Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-08
PRESENTIMENTS.
Dark Forebodings Which Make Power
fnl Men Weak

| Golden Rule.]
Much apprehension has been occasione
throughout America from the announcement
made by Prof. Proctor that the return in Mint
teen years of the great comet of last summe
will cause the destruction of the earth. Blu
while people are becoming SO strangely ex
Cercised over this announcement t, an event @
| far more serious Importance, which is takin
place to day, seems to be almost wholly over
! looked. The nature of this most vital subjec
can be best explained by relating the fol
lowing experience:
| Bishop Z. o. Haven, known to the entir
land, was unaccountably awakened one nigh
out asound sleep, and lay awake unit
| morning. His mind seemed unusually active
and he not only reviewed his past life, which
| had been an eventful one, but laid exten sivt
plans for the future. He did not feel especially
| i'll, but could not account for the unusua
activity of his brain, nor for the restlessnesl
which seemed to possess him. In the morn
ing he had but little appetite, but wal
apparently well in other respects. In few
days, however, he began to feel restless ant
morbid, although he tried earnestly to over.
come the feeling which had taken possession
OF him. But try as he would 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 dlligent worker, and in his zeal frequently
over-taxed his strength, and being absorbed in
his duties failed TO observe the common
symptoms with which he was afflicted, thus
permitting the work of destruction to 90 on
unheeded. Bnt the end finally came in most
peremptory manner. Shortly before his death
be wrote letter-the last one he ever indited
In which he speaks as follows: ga belief
hat &c dc
emily, but probably all who are in fair con-
dition of physical and mental strength In
stinctively shrink from it with an indefnable
dread and horror. A dying man is no mora
able of himself to fOresee his own destiny or
the destiny of those he leaves than he was
before he began to die"
The recent sad and sudden death of Hon.
Clarkson n. Potter is one of the most serious
warnings ever given in the long list of in
numberable cases of fatal neglect. It'll not
sufficient to say that many other brilliant
Wood, Wilson and Carpenter, were swept
away by the same fatal trouble. The question
IS, were these men sufficiently careful of their
health, and could they have been saved? The
Albany Argus, in speaking of Mr.. Potter S
sudden illness and death, says:
Zone of the physicians who attended Mr..
Potter here was interviewed last evening. He
stated that Mr.. Potter's inability to converse
had for some time served to battle the ply
sicians in their efforts to determine the root of
his illness. 1t seems, however, that Mr.. Pot
ter, some two years ago, suffered slight at
tack of kidney disease. Unwise dependence
upon robust constitution and naturally per-
feet health, and neglect of proper clothing,
doub tless 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 prostitution;
but his long continuance in semi-uncon-
scious state led to the belief that his illness
was seated in a chronic difficulty more mys.
terious and dangerous"
Up to the latter part of last year Mr.. Edward
F. Rock, a member of the New York stock
exchange, was doing business in Wall street,
New York. He had everything to encourage
him, and make life happy, but he was the vic
tim Of an unaccountable uneasiness. His ex-
perience, as described by one who knew, was
as follows: cat unexpected times, and on
times when he had the greatest occasion to
feel joyous, he was irritable and haunted with
strange feelings of discomfort. He endeav-
ored 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 be-
came conscious of an added sensation of lassi.
tude. He was tired even when resting, and
although experiencing no acute pain, had
dull, aching sensations in his limbs and vari-
GUS 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 con-
suited an eminent physician, who informed
him that his kidneys were slightly effected,
and him Ynedfaina IN
them. But he grew worse in
stead of better. He then con-
suited other seminent doctors of another
school and was informed that he had brain
difficulty somewhat in the nature of tumor,
but in spite of all efforts to the contrary he
continued to grow worse. At this time his
condition was terrible. What were at first
simple symptoms had developed to terrible
troubles. He was flushed and feverish, con-
stantly uneasy, and yet always weary. He had
an intense 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 continued,
his face and body became discolored, his heart
was irregular in it's action, and his breath
came in short, convulsive gasps. He grew
constantly worse, notwithstanding the ut
most precautions of his friends and finally
died in the greatest agony. After his death an
examination as TO us actual cause was maze,
when his brain was found to be in perfect
condition, and the reason of his decease was of
an entirely different nature
The experiences which have been cited above
all had common cause and were each the re-
suit OF one disease. That disease, which so
deceitfully, yet surely removed the people
above mentioned was Bright's disease of the
kidneys. In the case of Mr.. Rock the exami
nation after death, while showing the brain to
be in perfect condition, revealed the terrible
fact that he was the victim of slight kidney
trouble, which had gone on unchecked, until
it resulted in acute Bright's disease. The lead
ing physicians and scientists of the world are
fast learning that more than one-half the
deaths which occur are caused by this mons
trous scou"ge. 1t is one of the most deceitful
maladies ever known to the humrn race. It
manifests itself by symptoms so slight and
common, as to seem unworthy of attention.;
and yet these very Insignificant symptoms are
the first stages of the worst complaint
known in the history of the world. Thous-
ands of people have died from troubles that
are called heart disease, apoplexy, pneumonia,
brain fever, and similar diseases, when it was,
In fact Bright's disease of the kidneys. The
ravsges OF this disease have been greatly in
creased from the fact that until recent ye ars
no way was known TO prevent its 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