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POEM BY COL. BAKER.
A melancholy interest now attaches to
the following graphic tribute of a brave
man to his comrades who fell in Mexico.
How truly it can be said of him and
those who perished with him at Ball's
Bluff,
"In kindred hearts their memories live,
And history guards their fame !"
TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD OF THE FOURTH
ILLINOIS REGIMENT
BR COL. E. D. BIKER
Where rolls the rushing Rio Grande
Here peacefully they sleep ;
Far from their native Northern land,
Far from their friends, who weep,
No rolling drum disturbs their rest,
Beneath the sandy sod—
The mould lies heavy on each breast.
The spirit is with God•
They heard their country's call, and cam•
To battle for her rights ;
Each bosom filled with martial flame,
And kindling for the fight.
Light was their measured footstep when
They moved to meet the foe;
Alas, that hearts so fiery then,
Should soon be cold and low:
They did not die in eager strife,
Upon a well fought field ;
Not from the red wound poured their life.
Where cowering foemen yield.
Death's ghastly shade was slowly east
Upon each manly brow;
But, calm and fearless to the last,
They sleep in silence now.
Yet shall a grateful country give
Her honors to their name.
In kindred hearts their memories live,
And history guards their fame.
Nor unremembered do they sleep
Upon a foreign strand,
Though near their grave. the wild waves
sweep,
Thou rushing Rio Grande.
gttert Bisuilarg.
RETRIBUTION.
Profane as well as sacred history
is full of instances of fearful retribu
tion attending actual or contempla
ted crimes. Thus we read that Pope
Alexander VI. prepared a jar of pois
oned sweetmeats with which to de
stroy the wealthy Cardinal Corneto.
He ate of it himself, and died in
agony. Louis the Debonnaiee, son
and successor of Charlemagne, put
his nephew Bernard to death, and
forced his three natural brothers to
assume the clerical tonsure. This
was done at the instigation of his
queen. She died, and he married
again. His second wife was unfaith
ful, and gave birth to a spurious son.
His own three sons treated him as
unnaturally as he had treated his
three brothers ; and finally the spur
ious child succeeded to the Empire
of France; so that all of Louis'
crimes to secure France to his descen
dants were completely frustrated,
and he gained nothing but a similar
unnatural treatment to that which he
had shown. Anne Boleyn, maid of
honor to Queen Catherine, encoura
ged the addresses of Henry VIII.,
and thereby stimulated him to divorce
his lawful wife. When Catherine
died of grief and mortification, Anne
could not conceal her exultation, and
said that she was then a queen in
deed. But at that very moment re
payment in kind was awaiting the re
joicing queen. The lustful monarch
had looked with unhallowed love
upon Jane Seymour, one of her own
maids of honor, and Anne was
brought to the block to make room
for her rival. But justice was not
meted out merely to the wretched
Anne. Cardinal Wolsey, who con
spired against Catherine, and encour
aged Henry to divorce her, was him
self soon after disgraced and di
vorced from all his wealth and dignity
Cranmer, who was active in the same
wicked deed, but from different mo
tives from Wolsey, was burned years
after by the daughter of the disgraced
queen. Mary thirsted for the blood
of the man who wronged her mother,
and her hatred of Cranmer, more
than her love of Catholicism, brought
him to the stake. Napoleon di
vorced the noble Josephine, so that
the crown of France might be trans
mitted to his own descendants. A
grandson of the divorced empress is
now on the throne, and the race of
Napolean Bonaparte is extinct. The
imperious and vindictive Sarah cast
out Hagar and Ishmael into the wil
derness, saying, "The son of this
bondwoman shall not be heir with my
BOtt i even with - Isaac." Bat all that
country is sow possessed by the de
scendants of the bond-woman, while
the children of Isaac are scattered
over the face of the whole earth.
And what is the history of the dif
ferent dynasties that have tyranni
sed over mankind bat the record of
murder and usurpation, and then, in
turn, dethronement and death ? They
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dagger or poisoned bowl, upon the
traitors themselves. These consti
tute jtlmost one half their annals. It
is but little better in modern history.
We have the same circle—beginning
in conspiracy and murder, and com
ing back to the starting point of con
spiracy and murder. We meet this
bloody round of treachery and ven
geance again and again in England
during the dark era of the "War of
the Roses." Edward IV. and his
brutal brothers murdered Henry VI.,
the Prince of Wales, and thousands
of the adherents of the house of Lan
caster. And then the royal trio
turned their fury against one another.
