Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — THE AWFUL VORTEX [ARTICLE]

THE AWFUL VORTEX

Into 117111011 the Unheeding ai\t Rapidly Drifting. Off the western coast cf Norway lies the little rocky island of Moskenes. It is inhabited by a few hardy fishermen who engage in the cod and herring fisheries along the coast. It nappened one day in the spring of 1886 that an old man and his grandson, a lad of ten or a doien yeare, ' put out from the island in a small boat, taking with them their fishing tackle and a lunch of dried fish and oaken cakes. They row out some distance and secure a boat load of fish long belore the returning tide will allow them to land, so they eat. the frugal lunch and lay back on their oars to rest and wait. The old man weary with palling the heavy nets, is soon fast asleep, leaving th“ lad to look to the safety of the boat. For a time the sea is smooth, then a light wind blows from the west and the boat begins slowly but surely to drift. Little babbles and patches ot foam ap- ? ear on the surface of the dark water. he breeze stiffens, and the boat, with steadily increasing speed, begins to move in an ever-narrowing circle. A sudden lurch alarms the boy, and at the same time awakens the grandfather, who seizes the oars and pulls with the strength of desperation against the now madly rushing waters; then the oars are wrenched from his hands, the doomed fishing boat is a for a moment dashed about with terrible velocity, and then disappears forever in the awful vortex of the great maelstrom. It is the same with the blood. As it courses around through the veins, it reaches every part of the system in its healthy rusn, seeking an opportunity to discharge the waste and poisonous matter from every part of the system, into the natural severs. This sewage matter is carried by the blood to the kidneys, there to be thrown off, the same as in life the scavenger would throw his sewage into the stream to rid himself of the vile substance. And the blood has no other place but the kidneys in which tothrowoft its waste matter. Sometimes it flndß the kidneys unprepared to do this work. But the heart takes up the blood and again forces it through the system, where once more waste matter is gathered up the same as the sewers of our cities gather up such poisonous matter, to be discharged at one grand point,and then be carried off.

Fancy the danger of such poisoned blood coursing* for vears through the body! This process continues, the blood passing through the kidneys and heart, reinoviug the impurities from 65 gallons of blood per hour, or 48 barrels each day! Yet the unthinking practitioner regards the kidneys as of little importance, until they are stricken down, when he finds himself so far advanced in the vortex that there is but little chance for him. In each emergencies manv have resorted tc that great remedy, Warner’s safe cure, to assist in putting these organs in a healthy condition. They have not rested on their oars, trusting their life idly in the hands of another when they can catch up the oars before it id" too' late, and a few strokes wopld put them safely beyond hopeless danger. A few bottles of Warner’s safe cure at tbe propfer time will restore the kidneys to health, thereby enabling: them to rid the system of the poisonous uric acid, which is liable in its corruption to attack the weakest part of the system and thereby break it down just as the little stream at the mill-dam wears away the dam, increasing the danger each hour, until at length it becomes overtaxed and gives way, causing destruction to those who a Bhort time before looked upon it as cf so little importance, but now contemplate the result of their neglect with horror.