The writings of Murk Twain ace fall of instruction xs well as humour. Pesibly you have read that wonderful story of his called Yankee at King Arthur's Court." The hero isa skilled mechanic, the foreman of a "great factor 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 Arthue in England in the sixth century, 4,80) years before he was born. That was time of deep ignorance and superstition Rnowledge and his nineteenth century train: people were but children the. So with his ing he soon becomes master 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 iis head to join a class at a parish school Now let us see what the idea may mean to you or to me.
Ta the autumn of 1873 Mr. James Murph; of 39, Townsend Street, Dublin (present dress 5, Synnott Row, Synnott Place, Lower Dorset -Street) bad " severe attack of rheumatic fever' and was under treatment at the Sic Patrick Dunn's Hospital for three mouths. Then he left the hospital, but not the man he was before the disease fell upon him. Afterwards he was never free from it. Kor 'a while he would be comparatively well, then down on his-back again. It would depend on the weather ant other circumstances, you see.
Of hia worst times he ~peaks in this way "My ankles and feet were hot and painful, and would often swell to three or four ti their natural size. Occasionally, the tended to the hips, and I had to be swathed in wadding from the thighs dowa to the an-les,. In this way—now able to get about and now, confined to my bed—I suitored for over seventeen years... The joints of my fingers and toes became displaced, or seemed to be and while rheumatism is peculiarly the disease of sults 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, "I bad a dreadful attack, and was confined to hed for seventeen reeks."
This took him clear through the rest of the winter and one month of spring up to the firet of May. What a dreary, miserable season it must have been! There is no Christmas or jolly coming of the buds on the trees for 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, *¢ I was in tha greatest, agony. I couldn't nove myself in and finally got so bad I couldn't lift my hand to my mouth, and had to be fed like a baby. Night after: night I got no sleep, and often wished myself dead. "As for work, I thought I should never do a stroke again. The doctor who attended me gave me medi cines, but I seemed none the better for them. Thad long since lost all faith in rubbing oils and embrocations; I had spent pounds for them without benefit, suffering great pain, ling how cases Li mine hed been cared by Mother Seige Curative Syrup. Not knowing what do I bought a bottle of Mannin, the ch in Brunswick Street. After taking this medicine a day or two I had less pain, and I was able to leave my bed, and fourteen days later Thad not an ache or a pain of any kind, and got back to my work. Since that time—now wound a ba f years ago—I have had no return of iny old complaint. I never felt better in my life than I do now, and I thank God that Lever heard of Mother Seigel's Syrup. You ae at liberty to publish my statement. I have been in the employment of Mr. Robin. son, coal merchant, for the past ten years, Same 23¢d, 1895."
Yours truly (Signed), James Murphy, Dublin,
jous American at King Arthur's Court was powerfal because of his knowing else knew. Had Mr. Murphy known ra 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 agonising ailment. We print these facts in order that his resent knowledge may also be everybody's knowledge.
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