im BUBAL iNEW'YOBKEB. 
for t!)f 1 ) on ii 0 . 
1 hope every one of the Cousins will have a 
good Thanksgiving. We have lots of things 
to be thankful for. Think them over when 
you get a chance and you will find that they 
would till a good-sized book. Lots of us may 
thiuk we have pretty hard times, and it may 
seem as though things are all wrong and never 
can be better. But wait a little, keep easy 
and cheerful, don't give up, but keen on doing 
the best you can. These things id wavs work 
out right m the end if we only stick to them. 
The right thing to do on Thanksgiving Day is 
to let all the troubles go and keep nothing but 
the good things in mind. Remember this, and 
have just as good a time as you can. 
THE STORY OF A DISTRICT SCHOOL. 
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH. 
A COLLEGE BOY'S DIARY. 
{Continued.) 
REGARDING THE FUNCTIONS OP AN 
IMPORTANT ORGAN, 
or Which tlie Public Known Inn Little, 
Wort liy Cnvefnl Consideration. 
There was a good spot in old Johnson after 
all. 
“I’m sorter sorry fer the boy,” he said, as 
he rubbed his hand over his mouth. “He 
ain’t over bright, but I dimuo ez I'd a run him 
last night ef I’d a knowed this wuz eommiu’. 
Rows'ever, we don’t none on us know mor n 
half on it, an’ the time hez fer ter come when 
we find it out, top.” 
Jobuny had started for school little think¬ 
ing how near he was to his long-promised hol¬ 
iday. Old Johnson saw him from the window 
trudging sturdily along t he road. 
“I wish you’d tell him, teacher. I’ve got ter 
go ter the woods. Like enough he kin hit a 
team goin’ over." 
I thiuk old Johnson was glad to have me 
tell Johnny. 1 hope he was a little sorry for 
what he had said, aud so did not care to face 
the little boy. Be that as it may. I promised 
to do the errand and started for the school 
house. Mr. Hardback's sad news appeared to 
have made its wav about, the district. The 
proposed holiday, in consequence of the death 
of ‘Squire Barues. kept the children at home. 
1 found Johnny at the school house aluue. He 
stood kicking his heels against, the door and 
smiliug up at me till his round face seemed 
like one ripple. It seemed hard, indeed, to 
take the pleasure out of that little face. 
“Johnny*” I said, “wehave just heard from 
your mother.” 
“She ain't dead, teacher, is slier” he asked 
eagerly. 
I thiuk he must have read it in my face. 
AVe cannot hide such things. 
“Yes, nij' boy*” I said slowly, “ she is.” 
The light look faded out of bis face. Two 
great tears forced themselves out of his eyes, 
and he gave one great sob, and turned his face 
towards the door, lie put liis jacket sleeve 
over bis eyes and pus bod his face far into the 
corner of the door. Boor little fellow, there 
was a dreadful loneliness about his grief, lie 
never had known what sympathy meant. His 
only thought was that he must grind down 
this great sorrow alone. 
“ Never mind, Johnny,” Was all I could say. 
I patted the great brush of hair. The little 
mourner pushed his lace deeper into the cor¬ 
ner, but reached up his other baud to take 
hold of mine, 
••Well, well, what’s this!" broke iu a voice 
behind us. “ Been thrashing that boy < I’m 
sorry. You should have taken a bigger one, 
sir,” 
1 turned to find the director standing by us. 
I explained matters in a few words. The di¬ 
rector dropped his pompous manner at once. 
"That s bad.” be said, kindly. “Come lit¬ 
tle boy. you must be a little niau now. I'm 
going to drive over that way. and Eli take 
you and the teacher along. Come on, now, 
brave folks never give up, you know.” 
He took hold of Johuny’s arm and led him 
out of the yard. 1 do hot think he bad any 
errand that would have led him past the 
County house, but he had a big, warm heart 
that felt for the poor, lonely little boy. 
