The Huron Expositor, 1876-01-28, Page 22
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Possibly the Men' standing upon the
summits. of poktion, North &V South,
saw long before the .•masses beneath
them not only , the sure' beginning of the
rebellion, but after it had begun the col
tain ending also of the contest long beS1
- fore it did end. Yet it was not so, let
it be repeated, with the rest of men. In
the South, at least, no thunder -storm
ever began so unexpectedly or ended its
disastrous fury so abruptly.
If the figure may be changed, no man
among the crew of the Confederate ship
of state worked harder than did Dr.'
William ,Wright. As an enthusiastic
surgeon, Ala place was not on deck, but
deep down, if we may BO speak, in the
held among the wounded : and when the
ship struck, it was with a shock that
threw him from his feet, stunned, and,
for months after, with unspeakable- as-
tonishment; although, it must be add-
ed, the enthusiasm of the doctor was so
absorbed by his surgery that he really
never had got time to be particularly
patriotic in regard to the cause' of the
Confederacy. .
As soon as he could do so; the 'doctor
went back to his home among the moun-
tains, He found that Luke and Suke
had added two more to the graves of his -
father and Mother at the far end of tem
calf pasture, not a vestige of the fences
left, much less of his ancestral log -cabin..
The storm of war seemed, however, to
have despised the smaller cabin in which
Luke and Suke had lived, and the doe -
tor contrived to shelter, himself in that
during the few nights df his 'stay.
"1! they had left a single duck or
chicken !" the lonely man said, as he sat
on a stone near the old well. „" Not
even the pole of that Ileft t • However,
I've had a long time of it since I lett, am
sore with t e shock of the ending, and
if this place ie not of the nature of bendage
and poultice and quiet, I'm mistaken.
If I could come upon an 011 shoe that
some of the lamily had worn, could even
I had seen before ! I do Suppose," he
start up some frog that 1 could pretend
0 added, looking. around ever the bare and
barren cleft in the mpuntains he had
known as his home frd,m hie 'birth, now
swept very clean by the toOent of war,
" I do suppose I am left asonirch ;alorze
as a man ever was in this World 1" and
he might halm wept hgd he not lieen as
devoid of eentiment as men generally
get to be. I I I
It was very natural, therefore,. that
the doctor s ould resort to whale study,
when the profound silence .and stillness
had begun o weary him, but somehow
he never go beyond that place in his
medical hook marked by the card, still
there from the days of ! is talk with Fer-
dinand ila is. 1
It may. have been that this card was
the only photograph he had ever owned.
I dare say he had hardly looked at it for
weeks after young Harris had given it to
him, when he (Harris); supposed himself
dying, and it was owing nierely to the
- picture being used as a ma ker that he
had cotne to see the face upon it so often
—to see the face of Bell Harris upon it
... so very, very often th t she had come to
be the one only living beingin the world
for whom he cared a ythi g .whatever.
It would have been a Prett picture for
painter or poet, this burly youth Of 23,
clad in his dilapidated Confederate gray,
seated amorig the wreck f his horne,
bending his bronzed and _de rneined face
above the volume in which lay the
- open and smiling countenance of Bell
In the absence of any other god, the
Harris.
savage, we all know, will make a frag-
ment of a deer's vertebra answer the
purpose—will invest it with awful attri-
butes, cherish it nextais heart. worship
arid pray to it; and the 1Creator has
made every Adam of us to l crave l some
Eve, less only than the soul cravesafter
God. Even in Eden Adam demanded an
Eve; and in fist utter wilderness qf the
world in which the young surgeon 'found
• himself, this woman was to hien the one
other human being, except his Creator
cl
the only person in fact !best s himself in
existence. The very solitude Made it
worse. I aeu afraid to say, how Maty
weeks he remained there. Once or twice
he rode to the crossroads, 20 miles -
away, for flour, sugar, c�tee and salt,
big. revolver and Spencer e supplying
him with venison or rabbit in abund-
ance, arid then, having nothing else on
earth and all day long to do, he Would
'revert to that picture. _ 1
I 'At last, from his knowledge of medi-
-eine and disease,. he agreed. as if it con-
sultation with himself, that he , must
either quit the place or his senseia " I
will do it to -day. No . but I will do it
to -morrow," he said to himaelf at last.
And so he wandered Once more from end
to end and round and round the old farm
he knew so well, and then, after cooking'
and eating his rude repast, would sit
- down for a time upon rock er stomp .to
gaze into the smilin eyee and lips'
open. to speak, of his feticl. Ile lay
awake all that last night in the desolate
-.cabin, thinking of . his father's harsh
voice, of his mother's worn face, of Luke
and Stake, of the dogs, he Used to town
there, of all the myriad nothings of which
his life had been slowly built ep, but
most of all of the_pietu e. .
r ;saddling, his
side:of the born
In the morning, a
horse, he 'went to one
field of old, which ended at the basJi)f a
rock rising high over his head" and knelt
at the point where a cerain well -remem-
bered crack running diagonally down
the rock disappeared in the earth.
Knelt, but not in pratier, for, drawing
his butcher knife from his belt, he pro-
ceeded, after looking around, to dig, pry-
ing up loose rocks and throwing out the
earth, until he came to 1 n old and rotten
tea-chest which he had hitnself -helped
his father to place there, ohe specially
dark midnight in the wind and rain, as
Without removing the -box, lie trans -
the war was ,beginning. 1 I
ferred to various parts of hie person the
gold which, rafter payi g for Luke and
Suke, his parents had saved during the
last 25 yea's of their life—.the slow pro -
(weds of webs from the loom,' honey,from
the hive, the skins of all sorts of ' var-
mints" from deer and bear and beaver
down, poultry and pigs, corn and wheat
from the field, and ginseng gathered
from the woods. Now that the negroes
were dead, tile farm desolated, in that
gold was, bes des the doctor himself, the
net results cif all those long, dull years
of close Sat ing and unceasing toil.
