STARVED INTO MUTINY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10093, 7 September 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

STARVED INTO MUTINY.

A famous. muiiny on shipboard came pass in this way : When the ship, iioh had sailed from L >ndon, waa well iwn tbe Channel, it w«b fonud that c provisions intended for the U8« of !e crew werft rjttou and, o£ course, unitable. The men complained to the iptidn, who promißed to put into some 1 jar port and exchange the bad »toron j ito good. He failed to keeo his word, 1 ad as tbe poor sailors couldn't sbII tbe j iiip 10,000 miles on empty otomacha, I ley killed tbe captain and male, helped I! lemsulveß to the cabin provisioos. held T igh jiuks for a few weeks, and finally puttied the ship, put off in the boats, nd were all lost but three. The captain onld have prevented all this if he had hosen to ; but perhaps the owners and is hart put up the bud job on the men. Terv likely, and got served out for it. Phi'y «ere both oriminals and fonla. But there are ships that mnst needs „ isil to the end of the voyage with " mly the original stores. Oome what nay, they can't go baok or pat into any E port. Some are well fonnd and others p badly; and s > voyages differ. c To modify the illustration, the latter fi land of vessels ore human beings. At li birth we sail on a voyage, which by rights ought to ba seventy years long, j But how many of vi couliuu" on the t Sea of Life that long? Very few com- c paratively. Most of us' go down sooner, c Why ? Because we recklessly, oarelessly, l or ignorantly waste tho stock of vital i crce with whioh Nature endows us at i the start. There are no meat shops or bakeries on the Atlantio, nor are there 1 any places alter Virth where we can beg ; or buy more " life." This is perfectly plain to me. Is it plain to you P lam afraid it isn't. Let's see whether a little incident will throw light on it. Mr HeiiTy fish had been a fortunate man. His forbears had done well by him. TJp to the Autumn of 1890 be could say, " I have always been strong and healthy." For thirty ypars he had worked as a nainter for one employer. Hemu«t have been notonly s healthy man, j but a good painter. So far his " vitality," his constitution, had been equal to all demands on it. It had endured a lot of hard work, resisted the weather, and digested his food. Then it refused ti go on. It struck work. It wou\do't make sail or pull an oar. In plsiu English the symptoms or signs of the trouble were these : Loss of appetite, bad taato in the mouth, terrible pains after eating, yellow eyes and skin, and rheumatic gout in the feet. His legs and stomach became fearfully swollen, and his heart palpitated and thnmoed frightfully nearly all the time. On account of distress given bim by solid food he oould only eat slops, and not much strength can be got out of them. By-and-by the best be oould do was to hobble about on crutches. He could not lie abed at all. because he could n't draw his breath when lyiDg down. . For over a month he snatched what sleep he oould wbeD supported npright on his crutches. Just think of that, and be thankful it wasn't your case. He wasn't able to lift his hand to his mouth, and had to he nursed night and day. He got 83 low (in spite of doctors attending him) that be didn't expect to live, and didn't desire to. One doctor Baid he hod heart disease, and that his heart waa big as a bnllook's, which was nonsense. During all this illness Mr Fish had » professional nurse from a oonvalespeot home. When he had sank so lowas to make it a wonder how he kept alive at all, he first heard of ibe medioine wbicb finally cured him. In concluding hia letter be says. "After beginning to take Mother Seigel's Curative Syrnp I never looked behind me. I got stronger every day, and have ailed nothing since. This medicine saved my life, and I want the public to know It. (Signed) Henry Fish, Great Malvern. County of Worces ter, January I2th, 1893." Only a word more. We spoke of men and women being like ships that have to aail to tbe end of the voyage with what supplies they statt with. By that we mean, not supplies of food, but supply of power to digest food. You see cie difference? Bread and meat are no better than lead and leather if yon can't digest them. In Mr Fish's case it was not food that failed, but poieer to\use it. Ho had indigestion and dyspepsia. The ■wonderfnl remedy discovered by Mother S'eigel stopped the waste of vitality caused by the disease, and enabled Nature to nee food to build up the perishing body. He will now proceed, we hopo, towards Ibe port of Old Age, with favouring winds. Vat, K<wft for timely tesouo, he would donbtless have gone down, as millions do, leaving but a momentary oddy over the spot where they disappear.