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AGENTS.
FO It
The Muntingdon Journal.
Daniel Teague, Orbisonia; David Blair,
Esq. Shade Ga/i; Benjamin Lease, Shirleys
bard.; Eliel Smith. Esq. Chilcottstown; Jas.
Entriken, jr. Ceffee Run; Hugh Madden,
Esq. Springfield; Dr. S. S. Dewey, Bir
mingha m ; James Morrow, Union Furnace;
John Sisler, Warrior Mark; James Davis,
Esq. West township ; D. H. Moore, E.q.
Franketown; Eph. Galbreath, Esq. Holli
daysburg; Henry Neff, Alexandria; Aaron
Burns, Williamsburg; A. J. Stewart, Water
Street; Wm. Reed, Esq. Morris townshi/s;
Solanyin Hamer. ..hieff's Mill; James Dysart,
Mouth Sfiruce Creek;. Wm. Murray, Esq.
Gruysville; John Crum, Manor Hill; Jas.
E. Stewart, Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler,
Mill Creek.
LIVER COMPL ILVT
Cured by the use of Dr Harlich's Compound
Strengthening and German Aperient Pills
Mr. Win. Richard, Pittsburg, Pa. entirely
cured of the above distressing disease: His
somptoms were, pain and weight in the left
side, loss of appetite, vomiting, acrid cructa
tions, a distention of the stomach, sick
headache, furred tongue, countenance chang
ed to a t.itron color, difficulty of breathing,
disturbed rest, attended with a cough, great
debility, with other symtoms indicating great
deranvement of the functiens of the liver.
Mr. Richard Lail the advice of several phy
sicians, but receivud no relief, until usin g Dr
flarlicit's medicine, which terminated in ef
fecting a perfect cure.
Principal Mika, 19 North Eight stree
Philadelphia. [don Pa
For sale at Jacob Miller's store hluntin
DYSPEPSIA! DYSPEPSIA ! !
More proofs of the of of Dr. Harlich'
Medicinee.
Mr Jonas Hartman, of Sumneytnwn, Pa.
entirely cured of the above disease, which 1
ne was afflicted with for six years. His I
spmptoms were a sense of distension and op
pression after eating, distressing pain in the
pit of the stomach, nausea, loss of appetite,
giddiness and dimness of sight, extreme de
flatulency, acrid eructations, some
limos vomiting, and pain in the right side,
depression of spirits. disturbed rest, faint•
ness, and not able to pursue his business
without causing immediate exhitustim and
weariness.
Mr. II is happy to state to the pub
lie awl is willing to give any information to
the afflicted, t`especting the wonderful ben
efit he received from the use of Dr. Harlich
Compound Sixengthening and German ape
] imt pills. Principal office No. 19 North
Eighth street Philadelphia. Also for stile
t the store of Jacob Miller, Huntingdon.
SYMPTOMS,
Dyepepsia may be described from a wan
of appetite or an unnatural and voracious one
nausea, sometimes bilious vomiting, sudden.
and transient distensions of the stomach Lf
ter-e sting, acid and prutrescent eructathms,
water brash, pains in the legion of the stem
3ch, costiveness palpitation of the heart, diz
einem and dimness of sight, disturbed rest,
tremors, mental despondency, flatulency,
spasms, nervous irritability, chillness, sal
lowness of complexion, oppressing after• eat
ing, generaljangour and debility; this disease
will also very'often produce the 'sick head
ache, as proved by the experience of these
who have suffzred of it.
LIVER COMPLAINT.
This disease is discovered by a fixed ob
tuse pain and weight in the right side under
the short ribs; attended with heat, uneasi
ness about the pit of the stomach;—there is
in the right side also a distension—the patient
loses his appetite and becomes sick and trou
ble with vomiting, The tongue becomes
rough and black, countenance changes to a
pile or citron color or yellow, like those i af
flicted with jaudice—difficulty of breathing,
disturbed rest, attended with dry caugh, dif
ficulty of laying on the left side—the nody
becomes weak, and finally the!disease termi
nates into another of a more serious nature,
which in all probability is far beyond the
power of human skill. Dr Harlich's corn
ohund tonic strengthening and German ape
rient'pills,if taken at the commencement of
this disease, will check it, and by continu
ng the use of the medicine a few weeks, a
;wrfect cure cure will he performed. Thou
hands can testify to this fact.