Where he came to cottat it afterwards,
the . amount ' was ten fimes beyond
what he had upposed e enough to sups
port him wit economy for years, un-
til he could seeure a good practice in his
profession. 1
And now, what? Had he been wreck-
ed on an open sea ,without the smallest
knowledge of direction as to land, he
co
re
he
te
ral
of
oh
se
yo
o
„a
an
sel
in
is
ha
1311
sh
rk
th
he
dr
011
.ne
. .
d not have been more adifferent
rence to the question in
as to emirs, •
aving &id so eciefled
'the army, liming be
oin orer nearly all the
ie war,' he had nothing
cc tie to theYoWn whi
e down to his practice
1 the photogiaph ; acid;
steadily for that place
e to ca I it Jackson) in
rig heel lived betore the
d Dr. illiam Wright
=self to tind
deliberate he
at the hotel of
bout the Ham
really beautiful
a huhd d ro
in
which way
t
until he' en -
n tossed at
battle -fields
whatever of
h ihould
nothing be-
berefore, he
(suppose we
• which 11
ar. r•
is surpr
howed
singularly c 61
, on housing Wm-
Jatilmon, as to lea n-
s famnilv; pl ce
built u • on
nine p rts
1141
he
11(1
til
heart. cone day he
eat gate leading to
in the Suburbs. A
rs °kris enjoying he
e lace by swing ng
little cit
ling hill
rbs to e part court hoose
*
and stores. For a menth or so
royirel and round, through
h it,perfectl ' at his leisure, in
ow it by
reiln at the g
the " pla,ces',
o boy of 12 ye
n ipa qn of h
tii.la he ate. I
' Boy, hose pla e is this 1" and so e -
lin e knows the reply as lie asks.
is imide Harri place, mamma."
P opl at
;Law, 110, Mina. Mare Ferdina cl-
he 'was home from de War, but ke
do re gone. I Miss Bell she's way al;
t been here ense de ware b uk
Obe seer's n de house ; h 'll
U . Stay her, , massa, an' I'll fo h
1
ns on his horse u til
o the gate, and t en
t Miss Bell is stil in
hodling ; " that er-
Ha ris has one to New Orle ns
0 t up his mer hant of times before
war,and there S no telling when he
b rae . Ma ing,a note of the .. er-
)
t s name, the 4 oeter rides off, th re
nothi, g else o db. - -
bo, shall I ay called, Sir I"
ov meals s. 1 I
care matt r," the other re-
• “ she dbes 't know me butI
,
her !'
Ito J keen h it been swallowed
althe instan't i an earthquake 1 ke
her Lisbon, it could hardly have is -
'
tired to the su geon more sudde oly
round is as mu h the same to him s,
entirely. In we world wh h
f sight of shor, the sea would h ve
,lie has but on object to directh m;
u c thing. i
I wouldn't be i th least surprise
s to himself, s e rides off, " i I
getting crazy. If I had a gra d-:
1 r somewhere, some old arey
d that I cared bit more for tha a 1
or all the rest, somebody somewh :re,
en something, however small, to °-
Me to one town rather than another,
nld be different. But I am in rim eh
t balance that 1 have nothing els to
te MT but her. ; eer how tool end
erent'l BM !IA d I would have
to haVe settled as mach in Jackson
y whete."
te
hi
r. Wri ht retire
oversee comes
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and
e lis goin
w, if you, dea re
urgeon's place, yo would have b
to have gone ov r the house
d, you would h
about her. But
ou h sentiment
.
It *as distinctly for her he car
dings.1; So sufficie t was she in
or her wholly apart from her s
rself that he had no question to a
fairing to know anything whate
erning. her. He wee a peculiar in
, .
der, ..hed bee
,h she, had li
some inquiry
•r had not e
en
in
ve
he
Or
d,
r-
nd
k,
er
n,
h itewhy I tak the trouble to wrte
is case; and
tific precision
eating Natural
ration lor least
oen to know
fought to kn
is horse,
-paint
s office s
til he c
t was i
the tiler
Aing h
the si
pared h
hop um
Wrigl
ns of
dare not mar he
f My 'statement as
Selection by any • x-
oloring of the fact as
he ; and X am s re
w them !
pa3)ing his bills, b g-
r, who, had alrea y
gn, to let it stay in
lied for it, in a w ek
the office in N
et leant who had s
otton of the H rris Plantation, n
son, 14fore the war. An exceedi
y old gentle an the doctor fou
el merch nt, a Mr. Garner, to be, j
1 less nd wa pieta to the 1
lishin i• hinesel again in busine
e over his ruined 1 connecti
,
.g the planteri, a loud in den
n of the Confeler t% as of the F
•
I
don't know wher young Harris
t that when he was hele the ot
told Ihim that th days of mak
nces on crop ts are ver with ' a v
ce," tile wiry old soul said, in
to 1 Dr. Wr ght's1 inquin
t I can tell you where he is goin
Ided.
