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BY W. A. i.KK AND HI'*;,I N, _
bill abp addresses the lebanon law
school and 8ive3 his own 8ad experience.
Milledgeville, Fcby, 18CC
Messrs. C. C. Curtailings and others, Kommitice
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Gentlemen?I havo reseeved your kind
invitation to address your law skool. In
the situation by which I am surrounded jt
is impossibul for mo to go. I wish I could,
for I wounld like to tell you all I know
about law, and it wouldent take me long.
Fm now in the law bisness myself at this
place. We are engaged in manufakturin
it by wholesale, after while it will be retailed
out by lawyers to any body that want it.
Its an easy bisneBs to make law, though some
of the bills introduced are awfully spelt.
To-day I saw a bill, in which "maslicenry"
was Bpelt with two esses and four ease.
But the greatest difficulty is in understandin
the law after it is made. Among lawyers
this diffikulty dont seem to lio so
ranch io the head, as in the pocket. For
fito dollar- a lawyer can luminize some,
and more akkordin to pay. But lie
oughent to luminize but one side at a time.
The first case K ever had in a jestice court,
I employed old Bob Ltggins, wbo wa9 a
pofjer of a self-educated fool. I give him
two doJiV;w in advance, and ho argued the
case as I thought, on two sides, and was
more luminous agin me than for me. 1
lost the case, and found out afterwards
that the dofendent had employed I/ggins
after I did, and give him five dollars to lose
my case. I look upon this as a warniu to J
all cliuts, to pay big fees and keep your
Jawver out of temptation.
My experience in litigation liavd J*?t beei*
satisfactory. I sued Suger Black oust for ,
the price of a load of sbuks. lie said be
wanted to buy some ruffness, and I agreed
to bring bin) a load of sbuks for too dollars.
My wagiu gut broke and be got tired
a wailin, and sent out after tlio sbuks bisself.
When I called on him for pay, ho
&eemd surprised, and 6cd it had cost him
too dollars and a half to have the sbuks
liauld and that I jestly owd him a half a
dollar. He was bigget than 1 was, so I
swallord my bile and sued him. His law->
yer pled a set off for haulin. He pled
that the sbuks was uusound ; that they
were bard by limitations; tliat they I
-dident a gree with bis cow, and that he J
never got any "shuks from me. lie spoke '
about an hour, and allooded to me as a j
swindler about 45 times. The bcdevild jury I
went out ond brought in a verdik again me
for fifty cents and four dollars for costs of
suit. I haint saved nary slink on niv plantation
since, and I dont intend to until it
gitB less expensive. 1 look upon this as a j
warnin to all folks, never to law about j
shuks, or any other small circumstance.
Tbo next trouble I had vvus with a fcllet !
who I hired to dig ma a well. lie wu9 to I
dig it for twenty dollars, and I wus to pay J
him in meat and meal, and sich like. The
vagabond kept gittin along until he got all
the pay, but hadent dug nary foot in the
grown. So I made my akkount, and sued
him as follera, to wit:
Old John Hanks lo Bill Arp. Dr.
To 1 Well you dident dig . . . $20
Well Hanks, he hired a cheap lawyer, who
Tard round extensively, and sed a heap of
funny things at ipy expense, and finaly dismissed
my case for what he called its "ridikulum
absurdam." I paid those costs, and
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VrUUL UUUV t? OdMUCl nuu ?* ?T 1001 UJttU 1
palled down pay little cabiD, and moved it
tome 300 yards nigbor to tbe spring, and
Vre daunk mitj little well water since. I
look upon this case as a warnin to all folks
never to pay for any thing till you've got
it, espeshially if it has to be dug.
Tbe next law case I bad I gained it all
fey ?ay*elf by tbe force of sirkuimtances.
-1 bouajt a man's note tbat was given for
the bire of a nigger boy, Dik. Find in be
wouldent pay me, I sued bira before old
Squire McGinnu, beleovin it was sicb a
dead thing tbat tbe devil couldentkeep me
out or a rerdilc. l ue teller 8 attorney plead
failure of consideration, and non est faklum
and ignit futuii, and infancy, and that the
nigger's name wasen. Dik, tut Richard.
The old squire was a powerful sefcesb, and
bated Yankees atnaziu. So after tb^ lawyer
had got through his speech and finished
up his readin from a book called "Greenleaf^.
l.rote forward to an attitood. Btretohmy'^rtoi-ae?
