The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-08-28
WE MUST HAVE THE TOOLS.

Robinson Crusoe, you remember,
made big boat or canoe out of the
trunk of tree 1t was a laborous and
tedious job. And that wasn't the worst
of it. When he got the boat done he
couldn't launch it. 1t was too heavy
for one man to handle. If he had only
had an arrangement like the capstan OF
a ship he might have managed. He
understood how to do it, but lacked the
tools. How often we find ourselves at
a dead stand for that same reason. Let
me give you fresh illustration, tied
up for moment in the following letter
which might first be read before we
can rightly come at the point.
I'm the spring of 1884" says our cor
respondent, II got into a low weak
way, not being able to imagine what
had happened to me. Ny strength kept
ebbing away till had scarcely the de-
sire or ability to do anything. l felt
as tired as if l had just arrived home
from a long, hard journey, yet no tax
more than usual of any kind had been
laid upon me- My mind, too, was
weary; so that / turned from things
that obliged me to think, plan or con-
slider.
Side by side, so to speak, with all
this was the failure of my appetite.
Of course l continued to eat, or make
an effort to eat, but food no longer
tempted me as it does a person in
health. I picked and minced over my
meals, and the little l took neither
tasted good nor did me any good after
| had eaten it, Instead OF warming,
comforting and stimulating me, as it
used to do. il gave me distress at the
stomach, pain at the chest, and sing
ular feeling of tightness around the
waist, as though a belt were buckled
too snug around me.
after a time the condition of my
stomach seemed to grow worse. There
was that sense of gnawing so often
mentioned by others, and occasionally
a feeling of faintness and sinking al
most like the ground giving way under
ones feet"
Remark:-An eminent London ply
stefan. in one of his books, describes
this sinking feeling as one of the most
appalling and frightful that it is
possible to experience. 1t is not the
body but the mind that suffers. l, the
present writer, have had two attacks
of it, and pray to have no more. 1t is
like unto the overshadowing OF the
Death Angels wing, tUith the mind fully
conscious of the situation. The cause is
uric acid poison in the blood, one Of
the products of prolonged indigestion.)
when this sinking feeling came on,
continues the letter, ''it weighed me
down like a nightmare. Finally l got
to be so weak l could only walk slowly
and feebly. The Doctor toho prescribed
for me said my complaint iods dyspepsia,
but his medicine had no perceptible
effect
.I continued this for eight years;
not always the same, but now better
and then worse. Yet in all that long
time there was not day when could
saw was we'll. No medicine or treat
ment seemed right for me, and almost
began to think never should recover
my former health.
In March, 1892, Mother Siegel's Sy-
rup was recommended to me as having
done wonders in cases like mine, even
when they were of long standing and
everything else had failed. No harm tc
try it, we thought, and got bottle
from Mr.. Crime, the chemist, in Boltor
Road; and after taking it felt grea
relief. My appetite quickly improved
and l could eat without pain. WheI
1 had taken two or three bottles NOR
the bad symptoms had all gone, and
was as well as ever My husband als'
took the medicine with the same goo'
results. You may publish my lette
and refer inquirers to me. (Signed
(Mrs.) Elizabeth Wilson, 5, Northcot
Street, Bolton Road, Darwen, Marcel
list, 1895"
The lesson in this interesting nara
tive is too plain for US to miss it. Gu
old friend Crusoe was not able {
) launch his boat for the want of ma
chinery. Similarly the doctor who at
tended Mrs. Wilson was not able t
cure her because he did not possess tn
right remedy. His opinion as TO he
complaint was entirely correct. Sh
was suffering from chronis dyspepsia
precisely as he told her. But alasi
is one thing to know what ought to b
done and quite another to have tn
knowledge and means to do it.
S Between these two things lover thi
J, wide gap) stands Mother Siegel's 81
: rup. Just as between the two sides {
the Thames stands London Bridge.