Veil ?'f Da' W igh(I said.
s 1
oingdhead-for rn st to the ba
rritaline old m n continued. "
' Yee myself, ' although
the 1.1-
ee land
nkees
to do ;
Orlea
VS were
the cli
ore than, any cre
reten but I've done b
in Ne is. e0 years. Th
g fello ever 'weed to wo
i t 'veith ate and their tra
they 1
1 ed to
1
'and Inainentimed the distinguished sol -
dime whoin the brother had already
told, him, , ." Possibly Mr.- Ferdinand
Haeria12-Ferdinaed andIsabella ate their
names, twine, I Suppose you know," he
added—" has gone to her wedding. The
ii
best' thing hi cat do,"the oltl 'man con-
dudetti. " la to arry some -vvoinan rich
enough to afford it and fool enough to
do it. If you should see hint --good: af-
ternoon, Sir --you can tell him so from
me, Ebenezer Gainer. Oh, he knows me
well e ough ! Good afternoon, good af-
ternoo i !" . 0
Wit i in a we* Dr. Wright was far
out at ea on his way, under an instinct
as pow rful as that by which a vine runs
tower, the light or a bobolink flies
south ard from the cold. Never before
had he seen the ocean, nor had he evir
met se ickness Previously except in the
pages if his medical reading; but he
no mo e waverea 'because of sathings
than h did on aecourit of quite a variety
of real y beautifq and accomplished la
-
dice w Om, as soon as the general sea-
sickne a ceased, he met upon the (leeks.
The ni rrownese of his life while he lived
in that cleft of the mountains before the
war was changedfor but another forth of
narrowness during the war, in virtue of
his ex lusive devotion to his surgery,
.and no like an , arrow made perfectly
true b:forehand, and aimed by that force
in our ature which is the strongest of
ell, th necessity, of ,loving and mbeing
(to
loved y some w man, he went steadily
to hi's nark. N r did Paris itself have
power o deflect aim. 1 '
li
" II re I am," lio reasoned to hiniself,
on his arrival, "atmd here she is. Now
1 inten s to take things as coolly AB I
have al ays done,, milowly,deliberately,ac-
curatel . I willet a master and learn
g.
the la guage. 'P e medical schools here
are th best in the world, as well MI the
hospit Is and museums of medical
science Very good. While I mit at-
tendin
not ife
sides,
rupt.
held to
do I k
beyon
to my mein business here I will
•led these lesser matters. 1 Be-
am homely and coarse and ab -
Miss Bell ;Harris is 110t & patient
a table for knife and' scalpel, nor
ow of any ether or .hloreform
the most cautious and respectful
advanc s on My part. I neve intend to
bow and gesticulate, shrug m shoulders
and s ile, like these monkeys around me
in We city of chatterers, but I will get
a book or a teacher to emooth me .off a
little, lso a tailor. Moreover, 1 -will
study ociety as0 do medicine amid Surg-
ery, an not be in a hurry. We are young
and th re is plenty of time. In fact, I
would ether not gee her just et."
-proceec
uoArangdr upon this principle Dr. Wright
duringithe months that follow,
object,
its wi
quarry
forgettul all the time of iikone
lifc thari the 'fisielaWk daing
e in the air is t the
below, around which it wheel-
ing on y to strike at last the ino suc-
cessfully. ; '1 ,
Of course he knew by heart the pen-
sion, ppon the quiet out-of-the-way street
at Whieh Miss Bell Harris and her 'aunt
were supposed lei him to live, passing it
by blind and lower instinct, however,
for his sincere hope every time he passed
was that he might miss seeing her on,
that occasion also. ' 1
But, one beautiful day, as he was, study-
ing rather the anatomy than any other
beauty in the large group of the .Louvre
1 opposite the east' entrance, two ladies,
oee old, the other young, paused beside
his pee liar charecter was of that sort;
him. am provoked at the doctor, that
willies recollection, varying from • that
, but astr he had Met the ladies from his
merely in the words required, the instant
1 he saw them he Advanced, hat in hand,
; to tfie lder of the ladies, and said, with
a sudd n suavity of manner which, up
to tha moment, ; he did not know he
possessd.
"V 11 you kindly allow me, madam !
I gee t at this is Miss Bell Harris. I My
] name i Dr. William Wright. I was With
your b other, Mies Harris, when he was
slot th ough the Chest. Pardon me for
speaking, but—"- 1.
; . , .
"Ce tainly, Site" said the old lady, as
!prompt y. Why, my dear, you re -
menthe • how Feedinand.? used to write
about 1 im ? We Would knowwoyom Sir,
if it we e only froin his description.
Now old Mrs. agruder, for that was
her na e, said th's exactly as she would':
have d ne it had. he meeting take
in New
not un
more t
ing too
18,
er
ng
a-
•
as she
where,
sides, t
ble, ho
14' but au
se would
, of bro
as hart
the m
did not
them.
