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THE OYSTER.
A Few Observations on .
Habits of the Bivalve.
Lntareitinif Features of Oyiter Planting
and Cultivation Explained.
Os all the va't army of opter caters
but wry low give any thought to the
cultivation of thia aholl-bah or ever
•top to consider what an important in
dustry it is. It requires tho investment
of millions of dollars of capital and tho
employment of thousands of men, and is
a business thrrt. is constantly and rapidly
Increasfug. From a purely local trade it
has grown to enormous dimensions, and
to-day the markets of the Atlantic coast
•hip extensively to Europe, California
and all the cities of this country. The
principal oyster marts of the country arc
at Boston, Provxb nce, New Haven, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimoje, Crisfield,
and Norfolk.
Large quantities of oysters arc brought
every spring from Ches qw ake B ly to tho
North and planted here. The reason for
this transplanting is that oy t r* in
Chesapeake Bay are very chean, and
oven after adding the cost of transport
ing ami transplanting the Northern
dealers cun sell them nt a profit for a
lower price than tin' native oyster. Th'y
arc very hardy, thrive well here and the
ordinary oyster enter cannot tell tire
different between them and the natives.
One peculiar feature is that oysters
transplant'd to waters where there is n
marked (hinge in tempcriture will
thrive well cnongh, but will not propa
gate. Thus, oysters from our Atlantic
coast when put into English waters, or
even in the Pac.flc at (California will not
spawn, nor will Ches.ipr ako Buy oysters
•pawn in Long Island S nnd, but oysters
from the Bound will propagate in New
York Harbor and surrounding waters.
To cleanse the oyster ns well ria to
freshen an I fatten it, the planter takes it
near where a elenr, pure stream of fresh
water empties into the salt water and
lets them remain there over one tide.
Tho oyst< r fattens quickly and n few
hours in fresh water will serve to make I
the poorest oyster plump and solid, and
purge It of impurities which it may have
absorbed. An oyster will grow thin
more quickly than it can bo fattened
and it is very sensitive to sudden changes
of shocks. A heavy thunderclap will
kill an entire boat load and the approach
of a boat to nn oyster b <1 will cause each
oyster to close his shell. Au oyster can
not see, nn<l this knowledge of any out
side Influi nee or pressure cun only be
attributed ff> its remarkable sensit ve
ncss. A sudden cold stirin will make
a f it oyster thin in a very short tim ■.
Oysters spawn nt different seasons,
taking on fat rapidly. A planier under
standing the business, having beds
located in various depths of water, mny
have oysters in proper condition for the
table the year round, n few feet in depth
hastening or prolonging the spawning
period one or two weeks.
The spawn of oysters make a thick,
cloudy appearance in the water, which
is scattered fur and wide unit * the spat
find Some solid body to which it can at
tach itself. Last season n lot of pat was
carried by tho currents and tides from
the spawning bods on the Connecticut
coast to the north shore of Long Island,
where they lodged on the gravel of a
bench, where they were afterwards dis
covered, taken up and planted in the
private beds of planters in that section.
That oysters can ho grown in different
shapes is a well-known fact to planters.
Planted thickly mi u muddy bottom they
will grow long and thin, while planted
thinly on a hard or gravelly Imttom they
will grow round and thick, and ono cut
thus have his oysters shaped according
to his taste.
The principal kinds of oysters used in
the New York market are Blue Points,
K 'Cknwnys, Slm w -burys and East R v
era. The B.W Points come from the
south shots' of Long Island, between
Bellport mid Bay Shore, mid get their
name from a peulnsula called Blue Point.
The taking up of Bin Points is pro
hibited by law until the 15. h of Septem
ber. but as a prominent oyster dealer
mid: “Most of us manage to have a few
on hand for our friends at least at th'
opening of thu season." New York
H _________
Hoctora in Russia.
The practice of medicine in Ru-sia is
exceedingly onerous and unremuncrative.
