The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-10-01
THAT MASTERFUL YANKEE.

The writings of Mark Twain are full
of instruction, as we'll 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 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 to 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 was a 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 fperior to all the
children if he should take it into his
head to join class at 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 40 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 l 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 SeUenteen gears. 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 off 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-bu
let us not get ahead of our story
"At Christmas, $780," continues Mr.
Murphy, 81 had dreadful attack, and
was confined to bed for SeUenteen i1eeks. 4"
This took him clear through the rest
of the winter and one month of spring
up to the first of May What a 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. l couldn't move
myself in bed, and finally got so bad
1 couldn't lift my hand to my mouth,
and had to be fed like baby. Night
after night I got nc sleep, and often
wished myself dead. AS for work, I
thought / should never do a stroke
again The doctor who attended me
gave me medicines, but seemed none
the better for them. had long since
lost all faith in rubbing oils and en-
brocations; 1 had spent pounds for
them without benefit"
zone day, whilst still suffering pain,
1 came upon a book telling how cases
like mine had been cured by Mother
Seigels Curative Syrup. Not knowing
what else to do l bought a bottle of
Mr.. Mannin, the chemist in Brunswick
Street. After taking this medicine
day or two had less pain, and was
able to leave my bed, and fourteen days
later had not an ache or q pain of any
kind, and got back to my cork. Since
| that time-now two and half years
ago-I have had no return of my old
complaint. l never felt better in my
life than I do now, and I thank God
that l ever heard of Mother Seigel's
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 (SignedD, 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 Seigel's
Curative Syrup cures it, he could have
defied and banished that agonizing all
ment. We print these facts in order
that his present knowledge may also