The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-11-27

personal and civil rights It will & least eat.br
lish the equality Of white menunuer the national
government, and will give to the Northern man
VINO lion ionHhst to preserve the: Union as large
sxer eaiss ~ may =
destroy the Union. The contest just closed ut
terly dwarfs the fortunes and fate of candidates,
whether successful or unsuccessful. Purposely,
issues and consequence Of that contest with
out reference to my own defeat, without the re-
me reference 70 the gentleman who is cle-
ally. have no cause for the slightest i'll win,
and it Is with cordiality that I express the wish
that his onic1al career may prove gratifying to
his administration may overcome the embar-
easements which tho peculiar source of its
power imposed upon It from the hour of its
birth.
At the conclusion IT Blaine's speech, he in
vited the large crowd into his house, and for
nearly an hour a u, Informal reception was
held, the htthdreds of people passing through
the rooms The greetings were especially
friendly and cordial
The Heroic French Doctor.
Scores Of lives are saved on the bat.
:le-field by the promptness, skill and
bravery of the. surgeons. Their work
has often to be done in the midst of ex-
treme difficulty and danger; for it must
be done at once or not at all. In our
late civil war, we knew of surgeons who
went into the thick of the fight, where
men were dropping and bullets whist
ling all around them, so as to give i'm
mediate attention to the wounded and
thus allay suffering and save life. This,
it must be acknowledged, demands a
loftier heroism than facing the enemy
sword in hand.
Napoleon in his will made this legacy !:
II bequeath to the surgeon-in-chief of
the French army, Larry, one hundred
thousand francs: He is the most vir-
tuous man have ever known" Such
commentator from Bonaparte must
have been well-merited; and it was; as
the record of Larry's Services in Egypt;
Russia and elsewhere amply prove:
Before Larrey's time, for common
soldier to receive severe wound was
almost certain death. It was only the
officers who were much attended to, or
who "lived to fight another day" He
changed things so much for the better
that he sent forth Napoleon from Mos
COW with more than one hundred thous-
and able men; although when
the army entered that fatal city it con-
tanned only ninety thousand combat
ants.
At the battle of Eylau, tarrey had
no fewer than ten thousand patients
under his care-an army in themselves.
Nor did he confne himself exclusively
to the soldiers of France; a fellow
creature had only to need professional
assistance, and whatever his nationality,
he was his friend at once. He held that a
surgeon had no enemies except disease
and death.
Larrey's moral courage was fully
equal to his physical. Once, when the
officers of the staff complained to Napo-
leon of their horses having been shot
had been summoned to the Emperor's
presence.
WHAT" said Napoleon; shave you
ventured, on your own responsibility, to
dispose of my officers horses to feed your
wounded?"
EYES," answered Larrey; nor did
he add another word to that mono
syllable.
For this reply his master created him
baron of the Empire.
At the frightful retreat from Moscow,
before the French could effect their
passage across the Beresina, the Rus
slams arrived in enormous force, and
began to fire upon the mob of soldiers
who were struggling to cross the bridge.
In this immense disaster, Iiarrey, after
having crossed over with the Imperial
Guard, discovered that the medical
supplies had been left behind.
With equal humanity and heroism,
he recrossed the stream; but no sooner
was he recognized by the soldiers than
he was carried, with astonishing rapid
ity, in their arms across the river, the
men crying, "Let us save him who
saved us!"
The name of this noble man is en-
graved on the stone of the Arc de
Triomphe with those of the illustrious
soldiers of the Republic and the En-
pire, and his statue stands in the Court
Of Honor in the military hospital of tho
Val de Grace at Paris.