A physician who fails to respond to the
summons of a patient is punished by a
fine of from sto 100 rubles. If tho case
was a dangerous ouc, and the physician
knew it, he may be imprisoned in the
jail for three months. The legal foe for
an ordinary visit is from 7 13 to 16
rents; for an accouchment, 75 cents.
These laws are strictly enforced. An
. sldcrly German physician, an invalid,
was called on a stormy winter night to
attend a case cvi:i miles distant. He
objected to go utile-» he was reasonably
remunerated, naming his fee. The nv.s
seuger left t ■ a» , rtam whether this
amount would be paid, but d d not re
turn. The physician was subs qu-ntly
air-sted, tried and vend meed to eight
days’ imprisonment. Besides, he had t >
pay bis lawyer fJS ;i -vlvanee. —CS ■<*>/•
Jvta »
fteventr-rilfht Wiles nn Hour.
The Cincinnati CvmmrrcM (Jateflt
aars: The day is very recent when tho
talk of a loconi tivc making a mile a min
ute was received with a due amount of
doubt, being almost universally ilialre-
Ucvcd. To-day, however, sixty miles an
hour is not tho limit, and locomotive
builders now essay to increase the speed
from ten to fifteen miles ab >vo that fig
ure. The latest novelty in this lino is a
locomotive designed by M. E trade,
which is to be experimented wilh on tho
southern lines of France. 51. Eitrado,
convinced of the value of large wheels,
has fitted his engine, tender and conches
with wheels eight and a quarter feet tn
diameter. The engine is of the outside
cylinder type, with slide valve on top of
the cylind'-r, and all the gearing carried
outside. This h,com dive is expected to
make an average speed of from toventy
two to seventy-eight miles per hour.
The coaches arc peculiar, in that they
are carried maid" iron girders, while the
wheels run under the centre of the
longitudinal seats. Two axles, sixteen
feet apart, support, through elliptic
springs mounted upon the oil-boxes,
Hies ■ longitudinal girders, which have
ends curving towards tho ground.
Ear h girder carries three other elliptic
springs, from which is suspended by
means ot iron rods the lower frame on
which the body of tho car il supported.
The coach is separated into two stories,
the lower of wh ch ii inode in three
pendent sections, with doors, which may
be used as baggngi -rooms, < tc. Above
is a single compartment with central
passageway, reached by stairways nt
each end r.f the coach, and communicat
ing with the oth r portions of the train
by hingeil platforms. The result of flic
trial of this new locomotive will ho
watched with great interest.
The Tumble-weed.
The tumble-weed is n peculiarly western
institution that grows on the prairie and
looks big and round and green all sum
mer. If it is anything of a season for
tumble weeds it gets as large as a bushel
basket. When fall comes it breaks off
Close to the top of the ground, jumps up
and < racks its liecls together a few times
and then begins turning hand-springs
across the prairie and over barbed wire
fences.
It is not ns fast as th- jack rabbit,
which when there is political or other ex
citement around only touches along on
the tops of tho hills, but it has better
staying powers than the jack nnd will go
five hundred miles and into tho British
possessions with a southeast wind nnd
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come back the next (lay w th a north
west wind. Oa the trip it wilt frighten
titty horses, help spread twenty prairie
liras, and tire out several young and in
experienced dog’.
A professor from nn eastern college
once cam ■ out her and began to chase a
tumble weed. II ■ granted to classify it
and put a collar on it. He took the bit
hi his teeth mid followed that weed for
two days. Then he cun' hick and said
that while il wis doubtless a line botan
ical specimen, it did not appear, on tho
other hand, to be fond of the society of
polished and cultured college professors.
It might be all right from a scientific
stand-point, but socially it was far from
n succ'ss. While interests of scientific
research might demand that it be cap
tured and analyz 'd, till he doubted tho
propriety of attaching a Latin name to it
mid having it jerked around over the
prairie like a two-year-old steer tied to
the hind end of it special train. Fltell
ine (Duk.) H<l'.
Loss of Life n! Sea.
