The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-12-09
SPECULATION.
The Extent to Which it is Carried and
the Drain its Excitement Brings
Upon the System.
A Few Words Of Warning and Timely sug-
gestions to American Business Men.

tour around the world he was perfectly
amazed at the extent to which stock specu-
lations had run, and the thousand and one
'swild cat" schemes which were largely pat
ronized by the too credulous public, even
when there was not the remotest probabil-
ity that they would ever come to a success
full completion. He stepped into Delmoni-
cos to dine, and was panied to see the crowd
which huddled around the stock Indicator,
unable even to eat meal in peace, so dis
quieted were they under the operations of
the fever of speculation. Mr.. Field says he
bought certain stock for an investment at
lO6 Just before he sailed. On his return,
finding it quoted at the fancy price of l.64,
he sold He could see no reason why such
an advance should have been made, and
fearing crash in the market he disposed OF
his stock as soon as possible. This wild
speculative mania prevails in London and
Paris and in his opinion when the crash
comes it will involve the entire commercial
world. Conservative men and the press see
these things and warn the people, but many
will not be stopped so long as they have
penny to spare or can borrow, or until ruin
comes irretrievable and awfully.
IHG SuDTcllic tlIOIU VI ouI tCop4O oiAcohee
be to cultivate moderation. Two things
have united to make the struggle for exis
tence in this country the most exacting and
exciting found in the world: lst. The ease
with which successful men appear to amass
fortunes. 2d The impression their sue
cess makes on those who immigrate hither.
As soon as the intelligent foreigner arrives
on our shores, he becomes seized with the
desire, not only of a comfortable subsistence
but of fortune, and every ambition and
energy of his being is directed to this one
purpose. This explains why our business
men give so little time to physical recrea-
tion, why they pay SO little heed to the
essential details Of politics-their business
and their families exhaust their energies,
and they have time, strength and inclina-
ton for nothing else, except when an immi
nent physical or political danger stares them
in the very face and eyes. The result of all
this is, that twenty years is the limit OF
mans business activity and success. 1t
will take him ordinarily ten years to accu-
mulate his first thousand dollars surplus,
and in the remaining ten years, if he be
prudent and energetic, he may amass more
or less of fortune. But in the majority OF
cases, when he has gotten his fortune, he
has ruined his health, and finds no comfort
whatever in that which he had fondly hoped
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ness for him.
The exhaustion which follows the inordi-
nate pursuit of wealth, we are told by the
very best of authorities, proceeds from i'm
paired digestive organs. The brain has
drawn upon them for all they are worth so
long that they suddenly give way and the
whole system falls into miserable collapse.
The organs so susceptible to nervous excite
ment are the kidneys and liver. The offices
of these organs are to discharge polsons
which are collected from all parts of the
body by the veins, the kidneys eliminating
them in a liquid form, and the liver trans
forming part of them by chemical process
into digestive fluids, and utilizing the re-
mainder as purgative. Both these organs
demand large snare of nervous force. If
this force is all exhausted by the brain, they
become feeble, colds settle IN them, conges-
tion follows, the poison cannot get out of the
blood, digestion is impaired, the bowels be-
come inactive because the liver fails to furn-
ish the natural cathartic, the bladder be-
comes fearfully infamed dropsy comes on;
strange disorders visit the head, heart, lungs
and ere the person is aware OF 1t, he is a
victim of cronlc kidney and liver disease,
and candidate for death by brights disease
of the kidneys.
And this is the end of all commercial life
that is pursued at the sacrifice of every 9TH
er social, political and physical considera-
ton ssOh," exclaimes the man of active
life, who does not feell as well as he used to,
ST haven't any Bright's disease! I'm only
used up from so much work, worry and ex-
citement!' p Precisely! You do not feel as
well as formerly. Your head aches oftner
and your eyesight suddenly proves faulty.
The verdict of a celebrated authority on the
subject is: "These symptoms are a sure
precursor of Bright's disease. You have
had recent and mysterious attack of as
thma,-'sA sure precursor of Bright's dis
ease. . You have had cold on your lungs
which you have been unable to dislodge-
you have spit up bloody mucus,- ,-"A A sure
precursor Of Brights disease" You have
felt a new and singular sensation of heavi-
ness in the region of the heart-'sA suee
precursor of Bright's disease You have
felt great depression of spirits without any
known cause-"A sure precursor of Bright's s
disease" You have found it suddenly i'm
possible to eat whatever and whenever you
wish. Your stomach has been very lame,
your appetite very feeble, your bowels ir-
regular-tsA sure precursor of Bright's dis
ease.'' A mysterious WEAKNESS comes upon
you your muscular system seems utterly
helpless-"A sure precursor of Bright's dis
ease Suppose you shave no pains in the
region of the kidneys or liver this is no in
dication that you have not Bright disease.
Suppose you shave no albumen or casts, "
that is no Indication that your kidneys are
all right-that you have not Bright's dis
ease.
This, of course, puts an entirely new
phase on one of the most vital questions of
the day. We have made q special inquiry
and we find high medical authority for all
of these additional conclusions:
FIRsT-That more-adults are carried off
in this country by cronic kidney disease
than by any other one malady except con-
sumption. Thompson.
SECoND-That deaths from such disease
are increasing at the rate of 250 per cent. a
decade. L [Edwards].
THIRD-That they have no symptoms of
their own and may long exist without the
knowledge of patient or practitioner, as no
pain will be felt in them or their vicinity
Roberts
FouRTH-That in the fatal cases-and
most cases hitherto have been fatal-the
symptoms of diseased kidneys will first ap-
pear in extremely different organs of the
body as stated above.-[Thompson.]
FIFTH-That only when the disease has
reached it's final stages, will the usual symp-
tons OF albumen and casts appear in the
water, and will great pain rack the diseased
organs. Thompson
SIxTH-That Br1ght's disease, which usu-
ally has three stages of developments a
universal disease in this country Roberts
and Edwards.
SEvENTH-That there is but one remedial
agent in the world which has ever cured a
pronounced case of Bright's disease and has
thus inspired the confidence of the physici-
u