Certificates of many persons may daily be
ice to of the efficacy of this invaluable mecii
ine, by applying at the Medical Office, No
.9 North Eight street, Philadeltihia.
Also, at the Fore of Jacob Miller. who
agent for Ifuntingdon county.
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HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1840.
TIWATMEN T
The principal objects to be kept In slew
are Ist, to tree the stomach mid intestines
om offending materials. 2d, to improve
the tone of the digestive organs and energy
of the system in removing noxious matters
from the stomach, and obviating costiveness.
Violent drastic purgatives should be avoided
and those aperients should be used which
act gently, and rather by soliciting the per
istalic motions of the intestines to their regu
larity of health, than by irritating them to a
laborious excitement. there is no medicine
better adapted to the completion of this than
Dar. O. P. HARLICies GERMAN APERIENT
To improve the functions of the de
bilitatedorgans and invigorate the system
generally, no medicine has ever been on
prominently efficacious as DR. Harli Ch's
Compound Tonic Strengthening l'ills, whose
salutary influence in restoring the digestive
organs to a healthy action, and re-establish
ing health and vigor in enfeebled and dys
petic constitutions; have gained the implicit
confidence of the most eminent physicians,
and unprecidented public tntimony. Re
member Dr. Harlieli's Cempi.und Tonic
Strengthening Pills, shay are put up in small
ets with full directions.
incipal (Bee for the United States, is
N. 19 North Eighth street Phibidel i pilia.
where all communications must be ac.dres,
sed.
Also for sale at the store of Jpc(•b Miller
who is agent for Hunting( C( piny.
RILE UNA TLS'it.
Entirely cured by the use of Dr. 0. P.
Harlich's C..rnp,und Strengthening and Get•
man Aperient Pills.
Mr. Saiom oi , Wilson, of Chester co. Pa.,
afflicted for two years with the above dis
tressing disease, 01 which he had to use his
crutches fur 18 months, his sytnptc•ms were
excruciating pain in all his Joints, espf.cially
n his hip, Shoulders and :nicks, pain thereat.
ng al ways towards eveing attended with
heat. Mr. Wilson, was at 0 e time not able
to move his limbs on account of the pain be
ing so great; he being advised by a friend of
Iris to procure Dr. Harlich's pill of which he
sot to the agent in VVest Chester and pro
cored stint; on using the medicine the third
day the pain disappeared slid his strength
increasing fast, and in three weeks was able
to attend to his business, which he had not
clone for 18 months; for the benefit of others
afflicted, lie wishes those lines published
that they may be relieved, and again en
joy the pleasures of a healthy life.
'Principle office, 19th North Bth Street,
Philadelphia.
ALSO—For sale at the Store of Jacob Mil
ler, Huntingdon, Pa.
CAUSE OF DYSPEPSIA
This disease often originates frcni a hab
of overloading or distending, the stomach by
excessive eating or drinking, er vet y income
ted periods of fasting, an inMilent or s:der.-
tory life, in which no eYercise is affio•dcd to
the muscular fibres or mental faculties, fear
grief. and deep anxiety, token too frequent
ly str ng purgingmechcmes, dysentery, mis"
cart loges, intermittent and sysismcdic affec
tions of the stomach and bowels; the mo
common of the latter causes are late bout
and the too frequent use of spirituos
Pram Ole Roden Chronicle, Jan. 10
We see by an advertisement in anoth
er column that Messrs. Comstock & co.,
the American Agents for Old ridge's Battu
of Columbia, have deputies to sell that ar
rticle in Boston and elsewhere. /I e know
a lady of this city whose hair was so near
ly gone as to expose entirely her phrenol
ogical developments, which, considering
that they betokened a most amiable dispo
sition, was not in reality very unfortunate
Nevertheless she mourned the loss of
locks that she had worn, and alter a
year's fruitless resort to unicalled resto
ratives, purchased; some months ago, a
bottle or two of Oldridge's Palm, and she
has now ringlets in rich profusion, glossy,
and of raven blackness. We are nut put - -
I ling, none of the comodity has been sent
to us, and indeed, we do not want any,
for though we were obliged to wear• a wig
a year ago, we have now, though its vir
tue, hair enough, and of a passable quali
ty, of our own.
lbe Bald IJeaded.•—Bhis is to certi
fy, that I have licen bald about twenty
years, and by the use of the genuine Balm
of Columbia, my head is now covered
with hair. I shall be happy to convince
any one of the fact that will call and see
me Delhi village. abov• r. tide I
bought at Griswold, Case & c , .'s store,
win had it from Comstock & t. 41.
