DOCTOB GEORGE. WfltoPp. xpnrnow to make A HAND A IJETTEB. A Caurasseii^ Experience. was simply galling-totne high-strung A^KROTHERISHAtfBEt:- small-pox.H "3w*sy?' you well you nave the young man. -H was daily hur Idon't betieveit," said Tommy's Canvassing for books-, selling maps, About the only earthly possession of covert or open sneers. Even chil iffother, sfiatply, "I don't 1elie*e(yo Am Incident After the Battle^ mt Aattetaun. patent art&Hffiresd medicines is a disagreeable any value George" Hixson had on his ridiculed him and his new title. know smaUVpox from the I measles! Gathered about an office window, method'of obtaining a living, &S ne mm Once WhDe Electioneering Could anything be more^exasperating twenty-second birthday, was a handsome I'll send for Dr. Graves rightTofff."" overlooking Market square,' was a and few peopleengagein it through than to have a crowd of ill-bred Senator Warner Miller, with bis* "Very well, madame," said Dr. diploma of parchment tied up group of veterans of the late war, who choice. But every max* and woman urchins assemble in front of his poor, George, politely bowing himself out. making an honest endeavor to earn a had been with Grant,and the death of wife as& daughter, and Secretary J".- with a blueribbon. The diploma was shabby little office, while one of their But late that evening Tom's mother livlihood is entitled t& respect and the great military captain, and the W. Vr'ooman of the Republican States |||,from a medical college of very high number sung out: If "*v came crying'to Dr. George. more courteous treatment than canvassers noble tribute which the nation had Committee and his wifehave beenpass*ing ^standing, and Georgehad worked hard generally receive- A gentleman "Doctor, doctor, kin you tell "Dr Graves wouldn't come," she paid to has- memory, was the subject a few days at the Chautauqua assembly, What will make a sick man well? who is now wealthy gives an Jf'-and faithfully for long years for that said "he was going to, but when he of conversation. Many and interesting I Grease his heels and tar his nose, amusing account of hasexperience canvassing and the Senator was in Jamestown heard that it looked like the smallpox were the bits of personal reminiscence diploma. That he deserved it, made And that will do, I suppose." in the days of hispoverty.f?He with Tommy he said he wasn't related on that occasion,, and as on his way to Titusville and at it a valuable possession. \rt x* The Doctor's office was such a shabby says: well, and just sent some medicine that the twilight shadows gradually gave trip through the oil regions, under they jjlr He had with it a good deal of capifeltal little affair, and he was quite too ain't done him a bit of good. If you An adyertiseniehT"under- the beguiling way to the deeper darkness of the pilotage of Dr. W. B. Roberts of oft. poor to make it better. It had no in the way of courage, enthusiasm, would come up, sir!" caption of "Ten dollars a day made nightr and clouds of purple smoke carpet, no pictures, nothing but a well torpedo fame. On the trip down It was the first time he had been addressed Hr faith in himself and the world. He by canvassers," met my. eye. curled upward and hung like a graceful cheap desk, a chair or two, and the as "sir" for many a day.*'*5 Chautauqua Lake there was a party I was eager toearn even fifty cents undulating web overhead, the was honest, manly and patient, and few old, but valuable books which "Of course I will go," he said. a day, and sent my last dollar for the I mind was insensibly carried back to of twelve or fourteen on board the could begin life at the right end of the comprised the Doctor's library. That was the beginning of Dr. articles with which I was- t "easily those days of anxiety and dread, steam yacht, one of whom was Loren.i Appearances go a good ways toward ladder. 5 George's practice in. Sharon. Within and pleasantly earn ten dollars a day." when the national life trembled in the a physician's success or failure, no B. Sessions. ten days there were fourteen cases of In return came two dozen boxes of He was so poor that he had to walk I balance. Memory like a huge penduI matter how greatly we may affect to small-pox. The annals of the little indigo, powdered and put up in small The members of the party toldstories, lum swinging imperceptibly between /part way from the college to his old underrate them. town contain a record of how it was tin boxes, with perforated tops. For and Mr. Sessions' story was the past and the present brought home, the village of Sharon. He should be well dressed. A shabby scourged by that fearful disease. Before this: this "useful and valuable article in vividly to mind