Bloomington Progress, Volume 21, Number 42, Bloomington, Monroe County, 14 December 1887 — Page 4
SMOMT ESSAYS 09 MAM,
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In aline! ienje ilnii thieve do
Was Mddm to kMt laud and i
Mkmtt tante finds it hard MMtbM to tHB both ateo aaa gawd. Taw stank vaatooah as royal oak. To saw e cat is wee bo joke, BiiwHMovlkkwil'ktMni, -B Hanven harp onxoy beard !" A sketch sea qnrte lately written, -Haw to genteelly iw mitten." WWaaitTC nadtokaowi,naQft
-Ify eonaaka oflyo-r ooat straightway; Tm sillil you said joa'd only stay." "Wan. sent coon at each a rate, -fenf what I did, lata WUIato. XstTVaat Ff9C XYVCIe
1 LOVER'S EXPERIENCE
BY TW. & HOIK.
oa X have been fast
fctonda for some fire Tears, and ret I
nevar can understand you.
AfenT 1ia -nm mntteeinarin TOOT
sleep, sad sereral times I hare heard humhly ask your forgiveness for even
mi - 0 MatMb MattaS, most 1 1 recogmamg J"" " " -
book-keeper for help, as be had plenty
of money.
" 'After showing father his standing
he said he would think about lending him the money. At the same time lie
said if the vessel could be . completed he would coma out all right. It was agreed he should come to our house
that evening and make arrangements for the loan. Now I wish you to know the same gentleman had been calling upon me, and had propose.!, but as I
did not love him, I refused hts oner.
When he called thatevening he told
my father he could have the money on one condition, and that was I should promise to marry him.
'Father was almost struck dumb, out
not knowing of his being repeated by
me. I was sent for and made acquainted with his proposition. My father about to be ruined, and I could save him! But how? By marrying a man I did not love. 'How could I? I asked for one day to decide, but his book-keeper said one day would ruin my father. I bad no time to think of myself, but thought
only of m-v father and rum. In a
moment I had given my promise. " 'So now. my friend, for I hppe you
will remain so, you know all; and I
frieadi
lose you forever?"
Wow. nU bov. I should mdge a
Mattie has had something to. do with
thai tnwiblad look Of VOUTS, Am I
not right? "Well, Charley, you seem to have the keynote to my misery, so I will tell yon. of all my trouble; although you are the first person whom I have ever met to whom I wonld be willing to confide. I believe we both engaged with the firm of Miller Bros. & Co. the same week. You came from B ,
aad I .came from J , east.
anagers, we soon became
; aad I hope we may always re-
. the same.
"Many aad many a time I have visaed to tell yon all, but you never More asked me. Now, being as you have, I will unburden my heart to you, and perhaps you ean advise me. "Eight years ago this month,not being
in good health, X thought to visit some summer resort to recuperate, but while my body was being made strong my heart aad mind lost their usual
buoyancy.
"Yes, Mattie it is who has caused me so much trouble and so many sleepless nights; and I have tried, O so hard, to
forget her; poor girl, or woman rather,
her life must be miserable.
was not to blame.
I knew from the first moment we
met you loved me, and, uod forgive me, I returned it. Now let us part friends, and never more meet again. I
go to a life of misery, but you try to
forget me, and perhaps you may once
be happy m some true woman s
love.'
"With this sad story finished she arose
and prepared to go. What could I say?
There was no chance for argument. We
walked to the hotel in silence, and I bid her good-bye forever.
My life was blighted, and w so long
as time lasts. Next morning I left, and
soon after came here. Now, my friend,
canyon blameme?"
"No, indeed, I cannot, but so far as
advice goes I believe I can advise.
Have you ever heard whether they
were married or not ?"
"No; I never dared trust myself with
inquiry. 1 nave only triea to rorget; but these long eight years have made
no change; my love to-day is as intense
as it was the evening we parted.
I did not venture to say more, but
up my mind to learn if possible
whether or not Mattie was married; wrong scarcely ever wins thought I.
Next morning John was summoned to
the Keneral manager's office, and that
fn ahe evening he told me he was to start for
Portland at 4 the next morning to at
tend to some collecting for the firm.
In about a week he returned, and I
will tell yon his story, as he told it to
"After I had been at S about
two weeks I was one day taking exer
cise in a boat, all alone; and as it
an nnnsuallv pleasant August afternoon
I went farther out than usual; along JaaM nVimtlc T nntierl a boat to ntV
MM .- Cm nanam. Trailing I rtaged in packing his trunk.
