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VIE DOCTOR'S TDIRD PATIENT ;
Or, I..ementhrances from, the Life of old
• Doctor Micah Asher.
ST Tat 11.tV• JOIIN TODD, D : D. • •
The young medical student who now
goes to the medical school, where he meets
with a multitude of eager young men pur
suing the same end, where are learned
professors to instruct them, a beautiful
cabinet, opportunities to visit hospitals, to
witness surgical opeiations, to obtain sub
jects for dissection, and to read from a full
library, can have no conception of 'what it
was to become an eminent physician fifty
five years ago. If ho shall advance as far
beyond the men of that period as his op
portunities are greater than theirs, ho will
indeed be a distinguished man. Now that
the frosts of seventy winters are upon rne,
I have Thought perhaps 'it would interest
my young brethren of the profession to I
have me recall some of the incidents in
ray professional life. "Anti labres jucun
di, ' and I hope to be pardoned ifl am more
egotistical than some would allow to be in
good taste. It is the privilege of age to be
garrulous.
One of my earliest and deepest impres
sions was made by our old family doctor.
He was a large, portly man, kind-hearted,
good.tempered, though his speech was
quick, seldom giving offence, and always
right in principle. His presence always
lighted up a smile on the face of his pa
tient, for the angel of hope always accom
panied him. How often in my childhood
have I slipped behind the great pear-tree
by the garden gate and watched him,
as he dismounted—for he always rode
horseback—throw his huge saddle-bags
over his left arm, and slowly walk into the
house without knocking I I knew that in
those saddle-bags were mysteries, and hor
rors, and sleeping agencies of great power,
and I loolced upon them as an Indian
might be supposed to look upon a charged
bomb-shell—not .knowing when or how it
• might explitide. I felt sure, for "all the
boys said so," that his emetics were made
of toads esaught alive, and, carefully baked
and ground to a powder. With what rev
.
erence did I look upon "the Doctor"--a'
man who could feel the pulse and detect a
`,fever in the wrist, who could extract teeth,
tak lood, draw a blister, order emetics,
an ke even stubborn "old Caesar"
sw w pills, salts, ipecac, jalap, however
m he might writhe his great black face,
t k
an e mouths, or shrug the shoulders.
NO
tan
the minister whom I saw in the
pulpit, I nsidered the doctor the greatest
man r ng, and at a.vcry early age I de
te ' ed to be a physician. How often
-- di return to my humble home with bun
s of wild weeds, or my hat full of "gold
hread," dug up in the swamp I How rich
, I felt when I bad a supply of "pennyroy
ary""niother-wort," "bone-set," "snake
root," "elm-bark," "elder-berries," and .
every -other herb with which I could fill ,
the garret. I remember catching some ;
green frogs and putting them in air-tight 1
4' bottles, because I had understood that
they .were good to draw canker from chil- ,
dren's mouths; but they unfortunately
died before the experiment could be tested.
• got a plant grew in "Canoe Swam;" in
. the "Wampas Lot," or in the "Maple ot,"
from the "adder's tongue" up to the "whis
tle-wood," with which I was not familiar.
All the good old ladies for miles round
said, "That boy'll certainly make a doc
tor—he takes to it so."
Thus. I passed my boyhood on a taym,
enjoying no advantages for education,yex
cept spch as were afforded by the common
' free schools strung along the base of the
Green Mountains, from the bluffs at New
' • Haven toCanada. Mediceno was my amuse.
ment during the sunny days of boyhood.
If any of our domestic animals were sick,
or looked sick, I wsa down upon them at
once, and I distinctly remember, (why
ego we as distinctly remember what we
/ have,aene to human patients in the course
of our practice 1) giving my old dog Boyer
a dose that made him afraid of me for a
whole year, and our one-eyed cat,. Cyci
lope, a prescription that threw her into fits,
and, the young. turkey, Taro, Q. few pills
which for ever .efter stopped his growing
,
end gobbling., ',celled them my "elonga
. tO pills."
