ON TAKING TONICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13608, 30 May 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

ON TAKING TONICS.

(By " Nature.") '

Often, when we are run down in health and feeling low-spirited and miserable, we are recommended to " take a tonic." Taking a tonic means tiuit the constitution of the blood is altered by the addition to it of some chemical matter-. Many people suppose that tonics actually make new blood, but this is an impossiblity. No drug or tonic can ever make a single, drop of blood. Blood is derived from food, water, and fresh air, and, if these are supplied to the body in sufficient quantity and of proper pure blood is formed, to which any addition is uni.ecessary. Generally speaking, when we are in the condition popularly known as " run down," it is not an addition to the blood which is required, but a subtraction, from it. An impaired action of the kidneys and liver has. in all probability, caused the trouble by suffering the system to retain uric and biliary matter formed by tlie waste of the tissues of the body. Sucji matter, when the kidneys and liver are properly performing their functions, is removed from the body as fast as it -is formed; but, when the kidneys and liver are inactive or diseased, the uric and biliary matter is retained and becomes actively poisonous, causing us to suffer from rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, biood disorders, anaemia, indigestion, biliousness, jaundice, gravel, stone, bladder troubles, general debility, sick headache, or other uric and biliary disorders.

When we are run down, or fering from any of the complaints mentioned, the rational means to adopt to restore the health to its normal condition is to take a medicine which will act beneficially upon the kidneys a;nd iiver. and enable them to do theif duty efficiently, so that the causative poisons may be eliminated in a natural-man-lier.

The best medicine to employ to effect this object is Warner's Safe Cure. Warner's Safe Cure acts specifically upon the kidneys and liver. This is the reason why this valuable medicine ii so uniformly successful-in the treatment of "disorders due to the presence of uric and biliary poisons in the blood. The medicine merely aids nature in performing the -,vork of cleansing the blood. . .

In addition to the-regular"s/- and 2/9 bottles of Warner's Safe Cure, a concentrated form of the medicine ij. now issued at 2/6 per bottle. W.uner's Safe Cure. (Concentrated) is nor, compound-, ed with alcohol, and contains the same, number of doses as the. 5/- bottle of Warner's Safe Cure.—H. H. Warner and Co., Ltd., Australasian Branch, Melbourne..

their marvellous intelligence department, taken tho measure . of the efficacy of the support which the Tsar "would hay© been able to give to--France in . the Far Bast, and it was considered at Tokio that, the outbreak of a war; ;bMween England arid France would afford particularly .favourable opportunity for Japan.not?, merely to settle old scores with France,likewise to secure a, magnificent!;' foothold ,on the mainland and to. establish her prestige as one of the great military arid naval Powers of the • world.

Sir Edmund Monson, then. British Ambassador in Paris, found means . of: inducing France to comply with - the demands of his Government and to}, withdraw from Fashoda wikio.ut.deliyeripg the ultimatum which.'.he hai been directed to present, and a Frahco-Fngiish. . ; which would , have been • calamitoiis from a political point .of view.,- l averted. In consequence thereof. the order for the mobilisation at Tokio . waa nQt gjvfin.., But before the end of the .year tlier# was nota foreign legation at. "Tokio and only few of the Governments. ~ih Europe which had not become aware: of what had been Japan's intentions-, with -regard to France's .possessions .in -the Orient.

It is not in the selfishness of trades union.'} that is leading the Australian Government ,to keep the Japanese out -of their territory. ,lt is- the that sooner or later Japan will: attempt -to secure Great Britain's dependencies under' the Southern Close. In the " yellow peril-" is . regarded by Australians ag -an ever-spreading and growing .shadow over the future of their country., Japan, like China, is over-populated,, and: standstill urgent need of outlet foi' her overwhelming millions. On the othei;. hand, a vast portion of Northern- Australia is - virtually empty, as far as the white race is concerned. The extent to'which , this is . the case will. be appreciated when .it is explained that the ratio ,of white population is about 1 to e.very -700 square milts. : Construing as the. Australians" do, the despatch of the American battleship - fleeton tij' .yisib to their ports''in the''light of a friendly warning to Japan 1 there can be no question of, her mastery 'of tlifi at-the economic or political ex'pens?.; of- any, of the white'.ra'ce,'countries or dependencies washed by that ocean, and - that;, there is an - -unwritten understanding on<the subject based on a com l munity of interests - between the United States and Great Britain, it is- easy; to realise that the welcome »of v Uncle 'Sairi's warships in - Australia,- will f be 'characterised by enthusiasm, and; why the President, is regarded in the Antipodes as> ii, stateisirian, whose poljtical Chorion extends far beyond the term of his oiuce and 'the boundaries of the- great and powerful Republic which he represents ■■ us Chief Magistrate.