Mr. Thomas G ay, Secretary of the
London B aril of Trade for Statistical
Pinposes, divides the nine years from
1871 to 1883 into throe triennial periods.
During the first of tiles' periods the loss
of life resulting from wrecks or from
casualties to British ships amounted to
J 7687; in the second period to 7105, and
in the third to the greatly increased total
of 0784. The 10-s of ve-scls during tho
nine yeais rose from 3173 to 3713. Mr.
Gray sustains the stat 'mo'.'.t that in 1881
the loss of life amounted to the alarming
total of 1 in 60 of the total number of
lives employed. We see, therefore, that
while the dangers of land travel are ditn
tni'hii g because of tho more scientific
management and better construction of
railroads, the chances of loss of life at
sea are becoming greater, despite tho
efforts of legislation to remedy the evil.
—ASinl' LnUtt.
Paper Boots and Shoes.
Some very attiactivo specimens of
paper slijqwrs, sandals, and other cover
ings for the feet— a substitute for leather,
etc. —have been brought to notice in
London, where their manufacture has
been recently undertaken. For this
purpose paper, paper pulp, or papier
macho Is employed in making the upper,
which is moulded to the deaired form
and size; the sole is made of paper or
pasteboard, leather board, or other
adapt, d pap r mat rial, a union of this
sole to the upp r being < fl ite.l by means
of cement, glue, or oilier adhesive mate
rial; the plan is to have the upper
creased, embossed, or perforated at the
I mstep and sales, so us to prevent any
1 breaking or tearing while in use. The
i sole my made wi.h ot without a heel.
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NATURAL GAS.
How It is Utilized in Many
Ways at Pittsburg.
Bringing the Gu Through Pipet from
Wells Twenty Miles. Away.
Tl.c greatest curiosity about Pittsburg,
•ays a letter to the Chicago Herald, is
the working of the natural gas and the
varied uses to which it is put. In the
early morning, ns the train ’[reeds along
the left bank of the Alleghany, the hun
dre Is of flaming lights which adorn the
hillsides affor I a curiou spectacle. Pipe
stick up from the ground perhaps twenty
sci t or more,and from them shoot up into ;
the heavens great tongue* of flame—n |
hundred times greater in volume than the i
electric light and ten times us brilliant.
These pipes are the air vents of the main
conduits, which carry the gas to its point
of utilization. These vents are necessary,
otherwise the condu ts would burst from |
the tremendous pre- ure of gas from the .
wells. On most of the gas pipe linos the 1
vent pipes ar ■ left burning night and day,
nnd the effect at night is m >st bril’iaut.
Few people realize the extent to which
the natural gas is now used about Pitts
burg. It has taken the place of fuel at all
the glass works, in all the blast furnaces
and steel work, and is rapid ly being intro
duced into the private houses, hotels,
etc., for heating, cooking, and lighting.
Th re are several companies that have the
right to pipe the streets, and the
old gas companies have about yielded up
the ghost. For purposes of illumination
the new gas is not yet perfected, but for
heating and cooking the mysterious va
por is all that could be a.skcd. The gas
burns with an interne heat and hence is
especially valuable at blast furnaces, and
for all other uses where high temperature
is required. So hot is the flame from a
three-inch pipe that a man cannot ap
proach it. No man can light a five-inch
exhaust pipe, for it would burn him up
before he could get away. All such
[lipes are lighted by firing a sky-rocket
through the escaping gas, w hen the sud
denly ignited vapor shoots hundreds of
feet into the heavens.
Most of the natural gas in use about
P.ttsburg cones from the gas wells of
Washington County, from eighteen to
twenty two miles away. The gas is con
veyed ia twenty-inch in fins of cast-iron,
made two inches thick, to stand tho
enormous pressure of the vapor from
nature's mysterious reservoir. It may
seem incredible, but I was told that the
pressure upon these mains at tho point
the gas comes up from mother earth is
from eight hundred to one thousand
pi unds to the square inch. At the first
vent-pipe, which may be a mile away
from the well, the gas shoots up like
steam from a safety valve, and with al
most as much of a hissing noise. Light it
and the flame is carried a hundred feet in
the air. It would be impracticable to
use the gas at all under such n pres ure.
