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“THERE’S ROOM ENOUGH FOR ALL.”

What need of all this fuss and strife,

Each warring with his brother ? | pump. . Why should we, in the crowd of life, _ ‘Why, doctor?’ asked one of his friends. ea

Keep trampling down each other? | ‘Perhapshe has taken some drug,’ I replied. Is there no goal that can be won, é has”

Without « squeeze to gain it— ‘home all day, and there is no drug of any kind in the} No other way of getting on, house.’

But scrambling to obtain it? ‘No brandy ” I ventured the suggestion again. Oh, fellow-men, hear wisdom, then, No, doctor, no spirits of any kind in the house, re-|

in friendly warning call,— plied Mrs. H— in an offended tone. “ Your claims divide—the world is wide— i was not the regular family physician, and had been

Thero’s room euough for all!” called to meet the alarming emergency because my office happened to. be nearest to the dwelling of Mr. i{. Feeling my position to be a difficult one, | suggest- ed that the family physician had better be called.

‘ But, the delay, doctor,’ said the friends.

‘No harm will result from it, be assured,’ I replied.

But my word did not assure them. However, as I was firm in my resolution not to do any more for the patient until Dr. S— came, they had to submit. | wished to make a call of importance, in the neighbour- hood, end proposed going to be back by the time Dr. 8. arrived; but the friends of the sick man would not suf- fer me to leave the room.

When Dr. 8S. came, we conversed aside for a few , ' minutes, and I gave him my views of the case, and what From poisoned air ye breathe in courts, { had done, and why 1 had done it. We then proceed-

And typhus-tainted alleys, led to the bedside of our patient. There was still no Go forth and dwell where health resorts, signs of approaching consciousness.

In fertile hills and valleys ; ‘Don't you think his head ought to be shaved and Where every arm that clears a bough bijstered ?? asked the wife anxiously.

Finds Plenty in attendance, Dr. S. thoughta moment and then said— And every furrow of the plough, ‘Yes, by all means. Send fora barber, and alsoan

A step to independence, fresh fly blister, four inches by nine.’ Oh, hasten, then, from fevered den, , [looked in the face of Dr. S. with surprise. He was

And lodging cramped and small ; \perfectly grave and earnest. I hinted to him my doubt The world is wide—in lands beside of the good that mode of treatment would do. But he

There’s room enough for all. spoke confidently of the result, and said it would not only cure the disease, but he beleived, take away the predisposition thereto, with which Mr. [. was affected to a high devree. , The barber came. The head of Mr. H. was shaved, jand Dr. S. applied the blisier with his own hands ‘which completely covered the sca!p from forehead to jocciput. | ‘Let it remain on for two hours, and then make use) ‘of the ordinary dressing,’ said Dr. S. ‘if he should not! ‘recover during the, action of the blister, don’t feel un-|

What ifthe swarthy peasant find No field for honest labour,

He need not idly stop behind, To thrust aside his neighbour,

There isa land «with sunny skies, Which gold for toil is giving,

Where every brawny hand that tries ita strength can grasp a living.

Oh, fellow-men, remember, then, Whatever chance befall,

The worldis wide—where those abide, There’s room enough for all.

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In this fair region, far away, Will labour find employ arent. -- A fair day’s work, a fair day’s pay, And toil wil] earn enjoyment.

What need, then, of this daily strife, Where each was with his brother? Why need we, through the crowd of life, Keep trampling down each other? From rags and crime Australia’s clime

Will free the pauper’s thrall ;

' . ied easy. Sensibility will be restored socn after.’

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TREATING A CASE ACTIVELY.

BY JOHN JONES, M. D.