I, "Squire Me^nim,
I would;aslr, sur, if this is a time in, the hisrtory
of our, afflikted country when. Federal
. law books should he admitted in a Southern
patriot's court t Havent we seeoeeded
CnrAvAr frnm tViftir fntil ilominattnn 4 Tlnn'i
over Fort Sooater, rod what,
sir/hare^e got to do with Northern law* I
< On tfte Tcry first page of tho gentlemen'!
bool(l^eed the, name of.the citypf Boating
jpL. eurffit wft* writ*? ip,
put^iad w .Bpating apd &old in Bolting
-v ^yjpl^iVknow ho more about the
>1 ^iro rtggv than an ox foms Ihomata
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who will tan his hide." I sed some more
things that was pinted and patriotik, and
closod my argument by handin the book to
the squire. lie put on bis spektakles, and
after lookiu at the book about a miute, ses
he,
"Mr. Arp, you can have a judgement
and I hope that from beoceforib and for
ever, no lawyer will pcreoom to come before
this honorable court wi'h pifen dokuments
to provo his case. If ho do, this
court will take it as a insult, and send him
to jail."
1 look upon this case as a warning to all
folks who garablo in law, to hold u good
hand and play it well. High justice and
patriotism are winnin trumps.
After this I had a difficulty with a man
by the nanio of Kohen, and I thought I
wouldent go to law, but would arbritratn.
I had brought Tom Swillins' whact at a dollar
a bushel if he couhlcnt do any better,
and if he could do better be was to cum
back and (,'ive mc the prefcrcnsc. The
skamp went off And sold the wheat
to K'ohen for a dollar and five cents, and
and Kohen knowed all about his conlrakt
with me. Mo and him like to have a fit,
and perhaps would if I hndent been puny;
but we finally left it all to Josh Billin6 to
arhytrate. O'd Josli deliberated on tlie
thing for three days and nights, and finally
brot in an award 'that Koben should have
the wheat, and I should hav the preference.
I haint submitted no more cases to arbitration
since, and iny advice to all pecpul is
to arbylrato nuthin if your case is honest,
for there ain't no judge there to keep one
man from strikin the other. An honest
man don't stand no chance no where exfieppin
in a court house with a good lawyer
to uitC'k hini. The motto of this case is
never to arbytraio neiu".'?> but ? bnd^casp,
and take a good lawyer's adviC? at)u
him for h before you do that. j
But I got Fretman?I dident, but my
lawyer Maiks did. Fretman whs a nutmeg
akoolteacher who liad gono round my uaborhood
with his fckool arlildes, and I put
down for Troup and Calhoun to go, and intended
to send seven or eight more if lie
proved himself right. I soon found that
the little nulifier wasent belevin in anything,
and on inquiry I found that Nutmeg
was giviu powerful long recesses, and employin
his time cheifly in carry in on with a
tolerable sizd female gal that was goin to
him. Troup sed he heard illegal sqneel herself
one day, and he knowd Freotman was a
squcezin of her. I dont mind our boys
squeeziii of the Yankee galV, but I'll be
blamed if the Yaknees shall be a squeezin
oui n. So I got mad and took the children
atviitr a# f lm anil a? ?1ia a???? t?
sued me for eighteen dollars, and hired a
chonp lawyer to collect it. Before this
time I had learned some sense about a lawyer,
bo I hired a good one, and spred my
pocket hook down before him, and told
hiin to take what would satisfy him. And
ho'tuk. Old Phil Davis was the justice.
Marks made the openin speech to the effek
that every professional man ought to bo
| able to illustrate his trade, and he therefore
proposed to put Mr. Fretman on the stand
and spell him. This motion were fout
bard, but it agreed with old Phil's notions
of "high jestice," and says he, "Mr. Freetraan
you will have to spell sur." Mark
the swore him, that he would give true evi
ufvo iii iuib uh?b, una mill no wouia spell
every word in D*n'l Webster's spellin book
correktly to the best of Lis knowledge and
beleif, so help him, &c. I saw then that
ho wer tremblin all over liko a cold wet
dog. Says Mark, "Mr. Fretman, spell
'lisik;'" well lie spelt it, puttin in apk
and a th and a gh and a zh, and I dont
know what all, and I thought he was gone
up the first pop, but Marks inid it was
right, lie then spelt him right straight
along on all sorts of words, and little Words,
and long wftrds, and short words, and afterwords
and he knowd em all, (>1I finally
Marks Bee, M Now syr, spell OmpompynuaukP
Fretraau ^drawd a long breth and
Bed it wasent in the book. Marks proved
it was by an old preacber who. was sittin
by and old Pbil upSke up with power, sea,
'* Mr. Freetraan yoa must sperfl it Sur.''