JOIN JAQUISII, Jr.
DARING PROD
The Balm of Columbia has been itni;
toted by a notorious eouutetreiter. Let it
never be purchased or used unless it has
the name of L. 111. Comstock, or the signs
tare of Comstock & co, on a splendid
wrapper. This is the only external test
that will secure the public from deception
Address Comstock & Co.
// hulesale Druggists, New-York,
No 2 Fletcher•street.
Sept. 23, 1840.-3 m
I. Fisher & A. K. Cornyn,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
wILL carefully attend to all bj:iness
committed to theircare in the Courts
of Huntingdon & Mifflin counties. Mr. Cur
nyn may be found at his office, in M irk et
St., opposite the Store of Mr. Dorris, in the
borough of Hunting:lon.
Hunt. Sep. 9, 1840.
"ONE COUNTRY, OPIE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
4 - 277 e -1.44 : 11") --.
417-hr::S;--$71.4e
POETRY
From the Rural Repository.
It is said Queen Elizabeth exclaimed on her
death bi ii, "Millions, millions for one inch
of time."
ELIZABETH WAS laid
Upon a bed of pain,
Sadly she mourned the moments fled
That might not come again;
Vain was the pomp and power—
The diadem and a rone—
Could they recall one wasted hour,
Or one brief moment flown?
Thus spake the dying one—
" Must I thus pass away!
Have ye no spell the soul to bind
Unto this dying clay!
Oh! must I—must I go
Thus darkly stained with clime!
Millions of gold, on nailli'r, now,
For but one inch of time!"
Alas! thou hapless one,
Vain is thy bitter cry,
Vain thy r egret, for moments gone,
No treasure, life can buy.
Sad—sad it is to pass,
Thus from the earth away;
To yield the corning breath at last;
Ia such deep misery. •
Tears from the languid eye,
Full 'A and quick did start;
And many a deep and bitter sigh,
Broke from that fearful heart:
Pale was that marble brow,
Cold was the trembling hand,
And sadly thus she passed away,
Unto the spirit land.
Oh! Who we uld wear a crown,
Thus to lie down and die!
Woe to the throned, the sceptered one,
When the pale king is nigh,
If no hi igl,t angel band
On wings of lace are there,
To :car her to the spirit land,
The peace of Heaven to share.
From the London Friendships Oaring.
The Doctor's Two Patients.
ny Tim AUTIIOII OF "THE REFOHNER.”
The doctor had made a long round; he
was tired to death, and the worst of the
matter was that all these foolish patients
had real maladies; not the imaginary fan
tastical complaints of the rich, who are
ill because they have leisure, but the
positive subtantial maladies of the poor.
Now, ns these troublesome patients
were really afflicted with the long cata
logues of ills that flesh is heir to, and as
our young doctor was very foolishly un
like
a great many of his wiser brethren,
he felt himself unable to miss them, or
forget them, or cut them altogether; and
as one disagreeable consequence gener
ally comes pretty on the heels of another
it of course came to pass that as all his
patients •sere poor, the doctor himself
was not so very rich; and thus again it
followed that he was obliged to resort to
that primitive mode of conveying himself
about, the fashion of which was first set
by Adam; we mean that the doctor not
being able to afford a carriage or a cab, or
a stanhope, or a tilbury was obliged to
carry himself.
Now on the morning in question, the
doctor had carried himself, until he was
thoroughly tired of his burden, and he
came home weary and worn, and though
not complaining, just within a few de
grees of the danger of doing so.
"Two. new patients, sir, that want you
directly," said the doctor's assistant.
"Wilt not to-morrow morning du?"
asked the young doctor, as he looked at
his own arm- chair by the fire, and the
fire a good one, his slippers most inviting
ly ready for his feet, the table spread for
his ditmer—"llill not to-morrow mor
ning db?"
.q believe not, sir—they seemed ur
gent„"
... . .
"But if people only scratch a finger, or
happen to sneeze, the doctor mu.t come
on his peril, without a moment's delay.
Did you ask what was the matter?"
