The writings of Mark? Twsi fall Of siruetion xs well as humour.. Possitly you fave read that wonderful story of his called Yankee at King Arthur's Court." The hero isa skilled mechanic, the foreman of a great factory in America. ° He is accidentally Killed as we would say but, instead of getting his body deposited inthe grave as happens to the most of us, he comes to life again, and. finds' himself st the" Court Arthur in England in the six, century, 1,309 years before he was born. That was a time of deep ignorance. jperstition people were. bu children then. So with his!" knowledge and his nineteenth century training he soon becomes-master of everybody and everything... He controls, the, Goverament and runs the whole countéy—exactly as a rior to all the 6 his head to joi a class at a pariah school "Now Tet us ea whut-the idea inay" mean to you or to.
In the autumn of 1873 Mr, -Jaines Murphy, of 39,. Townsend (present ad-'j dress 5, Syniiott Row, Syanott Place, Lower: Dorset Street) had a severe-attack of rheumatic fever, and" was under freitment ab the Sic Patriek'™ Duni'ss Hospital: for three? months. Then he left the hospital, but not the man he was before the disease fell upon Afterwards he was never free. from it. 'a while he would be compitutively well, then down on his' back again. It would depend on the Weather an "other circumstances, you DONE sancti Te dehy pigcag a Of his worst tinies he wi "My ankles and feet were hot and pointe and would often swell'to three or four'times their natural size.:", Occasionally; the pain extended to.the hips, and.I had to be swathed, in wadding from the thighs down' to the un.' les.. In. this way-now' able to get about and row confined to. my bed=T suffered for Over seventeen years.: 'Ihe joints of my fingers and toes became displaced, or seemed to be'; We don't need to point out. what a, erippla thig sort of thing makes of a man, If he were wounded and torn in battle or by chinery he couldn't be worse'off, Yet the nuriber of people thus disabled is immense, and while rheumatism is peculiarly the disease of sdults and old persotis, the young' (even children) do not.escape it," If the disease Were. only understood—but let us not get ahead of oer story.
"At Christmas; 1890" continues. "Mr. Murphy, "I, bad a dreadful attack, and was confined to hed for seventeen weeks this took him clear through' the rest of thi winter and one mouth of spring up to firet of May. What a dreary, mineral season it must have been! There is no merry Christmas or jolly cor the "buds on the trees fora man in that situation, Still it might have been prevented if he had"known then what be found out later.
All this time,"
Bed, and finally got ft my reatest agony. hund to. my mouth, and had to be fed like a sigue I got no sleep, and thought I should never do a stroke again. ead. I 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 bad spent pounds for them without benefit.
"One day, whilst still suffering great pain, I came upon a book telling how cages like mine had been cured by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. Not knowing what else to do I bought a of Maniu,' the chemist in Branswick Sere Alter taking this'medicine a day or tve I had less pain, and I was able to leave my bed, and fourteen days later Thad not an ache or & pai of any kind, and got back to my work. 'Since that time—now tivound a ha f years ago—I have had no retura' of my old complaint. I never felt better in my life than I do now, and I thank God that K. Tever heard. of Mother Seigel's Syrup. You at liberty to publish my statement, I have been in the employment of Mr. Robinson, coal merchant, for the. past ten years, Yours truly (Signed), James Murphy, Dublin, Tune 23rd, 1893." pate The mysterious American at King Arthur's Court was powerful because of his knowing, what nobody: Had Mr, Morphy 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 agonising ail-We print these facts in order that his knowledge may also be everybody's (5) 10, 17 & 24 se 205
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