, o T i "What's nn. old boy?" 1 asked, sur-
On arriving at our room the evening
after his return I found John busily en-
toward me, and as they came near:
lecQgnhwd a Mr. Benolds, an old
chum of my school-days. As they came
alongside he greeted me, and made me atipi!"1 with bis three lady companion, to one of whom I took a peculiar liking; and on my lonely trip home that evening I vowed that should
his my last trip alone.
"In a few davs. meeting Benolds, I
earelessly inqnired who the young lady
warn, as I had fonrotten her name, and
he told me it was s Miss Mattie T ,
every fine young lady of Portland, and
he also said she had
prised ; but one look at his radiant face
told me all. Such a joyous look 1 never
before beheld.
"What's up," said he, jumping up
and clasping my hand, "everthing,
everything; take a seat, and light this
cigar. Now, by Jove, are yott oomf ort-
abry settled? If so, I will tell you all.
St Andrews, don't I look happy, and
Lord, aint I too happy to live
"Say, Charley, you must pack up your
duds and go along with me.
Oh, no, you don't say ; but stop now,
mtnmad to her 1 got to. business, and tell me all
You say no? Well, but old ooy it
ITS. s i. mT pa aJr Jta. 1 OSS SOS IO DO TS; W-murruw uuvu wo
anointed: in fact I loved her from the Mare.
our eves metv I snt noia on nere; now rat ma
" 'Is ehe lik-lv to return this season V I wbat'a np, " replied I, "and dont run
I enarrired. i on m that manner; one would unn you
'No, I think not,' replied he, toher was an escaped lunatic. -
vxcze a aw a stoxo nor. I dropped into the treasury and looked at the workmen who are en gaged in constructing the now vault. The treasury itself looks like a tomb.
It has great sombor columns down each side of it, and tho doors of its basement are so out that they look as though they were dug out of a solid rook. Everything about it is massive, and it makes me think more of the Bank of England than any other build' ing I have scon. It is made in the shape of a hollow square, with wide tiers of granite walls running around a court in the center. It is in this court that the new vault U being built. Thick walls of brick and cement rise within, and the vault will be above and not below tho ground. Its interior will be cut np into cells walled with iron lattice-work, and the workmen are now riveting the iron bars composing it together. These bars must be very strong, as the weight of the. silver which is to ba pnt in the vault will be immense. There was a portable furnace blazing away within the vault today, and four men were carrying red hot rivets and stiching them through the holes which had been drilled in
these iron bars. They wore then
riveted by the pounding of a heavy hammer while a man held an iron malot against them at the baok. Each of these lattioa-work walls requires 2,500 rivets and it will take more than 100,000 of these rivets to fasten the iron-work of the vault together. The vault is to contain $100,000,000, whioh is suoh an immous sum that few people can comprehend it. It will give
some idea of it to know that its weight
will be 3,580 tons, or the weight of 35,800 men of 200 pounds each. Think of the heaviest man you know, and it would take 35,000 such men to weigh as much as dies this silver. It would take 179 freighters to carry it, and it wonld take a train a mile and a quarter long to transport it. Its weight would be so much that six locomotives could hardly haul it, and if these dollars wera laid out so that one just touched the other they would make a line 2,305 miles long. If they wore put into a floor edge to edge, they wo.ild carpet ten times the area of the oapitol, or more than thirty acres, and if they were piled one upon another they wonld reach more than 1,500 times as high as the Washington monument, making a
solid aolnmn of silver more than 177 miles high. A million dollars in silver is no small quantity, and when yon paok $100,000,000 into a vault it has to be as strong as stone and iron can make it To rob this vault will be a physical impossibility. To tnnnel into it one would have to go under the whole treasury building,
and he wonld have to drill through a floor of cement and chilled steel before he got to the coin. The slightest noise would be sure to be heard, and the movement of a single bag would cause such a racket as to bring the ground down upon him instanter. No attempt has, I think, ever been made to rob the
United States Treasury, and the safeguards about it are so strong that none but the craziest of man would think of
trying it Washington letter, in Sa
vannah News.
osPKAirs. MMtH Ci or yfniMioiM Vwmwl TfoWf iAe slaughter f B(rJ. London Exchange. The source and mode of procuring the little tufts of feathers not much bigger than a hairpin, and worn in the hats and bonnets of women of all ages under the name of ospray, egret, and aigrette, should cause considerable qualms of conscience even to the thoughtless devotees of fashion. It would appear that the plumes are not derived from the spray, or fishing eagle (although it would be equally cruel to Wear them if they wero), but from the egrets and smaller herons, who wear them, like the "wanton lapwing," only in the spring and during
i are not very well off, and can
not afford to 1st her remain here long.'
