THE GREAT RACE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2436, 10 December 1892, Page 4

THE GREAT RACE.

The Race for the Melbourne Cup of 1892 has come and gone, and the anticiEations of thousands of people for a year ave disappeared in something under the space of four minutes—some are richer (and more poorer) by those four minutes’ experience, in which tens of thousands felt an intoxication something akin to the influence of wine. There is a greater race than even this enormous Cup event. From birth until old age man is engaged in a contest with Death ; and only those who are swifter than the Reaper stay above ground for any length of time. Have you never felt as a young man the pride of simply being ? You experience it moat on a spring morning, when you enjoy the true health of absolute unconsciousness as to the possession of heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, or any digestive apparatus at all. You are almost strong enough to walk indefinitely, or you feel that a push of your powerful shoulder could force down a wall. As for Death, you laugh at him; you snap your fingers in his face and defy his power ; and by-and-bye you distance him, and he remains a crest-fallen laggard, miles away in your rear. But there comes a day when your step is slow and your eyes are dimmed, and Death, aided by Disease—who is one of his progenitors —catches you again, and repays you all the insults and sneers you gave him in the days of your strength while he races neck and neck with you for the goal. And in the days of unnatural business excitement, and rapid living and thinking, the greatest aid of the dreaded dark horse, who is galloping so steadily and so silently, is that most common scourge, kidney disease. Uric acid poison is the most frightful cause of disease. Bright’s disease, rheumatism, gout, gravel, stone, and numerous other complaints are directly traceable to its presence in the blood. The only medicines so far known having any direct and permanent curative effect on these diseases are Warner’s Safe Cure and Pills. They have proved their efficacy beyond cavil, while additional substantatiou of their wonderful influence is coming in day by day.