.t . 'tt,the age of twenty-two I found my
self, with 'mother student, anti with a Me
diCl4l book protruding from each pocket, i
1 fairly on the track of my profession at 914 1
Dr. Sale's. He had a' great reputation far 1
being a deep man; and if , talking in su
pertechnical language, , and in a way not
,to ,l)e understood by, anybody, is (violence
of depth, then . he was a deep man, But I
!iavil a4app learned that the world will Call
a man, deep, whp brings up mud, whether
he dive,deep , for, it or not: The great bur
. • den ef his tinstrueggile,„: tc2,,itia,hrace of stu- I
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was on "tVergollekt importance of
`commanding the . temper, _keeping cool,
il and having the. feelings In an impertpra
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side of it was a very steep descent. In
trying to find the kitchen door—it was ve.
ry dark—the Doctor stumbled over some
thing, he knew not what. "Hang it and
dang it I" cried he, for he never swore in
good English. "Here, Mike, take hold of
this confounded shin-breaker, and let us ,
see if we can't get it out of the way I We
'lifted a while, when he gave it a furious
kick, and away down the hill it went, rat
tling, and bounding, and clinking, till
it s
reached the brook at the foot of the hill.—
"There I lie there, will ye I" said he. The
next morning I heard his meek wife la
menting that "all her new soap was spread
over the ground like gravy. and the only
soap-kettle in the region cracked and ru
ined." This was his imperturbation, and
as he prided himself in governing his tern
per, I used to wonder what, it would have
been had he n ot governed it.
I now began to and real difficulties. I
had very few books, had never seen the
skeleton or frame o f the human body, and ,
had never esse a surgical operation,'
or .a body dis se cted d .
Oh I if I could have
had a skeleton to look at for a single hour I
Accidentally, or rather providentially, a-'
bout this time -I met with an old hunter,
who had spent most of his life in the wil
derness. In narrating his exploits, he told
how he and a fellow-hunter had once found
a man dead in the forests, who had proba
bly got lost and eventually died of starva
tion. The hunters buried him slightly,
and placed a heap of stones over the grave.
I made the most minute inquiries of the
old man, as to the spot, the route to it, the
distance, and the like. I then tried to;
draw a may of the way ; but I soon found
that when imagination came to retire, and
'
knowledge to tell what she knew, it was a
very different affair. I retired to think
and to plan. The grave was in the heart
of the great wilderness in the State of New
'York, on a. little lake, called by the hun
ters "Cranberry Lake," and known only
by them. I knew it would be impossible ,
to get a hunter to go with me on such an
errand, or even to allow me to go if he
knew my object. Would it be possible for
me to go alone 1 Would it be possible for
me actually to possess a human skeleton?
I I determined to try. So on a certain day
I was at the last hunter's lodge, on the
I Saranac River, questioning old Mr. Moo
dy as to tho route, the crossings from riv
er to lake, and from one water to another,
as to "the carrying places," and compar
ing his answers with my map, it seemed
madness to attempt to go alone, as really
so as if I were setting out for the moon.—
But I procured a little boat from Moody,
and taking an old rifle, a bag of provis
ions, and an axe, launched my frail craft
on the lower Saranac Lake, and set off a
; lone. ,:What days of toil I had, searching
for outlets to the lakes, carrying my boat,
' through the woods and brush, guided by
trees marked by the Indian's tomahawk,
rand half killed by fear of the panthers,'
with which the forest abounded. On the
fifth day I had travelled perhaps a hundred
miles in my circuitous route, when I-came
to the "Great Falls, "' on the Rachettc Riv
er, and then knew that I must here leave
my boat and strike off through the woods
for Cranberry Lake. Drawing my boat
up carefully into the bushes, I found a new
cause of fear. , It was an Indian newspa
paper I i. e., one side of a large cedar had
, been hewn off, and on it, with charcoal,
was drawn en Indian canoe, with two men
in it paddling, a dog looking out, and six
deer's (bak's) heads. The canoe was
headed down stream. A full moon was
over them and a taick's head under it,—
By this I knew that there were Indians
near me i who had just gone down the riv,
er, having killed six bucks already, and
were to spend the' full moon in bunting
below. This was for the information of
other Indians who might wish to find them.