He never let Johnny stop until we reached his 
own house. Then he took pains to show the 
little fellow the rabbits, the lame cat aud the 
parrot. He talked so pleasantly that Johnny 
was at last induced to take his jacket sleeve 
away from his eyes and let Mrs. Forest wash 
bis face. A great piece of mince pie went far 
towards stopping tne sobs, aud a piece of cake 
enabled him to lookup at the director and say 
without choking—“ 1 reckon you're the best 
man 1 ever seen, an’ old Johnson don’t know 
nothin’ about it.” 
We brushed up Johnny’s strange assort,incut 
of clothing, and then we all got into the di¬ 
rectors wagon and started tor the County 
house. Jt. was a sad journey for us. Johnny 
choked now and then iu spite of the director s 
words, and there were two wide tracks down 
his cheeks trom his eyes. As we rode along 
the words of an old poem kept running over 
and over in my miud. Do what I would 1 
could not keep them out: 
■‘Kuirlc Ins hones over the stones, 
He’s only n pauper that nohOdy owns." 
—1 kept thinking over and over again, why 
should there he paupers and poor people and so 
much trouble and sorrow ? If we could make 
the world, doubtless wc wouldn’t have them. 
But the world is made: we can only make it 
over as best wo can, _ 
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To the Editor of the Scientific American: 
Will tjou permit us to make known to the 
public the facts icc hare learned during.the 
past eight years , concerning disorders of the 
human Kidneys and the organs which dis¬ 
eased Kidneys so easily break down I on 
are conducting a Scientific paper, and are 
unprejudiced except in furor of Truth. It 
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*• Code" standing would admit these taels, 
for eery obvious reasons, 
IT. II. WARNER <!’■ CO., 
Proprietors of “ H a r tier's Safe ('nrc. 
That we may emphasize aud clearly explain 
the relation the kidneys sustain to the general 
health, aud how much is dependent upon 
them, we propose, metaphorically speaking, 
to take one from the bumau body, place in the 
wash-bowl before us, aud examine it for the 
public Benefit. 
You will imagine that we have before us a 
body shaped like a beau, smooth and glisten¬ 
ing, about four inches in length, two in 
width, and one in thickness. It ordinarily 
weighs, iu the adult male, about five ounces, 
but is somewhat lighter in the female. A 
small organ ? you say. But understand, the 
body of the average size man contains about 
ten quarts of blood , of which every drop 
passes through these filters or sewers , as they 
may be called, many times a dm/, as often as 
through the heart, making a complete revolu¬ 
tion in three minutes, From the blood they 
separate the waste material, working a way 
steadily night and day. sleeping or waking, 
tireless as the heart itself, and fully of as 
much vital importance; removing impurities 
from 155 gallons of blood each hour, or about 
4‘J barrels each day. or *J,t25 hogsheads a year! 
What a wonder that the kidneys cau last any 
length of time under this prodigious strain, 
tr ated and neglected as they are? 
We slice this delicate-organ open lengthwise 
with our knife, and will roughly describe its 
interior: 
We find it to he of a reddish-brown color, 
soft and easily torn: filled with hundreds of 
little tubes, short and thread-like, starting 
from the arteries, ending in a little tuft about 
midway from the outside opening into a cavi¬ 
ty of considerable size. Which is called the pel¬ 
vis, or, roughly speaking, a sac, which is for 
the purpose of holding the water to further 
undergo puritiratiou before it passes down 
from here into the ureters, and so on to the 
outside of the body. These little tubes are the 
filters which do their work automatically, 
and right here is where, the disease of the 
kidn ey first beglns. 
Doing the vast amount of work which they 
are obliged to, from the slightest irregularity 
in our habits, from cold, from high living, 
from stimulauts. or a thousand and on? other 
causes which occur every day. they become 
somewhat weakened iu their nerve force. 
What is the result? Congestion or stoppage 
of the current of Wood iu tlve small blood ves¬ 
sels surrounding them, which become blocked: 
these delicate membranes are irritated; in¬ 
flammation is set up, then pus is formed, 
width collects iu the pelvis or sac; the tubes 
are at first, partially, and soon are totally, un¬ 
able to do their work. The pel vis sac goes on 
distending v*itb this corruption, pressing upon 
the blood vessels. All this time, remember, 
the blood, which is entering the kidneys to be 
filtered, is passing through this terrible, dis¬ 
gusting pus , for it cannot take any other 
route! 
