We have the following story from source that makes it impossible for us to doubt its substantial trustworthiness; and we regard it as too good to keep from our readers 'A poor native woman had a son—her hope and pride, and the promised staff of her advancing old age; she bound him out to as good a trade as she could find, and vas for a while proud that, her boy, did well. Of late, however, she had. been pained to learn that he had changed for the worse; and quite recently she ed, to hor bitter disappointment, that he had run away from: his employer under very susipicions, if not disreputable, circumstances. it was mote than the poor creature could stand; and she flew into a violent fit of which' was followed by fits of fainting and spasms. She was discovered in this fainting adio state by her neighbours, who of course thought that she had poisoned herself with opium, as a refuge from the bad news that they knew she had recently received. There were in the
ministering angels who delight in going neighbourhood, however, 22 lo of those about doing good; healing, according to their ability, all manner of sickness and diseases among the people. They had visited the neighbourhood where the calamity occurred, and had gained a wonderful reputation for' their of and they were of course immediately sent
good jar mustard and water, they for. Havit supplied themselves with a resorted immediately to the scene. When the poor woman saw them enter her humble hut: and learned their errand, she ment, prote og tha te had taken no of course refused to submit to their treat-
fhneo. the potent influence of the drug was ium or anything of the kind. But then,
first discovered, there has never been a case of opium poisoning known in which the victim was willing to confess his crime. And the truth of the proverb, a stitch in time. saves nine, holds in reference to Administering medicine as wel as anything elie. 'The poor creature certainly looked wil and excited, just like one under the influence of the' slarcotic; and when physicians hold a consultation, it is not -generally with their patients.' No time was to be lost; and notwithstanding her. remonstronees, she was seized by some half dozen, more or less, of her neighbours and thrown on the floor; some of them held her arms, others her legs, and others sat on her to ministering proceeded to pour two keep her in the proper position while the or three quarts more or less of the mustard mixture down her indignant throat. The mixture goon came back, as it was to do, but as the poor woman had eaten scarcely anything for aday or two, it did not find much. She was4o enraged, however, to think of the prank that had been played on her, as well as exhausted by her efforts get. rid of her captors and the mustard mixture, that she could only lie apparently' helpless and motionless for some time after the emetic had ceased to operate; and this was as the comatose state that so often attends opium poisoning. The operators returned to their Rome, pleased to think that they ad saved the life of a fellow mortal; and the Believed, at last reports, to be none the tient made a rapid recovery. She was
worse for the operation; let us hope, too, that she has' by this time come to the conclusion that she will henceforth
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