Whil
somewl
-minute
were ta
arid If
"Yo
ed; 't
young,
and an
ff
111
le
si-
se
k.
an't wo k. Besides, they're
he war, they mast have x-
ent, Sb they I dug around the 't.
t. Louie drinking, , know
fternoda on Canal I been in Europe the South had not
y know the creole • been so torn tip with the war. My niece
to admire them by had to be educated; her father I left
les or
spend 1
t, bee
will
the
every
use th
e there
n of their -
-. I'
old f
" but
him."
ce and authori
ssibly there w
ark -h ,ired, ho
ry and somew
visit whic
,
nt eying
n as he was
. oat is sonl
is peo le. Bu
Bell anis w
ris, o if not t
ther ddress a
rew t make a
and I for ther
orld o be d
ity, a then,
•
ars on
ad so
ain in
place]
Orleans o in Jackson. he did;
erstand rench:, Paris as no ,
her. than eTackson. In f t, be-
lcl to change, she Was. precisely
had been all along and every -
motherly, sensible old soul. Be -
ere was so much simple,- sensi-
est hinnaa nature in this plain
horitative, young man, that one
as well have suspected ta loaf,
n bread or a glass of water'
had a deubt in regard to him,,
re especially as he evidently
have the least doubt in regard to
• the yoeng lady held herself'
at aloof, niodest and silent, in 20'
the doctdr and Mrs. Magruder
king over , the war and Ferdin-
ris's experiences thereio, I
see Dr. Wright," she eaplain;
ieir parents died when thev were
od I hatre had charge of Oeedin-
Isabellae—they are twins,' you
ever s' ince, ; We wouldn't have
SU
erings for
*may or young Barri
tor sa d, relenting_ a
ehasn' stamina. enough
•
ears be
ettled. t
ome we
, %Vii t's info ma t to the daug
nd it was thut the old gentleman
ept °rifled f the addresses of
dy an of her old aunt who ac, cora-
1 ben But it was little Dr. Wright
of all his after] making mental uote
t wher abouts.
n't be eurprised," the old
• -f
id, in parting, if young
ne to h if he can muster
energy notigh. • They .say
to ma ' General ---- ;"
ely
at
ometting of
tbe bearing
but honest f
defiant aititu
encoureged the Id
nce begun, old ad
by the war, too, teito
in efereuce to ; t
having learned t
at a certain addr
ere, then at a c
LBerli the v"13.
14, vi
Bit
of t
lwas nothing else
ne—go first to t
necessary, to t
ore the Harris p
eir property as th
t -t rough the han
he
it.
to
e -
of
e,
0,
r -
is
'special directions in his will about that ;
land as Bell could not go North to school
among he 1,71Ankees, wc. had to come to
Europe"
And thereupme the old lady entered
into m therlY inquiries in reference to
'Ferdin nd, as to whose strength of char-
acter at d prospects for the future she
evident y, h the grayest of doubts.
Thus it cane to pass As naturally ase.
one ea and drinks and breathes that
these t ree credos met as by a.,species
of applintme t in the churbhes and. gal-
leries o art, 1 braties, and the like, dur-
ing the weeks in, Paris that followed.
Miss Bell arrie was to Dr. Wright
imply his c eriehed photograph alive
nd speaking. An immense. difference,
one th less, ,between the lady of paste-
oard a d the hying, breathing, smiling
oman n unceasing motion. But I am
orced y the bet that this a sole ifie
onogreph to say that there Was notji
ng at I t so rereirkable in the y.
-ot on man in ten thousand, meeting
er for he firet time in the Louvre or
nywhe e else, would have glanced at
er a s cond time, for beyond being a
odest, pleasant, anaffected young lady
f education, there was nothing ' her
light form, child-eike face, with brown -
yes, a innoot brew in an abundience of
rown air, at was particularly re,
;teal I Ma onna orFoniarina. But for
ears 11 NT she had, been to Tr. Wright
ot only the o e Wkoman of her sex, she
ad bee also he one person of the race
11
11
,
for *hoe' .h eriecially eared., It had
.I knew.itwhen ,I began to Lita3, but
grown that way. .
it m leei upon me at this juninte with
*eV , till fact that I canna : . unt
any, • g of it violent or tragic re. I
will e en confess that I had at gem time
yielde so far to the teniptatid ze, woad
the sensational as to resolve u n 'having
the dcietor shoot the distinguished gen-
e al. 1But a he did nothing of be kind,
I am eatistie that, by the very, instincts
sweetsnat Is itself, the reador would
h ve despised the device • the literal
f et being that by reason of c rtaia itn-
iii
oral courses ot the general d ring the
r—courses so exceedingly i moral as
become offensively notorious—the
tch cease
es. The
11 Harris
at show
ve compl
right to b
as of itself, and f om both.
cientific fact also as that
as to no other ne n. living
to this man. Natu e should
d matters by ns' king Dr.
to her all that s e wes to
. , las, no.
Of this the lover became w 11 aware
en,' after •enonthe of ever ri ning ao-
aintancel , he ventured to peak. for
raself, and was promptly and,
rejectel
at wnausrstehde
und, 'and
one who
si le, downy
b own, bear
lia,ble, and t
" Of cour
tied, "hs
r years, wl
many mo
fracture,
r a8 & sur
en the stir
_is otter than
-the man no
Con of at las
abandons the
of securing a f
o his profesei
nr wait
w iting he n
t attnent, t
a of her.
ore Ideepl
f time too
w iting, whi
d termined
i the world
h "sIaii)dietodgel
a ain hear a
lips, nor
uch lees b
our aunt I
cirt you to
w fir you, an
w I can s
i transpor
ei • 8, &M, as
i aginative
t • e roult of
tory and pr4f
t at I am of
a If an can e
p rson in A
a
She knew and li
amotint of it, as
her brother d
ad•saved his life
dececled-
ed 'him,
ne who
ring his
thereby;
ou earnest, sin ere; gen-
ght and determin youth,
ed, plain, and altogether re-
nt was all !
e," the rejected I ver rea-
e 1 I known and oved. her
i e she has not k own me
he ! It was not li e a case
be finished all
on is, concerned,
on i through' a
e pa
re
su
dea
rtun
n.
