The Hawaiian gazette., 1895-01-04
The Handful of Things We Know.

Several years ago an American humorist anC
poet published some verses called Little
Breeches." This was an odd name given tC
a very small boy who was caught out in 9
tremendous snowstorm, and fnallv found II
some hay quite distance from the house
However the boy got there bothered every
body to explain. 1t was certain he never
could have walked. So his father said the
angels must have done it; "they just stopped
down and toted him to where it was safe
and warm, he said" The poetry about il
supposed to have been written by the
youngsters father starts off in this way
don't go much on religion,
Inever amt had no show
But I've middling tight grip, sir,
On the handful OF things know.
That's it; tie handful of things zee knoic
There aren't many of 'em, but there are a
few. And one of them is this: That for q
hundred results there is only one cause
Nature develops and makes differences
never new. force.
Here, for example, is an incident which
shows our meaning. About Christmas, 1883
Mr.. Z. b. Wright had an attack of influenza
Previous to this he had always been strong
and hearty. Well, he got over the influenza
still, it had given him (as he says "a shake. y
After this he got along fairly well, until
February of this year (1S92) when the in.
fluenza attacked him again. This time the
malady meant business" Nearly every
bone and muscle in his body ached like sore
teeth. His skin was hot and dry, and to bed
he was obliged to go. For sixteen days he
was under doctor. At the end of that time
he found himself alive and that was about
all you could say for him.
In his letter he goes on to tell what
happened next. 81 had foul taste in the
mouth" he says, "and my tongue were
covered with thick Shiny phlegm. My
wife says my tongue was like an oyster
she'll, and I'm sure it was rough as nut
meg crater. What I ate, which wasn't much,
gave me pain in the chest and sides. After
a mouthful or two l felt full and blown out,
and used to swell to great size. By-and-
by hacking cough set in and my breathing
got short and quick. At night / lay for
hours grasping for breath, and often
coughed so I was afraid l should burst a
blood vessel. got weaker and weaker and
tcas like broken-iciHded horse. The doctor
said it was asthma, but he wasn't able to
relieve it. Although live only two minutes
walk from the factory where work, had
to stop and rest on my way many time.
"Thus matters went with me until June,
1892. Then one day | took up the EsSer
NeicsDidn, and read of man living at Ear
sham, near Bungay, having been cured by
Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. got some
Company, Braintree. After few doses my
breathing grew easier. and by keeping on
with the Syrup my food soon digested, the
cough left me, and gained strength. | am
now as strong as ever, can eat anything,
and walk for miles. / am brushmaker,
and work at the factory of Messrs. John
West and Sons, High Street, Braintree, and
have lived in this town over forty years.
(Signed) E. B. WRIGHT, Sanepit Road,
Braintree, Essex, August 23rd, 1892"
Now let us see how this illustrates the pro-
position we started out with. For almost
three years Mr.. Wright was i'll with
what seemed like series of different
diseases. He had the influenza twice, the
asthma once, and another disease which he
gives no name to-even if he recognised it.
Look for moment at the variety and in
congruity of the pains and troubles he mem
tions, and he doesn't describe them all,
either. You would fancy he had half dozen
ailments at least. Yet he had but One-in-
digestion and dyspepsia-of which all his
bodily disturbances Influenza included-a
blood disease) were symptoms. ALI came
out of the stomach, and when Seigel's Syrup
set that right the others quietly departed.
What, then, is one thing of ''the handful
of things we know?" Answer: That nearly
all sorts of diseases are really symptoms of
Indigestion and dyspepsia, and that Mother
Seigel's Curative Syrup cures it.
Double that fact up in your fist and hold
on to il tight.