‘sult. | After we left the friends stood anxiously round the| bed upon which the sick man lay; though the blister }began to draw, no signs of returning consciousness ishowed themselves, further than an accasional! low moan invas once sent for, in great haste, to attend a gen-jor an uneasy tossing of the arins.. For two hours the itleman of respectability, whose wife—a lady of inteili-| burning parched the tender skin of Mr. H—’s head, and gence and refinement—had discovered him in hisroom,| was then removed. It had done good service. Dress-| lying senseless upon the floor. lings were then applied; repeated and repeated again;, On arriving at the house, I found Mrs. H— in great but still the sick man lay in a deep stupor. distress of mind. | ‘{t has done no good. Hadn't we better send for the! “What is the matter with Mr. H—?” IT asked on| doctor? suggested the wife. meeting his lady, who was jn tears and looked the pic-| Just then the eyes of 4i—opened, and he looked with ture of distress, _ jhalfstupified surprise from face to face of the anxious “Pin afraid i’s apoplexy,” she replied. “I found him! sroup, that surrounded the bed. tying on the floor, where he had to all appearance, fall-| ‘What in mischief’s the matter?’ he at length said. en suddenly from his chair, His face is purple, and! At the same time feeling a strange sensation about his though he breathes it is with great difficulty.” |head, he placed his hand rather heavily thereon. lwentup tosee my. putfent. He had been lifted; ‘Heavens and earth, he was now fully in his.senses. from the floor and was now lying upon the bed. Sure!‘ Heavens and earth what ails my head.’ enough, his face was purple and breathing laboured,| + For mercy’s sake, keep quiet,’ said the wife, with but somehow the symptoms did not indicate apoplexy,| glad tears rushing over her face. * You have been very Every veinin his head and face was tinged, and he lay very ill. ‘There, there, now ?’ and she spoke soothingly. pertectly stupid, Estill saw ng actual or approaching '‘ Don’t say a word, but Jie very still.’ congestion of the brain. ‘But my head. It feels as if scalded. Where’s my ‘Hadn't he better be bled, doctor? asked the anxious hair? Heavens and earth, Sarah! I don’t understand . ‘this. And my arm. What's my arm tied up in this way for?

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‘} don’t know that thatis necessary,’ I replied. ‘1 think if we let him alone, it will pass off in the course} “Be quiet, my dear husband, and [ will explain it all. of a few hours.’ ‘Oh, be very quiet, your life depends upon it.’

* A few hours, he may die in half an hour.’ | Mr. H— sank back on the pillow from which he had ‘] don’t thing the case is so dangerous, mada.’ ‘risen, and closed dis eyes tu think. He put his hand * Apoplexy not dangerous ? ‘to his head and felt it tenderly all over, from temple to ‘lL hardly think it apoplexy,’ I replied. ‘temple and from nape to forehead.

‘Pray what do you think it is, doctor ?’ “fs it a blister?’ he at length asked,

Mrs. H— leoked anxiously in my face. I delicately! ‘Yes dear. You have been very ill. We feared for hinted that he might possibly have been drinking too| your life” said Mrs. H.-affectionately. There have much brandy ; butshe positively and almost indignant- ‘been two physicians in attendance.’ ly objected. H—closed his eyes again. His lips moved. Those

‘No, doctor; I ought to know about that,’ she ttt Whenvent were not much edified by the whispered words tinued. ‘Depend upon it, the diseage is more deeply |that proceeded therefrom, They would have sounded seated. fam sure hehad better be bled. Won't you Strangely in a church, or to ears pole and refined.— bleed him, doctor? A few ounges of blood taken from) After this he lay for some time quiet his arin may give life to the now stagnant circulation! ‘Threatened with apoplexy, I suppose ” he chen gaid) of blood in his veins. interrogatively. :

Thas urged, I, aftersome reflection, ordered a bowel} ‘Yes, dear,’ replied his wife. ‘I found you lying in. and bandage, and, opening a vein from whieh the blood! sensible on the floor, on happening to come inte your lowed freely, relieved him of about eight ounces of hisiroom. {[t was most providential that I discovered you cireulating medium. But he still lay as vefore, much! when I did, or you would certainly have died.’

‘@ the distress of his poor wife. H— shut his eyes and muttered something with an

‘Something else must be done, doctor,’ she urged, jair of impatience. But its meaning wee not understood. seeing that the bleeding had accumplished nothing,— Finding him out of danger, friends and relatives re-

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been sent for, arrived, and urged upon me the adoption) permit the doetors to butcher me in this way? I'm laid ; > ‘ } au ainle and oft Betis -======:=|of some more active measures for restoring the sick|up fora week or Wvo, and al! jor noihing.’

‘Jt was to save your life, dear.’ ‘Save the d—l.’ ‘H-u-s-h! There! Do, for Heaven's sake! be quiet,

| Everything depends upon it.’