So, when it gets to the city, recourse is
had to a division of the force by means
of pipes within pip?s. A series of pipes,
one within the other, are laid within the
larger main, and these take up the gas
and dirtribute it, each division lowering
the pressure according to the size of the
pipe which holds it. Thus a half-inch
pipe will carry gas enough and with
force enough to run a blast furnace, and
a pipe no bigger than the stem of a qlay
pipe will carry enough to light, warm
and provide cooking fuel for a house of
twelve to fifteen rooms.
The supply of gns seems inexhaustible.
■Wherever petroleum is found, there by
sinking a few hundred feet below the oil
belt will be found the gas in
its rock ribbed reservoir. They usu
ally get oil at about 1000 feet,
but for gas they must sink at
lent 1,500. So far the sinking has jieen
easy enough, for the gas men have only
to hunt up tho abandoned oil wells, and
continue them on down until the curious |
vapor is struck. That is all there is to
be done, except to imprison the escaping
product nnd confine it to the mains.
Nature does all tho rest. There seems
to be no diminution of the flow or pres
sure, even from those wells that have
been longest in use, and hence capital
which when the discovery was first made
was chary of investing in pipes and
mains, Ims now quite recovered confi
dence. The idea that the time may
come when the gas will be piped and
carried away to other cities is already
being talked up in Pittsburg, ami the
prospect of lighting and heati. g Cincin
nati and perhaps Cleveland with natural
gas is not so remote as one might im
agine. If the Standard Oil Company
can pipe oil four hundred miles to New
Y’ork, why cannot natural gas be carried
an equal distance ' y the same agency I
IHplomitic Peddling.
Colonel Bowser met Jenks the other
day and asked him what he was doing
for a living.
“S Hing a deodorizing power.”
“Last time I saw you you were selling
nn insect-killer, to be sprinkled on the
floors. ’’
"I know; n >w I'm going around to the
same houses selling this disinfectant to
get the smell of the insect powder out of
the hens'. Next week I’ll loom up wilh
a mixture to drive nway the smell of the
u.siufcctant." —s‘. Z u * Whip.
Prob bio Cause ot Earihqnakn*.
55 e mint remember that we are dwell
ing upon the surfneo of a little ex
tinguished sun, which ages upon ages
ago became covered with a rocky crust
through the gradual loss of tem[»erature,
but which retains in its inter.or a rem
nant of the prestine heat that is slowly
leaking out. Every schoolboy under
stands that when a hea'ed body cools it
shrinks in size. The earth docs the
ame, and as the interior mass thus
slowly contracts the hardened crust set
tles upon It. But the crust cannot settle
without thus breaking. Far back in geo
logical time, when the cooling process was
much more rapid than it is now, the
cttling of the crust broke and contorted
it with tremendous power, and the
edges and sides of the cracked strata of
rock were thrust up into mountain
chains. Now, when the cooling is very
slow and the consequent contraction
comparatively slight, mountains are no
1 >nger created by tho stress upon the
-cttling crust, but sow, almost im
perceptible, changes of level in different
parts of the earth’s surface result
from it. So slowly, in fact, docs the
interior of the earth contract at present,
that the settling of the crust is accom
p.ished for the most pirt without the
knowledge of its inhabitants. Yet it
docs contract, and the careful observa
tions of earth tremors which have been i
conducted of late years show that if a
I
complete record of the motions of the
earth’s crust could be obtained, it would
be shown to be' slightly trembling in
some part of its extent most of th<
time.
There arc certain regions where the
earth’s crust yields to this internal strain
more readily than elsewhere. These re
gions are usually in the ne ; ghborhood ol
ancient cracks or faults in the rocky shell
of the planet. The Atlantic edge of our
continent has never, in historic times at
least, been the scene of great and disas
trous earthquakes; and yet the geolog- '
ical structure is such that disturbances
of this kind could hardly fail to visit it.