"I went to my room that evening with a heavy heart, and -while I remained
there my life was more miserable than
it was ever before, . but leaving
dm not ease me. I worried constantly.
"The next season I went there -again,
bwt she did not come.
"And the next season 2 went again
just before I eame here, in the vain ( of meeting her. I oould not af
ford it, bat I went.
Joy to my aching heart 1 the first per-
aonlmet was Mattie V , aad, strange to say, -ae recognised each the moment we met; and stranger etui, we met as
if we had been old
0, ean any one imagine the burden
lifted from my heart as her hand
touched mme. I invited her to walk
to the hotel with me, an invitation she
binehingly accepted. Before we parted
it was agreeably settled we should go
frrating aftet dinner, which we did, and I look back on part of that evening as thehspTseat of my life, and part as the moat mkerable. "I poured myaoulonttoher,and asked her to be mine. But when I had ft"". Charley, imagine my feelings, if you can.
"She looked at me with tears gushing from her eyes aad said: 'Forgive me, dear sir, but! am already married.'
"For an instant, heaven fordid, I was
WelL I will; yes, I will, but well
I will be-doggone if I can, butl will try.
Yon know I went to Portland to attend to some collecting ; well that was soon done; and, as I had an hour or two be
fore train time I strolled down to the
shipyard and the very first thing that
met my eye was a large vessel named
The Mattie V , and by Jove, it was
newly painted. What could it mean?
But I did not take Ions to think. In a
minute I was asking the foreman Mr. T s place of business.
"Arriving at his office I met an elderly
mntleman just about to leave. I asked
for Mr. V , and the gentleman said,
I guess I am the man you are looking
for.'
"Handing him my eard, I asked him if
there was anything I could do for him to-day. He read, then reread my
card; for an instant he looked at me,
then said:
" Tour name is John So-and-so, is it?"
" 'Yes sir,' I replied.
" 'WelL sir, I have advertised for a
crentleman by that name for about
seven years. Have you ever met
lady at S , the famous watering
place, by the name of Mattie Y ?'
" 'Yes, sir, I have met her twice; once
in 167 , and two years later.'
" 'You are the man; come with me.
You are to dine at my house to-day.'
"I thought no more about my train,
did I ask him about Mattie. At
tempted to take both our Uvea, but my better nature overcame the evil spirt, ssk! our return to shore was in silence, except her bitter sobs. Asl took Imrhaiid to assist her landing all my hatred tamed to pity, and I humbly begged for forgiveness. " 'Friend,' replied she, 'It is I who
saoald ask forgfVeness, I should have
told yon all before, but I could not.
mm were such strangers. It has all
been so sudden. I am not married yet,
bat jam as flood, uod grant I may
have strength to fulfill my promise.' "What could I say? what oould I do? Must I give np hope, yes, my very life? "No, I could not; no I would not I must kr.o alL "Placing her arm in mine, we started lor the hotel, some three-quarters of a mile drn In aflenee we walked along until we eame to the park. Here I made a bold effort to control myself, sadaaked her to take a seat and tell me aB. bat she hesitated, then said:
Bwdae von, and I win, but remem
ber, there's to lie no argument
I have siven my promise, and tor my
assmrn' sake I must fulfill it al-
thouirh may take my Mfe.
" "Mr father is in the ship-buildisg
at Fortland, and some now or
losing money for three
er fear jeers.
" 'Aboutten months ago ha hadalarge vsswal about half completed, when ho
naiad hhasalf short of money. Whfi
wm tote done? We eontrivsd arery
his office door bis carriage was in readiness, and we soon arrived at a splen
did mansion. I was shown into the parlor, and Mr. Y asked to be excused for a few moments. He had been gone, perhaps two minutes, when the door opened softly and a young lady entered. She advanced toward me, then of a sudden stool motionless. I tell you, Charley, I cant tell you any more. It was my Mattie, and we are to be married day-after-to-morrow,
and yon are to be my right-hand man.