Clarence was murdered by his broth
ers. Edward perished in the prime
of his life; his death being hastened
by the cares and anxieties attending
the usurped crown, by remorse for
his brother's death, and by his in
dulgence in those pleasures which
his assumed rank gave him. His two
sons were murdered by command of
their uncle Richard, and Richard him
self slain in battle. And nearly all
who aided the fierce brothers in their
cruelties came to untimely ends.
It is remarkable how few great
conquerors have died natural deaths.
Alexander the Great perished in his
thirty-third year; it matters little by
poison (as some suppose) or by excess
in drinking. In either case, his con
quests led to his death : for his career
of victory brought about him a crowd
of sycophants, who paid him the most
idolatrous homage, and eneouraged
him in his excesses. Hannibal de
stroyed himself by poison to escape
from falling into the hands of his en
emies. Ctesar fell beneath the dag
gers of his former friends in the sen
ate-house of Rome. Napolean died
in his fifty-second year; his death be
ing hastened by his confinement, by
mortification at the loss of his pow
er, and by the vexatious treatment
to which he was subjected. Charles
XII. was killed by a cannon ball.—
Gustavus Adolphus fell in battle on
the plains of Lutzen; even that vir
tuous monarch forming no exception
to the law, "He that killeth with the
sword must be killed by the sword."
The greatest of warriors, Marshal
Turenne, was killed with a cannon
ball at Saltbach. The brutal Suwar
roff died of a broken heart, because
of the neglect of his royal master,
Paul. A similar fate was that of
Gonsalvo de Cordova, the "Great
Captain," as the Spaniards still de
light to call him. He died in retire
ment, an exile from court, and under
the displeasure of his sovereign.—
The declining years of Cortes were
embittered by the envy and malice
of his enemies. Alvarado, his lieu
tenant, who won such an enviable
notoriety for his cruelty and rapaci
ty, filled at length a bloody grave.—
The remorseless Francisco Pizarro
fell by the hands of wretches as piti
less as himself. Diego Almagro, who
had sigpalized himself by his cruelty
to the Peruvian monarch, Atahualpa,
was strangled to death whilst a pris
oner. And so many hundreds of oth
er instances might be given to show
that God does avenge the shedding of
the blood of those made in his own
image.
Parallel to the fate of warriors and
conquerors is that of tyrants and
wicked rulers. How few of these
have been peimitted to live out half
their days ! The licentious monster,
Domitiau, fell by the hand of the as
sassin.
The fiddling fool and bloody
knave, Nero, poisoned himself. The
ferocious Caligula was killed by con
spirators, after a reign of four years.
The brutal Commodus was first poi
soned and then strangled. The sav
age fratricide, Carcalla, was stabbed
with a dagger. The effeminate, su
perstitious vindictive Elagabalus was
assassinated by the Pretorian guards.
The remorseless giant, Maximin, was
slain in his tent. The cruel debauch
ee, Gallienus, was killed by a dart
from the hand of a conspirator.—
Carimis, who, Gibbon says, united
the extravagances of Elagabalus with
the cruelties of Domitian, fell by the
hand of an injured husband. Gailius,
distinguished for his treachery and
bloodthirstiness, was betrayed and
murdered, &c., &c. And if we come
down to the arkest and most dis
graceful of all the periods and histo
ry—the era of the French Revolution
—what colimentary is afforded on
the text, "As thou bast done, it shall
be done to thee; thy reward shall re
turn upon thine own head." Obadi
ah 15. Row few of the traffickers in
blood were permitted to close their
lives in peace! How fearful was the
retribution upon the ruthless Trium
virate, Danton, Marat, and Robespi
ere ! Danton was sentenced to the
guillotine by the revolutionary tribu
nal which he himself had established:
Marat was stabbed to the heart by
Charlotte Corday. She pretended
that she had important information
respecting his intended victims in
Caen, and time get access to his per
son. "She Mond him in the bath,
where he eagerly inquired after the
proscribed _deputies at Caen. Being
told their maw , 'They shall soon
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on Robespiere, the greatest monster
of the three, was still more signal.—
His lower jaw was shattered by a
pistol ball; he was then dragged by
the, heels over the pavernentsinto his
own quarters, and laid on the very
table on which he had signed so many
death-warrants. There he lay for
nine hours, enduring agony unutter
able from his wound, half frantic
with terror of death, and cowering
under the jeers and taunts of the
mob. He was next taken to the very
cell in which he had a few days be
fore confined some of his victims.—
At 4 o'clock next morning he was ta
ken to the scaffold, erected on the
I very spot where his royal victims,
Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette,
had been executed. "The blood from
his jaws burst through the bandage
and overflowed his dress; his face
was deadly pale. He shut his eyes,
but could not close his ears against
'the imprecations of the multitude.—
A woman, breaking from the crowd,
exclaimed, 'Murderer of all my kin
dred, your agony fills me with joy ;
descend to hell, covered with the
curses of every mother in France !'