I concealed my boat with great caution,
and. set off at once for my lake. A deer
bounded up before me, but I was too much
afraid of the Indians to let my rifle be
heard. All that day I travelled in the
woods by the, instructions I had received.
How often I hastened towards a bright spot
in the woods before me in hopes of seeing
my lake, and how my heart, leapt for joy
when, just before sunset, I actually struck
Al' could have kissed its very mud.—
How I, found the poor stranger's grave,
and exußed.as a miser would have done
over gold, willow I worked, and toiled,
and finally got the hoes; every one
,of
them ! into my bag, and on my back, I
shall net attempt to describe., It cost me
three days hard work, and work not,the
racist plcaqant. And was ::ready to set
opt for my boat, and set out I did, but had;
hardly left the lake ere I was lost 1 It was
cloudy, the forest was thick and wet, and
I know„ nothing ,which way to go. The
man that is lost in.the woods is net mere
ly bewildered, tot he is maddened.
rushed one way .till exhausted, and then
another way, but. the trees were all alike,
midi was lost.' , The night came on, *et,
cold and.' dreary. My ,provaaiens were
gone, for, I had *en nearly twice aa len
in the forOPt-as Loxpoctod.• My, pull g
was
Wet, And My kOO3 an suiel vrqu l4 4 - f rql
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944PPPy. but the df34 man's benpa 1. The
wolves were howling near me, and the
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sharp cry of the panther was added, while
the ,owla sang a full and dismal chorus.—
What a long, awful night was that! Should
I ever find the way out of this mighty
forest, or must I there perish, and perhaps
somebody hereafter find my bones, and
come and beak them out for' a skeleton! I
looked into the utter darkness of the place,
and more than once asked,, mentally, if
there was any possibility that the spirit of
,the dead • man would come back and up
braid me with robbing his grave? I felt
my bullet-pouch, andfound 1 had just sev
en balls; these I thought I might cut in
two pieces, and thus, give me a chance of
fourteen shots for food. But that long night
was invaluable to me. I reviewed my life,
and examined the object for which I had
lived. For the first time in my life I truly
and • sincerely prayed. I made vows to
God, if he would conduct me out alive, &
laid plans for my future life, and laid down
the principles on which
,I would act. All
my success and character are to be traced
back to that lonely night. In the morn
ing, without having closed- my eyes in
sleep, faint and hungry, I sit off again, tho'
with feeble courage. How intensely bur
densome was my pack and my rifle now !
About noon I came to a lofty mountain,.
and after panting and resting many times,
I reached its summit. Then a world of,
forest lay spread out before me, and many
a beautiful lake too, looking in its green
fringe like a basin of silver. After a long
time in settling the geography, I decided
which must be Tupper's Lake, and though
I could not see the thread of the Rac.hette '
River,_ yet I knew it must lie west of it and
that the Falls must be about so and so.—
Then came hope and whispered to me, and
I felt strong and revived. That night I
got so near as to hear the roar of the falls,
and the next day I reached my boat. I
then killed a deer, ate with a relish which
I remember to this day, and in a few days
more was out of the woods, and my treas
ure with me. I dared not show it even to
the old Doctor; but how. I gloated over
those bones! studied themi strung them!,
They were the beginning of my profes
sional knowledge, and were worth to me
a thousand fold more than their cost.
I was sitting alone in the Doctor's office
one day, when who should come waddling
up to the door but "Aunt Becky" Gorhom
—as everybody called her. She was the
shortest person for her size and weight I
ever saw,—a poor woman who lived and
laid up money on twenty dollars a year &
her beard,--one who kid no enemies, and
not character enough to have very warm
friends. She had n very good opinion of
herself in all respects, and there was some
thing so irresistibly ludicrous in her round,
unmeaning face and masculine voice, one
could hardly keep from laughing, whenev
er she appeared. As she rolled into the
door, I knew that something was out of
sorts.
"Is the old Doctor at hum ?"
"No, Mrs. Gorhom. Can I do any
thing for you 1"
" Why I've got the toothache most des
pitly. Where is the Doctor 1"
" Gone out of town. But I think I can
take out your tooth for you."
