The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1882-11-25

only at intervals he felt. DIR. Walter,
whose experience of such cases is
great, knew ut once that there WINS
only one chance for her---viz, trans
fusion of blood from the arm OF a
healthy person to the blanchcd limb
of the moribund. The lady's hus- Il
band cheerfully consented to give his
blood to save his wife, but the mother
would not hear of it. Although she
knew the risk attending the operation,
she begged to be the donor. Doctors
are not all made of cast-irOn, and
this one could not resist the en-
treaties of that loving mother who
offered her life's blood at any cost
to save her darling child. While
DR.. Walter was performing vene-
section OH the mother in an adjoining
room, and before he had time to coli
lect more than four ounces Of blood,
his assistant acquainted him that his
patient was apparently lifeless. Who
can depict the agony endured by
husband and mother during the next
fifteen minutes? The physician
hurried to the bedroom to prepare
the lady's arm for the reception of
the blood. He found a vein---not
without great difiiculty--isolated it
from the surrounding tissues, made
a small opening in its walls, and
inserted the silver nozzle of the
injecting apparatus. In from ten to
twelve minutes all the blood was
injected, and almost Immediately
respiration became distinctly visible
and audible; the pulse returned to
the wrist, and in the course of
quarter of an hour the insensibility
gave way to consciousness, and she
was able to recognise her frinds.
4 Her convalcscence was steady and
lincomplicated, and within a month
she was able to walk out of the
doors. Fi .are lu 81. n,.s tea
i Befor long the Salvation Army
will have rival in Church Army,
founded on the same principles as
those so successfully inaugurated by
General Booth, but free, rs its pro.
moters imagine, from any extrava-
gances. Laymen have been holding
such services at Betlminster, near
Bristol, and at st. Helens, Lam
cashire, with fair success; but
Church Parochial Mission Society
for the development of aggressive
mission work" has been formed, of
which the two Archbishops, the
Bishops of Lchfcld, Rochester,
Ripon, and SodOr and Man are
patrons; while the Rituaists are said
to have scheme for the same object
in preparation. "N tn ,q
The Married Woman's Property
Act, which will come into force on
the LIST of January next, Is one
winch gentlemen who are bent upon
matrimony cannot too carefully con-
slider. The third subsection Of the
first section is one of the most re-
markablc provisions that have ever
figured in the statute book. It
enacts that every contract entered
into by a married woman shall be
deemed to be contract entered into
by her with respect to and to bind
her separate property unless the
contrary be shown" Tie trades.
man who henccforth supplies a wife
with dresses or jewelry must look Ia
the wife alone, unless he can dis.
tinctly show that the bargain was
made with the knowledge and
authority of her husband. The
thirteenth and fourteenth sections arr
J also somewhat startling to persons
with old-fashioned ideas. II {
, woman is In debt when she marries
she can be made to pay out Of an,
money which has been settled upof
her, or which Is her own In virtue Of
the Act. Her husband, on the othel
hand, Is only liable for her ante
J nuptial debts to the extent of sucl
property MS she may have brough
? him. With this Act In force |
would be impossible for milliners +,
annoy either wife or husband, |
she has no separate estate agains
= which to prefer a clnim, ''aud' he
) husband is free from her nnte-nuptiu
: debts, because she has brought hin
+ nothing with which to pay them
o and he Is free also from her pos
nuptial debts, because the contract
= are her own and only bind herself
This is husband and wife limited
and limited very much indeed