The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-08
WARNING IN ADVANCE.
Certain Concealed Danger Brought
to Light i'm the Experience OF
Of a Well-knoWH Man.


II the men, women and chill
dren OF America cJuld see the
danger that is lurking around them
each day and on every side, the most
courageous would lose heart, appe-
tite and sleep. Air, even in the
most open localities, is loaded with
poison. Water Is liable to contain
animal matter that will develop and
grow after being taken into the sys-
tenn. Food is almost certain to be
adulterated, while accidents are al
ways imminent. It is perhaps a
merciful provision that few of these
things are seen and fewer realized,
but their danger is all the greater
for this very reason. Most people
who read these lines are almost Ger
tainly on the threshold of what
may be a serious, possibly a fatal
danger. The forces that go to make
life may be snapped instantly or by
gradual degrees. The greatest dan
gers are often the most silent and
least observed, and no one can afford
to neglect even their slightest sp-
pearance.
These truths were strikingly il
Illustrated in the experience OF gen.
tleman well known to most Of the
| American public, Mr.. W. J. Fergu-
son, who in the play, ga Friendly
Tip" under the management Of Mr..
w. w. Kelly, has been making such
a pronounced success, is perhaps
the best light comedian on
the stage. He is a gentle
man Of slight build and possessing
q grace of manner and modulation
of voice specially attractive because
of its rarity. He has worked hard
and conscientiously in the past and
his SUCCESS is the result of merit and
labor. But for number Of years,
and indeed up to comparatively
short time, Mr.. Ferguson was most
mysteriously afflicted, 60 much SO,
that he refused numerous tempting
offers to travel through the country
as far as California and played only
in New York city and vicinity.
Speaking to representative of this
paper upon the subject, he said:
"I was conscious that something
was silently but surely working
against my life At times would
feel shooting pains in my extremi-
ties, and then again my mus eles and
joints would fairly throb with
agony. l was feverish, uneasy and
lost my ambition and interest in
lie. These troubles grew until
what were at first minor pains and
pnnoyances became actual burdens
Of agony. It seemed as though l
could feel the disease growing and
creeping to every portion of my
body. Ii had been careful in the
beginning, might, perhaps, have
overcome what afterwards became
so serious, but like everybody else,
afflicted as l was, l neglected the
first indications. At last became
80 bad that l could not leave the
house and was confined to my bed
good portion of the time and Of
course under the immediate care of
physicians. They evidently did all
they could for me and in fact did
everything except relieve me-"
"That, certainly, is no uncommon
thing," sald the reporter, shut it is
evident you have been relieved, and
have some curiosity to know how"
swell, during the time of my
sickness 1 received very many calls
from friends, and, among others,
from one who was fully able to
sympathiZe with me as he had been
through similar experience to the
one | was then enduring. He de-
scribed his case infinitely, and not
only insisted on my trying the same
remedy that cured him, but actually
went ont and purchased some of it
and administered it with his own
hands. l did not notice any special
effect for several days, bat 1 soon
saw that it WAS benefiting me, and
within a fortnight l was able to
leave the house. felt that exercise
would be good thing for me, aud
so took a walk eEch day aud found
my strength increasing constantly,
so much so that l walked entirely
across the Brooklyn bridge on the
first day it was opened, being rea ly
the first foot p passenger that crossed
that structure, all OF which | was
enabled to do by the means of
Warmers Safe Rheumatic Cure,
which restored me to perfect health
and keeps me in excellent and pro.
per condition to-day"
"And was the friendly tip your
friend gave you when you were sick
in the form Of Warmers Safe Rheu-
matte Cure what inspired the name
of the play you are now starring
imp"
"No, csn hardly say it was, al
though l really know of ne more
friendly tip that [ could give the
public than to cordially advise them
in their suffering to use the same
remedy that lifted me from the
depths Of rheumatic agony"
1t has been estimated from care.
full statistics thai there are no less
than four millions OF people in
America who are suffering at this
season of the year from some form
of rheumatic difficulty. Why they
will do so when If can LARGELY he