Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1885 — A “Madman’s” Legacy. [ARTICLE]

A “Madman’s” Legacy.

“Sire/* exclaimed a man in the homely ,rarb of a mechanic to Richelieu, Prime Minister or France, as he was entering his pal--icj; ‘-Sire, 1 have made a discovery which “ hull make rich and great the nation which “shall develop it. Sire, will you give me an “audience?” r icbelieu, constantly importuned, finally ordered the “madman** imprisoned. Even in jail he did not desist from declaring his “delusion,” which one day attracted the attention of a British nobleman, who heard De Cause's story, and developed his discovery of steam power I All great discoveries are at first derided. Seven years ago a man yet under middle age, enriched by a business which covered the continent, found himself suddenly stricken down. When his physicians said recovery was impossible, he used a new discovery, which, like all advances in science, had been bitterly opposed by the schoolmen. Nevertheless, it cured him, and out of gratitude •therefor he consecrated a part of his wealth to the spreading of its merits before the world. Such, in brief, is the history of Warner’s safe cure, which has won, according to the testimony of eminent persons, the most deserved reputation ever accorded to any known compuund, and which is finally winning on its merits alone the approval of the most conservative practitioners. Its fame now belts the globe.—The Herald.