The North-Carolinian., 1855-08-11

tTle Sympa:.,ziag Woman.


itsi1iisffion We leave it for the reader to Judge
of probability of its truth -
| If we Awere called upon to describe Mrs
Dobbs, we should, without hesitation, call her
| sympathZlng woman. Nobody was treabled
with any malady, she hadn't suffered. "She
knew all about it by experience, and could sym-
pathlze with them from the bottom of her heart"
f., Bob Turner wag, and when day
he saw Mrs Dobbs coming along the road to-
wards his house, he knew that, lin the absence
of his wife, he should be called Upon to enter
tain her, he resolved to play little on the
good woman's abundant store Of sympathy
IastilF procpring g large blanket he wrap
ped himself it, and thew h:,a,sclf
sofa near by.
s'Why. good gracious, Mr. Turner are YOU
sick?" asked Mrs Dobbs, she his position.
"Oh, drcadfuy!' groaned the imaginary in
valid
"What's the mattcr?"
"Oh a great many things First and fore
most, Fve got congestion of the brain"
That's dreadful" sighed Mrs Dobbs. "f
came pretty near ying of it ten years
next spring. What clse?'
''Dropsv," again groancd Bob:
'Thcrc | can sympathise with YOU. l
troubled with it, but finally got over it,"
"Ncuralgi continued Bob.
"Nobody can tell, Mr. Turner, what I've suf-
fered from neuralgia. Its an awful complaint"
''Thcn again I'm very much distressed by
iniia nation Of the bowels"
''If you've got that, pity You, commented
Mrs Dos; for three years steadily | was af-
Gicted with it, and don't think I've fully recev-
cred yet"
"Rheumatism," added Bob.
eyes that's pretty likely to go along with
neuralgia 1t did with me-
| ''Toothachc," suggested Bob.
'Thcre has been times, Mr. Turner" said the
sympathzing woman, "when thought ! should
have gone distracted with the toothachc"
'Then," said Bob, who, having temporarily
run out of his stock of medical terms; resorted
to a scientific name, ''I'm very much afraid that
| I've got the tethy0Suurus."
| Il shouldn't he at all surprised" said the
ever-ready Mrs Dobbs; II had it qehcn L aras
| ynun""
Though it was with great difficulty that he
could resist laughing, bob continued:
'I am suffering good deal from q sprainetl
| ancle."
"rhen you sympathizc with me, Mr.
Turner, l sprnlncd mine nAcn I acas comt"S
akong."
but that isn't the worst Of it,
"What is it:'' asked Mrs Dohhs.-Eith Curl
osity.
! Il wouldn't tell any one but you, Mrs Dobbs,
but the fact is"-here Bob @roancd--'I'm
afraid, and the doctor agrees with me, that my
reason is affectcd-that, in short, I'm little
| crazy?"
! Bob took breath, and wondered what Mrs
DObbS would say to that.
"Oh, Mr. Turner is it possiblc,' exclaimed
| the lady. It's horrible! ! know it is. I frc-
quenIy hare spells oC being art Of my head my
sdf!'
Bob could stand it 30 longer; he burst into
roar of laughter, which Mrs Dobhs taking for
a precursor of violent paroXysm Of insanity,
she was led to take a hurried leave
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! TIE PHYs1c1AS.-Tcre is a tribute, we'll dc
served to a profession to which society
vast debt:
'No class of men in the regular discharge Of
duty incur danger more frequently than the
honest physician. There is type of malig--
nant maladies with which he fails to become
acquainted; no hospital crowded with con-
tagion that he dare not walk freely through it's
wards. His vocation is among the sick and
dying; he is the familiar friend Of those who
arc sinking into infectious disease: and he never
| shrnks from the horrors of observing it under
all it's aspects He must do SO with cquanimi
ty; rs he inhales the poisoned atmosphere, he
must colly reflect on the medicine which may
mitigate the su1crings that he cannot remedy
Nay, after death has ensucd, he must search
with his dessecting knife, for its hidden cause, If
so by multiplying his own, pcrls he may dscov-
er some allcvia ton for the afiiictiOn OF others
And why is this? Because he is stceled and
hardened against the fear of it? because he.
dcspiscs pretcnds to dcspiSc t?-By no.
means. 1t is his especial business to value life :
to cherish the last spark OF. animated existence
And the habit of caring for the lives Of his fel-
low men is far from leading him to an habtuat
Indifference to his own The physician shuns'
) every danger but such as the glory OF his pro-
, fession commands him to DEFY
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
USE OF roEAcco-In the United States ply
s;cans have estimated that twenty thousandl