Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-02-23
WOODSTOCK, VT, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1876.

think can keep him tolerably com
Portable, otherwise he may suffer some
you understand the principles Of
homeopathy, don't you, Mr.. Moseley?'
M-I-I," stammered that gentle
man in confusion.
"Eh % said the doctor
"Y-y yes" came from the blinking
parent.
"And know what | mean ?"
! eyes"
"Which," continued the doctor,
"should cause you to clear off the top
of that bureau and place upon it all
the tumblers, goblets, cups, tea-pots
and spoons you have in the house ;
together with big pitcher Of water.
Then be ready to help me.
All this time the doctor had been
at work upon the patient, who had
been burning and shaking in minia-
ture fever and ague; which suddenly
stopping left the little one at rest just
as the father had got his array of
glass, crockcry, tin and silverware
spread out tor instant nse.
At the end of forty seconds the
baby began crying and kicking vio-
lently.
"Colic!' said the doctor, as he
quickly applied the proper remedy.
Mrs. Moseley sat anxiously by her
baby assisting the doctor, while Nose
ley himself In a Gripping perspiration
stood ready to pass tumblers of water
when called for, much with the air of
a man who was assisting at fire.
The young servant stood holding the
doctors medicine chest for his better
convenience, meanwhile weeping great
tears into it that threatened to set the
very contents afoat. The doctor was
getting warmed up to his work now,
and so were the pills-it was lively
race, the doctor just keeping ahead
and that was all. Dripping with per
spiration, yet ever surprisingly cool
and collected, he was the most wonder
fully active man that the world had
ever seen-at least Moseley thought so
as he watched him at his work mix
ing and mixing with never mistake
or a false move, and constantly
announcing each new complaint on
the programme, as it attacked the lit
lie patient-much like dancing mas
ter calling off in quadrille. Things
were coming thick and fast now.
"Mcasles! Lively here, you, with
that water! Bilious fever! Collie
again! Say, girl, hold that chest
straight, can't you! Cholera morbus !!
Look out, girl, don't hit my elbow
again with that chest. Group again
Don't he alarmed, ma'am we'll bring
him through. Rheumatism! Whoop-
ing cough ! Don't be frightened
won't last long. Asthma! Earache
Genera debility! Sea sickness! Ba-
sin, there, quick! St. Vitus dance !!
Diphtheria! Collie again Yes; and
liver complaint and asthma along with
it. Hi! where's them glasses ?-here !!
all right Lext, now! those must be
pills of yours, Mosley. All y
Here the patient seemed to be
through, and fell back among the pill
lows and closed its eyes in sleep, as if
it were very much fatigued indeed.
81 guess he's through" said the
doctor, as he paused to wipe his brow
on his shirt sleeve, at which Moseley
and his wife looked unutterable graft.
tude, and the young person with the
chest put it carefully on a chair and
then went promptly into Mysteries
from very relief. .
After the doctor had gone, Moseley
took his little medicine chest and sat
down before the open door of the
stove; and as he emptied bottle after
bottle upon the bright Goals, much af:
ter the manner of a sacrifice, and
thought of the fifteen dollars he had
spent for his young drug store and
what the probable amount Of his doc
tors bill would be, he chanted low
but fervent prayer for the miserable
souls of those wretchedly misguided
men who had been persuaded, from
motives of economy, to dabble in do
mestic doctoring.-Danb,wy Ne,cs.
Mind is progressive, ever grasp