The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-04-30

wlso 20 eAy s0mething OF his pei
sonal appearance, whileI would prere
TO leave Il entirely to my readers i'm
agination, acknowledging tho fulfill
Of any written description to conve
an adequate idea Of such an exterior a
his. He was tail and slender, nue.
above the medium height, but with thu
breadth Of shoulders which gives ap
parent solidity tosthe masculine slen
derness, ; he had anoble head, as shape
ly and well poised as ever was seen il
ancient models his hair was of an III.
usual blackness, very family tinget
with lines of gray, the evidence ofhart
study and self discipline and his feat
ures were delicately and sensitively
cut. There was nothing in that re
markable face which was youthful. de
spite the Swallowed lines beneath til,
eyes, which the years will leave upor
all faces. Those eyes were wonderful
Beneath the wide expanse Of forehead
and the jetty eye brows, they searched
you from their cold, gray depths, ant
you trembled under their incisive scru.
tiny as ifthe eye Of doom were upon
you. Generally they were cast down
in abstraction, or roaming restlessly
from place to place, but when they once
became concentrated in conversation,
you might look down into their grea,
dreamy deeps, as into tire caverns Of
some illimitable sea, and fancy that
within your vision tie imprisoned SOU
was struggling for egress from its con.
fnement. Lastly, there was about his
face u popularity which I.haye neither
seen nor heard ofin others. before OF
since. Its general appearance was col
orless, SO much so that the flesh hard
ly kept its natural tone; but at times
his face would color as quickly as the
flash from the heavens, illumines the
landscape: and the color would rs
quickly depart. I never saw about
him another evidence of human weak
ness, in public and I have often seer
dozens gazing upon this singular exhi.
bition. which could hardly be called
emotion, SO evanescent was it's pres
ence. And yet, as this strange being
once confessed to me, this was never
his whole sanguineous
system was entirely under the control
Of his brain, and he could bring the
color to his face, and Danish it, at
"You must have some motive for
this 7" 1 said.
"About as much as for n~ine-tenths
Of all that I do in society,"" he replied,
with smile which his face never wore
publicly, "However, l believe admi.
ration is necessary 10 my existence;
his l discovered some time ago, is o
harmless means Of attracting atten.
ion"
He was by profession a physician ;
md he confessedly led the faculty OF
he city. He vas studious beyond all
Units our rooms adjoined, here at the
lotel, and very often l have known him
o sit up all night in his Investigations
" experiments, when M hours sleep
you'd refresh him sufficiently for the
luties of the day. His skill, his indus.
ry, and his application, were notorious
he city through. He meyer tired of
lis practice; day and night, indiffer.
ntly, found him answering every call
or his assistance, whether from the
ristocratic mansions of the avenues,
II the lowest purlicus of the points. AS
oou rs the people understood his real
bilities, both as a medicist and an op.
he might have selected his
phere of practice from the richest and
nost exclusive quarters OF the the city.
Ie did nothing of the kind. Utterly
areless of money, he grappled with
isease wherever he was summoned,
nd the f,rvent blessings of the poor,
8 we'll as the great rewards of the rich
lll.y attested his success. In one no.
able instance he stayed a frightful pes.
ilence which had landed at the piers
nd was marching up the into the crow
ed streets and houses of the city with
minous rapidity. 1t was a critical mo.
lent, and mems minds turned instinct
rely to Abershaw nor did he disap.
oint their expectations. Marshaling
medical corps Of the city as a gen.
raj marshals his divisions. he attacked
destroyer in his progress, stayed
is advance, and ultimately drove him
ut from among us. From this time
is professional fame was pre-eminent
men and women were his friends;
nj little US he was comprehended, he
as the dol of thousands of hearts.
Thus far | have written of man as
G appeared to men. 1t remains in
lis chapter for mi to describe how |
aimed the kno Wedge that in all his
ltercourse with men and women he
layed 4 part, and he was himself a
wing, walking, breathing life, an impo.
ton upon society, watch would have
him in horror had it known the
'uth-a being pursued by the terrible
engeanee Of the dead, bnrdcned with
,morse, hopeless Of life, and craving,
ct drcading, the refuge Of the grave
At the time to which ] now refer, he
ad been among us about ten years, and
as rs little understood as when he
rst came. | was immersed in my own
Professional duties, and with the enthu.
asm of youth, pursued them with a
ngleness of purpose which left no
rye margin for the claims of society.
'uring that last winter Of his life, l
as at my Office early and late. rarely
aving it before midnight hour had
ruck from the steeples. 1t was past
70 o'clock, ofone cold, dark morning +,
T February, that I quilted it for the
otel. Save the light burning in the
all, the huge front ofthe building was
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