the scences of man can never assume a very dignified The first man he met at the end of the end came there were one or daily demand," as the advertisement "You never know how handy it is"- other days, and the veterans appearance. His office should more cases in nearly every house. read, I was to ask twenty cents a box, his tiresome journey was old Enoch to have a brother until you are in a save themselves up to a, season be neat and invitiag. It augurs ill for The means taken to prevent the spread and was told that I could easily sell fix and want some one to stand for Lampson, a man who had known I of reminiscence, and striking incidents the amount of a man's practice if his 01 the disease had proved ineffectual. one nundred a day if I. was- "bright- you. I remember when I was nominated of bivouac, camp and battle-field George from the day of his birth. office is as shabby as poor Doctor At last the town was quarantined. and smart." for the senate I had never gone 1 where narated with that directness "How de do, George, how de do? George's was. When Doctor Graves was sent for a A printed circular outlined my method into Cattaraugus county, and as the and impressive effect which only a Home again, eh?" was the old man's If the young fellow could only have second time it was discovered that he of procedure forme. It read, "Call democrats there that year, were as 1 man who has been an actor in the greeting. had a chance. But there were the had suddenly been called away at every house your city, ring the lively as a cheese in July, I concluded scenes discribed can give to his story. "Yes, sir," replied George "home to people sending ten miles to ,a "on business." He stayed away all bell, ask for the lady of the house, and I would run over. So I put on a clean 1 The season of story-telling had eontinued stay this time." neighboring town, tor Dr. Graves, who winter. say, pleasantly, choker, and made my way to the for some time ^\hen one of the "So yer a full-fledged pill-maker, an' could ride over in his carriage and Doctor George went back to his "I am introducing a new and! useful home of an old deacon, who volunteered 1 party who had previously been ready to go into partnership with old count their pulse beats by a magnificent empty office after seeing Tommy a article, madam, the merits of which,' to show me the school districts 1 an interested listener to the narratives Billy, our grave-yard sexton, hey?" gold watch His clothes were of second time. He unpacked his little etc. Call also at stores and offices. in his vicinity. Hitching up his old of his friends said as he tilted his asked the old man, with poor wit. the best and tailor-made, and he had trunk, lighted a candle and began to Gentlemen will gladly purchase the article mare into a three-spring, the deacon George felt disposed to resent this chair against the wall: "There was graduated from the same college from read a certain medical work. He read for their wives." drove me to his nearest republican but he did not. which Dr. George's diploma had come. one incident in my army experience until midnight, until 1, 2, 3 o'clock, neighbor, and calling him out to the So I started out. At the first house "Ye don't calc'late on settlin' down which above all others has impressed His father had left him a moderate until the dawn of daythat found, wagon, introduced us. I rang the bell a saucy-looking girl here in Sharon, do ye?" continued old itself indelibly on my mind. It is but fortune, and he could begin his career him on his bended knees, prayerful, 'Well, you needn't give us a knockdown came to the door. Enoch. in a manner becoming a physician. a simple thing, and possibly you may and even tearlul. He felt that there to each other,' said our friend "Good-day, miss!" I said, "is the "Yes, sir, I do." smile when I tell you that amid the And then George had to set in his had been given him work to dothat who was beaming on me. 'I met Mr. lady of the house in?" "Wal, now, I donoI dono 'bout dreary office, in his frayed and patched awful scenes at the battle of Antietam a change was coming in his life. He Sessions at Chautauqua this summer. "Yes, she is, an' she's goin' to stay that, George. garments, waiting for the patients no mcident fixed itself so strongly in opened his well-worn little Bible and I am glad to see you, and how is the inin her room, an' we don't want "Why shouldn't I begin here? "asked that would not come, while Dr. Graves my memory as the finding of a little read: good work going on up there? How is nothin', an' none o' yer sass, an' you the young man. "I hear that old Dr. went driving by day after day. letter belonging to a rebel artilleryman "I will not fail thee nor