Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-06-26


further question. 1T there was any
thing needed TO confirm. it, the
bearing already described was of
the amplest sufficiency. when it
came 10 my personal knowledge
the very next time we reached the
good old Quaker'1 homestead in
the course of our Saturdays peri
grinations. This was well-catcu-
lated to confirm the favorable first
impression of shis character whic {
1 hid receivedMt the ceuri-honse.
Eleven years after my wonder
iBg young eyes were for the first
time met by the stately form and
smiling face OF Aaron Hubbard, /
WAS the husband Of one reared in
his own religious society, and We
were Keeping house III a very hum
BILE way at HedgesvilIe whereas a
-fledged Esculapian, | had
hung up my first shingle. so doc
tors signs used to be dubbed by the
students ofthe University of Mary
land where / had obtained my
'ssheep. skin" to quote a slang SUBJ
stiiute for the word diploma. =
While sitting i'm my little home,
the front room of which served for
parIor AID office alike, whereas.
when i nowadays look at il can
hardly realize that | Was ev.' # con-
tented with it for an hour, as such,
while there seated, mpatiently
waiting for pa.ients.a tall and Ven
cradle man on horseback inquired,
at the door, as TO my residing
there.
My first glimpse started visions
of Il patient. ecldt and "a fee. My
second recalled the identity Of Aa-
ron Hibbard, whom | had learned
to recognize during the long years
that had passed since my first
sight of him. Alighting at my re-
quest, he blandly and sympathe;-
ica'ly, though with no oulw ward
demonstration by word or gesture,
said he had been informed by
his friend, Samuel Brown OF Win
chester, that a niece of his wife's,
who had been reared in the society
of friends, was married to man of
my name, and that he felt that it
might not be amis5 to make us u
I friendly call. He Went on to say
| further, that Samuel had inquired
Of him as to his knowledge of me,
and that he had taken pleasure in
replying that although, he had no
personal acquaintance with me, he
knew my family to be respecta-
bic and worthy one, while he had
heard nothing unfavorahle of the
young man inquired about.
After Il few words with my wife
uttered in the same quiet sympa-
thetic tone i'm which he had con-
versed with me, he mounted his
horse and went on his way, looking
If not verbally pronouncing, his
blessing upon US There was a
whole sermon in that Gala genu-
inc Quaker sermon, the like of
which it would cost very little for
others to deliver. But am afraid
there are few that ever are moved
TO do so. 1t most profoundly i'm
pressed me in confirmation of my
first impression of the man re-
ceived eleven years before the
date of that "angel visit to the
people of his peculiar sect, who had
been taken to that mountain home
from her birthplace at Baltimore,
to live among strangers of other
faiths. From his big heart there
went out TO her a genuine sympa
thy His was, besides, a rare
thoughtfulness towards the young
doctor, whose wife she had become,
amid the difficulties and trials OF
the professional life on which he
was just entering and upon the dn-
ties of his new domestic relation
as well. Blessed be the memory
of Aaron Hubbard!
A wo thy daughter of Berke-
ley, now residing here. assures me
that it was Miller, and not a
Thatcher, who has made peach
culture speciality, and she insists
that Jonathan Thatcher was not of
the industrious and forethought-
full stock of the Quakers." | did
not insist that he was, for added
that lat least there was some asso-
ciati,n in mindn o, that family
with the Society of Friends. ''and
with that paragon specimen OF the
Broadbrirn-, good old Aaron Hib-
bard" That ''association.' wheth-
er correct or not, still clings to my
memory j. Il. :.
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