Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
Lost in the Storm.

One OF our local editors clipped from
'ading magazine extracts from a vivid
description of western blizzard which
we have taken the liberty the publish and
at the same time suggest to III. III. War
| er d Co, the proprietors of the cele-
brated Warmers Safe Cure, the feasibili-
ty of taking therefrom an extract for
the introduction of one of their telling
advertisements. The following is the
description:
''At the close of dark day in January
solitary horseman Wends his way
across the open prairie in one of our
western territories He passes at long
intervals the lone cabin of the hardy
frontiersman. Two or three old settlers
of whom he has inquired the way, have
warned him that a storm is approach
ing; and one of them, with true western
hospitality, urges him to find shelter in
his cabin for the night. But he declines
the proffered kindness and urges his
tired horse forward "a * The sky
grows suddenly dark. *** He decides
to seek shelter. x = The storm increas-
es in its fury. *** The rider dismounts
to warm his fast chilling limbs. ~ =
Can scarcely breathe. Blindness comes
on. Drowsiness steals over him. The
end is near. :" * He is lost in the biz
gard"
There is no doubt that the terror
which seizes the bewildered traveller is
similar to that which overcomes one
when he learns that he is suffering from
an advanced Kidney Disease, and is in
formed that he is in the last stages of
Bright's disease. At first he is inform
ed that he has slight kidney affection
Later he begins to feel tired Slight
headache. PICKLE appetite. Failure
of the eye-sight. Cramp in the calf of
legs. Wakefulness. Distressing nerv-
BUSINESS. Rheumatic and neuralgia
pains. Occasionally pain in the back.
Scanty, dark colored fluids, with scald-
ing sensation. Gradual failure of
strength.
Any of the above symptoms signify
Kidney affection, but he is told that he
is all right. His physician treats him
for symptoms and calls it a disease,
when in reality it is but a symptom of
Kidney trouble. He may be treated for
Rheumatic or Neuralgia pains, heart
affection, or any other disease which he
it most susceptible to. Finally the
patient has putting under the eyes,
slight bloating of the ankles and legs
His physician may inform him that it is
but the accumulation of blood in his
ankles for want of proper exercise.
The bloat continues and reaches his
body.
Then he is informed he has dropsical
troubles, and is tapped once or twice
He notices it is difficult to breathe
owing to irregular action of the heart,
and finally is informed that he has a
slight attack of Bright's Disease. Soon
his friends are notified that his is an
advanced case Of Brights Disease, and
that he can live but short time. His
honorable and dignifed physician asks
for counsel. It is too late. Still he
sticks to the old family physician, and
the physician knows and has known
from the beginning that the patient has
been stricken with death for months, for
he knows full we'll that the profession
acknowledge they have no remedies for
the cure of Kidney Disease.
At last the patient suffocates = is
smothered = and dies from dropsical
trouble. Or perhaps the disease may
not take the form of dropsical ten
dency, and the patient dies from apo
pleXy, paralysis, pneumonia or heart
trouble. nor it may take the form of
blood poisoning. In each form the end
is the same. And yet he and his friends
were warned by the proprietors of the
celebrated remedy known as Warmers
Safe Cure, of the lurking dangers of a
slight Kidney affection.
The newspapers have published the
dangers. Columns of facts have been
printed of men dying from advanced
Kidney Disease or Bright's Disease.
His friends and physician look around
with horror and regret for seeming neg
lect, but he is lost. He did not heed the
warning that storm was approaching.
He declined the proffered hospitality,
and recklessly went forward into danger.
He struggled manfuly for time, but
his strength failed, he grew gradually
weaker and he was lost to the world.
For in a blizzard, but from the terrible
malady which is almost daily occurring
in every community, and which is doc
tored as symptom instead of what it
is,-a mortal disease unless properly
treated.