Fretman was a swettin like a ran down
flUy. He tuk one pass at it and mined.
" You can come down, Bur* Bays Marks,
" you've lost yourcase." And shore anuf,
i old Pbil give a verdik " against him 4ike a
darn. v . ?
Marks was # whale in his Way. ' A*, that
- same court te was about* to pontult a dok1
lor bekause bo dident have bis diploroy,
1 and the doktor beg'd the court for tiape to
, go home after it, He rode, hover, mile*
I back ? hard a? he eould lick Jt, cod when
i hehandedit orer to Marks Tery triump
faritly, Marks see,/'Now sur, yon. will
, tak# the stabd and translate this Latin in-'
, ;<pliie wuirioay., qqder?
?Un$ ?? -. M U.M ?*ved, for he
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lie lost his cnso in too minets, for the
old squiro said that n doklor who couldent
read his diplomey had no more right t?
praktis than n magistrate who couldent read
the license had to jine two couple together.
This is a warnin to all professional men to
under stand their bisness, and tho moral of
the case is, that a man oughtent to be
squeexin the gals when anybody can see
him. But I dont waut it understood that
I'm agin it on proper okkasbions and in a
tender manner. There aint no equeelin necessary.
iiut I must CI086 this brief epistle.
Yours, truly,
Bill Arp,
P. S.?I forgot to mention that tbe
Fredman's Buro Lave had tno up bekause
Mi*. Arp turned off her nurse for not talkin
baby tnlk to her chile. She said that
my wife tbrowd a cheer at ber bead. The
lyin hussy was there, a wearin Mrs. Arp's
collar and shawl that she'd stole. I pinted
em out to tbe Buro, and left in defiant disgust.
Tbe moral of this is " to stand your
grown" or nurse your babies yourself.
B.A.
Airustt iii&nx days.
Tbo gay waltz-music sounded through
the lofty rooms like the throbbing of waves
on the seashore, only gtadder and leas solemn.
It rose and fell like the winds in
tho long, swaying grass?as in the field
far away from the city's noise and bustle,
and many a heart Icept time to the delicious
melody, so full of soothing influences.
Iloscoe Varley was standing apirt from
tbe throng. Ho was studying the faces of
'hose who moved about him. lie looked
beyond tbo gay smile and gleairi'of pleasure
that rested on many features, and raw
what no caieless observer would have done.
He saw the mask of gayety and
feirmed amiiB(>ni2Dt. resties?ri688 and hollow
heart*. lie saw longing ana unsaUc5??l j
cravings for . something more tliHn that
Ecene could give; something that (he heart
would feed on, and fiud tho quiet nnd
peace it longed for, but Dever found. It
was a strange stu-iy, and not a pleasant
one.
The music slopped for a few momenta,
and then struck up agaio. This time it
was a gay quadiillc. He looked toward
ihu dancer*, and his heart gave a little
throb of pleasure when he saw tho clcar,
pure face of Vieve Berrian. She was
looking very pretty in her white drcBs, with
pearls aud rosebuds in her hair and on ber
bosom.
T|,?? T?,.o ~ \T 1 1--J
ninb * ci j aucuiuuu lvua^uc * Ul IKTy 11UU
been seated in his room, and before him
on his writing-desk bad Iain a box lined
with tlio whitest of white velvet. And
from that cushion of snow, a forget-me-not
of pearls and napphires had gleimied brilliantly,
gathering up the light in its glowing
centre, and throwing it out again la
slender lines of brightness. And Roscoe
Varley had written these linoa, and placed
them with the forget me-not on its white
resting place:
"Will Mies Ben-inn wear thia trifle tonight,
as a token of?shall be say friendship,
or shall he use a stronger term, and
one more expressive 01 me real nature 01
his feelings from the donpr ? If he sees it
in her hair to-night there will be no happier
man than he, for ho will consider that
thefutuio holds happiness in store for him,
a great happiness that will be as sunshine
to his life henceforth, should a storm arise,
rind God grant that none may ! R. V.
He had written that and sent it with
the jewel to the only woman who had ever
woke the passion of love in his heart.?