forsake my Sunday school class?' clear out!" Edmunds has died lately, and that Every few days the disturbed and who had fallen under our fire. thee," and again he read: "Be strong, All this without stopping to breathe, "I managed to make a reply that no one has yet come to take his place. dejected young doctor heard rumors You remember that battle as well as and again I say, be strong." and then the door was slammed in my satisfied my questioner and our mutual Why should I not do so? I am of a rival coming to Sharon, and the I do, so that I need not go over the And*"he was strong. face. friend.and, after a little talk about young" village papers openly published in its details of the engagement. Our battery, At the next house a woman came to politics, ia which my Sunday school "His strength was as the strength often, "That's hit, George! that's hit!" interrupted columns that with several others, had a position Because his heart was pure." the door, who was, I felt sure, the acquaintance promised me his support, old Enoch "yer too young "An experienced and competent on the right of our line, He became a tower of strength to lady of the house. -ne said good day and drove on that's jist whar the shoe pinches. physican will do well to locate in Sha- and we had been pounding those stricken people. He was doctor, to Horse Corners, so called because "Good-day, madam!" Ii said. "I 'Nuther thing is thatthat" ron." away for some hours at Lee's nurse, consolerand more than of the unusual degree of interest taken am introducing a" The old man scratched his head in After that Dr. George thought he left, when we were ordered to another he thought he ever should be to suffering in that locality in all things pertaining "Introduce it some place else then," evident confusion. He looked keenly would really have to seek a new field position. Later in the day we were creatures. to horses. she said sharply, and I had to step at the young man, whose face began of labor, and in deepest despondency sent back to our old position on the His success with Tommy was assured back quickly to keep Irom having my "Now it chanced that while I was in to flush. he feared that he had perhaps relied right and again went at it. The engagement within a few days, and others head caught in the door. Buffalo a few days before, I found time too much on the promise that had so "Wal," resumed the old man, "you was terrific Lee's left, came eagerly after him. His skill in "Failure number two,? I said,trying hanging heavily, and did an unusual long encouraged and consoled him. know as well as anybody, George, jiss which was directly in front of us, was baffling the disease Avas wonderful. to be cheerful. thing with mewent to the races. In w'at yer fam'ly connections is you But he read another promise,solemn held by several batteries, and I tell Had he not the Heavenly help? There I was ascending the steps of the the grand stand I saw a countryman know that" and sweet to his troubled heart: you they made it warm for us. The were few deaths, and "many people third house when a window overhead who had pool checks in his hand. "I know it so well that you need not "I will not fail thee, nor forsake next day after Lee had withdrawn his came fourth, their fair anjj blooming was raised, and a shrill female voice 'Let me see -n hat horse you are betting take the trouble to enlighten me any thee." army some of the boys wanted to go cheeks unmarked by the dread disease. cried out, on,' I said, and then told him that further upon the subject," replied the "It will all come right in the end," over the ground occupied by the rebel Mrs. Colonel Giddings' beautiful he was wrong, and had better hedge, "Clear out! If you come wp any young man very quietly. "I know to he said but the end seemed so far batteries so as to ascertain how effective daughter was stricken down while as the horse he held for a favorite higher, I'll dump this bucket of water my sorrow that my father was a common away. our fire had been. The necessary making preparations to fly from the would get beat. He followed my advice, on you! I know what you've got in drunkard, and that I am generally He would be only "old Joe Hixson's permission was obtained, and a party town. and by the merest good luck that box, and we don't want none of known as 'old Joe Hixson's son.' son" to these people all the days of of four or five started. When we (here Mr. Sessions gave a sidelong look Mrs. Gidding's own carriage came it whatever it is. Put out now!" I know that my eldest brother followed his life. There Avas no end to that reached the rising ground occupied by that meant "Maybe I didn't know what for "old Joe Hixson's son." His contaminated