Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-01-07
LESSONS FROM LIFE.
A Great National oalamity-.What it
Teaches.

havoc with many prominent men of
our country.
Many of them died without warn
ing, passing away apparently in the
full flush of life.
Others were sick but comparative
ly short time. We turn to our files
and are astonished to find that most
of them died ofapoplexy, of paralysis,
of nervous prostratiOn, of malignant
blood humor, of bright's disease, of
heart disease, of kidney disease, of
rheumatism or of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most of our
prominent men die Of these disor-
ders. Any journalist who watches the
telegraph reports, will be astonished
at the number of prominent victims
of these disorders.
Many statements have apL cared in
our paper with others to the effect
that the diseases which carried off so
many prominent men in 1887, are
really one disease, taking different
names according to the location of
the fatal effects.
When 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 Gre
ates comment, especially when it can
be shown that one unsupported dis
ease carries off most of them, and yet
"vast numbers ordinary men die be-
fore 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 prostration, pneu-
monia, rheumatism, and many cases
of consumption, would never be
known. This 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 the
blood, and these sudden and univer.
sal diseases caused by uric acid will
in a large measure disappear.
But how shall this be done? 1t il
folly to treat effects. If there is any
known way of getting at the cause
that way should be known to thu
public. We believe that Warner
safe cure, of which so much has beer
written, and so much talked of b,
} the public generally, is now recog
nized by impartial physicians ant
the public as the one specific for sucl
diseases.
Because public attention has beer
directed to this great remedy b,
: means of advertising, some person
f have not believed in the remedy. w
cannot see how Mr.. Warner coul,
) Immediately benefit the public il
any other way, and his valuable spe
t cific should not be condemned be
| cause some nostrums have come be
fore the public in the same way, an,
} more than that all doctors should b
? condemned because so many of then
8 are incompetent.
| 1t is astonishing what good opir
: ions you hear on every side, of tina
: great remedy, and public opinio
, thus based upon an actual experienc
: has all the weight and importanc
e of absolute truth.
Y At this time of the year, the uri
r acid in the blood invites pneumoni
/, and rheumatism, and there is not
s man who does not dread these NOR
r sters of disease but he need have n
!. fear of them, we are told, if he rid th
: blood of the uric acid cause.
0 These words are strong, aud ma
: sound like an advertisement, and
rejected As such by unthinking pc,
pie, but we believethey are the trutl
and as such should bespoken by ever
truth-loving newspaper.
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asked Sunday school teacher Of h
!, class. because he never told a lie!
!. shouted a precocious little boy.
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