"You !" and her face actually express
ed amazement."
" Yes."
" Why you don't know nothing about
it! Never pulled a tooth in your life."
" You are mistaken, Mrs. Gorhom, I
have pulled several this very day." •
(I had been pulling the teeth out of the
skeleton, and putting them back again.)
"You don't say so !"
"I do say so. Suppose you just let me
look at your tooth."
She opened her mouth, and there it was
—a huge double tooth, just such a tooth
as I wanted to begin with. It , was much
decayed. But she would not let me touch
it.
"Mister, can't you put something in it
—setae of your stuffl"
I bethought myself, and could hardly
conceal a smile as I crowded in a neat
piece of saltpeter ! She shut her mouth,
and fearing lest she must have something
to pay, left at once. It was just as I ex
pected. In five minutes she came back,
holding her head with both hands, and ex
claiming, "Why, what on earth did you
put into it, young man I" •
"Nitrate of potassa, madam, nothing
else, I assure you."
" Well—Oh dear! dear! you havekilled
mo I Do get it out!"
Once more she opened her mouth, and
the turn-key, which, I had concealed my
sleeve was on it, pd in one instant the
tooth flew - across the room. Sho gaye
yell ofpain and indignation. .
" Why; you pesky fellow, :I told you to
take out that stuff, that r niter of potato, as
you called it." •
Well, I have taken it out."
"Yes, and the tooth too, and mayhap ru.
iriedray jaw forever," -
"Not at all. You will find all aafe."
She then washed her Mouth - found her
jaws all' right, and a ssrallo lit up, Tier giee,
as she left, and said, • ' ' ":t
"Realli„,dector ryon've' done the wor)t
as; wen at 3 old ;lector,' only' I don't . like
havetp t *ix aonw‘g9,lquiocl Think the)
Lord, though) ifiii-the thing is:4.i:o 4 ' _
What an hour was that! 1 had pulled
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my first tooth, and had been called "doe
tor I" My conscience smote Me for the
deception I had practised, and I felt that I
had violated one of the principles agreed
upon in the o dark night in the forest.
There were no diplomas, no being made
doctor by a vote of half a dozen . men. It
took the whole community to make a doc
tor in those days. But I was sure I had
now received my doctorate. And sure e
nough, after that, people taller than Aunt
"Becky" began to call me doctor, or "the
young doctor."
I now left my old teacher, and sought
where I miget set up for myself, though
every day satisfied me that I was poorly
I I prepared to have human lives committed
to me, I read everything on medicine
disease which I could obtain, and question
ed every doctor, and even every old nurse
I could light upon. Some shook their
heads at my questions, and hinted at the
danger of experimenting and tampering
with human life, with being rash and the
like. Others tried to persuade me that
the whole of medical practice consisted in
being able to cleanse the bowels and empty
the stomach, and let nature have the op
portunity to do her own cures. In vain
did I procure vials and saddlebags, open
an office, hang out my sign, "Dr. Asher,"
and advertise "To be seen at the office at
all hours." The last was literally true,
for nobody called me away, or came there
to consult me- At the end pf three long
months, during which I was invited out to
tea twice, but without having had my first
patient, an uncle of mine proposed to send
me up to the head-waters and .sources of
the Hudson, to examine "a township ofland,
mhich he had been purchasing. So I ad
vertised "that Dr. Asher being called a
way by urgent business, would close his
office during his unavoidable absence,
which would be as short as possible." My
directions were to follow the Hudson up as
far as Indian River, then go up to Indian
Lake, take Elijah, or "Lige," (the Indian,)
as he was called, as a guide, and go over
to Rock Lake, where the land was to be
found. After various mishaps, I found
"Lige," a noble fellow, but then, his ca
noe must be puccocd, (made tight with
pitch,) and then, I must wait another day
for him to go down to M'Elroys to get his
trousers. M'Elroy was a squatter on the
Indian River, and the only man who liv- 1
ed in that township. All day, till three
o'clock in the afternoon, I waited for illy
guide, but he came not. After trying to
sleep, to "whittle," to whistlo, and be pa.
tient, I determinid to go after my Indian.'