said
re
atm
mod
SO
the
is,
arac
t once so
and even
reat deal
ient. I'll w it." For
bandoned the inten-
ceeding than hunger
f food, or thim he did
some day it the line
the lover ;4 and upon
as upon` a process of
ht of himself .mes well
nately Jove, and
very hour, ' his af-
energetic path of
t least to men of his
er; the hardest work
ou y word; MiBs Bell,"
r, that you will never
rd pon the'subject from
ill I annoy you b a visit,
a 1 tter, or eve a look.
co sented that may es-
erl n. No gen eman is
there are malty afters in
rve you. I never indulge
lave no intentio of sat-
e s e, one of the most un -
n ing. I sup ose I am
y eculiar birth and his-
ssione; but I 'suppose, too,
s hard and cold heart as
1 be. I haven't a single
rica I ore o ce t fete or
e w o cares hal a cent for nuf; not
e sotil in u ope with whom am even
quai ted !"
But the yo ng hotly objec ed with
m ny assuran es f the hopele mess of
h s co tinuin th acquaintan e ; there
w 11 t the eas possibility f its re-
st Itin / in any hin to him exdept pain
a cl c rtain ort fication, and she too
W: so cool hen she said it, so alm and
d libe ate a ass red down to be deep -
e t de ths o er rove eyes and in the
e pha is of r h , d Ind hand 4.nd tones
she spek hatl any other min .would
h, ve a ando d t e matter in, despair.
T e d ctor di no purely because it was
a ues 1011 of . 'lternative—what oth-
er wo an, g eortsiodn?either, Was there
t hi in allt e
iviar gr thi
ne :react
Ina`rry
cie edit'
a d a
• a,
tin
reesri
er sal
is an e
r of
all th
Con
h
to
• cel
oor
per
leri
u entirely, Bell," Mrs.
er in private " Dr.
ent man, ten imes the
Ferdinand, nt he is
on I would ave you
g his lack:offortune,
ation, f c lture and re nement,
it is mpl absurd."
y, th , d you let hi go with
aid. t neece, with sone irrita-
, •
V*
o cause
c eate all alp
bl ab ut outt
ra lwa ticket
g:ttin old adc
gl d to help.
ti ely ut of t
t at . Betel d
gi e it up ; t
fa lin ova
t ink so, w
him go"
"Th mdea!"
and m •e no f
It w s sim 1
le tion An a
have been so w etchedly
g—have hed so uch trou-
assporcs and ba gage, and
and hotel peo e. I'm
tired, and he N •11 be so
His marrying yo is so en -
e question that regard
He is too sensi le not to
only fear is that you may
h him at last. If you
had' bettet refu e to let
exclaitned the young lady,
rther opposition.
a questthn of Natural Se -
tree makes no nlore noise
at is es -
There is
er when
e meted.
Pyramus
wall -and
and cup
metier -
1 as An..
-
in sele ting f m earth and air
se tial to .it h a a violet does.
t .e pe 1 of o par icular than
ei her °biter br t or e,a.gle a
0 cou se in h many cases of a
a d T isbe t re ig a separating
a evo ring lin, any a dagge
of pois ta as I th instances of
a le Romeos a d uliets, as we
to ys and patras ; but you will be
g od e ough observe that these were
c ses otkof tur 1 but of unnatural Se -
le tion No p aceful marriages in eases
of that sort, i h beppy homes afterward.
5 ndy uch i tan es in all their varieties
aed yo will set t all the jar and tur-
moil a d inc abl crash in the end are
b:caus: the ect n of each o her was
a • non at an defiance of na re. The
C eato ma man and wo an to-
y pr cisel he did Adam d Eve;
it is th devi 'ming in that sp Os it all.
U der • is u s ear mg wisdom and love
it is mac his dam to th Eve in
t e co . posit.° of pair as it is is much
o yge • to that'mu h nitrogen i the con-
st acti n of t tmosphere it general
a d in articular. There is not a parti-
-cl of uss ot onf sion except hen the
11 s orkin s things would ove a.s
eato is hir ere Were h left to
s oath y asz o tl e planets, hich we
u dou tedly oulr interfere w th if we
co Id r ach h tn: The comp niouship
of the ternal eaven, you may est sure,
w'll be happy, because it will b left, un -
m lest d of s to the law, as s eet AS it
is imp e, of k and supply on thepart
of ach k aind loving su ply,pure
as it strcln , instinctive, abundant,
e rnal
No hipg n b4lainer," Dr Wright
w ay duri the months which fol -
lo ed, to Mrs. Magruder, who y the af-
fin ty o goods nse , or sense upc itmonly
eo mo and ding on his part ad slow-
ly and impere ptibly• come to ike Dr.
W •gh a great deal more than he her-
self kn we here is music, y u know.
I ann t make ulna, but I am growing
to feed on it more as upon fo d every
da ell, n, all the music hear in
cathedral, con rt, opera, ban in the
11
parks, or songs of the peasants, _is sitp
ignme in one person and petfectio by
=Ws Belle by *fir the bee usin, 'th
voice or Ingtmemewt I can magOle. So
With: Sculpture' and Wirt' f laic We
certainly, see enough, m all
beauty of form and cOlor find .