‘lhe lady has a fever sir, and the
man— "
"The lady and the man—oh, then the
the lady is a lad), and the nian is only a
man. All! 1 understand they are of dif
lerent conditions."
"You could lease the loan till to•mor•
row, sir."
"Could 1?--and suppose he should die
to nighty"
Now, though our doctor had fairly
and honestly earned a light to a little
rest, having most thoroughly tired him
self in his vocation, the loutish sort of
conscience of which we have spoken as
forming one of his component parts of his
character, would not allow him to dis'
card his boot, or plunge into the easy
than; so breaking WY a crust, and giving
one last, lingering look to his cheerful fi
re, he summoned up a;l his resolution,
and once more ventured forth into the
rain and mud.
The doctor made his nearest patient
his first; it happened to be the lady.
The evening was darkening, and the
gas growing brighter, when the doctor
lifted the knocker of a short of shabby
genteel house in one of those ambiguous
streets of which it is impossible to say
whether they are within or without the
pale of polite toleration, the difficulty a
rising from their standing just on the line
where gentility ends and vulgarity begins
and being in fact the worst of the best,
and the best of the worst, nobody being
able to decide which, except the inhabi
tants, and they can give a positive opinion
because they know that the street, where
ever it may happen to stand, is second
only to Grosvenor square. Our doctor's
summons was answered by a maid el the
same nondescript character. The inside
of the house was in exact keeping with its
external countenance, the furniture and
arrangements being all of a similar class
of shabby gentility, and our hero saw at
a glanel, that it was "Lodgings to Let."
The appartment into which he was ush
erd,. looked sufficiently uncomfortable;
there were marks in the fire place that
there had once been a tire, but it might
have been a week ago, for any symptoms
which appeared to the contrary—Our doe
tor felt the gloom of the place, but when
he was shown into the adjoining room,
the scene was still more desolate. A feint
untrimmed lamp burning low in the sock
et, emited flickering flashes of light over
the apartment, just sufficient to show a
woman in the middle of life, burning with
a fever, and raving with delirium, laying
on a bed, aad a girl, the perfect image of
fear and misery, weeping over her.
The dott,r sat down by the side of
that solitary bed, and proceeded to speak
of hope and comfort, and the young nurse
dried her tears, and listened to his words
as if they had been syllabled by an angel,
'.You are not alone?" asked the doc
tor.
"Yes," replied the girl with a sorrow
ful shake of the head.
'•lt is not fit that you should continue
so. Had you not better send for some
friend to share your vigils?"
Fresh tears came into the young girl's
eyes as she answered. "We have no
friends--at least none in this great town
--if anywhere."
.'Are you strangers in town?"
"We have been here only a month."
"And have you really no connections
in town?"
"No, Mamma came on law business"
"And are you sole nurse?"
"We are alone," replied the girl, alone
in the world.
"The people of the house --'y
"Are afraid of coming near us. They
dread infection--it is natural."
"May I send you a nurse?"
The girl again shook her head.
The doctor felt rather than saw that pe
cuniary difficulties were the objection.
"You will not be able to endure much
more fatigue," and the doctor looked on
her flushed cheeks, her blood shot eyes,
and her evident exhaustation.
"Yes, I can endure anything; you have
given me new hope."
"But to-night will be an anxious night
—a crisis in this disorder; and in the
midst of fever and delirium, lam obli
ged to warn you—it is not right that yru
should be lett unsupported."
"You know that she will die!" exclaim,
ed the girl, and in a paroxysm of fran
tic grief, she threw herself upon her
knees by the bed-side, hidin e ry her face in
its folds, and clutching Landfalls of dra
pery in her convulsive grasp,
have already told you' said the doc
tor, 'that I do not know it, that I do not
even think it; but certainly something bet
ter than the indulgence ot a childish sor
row is imperatively called for."
The girl rose up again with an offended
air notwithstanding her grief, "I shall do
all that I can do."
"Arid 1 shall do the same," replied the
doctor.
Our doctor went from that shabby gen.
teel house to one of much less doubtful
aspect, ►t was so thoroughly and perfect•
ly
.miserable, that no one in his senses
could shut his eyes on its wretchedness
and desolation.