With a gesture of impatience, 11. shut his eyes, teeth

land hands, and lay perfectly still for some time. Then i om { . . ° . , ‘Impossible, doctor!” said the wife,‘he has been/he turned his face to the wall, muttering in a low peta-

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‘Too bad! too bad! too bad”

[had not erred in my first and Jast impression of H—’s disease; neither had doctor S—, although he used a very extraordinary mode of treatment. The facts of the case are these:

H— had-a weakness. He could not taste of wine or strong drink, without being tempted into excess, Both himself and friends were mortified and grieved at this, and they, by admonition, and he, by good resolutions, tried to bring about a reform. But to see was to taste, to taste was to fa)]. Atijast his friends urged him to shut htmself up at home for a certain time, and to see if total abstinence would not. give him strength. He got on pretty well for a few days—particularly so, as bis coachman kept a well filled bottle for him in the coach house, to which he not unirequently resorted; but a toe ardent devotion to this bottle brought on the supposed apoplexy.

Doctor S—was right in his mode of treating the dis- ease after all, and did not err in supposing that it would reach the predisposition. ‘The cure was effectual, H— kept quiet on the subject, and bore his shaved head up- on his shoulders with as much philosophy as he could muster. A wig, after the sores made by the blister had disappeared, concealed the barber’s work until his own hair grew again. He never ventured upon wine or bsandy again for fear of the apoplexy.

When the truth leaked out—as leak out such things always will—the friends of Mr. H— had many a hearty laugh; but they wisely concealed from the object of their merriment the fact that they knew anything more than eppeared of the cause of his supposed illness.

THE EMPIRE. The Scottish Press in an able aiticleon the resources

‘and condition ofthe British Empire eloguently remarks:

What could Providence have done for Great Britain ‘et it has not done ?--Her empire is the greatest.ever known. The san looks down upon her power in the whole of his diurnai course. The treasures of every zone have heen poured into her lap. Territories vast and fertile, yield up to her their resources, Her people are the wisest, the most skilful, and energetic on the face of the earth. Animated by the genius of conquest and the thirst of gold, they they have subdued every aborig- inal race, that dared to resist their progress. Britain reigns upon the ocean iu her wooden castles, and all pirates tremble at the sight of her flag. Her army, though composed of the basest materials whish she picks up in the streets, is wrought by discipline into a machine so perfect for the work of destruction, that none of her enemies can stand before her. She has colonics enough to absorb and enrich all her surplus population; and, at the same time, to minister abundant- ly to her own yrants and luxuries. Her revenues are almost incalculable. She rewards her rulers and de- fenders with unrivalled munificence. She has a hier- archy the richest and noblest inthe world. ier great educational institutions are magnificent. Her charita- ble foundations are on 2 scale worthy of her vast re. sources, and she professes the purest religion in Chris- tendon. Surely, then, her people ought to be happy— the happiest on earth! Yt, what says the loud voice of complaint that now proceeds from every part of her empire ? It says that foreign trade is declining—that her colonies are bankrupt—that her merchants aye failing—her manufacturers on the verge of ruin—her artisans going to bed supperless—-her pauperism rising like the tide and threatening to overwhelm her proper- ty—her taxation increasing—her towns beset by plot- ting incendiaries, who, though her own children, hate her power so much that they are ready to consume it im one wide-spread conflagration—ihat her gaols are crowded with men, who have risen in rebellion againat, her, because of her alledged injustice—that she has az immense juvenile population, uncradled and homeless, who have gone astray from the womb, in fraud, and crime, and impiety, and who prey revengefully upon her vitale—and that, to crown all, famine is agaix about to fatten her soil with the corpses of her children, while a third of the United Kingdom is so governed by force, that its population may be divided into twe chass- es—-madmen and their keepers !

A Proor THat a Man can BE AIS OWN Gramp- FATHER.—There was a widow and her daughter-in-law, and a man and his son. The widow was therefore mo- ther to her husband’s father, and consequently grand mother to her own husband. They had ason, to whom she was greatgrandinother—now, as the gon of the greatgrandmother must be either a graudfather or zreat-uoclé, this boy was one orthe other, Tle wae hie

‘afany husband ie oot quickly reLeved ke must die.’ tired, and the sick man was left eloae with his family.

owa grandfather! This was the case witha boy es.

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