"Prospective too," the old lad ed,
sarcastically, and looking somewhat ity-
ingly, too from under her brown ne"
through her spectacles, at her co pa ion,
as he replied
• "Yes, she does keep her dista Se, nut -
dam. But America is threetbousa d iles
off, yet we will go there some da and
so is heaven. I am as practical., hen
there's all we know of education, re ne-
ment, culture. Don't you SU I feel
my lack of all that?—and more ev
And Miss Bell is all of , that to me. I
give you my solemn word, Mr ia Magru-
der, that I never read a novel in my life,
that is, through and through, ye I have
a sort of craving for such things—poetry
too—not neuch, I confess. Now, our
nieee—"
"You would. make Bell out t be an
angel. I never knew such infatuation,"
said the old lady.-- "Bell ire a good girl ;
I've kno*n her since she was y ;
but • die is nothing miraculous That
wnrrfetvhreielghtloitto,serraarpoliga regular
case
of h 11u,-
ou,
as crazed
"1 have sometimes
self," said her comp y ;
hen
vein
ry day!
bought go
nion, f an
"but I gave it up to her long ag
I told.her all about it, and I have
thought of it since. But I do n "nk
Miss Bell is an angel—perfect, I e
at all. I think she has wea ne es
which make me as neceseaeyto h4 as she
is to me." , 1
" Well, upon my word i'' -ex maned
'Mrs. Magruder. " Whr, Dr. right,
what on earth ?"
11
"1 suppose I am the plainest o
Dr. Wright said, rubbing at hi black
Beard ; "but the fact is, I jus think
aloud. When she fellsa we wer cli be
ing the Alps, you remember, an I ad
-to lift her animal off of her; t time
your courier stole your things, a
telegraphing had to be done. ,an 11 the
proving afterward, it was the e so
when she was very ill at the cha t
I was the only medical met in ea 01;
n
the time I lied to thrash that E g s1 -
man who was rude to her, when of as
for me to do when I was needed a it as
off that day sketching, atel he le f
course you are too sensibl to in 1
reel
boast of what Was as easy a d as
for her to need nee then. I do ele see,
my dear madam," the lover adkled so
thoroughly in earnest that i wen to the
very -heart of the lady, "that there are
add will be a thousand thin 0—t ing df
character as well as circiunstence--w ich
oihe has not and which I do have, jus ie
I am tremendously -sure thatshe 1 in her
blessed self the supply to e o e lery
thing of which I am deficient. att gi
little sombre,' for enstance, 0 e iS as
joyous as a bird; I am' horn ly, and She
is beautiful; and if she Is till sejeti-
ment, I am made up of facts as a. h tiee
is of bricks ! All these young fellows
that are falling in love with her,' do on
suppose I'm afraid of them? Not tee
hit.; They never can be, all of them at
together, to her what I am, and Ish is
knowing it to he a face every day, un-
consciouily to herself." ;
" Do, for mercy's sake, doctor—stop„,
and tbe doctor did stop 'at this adjura-
tion;
r -
tion - but Mrs. Magruder had beeom 011
flolid.''principles his friend, and it ,vvas lit-
tle he said thus to her that , was not fil-
tered through the older, lady into the
heart of the younger. Mealawhil --
” I'm sure, Bell," her aunt saidto 4,
"no man could be lese demongtra iske
than the doctor. He never] ;comes ear
or speaks to you unless upon you np-
tion ; if he as naich as looks! at you, do
not see him doing SO. If he was a hun-
dreddent, and if he was a thousand in les off,
i
years old, he could not seem less: at -
he could not be less in your way."
, ; I
But it must not be supposed that i
Wright knew so little of wonien es to re-
main in attendance upon the ladies all
this time. All day long he l was liar at
work in Berlin, to which city they went
after leaving Paris, in the seedy- of his
profession. No harder nor more enthu-
siastic student in Germany than the doc-
tor. Often he would be gone forweeks
a a time into Italy, or upon pedestrian
excursions with acquaintances h made
among the Alps. It was the in e el
le
ence and self-reliance of the Man and his
devotion to his profession which secured
theirtheir respect, and grievouilly di t ey
miss him when absent, an eagerlytdid
they welcome him—Mrs. A, ewer er -id
at least—when he returne,c1. '
"I never knew a rnan to impr ve o,"
the aunt would often say to i her; niece;
"he is rough still, but is growi ore
of a gentleman every hour. , Ho
heart-
ily he enjoys our quiet Sundayafter-
noons in this beer -drinking land I .otoe
But he enjoys you/. IStinday af ie.
ii
glad he is to go with els tea a te
, . . .
noon singing more than ,all. I an
glad, Bell, that, with all'yoUr no sei e,
you are so , decided and te a
Christian." .
And Miss Bell would lift er e
cloud of brown hair overha ging
from, her sewibg, and say : a I ..
see how I could be anythingelse,
considering the mother I
es, the
lor
aull
ad. W
one is away off in a foreign land t
knowing, too, that , the .341 South
loved so well is all broken trP and rt
ed, if one does not look to Heave w
is there left? The Catholics c1ingimi
to their Madonnas put us to Shame.
sides -you and poor dear Ferdinand I have
nothing in all the world. I feel, o,
that I must hold all the &tier teii, God
when all the people, here at least, seern
to be going off into infid.elity.1 I I ere
was a more devoted Christian! _I in nd
she never looked quite so lovely am when
to try to be." And her aunt thought
she said that. The plain truth ot-
withstanding all that Dr.Wright thou lit
about it, Miss Bell Barris was a good,
earnest, pleasant little lady o
with plenty of. quiet decision o char-
acter underneath her child -like gayety o
manner.