The fact is that many earthquakes do
occur in this country, but they are
usually so slight that little or no notice
iwtaken of them.— Neu> York Sun.
B.ildni'B’.
A writer in the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat says of baldness:
There are several varieties of baldness,
due to disturbances within the nervous
system. Thus there are cases recorded of
total loss of hair, affecting the entire
body, following severe injuries of the
brain. In one case a man was struck by
lightning, and the very next day not
only all his hair, but the toe-nails fell off. I
In some other instances the hair of one
side of the head only fell off following
concussion of the brain; in other cases
the loss has been limited to the region ,
supplied by a single nerve, the trunk of ■
which had been injured. In the mclan- I
choly form of insanity a general loss of {
hair has been frequently noticed, not al- |
ways amounting to baldness, and in cer- ;
tain cases baldness in patches of varying '
extent has been observed. In the ex- i
ceedingly rare disease called “progressive
facial atrophy,’’ in which the skin, mus
cles, fat and even the bones of one-half
of the face become smaller and waste
away, the hair has usually suffered in its
growth on the corresponding side of the
head, and partial or entire one-sided bald
ness has been the result. If the hair does
not fall it becomes gray in siripes or over
the whole of the affected surface, and
the loss of hair, like the whitening, may
occur in stripes. Ofdinary “sick head
ache” and other forms of neuralgia af
fecting tho side of the face or head may
be followed by whitening or loss of hair.
These cases differ from the “bald
ness in patches” in the fact that the
bald patches when they occur are not
distinctly separated from those still
covered, and the baldness is generally
not absolute, some soft, downy hairs re
maining. The treatment depends en
tirely upon the nature of the disease
causing the baldness.
A Dakota Banker.
“Dakota banks have a queer way of
doing business,” said a well-known mem
ber of a wholesale firm the other day.
“Some time ago I drew upon a man in
that territory for sllO and exchange. A
check was returned to me, but the ex
change had not been collected, and the
amount was stated to be seventy-five
cents. I paid the exchange, but imme
diately wrote the cashier of the bank
about it. I knew the exchange should
not exceed twenty-five cents, and so in
formed the bank official, at the same
time demanding the return of the re
mainder. The reply was rather remark
able. The letter said: ‘Dakota is a de
lightful country, but we’re not here for
our health. The fifty cents is to pay for
the trouble of writing this k tter.’”— Min
neapolis Preu.
A Falling (tot.
Augustus was manipulating the lawn
mower in the < vening, byway of exer
cise, and his wife sat on the piazza
watching him.
‘■ss'hy is Augustus like one that is
deceased I” she asked her sister, who
I cou’d not tell.
i "B o use he is no mower,” and now
there is grief in the household. — Free
j Preoo.
Binis in Mura! Becoratiou.
Y'oung housckc pers, and old ones, l
too, for that matter, often find the deco
ration of walls and ceiling a hard nut to I
crack, even when the house is their own .
and a moderate expenditure of money
quite within their reach for the purpose.
But when the apartments are rented, says
an Eastern exchange, with the prospect
if a flitting to some others at no very re
mote period, staring one in the face, the
'Ucstion w hat to do with the bl.nk white I
walls is a puzzler. It is worse still when
m attempt at decoration, resulting in an ,
atrocious combination of colors, hud been
made.
To the young housekeeper who has all
her furnishings yet to buy the solution is
comparatively simple. She will, if she
be wise, determine the color or effect
which she wishes to carry out, and will
then proceed with an eye single to that
idea. The walls will be dealt with first,
and the carpet nna hangings and uphol
stery selected with reference to it. 55 here
economy is the object, distemper may
be resorted to, or flatted oil paint, which
on account of the readiness with which
it lends itself to thorough cleansing with
soap and water, is recommended as pre
ferable to distemper. Having settled
upon either one or the other, the ques
tion of tint sngests itself. Here the
situation or the room, its size and height, [
enter in. Shall it be light or dark in i
tone, a positive or a broken color ?
sVhat is the color of the wood-work ?