And, further, you are to be our bookkeeper.
"Well, now, John, where are you
running to again? Book-keeper for
whom?
O, didn't I tell you. Mr. V gives
the management of the business into
my hands, and requested me to bring a good book-keeper with me, so you see you cant say no; now pack up your
duds."
"But you haven't said what became of your rival book-keeper?" "O, yes, I forgot He is now
serving out a twenty-five yasrs sen-, tones in the Maine penitentiary for embezzlement " The next morning we settled with the firm and started for Portland, where the next day I witnessed the marriage of the happiest couple I ever saw. aaBamiaBawawMawwHejec: Inteujoest people mako many blunders, because they san nsvor be Jjeva the wwW M stupid Mtti
ACSTUALZAf BIBO-. Australia has, to some extent, been
invaded by later typas of birds and other flying creatures, who live on there side by side with the ancient ani
mals of the secondary pattern. ' War
blers, thrushes, fly-catchers, shrikes, and crows must all be comparatively
recent immigrants from the Asiatic mainland. Even in this respect, however, the Australian life region still bears an antiquated and undeveloped aspect Nowhere else in the world do
we find those very oldest types of birds represented by the cassowaries, the
emus, and the mooruk of New Britain,
The extreme term in this exceedingly ancient set of creatures is given us by the wingless bird, the apteryx or kiwi of New Zealand, whose feathers nearly resemble hair, and whose grotesque appearance makes it as much a wonder in
its own class as the puzzle monkey aad the casuarina are among forest trees.
No feathered creatures so closely ap
proach tho lizard-tailed birds of the oolite or the toothed birds of the cre
taceous period as do these Australian and New Zealand emus and apterrxes.
Again, while many characteristic Oriental families are quite absent, like
the vultures, woodpeckers, pheasants.
and bulbuls, the Australian region has many other fairly ancient birds, found nowhere else on the surface of our modern planet Such are the so-called brush turkeys and mound builders, the only feathered things that never sit upon their own eggs, but allow them to be hatched after the fashion of reptiles, by the heat of the sand or of fermenting vegetable mattor. The piping crows, the honeysuckers, the lyre birds, und the more-porks are all peculiar to
the Australian region. So are the wonderful and testhetio bower birds. Brush-tongued lories, black cockatoos
and gorgeously colored pigeons, though somewhat less antique, perhaps, in type, give a special character to the life of the country. And in New Guinea, an isolated bit of tho same old continent, the birds of paradise, found nowhere else in the whole world, seem to recall some forgotten Eden of the remote past, some golden age of Saturninn splendor. Poetry apart, into which I have dropped for a moment like Mr. Silas Wegg, the birds of paradise are, in fact, gorgeously dressed crows, specially adapted to forest life
in a rich frnit-bearing tropical country,
where food is abundant and enemies unknown, Comhilh
the breeding season. These beautiful birds, We are told, breed generally in companies or "rookeries," and one of their principal n -sting places is, or
was, Florida, An ornithologist, writing
recently, says: "Plume hunters have
destroyed about all the Florida rook
eries. I saw one whole wagon load of j the scapular plumes of ardea wardi at one point It is a burning shame, and it would make your heart ache to hoar the wails of tha starving young birds whose parents have been killed. Two years more of the present work, and ardea wardi as well as the large and small egrets will be scarce as ardea wuerdemanni is now." Another wellknown naturalist, Mr. Scott, in a poper on the bird rookeries of Florida, siys: "An old Frenchman came in with a boat and killed off the old birds (the brown pelican), as they wore feeding their young, obtaining about one hundred and eighty of them. The young about three weeks old to the number of several hundreds at least, and utterly unable to care for themselves, were simply left to starve to death in their nests or to be eaten by raccoons and buzzard." The price of "ospray" in London a year or two ago was about 136 a pound, and it is obvions that a wagon load must be a perfect fortune to a man, and nothing short of refusing to wear the nuptial plumes of these poor egrets will put an end to their
laughter. But there is going on at
the present moment an equally bar
barous destruction of the beautiful sea birds on our Yorkshire coast, for the very same purpose of providing trim
mings for girls and women's hats and
bonnets. This heartless destruction is
the more deplorable, as it had been
nnt-mnated. and efforts have boon
made, but in vain, to induce the magis
trates of the East Biding to follow the example of their brother magistrates
of the North Riding, and I believe of evory other part of the British coast where sea birds breed, to extend the
close time from August 1 to SeptemWr 1, and thus allow tho young birds to get well on the wing, and the old birds
to recover from the tameness and fear
lessness of man incident to the breed
ing season and the subsequent moulting
of their feathers.
