A Big Renunciation.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3899, 29 August 1891, Page 2

A Big Renunciation.

Prince Albert, of Monaco, tb,e proprietor of the gambling casino at Monte Carlo, has, according to the •' - -«nouuced £50,000 a year caow, »... rent and privilege paying.-, about to convert the building into a free consumptive hospital. Needless to say the unselfish decision was not all of his own making. A man rarely rißes to such a charity as this without the advocacy of the step by a woman he loves and respects, and \a this case the princess was the dominant factoi. £50,000 a year is an enormous sum and a greater power to give up for what the good-humoured will term a chimera, and the envious a fad. It is in round numbers £250 a day. It | represents all that luxury could sug-

gest or money buy but life ; it could silence any but the voice of the Laat Collector, calling for the payment of his inevitable bill, it could buy off every person or thing but death. And so it 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 life it self. No matter how forfeited one may be with the knowledge of a happier world, where pain is unknown, and from whence death is for ever banished, and the giving of fi lends, parents, sister, brother, husband, wife; the conviction that the earthly sun is ours for so short a time, the horror tbat this, our beloved body, the dear familiar house of the soul that is a stranger to us, must go to its niatrix . before its time is a greater pain, and carries a greater sacrifice than any other in this world. Even if prostrated by foreign disease —that is disease which is eradicable and there are only one or two which are not—the memory looks back to that dear time when we had health, and seemed only made for love and the enjoyment of the sun, when t-ie golden teams filtered through the sap green tinted leaves, and we felt that we were part of that perpetual summer audg necessary to it. The seastf ™ come and go, but we come no more, and by the bye others who have taken our prematurely emptied places follow us .also before their time. The most fruitful source 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 hive been snatohed from early death just in time by the use of the safe remedies, and men over three scow years, wßose systems were rapidly breaking up under the venom of nrie acid poison, have been restored to sound health, and many years of happy useful lives, Warner's remedies are absolutely destructive to kidney and liver disease, and the fact has been proved times out of number.