Twenty of his comrades were execu
ted before him. When he> ascended
the scaffold, the executioner tore the
bandage from his face; the lower
jaw fell upon his breast, and he utter
ed a yell which filled every heart
with horror. For some minutes the
frightful figure was held up to the
view of the multitude; he was then
placed under the axe
' and the last
sounds which reached his ear were
their exulting shouts, which were
prolonged some minutes after his
death. 'Yes, Robespiere, there is a
God!' said a man, approaching the
lifeless body of ono so lately the ob
ject of dread. His fall was felt by all
present as an immediate manifesation
of the Divinity." The butcher,
Couthon, was guillotined. So was his
colleague, the sanguinary atheist, St.
Just.
After the deaths of Marat and Dan
ton, Couthon and St. Just, with Ro
bespiere, constituted the second rev
olutionary triumvirate. They suffer
ed with him on the same spot where
the royal family had suffered, and
where the allied sovereigns, on their
mission of vengeance and retribution,
"took their station, when their vic
torious armies entered Paris, on the
31st of March, 1814." Fouquier Tin
ville, the public accusor, probably the
blackest-hearted villain of them all,
was brought to the block (soon after
the fall of Robespiere) amid the exe
crations of an immense multitude.—
Herbert one of the most pitiless of
all "the terrorists," the "projector of
the "feasts of reason," in contempt of
religion and a future state, manifest
ed the utmost terror when his own
head was brought under the revolv
ing axe. Some of the terrors of that
after-life, which he had affected to
disbelieve, were made by retributive
justice to be his portion even in this.
The "first apostle of liberty," as he
called himself, Camille Desmoulins,
was followed to execution by thous
ands of the kindred of those he had
murdered. The wretch met his death
amid the curses of the infuriated
mob, and he in turn cursing them
with the most vindictive hate until
the fatal axe fell. Arsimilar fate be
fell Sechelles, Henriot, Coffinhal, Si
mon, and all the leaders of the in
fernal Jacobin club, with perhaps
two exceptions. Collot D'Herbois
died in confinement and exile. Ba
rere lived to be an old man, and died
universally hated, after having en
dured during his long life a thousand
deaths from fear, disgrace, and the
stings of conscience. The Giron
dists, who had been first to sow the
storm of revolution, were the first to
reap the whirlwind of destruction.—
Their leaders, Verginaud, Brissot, &e.,
went to the place of execution sing
ing the revolutionary song which they
had composed to excite the passions
of the people. Truly "did they eat
of the fruits of their own ways and
were filled with their own devices."
And were not the horrors of the
"Reign of Terror," and the dreadful
sufferings entailed upon France by a
war of twenty-two years with near
ly all Europe, the results of the ret
ributive justice of God? France, as
a nation, had defied the power of
God, and even denied his existence.
As they would not have Him to reign
over them, He left them to them
selves—to the dominion of their own
evil passions and depraved appetites.
They were just lot alone, as they
wished to be. And the pathway of
blood from Moscow to the mountains
to Spain was traced by their own
hands. Even the corrupt Sieyes could
perceive that the punishment of Heav
en was to leave his enemies to work
their own will. . .
