The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-04-27
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1 fetched the goose grease and wen
to sleep again. Once more [ was cal
led. ..5..---.,,.-.- ..7-.
t 'Mortimer, / so hate to disturb you
t but the room is too cold for me to Try
to apply this stuff. Would you mint
lighting the fire. It is all ready tt
touch a match to-" e.s.,s1o3 ssiJ Hea-
1 dragged myself out and lit the fire
and then sat down disconsolate.
"Mortimer, don't sit there and catch
your death of cold. Come to bed"
! As l was stepping in, she said: "But
wait moment. Please give the child
some of the medicine
Which did. 1t was medicine
which made a child more or less live
ly; so my wife made use of its wakin g
interval to strip it and grease it all
over with the goose OIL. I was soon
asleep once more, but once more had
to get up. fsr~d 'sui iif IN = ts'''.
/ "Mortimer, 1 feel draft, l feel it
distinctly. There is nothing SO bad
for this disease as q draft. Please
move the crib i'm front of the fire."
l did it, and collided with the rug
again, which threw into the fire. Mrs.
McWilliams sprang out OF bed and
rescued it, and we had some words.
l had another trifiing interval of sleep,
and then got up, by request, and con-
structed a fiaxseed poultice. This was
placed upon the childs breast, and left
there to do its healing work. -s7ss
A wood fire is not permanent
thing. got up every twenty minutes
and renewed ours, and this gaye Mrs.
McWilliams an opportunity to shorten
the times of giving the medicines by
| ten minutes, which was great salts
faction to her. Now and then, betweeR
times, reorganized the f1axsead poul-
tees, and applied sinapisms and other
blisters where unoccupied places could
be found upon the child. ...-E-
Well, toward morning the woed
gave Out. and my wife wanted me to
go down cellar and get some more !:
"My dear, it is laborious job, and
the child must be nearly warm enough
with her extra clothing. Now mightn't
we put on another layer of poultices
and"
did not finish, because was inter-
rupted. lugged wood up from be-
low for some little time, and then
turned in and fell to snoring as only a
man can whose strength is all gone
and whose soul is worn out, xel.s#
Last, at broad daylight, felt grip
on nay shoulders that brought me to
my senses suddenly. My wife. was
glaring down on me and casting. AS
soon as she could command her ton
que she said, 'It is all over. All over!
The child's perspiring! What shall
we dot" s b.. ...e{...-
''Mercy, how you terrify me. 1
don't know what we ought to do.
Maybe if we scraped her and put her
In the draft again ..7..f... i.5ff.t
go, idiot! There is not a moment to
lose. Go for the doctor. Go your
self. Tell him that he must come dead
or alive"
dragged that poor sick man from
his bed and brought him. He looked
at the child and said she was not dy-
ing. This was JOY unspeakable to me.
but it made my wife as mad as il he
offered her personal affrent. Then
he said the child's cough was only
caused by some trifling irritation or
other in the throat. At this thought
my wife had mind to show him the
door. Now the doctor said he would
make the child cough harder and dis
lodge the trouble. So he gave her
something that set her into a spasm of
coughing, and presently up came a
little splinter of wood or so.
"This child has no membraDous
Group" said ne. She has been chew
ing bit of pine wood or something
OF the kind, and got some little slivers
in her throat, they won't do her any
hurt"
mo-" said I. 81 can we'll believe
that. Indeed the turpentine that is in
them is very good for certain diseases
that are peculiar to children. My wife
will tell you so y
But she did not. She turned away
in disdain and left the; room; and
since that time there is one episode in
our life which we never refer to.
Hence the tide of our days flows by in
deep and untroubled serenity.
HOW THEY GATHER COCOANUTS.
Ccceanut forests of thousands of
acres are spread over the plain back of
Gale, Ceylon. The trees run mp with
out knot or limb from thirty to eighty
feet TO the branches. that bear the
fruit. A matured tree is enlv about
one foot to one foot and half in cir
cumference at the base, and it main
tains nearly tins size all the way up.
Aow is the fruit gathered at such a
height? The coolies climb these trees
like squirrels they place rope around
the legs near the ankles, so as to hold
them in position around the tree, and
then without spur or other artificial
help, they climb up with astonishing
celebrity, gather the fruit and drop it
en- the ground. A single tree produces
about a dozen cocOanuts, and the
coolie harvester is allowed one for
gathering the fruit of each tree
These cocoanut forests are really beau
tiful, presenting symmetrical growth,