The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-11-02
Imprisoned On a Ship.

| HE steamship NOrmGHHiG. from Hamburg,
! arrived in the port of New York on Saturday,
| Sept. 3rd, 1892, with cases of cholera on
| board. Many of the ships COMPANY had
| where in Europe the disease was raging. The
| authorities IL America we're alarmed lest the
| scourge should be introduced into that
| country. Hence they Quarantiued the Nor
WdHHid with every soul of her passengers and
| crew. The writer WAS passenger. 1t was
| an awful time. Death was among us and
on all sides of US. Nobody knew who next
would fai We were imprisoned. Liberty
never seemed so fair, nor so far. We could
| neither fight nor fly. There We were
| hundreds OF us-pey1ectly ireH. and yet bound
together as with chains, that the health
officer of the port might see whether the
plague would not yet break out in our midst.
When at last-after weeks of thIs-we were
| set on shore, men lifted their hats and
reverently said, "7Hdnk Godr'
This was being shut up under conditions
| to make 1t horn BILE end fearfn. Yet any
form of incarceration is bad enough. Here
| Is woman, for example, who says, al nere,.
| hored yard from my OicH doorstep for ticenty
| iceeks!" Her own house WAS a prison TO her.
Who had sentenced her? A judge? No; a
power greater and more pitiless than any
| Judge.
Her tale runs thus: In April, 1882, whilst
living at Lasher's Farm. Old Sanford Essex,
fire broke out, and the family W re burned
out of house and home. We have no call to
remark ON such a calamity. The very
thought of it is fit to make one SILVER with
dread. For most of Us it is like ths world
coming to an end to experience So a
disaster.
Well what happened after that the lady
shall tell in her own Fashionable best of all
fashions, because it Is plain and straight to
the point. She says:-"Owing TO our bedding
being damp from exposure, / took bad
cold, which brought on rheumatic fever.
For fourteen days | was confined to M bed,
and for twenty weeks l never moved a yard
from my own doorstep. After time the
fever abated, leaving me weak, languid, and
low. At first l had a sickening taste in the
mouth and poor appetite. No matter how
simple and light the food was, was afraid
to eat, for 1t was sure to give me pain at the
chest and sides; so often had to loosen nv
corset and undress myself during the day.
could not bear the weight of nv clothing,
1 was constantly splitting up sour,
frothy fluid, and had gnawing pain at the
pit of the stomach-liEe hunger, and yet
different. 1t was with difficulty voided the
kidney secretion, and my bowels, ankles
and legs began to swell. l got worse; |
was in agony night and day, and could not
put my foot on the ground. Soon afterwards
husky cough took me, and my throat filed
-
was never easy. Later on | had often to sit
up in bed. for felt as if / should choke.
year after year | continued to suffer in
this way, growing worse and worse, until
despaired of ever being well again. But
who can tell when trouble will come, or
when relief! A wonderful Providence is over
all.
"One day in June. book came by post
describing Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup
and what it had done for many poor suffer
ers. l got a bottle from Mr.. Sucking
medicine dealer, and after taking it for
short time all pain left me, and | gradually
gained strength. BY taking an occasional
dose l have since kept in good health,
and can eat and digest any kind of food.
lSlgnedJ Mrs. LYDIA GREEN. Moor End
Great Sampford, via Braintree, Essex, Aug.
Path, 1882"
Nov, III order that Mrs. Green's clear and
truthful statement may be of use to others
las she desires 1t to bel, we must add
word or two. The bad cold she caught at
the hre no doubt brought on" the rheuma-
tic fever las she relates), but there was
something back of the cold, for a cold neuer
causes rheHnidfism. The rheumatic seeds,
or poison, must already lie in the blood;
and that poison is always created by pre-
eristino indigestion and dyspepsia, whether
the sufferer knows il or not. This is proved
by the fact that Mrs. Green's chief ailmsnt
for ten years after the fire was not rheuma-
tlsn', but Indigestion and dyspepia and
dropsy, which is one of its results and
symptoms. When the digestion was finally
righted by the remedy she alludes to, all
her apparent DIdiddies ceased together.
Why! Because she had but one, as we have
said.
Alb, yes, d sease is a stern TAILOR. And
how sweet taud cheap is liberty, obtained
by Mother Seigefs help.