It was now quite dark; the streets were
like the Black Sea, perfectly fluid with
mire and mud. Not a light glimmered in
the obscure court into which our doctor
entered, for the commissioners of light
ing and paving left the one to the moon,
and the other to the mud; and as the moon
happened to be absent on other duty, it
required some courage and praerverance
on Mr, Kendrick's part to steer himself
into the farther extremity of the court.
land up three pail of stairs into a back at
tic, where he at length found his patient.
Alas! gas! these bodies of ours should
be the avenues of such misery. Not a
nerve of this corporeal frame but opens a
channel to suffering--not an atom that
may not vibrate with agony!
Very dreary and desolate was that miser
able chamber--the fitting scene for hu.
man suffering. Not a spark of fire to
lighten the aspect of its squalid poverty;
la deal table, a chair with broken spindles
and a worn•out rush bottom, and a truc
kle bed were all its furniture ; and on
that bed was lying the second patient.
Our doctor drew his ricketty chair
close to him, and sat down. A wretched
rushlight made the darkness visible, and
cast its pale light on the features of the
miserable man ; he was caiaverous and
attenuated, his features almost incredibly
sharp and thin; a pair of wild but faded
eyes, deep sunken in their sockets, shot
out fierce glances of anger and suspicion;
lowering shaggy eyebrows, a bald forehead
and a few white lucks Of/ either side, com
pleted the picture. The expres Ann of
his countenance was that of distrust and
fear and fretfulness.
"And who are you:" exclaimed the
sick man, starting fiercely, as the doctor
took his station - by the bedside; "Who
are you?"
. .
"1 have come to see if I can do you
any good," replied the doctor, in sooth
ing tones.
''Good! no! nobody can do me any
good."
"You must not be too sure of that.—
It is worth the trial."
"Sure! yes, lam sure! I suppose you
are a doctor. I want no doctors! they
kill more than they cure. Don't waste
your time here."
"I shall not thick it wasted if I can be
of any service to you."
"There, go away—go away— I hate
your whole tribe! Leechers: liloodsuck.
era:"
"Well, even they are good things in
their way—a doctor may be so too in his
way," replied Mr. Kendrick good natur
edly.
"Better out of the Way," grumbled the
impatient patient.
"Have you tried them ?" asked the
doctor.
"No, nor intend it."
"'then you condemn in ignorance; a
wise man ought not to do so."
"Hark ye, air," exclaimed the sick
man, raising himself upon his elbow, with
a look of fierce exultation, as though what
he was about to say were quite unanswer
able; "Hark ye, sir; the poor arc bad
patients for your tribe. Look round this
room ; do you think a broker would give
five shiilings for all that it contains?"
"Probably not," replied Mr. Kends
rick.
"Ila! ha!—and where do you think the
money is to come from to pay your long
bills? No, no; go away, go away. You
would never get paid ; you know you
%ould never get paid."
"I am wiliing to give up the expecta
tion ; but that is no reason why I should
leave you to die."
"Btit it you never get paid, what does
it matter to you whether I live or die?"
'lf I bad never seen you. or known of
your existence—nothing; but having seen
you, I am bound is my own conscience to
do all that I can do lOr you."
"Without getting paid?" screamed the
patient, " without getting paid?"
"That does not affect ray responsibility.
I think I can do you some good—it is my
duty to try—it is yours to let me."
"Try, then," grumbled the sick man.
The Doctor went home, but not to the
enjoyment of his dinner, his easy chair,
his slippera, ua his good fire ; it was only
to make preparations for the care of his
two new patients.
Another hour had made a wonderful
difference in the aspect of affairs. %Ir.
Kendrick had managed, in that time, to
surround his poor patient with a few com
forts ; had sent him a blanket, procured
hin► the cheering advantages of a fire, hail
given him medicine, and what was equal
ly necessary, nutritious food.
Neither had he been less careful of his
other patient. There he had himself ad
ministered medicine, himself smoothed ]
the sick pillow, and seen all that was
needful duly done.
And never was kindness and support
more craved for, than in that sick cham
ber. The girl, totally unused to depend
upon herself, and in a situation that would
have tried the strongest fortitude, sat by
the bedside of her mother, who was ra
ving with delirium, almost paralysed with
terror. They were evidently strangers,
; unknowing and unknown. There was
.not a relative or friend to share her toil,
or to cheer or sustain ter under it. Our
[Wnotx No. 256.
doctor, however, sanctioned by his pro
f fession, became bath nurse and comforter,
and by that immutable law, which makes
the weak lean upon the strong, he was,
under G ed, her trust, her oracle, her
strength.