Following the blazed trees through thick
woods for a mile or More, I came to the
log cabin. At the door I met my friend
"Lige," as pale as a sheet. I had no idea
that an Indian could look so white.
"Why, Elijah, what's the matter'? Have
you got lost?'
Turning round and mysteriously point- 1
ing to the cabin, he said, in a low voice,
'Woman there—he sick—he verysick !'
" Ah ! what is the matter with her?"
"Me don't know. He very sick. He
see angel, see Glid, see devil ! Ile's oyes ,
look so, me fraid! He's teeth bite so
He point so r
On entering the log house, I found a
woman lying on a very rude bed, with nn
idiot son on ono side of the room holding!
up a sore foot, and the husband standing
over the wt man with a kind of howl con
tinually
poured 'out of his mouth. The
woman was rolling her eyes, gnashing her
teeth, pointing upward, screeching and
shuddering. She trembled all over, and
was apparently on the point of convulsions.
The husband was nearly intoxicated, and
kept howling "Oh ! och! what will I do
Poor wife, pou'll die—you'll certainly die,
and oh! och! what will I do? The wo
man was seeing snakes, angels, devils, &
Iknow not what besides. I stepped back
and beckoned the Indian.
"Elijah, does this woman drink?"
"No, he never drink. Man drink so
as horse. Woman never drink."
" Are you sure?',
" Yes—he never drink. He good wo-
man."
Once more I rushed into the house a
gain and said, "Stand back, and be still,
Mr. M'ElroY. Let me see her. I hope I
cap do her good."
" Who are you?" asked he fiercely.
"Oh, don't you know? lam Dr. Ash
er, from Massochusetts."
I had on a red flannel shirt .without any
collar, wood-pants, and boots, and looked
like anything rather than a doctor..
"Oh! my dear, my dear I" shouted he,
"here's the great Dr. - Asher from New'
York! the great Dr. Asher -An angel of
mercy from heairen, and the great brazen
serpent in the wilderness, my dear ! He'll
care . you! .Oh I och ! the great brazen
Serpent!"
, Bidding the fOot to held his tongue, I
next summoned all little medical knowl.
edge to bear upon the tlgno.sis of my pa
tieneti disease . , and soon satisfied myself
that it wasviolent case of hpsteria, bro't
on by hard labcir and severe exposum.
cipmmitging' between the -logs; what was
'my joy to find' a per cantaming a lump
of, aasaficefida pp,,,lteAeral
and dropped ehe 1116 Ale javysof
107r,rtun every :feW • minutes. ?The dia.
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would not have been in that peculiar place
unless she had been in somewhat similar
condition before. Before I got there, she
had complained of burning up, and they
had dashed a pail of cold water over her.
Then she had complained of freezing, and
they had a fire large enough to • roast an
ox. In further searching, I found &bun
dle of valerian which she had gathered in
the woods, and making a strong decoction
bf it, I induced her to drink now and then
a swallow. In short two hours she was
quiet, her senses returned, and I found her
a modest, sensible, and intelligent woman.
The violent symptoms were gone and re-
I turned no more. I then prescribed such
I poultices for the poor idiot's foot as were
to be had. The woman recovered in two
days so as to leave her bed. Among the
many patients I have since had, and among
the heavy fees and rich gifts which I have
since had showered upon fie, I have nev-
er had any so rich as were the thanks of
that poor woman Alp I came to save her.
She had nothing to ,offer me but a single
loaf of coarse bruit I took a piece of it
and carried it with me, and every time I
took it out of my provision bag I blessed
God that my profession was one of mer
cy, and promised him that if ever I got in
to practice I would be as faithful to the
poor akto the rich. In proportion as I
have been faithful to this vow I have been
prospered. I felt encouraged too, because
now I had had nay first Patient !
