Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-27
WARNING IN ADVANCE
Certain Concealed Danger Brought to
Light in the Experience of a Well
Known Man.


Known Man.
Chicago 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 ami
NAL matter that will develop and grow
/ after being taken into the system. Food
Is almost certain to be adulterated, while
| accidents are always imminent. 1t is
/ perhaps mercitul provision that few of
OF these things are seen and fewer real
! lzed, but their danger is all the great r
/ Tor this very reason. Most people who
/ read these lines are almost certainly on
/ the threshold OF what may be q serious.
I possibly fatal danger. The forces that
/ 60 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 appearance.
These truths were strikingly illustrated
in the experience of a gentleman well
known to most of the American public.
Mr.. w. j. FurguSOn, who in the play.
"a 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 gentleman of slight build possess
ing grace OF manner and meditation of
voice specially attractive because of its
rarity. He has worked hard and cOnsci-
entlously in the past and his success is the
result of merit and labor. But for a
number of years, and indeed up to a COM
paratiyely short time, Mr.. Ferguson was
most mysteriOusly afflicted. so much so.
10 rpf nod
to travel through the country as far as
California, and played only in New York
city and vicinity. Speaking to a repre-
sentative of this paper upon the subject, he
said:
Il was conscious that something was
silently but surely working against nv
life. At times | would feel shOOti NO
pains in my extremllies, and then again
my muscles and joints would fairly throb
with agony. | was feverish, uneasy, and
lost my ambition and interest in life.
These troubles grew until what were at
hrst minor pains and annovances became
actual burdens of agony. 1t seemed as
though l could feel the disease growing
ana 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 | was. | neg
lected the first indications. At last | be-
came so bad that l could not leave the
house and was confined to my bed a good |
portion of the time, and of course under |
the immediate care of physicians. They |
evidently did all they could for me, and |
III fact did everything except relieve me-" |
THAT, certainly, is no uncommon /
thing" said the reporter, ''but it is eyI- /
dent you have been relieved, and l have |
some curiosity to know how"
well, during the time of my sickness |
received very many calls from friends.
and, among others, from one who was I
fully able to sympathize with me as he
mad been through Il similar experience to
the one was then enduring. He de-
scrlbed his case infinitely, and not only
insisted upon my trying the same remedy
that cured him, but actually went out and
purchased some of it and administered it
with MS own hands. | did not notice any
special effect tor several days, but soon
saw that IT was benefiting me, and with
IN a fortnight l was able to leave the |
house. felt that exercise would be a
good thing for me, and so took a walk
each day, and found my strength increas- |
ing constantly, so much so that / walked !
entirely across the Brooklyn bridge on
the first day it was opened, being really |
the first foot passenger that crossed that
structure, all of which l was enabled to
40 by means of Warmers Safe Rheumatic
Cure, which restored me 10 perfect health
and keeps me in excellent and proper con-
ditiOn to-day"
"And was the friendly tip your friend
gave you when you were sick in the form
of Warmers Safe Rheumatic Cure what
inspired the name of the play you are now
starring in?'
mo, can hardly say it was, although
l really know of no more friendly tip
that l could give the public than to eordi-
ally advise them in their suffering to use
the same remedy that lifted me from the
depths of rheumatic agony"
1t has been estimated from careful sta
tistics that there are no less than four
millions of people in America who are
at this season of the year from
some form of rheumatic difficulty. WHY
hey Will do so when it can largely be
avoided, seems a verv great mystery.