The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-27
PRFSFNTTNFNTS.
AN Investigation of the Causes OF Those
Dark Forebodings which Make
Powerful Men Weak.
Golden R,ae.


nineteen years OF the great comet OF last sum
mer Will cause the destruction Of the earth.
But while people are becoming so strangely
exercised over this announcement, an event Of
far more serious Importance, which is taking
place to-day, seems to be almost wholly over
looked. The nature of this most vital subject
can be best explained by relating the following
experiences:
bishop (. o. Haven, known TO the entire
land, was unaccOuIitablY awakened one night
out Of a sound sleep, and lay awake until
morning. His mind seemed unusually active,
and he not only reviewed his past life, which
had been an eyentful one, but laid extensive
plans for the future. He did not feel especial
ly Ill, but could not account for the unusual
activity OF his brain, nor for the restlessness
which seemed to possess him. In the morn
ing be had but little appetite, but was appa-
rently well in other respects. In few days,
however, he be-an to feel restless and morbid,
although he tried earnestly to overcome the
feeling which had taken possession Of him.
But try as he would the shadow Of some evil
seemed to follow him, and he was conscious
of a gradual sinking and wasting away of all
his physical faculties. He had been an earnest
and diligent worker, and in his zeal frequent
~ oYer-tdXed his strength, and being absorbed
in his duties failed to observe the common
symptoms with which he afflicted, thus
permitting the work of destruction to go on
unheeded. But the end finally came in most
peremptory manner Shortly before his death
he wrote a letter-the last one he ever indited
in which he speaks as follows belief
that death is affects different minds diff
ferently, but probably all who are in fair con-
dition of physical and mental strength instinct
lively shrink from it with an indeiinable dread
and horTof A dying man is no more able OF
himself to foresee his own destiny or the des-
tiny Of those he leaves than he was before he
began to die''
The recent sad and sudden death of Hon.
Clarl1son N. Potter is one of the most serious
warnings ever given ia the long list Of innu-
merable cases OF fatal neglect. 1t is not sur
ficient to say that many other brilliant men,
inclu6iDor Evprntt Chase Wood WIZ
son and Carpenter, were swept away by the
same fatal trouble. The questions, were these
men sufficiently careful OF their health, and
could they have been saved! The Albany Ar-
g1es, in speaking of Mr. Potter's sudden illness
and death, says:
One of the physicians who attended Mr.
Potter here was interviewed last evening. He
stated that Mr.. Potters inability to converse
had for some time served to battle the ply
| sicians in their efforts TO determine the root
| of his Illness. It seems, however, that Mr..
! Potter, some two years ago, suffered slight
| attack of kidney disease. Unwise depend
/ ence upon a robust constitution and naturally
| perfect health, and neglect of proper cloth
/ ing, doubtless sOwed the seeds of disease
/ that needed but some such personal neglect
/ as that of Tuesday morning to develop. From
| the symptoms at first shown, it was thought
/ that his only trouble was nervous prostration;
/ but his long continuance in semi-uncon-
scious state led to the belief that his illness.