Having accomplished my examination
of timber, I returned to my uncle's, and
held a consultation as to what was next to
be done. "The difficulty," said he, is "in
getting the first patient. When a young
physician has once accomplished that, he
is in a fair way to gain practice." I told
him that I was safe then, for I had had my
first patient, and related the circumstances
I,as above. The old gentleman shook his
I head. "That would have done e admirably
had it been in your village, whe it could
,have been wondered over; but now no
body but your Indian friend can marvel
over it. You must try again ; and in or
der to aid you, I will lend you my colt,
Lebo, and sulky. You must go back to
your home where your office is, and you
must rattle boxes, jingle vials, and every
morning you must get out Lebo, and drive
through the village as if life and death
hung on your speed, and by and by you
will be in demand as well as appear to be.
Depend upon it, nephew, the world does
not think or judge for itself, and the arti
cle that is. in demand, be it what it may, is
the article that all seek after. The cer
tain and sure way to make your fortune
would be to get up some quack pills made
of aloes, flour, and molasses ; but I trust
you have too much self-respect and too
much principle to .•swindle the public out
of money, for which you rendr elfo equiv
alent. I see no difference mylbetween
putting off money, or flour, or medicine, I
that is worthless--unless it be that the last
is the most cruel, as it raises hopes to be
lbabl -invents the use of
pn
dashed, and prot. ty
means that might be useful in restoring I
health. Never do that. But this riding I Murder at Beverly, New
out—why it will do Lebo good to exercise, I The affray that occurred at Beverly, N.
and you good to ride, and I don't see as it J., on Sunday was a truly dePlorable d
am be wrong, and yet," shaking his head, fair. A . party .of young rowdies; who
"I confess I don't quite like the looks of it." i went there from the city, indulged in a
Promising to follow his advice as far as disgraceful fight on the wharf, just . aS the
I could, without compromising principle, passengers fig ht on
aboard the stet
l accepted the horse and sulky, and onceor Edwin Forrest, Capt. MeMakin, to fe
mme announced to the .public that I had ; turn to town, and a young man named
returned, and would be most happy to John Collins, living at or near the. piace%
wait on the good public. Still I was "the I was mortally stabbed by some one in the
young doctor, and nobody gave me patro- melee, and expired in about ten 'minutes.
nage, Some were afraid of new doctors, The cowardly assassin who . perpetuated
some were afraid of young doctors, some the foul murper, and who could not be dc
wanted the doctor to be a married man, tected, it is believed came, froin ,town in
and some hated to leave "an old road for , the Forrest, and returned in that boat.+
.a new one." In vain did I open door and Ho has not yet been discovered but : every
windows, and show vials, and let the noise ! effort is being made to ferret him
of my pestle and mortar ring early and r No censure can be cast theuportffice
or 4
late ;in vain I harnessed Lebo and drove of the Edwin Forrest, 'An e
out in difibrent directions. No patients i forms us that Captain Me akin, Wh tif Mile
th te
were offered. At length, when I had be- ; very properly rfused, in the midse
come much discouraged, as I brought out ;intense excitement that- prevailed,:_to al
my horse one morning I saw Ned Lundy , low the mob to rush into Ms boat, offered
bring out his, at the door of the hotel im- 1 every facility to the police authoritiei to
mediately opposite. I knew not hoW it come aboard and search for tis
he'inessette in.
was, but I suspected mischief in the fellow. I • , .
I ri s
But what could I do? My patients, (ima
ginary ones,) must be visited punctually.--
So I pounde with My pestle and mortar
for a few moments, took up my saddle
bags, hung out on the. door, "to return
soon;" mounted my sulky; and drove eff i
at a furious rate. In a few moments I
looked back, and there was Ned Lundy
behind mei with a half-roguish smile on
his face. I reined up to let him pass, but
no, he would not go paSt. , I drove Lebo
to the top of his speed, but there Ned-was
behind me' in my 'wake; evidently deter.;
mined to follow me, and to show up all my
riding and diligence to be mere put o--
How I perspired and almost groaned n! ".
is
the' fbllow stuck to me like:a bur. At
length! turned suddenly down Rainbow
Lane; and drove as fast • as I could: .In
vein---,.-Ned was a 'fixture. :Being , assured
'diet he would make 'me:the laughing-stock
- of the village; I was .planning what to do,'
When noticed 'Fanner Fitch at a-distance
heford ins mowing.. As. my 'eye fell on
hitniqAinticed that he faltered and.fell.