Three days—three days of unspeakable
anxiety and terror to poor Esther, follow
ed. Alas the heavy weight of moments,
that seemed hours—of hours, that seemed
days—of days, that seemed years. Poor
Esther's bloodshot eyes, her pallid lips,
her fainting frame, bore witness to the
flagging spirit; but our doctor's cheering
voice, his strength of mind, and his conso
ling courage still sustained tier. By a
gentle, but a firm compulsion, he made
her at intervals, take an hour's rest upon
the sofa in the adjoining room, whilst he
assumed her station by the bedside. la
his calm, kind, and authoritive voice, lie
.ordered her to take needful food, and she
had obeyed him like a child. Wnen she
grew frantic, he reproved; when she de
spaired, he consoled. Oh! profession, too
noble for man—office rather of an angel,
to be the instrument of binding up the
broken heart, of snatching life from the
grasp of death, of giving to the mother the
child, to the husband the wile, the loved
one to the loving, shame that thy offices
should ever be filled pith a sordid priest
hood
We have said that the three days of the
bitterest anxiety had passed ; the fourth
brought with it better hopes. The deliri
um had abated, the fever was allayed, and
Mrs. Heathcote lay weak and motionless,
but memory and comprehension bad re
sumed their functions.
But memory and comprehension, the'
they served to reassure poor Esther's spi
rits, by seeming to give her back the iden
tity of her living parent, brought with
them but little solace to the sufferer, for
with them came the remembrance of those
anxieties which had been in fact the ac.
casion of her maladies, and our dactor
found, what he had before more than sus
pected, that his own bill was not quite as
"safe as the Bank of England."
The doctor's other patient lay with his
head half raised from his pillow, support
ed by his hand, striving to catch the first
echo of his footsteps on the stairs.
~ A nother half hour gone, and not here
yet," said the poor patient, his glistening
eyes fastened to the door—'another half
hour. Has he forgotten me, or has some
thing happened?"
The clock of a neighboring church
struck the hour. "One--two —three, and
not here yet! Hark! that is the street
door! No, pshaw ! what a fool I am to
expect him thus--and yet his is the only
kind voice that has sounded in my ears
these last twenty years. 'Who was ever
so kind to me since the day my mother
wept over, and kissed me, and—died?--
Who ever saw any thing in me since the
day that her love left me, but a miserable,
ungainly miserly clod?" and the old man
wiped from his glistening eyes a tear.—
While lie was yet speaking, our dotter
entered his lowly chamber, with so lighta
step, that the patient was not at first
aware of his presence.
"Well, old friend," said the doctor;
cheerily, " how are you today?—nay,
what is this?" as the old man's eyes, suf
fused with their unwonted moisture, met
his own. "What is this? what has gone
wrong? what has happened?"
"It was a tear," replied the old man,
""a tear to the memory of my mother.—
She alone, of all the millions of beings Ia
this wide world, ever loved me, and a
sudden remembrance (I often think of her
in the unquiet night,) brought the tears is
my eyes."
"A mother's love is an unfathomable
well," replied the doctor with a sigh,—
"but I never knew it."
"Then you have never known the dear
est love on earth," replied the sick man,.
fixing his eyes commsere tingly upon him.
The doctor shook off his sentiment, and
with a slight laugh said, "Oh, the dearest
say you—are you sure of that?"
The patient fixed his eyes searchingry
upon him. "So, then, you are thinking of
marrying. That will quite ruin you—
quite spoil you."
.'No, no," replied the doctor, with. a
nother slight laugh,but this time it was a
constrained one. No, no, I must make
my fortune first, I am toe pocr to marry'
"But you are not poor! you are not
poor!" reiterated the sick man.
"And not very likely ever to be rich,"
replied the doctor.
"Not if you are so extravagant," an
swered the sick man; "you have torn that
good piece of white paper all to pieces.'
"It was only what your medicine was
wrapped responded the doctor as he
extricated the cork from the bottle, and
presented its contents to his patient.
"It •vould have done for another bottle
if you had nut destroyed it," replied the
careful man; "there now you have thrown
tha cork into the fire,— that is sheer waste
—and pray, while I think of it, do ve
'want the bottles back again."