was seated in a chronic difficulty more mystic
/ riOus and dangerous"
Up to the latter part Of last year Mr. Ed
4 ward F. Rock, a member OF the New York
! stock exchange, was doing business in Wall
| street, New York. He had everything to en-
! courage him, and make life happy, but was
| the victim Of unaccOuntable uneasiness. His
! experience as described by one who knew,
! was as follows: At unexpected times, and
| on occasions when he had the greatest reason
! to feel joyous he was irritable and haunted
| with strange feelings of discomfort. lie en-
deavored to check these feelings and appear
pleasant, but it required great effort to do
| SO; after which he would again relapse into
his former morbid mood. This feeling con-
! tinued for number of months, when he
| became conscious of an added sense OF
| lassitude. He was tired even when
| resting, and although experiencing no
acute pain, had dull, aching sensa-
| tions in his limbs and various parts Of his
| body. Shortly afterward his head began to
| ache most frequently and his stomach failed
| to digest properly. Being told that he was
| suffering from malaria he consulted emf
nent physician, who informed him that his
kidneys were slightly effected, and gave him
medicine to restore them. But he grew
| worse instead of better. He then consulted
other eminent doctors Of another school and
was informed that he had a brain difficulty
somewhat III the nature of n tumor, but in
! spite of all efforts to the contrary he ccntin-
| ued to grow worse At this time his condl-
! tion was terrible. What were at first simple
symptoms had developed to terrible troubles
He was flushed and feyerish, constantly un-
easy, and yet always weary. He had an in
| tense appetite one day and very little the
| next. His pulse was Irregular, his breathing
labOred and every moment OF existence was
a burden. These disastrous symptoms con
tinued, his face and body became dseOlOred,
his heart was irregular in its action, and his
breath came in short, conyulstve gasps. lie
grew constantly worse, notWiths standing the
| utmost precautions of his friends and finally
died in the greatest agony. After his death
an examination to its actual cause was
made, when his brain was found to be in a
perfect condition, and the reason of his de
cease was Of an entirely different nature. y
The experiences which have been cited above
all had a common cause and were each the re
suit Of disease. That disease, which sc
| deceitfully, vet surely removed the people
| above mentioned was Bright's disease Of the
| kidneys. In the case Of Mr.. Rock the exam
ination after death, while showing the brain
to be in perfect condition, revealed the terri
bic fact that he the victim of a slight kid
ney trouble, which had gone on unchecked,
until it resulted in acute Bright's disease.
The leading physicians and scientists of the
world fast learning that more than one
half the deaths which occur are caused by this
monstrous seourge. 1t is one Of the most de-
ceitful maladies ever known to the human
race 1t manifest5 itself by symptoms SC
| slight and common, as to seem unworthy OF
attentions and set these very insignificant
symptoms are the first stages of the worst
complaint known in the history Of the world.
Thousands of people have died from troubles
that are called heart disease, apoplexy, pneu
| mOnia, brain fever, and similar diseases. when
it was in fact Bright's disease ofthe kidneys
The ravages of this disease have been greatly
increased from the fact that until recent year.
| no way was known to prevent It's beginning
| nor check its increase when it had become
| once fixed upon the system. Within the past
| two years, however, we have learned OF more
| than four hundred pronounced cases Of Bright's
| disease, many Of them much worse than those
above described, and most Of whom had been
| given up by prominent physicians, who have
been completely cured. The means used To
| accomplish this end has been Warmers Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure, manufactured IN
| Rochester, N. T., q remedy that has won its
| way into the confidence of the public solely
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| a result, it is more widely used and thorough
" praised than any medicine which has evei
been before the American public Indeed
| there is not a drug store in the entire land
where it cannot be found.
| Although Bright's disease is so common in
cities, it is still more prevalent in the cOun
try. When eminent physicians in the largest
cities are not able to recognize Bright's dis
| ease, It is only natural that in the country,
where there are few physicians Of any kind
and those few SO unacquainted with the dis
ease as to call it by some other name, II
should rage terribly and yet unknown to the
ones who are suffering with it. Thousands d
people can look back and recall the death o
friends from what was supposed to be somt
common complaint, when 1t was really Brighti
disease, AND NO ONE KNEW IT. The terrible
pleuro-pn pneumonia, which has been SO dread
ed, is usually the resuld OF urenic or kidney
poison. Lung fever can be traced TO a SINH
lar source. Most cases Of paralysis arise
J from the same difficulty, as well inuumer
able fevers, lung, throat, head and bowe
troubles. A vastnumber Of ladies have sui
: fered and died from complaints common x
their sex called, perhaps, general debility
when, could the real cause have been known
it would have been found to be Bright's dis
ease, masqueradiDg under another name. il
marked contrast to the sad eases which have
been above described are the experiences O
many prominent people who were as low AZ
any of the persons mentioned, but who weri
remarkably restored to former health and Wig
or oy this same remedy. Among this numbe
are the following prominent names: Col join
C. Whitner, Atlanta Ga. B. +. Larrabee
Boston, Mass. Gen. G. A. Hickman, Phil
lipsburg, n. j.; Rev. d. ID. Buck, j.. D.
Geneva, n Y; DIR. T. A. McManus, Balti
more Nd. Edwin Fay, Davenport, Iowa
Rev. A G. Kendriek, IL. D., Rochester, N
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