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people treat us and other physicians ? They 

 spend a hundred times more for their pleasures 

 than the health we give them, and expend enor- 

 mous sums on balls and dinners, while they leave 

 their physicians unpaid. Indeed, while they largely 

 remunerate the lawyer who gains their cause, 

 they give nothing to the physician who saves their 

 lives." Gall was not generous, in the common 

 understanding of the term; but it must be con- 

 sidered that in his domestic economy he failed in 

 method, and consequently was always pressed by 

 unforeseen and urgent wants. If he was selfish, 

 let me ask what kind of selfishness it was ? He 

 educated and supported his nephews, and young 

 people of talents, and his table was free to every- 

 body. It is true, he was not generous to all who 

 surrounded him ; but he was so towards his do- 

 mestics, and people of low condition, whose 

 services he had received. We may say he had 

 a love of property, but that his intellectual 

 powers placed him above its control. 



(To be Continued.} 



ROSA MAY. 



The birds their love notes warble 



Among the blossom'd trees; 

 The flowers are sighing forth their sweets 



To wooing honey bees ; — . 

 The glad brook o'er a pebbly floor 



Goes dancing on its way, — 

 But not a thing is so like Spring 



As happy Eosa May. 



An only child was Eosa, 



And, like the blest above, 

 The gentle maid had ever breathed 



An atmosphere of love. 

 Her father's smile like sunshine came, 



Like dew her mother's kiss, 

 Their love and goodness made her home, 



Like heaven, the place of bliss. 



Beneath such tender training, 



The joyous child had sprung 

 Like one bright flower, in wild wood bower, 



And gladness round her flung; 

 And all who met her blessed her, 



And turn'd again to pray, 

 That grief and care might ever spare 



The happy Rosa May! 



The gift that made her charming 



Was not from Venus caught ; 

 Nor was it, Pallas-like, derived 



From majesty of thought; 

 Her healthful cheek was tinged with brown, 



Her hair without a curl, 

 But then her eyes were love-lit stars, 



Her teeth as pure as pearl. 



And when in merry laughter 



Her sweet, clear voice was heard, 

 It well'd from out her happy heart 



Like carol of a bird ; 

 And all who heard were mov'd to smiles. 



As at some mirthful lay, 

 And, to the stranger's look, replied— 



"'TVs that dear Eosa May!" 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



X. Y. Z.— You are a phrenological " wag." We see 

 through you, without feeling your head. We can 

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 want what you have sent us,— but as you withhold your 

 address we cannot explain further. 



A. L. — Our space is so circumscribed, that "Fugitive 

 Poetry " can only be admissible under very peculiar 

 circumstances. We are already overwhelmed with 

 similar "kind offerings." This "reply" will suffice 

 for all the writers. Their favors have merit, and 

 would be readily available in a Monthly Magazine. 



New Subscribers, and Casual Readers, are referred to 

 the Leading Article in our First Number for the 

 detailed objects of tbis Journal . to these we shall 

 rigidly adhere. 



Private Letters. — Of these we daily receive such 

 immense quantities, that we must really beg the 

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 is more profitably occupied. All vacancies, as they are 

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KIDD'S OWN JOURNAL. 

 Saturday, April 10, 1852. 



What a month have Ave now entered on ! 

 What pictures of loveliness meet us at every 

 turn ! Like the Phoenix, we bid adieu to 

 the trammels of age, and step forth with 

 all the renewed energies and elasticity of 

 youth. 



Emerging from the gloom of winter, and 

 beginning as it were a new life, we now see 

 all things in a cheerful light. Let happiness 

 be our aim, and happiness will assuredly be 

 ours. 



Happiness, be it known, is within" the 

 reach of everybody. It is not, as has been 

 fabled, one large and beautiful precious stone 

 — a single gem, so rare that all search after 

 it is vain and hopeless. Assuredly not. It 

 is a Mosaic, composed of many smaller 

 stones. We never feel " happy " unless all 

 around us are also happy ; and our constant 

 aim is to make them so. Our success in this 

 has hitherto been such, that it indeed ap- 

 pears impossible for us to be unhappy. May 

 this impossibility ever continue ; and may 

 our occupation ever remain unchanged ! 