Here again I heartily wish that coi1
with trath naivete some conaulsio of
tare b3 which the end was preci ita
especially as .the threatening of wa
Europe about that time would have en
abled me quite easily to invent and palin
off upon the reader something threllin if
not ingenious, but I am compelled to
cleave to the macadamized turnpike of
facts. Let me hasten upon. it to the e d,
'What do you suppose Mau' ced me to
yield ?—I mean what do you think Was
the last inducement which! turned the
scale ?" asked a lady of Dr. Wright, as
the two were seated _together upon :the
deck deck of a steamer America bound just
two years to a day after the doctor had
Ieddot°;EottikrloPew. , Bell," the gentlettan
crossed
ot
tele
ien
wte
t-
at)
JANUARY 28, 1870.
r lied in a °°'insm;;Plirt.oseallenageynibeoy than that
for you, ill ot10iwasottaihfet yo m
yo were In e for ine.",
ise
ay,
to see that I
, since noth-
a No, sirs ' bat was wha Atifit1 Ma-
uder called Your halluei tion,'? the
y answers. "I suppose li must have
en slowly gierueg way, uncotsciores so,
a long tune. But if you had ever
en me an. opportunity by saying a
rd to me about it, I wetted have re-
jected you, and over and ever again when-
ever you tried it. Nosh., that letter from
old grumpy Mr. Garner In New Orieans
did it. r thought at first you were intox-
icated, you' were se redient with joy to
learn, as you diI from aunt—you never
would have done Bo from me—that we
must return beeauee oar motley was al -
mese gone; thie the hands were freenow
and would not i, ork on the lanta 'on ;
and pages on pagesto that e ct."
1" I am sure 1 did not say anytlf
Die Wright rnakle answer.
g-
- allo," the lady cantina "auid I
wduld have been anary if oti had. But
yen were like a chulo, so full o heap ess
at theliceie that now you would. be able
to dosoniething to prove all ou wanted
to be to me, that I could not resist it;
and 1 began to ,ea,lize, ‘the difference be-
tween your steady settled purpose in life,
and the butterfly sere of iifel bad been
leading. You did not ask me again], but
I could net hold out against your eager
and joyful silence. If you had heard
that you had suddenly come into an es-
tate, you mould not hove gone aulibiuusgeti:shEa:,;p-as
pier than you were; rubbing o
and rumpling your beard, la ic
talking at if you were beside o
"Ido not remember saying anythingto
you at last," said her matter-of-fact hags
ba d. •
' Are you' not ashamed of youreelf to
say so? At least," the lady added, with a
blush, "yon have been sayi g so much
to me silently for so long, it was not in
my heart not to say soinething at last. /
did not have to say much."
"And 1 will tell you," her husband
said, taking her hand under the cover of
her traveling shawl as they sat:side byside
at the traffrail of the vessel, steaming
smoothly along homeward "what was the
one thing in you that determined me to
persevere. There] wereany lesser
things, but this lwas the chief hinge As
I told you, I had been trainer to religion
on the old farmWe bad the Bible and
prayers every day las regularly as our
meals, as necessaryia thing f pm force of
long habit, yet the dullest of all matters.
There was nothingof it during life in
camp, and I saw, as all men do, the need
of it. Now, I did not have it, and you
did, and that is all, only your joyous -
faith and happy -content have thrown the
bright Huth lit over what had Seemed
gloomy and dark before. It was the way
yoh, used to put your very soul of Sunday
afternoons' in your singings which tuad'e
me certain! that if I twas ever have ra-
il on, I must have .you."
Wright, wi11oisTilly81 ja de c de etd ih Rat; at
y hni ea gphrboof or ,a, ten.
he in Jackson . splendidly. He i in
1
fact, our Main reliance as physician and
su geon, Aunt Magruder, Di. and Irs.
Wieght, theireAittlel Ferdinand and sa-
be la --twits once More, if you -will 'be-
lie e me—And Ferdinand Honig, bat ling
manfully with his sister's he p, a inst
1.,
hie beeetting weaknesses at all mg
quite happily together. weaknesses,
ld yo be
olt
an where in the region, they *mil • be
gl d to have you call. Theyiel„re, le no
nicia
ans, rich, but will try to 've y u a
genuine Southern welcome Oiled old.
. .
An Eccentriie Chttralater.
-Vhe Liverpool Dciiire Pogt, tif Dec
ttle vi
there
of on
hose se
. He
1158 the following : reAt the I
of HMtield, near Doncaster,
be n solemnized a funeral
those remarkable gentlemen w
or lass is nearly exti uished
WAG
30,
loge
has
of
ool
possessed of considerable property, and
some people desegnoted him Squire awe
ley but he delighted in 'Jack Haw ey, '
and would not be accosted by his co ect
name, Pilkington, at family of the igh-
est respectability. I He diedlon Ch ist-
me* day,' and was buried on Tuesd y in
tre of the
ied d 1 ring
out • full
1
spurs And
whip, and wag carried from the hou e to
th grave on a epfiert board, When he was
placed in a stone coffin, which weig ing
by
nee
hie own garden, ia the ee
graves of his cattle which
the rinderpest. He was laid
huetin,g costume, itcluding
upwards of a ton, had to be lowere
means of a crane. - flis old pony X
was shot and buried at his feetin bridle
and saddle, and 14 dog and old fax
was buried at his bead. The fu
mer-
al ceremony was ! performed by the
Boman Catholic priest of Don aster, kho
had specially consecrated the ground,
and was witnessed. Only by a ew mo In- -
erSi chief of whom were his physician,
Des Cameron , and "Messrs. . J. . oul-
men and C. d ..
