The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-11-09
Imprisoned On a Ship.

THE steamship No,-,HaHaia. from Hamburg.
arrived in the port of New York on Saturday.
Sept. Srd, 1892, with cases of cholera on
board. Many of the ships company had
died on the passage. At Hamburg and else
where in Europe the disease was raging. The
authorities il America were alarmed lest the
scolrge should be introduced into that
country. Hence they quarantined the Nor
MAMMA with every soul of her passengers and
crew. The writer was passenger. IL was
an awful time. Death was among US and
on all sides of Us. Nobody knew who next
would fal'. We were imprisoned. Liberty
never seemed SO fair, nor 50 Tdr. We could
neither fight nor fly. There we were
hundreds OF us-DeTTecttg IcsA, and yet bound
together as with chains, that the health
officer of the port might see whether the
plague would not yet break ont in our midst.
When at last-after weeks of thls-we were
set on shore, men lifted their hats and
reverently said, "THaHk Godn'
This was being shut up under conditions
TO make If horrible and fearful. Yet any
form of incarceration is bad enough. Here
is a woman, for example, who says, az HeVsr
Dlored q yard from my ocn doorstep for floeHty
ioeeks"' Her own house was 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,
a fire broke out, and the family were 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 shiver with
dread. For most of Us it is like the world
coming to an end to experience So a
disaster.
Well what happened after that the lady
shall tell in her own fashion-the 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 ny bed
and for twenty weeks never moved yard
from my own doorstep. After time the
fever abated, leaving me weak, languid, and
low. At first / had sickening taste in the
mouth and poor appetite. No matter how
simple and light the food was, / was afraid
to eat, for it was sure to give me pain at the
chest and sides; SO l often had to loosen my
corset and undress myself during the day.
could not bear the weight Of my clothing.
i was constantly splitting up sour,
frothy fluid, and had gnawing pain al the
pit of the stomach-like hunger, and yet
different. 1t was with difficulty voided the
kidney secretion, and my bowels, ankles,
and legs began to swell. got worse; l
was in agony night and day, and could not
put my foot on the ground. Soon afterwards
with a thick phlegm. / could not sleep, and
was never easy. Later on l 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.
Zone day in June, book came by post
describing Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup
and what it had done for many poor suffer
ers. / got 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 / have since kept in good health,
and can eat and digest any kind of food.
(SignedJ MRs. LYDIA GREEN, Moor End,
Great Ssmpford, via Braintree, Essex, Aug.
24th, 1892"
Now, in order that Mrs. Green's clear and
truthful statement may be of use to others
(ss she desires il to be-, we must add
word or two. Ths bad cold she caught at
the fire no doubt brought on the rheuma-
tic fever las she relstes), but there was
something back of the cold. for a cold nsrer
causes rLeamatis'H. The rheumatic seeds,
or poison, must alrsady lie in the blood;
and that poison is always created by pre-
eristiH0 indigestion and dyspepsia, whether
the sufferer knows il or not. This is proved
by the TACT that Mrs. Green's chief allment
for ten years after the fire was not rheuma-
tism, 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 mdladieS ceased together.
Why? Because she had but cue, as We have
said.
Ah. YES. disease is a stern jailor. And
how sweet land cheap is liberty, obtained
by Mother Seigel's help.