I "put out" sadly enough*. Then I in my father's footsteps and was shame and sorrow. The sins of a horse was slated to win, and maybe I the rebel artillery the scene which met presence was in her splendid tried ad office. Approaching the desk killed in a drunken brawl in this town. drunken and depraved father were visited did') the horse I named came in first. parlors and in her daughter's our view was a terrible one. On of a benevolent-looking oldgentleman, My other brother has gone to the bad, upon the head of a son who was The man had put up his last dollar dainty room. His skill and careful ground plowed and furrowed by our I said. too. But I know, and you know,too, deserving of the world's honor and and made a purseful. He wanted to watching brought her beautiful daughter shot and shell lay in ghastly confusion "Sir, 1 am introducing""Introduce Mr. Lampson, that my mother was as esteem. He had risen above them into hug me in the presence of the crowd, forth with all her girlish loveliness the dead bodies of men and horses, yourself toward the door, and see what good a woman as ever lived through the beauty and glory of a pure and but I told him we would defer that unharmed. wrecked caissons and splintered timbers, you read there." ?ast noble manhood. rears of shame and suffering, to die at luxury. He had hardly time to eat or sleep for while in an irregular, wavy line, I read on a placard I had overlooked of a broken heart." Through shame and sorrow, discouragement many days. His very presence gave stretching as far as the eye could coming in, "Pedlers and agents keep "Well, to- return to my drive through "That's even so, Geoige," admitted and poverty, he had hope and courage to the suffering. reach, the earth was strewn with out of here." Cattaraugus county with the deacon, the old man "I knowed your "mother struggled up to a higher and better life, He escaped the contagion, but when the rebel dead. Such scenes did who had become a firmer friend than I saw a woman washing- in the back when she was purty Mary Jackson, and yet the good people of Sharon his last case was dismissed he was utterly not affect us much, for we ever since he had heard of my zeal in yard, and thought my patent bluing 'fore it was ever her misfortune to daily made him look backward to the exhausted, and quietly left the the Chautauqua Sunday school. At bad become inured to those spectacles, might interest her. know yer reperbate father, an' she was, life he had left. And no friendly hand village for a week or two of rest. Horse Cornei-o who should be the first and so we passed on taking mental "Good-day, madam," I said, "I am as you say, as good a woman as ever was stretched forth to help him onward. person I saw but my quondam friend When he returned his heart sank note of the accuracy of our fire as introducing a useful article for ladies drawd breath but hit's your father's of the race course. However much I within him. In the window of one of who do their own washing." shown in the number and positions ot name you've got, an'the name of Hixson "It is really surprising to see the assurance would have liked to avoid him at that the handsomest office-rooms in the the dead. While thus engaged Ave "Be aff wid ye!" cried an unmistakable don't stan' very high in these 'old Joe Hixson's son' displays," time, I had nothing else to do but to town he saw the word "Physician" in found lying on the ground the body of Irish voice. "I don't set meself parts. But I'll say fer you, George, said Mrs. Col. Giddings, the sail in and trust to good fortune to great letters of gold. a rebel artilleryman who had been up to be a lady, but I'm a dacent that I hain't a word to say agin you wealthiest woman in Sharon, "with Handsome curtains were before tho save my character from being wrecked. woman, jest the same, but I don't killed by a bursting shell. His knapsack pussonally an' individooly. I am free his antecedents to set himself here for The deacon stopped and said, 'Mr windows. Everything indicated that want none o' yer ould stuff, so be aff had at the same time been shattered ter say an' b'lieve that yer of a mind our physician." Blank, this is Mr. Sessions of Chautauqua the newcomer had been a successful wid ye!" so that part of its contents had ter do what's right, an' that you want How many of us can look back county, our candidate for the man. He hardly dared to read the I went home, gave my mother the fallen on the ground near him. There to raise yer name far 'bove the through the ages to ancestors in whom Senate' name on the door. When he did he bluing, set the teeth of my old saw was nothing in his appearance to attract o'jeeum that's now on hit." there was no guile, and from whom read: and my own teeth firmly against all "I reckon you can't tell me who ho special attention any more than "I do want that," was the young we need not blush? "Dr. George H. Hixson." kinds of canvassing, and went out is,' said my horsey friend. 