These wretches had declared that
it was their mission "to dethrone the
King of heaven as well as the mon
archs of the earth." The Goddess
of Reason was to be worshipped in
stead of the only wise God?' Accopt
ingly, a veiled prostitute was brought
into the national assembly. One of
the leaders of the municipality arose,
and unveiling the figure said : "Mor
tals, cease totremble before the thun
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lage bells were silent ; the Sabbath
was obliterated. Infancy entered
the world without a blessing, and age
left it without a hope. In lieu of the
services of the Church, the fetes of
;the new worship were performed by
the most abandoned females; it ap
peared as if the Christian truth had
been succeeded by the orgies of the
Babylonian priests, or the grossness
of the Hindoo theocracy. On every
tenth day a revolutionary leader as
cended the pulpit and preached athe
ism to the bewildered audience; Ma
' rat was defied, and even the instru
ment of death sanctified by the name
of the 'Holy Guillotine.' On all the
the public cemetries the inscription
was placed, 'DEATH IS AN ETERNAL
, SLEEP: The comedian,
Monort, in
the church of St. Boa, carried im
piety to its utmost length. 'God, if
I you exist,' said he, 'avenge your in
jured name. I bid you defiance. You
remain silent; you dare not launch
your thunders. Who, after this, will
believe in your existence ?"
God demonstrated his existence
far more effectually by leaving this
wretched people to work out their
ewn ruin, than by striking the silly
blasphemer dead on the spot. After
one million twenty-two thousand and
three hundred and fifty-one victims
had fallen during the Reign of Ter
ror. a peasant standing over the dead
body of the chief murderer, felt the
demonstration of the Divine Being
to be complete, and exclaimed—" Yes
Robespiere, there is a God !" But
not only was the demonstration to
to be written out in blood—the cor
ollary also was to be traced in the
tears of agony of the God-forsaken
people. The revolutionary tribunal
was overthrown, but to establish a
military despotism. When Robes
piere fell, Napolean arose. France
had yet to wade through blood for
twenty years. Four million one hun
dred and three thousand of her sons
were drafted for war, and their bones
were scattered. over every country
in Europe, and even found a last
resting place in Africa and Asia.—
finally a foreign army entered the
capital of the nation, and imposed
upon the people a sovereign whom
they detested.
Surely the experiment of living
without God has been tried on a suf
ficiently large scale to prove that no
greater curse can befall a nation than
for Providence to desert those that
desert him. Of all l'orms of retribu
tion, this is the most terrible. The
prayer of States, as well as of indi
viduals, should e, "Leave us not,
neither forsake us, 0 God of our sal
vation."
We cannot close this subject with
out noticing the marked displeasure
of God toward the inventors of in
struments of torture and destruction,
and also towards the devisers of hor
rible punishments. A cardinal in
vented a cage of peculirr structure
for the punishment of heretics. lie
himself was confined for many years
in it. Some historians relate a simi
lar story of Tamerlane confining Ba
jazet in the cage intended for the
Tartar chief. The whole account is,
however, discredited by others. A
figure, known as "The Maiden," was
devised for the punishment of Prot
estants. It was an image of the Virgin
Mary, with extended arms. The vic
tim was forced forward to the figure,
when the arms clasped him in a dead
ly embrace, while hundreds of con
cealed lancetspierced his body. The
author of this infernal device was
the first to suffer by it. The Guillo
tine takes its name from the man who
contrived and perished by it. It has
been said that the fatal blow which
terminated the life of the Texan war
rior, Col. Bowie, was from his own
terrible knife. Charles IL, king of
Navarre, was a, noted poisoner. His
clothes caught fire, when saturated
with brandy, and the murderous
wretch had his flesh burned off to
the bones. Aaron, a courtier, rec
ommended to the usurperer, Andron
icus, to put out the eyes and cut off
the tongues of his enemies. The
cruel adviser was treated in precisely
this manner by Isaac Angelus, who
dethroned and put to death Adroni
cus, A. D., 1203. St. Croix, a noted
poisoner of the sixteenth century,
perished by the fumes of the poisons
he was making in his laboratory.
The last instance that we will give
is one deeply engraven on the Amer
ican heart The universal verdict of
the world has long since pronounced
our Washington the greatest of war
riors, the greatest of statesmen, and
I the purest of men. Macaulay closes
his eulogy upon Hampden with these
words : "It was when the vices and
I ignorance which the old tyranny had
generated threatened the new free
dom with destruction, that England
missed that sobriety, that self com
mand, that perfect soundness of
judgment, that Rerfect rectitude of
intention, to which the history of rev
olutions furnishes no parallel, or fur
nishes a parallel in Washington alone."
