The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-29 00:00:00

with OR yia g that the robin seek. the cottage door 4.
ing such time only as the ground is covered with ,inoiv."
The poet says nothing of the sort, sad there( ,re as ti ii
purely imaginative on the part of " XX," I will leave II
with the hops that he will wake an apology for introdwils
it.

The nett charge brought forward against this &matted
and simple poetry ia that according to the roles of Mary
ray "XX " makca " the tatbosst clothes and and visas*
wan" to be "benumbed with cold." How absurd to call
In the aid of Murray to bear out such a monstrous idea.
Poor Murray. But why should I blame this gram wanes
when the mistake arises from the blind ignornaco of as
unpractised had? No rale of Murray, or stay otbse
grammar would consider the original verse t all no.
grammatical. The aecond line is bat a prepositional
phrase depending upon the principal sentence—" the
beggar man."
This ends this apparent criticism of " XX " upon this
touching piece of poetry, as published in your paper.
In reading over this letter in your last impressem, one
cannot help calling to mind that well-known proverb, that
' picked cherrioa Sr., always the sweesest, and that spar-
rows always dad out which are worthy of special atlas.
, lion.

Yours truly,
timw.

70 the Eslitor of the" Observer."

Sin.—l thank you for your report of the paper reed •
the Temperance Quarterly Meeting at Stoarbr;dge, bat
regret that so Mang printer's errorn should have crept
in. A little liberty has been taken with one or two sen•
tutees without, I think, improving them. I mast beg
your permission to point out nue or two important erron4
passing over the other, In the first senteirm the
Itrticle "au " should have been "no "—" no important
stage," are. Dr. Moore is printed in another place in.
stead of Or. Monroe. A more important error occur. IS
the testimony of Dr. Henderson, where _it is said the
mortality among fever patients was reduced from 2a to
7 per cent. by the "new stimulating treat. ..It," instean
of the " nourstiennlating." In the had pin.graph bee
one " irratibility in disease," should be ow:lain) in
disease."

Will you allow me to offer your readers the following
quotation from a speech made in Lonsloa the %esti belor•
last by Dr. Moore
'lie hail had taken not a little trouble to ascertain in wised
unease. stimulants were necessary in order to effect •
cure. The statistiea which he had secured, and apes
which he placed implicit reliance, showed that insontity,
one of the most fearful diseases that can afflict the
human system, was caused in the genet number of cases
by intemperance. He had examined the statistical re.
cords of 50 asylums and found that hall of the named
patients dwelling in them had been brought to their des
plorable condition by intemperance. Many of the °Wee
patients had inherited insanity, but there was no dowla•
that in the first instance much was to be attributed to Use
use ot intoxicating drinks. Intemperance, too, was
largely the cause of poverty. He had further examined
3.751 cases of inflammation of the lungs, • disease which
medical men were generally inclined to believe was ins.
proved by administering during its continuance wine sad
brandy. Now, where wine was administered 60 per seat
of the patients died, 40 per cent only recovering ; where-
as of those who were treated without stimulants 70 per
cent recovered—(applause). Of cholera patients the
number that died after being treated with stimulant was
higher than two.tbirds of those attacked; whereas oe•
of 57 casos with which he was personally acquainted, aad
which were treated without stimulants, there were only
four deaths—(applause). These were facto that conk,
Oat be disputed. At the London hospital brandy was
administered in such enormous quantities that the pliy•
sieians of that institution ultimately became alarmed at
what they were doing; sad in many instances where th•
patient recovered from cholera, he died of stupor. He
had discovered that in 317 cases of typhus but :10 per
cent recovered when treated with stimulants, while 66
per cent recovered when no stimulants were edsniuis-
tered.''

Yours respee LI ally,
s. B.
...In the places where the mistakes and alterations above
referred to, uccar, the manuscript was not kgilde.l—•
ED.