A BIG RENUNCIATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2247, 29 August 1891, Page 4

A BIG RENUNCIATION.

Prince Albert of Monaco, the proprietor of the gambling casino at Monte Carlo, has, according to the cable, renounced £50,000 a year rent and privilege payments, and is about to convert the building into a free consumptive hospital. Needless to say the unselfish decision was not all of his own making. A mian rarely rises to such a charity as this without the advocacy of the step by a woman he loves and respects, and in this case the princess was the dominant factor. £50,000 a year is an enormous sum and a greater power to give up for the sake of what the goodhumoured will term a chimera, and .the envious a fad. It is in round numbers £250 a day. It represents all that luxury could suggest or money buy but life; it could silence any but the voice of the Last Collector, calling for the payment of his inevitable bill, it could buy off every person or thing but death. Aud so is a big renunciation, and is only transcended in the minds of some men by the renunciation of others, and in all men by the renunciation of fife itself. No matter how fortified one may be with the knowledge of a happier world, where pain is unknown, and from whence death is for ever banished,'the giving up of friends, parents, sister, brother, husband, wife; the conviction that the earthly sun is ours for so short a time, the horror that this, our beloved body, the dear familar house of the soul that is a stranger to us, must go to its matrix before its time is a greater pain, and carries a greater sacrifice than any other in this world. Even if prostrated by foreign disease—this is disease which is eradicable and there are only one or two which are not—the memory looks backward to that dear time when we had health, and seemed only made for love and the enjoyment of the sun, when the golden beams filtered through the sap green tinted leaves, and we felt that we were part of that perpetual summer and necessary to it. The seasons come and go, but we come no more, and by and bye others who have taken our prematurely emptied places follow us also before their time. The mostjifruitful scource of death is kidney disease. If the kidneys are kept in sound working order the blood is maintained in a pure state, and this being done at least ninety per cent of diseases, not excepting epidemics, are safely avoided. Warner’s safe cure and pills is the only absolute curative (so far discovered) for this and kindred disorders. Hundreds of persons with their feet tottering on the brink of the grave have been snatched from early death just in time by the use of the safe remedies, and men of over three score years, whose systems were rapidly breaking up under the venom of uric acid poison, have been restored to sound health, and many years of happy useful lives. Warner’s are absolutely destructive to kidney and liver disease, and the fact has been proved] times but of number. ’