The History of a Great Hit.

Otago Witness, Issue 1787, 20 February 1886, Page 10

The History of a Great Hit.

The following thrilling ami interesting story, rngarding perhaps the greatest hit of modern times, we have reason to believe is true in every particular. Seven years ago in one of the beautiful cities of the groat State of Now York, a powerful man, botli mentally and physically, lay dying. Though less than 40 years of age, he had achieved a fortune by persistent and untiring labour in the fields of merchandise, and yet what availed it him now? The best medical skill seemed powerless, and the strong man was going to an untimely grave.

Being a man of wonderful nerve and force of character, despite his bodily weakness, he lay day after day quietly thinking out — for his mind seemed more alert than ever — a plan whereby a hit might be made, the effect of which should be heard around the world.

To think was to act. A certain simple herb of whose powers Mr Warner was cognisant, was given a fair and impartial trial, and what the combined skill of physicians failed to accomplish this gift of Nature did. Strength under its use slowly returned, and in three months' time the man, sick unto death, was given back to his family and the world fully restored to health and strength. In gratitude for his delivery from death, Mr Warner resolved to devote a portion of his fortune in spreading abroad the merits of the preparation which saved his life. He gave it his name, and in 1879 in a modest way began making the same, giving it away freely to all needing it. Its fame quickly spread abroad, the demand increased to an extent unprecedented, and gentleman found himself the possessor of a business he had not sought in a commercial way. Finding it forced upon him, and knowing that to do good was the sum total of living, he put all his great energies into it and in less than five years the fame of Warner's Safe C*ure was common talk in all parts of the United States, Canada, and England. And Mr Warner has not been niggardly with the wealth which has come to him from a gratetul people. Ever foiemost in good works, he has taken a step in advance, and combining education with pleasure, has erected and endowed an astronomical observatory, with the finest private telescope in the world, at a cost of £20,000; appointed Lewis Swift, Ph. D.F.R.A.S. director, and oponn the observatory free to the public two evenings a week. He gives employment to over 300 men and women, and is a generous paymaster. He has also encouraged a love for the fine arts by buying and putting on exhibition some of the famous oil paintings of the world ; notably Cameron's " Niagara in Winter " recently purchased at a cost of £6000, and which, we are informed, will ere long be exhibited in Australia.

But it is of Mr Warner's recent achievments we would speak. Knowing that serious kidney and liver difficulties prevailed to an alarming c xtenfc in the Colonies, he decided to open a branch laboratory hero and bring help to the suffering and hope to the despairing. As a result of his decision the three-storey blue-stone building at 147 Little Lonsdale-street west, Melbourne, has been secured and fitted up with all the scientific appliances known to modern science for the successful manufacture of the Safe Remedies, in their purity, everything necessary, even to practical chemists, being imported. The medicines are now being put on the market as rapidly as possible, and we believe we are doing our readers a sejrvice in calling attention to them. As is well known, medical men as a rule will not prescribe proprietary medicines, yet such intrinsic merit does Warner's Safe Cure possess, that it has for the past five years daily been used by the profession with the most gratifying results in Bright's diseases of the kidneys, and other diseases of the kidneys, livor, and urinary organs. No less an authority than Robert A. Gunn, M.D., Dean of the United States Medical College of the State of New York, came out with a card in the public press, and acknowledged over his own signature that he knew for a surety that Warner's Safe Cure possessed wonderful power over Bright's disease, and that he had personally known of cures being effected by its use. Another eminent authority, J. B. Henion, M. D., Rochester, N.Y., after being given up to die with Bright's disease, and who was so prejudiced and bigoted that he would not take Warner's Safe Cure because it was a proprietary medicine, although he had the premonitary death hiccoughs, was providentially saved by it use through the intercessions of his wife, and his pastor, the Rev. Israel Foote, D.D., at that time rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, who had been 'called in to minister to the physician in his supposed to be last hours. Rev. Dr Foote attested to the truth of this statement in an article in the Living Church, a leading church organ of Chicago. The army of witnesses to the efficacy of Warner's Safe Cure is marvellous. No other proprietary medicine can boast of such a fol» lowing of illustrious men and women: Bishop Wilson, of Ottawa ; Bishop Wilmer, of Georgia ; Dr Kendick, Professor of Greek in the Rochester University, and one of the translators of the revised New Testament ; ox-Governor Alvord ; Seth Green, the world's famous pisiculturist ; together with thousands of others, comprising bishops, reverends, surgeons, barristers, have written autograph letters, expressii"- "> !r gratit a l- for a purely vegetable preparation, made strictly on honour, and which will do all that is claimed for it. There was no known remedy for Diabetes until Warner's Safe Diabetes Cure was given to the public. Now all is changed. Col. Tassin, U.S.A., stationed at Fortress Monroe, says, " I was given up to die by the highest medical authorities of Washington. After a thorough treatment of Warner's Safe Diabetes Cure, I have gained what I had completely given vp — hope of more years of usefulness." Warner's Safe Cure and Safe Diabetes Cure are put up in 18oz amber glass bottles, the largest on the market, and despite the duty, retail here for 5s each. Warner's Safe Pills, made from the formula of a British army surgeon in India, purely vegetable, sugar-coated, retail for Is lAd per vial. The trade mark is a representation of an iron safe, which is on every genuine package. Look sharp for it. Take none without it. Ask your druggist for these Safe Remedies ; do not be put off with something he may recommend as " just as good " If he will not order them for you, address H. H. Warner and Co., 147 Little Lonsdale street West, Melbourne.

We might go on and fill columns regarding the great and successful, hit given all forms of kidney, liver, and urinary diseases by the potent Warner's Safe Remedies, but time and space forbid. We can only advise our readers to send to the laboratory (address just given in preceding paragragh) for a pamphlet, with a lithograph, in four colours, of Niagara Falls, containing a vast amount of interesting and reliable testimony regarding the wonderful curative effects produced by skilful combination of simple herbs from Nature's great laboratory.

At the Timaru R.M. Court on Monday John Ridle, farmer, Fairlie Creek, was committed for trial for maliciously shooting a neighbour's cow which trespassed on his property.