The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-12-26
-1CMRE:R 26, 1872

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Isvkessy. wAets u hsd grown up.
sn1 ofeAs NO. essasoo1p vijlses a
Csfty, whcsx ~ 'tAine ", nov hung.
easall 80 ~ osdinafy vllIiau. He
- ! esoios. Tear ordlnary hypo-
ssits talks can't Small talked noth-
Inc. He was The coolest. the steadiest.
the most silent. ~ most promlsing
boy ever horn IL Levisburg. He
nAds no prstsnsions. He ct up no
slalms. He uttersd no profession.
He vent right 90 and lived life
shove rsproach. Your vutgar hypo-
esits makes long psaysn In prayer
mesting. Small did nothing Of the
SORT. He ~ stIll In prayss- meeting.
and listened 10 the sldess = ! modest
young man should. Yosr common
placs hypncsits boosts. Small never
alluded to himself. and thasa consam-
male sgotlst got credit 1br modesty.
II is but an Indifferent trick fDr ! hyp-
ocfits TO make Temperance spesches.
Dr.. Small did mot svsn belong 70 !
Temperance society. Bat he could
never - psrsssdsd to drink even 90
snueh = cop % -. There w.
something sublime IN the quiet voice
with which hs would say, "Cold wa
TOR, u you please" to lady tempting
him with smoking coffee on Z cold
morning. There was no exultation,
no sense Of merit In the act. Every
thing was done in modest and mat
ter-of-courss way beautiful to behold.
And his face vas . nentral tint.
Neither fAcs nor veiee expressed any
thing. Only kss0 reader Of charac-
Ter might have asksd whether al there
was in that eye could live contented
with this cool. austers, ssIf.contained
life; whether there would not be
somewhere : volcanic eruption. But
II there was any 50 Of molten. lava be-
meath. the world did not discover it.
Wild boys were sick Of having Small
held up to them - the most immacu-
late Of them.
Ralph had failed to get two schools
for which he bad applied, and had At
tri5uted both failures to certain shrugs
Of DR.. Small. And now, when he
found Small ct the house OF Granny
6anders, the center Of intelligence -
we'll - of ignorance for the nsighbor.
hsod, he trsmblsd. Not that Small
would say anything. He damned peo-
pls By . silence worse than words.
Granny Sanders was not little fiat.
tered BY the visit.
why, doctor, howdy. howdy!
Coms-in, take : cheer. am glad to
- you. I lowed you'd come. Old
Dr. Founder used TO say be larnt lots
. thinge Of me. But most Of the doc
toss sence hes been kinder stuck up,
you know. But know'd you fer :
man OF intelllesnce."
Meantime, Small, by his grave 81
lsncs aud attention, had almost smoth-
sscd the old hag with hAttery without
aaying one single word.
'Many's the case I've cured with
ysrbs and things. Nigh upon twenty
year ago there was . man lived over
on Wild Cat Run - had . breakin'
out on his side. Twas the len side,
jss below the waist. Doctor couldn't
do nothin'. Twas Doctor Peacham.
He never would have nothin' to do
with ole woman's cures Well, the
man was goin' 70 die. Everybody
seed that. And they come driving
away over hero all the way from the
Wild Cat. Think of that air! new
or was 30 dustered. But - soon as
laid eyes on that air man, / says, says
I. that air man, says I, has got the
shingles. says I. ! know'd the min
ute seed II. And II they'd q gone
clean around. nothin' could . saved
him. I says, says 1. git me black
cat. So ! jet killed . black cat. and
lot the blood run oil over the swellin'.
I tell you, doctor, they's nothin' like
It. That mau was we'll In . month";
ibid you use the blood warm ?"
asked small. with . solemnity most
These wsFs the only words he had
uttered since he entered the cabin.
LAWS, yes I jss let II run right out
Of the cats tail onto the breakin' out.
Aud fer airssipslas. don't know
nothin' % good q the blood OF black
hen.n
How old ?" asked the doctor.
"Thers you show'd yer science, doc.
tori They's no power in . pullet.
The older the black hen the better.
Aud you know the cure fer rheuma-
tis." And here the old woman got |
down bottle OF grease.
"That's lie from black dog. Efits
rendered right, it'll knock the hind
sights OF Of any rheumatic you ever
nee. But Il must bs rendered in the
dark of the moon. Else q black dogs |
lie a'n't worth no more nor . white
one's."
And all this time Small was SMELL
Ing Of tho uncorked bottle, taking q
little on his nDger and feeling of it,
and thus feeling bis way to the heart
-drisr than her herbs-of the old |
witch. And then he went round the |
cabin gravsly, lifting each separate
bunch Of dried herbs from its nall,
smelling Of It, and then by making On
interrogation point Of his silent face.
hs managed 70 get . lecture from her
On sash articls ~ her Us0tsria asedico,
with the most marvellous stories illus
trativs Of their virtues, When Gran.
ny he'd gotten her al of his silent
battery, b was rssdy 70 csrry forward
bis main purpose.
There was somsthing wierd about
this msa's ability 70 turn the conver-
Batioa - hs chose % have it 70. Sit
Ting - the 0saOsy's tsa-table, nib