The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-01-21
THP BRIDGE OF DEATH.
An Alpine Guide's Sad Fate-DnnRers TO
he Avoided.

DC ANOtNeUs
One day in August, in the summer of
1864, two Austrian noblemen were crossing
the Grand Plateau in their descent of one of
che Hottest mountains of Switzerland They
had crossed the Grand Crev1sse in the morn
ing by a snow bridge which, though appa-
Inntly insecure, carried them safely over.
They reached it again on their return late in
the afternoon. The leading guide had adj
ranced to tbs middle of the bridge, when, to
the CONSERVATION OF his fellow travellers, he
Suddenly disappeared from their sight, The
bridge bad fallen beneath his weight; he had
proceeded with too little cautionAhnd had
disappeared forever in the abyss below. They
tied together ropes and let them down into
the crevasse, but no hand seized them, no
voice arose from the darkness
How few of us realize the importance of
trifles, or that incidents which in themselves
seem wholly Insignificant lead oftentimes to
most raomentous results. A single grain of
sand holds in a vise-lilSe grip the delicate me-
chaniSln of your most reliable time-piece.
The business man, tied down to his absorb
ing cares, goes home at night with a throb
bling brow and lame back. This continues
day or two and he remarks to his wife that
he is so overworked he thinks he had better
take something to brace him up a little. He
tries tonic and for few days feels better
lie fiattefs himself he is well. Poor man, how
little he realizes that the trihing indisposition
was a voice warning him that the tired and
0verworked kidneys, the most important
primary organs of the system, had ceased to
perform their proper functions. They no
longer eliminate properly the waste matter
Of the system and uric acid accumulates
That means disease. The body cannot be
healthy unless it be free from this poison. IL
the blood channels become vitiated with it,
rs they must be unless it is carried out of the
system, the man is liable to disappear from
the walks of life almost as suddenly as the
guide who went down with the insecure but
unsu spected bridge. So many of the ordn-
airy diseases, so called, are the direct results
Of the action OF this poison that it is diff
cult to tell how one will be carried away.
This was precisely the experience of Her
man urban of the celebrated firm OF safe
manufacturers, McNeale ~ Urban, of Gin
cinnati, O. He has always been very active
business mar, and overcome many commercial
difficulties, but about five years ago he be-
began to run down with sort of general de-
bility, headache, want of spirit and nervous
ness ''There seemed to be no life in my
nlood, no vigor in my muscles, no marrow in
my bones he says. He tried physicians in
vain. -Four years after this sad experience he
reports that he used Warmers safe cure at
that time and his Frustrated condition was
completely cured and had remained so to
date. II am" he remarks, more than
anxious that other business mon, worn down
and likely to be overcome by kidney disease
whose manifestations so mysterious that
they cannot positively identify the disease
should try the magnificent remedy that did SO
much good to me-"