Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-20

ern u SICK 10 be attended in these North.
aeltuues! Oh. yes; but the doctor mt,
som. eu cal books IN his yalise. and
n..;eS VAS OF medicine, and leaves hia
a,a."'s mere In the hands of othe, nhvsi.
.us' anu lakes the rail train. Rafors ho
cron,s. 'ne infected regions he passes
taI;n" ran trains. regular and extra.
tionn tne flying and affrighted popula.
1raa. ~ arrives in a city over which a
co,,as .ofror Is b%rooding. He Zoos from
;ou uen 70 couch, feeling Ut pulse and study.
as mpto and prescribing day after
uay' night after night, until a fellow phv.
s s,..an says: doctor, you had better 90
~ onle and rest; you look miserable.n But
- can not rest while so mapv are suffer.
lug on n on, until some morning finds
haI.a aellrlum, in which he talks of
aon'.' ana then rises and says he must 20
ana look after those patients. He, is told
70 ne down, but he fights his attendant.
ult'! ne falls back, and is weaker and
weaker and dies for people with whom
ne nad no kinship, and far away from
us family, and is hastily put away in a
Strangers tomb, and only the
URN part of a newspaper line
ceiis US of his sacrifice, his name
just mentioned among five. Yet he has
.oucned the furthest height of sublimity
IN nat three weeks of humanitarian ser.
wee. He goes straight as an arrow to the
BOSOM OF him who said: II was sick. and
ye visited me-" Life for life. Blood for
blood. Substitution.
IN the legal profession I see the sam
principle of self sacrifice. In 1886. VIM
freeman, a pauperized and idiotic negro
was at Auburn, N. Y, on trial for muir.
der. He had slain the entire Van Ness
family. The foamipg wrath of the com.
munity could be kept off him only by
armed c%onstables. Who would volunteer
to be his counsel. No attorney wanted to
sacrifice his popularity by such an un.
grateful task. All were silent save one, a
young lawyer with feeble voice, that
could hardly be heard outside the bar, pale
and hin and awkward. It was VIM. a.
Seward. who saw that the prisoner was
idiotic and irresponsible and ought to be
put In an asylum rather than put to death,
the heroic counsel uttering these beautiful
words: II speak now in the hearing of q
people who have %prejudiced the prisoner
n condemned me for pleading in his be.
nall. he is a convict, a pauper, a negro,
without intellect, sense or emotion. NV
Child, with an affectionate smile, disarms
my face Of it's frown whenever
cross myl threshold. The begger in the
street obliges me to give, because he says,
God bless you,' as lpass. My dog caresses
me with fondness if I will but smile on him.
My horse recognizes me when I fill his
manager. What reward, what gratitude,
what sympathy and aft sction can 1 expect
here? There the prisoner sits. Look at
him. Look at the assemblage around you.
Listen to their Unsurpassed censures and
their excited fears, and tell me where,
among my neighbors or my fellow.men,
where even in his heart I can expect to
find u sen timent, a thought, not to say OF
reward or acknowledgment, or aver OF
recognition? = Gentlemen, YOU
may think Of this evidence what you
please; bring in what verdict you can,
but / asseverate, before Heaven and you,
that 10 the best of my knowledge and be
lief, the prisoner at tho bar does not at
this moment know why it is that my shad
ow falls on you instead of his own" The
gallows got its victim, but the post NOR
tenn examination of the poor creature
showed to all the surgeons and to all the
world that the public were wrong and
VIM. H. Seward was right, and that hard,
stony step of obloquy in the Auburn court
fame up which he went to the top, or to
within one step of the top, that last de
MED him through the treachery Of Amer
lean politics. Nothing sublimer was evel
seen in an American courtroom than
VIM. H. Seward, without reward, stand
ing between the fury of the populaca and
the loathsome imbecile. Subs tuition.
In the realm Of the fine arts there was
as remarkable an instance. A brilliant
but hypercriticised painter, Joseph Will
liam Turner, was met by a volley of abuse
from all the art galleries Of Eu ope. His
paintings, which have since won the APP
plause of all civilized nations. "The Fifth
Plague of Egypt" FISHERMEN on a Lee
Shore in Squally Weather" "Calais Pier,'
''The Sun Rising Through Mist" and "Dide
Building Carthage" were then targ IT'S fol
critics to shoot at. In defense Of this out
r%ageously abused man a young author Of
twenty-;our years, just one year out Of
college, came forth with his pen Il wrote
the ablest and most famous essays on ART
that the world ever saw, or ever will see
John Ruskin's "Modern Painters" Fol
seventeen years this author fought the
BATTLES of the maltreated artist, and after
in poverty and broken heartedness the
painter had died and the public tried tt
undo their cruelties toward him by giving
linn a big funeral and burial at st. Paul's
Cathedral, his old-time friend took out o.
a tin.box 10000 pieces of paper containing
drawings by the old painter, and through
many weary and uncompensated months
assorted and arranged them for public
observation. People say John Rus
kin in his old days is cross, mis-
anthropic and morbid. Whatever hi
NAV do that he ought not to do
and whatever he may say thai he ough1
not to say between now and his death, III
will leave this world insolvent as far as i
has any capacity to pay this authors per
for it's ~chivalric aud Christian defense o
a moor painters pencil. John Ruskln TO-
William Turner. Blood for blood. Sub
stitution.
What all ex alting principle this which
leads one to suffer for another. No'hln&
so kindles enthusiasm, or awakens elo
ouence, or chimes poetic canto, or moves
nations. That principle is the dominant