Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-05-13
NO 40.

universal, where used. was thi
true, that l determined the entir
world should share in il
results, and l therefore placed tn
formula for its preparation in tn
hands of Mr.. H. HI. Warner, of Re
chester, n ", gentleman whom
had cured of a severe kidney disease
and who, by reason of his persona
worth, high standing and liberality il
endowning the Astronomical Observa
tory add other public enterprises. ha.
become known and popular to the en-
tire country. This gentleman at one,
began the manufacture of the remed,
on most extensive scale, and to-da,
Warmers Kidney and Liver Cure, the
pure remedy that saved my life, i
known and used i'll all parts of til,
continent.
Il am aware Il prejudice exists to
ward proprietary medicines, and tha
such prejudice is too often vel
founded, but the value of plr,
remedy is no less because i
is Il proprietary medicine. A justi
fable prejudice exists toward ouacI
doctors, but is it right that this preiu
dice extend towards all the doctors who
are earnestly and intelligently trying
to do their duty? Because Warmers
Safe Kidney and diver Cure saved my
life before it became proprietary
medicine, is it reasonable to suppose
that it will not cure others and keen
still more from sickness now that it i
sold with a government stamp on the
wrapper? Such a theory would be
childish"
The doctor then paid some high
compliments to American science, and
closed his lecture as follows:
Glow to restore health when broken
and how to keep the body perfect and
free from disease must ever be mans
highest study. That one of the great
est revelations of the present day has
been made in ascertaining the true seat
of health to be in the kidneys and liver,
all scientists now admit, and | can but
feel that the discovery which | have
described to you. is destined to prove
the greatest, best and most reliable
friend to those who suffer and long for
happiness, as well as to those who de-
sire to keep tn ejoys they now possess. "
A Day on Guan0 Island.
My idea of a grano island had always
been that it was very rocky and cover
ed with white substance resembling
mortar before the sand is mixed with
it. | imagined, too, that it exhaled an
odor differing somewhat from the or
ange groves of Tahiti. Had | not been
told that l was on guano island
would not now have known it from the
surroundings. Instead of being rocky
the soil was mellow and dark, and ev-
erywhere vegetation was most luxuri-
ant. The air was remarkably clear
and pure. During walk around the
island | then learned that there
are two kinds of guano; or, rather,
that of certain qualities which all guano
possesses. Some Of these qualities pre-
dominate in that found in given 10
cality, while guano taken from islands
differently located posses in much
stronger degree some other essentials.
Thus the guano Of the islands off the
coasts of South America, exposed to
the rays of a tropical sun, where the
surface of the land is never cooled, and
where rain seldom or never falls, pos.
sesses the strongest ammoniacal pro-
perties. Not only the excretions OF
birds are deposited there, but the birds
themselves come there to die; and eggs
have frequently been taken out little
below the crusts which form over these
deposits that are almost pure ammonia.
The guano ofthese islands has strong,
pungent odor and is white and light
brown in color. But the guano of the
islands of the Southern Pacific is made
up of decomposed coral, forming most
ly phosphates of lime and magnesia
1t is entirely inodorous and of dark
brown color, resembling well-pulverized
loam. 1t is believed that the birds,
which in large numbers inhabit these
islands, living, as they do, almost en-
tirely on fish, deposit phosphoric acid
on the coral and also leave the bones
of the fish, which they cannot eat
These decompose the coral, anc thus
form the phosphates which give to the
guano It's value. The guano is separ-
ated from the coral in the following
manner: There is quite force of ma
tives employed, who gather the earth
in large heaps and then screen it in
the same manner as fine coal is separ-
ated from the coarse. The screens are
about eight by three feet, and the iron
gauze covering them is fine, allowing
only the guano or fine portions of the
earth to pass through, leaving the coral
In the screens. The guano Is then
sacked and shipped to Hamburg,
whence it is reshipped to different parts
of Europe.-Calto,mian.