Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06
LOST IN THE STORM.

One OF our local editors clipped from a
| leading magazine extracts from a vivid de-
| scription of a western blizzard, which we
have taken the liberty to publish and at the
! same time suggest to H. II. Warner g. Co..
the proprietors of the celebrated Warmers
Safe Cure, the feasibility of taking there
| from an extract for the introduction of one
of their telling advertisements. The fol-
lowing is the description
cat the close of dark day in January a
solitary horseman wends his way across
the open prairie in one of our Western
Territories. He passes at long intervals
the lonely cabin of the hardy frontiersman.
Two or three old settlers, of whom he has
| inquired the way, have warned him that a
storm is approaching. 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. = :
The sky grows suddenly dark. = He
decides to seek shelter. The
storm increases 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 blizzard
There is no doubt that the terror which
seizes the bewildered traveller is similar to
that which overcomes one when he learns
that be is suffering from an advanced Kid
ney Disease, and is informed that he is in
the last stages of Bright's disease. At first
he is informed that he has slight kidney
affection. Later he begins to feel tired.
Slight headache. Tickle appetite Failure
of the eye-sight. Cramp in the calf of the
legs. Wakefulness. Distressing nervous
ness. Rheumatic and neuralgia pains. Oc-
casionally pain in the back Scanty, dark
colored fluids, with scalding sensation.
Gradual failure of strength.
Any of the above symptoms signify Kid
ney Affection. but he is told that he is all
right. His physician treats him for symp-
toms and calls it a disease, when in reality
it is but symptom of Kidney trouble He
may be treated for Rheumatic or Neuralgia
pains, heart affection, or any other disease
which he is most susceptible to. Finally
the patient has putting under the ewes.
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 that he has dropsi-
cal 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 no.
titled that his is an advanced case of
Bright's disease, and that he can live but a
short time. His honorable and dignifed
physician asks for counsel. He 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 well that the profession ac-
knowledge that they have no remedies for
| the cure of kidney disease.
| At last the patient suffocates-is smoth.
| ered-and dies from dropsical trouble. Or
perhaps the disease may take the form of
dropsical tendency, and the patient dies
| from apopiexy, paralysis, pneumonia or
heart trouble. Or it may take the form of
| blood poisoning. In each form the end is
the same. And yet he and his friends
We're warned by the proprietors of the cele-
| brated remedy known as Warmers Safe
Cure of the lurking dangers of slight
! kidney affection.
The newspapers have published the dam
gers. Columns of facts have been printed
of men dying from advanced kidney dis
ease or Brights disease. His friends and
| physician look around with horror and re-
greet for seeming neglect, but he is lost He
did not heed the warning that a storm was
approaching. He declined the proffered
hospitality, and recklessly went forward
into danger. He struggled manfully tor a
| time, but his strength failed, he grew
! gradually weaker and he was lost to the
world. Not in a blizzard. but from the
terrible malady which is almost daily oc-
curing in every community and which is
| doctored as symptom instead of what it
is-a mortal disease unless properly
| traafod