Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-02-01
EDIToR &RRoFRIEToR. 3
WHOLE NO.

Just then the eyes of HI opened,
aud he looked with half stupid surprise
from face to face OF the anxious group
that surrounded his bed. .sWhat insthe
mischiefisi the matter 20 he at length
said. AT the same time feeling a strange
sensation about his head, he placed his
hand rather heavily thereon. Heavens
and earth ~ Che was now fully in his
senses. ''Heavens and earth what ais
my head ?'' s' For mercy's sake keep
quiet" said the wife, the glad tears gushS
ing over her faue. ou have been very
i'll; there, there now, aud she spoke
soothingly, "%don't say asword, but lie
very STILL" "But my head. what's ths-
matter with my head ? 1t feels as il soalds
ed. Whereas my hair Heavens and
earth, Sarah, don't understand this
and my arm. what's my arm tied up this
way for 90 ''Be quiet my dear husband,
and I'll cxplainit it all, Oh. be very quiet,
your life depends upon it,2 soto
Mr.. HI sunk back upon the pillow
from which he had risen, and closed his
eyes 10 think. He put his hand to5his
head and feltit very tenderly all over,
from temple to temple, aud from nape TO
forehead. els it a blister 81 he at length
hShCu' III 4S3I uS0t . 9Ou 44oAO SOSA -tNA9
i'll; we feared for your life" said Mra3
II. afectionately there have beeh two
physicians in attendance.n boo
closed his eyes again: his lips
moved. Those nearest were not much
edited by the whispered words
that proceeded therefrom. They
would have sounded very strange-
| ly in "a church, or TO ears polished and
refined. After this, he lay for sometime
quiet, e Threatened with apoplexy, I
suppose % he said interrogatively, SIS
" Yes, dear" replied his wife, 4
found you lying iusensible upon the hopT
on happening TO come into your rooms-
Il was most proyidential that discovered,
you when l did, or you certainly would
have died" .-ss. G.d i.s1...a. tlsiS
H. closed his eyes and muttered sonss
thing with an air Of impatience but it's
meaning was not understood. Finding
him out Of danger, friends and relatives,
retired, and the sick man was left alone
with his family. @
Sarah" he said, "why in the name Of
goodness did you permit those doctors to
butcher ME up in this way? I'm laid up
for q week or two, and ali for nothing"
1T was to save your life DEAR"
"Save the mischief"
"H.u.s.h! there, do for mercy's sake,
be quiet; everything depends upon it,"
With a gesture of impatiencd, L..
shut his eyes. teeth and hands, and lay
perfectly still for some minutes. Then he
turned his face to the wall, mutteringip a,
low, petulent voice. "too bad, too bad!''
had not erred in my first and last i'm,
| preston HIS disease neither had DR..
s., although he used very extraordina.
ry mode OF treatment. a.
The facts of the case we're these: H
had weakness; he could not taste wine
or strong drink without being tempted
to excess. Both himself and friends wefo
grieved and mortified at this and they
by admonition, and he, by good resolu.
tious, tried to bring about reform but
to see was to taste, and to taste was 70
feel. AT last, his friends urged him To-
shut himself up at home for certain time,
and see if total abstinence would not giTe
him strength. He got on pretty well for
few days. particularly as his coachman
kept we'll filled bottle for him in the cRf-
riage house, to which he notunfrequently
resorted /: but a too ardent devotion 70 this
bottle brought on the supposed apo.
plexy. DR.. s. was right in his mode Of
treatment Of the disease after all, and did
not err in supposing that it would reach
the predisposition. The cure was ettectp-
al.
II kept quiet on the subject. and
bore his shaved head upon his shoulders
with as much philosophy as he could mus
ter. A wig, after the sores made by che
blister had disappeared, concealed the
barber's work until his own hair grew
again. He never yentured upon wine or
brandy again, for fear Of apopIexy.-
When the truth leaked out, as leak out
such things always will, the friends Of
II had many hearty laugh bu1
they wisely concealed from the object Of
their merriment the fact that they knew
anything more than appeared Of the cause
of his supposed illness,