This destruction of sea birds for
ladies' hats is by no means a craze of to-day, but has been going on for many years, as the following extract from
"Yarrell's Birds" shows :
The eggs of kittiwakes are seldom laid until the last week in June, so that many of the young are still in the
nest, or barely fliers, when the Sea Birds' Protection act expires on
August 1. Some years ago, when the
plumes of birds were much worn in
ladies' hats a fas'iion which any season
may see revived the barred wings of
the young kittiwake wera in groat de
mand for this purpose, and vast num
bers were slaughtered at their breeding
haunts.
At Clovolly, opposite Imndy Island,
there was a regular staff for preparing
the plumes, and fishing smacks with
extra boats and crews used to commence their work of destruction at Lundy
Island by daybreak on August 1, con
Hnninir this Droceedinar for upward of
a fortnight
Tn manv cases winirs were torn off
wounded birds before they were dead,
the mangled victims being thrown back into the water. The editor has seen
hundreds of young birds dead or dying of starvation in their nests through want of their parents' care, for in the
heat of the fusillade no distinction was
made between old and young. On one day 700 birds were sent back to Clovelly, in another 500, and so on; and, allowing for the starved nestlings, it is well within the mark to say that at least 9,000 of these inoffensive birds were destroyed during the fortnight. We hope that the London dealers
and taxidermists may be disappointed in their efforts to revive the fashion of wearing sea birds during the coming winter. It is some satisfaction to know that some of the principal ladies' hntters of London have declared their intention of not using the plumes, wings, and skins of wild birds in future. 31 JXBT-MMOEBI AMOXQ TUB BABT-
SOME BTBASGE CONFESSIONS.
BaVaral CWd Starla Which. Convey Very
Needful Moral. Tho Boohester (N. Y.) Vnion reports having this dialogue with an emiuentpbyuoin: "Cn you cure & cold for nief "I dare say ; where is it?" "Do you treat yourself for eohU)?" "That dopondi on how bad they ara. I had bn lant week and fixed myself up a dose, but I didn't dare take it I kept it over night and aye it to a 'deadhead' patient the next day !" Then you don't dare take your own mcdi-
"No! I don't dare, and I have no family physician." ,. , A gentleman, a short timo ago, consulted hie physician alxrat a severe rheunwtio attack. As he was leaving, the doctor Baid: "Bhould my prescription afford any relief, lot me know it, as 1 am suffering from an affection similar to yours, and for the last twenty years have tried in vain to onro it! The belt of physicians now have the frankness to admit that the schools have not yot mastered all there in to know about the causes of disease, and the best methods of cure. There has been a great advance, no doubt, m medical science, in the last fifty yoars. Dootors themselves do not take their own physic, even thoug hthcy may saturate the sys
tems of their patients with poisonous drugs,
formerly.
nor do they bleed, blister, and torture, as
Bvron died, it is claimed, because of over-
bloeding by his physicians. Washington met
we same fate: Scientific investigation shows that mot ailments proceed from derangement of primary organs, of whioh the kidueys are the most im
portant, isverv arop oi moon duuibuib
hrough the system passes througn tnese or
gans, and it thev are aorangeu, me moon
Miandilv becomes imnure. and carries thi
seeds of disease to every part of the body.
We keep the organs regulatod dv
by the use of a
implo vegetable compound like Warner's safe
cure, which Prot Lathmore, New York Btato board of Health Analyst, of the Boenester Universitv, says: "I find entirely free from mercury 'and all poisonous and deleterious substances" there is little dangor of bright's
disease, apoplexy, rheumatism, or any or me common ailments, nearly all of which originate in or aro made fatal by diseased (though unsuspected) kidneys. This groat remedy has
uie reputation, wnicn seems won unuram, ui
Aiirmir mnrn fllftpftflpjt 1)111 RUV (UK utuer
romedv ever known. It restored tne son qi
the Danish vice-Consul Schmidt of 0 wau Street, New York, from Bright's disease, and
uon. inrisuauson, or urexoi, mu avu., fiankcrs of New York, who knew of the case, pronounced it a wonderful remedy.
as appropriate to mo uuciura m their patients what they will not take themselves, we quote ibis story:
un, Mr. emitn, nip me out, iotuiu
vouug lady at a oliuron rair. -i ve soiu a uuj
or S15 that only cost 15c. Wuat porcentags
is the profit?"
