Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-22
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 oaeao 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 s:- '1f 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; dull pain at the base of the brain; bad breath; nauseous eructations the rising of sour and pungent fluids to the throat; a sense of oppression and faintness at the pit of the stomach; fatulence; wakefu1ness and loss of sleep: disgust with food even when weak from the need of it; sticky or slimy matter on the teeth or l in the mouth, especially on ris- ing in the morning; furred and 1 coated tongue; dull eyes; cold | hands and feet; constipation; dry or rough skin ; inability to | fix the mind on any labor calling l for continuous attention; and op- | pressive and sad forebodings and l fears.
 All this terrible group Shaker l Extract removes by it's 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 fire) which unremoved, | poison and kill, are expelled from l the body through the bowels, | kidneys and skin. The weak | and prostrated nerves are quieted, | toned and fed by the purified l blood. As the result, health, with its enjoymenss, blessings l and power, returns to the sufferer who had, perhaps, abandoned all nope of ever seeing another well lay.