StarVed Into Mutiny.

Manawatu Herald, 3 September 1895, Page 3

StarVed Into Mutiny.

— « A famous mutiny on shipboard came to pass in this way : When the ship, which hftd Bailed from London, was well down the Chahttel, it was found that the proVisions intended fdv the Use of the crew were rotten 1 and, of course) uneatable. The men complained to the Captain, who 1 promised to put into some near port and exchange the bad stores for good. He failed to keep his word, and as the poor sailors couldn't sail the ship 10,000 miles on empty stomachs, they killed the captain and mate, helped themselves to the cabin provisions, held high jinks for a few weeks, and finally scuttled the ship, put off in the boats) and were all lost but three. The captain could have prevented all this if he had chosen to ; but perhaps the ownera and he had put up the bad job on the men. Very likely, and got served out for it. They were both criminals nnd fools. Blit there are ships that must needs sail to the end of the voyage with Bnly the original stores. Come what may, they can't go back or put into any port. Some are well found and others badly ; and so voyages differ. To modify the illustration, the latter kind of vessels are human beings. At birth we sail on a voyage, which by rights ought to be seventy yearn long. But how many of us continue on the Sea of Life that long ? Very few comparatively. Most of us go down sooner. Why? Because we recklessly, carelessly, or ignorantly waste tho stock of vital force with which Nature endows us at the start. There are no meat shows or bakeries on the Atlantic, nor are there any place 3 after birth where we can beg or buy more " Vfe" This is perfectly plain to me. Is it plain to yon ? lam afraid it isn't. Let's see whether a little incident will throw light on it. Mr Henry Fish had been a fortunate man. His 'forbears had done well by htm. Up to the Autumn of ISflO he could Fay, " I have always been strong and healthy." For thirty years he had worked as a painter for one employer. He must have been not only a healthy man, but a good painter. So far his "vitality," his canafihiilon, had been equal 1o all demands on it. It had endured a lot of hard work, resisted the weather, and digested his food, Then it refused to go on. It struck work. It wouldn't make sail or pull an oav. In plain English the symptoms or signs of the trouble were these : Loss of appetite, bad taste 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 thumped frightfully nearly all ihe time. On account of the distress given him by solid food he could only eat slops, and not much strength can be got out of them. By*ftntl-by the best he could do was to hobble about on crutches. He could not lie abed at all, becauso he couldn't draw his breath when lying down. For over a month he snatched what sleep he could when supported upright on hi"' crutches. Just think of that, and be thankful it wasn't your casp. He Avasn't able to lift his hand to his moulh, and had to be nursed night and day. He got so low (in spite of doctors attending him) that he didn't expect to live, and didn't desire to. One doc' or said he had heart disease, and that his heart was big as a bullock's, which was nonsense. During all this illness Mr Fish had a professional nurse from a convalescent home. When he had sank so low as to make it a wonder how he kept alive at all, he first heard of the medicine which finally cured him. In concluding his letter he says, "After beginning to take Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup I never looked behind me. I got stronger every clay, and have ailed nothing sinoe, This medicine saved my life, and I want the public to know it. (Signed) Henry Fish, Great Malvern, County of Woroester, January 12th, 1892." Only a word more. We spoke of men and women being like ships that have to sail to the end of the voyage with what supplies they start with. By that me mean, not supplies of food, but supply of power to digest food. You see the dif rerence? Bread and meat are no better than lead and leather if you can't digest them. In Mr Fish's case it was not food that failed, but potoer to vac it. He had indigestion and dyspepsia. The wonderful remedy discovered by Mother Seigel stopped the waste of vitality caused by the disease, and enabled Nature to use fooe to build up Jhe perishing body. He will now proceed, we hope, towards the port of Old Age, with favouring winds. Yet, save for timely rescue, he would doubtless have gone down, as millions do, leaving but a momentary eddy over the spot where they disappear.