I Even Byron lamented that earth, had
' no more seed to produce a second
Washington. The character of the
illustrious Virginian is reveraneed in
despotic Russia, as well as in free
1444kad, The liay Spaniard
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Paenehgai4-'
No one now cierogabstion the poll-
cy or the motives of the hero, sage
and Christian, but in the dark ages
of '77 when he and his army were en
during every privation at Valley
Forge, an attempt was made to ruin
his character and deprive him of his
command. Gen. Conway was the
chief conspirator, and Gen. Gates,
who was to be the successor ofWash
ington, was deeply implicated in the
plot. Anonymous communications
were sent to Congress, and also to
Henry, then Govenor of Virginia, ac
cusing Washington of too great pru
dence in battle, and of incapacity to
command an army. Now notice the
result : Conway was compelled to
resign his Inspector-General's office;
he was driven into a duel with Gen.
Cadwallader, and was finally forced
to hide himself; to escape the indig
nation of the army. Gates himself
showed the utmost incapacity four
years after, at Camden, and such an
excess of prudence that he reached
Charlottes, eighty miles distant, be
fore any of the fugitives from his
army, except a few of his personal
guard, And as he had tried to su
persede Washington, he himself was
superseded in command of the South
ern army by Greene, who had been
true to washington.
Watch Making in Geneva.
I was introduced into the watch
makers' workshops by M. Viande,
one of the merchants of Geneva, a
man of great humanity, and also of
rare amiability of disposition and
character: I could not have bad a
better guide, even with regard to the
moral inquiries which I wished to
make.
We began with the schools of pu
pils, where young girls learn, for a
term of three years, to make every
part of a watch. After this time,
they select that particular part for
which they have most inclanation,
or in the doing of which they are
most expert. The perfected pupil
may be sure, on leaving the school,
of obtaining immediate employment
among the watch-makers. Young
girls from twelve to eighteen years
of age appear very 401 thy and well
eared for. Each one has her own
little table and her own window niche
for her work.
The manufacture of pocket-watches
is, at the present time, carried to a
great extent at Geneva. An immense
number are required for the Chinese
market. A well-equipped Chinaman,
I have been told, carries a watch on
each side of his breast, that he may
be able to regujate the one by the
other. Wealthy Chinese cover the
walls of their rooms with watches.—
These watches are of a more orna
mental character, and have morellia
gree work upon them than those
made for Europeans. Long live the
Chinese !
At one of the greatest and best
conducted manufactories of Geneva
nothing but watch-faces are prepared,
and elderly, well-dressed, and well
looking woman sat by twenties and
thirties in clean, well-warmed rooms,
working upon watch-faces.
"Do you not get tired of always
doing the same work ?" I inquired
of some of them.
"Oh, no l" replied they and showed
me that each little dial had to pass
through fifty different operations be
fore it was finished. This kept the
attention awake, and prevented any
sense of monotony. They work here
from eight o'clock in the morning
till six or seven in the evening, and
thus earn about fifty francs a month.
"Are you able to lay by anything
for old age, or in case of sickness ?"
I inquired from a mother who had
worked there with her daughter side
by side for ten years.
"Oh, no!" they replied; "we have
no longer been able to do that, since
provisions have been so dear."
"Nor yet for a little journey of
pleasure or holiday in the summer?"
"We never think of such a thing.--
We should by that means lose not
only our money, but also our time,
and possibly our place."
"Is not such a life as this heavy
and void of interest?"
"We have Sundays for rest and re
freshment, and the evenings for read
ing, or occupation of another kind.—
Besides which, we need not, during
our work, be continually thinking of
it."
They seemed perfectly satisfied.
The workwomen who are able to
execute certain more difficult parts
of the watch get higher wages, and
can earn from five to ten francs a day.
In the meantime this great division
of labor causes the great part of the
women not to earn much more than
their maintenance.
"My grandmother made whole
watches," s aid an old women, with a
sigh, who was sitting at home with
her daughter, employed in one single
operation on a little cog, for the
great manufactory ; "an at that
time women were much higher in the
work than they are now, and also
got higher payment. They were few
in number, but extremely dexterous.
