Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-24
POISON IN THE ASHES.
What the Mt. Lebanon Shakers FOund-Incident in the History
 of a Quiet Community.

The Mount Lebanon New York Shakers are a quiet con- munity, secluded from the fret and worry of the outside world. They are widely known, however, for their strict honor and probity in business.
 The Shakers believe that na- ture has a remedy for every dis ease. A few have been found the rest are as yet unknown. Many were discovered by acci- dent. Others came to light as the result of patient experiment and research.
 Nervous Dyspepsia is con- paratively neao disease, growing out of the conditions of modern life. It is a joint affection of the digestive organs and of the nerv- ous system. These two were formerly treated as separate ail- ments, and it was left for the clear-sighted Shakers to prove that the basis of this terrible and often fatal complication lies chief ly in the disordered and depraved functions of digestion and nu- triton. They reasoned thus:- "If we can induce the stomach to do its work, and stimulate the excretive organs to drive out of the body the poisonous waste matters which remain after the life-giving elements of the food have been absorbed, we shall have conquered Nervous Dys- pepsia and Nervous Exhaustion. And they were right. Knowing the infallible power of Shaker Extract in less complicated though similar diseases, they re- solved to test it fully in this. To leave no ground for doubt they prescribed the remedy in hundreds of cases which had been pronounced incurable-with per feet success in every instance where their directions as to living and diet were scrupulously fol lowed. Nervous Dyspepsia and Exhaustion is a peculiarly Ameri- can disease. To a greater or less extent half the people of this country suffer from it-both sexes and all ages. In no country in the world are there so many in- sane asylums filled to overflow ing, all resulting from this alarm ing disease. Its leading symp- toms are these: Frequent or continual headache; a dull pain at the base of the brain; bad breath; nauseous eructations :; the rising of sour and pungent fluids to the throat; sense of oppression and faintness at the pit of the stomach; fatulence; wakefulness and loss of sleep; disgust with food even when weak from the need of it; sticky or slimy matter on the teeth or in the mouth, especially on ris- ing in the morning; furred and coated tongue; dull eyes; cold hands and feet; constipation :; dry or rough skin; inability to fix the mind on any labor calling for continuous attention; and op- pressive and sad forebodings and fears.
 All this terrible group Shaker Extract removes by its positive, powerful, direct yet pasnless and gentle action upon the functions of digestion and assimilation. Those elements of the food that build up and strengthen the sys- tenn are sent upon their mission, while all waste matters (the ashes of life's fre) which unremoved, poison and kill, are expelled from the body through the bowels, kidneys and skin. The weak andprostrated nerves are quieted, toned and fed by the purified blood. As the result health, with its enjoymenss, blessings and power, returns to the sufferer who had, perhaps, abandoned all hope of ever seeing another well day.