Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-17
WHAT KILLS AMERICANS,
Fast Living-Reckless EatiuG-Hard Drink. 1RG-POOr SIeepinE-Social Jeal0usy-Po- litica1 Administrations Passions
 The Raco for Money.

litical Administrations Passions
 The Race for Money.
 The alarming disease of this country is nervous debility and prostration. It goes under many names but it is essentially the same complaint. Hospitals and private institutions for nervous patients are crowded. The aver age of life in the United States is decreasing every year. Sud- den deaths from nervous collapse among our business, professional and public men are so frequent as scarcely to excite remark. The majority of suicides, committed without apparent reason, or under so-called depression of spirits" " are really prompted by nervous prostration. which is also a fruit ful source of insanity and crime with all their grief and horror.
 These facts are startling. They threaten the very life of the na- tion. They assail the springs of its power and prosperity. They wreck manhood's strength and woman's usefulness and beauty.
 Every one should know the causes. What are they? The answer is easy and terribly plain: Our vicious personal habits; our careless and lawless eating and drinking; the intense mental and physical strain arising from our mad race after money, position and influence; the fears and struggles of poverty; the use of narcotics and stimulants; our fashion of turning day into night and night into day; and, briefly, our desperate willingness to pay any price for an hours pleasure or success. So we burn life's candle at both ends and fill the lunatic asylums and the grave yards.
 The disease from which we suffer and die is, in plain Eng fish, Nervous Dyspepsia, as it is seated in the Nerves and in the organs of Digestion, Assimilation and Nutrition. Healthy digest ion being impeded or destroyed the whole body, nerves included, is literally storved ;-even when there Is no emaciation to tell the sad story.
 Nervous prostration sends out its warnings: :-headache in the morning; persistent dull heavi- nesf or aching at the base of the brain; wakefulness; loss of ap- petite and disgust with food; loss l of mental energy and interest in ordinary duties and business; restlessness and anxiety without | any assignable reason; eructa- 1 tions; bad breath; foul mucous on the teeth; occasional giddi- | ness; palpitation of the heart; sallowness of the skin; coated tongue and gradual failure of strength and ambition.
 The remedy is total abandon ment of the habits and customs ! which cause the disease in each 1 individual case, and the use of l Shaker Ertroct of Roots to cure ! the mischief already done. This ! great remedy, prepared by the l Shaker Community of Mt. Leb- anon, N. Y., is especially adapt ed to eradicate Nervous Dyspep- sia. To do this 1t acts directly | and gently but powerfully upon l the disordered stomach, liver and | restoring their tone and 1 vigor, promoting the secretion of ! bile, expelling waste matters l from the system, and purifying 1 the blood.
 Upon the nervous system ] Shaker EGtroct acts as a safe ] and wholesome anodyne without ! the slightest narcotic effect, and ! then leaves the nerves to regain | their natural tone and strength ! through its wonderful influence upon the function of nutrition.
 Mt IS safe to say more nervous dyspeptics have been re- tored by it from the depths of misery to a fresh enjoyment of lie and labor than by any or all 'ther forms of treatment con- lined.