And as he stood there and -watched the
dancers glide by to the melody of the gay
mueic, be wondered if that* littfe token, of
his love, the senseless inanimate thing that
was to bid "bira hope, perbAps, glistened
among the meal) e& of her hair. Sat the
green leaves and crifaison budi kept it
bidden if it was there, and he .did not see
it. What If she had not worn it? something
asked in Roscoe Varley's Jieart. U3
started as though struck by some unseen
hand, And thought how desolate life v?6uld
seem without her. He had spoken, though
not in Words, but in actionb, 6f his love for
her, many times. And she had answered
at hfl hod inntrun <liof ti!> Iaim
was not uncared Ion Had; he not acen
her fljea brighten' at his.approach, aa they
diet not when others ca'm^. Had they not
road thaaweetest poems together, and lingered
over, passages that apofce thej rown
feelings for them better than Ihey could
bave done themselves. Ro?Ooe. Vorley
thrust the flighting thought that had iar
traded upon hi* heppitlesa Aside'. No, no!
firing
quietly,Victim away bcn?ath the beauty
taken* ip far..* Ha bad sm? W as she reW*,
i fafi} a^Me into*# $oj? this
gayety of llio life iu which sho moved, a
woman incapable of deceit.
The dance ended, and some one that he
did not know?a tall, ploasant-faced young
man, with clear blue eyes and brown hair,
like Genevieve's he thought, only not quito
a9 handsome, led her to a Beat. The
young man bent over her chair, whispering
softly to her; and Genevieve's blue eyes
looked up into bis faoe with an expression
in their depths that startled Roscoe's Varley,
a look of deep interest with a shade
of anxiety, ho thought?not a look of mere
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?uuouip uuii auiueiuing moro do lancied.
She was not used to listen so attentively
and with such earnest, thoughtful eyes to
ballroom-talk, never the kind of conversation
to call up the deeper feelings of her
womanly nature, the kind of feelings expressed
on her face as she watched her.
lie saw her take something from her
hair. It glittered and glistened in the
lamplight like frost in the early sunshine.
She held it up to her companion, and he
took it and put it away carefully in a case
that held the miniature, doubtless, of some
friend.
- RoscoeVarley saw it plainly enough,
and beard her say as she gave it to the
young man, heard her so distinctly that
there could be no mistaking her words.
"Keep that as a gift of friendship from
me, Will. It was sent to mo this afternoon,
with the request to wear it to-night,
by a person tbat I hardly like well enough
to include among my friends; consequently,
I do not care to keep bis gifts as I should
those of othera."
Was be really hearing aright ? Roacoe
Varley doubted for a moment, but there
was no room for doubt. Her voice vibrabratcd
in his ear, and the cold bitter words
that she was saying burnt themselves into
his heart like words of doom.
False! and be hud thought ber the soul
of all that is pure and womanly in woman.
SLe liati exiled on him, and beguiled him
into ihe sweet belief that sho loved him,
and won away his heart for the -eake of
tramnlin? it beneath her' fret. What a I
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pitiful fool be had been ! He bad fallen a
victim to a hearties*, ^faithless woman?a
woman undeserving tbe name?a woman
that won men's hearts and cast them aside
as Bhe did withered Ho were, valuing them
as licflitly.
Ue turned away from the light and glare
and mockery of the scene before bim,with
a heart full of selfBcorn and ashamed of
its own weakness. The dream was over.
The play finished, and the curtain down;
and what had seemed real and life like was
the skilful impersonation of a cgjggmmnajte
actress, nothing wore. He MnfiPlooked
behind the scenes for one moment, but
that was sufficient, and at last be was un
aeceivea.
The afternoon 6unshioe lay warm and
bright on tteUudean landscape. The faroff
hills were clothed in purple mists, and
their outlines showed faintly against the
blue sky behind them. -A dreamy solemn
languor seemed to fill the airs, a stillness
halt divine. -
A man stood on the hillside nnd looked
away to the blue hills beyond, lying dim
and indistinct in the hazy sunshine, with
strange thoughts at his heart. There
where he was standing, years and years
before, Christ had stoqd. The air seemed
full of His holy presence still. The sound
of His voice seemed to linger in the quiet
air. There He bad spoken words of boly
inspiration?words that had given peace
to many weary, restless, troubled hearts.
The place seemed full of divine influences.