'How are the thousands who like him had fallen, man's earnest reply, "and it's strange During six months Dr. George had sawing wood for a month. That Avas "Go 'long in and see how you like you, Mr. Sessions? Didn't we scoop but out of curiosity I picked up a if the Christian people of this town refuse but two patients one of them was a much easier and tar pleasanter than it," said old Enoch Lampson, who those fellows out of a slick sum at the letter much soiled by frequent handling to give me help and encouragement. boy who had cut his finger badly, and canvassing, if I didn't, make ten dollars stood grinning on the pavement. Buffalo races' There ain't anything and proceeded to read it. My My own record here is clear I the other was a child with the colic. a day at it. too rich for you about here. If you The amazed young doctor opened comrades gathered around me, and at am not ashamed to have it read. Of He had not, however, wasted his time. don't see what you want, ask for it.' the door and went into a beautiful their request I read the missive aloud. course, I am young, and most people He had studied and learned much. office. A handsome carpet and rugs "The deacon's face blanched, and a It made no pretensions to elegance of are a little afraid of young physicians Different Ways in Which People He was a bright, observing young fellow, covered the floor, walnut and mahogany letter of withdrawal danced before me, diction, nor was the spelling of the but all physicians were young once, Face a Trying: Ordeal. and no one in Sharon would ever chairs with velvet and plush cushions but an inspiration came, and I replied words employed always correct, but and I must have a beginning, you have guessed that the bright letters were in corners, a mahogany as readily as I could: 'I'm glad you Denver Tribune-Republican. it was the message of a young wife, know." and sketches they read in certain eastern table and secretary stood in the room, had good luck at Buffalo, but you are "Is the extraction of teeth as great a who, from her home in a small Alabama "Now, I have studied faithfully, papers were written by "old Joe pictures and ornaments were on the mistaken in the party. It was my town, had sent to her husband horror as it used to be?" asked a reporter carefully, even prayerfully, for four Hixson's son." He had signed "Alexis" wall, books filled a walnut bookcase brother Walter whom you met there.' the tidings of the birth of a daughter. of a Denver dentist. long years. I have spent every dollar to all he had written, and had been with a silken curtain. Back of this It was a mighty narrow escape, I want It had been written in September, I had, educating myself. No one "Well," he said,' there doesn't seem able to meet his small expenses with pretty room was one for a private you to understand, and I told Walt 1861, nearly a year previous, and in knows of the deprivations I have had to be much change. The idea, "N\ hich is the money hehad received for his work. office, fitted up in the handsomest when I got home that he would ruin its simple phrases of love and solicitude to suffer for this," and he held up his worse than the thing itself, will always But he had not spent four years style. my character if he didn't look out. 1 was truly touching. The letter diploma as he spoke. contain untold honors for those who studying medicine to finally become a was- elected, though if it hadn't been "IIdon't understand it," said made its impression upon us, but on are very nervous, and the prospect "I have earned it," he went on "it newspaper reporter. for my Chautauqua experience and for Doctor George. turning it over we noticed the can scarcely be expected to be pleasing is my own my right of four years of At last he made up his mind to go Walt, I guess a democrat with my pretention "Don't, hey?" queried old Enoch. outlines of a baby's hand. The mother even to the most phlegmatic tempera- hard study. Of course 1 know of the out west. Hope had died out in his 5 to being pious would have got "Wall, hit's a little s'prise fixed up fer had evidently taken the little one's ment." opposition I will probably meet with heart. The people of Sharon were determined there." you by Mrs. Colonel Giddings an' the I am young I know hand, placed it on the paper and then beginning.v "Who are the most heroic in this in the to ignore him. He could not rest of us. 