The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

Then, back

For the hunter's eye grows dim,
To find that the white man wrongs the one
Who never did harm to him.

THE DYING BOY

BY ANNA SAVAGE

'From the same

Come nearer, mother ; raise the curtain high,
And let us look upon the spangled sky.
Leave still thine hand in mine. Put back the hair
That clings around my brow : say, wilt thou wear
One of these tangled curls when I am dead,
Nor tears too bitter o'er the relic shed ?
My Saviour calls me to a heavenly home,
And angels near me gently whisper, •' Come ! "
While from their golden harps the echo rings,
I hear the rushing of their shadowy wings.
Listen, my mother; though thy voice be sweet
Unto mine ear, the gladsome strains that greet
Thy slumbering boy have tones of deeper love,
Murm'ring about my couch, around, above,
Like music in the air. When in the sea
The red sun nightly sets, it seems to me
That angels must be there, and track their way
From the bright chambers of eternal day.
Thou'lt think of me when thou dost look on high,
In those blest mansions, far beyond the sky;
Thou'lt think of me, I know, when earth seems fair,
And summer blossoms scent the sunny air;
0, then remember that my lot will be
Where flowers unfading bloom ; that I shall see
Thousands of dazzling creatures that below
Have walked in righteousness; and th t I go
'Where, in the glist'ning robes around the throne,
A halo bright reveals the Holy One !
Mother, thy face is from me, but I feel
The fast warm tears that o'er my week hand steal;
And thou dost tremble. If I ceaseless find
Thy fond love, ever watchful, ever kind—
If thy untiring care no change could see,
Think what God's changeless love for us must be;
Though slumber o'er thy anxious heart may creep,
There's One whose eye of love will never sleep.
Dark shadows o'er my eyelids steal along;
Say, dost thou hear the angels' swelling song ?
If thou couldst listen to their joyful hymn,—
But, mother dearest, e'en thy form seems dim ;
Thou wilt not leave me though the night is come ?
Would thou couldst lead me to my radiant home !
Come nearer yet, and still my cold hand keep ;
And 0, sweet mother, now 1 fain would sleep.

HINTS FOR PEDESTRIANS, PRACTICAL

AND MEDICAL

(From an unpublished_ Manuscript, by a Physician of

Liverpool.)

BY MEDICOS

:CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.

,reater comfort than will be generally
credited, to have boots and shoes made fully an inch
longer than the foot ; and, moreover, with very broad
toes, which will allow all the toes to expand with requisite
freedom and ease ; and to yield to the pressure of the
whole body, producing consequent elongation of the foot•
You can only justly appreciate the actual amount of this
lengthening out of the foot, by standing on one leg, when
you will be struck with the room that the foot really takes
up most remarkably in the length of the shoe. Such is
the true dimension of the foot, and which each foot really
takes up every step of progression. In no other way will
you obtain a correct estimate of this ; and, from neglect
of this rule of testing the fit of boot or shoe, so many
people pay the penalty of having taken only short mea-
sure, as by sitting down to try on a shoe, instead of
standing deliberately on one font at a time whilst fitting.
From the cramping of the toes, preventing their free
spreading, by the common crabbed-shaped shoe, corns,
callosities, and blisters take their wonted origin—by
causing extra and gratuitous friction against the side
and end of the shoe.
If people would but use their common sense, as they
do on many other subjects, and get longer shoes and
boots, with broader toes, they would not only save them-
selves pain and distress in walking—producing real
lameness on going over anything else than a smooth
ground, but, also their shoes would retain their proper
shape much longer, and consequently, wear much
longer too. The shoe may be then made-
-36. Narrow in the general length, and fine in the run,
so as to clasp home the arch of the foot, supporting it in
the hollow especially, which is a great relief, taking

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