Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-03-31


and water while making my way
: the confidence of the people. Br
others are suffering while ] wait fc
y practice. What hlnders my progress
d | understand my profession. 10 nc
: a single instance yet, have | failed t
: give relief when called to :he bed {
: sickness. Alb, me! l feel wretched
s Just then, the letter.carrier of th
t village came and handed him two let
: ters. The first one he opened Wa
from a dearly beloved widow sister
who wrote to know if he could poss
ply help her in her poverty and dis
tress.
! 4 would not trouble you, my dear
kind BROTHER she wrote, knowing, as
! do, how poor your own prospects
are, and how patiently you are trying
to wait for practice, did not want press
on me and my babes so closely. /!
you can spare me little-ever SO
little-brother, it will come as bless
ing, for my extremity is grea:.-
Forgive me for thus troubling you
Necessity often prompts to acts, from
the thought of which, in brighter
moments, we turn with feeling of
pain.
For many INMATES, after reading
this lette:, DR.. Grimes sat with his
eyes upon the floor.
'My poor Mary!' he said at length,
how much you have suffered; and
yet more drops of bitterness are given
10 your cup. O, that it was in my
power to relieve you! But my hands
are stricken down with paralysis
What can / do? Thus far, have gone
lin debt, instead Of clearing my expen-
ses.'
He took out bis pocket-book and
searched 1t over.
.-'Nothing--noth:ng!' be murmured
as he refolded it. 'Ah, what curse is
there like the curse ofpoverly?'
He then referred to the other let
ter, The receipt of which be had al
most forgotten. BreakiDg the seal,
be read, with surprise, It's contents,
which we're as follows:
TO DR.. GRIMEs-Dear Sir: Please
call, as early as possible, at Messrs.
Ia P-s, Mo- Wall
Street, New York; where you will
hear Of something to your adyan-l
tage.'
'What can this mean?' exclaimed
the doctor, as be hurriedly perused
the letter again. Can it be possible
chat a relative of my father, in Eng
land, has died and left US property? /
Yes, it must be SO. Several members
of bis family there are in good cir
cumstsnoes o, lift should be thus,
how timely has relief come! For
your sake, my dear sister, more than
for my own, will be thankful u
But how am | TO 60 to New York?
] have not dollar in my yocket, and
will receive nothing for a week or
two.
The only resource was in borrow
ing; and to this the doctor resorted
with considerable reluctance. From
gentleman who had always shown
an interest in him, he obtained five
dollars. Within an hour after the
receipt of this letter he was on his.
way to the city. The mere he pom
dered the matter, the more likely
did it seem TO him that his first con-
clusion was the true one. There
was an uncle of bis fathers, miser,
reputed to be very rich, from whom,
some years before, the family had re.
ceived letters, and it seemed not at
all improbable, that bis death had oc-
curred, and that he and his sister had
been remembered in the will. This
idea so fully possessed his mind by
the time be arrived in the city, that
he WAS already beginning to make, in
imagination, sundry dispositions OF
the property soon to come into sis
Ebands.
Can l see one Of the gentlemen
belonging to the frm?' asked the
doctor, on entering the store of
Messrs. l. s. P.
Here is Mr. l. said the indi-
vidual addressed, referring him to a
imidd!e-oged. thoughtful looking man.
with something prepossessing in his
face.
i The doctor bowed to Mr. L.,
and then said,
my name is DR.. Grimes
i Mr. L. bowed in return, re-
marking as be did So