The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-04-03
HOW DID THE THIEF GET IN ?

You wake up some morning and miss
your watch. your purse, your best clothes
and other yaluables Yet neither YOU MOI
any member of your family heard sound
during the night. Neither Is there sign oil
how the thief got into the house. nor by
what road he decamped. YoI rush round
and tell the police, and also decide to keen
a dog and shot gun. You will let thieves
know they mustn't come fooling around
your premises after his. A sensible pro-
cedure. Meanwhile your watch. your
money, ETC., are gone Quite so.
Now suppose | should tell you that the
thief who stole your property never entered
your house at an; that he was born in it
had lived twenty years in it; never had
been out of it till he went off with your
things. albeit not a soul of you had ever
seen or heard of him. What would you say
to me VOC would call me IN idiot and
threaten TO have me sent back to the asy-
lum. But don't be too sure.
Later on, says Mr.. Heakin, "rh su-
matism struck INFO my system and had
pains all over me. | was confined to my
bed for three months with it and could not
dress myself. In this general condition |
continued for five years. One after another
was treated by fourteen doctors in that
time, but their medicines did me little or
no good. At one time / went to the mfr
mary at Shrewsbury, where they treated
me tor heart disease: but | got worse, and
feeling anxious. returned home"
How he was finally cured we will men
ton in a minute. First. however about
his rheumatism. Every intelligent person
knows that rheumatism and govt tits twin
brother) Is virtually a universal aiment
1t does its cruel AID body-racking work in
every country and climate. No other
malady causes so vast an aggregate of suf-
fering and disability. Whatever will cure
it is worth more money in England than a
god mine IN every country.
But does rheumatism strike into" the
system as bullet or knife might strike
into it No, rheumatism is thief who
steals away our comfort and strength; but
il is a thief as | said, who is born on the
premises. In other words, it is one-and
only one-of the direct consequences of in
digestion aud dyspepsia. And this is the
why and wherefore: Indigestion creates a
poison called uric acid; this acid combines
with the chloride of sodium to form salt ::
this salt is uIate OF sodium, which is de-
posted in the form of sIayp crystals in the
muscles and joints. Then comes infiam-
nation and agony, otherwise rheumatism.
Thus you perceive that il doesn't come
from the outside, but from the in side-from
the stomach. Our friends cold, caught in
the mine, didn't produce his rheumatism,
1t clogged his skin and so kept all the poi
son in his body instead of letting part of it
out 2F~l
Here is our very good friend Mr.. Richard
Heakin, OF Penteryin, Salop, who expresses
an opinion IN this line. Let US have his
exact words. He says" Rheumatism struck
into my system" OF course we understand
that he speaks after the manner of men.
You know we talk of being attacked F" by
this, that and the other complaint, as
though diseases were like soldiers or wild
beasts" Doesn't make any odds" d. YOU
say? Beg pardon, but ii dyes-heavy O ids
For 1t teaches rs to look ia tie ir5'oAg direction
fo,. danger. Do you see now?
Thirteen years ago, in the spring of 1880,
whilst working in the Roman Gravel Lead
Mines, Mr.. heakin took bad cold He
got over the cold, but not over what fol-
lowed it. He was feeble, without appetite,
and had deal of pain in the chest and
sides. His eyes and skin were tinted vel
low. and his hands and feet were cold and
clammy. Frequently he would break out
into cold perSpiration, as a man does on
receiving nervous shock caused by some
thing fearful or horrible. He was also
troubled with pain in the heart and had
spells of difficult breathing-what medical
men call asthma.
Mr. Heskin adds. Il was cured at last
by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and
without it believe / should have been dead
long ago
Very likely, very likely; for this thief,
be may wait long for his oppor-
tunity, isn't always satisfied to run away
with our comfort and our money; he often
axes life too.