The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-01-19
THEAyyFuL VORTEX.
Into Which the Unheeding are Rap.
Idly Drifting.

Into Which tho Unheeding are Rap.
SIS Idly Drifting.
OF tho western coast Of Norway
lies the little rocky island of Moske.
mes. It Is inhabited by q few hardy
fishermen who engage in the cod and
herring fisheries along the coast.
It happened one day in the spring OF
1886 that an old man and his grand
son, q lad of ten or dozen years.
put out from the island in small
boat, taking with them their fishing
tackle and q lunch Of dried fish and
oaten cakes.
They row out some distance and Sc
cure q boat load of fish long before
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 pull
ing tho heavy nets, is soon fast asleep.
leaving the lad to look to the safety
of the boat. For q time the sea is
smooth, then q light wind blows from
the west and the boat begins slowly
but surely to drift. Little bubbles
and patches of foam appear on the
surface Of the dark water. The
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 GRANDPA
Their, who seizes the oars and pulls
with the strength of desperation
against the now madlv rushing wa
tiers; then the oars are wrenched
from his hands, the doomed fishing
boat is for q moment dashed about
with terrible velocity, and then dis
appears forever in the awful vortex
of the great maelstrom.
1t is the same with the blood. As it
courses through the veins, it reaches
every part of thesystem in it's healthy
rush, seeking an opportunity to dis.
charge the waste and poisonous
matter from every part OF the SYSTEM,
into the natural sewers. This saw
ago matter is carried by the blood
to the kidneys, there to be thro wn offf,
the same as in life the scavenger
would throw his sewage into the
stream to rid himself of the vile sub
stance.
And the blood has no other place
but the kidneys in which to throw off
its waste matter. Sometimes it finds
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 mat
ter is gathered up the same as the
sewers OF our cities gather up such
poisonous matter, to bedischarged at
one great point, and then be carried
off.
Fancy the danger OF such poisoned
blood coursing for years through the
body!
This process continues, the blood
passing through the kidneys and
heart, removing the impurities from
IS gallons of blood per hour, or IS
barrels each day!
Yet the unthinking practitioner re-
CARDS the kidneys as of little impor.
lance, until they are stricken down
when he finds himself so far advanced
in the vortex that there is but little
chance for him. In such emergencies
many have resorted to that great rem
edy, Warmers safe cure, to assist in
putting these organs in a healthy con.
dition. They havenot rested on their
oars, trusting their life idly in the
hands of another when they can catch
up the oars before it is too late, and a
few strokes would put them safely be-
yond hopeless danger. A few bottles
OF Warmers sale cure at the proper
time will restore the kidneys to health,
thereby, enabling them to rid the sys.
tenn of the poisonous uric acid, which
il liable in it's corruption to attack
the weakest part of the system and
thereby break it down just as the lit.
tie stream at the mill-dam wears
away the dam, increasing the danger
each hour, until at length it becomes
overtaxed and gives way, causing de.
struction to those who a short time
before looked upon it as of Sc
little Importance, but now contem
plate the result of their neglect with
horror.