The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1895-09-13
A FEW INCHES OF PLAIN
ENGLISH.

NOWADAYS men are doing all sorts of wonders
by means of electricity, both in mechanics
and in chemistry. / see by the papers that
they expect to be able TO produce real dia-
monds by it. Perhaps they may; marvels
never cease. But We will wait till they do
before we crow over that job. Up to this
time, anyway, everything that is both valu-
able and useful is the fruit of hard work.
Even diamonds are mostly got out of rocky
mines. And, within reasonable limits, it is
good for US to have to work. Ten shillings
honestly earned is better for a man than
twenty in shape of legacy.
The best condition of things for any coun-
try would be when fair wages could be
earned straight along, without loss or de-
duction for any reason. But in the present
aspect of human affairs this is impossible.
Whose fault it is we cannot now discuss.
One source of loss, however, is plain
enough, and some remedy for it ought to be
found. In England and Wales every work
ing man averages ten days of illness per
year, making the total loss of wages from
this cause about GIG, 100000 year. We are
talking of the Grsrdge, you see. But mas
much as all working-me are not ill every
year. this average does not fairly show the
suffering and loss of those who are ill. IN
any given year many will loss no time at all,
while others may lose individually from ten
days to six months each. No charity, no
savings, no income from clubs, etc., can
make up for this-even in money alone to
say nothing of the pain and the misery.
Abiding to an experience of his in 1888
Mr.. George Lagoon says, 81 had to give up
my work" How this came to pass he tells
Us in letter dated from his home in White
House Road, Stebbing, near Dunmow,
August "a, 1892. He had no inherited disease
or weakness, so far as he knew, and was
always strong and we'll up to April of that
yesr-lSSS. Then this strength and energy
began to leave him. He felt tired, not as
from work, but as from power gone out of
him through some bodily failure. He sat
down to his meals, but not with his old
eagerness and relish. There was a nasty
copper-like taste in his mouth, bis teeth and
tongue we're covered with slime, and his
throat clogged with a kind of thick phlegm,
difficult to "hawk up' and eject.
he also speaks of nagsing pain in the
stomach, f1atulency. and much palpitation
of the heart as having been among his symp-
toms. As the Observation-Disclosures it was
progressed he began to have q hacking
cough which, he says. seemed as if it must
shake him 10 pieces. He could scarcely
sleep on account of it. One of the most
alarming features of his illness, however,
were the night sweats, for the reason that
they showed the existence of a source of
weakness which must soon, unless arrested,
emu IN total prOStratl0n. In TACT ne was
obliged to give up his work altogether. To
him-as to any once active man-this was
like being buried alive.
One doctor whom Mr.. Lagoon consulted
said he was consumptivs, and it did indeed
look that way. For twelve weeks" he says,
81 went on like this, getting weaker and
weaker, and having reason to believe that it
end in my taking the one journey from would
which no traveller returns.
at was now July-summer time, when life
to the healthy is SO pleasant and full of
hope. At this time my sister-in-law got from
Mr.. Linsells (Stebbing) medicine that /
had not tried yet. After having used one
bottle felt better, and when had used the
second l was cured, and hare not lost an
hours ioork SINCE"
The reader will notice that between the
date of his letter there is an interval of four
years. We may, therefore, infer that his
cure was real and permanent. The medi-
cine, by the way, was Mother Seigel's Cura-
tive Syrup. 1t is not likely he will forget its
name nor what it did for him. His disease
was indigestion and dyspepsia, the deadly
enemy of every labouring man or woman
under the sun, no matter what they work at
or work icith-hands, brains. or both.
Is 1t necessary to draw a "moral''-school-
book style-from these facts? No, it is not.
We have talked plain English, and that is
enough.