The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-07
WARNING IN ADVANCE.
Certain Concealed Danger Brought
to Light in the Experience of II
Well-knOwn Nan.

IChicaso Journal
If the men, women and children of
America could see the danger that is
lurking around them each day, and on
every side, the most courageous would
lose heart. appetite 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 system. Food is almost GER
tain to be adulterated while accidents
are always imminent. 1t is perhaps
merciful provision that few of these
things are seen, and fewer realized,
but the danger is all the greater for
this very reason. host people wfo
read these lines are almost certainly
on the threshold of what may be IA
serious, possibly fatal danger. The
forces that go to make life may be
snapped instantly or by gradual de-
grees. The greatest dangers are often
the most silent and least observed
and no one can afford to neglect
even their slightest appearance.
These truths were strikingly illus
trated In the experience OF a gentle
man well known to most of the
American public. Mr.. w. j. Fergu-
son, who in the play "A Friendly
lip, 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 gentleman of slight build pos.
sesslng a grace OF manner and modu-
latlon of voice specially attractive be-
cause 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, so much so, that
he refused numerous tempting offers
to travel through the country as far
as California, ard played only in New
York city and vicinity. Speaking tC
a representative Of this paper npon
the subject, he said
Il was conscious that something was
silently but surely working against
my life. At times / would feel shoot
ing pains in my eXtremitieS, and theI
again my muscles and joints would
fairly throb with agony. was fever
: ish, uneasy and lost my ambition AM
: interest in life. These troubles grew
| NAI1l WI dU W. az IlOO pam
and annoyanceS became actual burden
of agony. 1t seemed as though l coulC
feel the disease growing and creepin,
, to every portion of my body. If 1 hat
been careful in the beginning, might
: perhaps, have overcome what after
t wards became so serious, but hk
everybody else, afflicted as | was,
3 neglected the first indications. Atla
= l became so bad that l could not leav
= the house and was confined to my be
= a good portion of the time and O
course under the immediate care Q
a physicians. They evidently did a.
: they could for me and in fact di
: everything except relieve me-"
+ THAT, certainly, is no uncommO
g thing" said the reporter, "but it is evi
j dent you have been relieved, and
have some curiosity to know how"
s well, during the time of my sick
: ness, received very many calls fror
+ friends, and, among others, from on
s who was fully able to SympathiZ
3 with me, as he had been through
e similar experience to the one l wa
then enduring. He described his cas-
Il infinitely, and not only insisted upo
, my trying the same remedy that cure
o him, but actually went out and pull
chased some OF it and administered
t with his own hands. did not motto
any special effect for several days, bt
e 1 soon saw that it was benefitting M
e and within a fortnight ] was able
e leave the house. l felt that exercis
l. would be good thing for me, and S
IT took walk each day and found N
l. strength increasing constantly, S
t much that l walked entirely acroE
It the Brooklyn bridge on the first da
It it was opened, being really the frs
r foot passenger that crossed the struC
d ture, all of which was enabled to d
: by means of Warmers Safe Rheumati
e Cure, which restored me to perfeC
e health and keeps me in excellent al
= proper condition to-day"
"And was the friendly tip you
o friend gave you when you were sic
IS in the form of Warmers Safe Rheun
: attic cure what inspired the name {
5. the play you are now starring in ?"
mo, l can hardly say it was, a
though / really know of no mol
friendly tip that l could give tt
= public than to cordially advise thel
e in their suffering to. use the san
d remedy that lifted me from the depth
o of rheumatic agony"
d 1t has been estimated from Garrett
l. statistics that there are no less tina
q four millions of people in Anne iC
b who are suffering at this season of til
It year from some form of rheumati
# difficulty. Why they will do so whe