Roscoe Varley's eyes grew dim &nd misty,
and his heart softened beneath the ntrange
feelings that the scene called up. It seem*
fed almost like sacrilege for man to tread
where the Son of Qod had stood, but the
peace and quiet that, his heart had known,
but which had been denied His.earthly
life, seemed to permeate the air and affiliate
with all around. There He had spoken
words of forgiveness to those who had
persecuted Him, and had driven Hun out
from the trails of the Holy City. Koscoe
Varley asked himself as he -jttogd there, if
he could forgive and oast oat from hi?
heart all hardness against his fellow-man,
Could he forj^ve the woman that had mad#
his life a desolate one?that bad Wreo&ed
his hopes of happiness* He had never
forgiven her; jfor,, always the memory .of
that night when-bebad found out her faitBleasneea
came back to him when he thoogbi
of Jbev; and hi his heart h? held tow gull ly
dT a crime towfaieh
or penalty,'bat a crime nevertheless?the
crime of
tbtm/df destroying happiness an* blightteg
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M ffWio.UJ m W own w^rt,
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influer.ce of the scene around him, and the
insensible presence that seemed haunting
the air, cast out the hardness from his heart,
and he said aloud, as though she stood before
him:
"Genevieve Berrian, I forgive you."
There was the sound of footsteps behind
him, and tho rustle of woman's garments;
he turned and stood fnnA tn fur? wiili ih?
very woman of whom he had been thinking.
Genevieve Berrian, older and more
womanly-looking, but the same Genevieve
Berrian stilt
She started when she saw him, pale with
a sudden rush of memories, and a cry came
up to her lips:
"lloscoe, you here!"
"You wero not thinking of seeing mo
here," ho said, quietly, though his he""'
was not quite as quiet as his tones.
"No," she answered, a little tren . u.
her voico. "I have not seen you before for I
five years.'' j
-rive yearer lie repeatea the words
after her slowly. IIow long they Lad
Beemed to him, those five years of lonely
wanderings !
She did not answer, but looked away to
the blue, level line of the horizon, and the
summits of the Judean bills, where the
sunshine was lying in drifts of amber radiance.
"Genevieve," he said, suddenly, "when
you came upon me I was saying to myself,
"Genevieve Berrian, 1 forgive you."
She started, and her eyes swept his face
searchingly, but dropped away before bis
steady gaze.
"I have never forgiven vou beforo." he
went onfc"but in this spot, so full of memories
of our Saviour, I put all bitterness
aside, and make myself at peace with all j
mankind. It was a bllter and a cruel
wrong, Genevieve; but its memory was not
sufficient for one.to withstand tbe subduing
and softening induences tbat bang about
Ibis spot."
"I am at a lo3? to know the meaning of
your words, she said, a quiet dignity in her
manner. "You speak of a wrong. I never
wronged you knowingly."
"Was it not wrong to tamper with a human
bean? Was it right to lead a person
into a belief, tbe sweetest of all boliefa,
tbat they werti beloved; and then when the
amusement of tovini* with their hsnninp**
J Cf 4*1 I
wore away, fling thorn aside for newer vic?
tiras ?"
,lI never tampered with a human heart,"
she answered, her face full of an honest
avowal. "You are laboring under some
mistake, I think. I know nothing of what
you mean; but as far as I am concerned, I
am innooent of wronging you."
"There can be no mistake. You taught
me to love you; and wbeu you were surt>that
I was secure in the gilded cbaina you
forged for me, you put me aside for some
one else, that was as ignorant of the hoilowness
of your heart as I was."
Roscoe Varley'a voice was cold an^
calm.
"Roscoe?Mr. Varley," she said, Ler
blue eyes misty, and her voice slightly broken,
"I never put von aside for another.
You never told me as much in words, but
you led me into the belief that you loved
me. I thought that you did; but suddenly
you left America, and wjthout a word
of explanation or good-bye, and then I
came to think yon never cared for me.
This is the first time tte have met in years,
and now you tell me of an old wrong. 1
am innocent of ever wronging you by deed
or thongbt. God knows I am."
Something in her words and manner
impressed Robcoo Varley forcibly. Could
a person stand there on that hillside where
Christ had stood, and speak falsely 1
"Do you remember th%t forget-me-not
that I sent you, telling you that it was ?
token of something more than friendship,
afcdasking you to wear it in ybur hair?
I saw you give it away and heard yon say
that it came-|rom one that you did not Jike
well enough to oa]1 your friend/'
"Ob, Rosooe!" Genevieve Berrian cried,
"I never knew that that forget-roe not came
from you. You know Robert Vine, i men
that no true woman would like to oaty her
friend. He bed told me laughingly that
be was going (o send me a token of bis
friendship, and aakatf use to wear it in rty
hair. - When tjuit forgst-men&t, came^ I
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?uppc?ea ivw? iiwm uuu.; ,nwi?i.nw?
aatr sooompanying it, sigaed with the in(tbils
R. Vn bis initial* n?- will a*years,
though J. dp not think' of yoa at th|tims.!
