The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-03-04
THINGS SLOWLY LEARNED.

There is a man in Scotland who used
to write many readable and instructive
things. He signed himself "a Coun-
try Parson," and bright parson he is.
One of his essays is entitled, Things
Slowly Learned" a good line OF
thought for anybody.
Well, here is one of the things SLOW
ly learned-that disease doesn't jump
on a man like a wild cat out OF a
tree, but develops from seeds and con-
ditions, just as roses and weeds do.
We who write and print the essays
of which these lines are one, have
said this hundred times; but all the
people don't seem to have thoroughly
grasped the idea yet.
For if Mr. Theodore Treasure alone
had done so, he wouldn't have suffer-
ed ten years from attacks of rheumatic
fever. In November, 1891, he says he
had a fearful time with it. He tells
us in letter that he had dreadful
pains all over his body, and was so
sore he couldn't bear anything to touch
him. Even the bedclothes hurt him,
like feather against a sore eye. Il
got little or no sleep" he says, tossing
all the night long, and trying to get
ease by a shift of position.
q had a foul taste in the mouth,
and spat up a great quantity of Shiny
phlegm. My appetite left me, and the
little food forced down gave me great
pain at the chest and sides For fire
months I was confined to my room,
most of the time unable to leave my
bed and what | suffered during that
time have no words to describe"
Any one who has ever been through
that sort of thing can easily believe
what Mr. Treasure says; for when
every muscle and joint in mans body
is throbbing with Inflammation, it isn't
any common collection of words that
can set forth his feelings. 1t is agony
and torment in the supreme degree
Yet we ought to know better than to
have it. But we don't-not yet,
Il was perfectly helpless" continues
our friend, and could scarcely move.
In fact, the people had to move me
from one side of the bed to the other.
Month after month l was laid up and
suffering in this way. l had a. doctor
attending me, but he wasn't able to do
much to relieve me-
FINALLY, to cut the story short.
came to hear of Mother Seigel's Cura-
tive Syrup. I read about it in a book
that was left at my house. The book
said this medicine was good for rheu-
matism, and so my wife got me a bottle
from Mr.. Ford, the grocer, at Oakhill
After taking it for a week l felt great
relief. Then l kept on taking it and
not long afterwards l found it had
cured me; it had completely driUen the
rheumatism ont of nty system. 1 am
willing you should publish these facts
and you can refer any inquiries to me.
(Signed) Theodore Treasure (Waggon
and Horses Inn), Doulting, Shepton
Mallett, November 3rd, 1893"
Now let's bark a moment. To the
thoughtful reader Mr.. Treasures story
may look trif1e confused and mixed.
That is, he describes the symptoms
OF rheumatism proper in connection
with a lot Of other symptoms which
wouldn't seem at the first blush to have
anything to do with rheumatism. But
there's where Mr. Treasure is right
and the reader wrong. His account
shows that he was victim of chronic
Indigestion, dyspepsia, and torpid
llver-and that covers the whole
ground. Rheumatism land this is the
sloioly learned lessons is merely nasty
symptom of dyspeptic condition of
the digestive organs. At the outset
1t means too much eating and drink
ing. This results in the formation of
a poisonous acid which fills the body
and produces the local outbreak called
rheumatism. Hence we cure it from
within not from without. And this
true idea is also Reio idea-do you
see?
Try to get this lesson, by heart. You
can prerent rheumatism by SeigePs
Syrup; you can cure it by SiegePs Sy-
rup. But it is more comfortable to
prevent it.