which holds that the isolated ac- on of a few in any district constitutes good and sufficient defence against the confiscation of property conned by its millions. The no-license party in the Auckland district alone recently obtained guarantee for raising per annum until after the next election. The revenue of this association for the past year reached the munificent sum of for the whole colony. Licensees cavil at paying per annum to the association, yet they have been repaid a hundredfold each year in the checks that have been given to oppressive legislative clauses. Quite recently the secretary of a small association gratefully acknowledged the source of the success of his district at the last election, which he attributed to the practical counsel and advice he had received from your secretary, al! of which he had carried out to the letter, and he expressed a very decided opinion that had the same course been followed in Oamaru, where the most masterly inactivity was observed, the result would have been reversed. The executive would point out that the necessity for combination is not only generally admitted, but is acted upon by every section of the community—outside the liquor trade. And the impossibility of properly carrying out the many purposes of such an association as this on an income of per annum cannot be too strongly emphasised. The executive will receive with pleasure any practical suggestions that does not ininvolve an expenditure beyond the means at its disposal.

The statement of accounts shows a credit balance of 4s 4d.

A WORLD WITHIN A WORLD.

There is a little world within a world in Chicago, called Packingtown. It consists of about 450 acres in what is now the heart of the city. Within its precincts are employed from 20,000 to 30,000 men and women, and in them can be slaughtered in a single day 25,000 cattle, 25,000 sheep, and 50,000 hogs. During the course of a year its entire business aggregates over There are within its borders banks, railroads, fire departments, restaurants, policemen, sanitary inspectors—in fact, all the features of a municipality. Civilisation and the broad acres of the United States have produced a nation of ardent admirers of animals. As one picks his way between engines and goods waggons to the main entrance to Packingtown the first sign which strikes his eye is the sign of the Humane Society, placed upon the portentous gateway. It is the duty of the society’s officers to see that there is no suffering caused the thousands of cattle, sheep, and hogs which are daily sent there to be killed. There is little need, however, for such supervision. A steer loses its market value if bruised, and it is to the financial interest of the owners of all animals to see there is no clubbing or any other violence done to their stock. Once inside the gateway the visitor finds himself upon a wellpaved street leading straight to the- heart of the great packing industry and to the huge plants which daily provide a portion of the civilised world with their meat products. On either side stretch the

acres of pens in which the various animals are kept for half-a-day or more, resting after their journey hither. The method of selling live stock in America at the various stockyards is a straightforward business proposition. The stock in these pens may be the property of a stock-raiser, whose farm or ranch is 50, or, perhaps, 1000 miles away. As the steer pig, or lamb begins to reach the age when it will soon be ready for market, the owner, kept advised by the daily papers of the prices obtainable at the different selling points, commences to decide if he shall sell. If he concludes that the market is right, he forwards his salable stock to the commission house with whom he is accustomed to do business. If the journey be a long one, the law requires that at stated intervals the train shall stop, the animals be taken from the car, fed, watered, and given an opportunity to rest. The enactment of this law has been a great boon to the stock-raiser, as his cattle, thus taken care of, command a higher price in the market, on account of their condition, than formerly, while the loss in transit is practically reduced to a minimum.

WHERE DOCTORS DISAGREE.

Not many years ago the public heard from its medical men one monotonous chaunt to the effect that alco-

hoi was always mischievous to the human frame —a poison, not a food. A recent manifesto, drawn up by distinguished British medical authorities, assailed this position, and now the eminent German expert, Dr. Starke, in his work on “Alcohol, the Sanction for Its Use,” has delivered a yet more vehement and damaging assault upon it.

Dr. Starke, indeed, goes far beyond what moderate British authorities hold, and it remains to be seen whether his views will be endorsed by the best scientific opinion. But, according to him, alcohol is less deleterious to the city-dweller than tea or coffee. Indeed, he almost seems to cry that there is death in the teapot, while the beer-barrel contains the germ of life. The average man is becoming puzzled by these conflicts of expert opinion, and scarcely knows what to make of mentors who are constantly changing their views. The impression left by taking a course of temperance works, followed by Dr. Starke’s trenchant treatise, will be that nothing is safe to drink, and that all beverages are equally poisonous, which, as Euclid would say, is absurd. Possibly, when he has reached this conclusion, the man in the street will act upon it in characteristically British fashion, by drinking exactly *what suits him. — “Daily Mail.”