Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-04
LESSONS FROM LIFE.

Great National CaIamftY-What Et
 Teaches.
 The last few years have played sad havoc with many prominent men of our country.
 Many of them died without warning, pass ing away apparently in the full flush of life.
 Others were sick but comparatively short time. We turn to our files and are aston- ished to find that most of them died of apo plexy, of paralysis, of nervous prostration, of malignant blood humor, of Bright's dis ease. of heart disease, of kidney disease, of rheumatism or of pneumonia.
 It is singular that most of our prominent men die of these disorders. Any journalist who watches the telegraph reports will bs as- tonished at the number of prominent victims of these disorders.
 Many statements have appeared in our pa- per with others to the effect that the diseases that 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 dy- ing every day, their aggregate loss is enor- nous, and yet their death creates no com meat.
 Sc it is with individuals. The cause of death of prominent men creates comment, especially when it can be shown that one unsupported disease carries off most of them, and yet "vast numbers of ordinary men and women die before their time every year from the same cause"
 It is said if the blood is kept free from uric acid that heart disease, paralysis, ner- vous prostratien, pneumonia, rheumatism and many cases of consumption would never I.a lz,,0r Tt,sa ayariA &ofI sek waste of the system, and it is the duty of the kidneys to remove this waste.
 We are told that if the kidneys are main tained in perfect health the uric, kidney acid is kept out of the blood, and these sud- den and universal diseases caused by uric acid will in large measure disappear.
 But how shall this be done? It is folly to treat effects. If there is any known way of getting at the cause that way should be known to the public. We believe that War ner's safe cure, of which SO much has been written, and so much talked of by the public physicians and the public as the one specific for such diseases.
 Because public attention has been directed to this great remedy by means of advertising some persons have not believed in the reme- dy. We cannot see how MT. Warner could immediately 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 doctors should be con demned because 50 many of them are incom- potent.
 It is astonishing what good opinions you hear on every side of that great remedy, and public opinion thus based upon an actual ex- perience has all the weight and importance of absolute truth.
 At this time of the year the uric acid in the blood invites pneumonia and rheuma- tism, and there is not man who does not dread these monsters of disease; but he need have no fear of them, we are told, if he rid the blood of the uric acid cause. These words strong and may sound like an advertisement, and be rejected as such by minimizing people, but we believe they are the truth, and as such should be spoken by every truth loving neMspaper.