Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: decision ! This man said to the other arbiter— ' If we are to read all these papers ere we decide ' the matter, it will not be in this world at any- rate that we shall come to that decision!" ' So," he said, " we never even opened one of 'them, but just took five minutes benefit of common sense and wrote down what was on ' the face of thething ! " The decision was fully acquiesced in by both contending parties, and equally approved by the lawyers ! If only one of these men had been " a lawyer," it is very doubtful if the case had been finished yet 1 FROM KNEE TO ANKLE. We have noticed "outstriking" on the head of a child, and now direct attention to a somewhat similar affliction which occurs with those who are passing, or are past middle life. It is sometimes apparently the result of the rubbing off of a little of the skin ; or it comes on without any known accident to give it a beginning. For a time it seems scarcely worth noticing, and is consequently neglected; but gradually it spreads on the surface and gives uneasiness, especially after the patient's being some time in bed. It goes on till a large portion of the skin from the knee to the ankle is reddened and roughened with a moist eruption. Now remedies of various kinds .are tried but without effect. Preparations ofzinc, or of lead, are tried, but the evil gets worse and worse. The person affected, almost always a struggling mother, generally a widow or one in a somewhat similar position, who has to keep on her feet all day in anxious toil, and neither gets very good food during the day, nor proper rest during the night. Month after month goes past and no relief comes. The positive agony which some such persons suffer is incredible to those who have not experienced anything of the kind. Here the great difficulty oft...