The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-09-04
WE MUST HAVE THE TOOLS.


Robinson Crusoe, you remember,
made big boat or canoe out of the
trunk of a tree. 1t was laborous and
tedious job. And that wasn't the worst
of it. When he got the boat done he
couldn't launch it. II was too heavy
for one man to handle. If he had only
had an arrangement like the capstan of
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.
"In the spring of 1884" says our cor
respondent, 81 got into low weak
way, not being able to imagine what
had happened to me. My strength kept
ebbing away till I had scarcely the de-
sire or ability to do anything. l 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. My mind, too, was
weary; so that turned from things
that obliged me to think, plan or con-
sider
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. l picked and minced over my
meals, and the little l took neither
tasted good nor did me any good after
l had eaten it. Instead of warming,
comforting and stimulating me, as it
used to do, it gave me distress at the
stomach, pain at the chest, and sing
ular feeling of tightness around the
waist, as though 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
appalling and frightful that it is
possible to experience. 1t is not the
body but the mind that suffers. /, 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, loih 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, 3"
continues the letter, sit weighed me
down like nightmare. Finally | got
to be so weak could only walk slowly
and feebly. The doctor 10hO prescribed
for me said my complaint lrds dyspepsia,
but his medicine had no perceptible
effect
Il 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
say I was we'll No medicine or treat
ment seemed right for me, and l almost
began to think l never should recover
my former health.
TN March, 1892. Mother Siegers 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 to
try it, we thought, and got bottle
from Mr.. Crime, the chemist, in Bolton
Road; and after taking it felt great
relief. My appetite quickly improved
and l could eat without pain. When
had taken two or three bottles more
the bad symptoms had all gone, and l
was as well as ever My husband also
took the medicine with the same good
results. You may publish my letter
and refer inquirers to me- (Signed)
(Mrs.) Elizabeth Wilson, 5, Northcote
Street, Bolton Road, Darwen, March
LIST, 1896"
The lesson in this interesting narra-
tive is too plain for US to miss it. Our
old friend Crusoe was not able to
launch his boat for the want of ma
chinery Similarly the doctor who at
tended Mrs. Wilson was not able to
cure her because he did not possess the
right remedy. His opinion as to her
complaint was entirely correct. She
was suffering from chronis dyspepsia,
precisely as he told her But alas it
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 lover this
wide gap) stands Mother SiegePs Sy-
rup, just as between the two sides of
The Thames stands London Bridge.