'Bout the hull town hed a with a pencil traced its outlines. This particular?" more of theory than of practice, so succeed there. But there was that finger in hit. Hit's all yer own, an' outline was then dotted with ink so as A Great Speech.. "Women, in every instance, particularly far. But there are several reasons young man's Meccathe boundless all paid fer. I reckon you hain't lost to bring it out more clearly. Within invalids. You see, women are why I want to locate here in my boyhood's west. Perhaps the fates would be less Some of our most distinguished" nothin' by trustin' in the Lord. He the lines were written the simple accustomed to vhe endurance of considerable home. I am bound to win in cruel to him there. He need not be gin'rally brings His promise to pass, orators made absolute failures in the words "Martha Virginia, her hand more pain than the world the endyou will see that I do." "old Joe Hixson's son" among strangers. you kno."I. L. Barbour, in Boston delivery of their first speeches. They ever dream& of and frail, delicate creatures "Wall, George, I hain't a thing ag'in sent to her Pa," while on the outside But there were those precious Examiner. sit down and have two or three you myself. I wish you well as fur as the message appeared, "If you want to promises! state that they seemed "tongue tied,' teeth pulled out without murmuring. I'm concerned. Yer gritty I remember kiss the baby you must kiss this "They will be fulfilled yet, in the their ideas became confused, theirmemories The more emontional ones usually that you had that streak in you Thirty-six Hours in a Bear Trap. hand." The boys drew around me Lord's own time and place," he said, itrJi played them false, they look inexpressible gratitude at the when you was a little youngster. But and gazed at that little sketch, and I cheerfully. "He probably means that Boston Special to the New York Tribune. c= hesitated and stammered, a coldprespiration dentist when it is all over and exclaim I jist made up my mind that I'd tell am not sure that most of them did I shall go away from here to something Ira Linnell, a young man in the employ eloquently a& to their relief. Others you fair an' square what the chances not take off their caps. When I looked came over them, and what better than I have dared hope of R. H. White & Co., while spending say nothing, although their faces show wuz fur an' ag'in you here." up from the missive I saw lips quiver for." they suffered could not be told. his vacation in Grandville, near that they are glad enough to be rid of "I am greatly obliged, I'm sure," and now and then a tear take its Soon he made ready to go. The Rochester, Vt., had an adventure But they took courage, tried again) the troublesome members." said George, "but I was prepared for course silently down cheeks bronzed home of his childhood was dear to which nearly resulted in his death by and again, and succeeded. It is possible, all you have told me. I feel that I "Who are your most refractory and hardened. What was there in him and he was fond of familiar faces, starvation. With several others he therefore, that the maker of thefollowing shall succeed in the end. Commit thy cases?" that little letter to make men who even if they were not always kindly. was engaged in trapping, not only for speech made himself famous way unto the Lord. Trust -also in "Great healthy men, who havs could gaze without emotion on slaughtered He had always felt timid about going sport, but for the bounty which the in time, though one cannot be too sureof Him, and He shall bring it to pass.' never suffered an ache or a pain in thousands soften ur-der its influence? among total strangers. But his poor state offers for bears. He went to that. The speech was delivered at a There is the foundation of my faith their lives. They fidget and swear and Was it because it told the little trunk was packed, and he had visit a distant bear trap, to which debating society in a country school and courage, Mr. Lampson, "lhave bellow when they are touched,, and story of the purest love, or because we gone around saymg good-bye to the district* only weekly visits were paid, and, although often proved the truth of that most usually about the time the dentist is few friends who cared to say good-bye knew that often in the still hours of he did not return when expected, helpful and most blessed promise. It ready to operate they conclude suddenly "Thequestion, Jadies and gentlemen, to him. He intended going on Tuesday. the night that letter had been taken no anxiety was felt by his f'ves that they will suffer it out yet me courage and confidence now. to beexcussed, sir, is this^Mister Cheerman from its place to be read, perchance to friends. A farmer happening to pass