The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-10-08
THAT 1IAsTERFUL YANKEE.

The writings Of Mark Twain are full
Of instruction, as well as humor. Pos
sibly you have read that wonderful
story OF his called a Yankee at King
Arthur's Court" The hero is a skilled
mechanic, the foreman of a great fac
tory in America. He is accidentally
killed, as We would say; but, instead
Of getting his body deposited in the
grave, as happens TO the most OF us, he
comes 10 life again, and finds himself
at the Court of King Arthur in Eng
land in the sixth century, 1900 years
before he was born. That 6as time
of deep ignorance and superstition;
people were but children then So
with his knowledge and his nineteenth
century training he soon becomes mas
ter of everybody and everything. He
controls the Government and runs the
whole country-exactly as a college
professor would be superior to all the
children if he should take it into his
head 10 join a class at a parish school.
Now let US see what this idea may
mean to you or TO me.
In the autumn of 1873 Mr.. James
Murphy, of 49 Townsend Street, Dub
lin (present address 5 Synnott Row,
Synnott Place, Lower Dorset Street..
had a severe attack of rheumatic fever
and was under treatment at the Sir
Patrick Dunn's Hospital for three
months. Then he left the hospital, but
not the man he was before the disease
fell upon him. Afterwards he was
never free from it. For a while he
would be comparatively well, then
down on his back again. 1t would de-
pend on the weather and other circum-
stances, you see.
Of his worst times he speaks in this
way: My ankles and feet were hot
and painful. and would often swell to
three or four times their natural size
Occasionally the pain extended to the
hips, and had to be swathed in wad-
ding from the thighs down TO the an
kles. In this way-now able to get
about and now confined to my bed
suffered for OUer serenteefl years. The
joints Of my fingers and toes became
displaced, or seemed to be so.'
We don't need to point out what a
cripple this sort of thing makes of a
man. If he were wounded and torn in
battle or by machinery he couldn't be
worse of. Yet the number of people
thus disabled is immense, and while
rheumatism is peculiarly the disease
of adults and old persons, the young
(even children), do not escape it. If
the disease were only understood-but
let US not get ahead of our story.
"At Christmas, 1890" continues Mr..
Murphy, 81 had a dreadful attack, and
was confined to bed for SeUenteen SceeIs."
This took him clear through the rest
of the winter and one month of spring
up TO the first of May. What dreary,
miserable season it must have been
There is no merry Christmas or jolly
coming of the buds on the trees for a
man in that situation. Still, it might
have been prevented if he had known
then what he found out later.
"All this time" he goes on, 81 was
in the greatest agony. 1 couldn't move
myself in bed, and finally got so bad
couldn't lift my hand TO my mouth,
and had to be fed like baby. Night
after night I got no sleep, and often
wished myself dead. As for work,
thought 1 should never do a stroke
again. The doctor who attended me
gave me medicines, but I seemed none
/ the better for them. I had long since
lost all faith in rubbing oils and en-
brocations; I had spent pounds for
them without benefit"
"One day, whilst still suffering pain.
l came upon a book telling how cases
/ like mine had been cured by Mother
Seigel's Curative Syrup. Not knowing
what else 10 do I bought a bottle of
Mr.. Mannin, the chemist in Brunswick
] Street. After taking this medicine a
day or two l had less pain, and 1 was
! able TO leave my bed, and fourteen days
( later / had not an ache OF q pain of any
kind, and got back to my cork. Since
that time-now two and a half years
! ago-I have had no return of my old
4 complaint. 1 never felt better in my
life than I do now, and 1 thank God
that I ever heard of Mother SeigePs
Syrup. You are at liberty to publish
my statement have been in the en-
ployment Of Mr.. Robinson, coal mer-
chant, for the past ten years. Yours
truly (Signed), JAMES MURPHY,
Dublin, June 23d, 1893"
The mysterious American at King
Arthur's Court was powerful because
Of his knowing what nobody else knew.
Had Mr.. Murphy known years before
that rheumatism is caused by impurity
of the blood, and that Mother Seigefs
Curative Syrup cures it, he could have
defed and banished that agonizing all
ment. We print these facts in order
that his present knowledge may also