These are questions which each one must
ask and answer for herself; but it is
safe, in our climate, to decide upon a |
warm rathet than a cold tint, of a medi- I
um depth of tone and a broken rather
than a positive color. Another safe
guard is to make the walls lighter than
the wood-work, and the golden rule to
have the coloring to become lighter as it
ascends must not be lost sijht of. Thus,
if the frieze is strong and deep in color
ing the walls must be much darker, and
the carpet or other floor covering darker
still. It is better to lean toward harmo
ny of analogy than to contrasts when
dealing with large surfaces, especially
if one is not sure of herself.
He Did Not IValk.
Jabc Mathis, of the Thirteenth Geor
gia, was a good soldier, but one day
when the Confederates were retreating
from the gory field of Gettysburg Jabe
threw his musk-1 on the ground, seated
himself by the roadside, and exclaimed
with much vehemence:
“I’ll be dashed if I walk another step!
I'm broken down! I can’t do it!” And
Jabe was the picture of despair.
“Get up, man,” exclaimed his Captain,
“don’t you know the Yankees are fol
lowing us ? They’ll git you, sure 1”
“Can’t help it,” said Jabe, ‘ I’m done
for. I’ll not walk another step!”
The Confederate passed along over the
crest of the hill, and lost sight of poor,
dejected Jabe.
In a moment there was a fresh rattle of
musketry and a renewed crash of shells.
Suddenly Jabe appeared on the crest of
the hill moving like a hurricane, and
followed by a cloud of dust. As he dash
ed past his Captain that officer yelled:
“Hello 1 Jabe; thought you wasn’t
going to walk anymore.”
“Thunder!” replied Jabe, as he hit the
dust with renewed vigor, “you don’t
call this walking, do you.
Mean Temperature.
“This man stole up to my door and
stole my barometer, officer.”
“Barometer—phwats that, sab?”
“It tells the weather, you see; if
there’s a low barometric depression, the
instrument records the mean temperature
“Mane tempcratuie, is it? Och, an
thin the thafe was joostified in staling
it, because he was disgoosted with the
climate. The temperature has been mane
enough to make a harness maker lave
traces of his work behind him. Ha! ha!”
Be Did ring.
“Pat McClure!”
“That’s me, sir.”
“Charged with disorderly conduct.”
“How so, sir?”
They complain that you alarm the
neighborhood where you are working at
carrying a hod at a new building.”
“Yes, sir, I do sing; but it’s a quiet
Bunday-school melody, sir.”
“sVhat’s that?”
“Still there’s mor-tar follow.”
Asked to Be a Census.
“Where’s President?”
“Mr. Cleveland is engaged, sir.”
“Thashso? Well, must shee him.
P’rticTr business.”
“You're after a consulship, I suppose?”
“No, shir. I want to be a census.”
“A what?’’
“Census. I see the shenshus embraced
seventeen million women last year.
Want to be a shenshus, sir. Musht see
President.”
No Difference.
“It's very hard on the poor man—
forced to work in heat or cold, storm or
sunshine.”
“I don't think so.”
“Y’ou don't. Look at the luxuries the
rich man enjoys; there's the full grate in
winter, ice when it’s warm ”
“Well, the poor man has his ice, as
well as anybody else.
“He does?”
“Certainly; only the rich man has his
in summer, and the poor man gets his in
winter.”
•♦» - -
Trying to do business without adver
tising is like winking at a girl in the
dark. Y'ou may know what you are doing
but no one else does.
A Horrible Form
Os malarial disease is dumb ague. Constant
drowsiness, sleep interrupted by a chill, suc
ceeded by a consuming heat, and that by an
exhausting sweat. A sensation as of numbness
from cold, but no shaking attends it. Hostet
ter's Stomach Bitters invariably eradicates it,
though ii is t he most obstinate form of miasma,
born disease. To conquer it with quinine is as
impossible as to batter down Gibraltar with a
bowiiz r. Mular al disorders of every kind
are attended with derangement of the liver, a
fact ev need by the saffron tint winch the skin
assumes in such diseases. For this symtom, as
for its cause, the bit ers is a certain reme
dy. Ccn*t pation, djrspepsia, rheumatism
and inactivity of the kidneys and bladder,’
are also relieved by this fine alterative.
