The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1885-10-15
Could anything bs more sssspessting
than 10 have crowd Of ill.hrsd uschins
assemble IN front Of bis poor. shsbby little
Office While one OF their numbsr sang out


Office While one OF their numbsr sang out
Doctor. doctor, hiu ycu tell
What Win make slek man vsnY
Grease HE heels and tss Bis uose,
And that viil d.. supposs,
The doctors once ~ quits shabby
little affair. and he vss quite too poor d
make !. better. II had no carpst. no pic
tures. nothing bat cheap dssk, chail
or two. and the lev old but vAlsAbls book
which comprised The doctors library.
Appearances 60 good ways toward |
physicians success or failure. no naltsl
how greatly hs may Affect 10 undesrats
them.
He should be we'll drssssd. A shabby
man can never assume . very digniasd ap
peaAnce. His oiics should b nest nd
Inviting. u sassn " for Ne asouss oI
: mans prscties II hi o6lss h = shabby
= poor DR.. Gscrgs's ~.
!. u ~ young SAllov soald oaly havs
change. Bat there vsrs ths people sspd'
ing 10 miles 70 K, psighboriug tovs,
for DR.. Graves. Who could ride over il
his carriage aud count their pulse besia
by magnificent gold watch. His slothes
were the best. and tailor mads. and be had
graduated from The same college from
which DR.. Georges diploma had cons.
His father had left him moderate for
tune, and he could begin bis career 10 Z
manner becoming physician.
And then George had TO cit in his dreary
Office. in his frsyed and patched garments
waiting for the patients that would not
come. while DR.. Graves went driving by
day after.
Every few days the disturbed and de-
jected young doctor heard runos Of .
rival coming TO Sharon, and the village
paper openly Published in it columns
that "an experienced and competent phys
ician would do we'll to locsts IN Sharon. "
After that DR.. George thought he would
really have TO seek seek new held o.
labor. and in deepest despondency he
feared that he had perhaps relied too
much on the promise that had 20 long
consoled him.
But he read another promise. solemn
and sweet to his troubled heart:
II will not fail thee, nor fersAke thee. 7
at will all come right in the end" he
said; but the end seemed far away.
He would be only "old Joe Hixson's son
to these poor people all the days Of his
life." There was no end TO that shame
and sorrow. The sins OF drunken 10.
ther were visited upon the head Of ! son
who was deserving Of the worlds honor
aud esteem. He had risen above them
into the beauty and glory Of pure and
noble manhood.
Through shame and sorrow, discourage.
ment and poverty, be had struggled up to
! higher and better life, and yet the good
people Of Sharon daily made him look
backward to the life he had left. And
no friendly hand was stretched forth to
help him onward.
ut IL really surprising to see the sssur-
,nce old Joe Hixson's SOU displays" said
Mrs. Col. Giddings. the wealthiest woman
% town, with bis antecedents to set him
,elf here for our physician.
How many Of us can look back through
he ages to ancestors in whom there was
70 gnilt, and for whom we need not blush?
During six months DR., George had but
NO pslients; ono Of them was . boy who
lsd ,cnt bis finger badly, and the other
vas child gith the collie. He had not
lowever, wasted his time. He had stu.
lied and learned much.
He was bright, observing young fel-
ow, and no one iip Sharon would ever
ave guessed that the ,heigbt letters and
kstches they read in certain eastern pa
ers we're written by old Joe Hixson's
on. He had signed ALEXIS" to all he
ad writtea, and had been .ebis TO meet
is small expenses with the money he had
sceived for his work.
But he had not spent four years study.
,g medicine to finally become newsps-
er reporter.
At last he made up his mind TO 60 out
Vest. Hope had died ont in his heart.
he people Of Sharon were determined to
more him. He could not succeed there
at there was that young mans Mecca
lie boundless West, Perhsps the fates
ould be less cruel to him there. He
sed not be .'old Joe Hlxson's son" among
rangers. But there were those precious
romises.
"They will be fuidlled vet. in the Lord . |
vn time and place." be said. chserfully.
He probably means that ! shall 60 away
ONE here - something better than I've
lred yet hops for"
Soon be ms1s ready To 80. The home
his childhood vas dear 70 him, And he
n fond Of familiar faces. even II tAsy
ere not always kindly. He had always
Il timid about going among total stran--
rs. But bis poor little trunk vss pack.
!. and he bad gone srouad saying good
70 the few friends Who cared 10 say
,od by to dim. He intended TO 60 on
nesday.
On Monday afternoon little towhead
boy met him on the street.
SAY. you. DR.. George" be said. my
: wants you to come mp TO oar house
d see II there's anything the natter
th our Tommy; II there is ma vsats 70
nd for DR.. Graves"
The insulting msssage made the tIood
rly tingle in tbs young doctors veins.
1t the next 10 ment be laughed.
"Obl veil. il don't matter" be said II
II 60. II will help me 10 say truthfuliyl
1t I've had some practice"