Not oaring to Imp his gift* I ?*ff U to
my ooaisin *feo was going- to California."1
?tf Vwlayuid^o^
ly4 ?pd.JwfilbgHj?othU h?4 ^?W;;bf?rf
*irfltyo*tM]gt** cm far >-6oubiiag yott:'
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Sha smiled
jgwfkhs hlrluBHL-Sectoohiter "his
%m*m&Mtsetffcsr &rtt* Wfrt iiaw*' fit
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was the kiss of reconciliation, and a silent 5
betrothal From long years of separation S
and loneliness into the snnsbine of a great 9
happiness, hand in hand and heart in js
heart.
"We will let nothing come botween u*
henceforth,^ she said, as aa hoar later they
went down the path to the valley below.
"Oh, Hoseoe, I have loved jou all those
years I"
"In the years to come," he answered,
"we will make up for the darkness and
shadowBof the years gone by in the hap*
pines8 and sunshine of our perfect love. )
We have walked iu darkness, but the light
is breaking after many days."
A EEHINI8ENCE OP STONEWALL JACKSON*
HIS WOUND AT THE BATTLE OF KAN ASSAD.
In the February number of the Rich-> ,
. aa Medical Journal, we find an able
.iclo on 'gunshot wounds of joint,'*
uom the pen of Dr. Hunter McGuire, Professor
of Surgery in the Virginia ..Medical
College, and, during the war, chief aurgeon
on the staff of General Stonewrll
Jackson. In the course of his remarks,
speaking of guushot wounds of the Lands
the doctor cites the case of a wound receir*
ed by this renowned chief at the battle of
Manassas:
When he made the celebrated charge
with his brigade which turned the fortune
of the day, he raised his left hand above :
his head to enoourage the troops, and whilo
m tbis position the middle finger of the
hand was strnck just below the articulalion
between the first and second phalan?
ges, The ball struck the finger a little on
one Bide, broke it, and carried away a
small piece of the bone. He remained
on the field wounded as he waa, till the
fight was over* and then wanted to take
pargmi^he pursuit, but was peremptorily
ordered back to the hospital by the Gener*
al commanding.
On his way to the car the wound pained
him bo much that he stopped at the
first hospital he came to, and the surgeon
there proposed to cut the finger off, but
while the doctor looked for his instruments,
and for a moment turned his back, the
General ailentiy mounted his horse, rode ;
off, and soon found me. I was busily en? I
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gugeu wun uie wounuea, out waen x saw
Lira coming I left them and askedhim if be
was seriously hurl. "No," be answered,
"not liaif as badly as pa any here, and I will
wait." And he forthwith sat down on
the bank of a little stream near by, and ,
positively declined any assistance until
"bis turn came." We compromised, how*
over,iand he agreed to let roe attend to him
after I had finished the case I was dreuing
when be arrived. I determined to save the *
finger, if possible, and placed a splint along
the palmar surface to support the
menla, retained it in position by a strip or
two of adhesive piaster, covered the wound
with lint, and told him to keep it wet with j
cold rater. He carefullv followed this ad?
vice; I think he had a fancy for thi?
kind of hydropathic treatment, and I hare
frequently Been him occupied for several
hours pouring cup after cup of water over ,
his hand, with that patience and perseverance,
for which be was so remarkable.?
Pasaivo motion was instituted about the
twentieth dsy, and carefully continued.?
(The motion of the joint improved for leveral
months after the wound had healed,
and in the end the deformity was very
trifling.
During the treatment the hand was
kept elevated and continued ui ailing, and
when the Ufee of this waa discontinued,
and the hand permitted to bang down.?
Under the ciraumatances you would expect
this. In coowqaeooa of it, however, the
hand waa sometimes swollen and painful,
and to remedj this he often held it above
bis bead for come moments. He did this
so frequently that it became at length a
habit and was continued, especially whan
was abstracted, after all neoeesity for it had
tisfttid. f have seen it stated somewhere,
durioga battle his hsnd waa thus raised,
be wm engaged so prayer; bat I liable (be
the explanation I bare gi*en lc tbe correct
one. 1 beiievebe wm the irueit and moei
coniutent Chrittiin I- have ever hwia,
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