I'crcentage, maaainr uicwmiwi wv with merriment "That transaction is beyond percentage it is simple larceny!" Tho professional man Who takes ones money when he can do one no equivalent service will understand tho moraL
A SliaHTlKil lit AM NIAGARA. As a possible theory of the origin of the Mississippi, Messrs. Robert Bates and John A. Keyes suggest that its eiosiou was accomplished by means of a mighty cataract which began far down the river near its original mouth,
and by gradual retrocession dug out the valley-like gorge whioh is so marked a feature in the upper part of its course, and left the high bluff walls
on either hand. This view makes bt Anthony's Falls the ever decreasing and receding remnant of the once most stupendous cataract the world ever saw, having a perpendicular descent of perhaps 500 feet The time required to cut out the entire channel is placed at 00,000 years. Arkansaw Traveler. Sobrows are our best educators. A man may ea farmer through, a tear than tl0Pf.
LUSI.tSS.
The greater part of the so-called
Egibi tablets are agreements for loans in which the borrower binds himself to
return the amount together with inter
est prescribed in the cot tract. Some of these contracts are really statements recording a loan, which were drawn up
when payment became due, in order to
levy execution on the borrower, w nea
a Babylonian wanted to begin business
he often borrowed upon his own pro
perty so as to get the necessary capital.
Several tablets record the agreement of two parties mortgaging their houses with the (stated) intention of creating
a capital and of starting business. Tho system of taxation in Babylonia also
made money-lenders indispensable, es
pecially to agriculturists, who had to nav their taxes before harvest, and
were therefore obliged to borrow on
the'r future crops. Interest was cralunllv, though not always, paid by
the month, and the oapital was pnul
back by installments; tho interest was
about one-sixtieth per month, or 20 per cant, per annum. But what increased
the profit of a money-lender most was
tlia vknm which is still in USB 111
Asia Minor, of paying taxes in kind
The auriculturist had to buy grain
when the price was high, and wheu tho
brrvest came to realuse at a low price.
I.diice a money-lender was often also a
corn and grain lender; many contracts record loans of corn and money, and the time mentioned for repayment is
generally harvoit iime. Among the victims of cocaine the medical profession furnishes the greatest number, which goes to show that a iittk kB0Wlad it 4Mf aWM feisty
Morphia Terror of Being Its Slave.
Watch a morphia habitue deprived of
the drug. The first alight uneasiness and sense of discomfort gradually
passes into extreme restlessness, accompanied by the most profound depression ; the stomach becomes so irritable that nothing can be retained, and there
is nausea and a distressing sensation ox emptiness and sinking. The whole nervous system, which has been working so long under a deadening weight, abuses its liberty and runs absolutely
not; a breath of air which would Ming relief to an ordinary sufferer is painful to him; so sensitive is the skin that a touch distresses, and even the eye and
ear are incapable of tolerating the most
ordinary stimulations. io these
troubles u added sleeplessness; we patient cannot get a moment's rest; or, if he should close his eyes in sleep, hor nble dreams and indefinite terror take possession of him, and make him dread that condition which others look to for consolation and relief. Incapacity to
take food, prolonged sleeplessness, constant sneezing, yawning, and vomiting, painful acuteness of all his senses, and other troubles sink the sufferer into a condition of prostration and despair, only to be relieved bj morphia. Who, then, can wonder if the wretch yields again to the drug which has so long enslaved him? Hovering between a longing to be free and a feeling of incapacity to endure his agonies, he asks reproachfully whether it is true that science has discovered no means of relief, no substitute for morphia, which may be given him until the storm be past. No, we have no means at our disposal which will do more than allev'ate these sufferings; and if the morphia habitue will be freed, he must place himself under such control as can prevent his giving way under the trial, as he almost invariably will if left to himself. But, severe as the ordeal is, he has this consolation and this great inducement to submit to it namely, that it is short A few day will see him through the worst, and although he may not be comfortable for a week or two, his discomfort is endurable, and becomes less
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Wast of Tissue Wllliout Kepair. Vigor begins to decline when dyspepsia in
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