Now they are innumerable, but their
dexterity is employed upon u mere
nothing—a very crumb. '
And this was true, as far as the old
weaken was coneerned t ,flkthe whole
of her work consiste d lk 0 111 14: 1 4 one
little hole in a einiai 11010 plate; inth
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a little machine, which resembled a
tiny spinning wheel. Her daughter
was seated at another little machtie,
and was merely making a little al
teration in the hole which her moth
er bad drilled ; and six hundred of
such holes must be made before they
could earn three francs.
The female worker, in the fall and
highest meaning of her vocation, in
the complete fullness of her life, is a
character which I have not met with
here, as I have done in Sweden.
I remember, there, a little work
table, at which is seated a woman,
still young, working from early
morning till late in the evening—
sometimes even till late in the bight
—because work is her delight,'and
her preservance and power of work
are astonishing—her eye continually
fixed upon her work, even daring
conversation, whilst her skillful hand
guides the graving -tool, and engraves
letters, numbers. or tasteful ersa
manta, on articles of gold or silver , —
chronometers, pocket watches, rings,
Sm. But the inner life is not cum
pied therewith. It gazes clearly
around, and comprehends, with love,
every transaction which tends either
to the advantage of the Fatherland
or the honor of humanity. She is
near-sighted at her work, but far
sighted as regards the great work in
society. Her heart beats warmly far
this, and the little work-table hae a
place in its realm. How distinguish
ed a place this is, her nunKimus
friends know, but not she herself--
the unpretending artist, the good cit
izen and friend, the noble worker.—
Life in the Old World.
The Treatment of Diptheria.
The Philadelphia Ledger of yestir.
day has an article on Diptheria, In
which some very excellent and pritt
tical advice is given relative to-the
treatment of the disease. After de
scribing the symptoms of the dis
ease, which are generally sorenbreof
the throat, followed by the avower
mace of a white or sometimes yak*.
ish coating matter on the lungeatt
side, our cotemporary says : It is
well known that the best mode of
treating scarlet fever, measles, and
even typhoid fever, is to regard them
as the effects of some poisonous WA
ter inhaled through the lasso and
carried perhaps, as the oxygen ghs
is carried through the capillaries tf
that organ in the circulatoryeyetson.
In scarlet fever and measles the Wit
treatment has been heretofore not to
bleed or reduce the system, but rath
er to stimulate it so as to aid it to
throw off the surface of the poison
which in those cases bIOSSODIEI out on
the skin and dies there. The Maine
sort of general treatment is fOnnd
most useful in diptheria. If a ehild
has an ordinary attack of sickness or
sore throat, a little abstineuce or
opening medicine will generally
reduce it. But in a disease of thus
kind, on the contrary, a generous
diet and a gentle stimulation treat
ment seems to strengthen nature sled
throw off the disease.
Whether diptberia is eontagioneer
not has been doubted. In all proba.
bility it is not. But it may and
does become epidemic in the atmos
phere. Wherever there is exposure
to it, fresh, pure air is one of the
best preventatives and even mediciela
both fur the individual patient and
for the prevention of the spread of
the disease. A room well aired and
lighted and warmed, so freely as to
allow of a constant change, without
draft, or any extreme of heat oteold,
will of itself do much in the way of
medicine. But there is no time tobe
lost in the commencement of active
treatment the moment the disease
shows itself.. To cleance and keep
clean the throat, and prevent un
healthy and corrupt matter from
forming or accumulating there, is IA
itself a work of no ordinary
Gargles for the throat, that will dim
ulate the mucous membrane to
healthy action, or cauterization, as
needed, together with the keeping up
of the strength of the general system,
will require no little management and
promptitude.
It should be borne in mint:l*st
the proper treatment of eackeasitas
it arises is of vast importance, 'not
only to the life and health of the in
dividual patient, but, in fact, of the
whole community. An hour or two,
of neglect by a sleepy nurse,
render a case virulent in itself WWI Inky
pestilent to a whole neighborhood;
while careful nursing and scientftle
treatment may and will modify the
type which a disease assumes, until
it entirely dies away, or becomes in
time easily manageable by discreet
family nursing.
THE TWO ANGELS,
There are two angels that attend, unstop.
Each one of us ; and in great books record
Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down
The good ones, after every action, ckwes
His volume; and ascends with it terGed.
The other ke eps his dreadful ailay4sit ape*
Till sunset, that too ens, tent / which' deem
The record oti the Wien fades awes
dad leases a line f white across the pass.
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