SC.EN'TIFIC TRI TH
REGAKDING THE FIAfTIOK- «
IMPORTANT OKGAN. 0F
Os Which the Public Know, n,., . .
Worthy es <’ o ° n * l * < |" r^tl Ut«le
To th« Editor of the Scientific America
Will you permit ui to moke
public the facts we have learned du ru L. h*
past 8 years, concerning disorders a
human Kidneys and the organs uhich t
eased Kidneys so e isily break downs Y
are conducting a Scientific paper and *
unjn-ejudiced except in favor o/Truih ’o
tj neeilltss to say, no niedi/al Journal e
standing would admit these f,'- 1
for very obvious reasons.
//. //. H\4/?NER d CO
Proprietors of “ IParner’s Safe Cure.’”
That we may emphasize and clearly
plain the relation the kidneys sustain tothl
general health, and how much is depeuient
upon them, we propose.
speaking, to take one from the human Udi
place it in the wash-b wl before us and m
amine it for the public benefit.
You will imagine t' at we have More us a
body shaped like a I earn sm<H th and glisten
ing.aboutfour im he- in length, two lu width
and one in thickne-s. It ordinarily weighs
in the adult male about five oun es, but ii
somewhat lighter in the 1 emale. A Slna ii
organ? you say. Pur. understand, the body
of the average size man contains about sea
quarts of blood, of w i h erery dro < ni ft'r,
through these, filters < r sewers, ixs they may
be called, many times a day as often m
through tho heart, making a complete revo
lution in three ihini ts. From the blood
they sej'-arate the waste material, working
away steadily night and day. sleepin »■ or
waking, tireless as the heart itself, and fully
of as much vital importance; removing im
purities from sixty-five gall ftns of blood each
hour, or about forty line barrels each day
or 9,125 a year! What a wonder
that the kidneys can last any length of time
under this prodigious strain, treated and
neglected as they are'.
We slice this deii ate organ open length
wise with our knife, and will roughly d#-
scrit e its interior.
We find it to be of a reddish-brown <olor
soft and easily torn : filled with hundreds 0/
little tubes, short stud threa 1-like, starting
from the arteries, on ling in a little tuft about
midway from the outside opening into &
cavity of considerable size, which is called
the pelvis or, rough y speaking, a sac, which
is for the purpose of holding the water t>
further undergo purification before it jiasses
down from here into the ureters, and so on
to the outside of the body. These iituio tales
are the filters which do their work auto
matically, and riyh'. here is where the dis
ease of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work which
they are obliged to. from the slightest irreg
ularity in our habits, from cold, from hi ’h
living, from stimulants or a thousand and
one other causes which occur every day, they
become some w bat w eakened in their nerve
for. e.
What is the result? Congestion or stoppage
of tbe current of blood in the small blo°Hi
vessels surrounding them, which become
blocked; these deli at? membranes are irri
tated; inflammation is set up, then jms is
formed, which collects in the pelvis or ».•;
the tubes are at first partially, and soon are
totally unable to do their work. The pelvic
sac goes on distending with th s corruption,
pressing upon the blood vessels. All this
time, rememl er. tho blood, which is entering
the kidneys to be filtered, is pas ana through
this terrible, di. gusting pus, for it cannot
take any other route!
Stop and think of it for a moment! Do
you realize th? importance, nay tbo vital ne
cessity, of having the kidneys in order? Can
you expect wl en they are diseased or ob
structed, no matter how little, that ycu can
have pure f lood and escape discus / It
would be ju t as reasonable to expect, if a
pest-house were set across Break way and
countless thou an is were compelled to go
through its pesti ential doors, an escatie from
contagion and disease, as for one to expect
the blood to escape pollution when con tantly
running throu ih a diseased kidney.
