The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-08-21
WE MUST HAVE THE TOOLS.

WE MUST HAVE THE TOOLS.
Robinson Crusoe, you remember.
made big boat or canoe out of the
trunk of q tree. II was laborous and
tedious job. And that wasn't the worst
Of il. When he got the boat done he
couldn't launch it. II was too heavy
for one man 10 handle. II he had only
had an arrangement like the capstan of
q ship he might have managed. He
understood how TO do il, but lacked the
tools. How often we find ourselves at
2 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.
In the spring of 1884 says our cor
respondent, 4 got into a low weak
way. not being able TO imagine what
had happened 10 me. Ny strength kept
I ebbing away till had scarcely the de-
sire or ability TO do anything. I felt
as tired as if l had just arrived home
from long. hard journey, yet no tax
/ more than usual of any kind had been
| laid upon me. Ny mind. too, was
weary; so that I 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 I continued 70 eat, or make
| an effort TO eat, but food no longer
/ tempted me as II does a person in
| health. I picked and minced over my
| meals. and the little I took neither
tasted good nor did me any good after
/ I had eaten it. Instead Of warming,
comforting and stimulating me, as it
used 70 do. il gave me distress at the
/ stomach. pain at the chest, and a sing
uIar 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
4 feeling OF faintness and sinking al
most like the ground giving way under
ones feet"
CRemark:-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. II is not the
] body but the mind that suffers. /, the
| present writer. have had two attacks
/ of il, and pray 10 have no more. II is
like unto the overshadowing Of the
Death Angels wing, nth 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, y
| continues the letter, 1T weighed me
down like nightmare. Finally l got
TO be so weak could only walk slowly
/ and feebly. The doctor JrhO prescribed
4 for me said my complaint tcds 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
4 time there was not day when l could
say I was well No medicine or treat
ment seemed right for me, and almost
began TO think 1 never should recover
my former health.
IN March, 1892, Mother Siegel's Sy-
/ A4D - g LELOL--L4E4dE1 ~ LII O. Ac1H IL :
done wonders in cases like mine, even
when they were Of long standing and
everything else had failed No harm 70
Try IL, We thought, and got a bottle
from Mr.. Crime, the chemist, in Bolton
Road; and after taking it I felt great
relief. Ny appetite quickly improved
and 1 could eat without pain When
l had taken two or three bottles more
the bad symptoms had all gone, and
was as well as ever Ny husband also
took the medicine with the same good
results You may publish my letter
| and refer inquirers TO me (Signed)
Cslrs.) Elizabeth Wilson, 3, Northeote
Street, Bolton Road, Darwen, March
Isl, 1885"
The lesson in this interesting nara
tive is too plain for Us TO miss it. OuI
old friend Crusoe was not able tc
launch his boat for the want Of ma
chinery. Similarly the doctor who at
tended Mrs. Wilson was not able tc
cure her because he did not possess the
right remedy. His opinion as TO heI
complaint was entirely correct She
was suffering from chronis dyspepsia
precisely as he told her But alas, il
is one thing TO know what ought to be
done and quite another to have the
knowledge and means to do IT.
Between these two things tower this
vide gap) stands Mother SiegePs Sy-
rup, just as between the two sides Of
the Thames stands London Bridge.