Is This So?

A few years ago a little book feil into our hands, recounting the experience of a certain prominent business man, frora wliich it appeared that, as with most Americana, too close attention to business had broken his health. The doctor said he could not live. He then stated that he used a certain article whioh efectually cured him, and "out of gratitude i'or his own recovery he determined to devote a portion of his fortune to spreading its merits before the world." As we read it we said: This is evidently a shrewd expression of a commercial motive; it sounds well ; it reads well ; but many people will not believe it. In a few years, however, that man got famous the world over. He gave several hundred thousand dollars to a;-toiiomical research, and his name becsme a household word in nearly every home in the United States. llundreds of thousands of people today, without reservation, say that to tuis man alone ihey owe their lives. [f ten men ure collected together the chances are that if one man incidental ly refers to Warner's safe cure se ven ol ihem will be able to teil, from iheir own experience or from the experience ol' iheir friends, of marvelous results which that remedy has wrought. Nothing has ever been put on the market, we are told, the sale of which has been so great and kept up so wonderfully, and this alone is evidence that merit is at the bottom of its popularity. In our üles we find many an advertisement from this house. Some people have believed, have used and have been cured ; others have disbelieved, nave not used, and died. The manufacturera have stated, as the result of their most careful investigations, that ttie condition of the kidneys is the key to health, and that they know if the kidneys are maintained in health by Warner's safe cure, iiinety-three per cent. of diseases would disappear. The uric aeid, or waste of the system, left in the blood, by what may be called constipated kidneys, blocks up the system and carries disease to every organ. This statement, made time and time again, is so lull of sense that it is now accepted as a scíeiitifiu truth by insurance companies who reject millions of risks every year i f there is the least inactivity of these organs. The public is tired of the wrangles of this school and of that school, and it is quick to recognize anything that has such conceded merit, and on this ground alone can we account for its extraordinary sales on popularity.