094.stino 'lgOt :oPposita him I heard a
:groan Moment my :,itakiagLelx)
:was ntoppedi , Wild . I lwatilliflitim!Fartner
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it de 3 months • 250
Ido 6 months • 400
1.: -do.•• 12 months 7 00
2 do 3 tnonthi SS 00
2. do 6 mmtuli .• ; r : 8;00
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2do 12 months__ .
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3do months • - • 900
3" (lb 12.mbnp; ' -1" 12 00
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Of Oery disceiPtion, printed in the tiers beef itryie,
and on the shortest noeice, at tho COUNTRY .bO.G.
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LAX (Vire . - ' , : • ::' . • . .
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Fitch up from the ground' and callinp Ned
Lundy to come to my aid. 1. he saner ;
was bleeding like an ox, for he wasAetrii,
bly cut with his scythe, and' was fainting.
How staunched the b , bound up-his
wound, carried him Inre,. attenddt.im
during his confinement, and, aslifr
"saved his life !" ,No matter ; 'Ned:did
not get the laugh on me., I obtained
second and a valuable patient, and felt
couraged. • ;
But my third patient! Ah ! "thereby
hangs a tale !" My third patient! That
was thc turning point in my life! Thatld,
yet to bc told.
A Country Wedding. , „. 1
, , .
The preacher was • prevented froth ta*
king his part in the ceremony, and a - nor.
ly created Justice of the Peaccovho eharr.
ced to be present, was called. upon to cdli.
cia;e in his place. , The good man'tiknees
to tremble for he had never tied thelnot
and did not know . where -to begin. Ho
had no "Georgia Justice," or any.-olleo
book from which to read the marriage ter.
vice. The company was arranged in a
semi-circle, each one bearing a tallow can
dle. He thought over every thing he had
ever learned, but all in vain; he could rec
ollect nothing that spited the occasion. • .A
suppressed titter all over the room adrhon
ished him that he must proceed with some
thing, and in an agony of desperation he
began -L.
" Know all men by these presents that
I"—here ho paused, and looked up to the
ceiling, while a 4oice in a corner of the
room was heard to say—
"He is drawing a deed fora tract of
land ;" and they all langhed..
"In the name of God, amen 1" he began
again, only to hear another voice in aloud .
whisper say—
"He is making his will ; I thought he
couldn't live long, he looks so powerfully
bad."
Oh, yes! o,*yes!' continued the squire.
A voice replied, "0, no! 0, ne! don't
lets."
Some persons out of doors sung out,
"Come into court!" and the laughter was
general.
The bride was near fainting ; the squire
was not far from it. Being an indefatiga
ble man, however, he began again.
"To all and singular, the sher—" -
"Let's run ; he's going to levy on us,"
said two or three at once.
Here a gleam of light flashes across the
face of the Squire. He ordered the bride
and groom to hold up their hands and in 'a
solemn voice said: . .
"You, and each of you, do solemnly
swear, in the presence of the preient com
pany, that you will perform towards each
other all end singular the functions of hus
band and wife ' as the case may be, to the
best of your knowledge and ability; so
help you God."
" Good as wheat!" exclaimed the father
of the bride.-:-Stantford Advertiser. . •
One of the hours each day wasted on
trifles or indolence, saved and daily devo
ted to iruprovementi is enough to makp an
ignorant man wise in ten. years—to pro
vide the luiftry of intelligence to mind
torpid .:frOm lack of thought—to brighten
up and strengthen faculties perishing' with
rust—to make life a fruitful field, And 'death
a harvest of g,lorietis deeds,
There is religion in everything orotind
us—there is a core. rind holy religion not
only in the animate, but in, the inanimate,
unbreathing things o'lloturn, 16;6*ould
be tvise, to consider It IS:4*,rriOt rind
blessed influence—iteoling l 'itS
on the Beartr. It, hns ; not :errors , it retls
nofthe',possieno--and initraininelled ,l l
the creeds'ofsulie-rstitiOns
Of 01l thapembers of the French
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pnd creuseux. , along, rtre -s riaFi'
8911914. All others are in'diSgrO4l4Weges ,
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