Marsden, of Th‘ e. Many
were refused admission. He bas left the
-whole of his estate to his a1&m,.John
Vi kers, on condition that the fun. ral,
1,s
etc , be coOduct according ] to his ' ex•-
pr sed wish, and should he fail in do-
ing this, the whole of his preperty to
revert to the priest at Doncaster for the
benefit of the Cathohc religion. He
-wals ouly 52 years of age."
a e
i
nvsroreeera Hetatas.—Ma y per ons
physic their horses frequentl —espe ial-
ly every spring. This is a great e ror, .,
and one which has caused the Jos of
many valuable horses, as physic as t is
usiially given, often' 1)rOduce8 infla ea
tionof the bowels which gen- rally p ove
fatal ; it also weakens the horimo and hum
reedere him more liable to &seas or
Icss able to throw it off—wha is r uir-
ed is a medicine which will
an lungs, renaovall
°
erate ene
tl upon the bowels, and upa the vet
th bag obstruct ons
refronv purifying -the bl od an en-
abling all the organs to _;:do heir
work without overtaxing any, "oh
is accomplished by the use of "Da ey's
Condition Powders and Arabian II ave
Remedy." It is always safe and ce in.
Remember the Mame, an Beehat
the signature of Hurd & Co is on eaeh
p kage. Northrop& Lyrae ' Toronto,
0 t., proprietors for Canada. Sold by all
in dicine dealers.
,
RYAN'S IVAPESS, (The gmtcat public
re edy,) have now been in us for Over
twenty years, hence it camnot be au
that they are on trial. They have been
th roughly tried, and. pronounced (o the
authority of those Whose lives and health
th y have preserved,) to be a cure,harm-
less and eminently galutarsydreparatione
an if taken in season invariabiv
cure colds, coughs, sore threat an
B,oncbical affections. One fair trial
convince the Must skeptical. ;Sold
medicine dealers, at 20 cents per bo.
ARY
Tuake
COUNCIL Metaerm'
at Wileoree Hotel, 1
needay last, purser
when the following
'subscribed the dee
tion of office, viz.
well res Reeve; Da
Reeve; James Mc
and James_ Laing
Reeve having taken
of east meeting wer
when it was moved
'onde..d by Mr. Wal
°oaten be appein
of $140 per annum
as , Registrar, S75;
segeor, $S0; Sante
tor, $90 ; Robert A
Os The Reeve
Dewar as the seeo
Clerk was instrue
confirming the a
be 1 laid before the
meeting—Carried.
soonded ley Mr. M
San, Esq., beinst
the trustees of the
Bruce Railway CO
;granted in aid
municipality, after
for enterese due up
e Reeve and Dep
ized to sign a bon
lOciuncil to the sai
Sty loss lie may s
*ion the said e0111
epecting the debent
lpality --Carried,
seconded by Mr.
der be paid $1 50 f
Pre Con. I2—Carn
McDonald. second
'the Reeve and Dep
1014rue-tea to -Pro
handles attached,
other obstructions
bridges on the Ba
Crich, -James Br,
foot, David Camp
lto have charge. o
Moved by Mr. Wal
Sproat, that that the
:strueted to notify
'other obstructions
'ances, to remove
days after this not
refuse or neglect
the parties as prove
Couucil adjourned.
Elliott's Hotel, B
Feb. 18, at 2 o'ol
St. A
•
• .
An Ichtbyoloogi
The quiet serenii
of Bliseville, Su
Brunswick, was di
by the announcem
that the ice of SoU
WAS covered. with
the fast made -Imo
crowd, composed o
seen hurrying to an
ous of teeming as
possible, ;Ev-0134)
ing carried away b
ment, joined thems
oils throng, and we
fist. In an incred•
dreds were assemb
was literaily eovere
to four feet in lene
'Attest impossible te
ing beneath the pi
poor innocent creat
ejected into the eth
- no Misanumgemett
Was none of the s
grabbing, wkich-ou
peet among the spei
enmstances ; but A)
with the regularity
nometer. The moi
provided themselvo
earried them away
Otters, whose equ
disturbel by the
Make any light pro
Content themselves
conveniently hang I
For the benefitof
wish to trace a tom
sinci effect, we subj.(
extraordinary twin
and rain very mud
of water which was
ed by by hoisting the,
1
several miles a,bov
; water to rush up t
flow over the sulfa<
same time, inunene
ascending the strea
1 spawning, and in p
holes, were brougle
;Inward current se
the ice, and thus 10
the piteivorous int
—St. John Tele4ra
Idares Mierof
The name " tric
from two Greek 1
41114,enrled,.*1111
Of the animal anc
1 which it assumes h
. is found in the me
male Wont meastif
of an inch in length
longer. It was dim
Owen in a portionl
to him from St. Ba
in 1834.
lira few hours
is taken into the s
eratortfrom it are fq
Thenee they Ross'
and afterward Into
-where they are deli
or fourth day eggs
eggs beingalive, ae
the case 111 otheri
which we have elm
to -tines othe
eriang are first pro
into the substonce
epmetinres mis earl,
thc -seased . noes'
mach. they may',
able numbers, and,
theyoung entozoa
size equal to thal
chintc. They proe
the interior of the.=
tailor fibre, wheret
sieveral in alle, om
hind them the mm
atrophied, that is
them an irritations
producing noys'
Thus it will be see
cular systemis fIlim
each one the centr
tion., and of course
ad the friendly
tho scene. 3
These vases, we
ft1querit than is go
our having, so Ing.ti
ticewithni a ilhOi
would be a good r
Jew up swine's fies
But there hes luta
Thome& cooking