The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-03-19

| life should, by all rational deductions, rest
J lightly upon him. We trust they do, and It's
our hope, too, that Time will deal gently with
him, and extend him pleasant walks through
many n flowing vale, until that good old age
at last is reached, when, 1--WE would rather
pine and die than live" TO him we are in.
dehted for much friendly professional aid and
counsel in our student-days, and in our early
| professional career. He has rendered his aid
| in emergencies, when the responsibilities upon
ourincXpcricnccds shoulders seemed to be more
| than we could bear. He little knows how
| thankful for his attentions we have been, and
| he will doubtless feel surprised To find it re
corded on this page.
Parting with "Silverton,' and its kindly host
and hostess, with many pleasant remem-
brances, we next arrive ut the little post town
of Chenille.
Chenille is still in infancy, in size, as well
ns in years Evidently its day is yet to come.
The village, which adjoins Dir. Silver's prop
erty. and, we believe, is partly built upon it,
consists of Il postotlice, two stores of general
merchandise a blacksmith and wheewright
shop, n shoe shop and five or six dwelling
houses.
Our well and fayorahly known citizen, Mr.
j. Frank ltcasn, owns the property adjacent,
Immediately upon the south side of Chenille,
and that of portion of the village. Within
the last four or five years Mr.. Reasir has
erected n most beautiful frame dwelling, in the
most approved modern cottage style. 1t has
a number of ornamental pOrtiCos and hand
some bay windows, resembling some of the
most tasteful and picturesque villas often seen
in the suburbs of the large cities 1t is the
most stylish building ofthe kind that we know
in the neighborhood Mr.. Rcasin has laid out
Il very pretty lawn about his house, and had
planted II number OF evergreen trees, together
with shubbcry and flowers.
The farm that Mr., Reasn now owns and
tills so successfully, was formerly the property
of the late DR.. Thomas c. Worthington,
practitioner who enjoyed great local celebrity
in HE dnv and who STRUGGLED through life, we
may say, with II large, laboriOus and Uale-
muHeiutire p,uctire. The Doctor made the
mistake, as we can see now, of devoting more
attention To the practice of his profession than
he did to the cultivation of his farm. So far
as pcGHHiIIy success was concerned, which con-
stitutcs all success in this world, this was the
great mistake of his life. lie was worn down
mentally and physically by the arduous prac-
ticc which engaged his attention night and
day, to the consequent neglect of the wealth
that was stored in the soil Ofhs valuable farm.
For the vast and unceasing abors of mind and
body incurred in the practice of his profession,
reaching from carly manhood to a good old
age, he received no adequate reward, and died
at last in comparative poverty. The farm that
now yields abundant harvests TO another with
each return of autumn, and without the wear
and tear of life that his profession subjected
him to, remained comparatively barren and
valuelcss in his hands, for want of the atten-
ton that.hc was so assiduously and laborious-
ly dcvOling TO the relief of the suffering and
to the prolongation of the lives of ungrateful
vantage of his generosity and Kindness of
heart in not paying him the pittance asked for
his service, they well knowing that he would
not exact it of them except AS free and vol
untary tender
If there be any one of his numerous patients
yet living who received the services of this
kind-hcared phySirdtR-for such he was in
both senses of the tcrm uniting rs he did the
ministry with the practice of medicine being
a speaker in the Orthodox Friends Meeting
i repeat, ifany one still lives whose life was
prolonged, or rendered more endurable by
the skill of this good man. and who, being
able, refused to remunerate him for the same,
and thus contributed toward bringing power
ty and sorrow upon his old age, let him ask
forgiveness for the past; and as Il condition,
ever literally reward his physician in the flu
turc as the only amends now possible to make
for past delinquency!
If there exists in the brain of any young
man the mcrcst Uniformed and shadowy res
olution of devotng his life to the practice of
medicine, as Il means of support, let him
study the unwrittcn history of this excellent
physician, and that of hundreds of others
equally industrious and worthy, and pause.
DR.. WorthingtOn was ever ready to respond
to the calls of the sick and suffering, his re-
puati0n with the people and with the pro-
fession stood very high; and yet, with his in
ccssant labors in the practice from youth to
old age, as already remarked, his pay was
wholly inadequate for the most abstincnt
style of living Indeed, had it not been for
one or two lcgacics bcqucathcd him by SYM
pathizing relatives, it is difficult to conceive
how he could have lived at all 1t is shame
that such appears TO he the common expert
cnce of the profession. Scarcely one out of
n hundred can honestly gain Il decent living
such MS Il gentleman of education is entitled
to. If there he one who docs collect more
than his daily expenses, il is because he has Il
practice so extensive and lahorous that it
must of necessity, soon break down his
health; or because he is harl-hcartcd, and
grinds down the poor. Such rs the last men
toned are untitled 10 enter the sacred pre-
cinCtS of II profession that constantly calls
for kindness, hcncyolcnce and sympathy
tl III view Oh all lIlt uIilltUllltS, so obvious
10 all, that ever hinder and annoy and bcsct
the path of him who spends his days in en-
crcsing the art of prolOngimg the lives of
others, how often do we hear from thought
less persons the slurring remark about Doc
tors "hiM chdlgcS" High charges" indeed,
What a cruel mockcry of the most liberal and
benevolent of professions, Let these com
planners turn totlc experience of DR. Worth
ngton. These very persons who make such
remarks would scarcely credit II Doctor if
they thought he depended on his practice for
subsistence for Il ton of coal, or few dollars
worth of grOceriCS-thc essentials of life
How inconsistent!
We trust that our readers will pardon this
diversion from the leading subject Dr.
Worthington has very extensive family
connection on and in the vicinity of Deer
Creek and was himself so long and so prom
inently connected with so many people in the
surrounding country, these remarks in rela-
ton to him, particularly as to the poor re-
turn he reaped from his long, laborious, and
well-spCnt life, have their moral in the truth
of sad experience, and as warning to those
who may contemplate the pursuit ofthe same
thorny pathway.
The same amount of education, industry
and thrift, devoted to any other honorable
calling, will invariably yield a more abundant
return. Our only comfort in his case, is in
the reflection that, after wcll.spent, yet I'M
requited, hard, and tempest-tost life, he now
Sleeps we'll"
Dr. Worthington died about twenty four
years ago, leaving labors partly for us to take
up-our work in that field beginning where
his ended. He was inferred at the old
Friends Meeting House, Darlington.
As before said, Mr.. Reasin now owns the
greater part of Dr. Worthington's farm and
under his careful supervision it has been
greatly improved, and now yields luXuriant
and bountiful harvests.
To the east of Chenille, approaching very
nearly to its outskirts, and extending thence
to the banks of Deer Creek, lies the valuable
farm of our excellent friend John w. Coale;
| "FriendN in the double application Of the