8top and thiuk of it for a moment. Do you 
realize the importance, nay the viral necessity, 
of Laving the kidneys in order? Can you ex¬ 
pect when they are diseased aud obstructed,no 
matter how little, that you can have pure 
blood and escape disease. It would be just as 
reasonable to expect, if a pest-house were set 
across Broadway and countless thousands were 
compelled to go through its pestilential doors, 
and escape from contagion aud disease, as for 
one to expect the blood to escape pollution 
when constantly ruuuing through a diseased 
kidney. 
Now, what is the result? Why, that the 
blood takes up aud deposits this poison as it 
sweeps along into every organ, into every inch 
of muscle, tissue, flesh and bone, from your 
head to your feet And whenever, from hered¬ 
itary influence or otherwise, some part of the 
body is wea ker than another, a countless train 
of diseases is established, such as consumption 
in weak lungs, dyspepsia, where there is a deli¬ 
cate stomach; nervousness, insanity, paralysis 
or heart disease in those who have weak 
nerves, 
The. heart must soon feel the effects of the 
poison, as it requires pure Hood to keep it 
in right action. Itjincreases— its stroke in 
uumber and force to compensate for the nat¬ 
ural stimulus wanting, in its endeavor to crowd 
the impure blood through this obstruction, 
causing pain, palpitation, or an out-ot-breatli 
feeling. Unnatural as t his forced labor is, the 
heart must soon falter, becoming weaker ami 
weaker until one day it suddenly stops, and 
death from apparent “heart disease” is the 
verdict. 
But, the medical profession, learned and dig” 
uified, call these diseases by high sounding 
names, treat them alone, and patieuts die, 
for thr arteries ore carrying slow death t<> 
the affected part, constantly adding fuel 
brought from these suppurating, pus-laden 
kidneys, which here in our wash-bowl are 
very putrefaction itself, and which should 
have been cured first. 
Hut this is not all the kidneys have to do: 
for you must remember that, each adult takes 
about seven pounds ol' nourishment every 
twenty-four hours to supply the waste of the 
body which is constantly going on, a waste 
equal to the quantity takeu. Tliis, too, the 
kidneys have to separate from the blood with 
all other decomposing matter. 
But you say, “My kidneys aro all right. 1 
have no pain in the back." Mistaken 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 jiuin nor an ache ! 
Why ? Because the disease begins, as we 
have shown, iu the interior of the kidney, 
where there are few nerves of feeling to 
convey the sensation of pain. Why this is so 
we may never know. 
When you consider their great work, the 
delicacy of their structure, the ease with 
which they are deranged, can you wonder at 
the ill-bealth of our men aud women? 
Health and long life caunot he expected when 
so vital an organ is impaired. No wonder 
some writers say we are degenerating. Don’t 
you see the great, the extreme importance of 
keeping this machinery in working order? 
Could the finest engine do even a fractional 
part of this work without attention from the 
engineer? Don’t you see how dangerous this 
hidden disease is? It is lurking about us con¬ 
stantly, without giving any indication of its 
presence. 
The most skillful physicians cannot detect it 
at times, for the kidneys themselves cannot 
be examined by any means which we have at. 
our comma ud. Eveu an analvsis of the water, 
chemically aud microscopically, reveals noth¬ 
ing definite in many cases, even when the kid¬ 
neys are fairly broken down. 
Then look out for them, as disease, no mat¬ 
ter where situated, to 08 per cent,., as shown 
by after-death examinations, has its origin in 
the breaking down of these secretiug tubes iu 
the interior of the kidney. 
As yon value health, ns you desire long life, 
free from sickness and suffering, give these 
organs some attention. Keep them in good 
condition and thus prevent, as (is easily done) 
all diseases. 
Warner’s Safe Cure, as it becomes year 
after year better known for its wonderful 
cures aud its power over the kidneys, has done 
and is doing more to increase the average 
duration of life than all the physicians aud 
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Take it when sick as a cure, and uever let a 
month goby if you need it without taking a 
few bottles Os u preventive, that the kidneys 
may be kept iu proper order, the blood pure, 
that health and longlife may be your blessing. 
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