Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-07
LESSONS FROM LIFE.
A Great National Calarity-Wha. Ii
Teaches.

n Src2t NatlOnaI (alapQlty-W naI IL
Teaches.
The last few years have played sad
havoc with many prominent men of our
country.
Many of them died without warning,
passing away apparently in the full
flush of life.
Others were sick but a comparatively
| short time. We turn to our files and
| are astonished to find that most Of them
died of apoplexy, of paralysis, of nerv-
ous prostration, of malignant blood
humor, of Bright's disease, of heart dis
ease, of kidney disease, of rheumatism
or of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most of our prom
inent men die of these disorders. Any
journalist who watches the telegraph
reports, will be astonished at the num-
Der of prominent victims of these dis
orders.
Many statements have appeared in
our paper with others to the effect that
the diseases that carried off so many
prominent men in 1887, are really one
disease, taking different names accord
ing to the location of the fatal effects.
When a valuable horse perishes, it
becomes the nine days talk Of the
sporting world, and yet thousands of
ordinary horses are dying every day,
their aggregate loss is enormous, and
yet their death creates no comment.
So it is with individuals. The cause
OF death of prominent men creates
comment, especially when it can be
shown that one unsupported disease
carries of most of them, and yet .svast
numbers of ordinary men and women
die before their time every year from
the same cause"
1t is said that if the blood is kept
free from uric acid, that heart disease,
paralysis, nervous pro~stration, pneu-
monia, rheumatism, and many cases OF
consumption would never be known.
The uric acid, we are told, is the waste
OF the system, and it is the duty of the
kidneys TO remove this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric
kidney acid is kept out of tho blood,
and these sudden and universal dis
eases caused by uric acid will, in q
large measure, disappear.
But how shall this be done? 1t is
folly to treat effects. IL there is any
known way of getting at the cause that
way should be known to the public.
We believe that Warmers safe cure of
which SO much has been written ard
so much talked of by the public gener-
ally, is now recognized by impartial
physicians and the public as the one
specific for such diseases.
Because public attentic has been d.
rected to this great remedy by means
of advertising, some persons have not
believed in this remedy. We cannot
see how Mr.. Warner could Immediate
ly benefit the public in any other way,
and his valuable specific should not be
condemned because some nostrums
have come before the public in the
same way. any more than that all doc
tors should be condemned because SO
many OF them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions
you hear on every side, of that great
remedy and public opinion is thus based
upon an actual experience, has all the
weight and Importance of absolute
truth.
At this time of the year, the uric acid
in the blood invites pneumonia and
rheumatism and there is not a man
who does not dread these monsters of
disease, but he need have no fear of
them we are told. il the blood be rid of
the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and may
sound like an advertisement and may be
rejected as such by unthinking people.
but we believe they are the truth, and
as such should be spoken of by every
truth-loving newspaper.