awhile, and that it is not necessary to know it will not fail me." an' gentlemen and ladies, sir, is. be caressed? Was it because it brought On Monday afternoon a little towheaded near the trap in question and thought have anything done. They are perfect But there were many days and weeks this: Resolved, whereas, thattobaceo* forcibly to mind the thought that boy met him on the street. to examine it. Listening in vain for babies about their teeth, and and months after that when poor is more injurious to the human cistern many of our own fallen boys in blue "Say, you, Doctor George," he any indications of the presence of a never seem to think it worth while to George's courage and confidence almost thaja ardent linkers. I take the negative had, too, some keepsake, some souvenir said, "my ma wants you to come up bear, he opened the trap, and there, disguise their fear. When accompanied failed him. in this question, sir, and affirm to our house and see if there's anything of loved ones at home, whose by wives and sisters they are in a fainting condition, hefound young Old Enoch had truthfully said: that it is. Yes, sir, my friends, and the matter of our Tommy grief and tears and heartache would often laughed at for their cowardice, Linnell. It appears that Linnell had "Dr. George will have a hard row to gentlemen and ladies. 'cause if there is ma wants to send for be their only requiem? I know not but they never change countenance. dig." He had, indeed. The name of gone inside of the trap, a'big box-like "Arderft Kckers, sir* is-^is. ardent Doctor Graves." what it was. I only know that to me They tact as if they were going to be Hixson was in bad repute in and affair for catching animals alive, and Hckers is the bane of our free country The insulting message made the that little hand, standing out in its hanged." around Sharon. The people were prejudiced while arranging the bait accidentally while tobacker is not, sir. Our/ ancestors blood fairly tingle in the young doctor's dotted outlines from its soiled white against the poor young fellow although touched the spring that closed the "No, sir, it is not the women and lived in a numerous age, and so veins. But the next moment he background, told me how terrible they could not but admit that door, and he found himself imprisoned. children who make the trouble in this, did theia-posterity before them, and laughed. would be the anguish of that mother* his own character was above reproach. business. It is the men. Great, For thirty-six hours he remained they were all noa composmentis men "Oh! well, it don't' matter," he when the story of Antietam's battle They had known him from his baby strong, hearty creatures who ought to in his prison, with no water and but and w&nmen in spite ofthe use of tobacker. said "I'll go. It will help me to say reached that quiet Alabama town. days up, and it did not seem "natural" be ashamed of themselves. There little air, and his only food was the Whereas ardent spirits truthfully that I've ha,d some prac- "i\ Well, we buried the poor fellow near A? AfJ to call him "Doctor" Hixson. comes one of them now. Just look at raw meat with which the trap was wouM have o fitted them for rearing tice." ?j(f where he fell, and we put that letter And he was so proud of that hard-earned him. He looks as if he had lost every im the soil, andtilfingtheir humble homes baited, and which hunger finally compelled lommywasthe very urchin who in his narrow grave. And tears of title. friend the world. He will begin by over their shelterless heads. I defy i him to eat. ^f had sung the hateful doggerel before sympathy welled up into our eyes as giving the detailed ailments o! his Those who used it at all called him lay colleagues on the other side of this jjj Dr. George's office. we worked.Providence Journal. m* teeth, and the vicissitudes through "Doctor George that took away half great question to deny this, and so, The young physician examined the which he has passed with other operators, From 50,000 to 80,000 head of cattle the. dignity for him, and was a sir, ladieaand gentlemen, I don't thinfe boy carefully then he said: Ss and I will begin by dosinghim up familiarity he resented, in secret, although are slaughtered monthly in the tobackejrdoea as bad aa ardent lickers "Well, Tommy, my boy, it will take "with ether and closing bun up. He's he dared not do so openly. something more than grease on your does, and so I rest my arguments here, province of Rio Grande, Brazil, Bradstreeta reports a contiowed favorable not troubled with ne^e^ It won't conditionin trade circles^ &ud begins to, ladies*%!Z!e?n.tU&*8*&dv'anV Mr. CheercxuvTi,r and e.r~ hurt him." men,eh\n think it is permanent.