Now, what i< the result? Why, that the
blood takes u;» and deposits this jioison as it
sweeps along in o every organ, into every
inch of muscle, tissue, flesh and bone, from
your head to your feet. And whenever, from
hereditary in. uence or otherwise, some part
of the body i s weaker than another, a count
less train of dis as’s is established, such as
consumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia where
there is a delicate stomach; nervousness, in
sanity, paralysis or heart disease in those
who have weak ners es.
The heart n ust soon feel the effects of the
poison, as it re/uires pure blood to keep it
in right action. It increases its stroke in
number and force to compensate for the
natural stimulus wanting, in its endeavor to
crowd the impure blood through this ob
structiou, causing pain, palpitation, or an
out-of-breath feeling. Ln natural as this
forced labor is. the heart mrst soon falter,
becoming w’ aker and weaker until one day
it suedenlu stops, and death from apparent
“heart disea< ’is the verdict.
But the medical profession, learnel and
dignified, call these diseases by high sounding
names, treat them alone, and patients die,
for the arteries are carrying slow death to
the affected part, constantly adding fuel
brought from these suppurating, pus-laden
kidneys which hero in our wash bowl are
very putrefaction itself, and which should
have been cured first.
But this is not al! the kidneys have to do;
for you must remember thatea'’h adult takes
about seven pounds of nourishment eY’ery
twenty-four hours to supply' the waste of the
body whi< h is constantly going on, a waste
euual to the quantity taken. This, too, the
kidneys have to separate from the blood with
all other de -om r o ing matter.
But you say: “My kidneys are all right. I
have no pain in th • back.” Mi-taken man<
People die of kidney disease of so bad a char
acter that the organs are rotten, and yet
they have never there had a pain nor an
ache!
Why? Because the disease begins, as we
have shown, in the int.rior of the kidney,
where there are fewnervesof feeling to con
vey the 7 en-at ion of pain. Why this is so
we may n ver know.
When you consider their great work, the
deli'a v of their structure, the ease with
which they are deranged, can you wonder at
the ill-health of our men and women? Health
and long life cannot be oxpe ted when so vi
tal an organ is impaired. No w o ider some
writers ay we are degenerating. Don't you
see tho great, lhe extreme importance of
kee nng this machinery in working order?
Could the finest engine do even a fractional
| part <»f this work, without attention from
the engine r ■ Don’t you see how dangerous
this hidden disease is? It is lurking about
us constantly, without giving any indicate*
of its presence.
1 The nu st skillful physicians cann it dete t
j it at times, for the k idneys themselves can-
J not be examined by any means we have at
our command. Even an analysis of the water,
chemically and microscope ally, re eals
nothing definite in many case', even when
I the ki ineys are fairly broken down.
Then look out for them, as disease, no mat
ter where situated, to 93 per cent., as shown
by after death examinations, has its origin
in the breaking down of these secreting tubes
in the inter.or of the kidney.
As you value health, as you desire loo? h»
free from sickness and suffering, give these
or .’ana some attention. Keep them in good
' condition and thus prevent (as is easily
1 all disease.
Warner’s Safe Cure, as it become* year af
ter year b ‘tter known for its wonderful cures
and its power over the kidneys, has
is doing more to increase th • average iura
tion of life than all the physicians and medi
cines known. Warner’s Safe Cure is a true
spe ific, mild but certain, harmless but ener
getic and agrees' le to tbe taste.
Take it when sick as a cure, and never let
a month co by if you need it, without taking
a few b ttles> as a preventive, that the kid
neys may be kept in proper order, the
pure, that health an I long life may be vow
blessing. H. H Warner & &>■
If the young man who insists on steal
ing ki-ses doesn’t abandon the pricliw.
he will soon find himself behind the
• of wedlock.
I Relief is immediate and a cure sure. Pte* 1 ®
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