Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-05-04
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Evening Hymn.
One of the few advantages that India
has over England is a great movable
ty. After five years service a man is
directly or indirectly acquainted with
200 or 300 civilians in his province, all
the messes of 10 or - regiments and
batteries shd some 1, 500 other people
of the nouofficial caste In ten years
his knowledge should be doubled, and
at the end of 90 he knows, or knows
something about, every Englishman in
the empire and may travel anywhere
and everywhere without paying hotel
bills
Globe trotters who expect entertain
ment as a right have, even within my
memory, blunted this open heartedness
but none the less today, if you belong
to the inner circle and are neither a
bear nor a black sheep, all houses are
open to you, and our small world is
very, very kind and helpful
Rickett Of Kamartha staid with
Folder Of Kumaon some IS years ago
He meant to stay two nights, but was
knocked down by rheumatic fever, and
for six weeks disorganized Folders es-
Enlistment, stopped Folders work and
nearly died in Folder bedroom. Folder
behaves as though he had been placed
under eternal obligation by Rickett
and yearly sends the little Ricketts,
box Of presents and toys. 1t is the same
everywhere. The men who do not take
the trouble to conceal from you their
opinion that you are an incompetent
ass and the women who blacken your
character and misunderstood your
wifes amusements will work them
selves to the bone in your behalf if you
fall sick or into serious trouble
Heatherlegh, the doctor kept in ad
dition to his regular practice a hospital
on his private account-an arrangement
of loose boxes for incurables, his friend
called it-but il was really sort of fit
ting up shed for craft that had been
damaged by stress of weather The
weather in India is often sultry, and
since the tale of bricks is always a fixed
quantity and the only liberty allowed
is permission TO work overtime and get
no thanks men occasionally break down |
and become as mixed as the metaphors /
in this sentence.
Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor
that ever was, and his invariable pre-
scription to all his patients is Lie /
low go slow and keep cool. He says
that more men are killed by overwork
than the importance of this world jus J
titles He maintains that overwork slew
Pansay, who died under his hands
about three years ago He has, oe
course, the right to speak authorita-
lively, and he laughs at my theory that
there was crack in Pansay's head and
little bit of the dark world came
through and pressed him to death
"Pansay went off the handle, says
Heatherlegh, after the stimulus of
long leave at home, He may or he may
not have behaved like a blackguard to
Mrs. Keith Washington. My notion is
that the worl. Of the Katabundi settle
ment ran him off his legs, and that he
took to brooding and making much of
an ordinary p and 0. Irritation He
certainly was engaged to Miss Manner.
ing, and she certainly broke off the
engagement Then he took feverish
chill, and all that nonsense about ghosts
developed Oyerwork started his illness,
kept it alight and killed him, poor
DEVIL Write him off to the system
one man to take the work of two and a
half men.
do not believe this. | used to sit
up with Pansay sometimes when Heath
erlegh was called out to patients, and
happened TO be within claim The man
would make me most unhappy by de-
scribing in low. even voice the pro-
cession that was always passing at the
bottom Of his bed He had a sick man s
command Of language. When he recov-
cred, | suggested that he should write
out the whole affair from beginning to
end, knowing that ink might assist him
TO ease his mind When little boys
have learned new bad word. they are
never happy till they have chalked it
mp on a door And this also is liter
allure
He was in high fever while he was
writing. and the blood and thunder
magazine diction he adopted did not
calm him Two months afterward he
was reported fit for duty, but in spite
Of the fact that he was urgently needed
10 help an undermined commission
stagger through a deficit he preferred
to die, vowing al the last that he was
bag ridden. | got his manuscript before
he died, and this is his version of the
affair. dated 1885
My doctor tells me that need rest
and change Of air II is not improbable
That ! shall get both ere long-rest that
neither the relocated messenger nor the
midday gun can break. and change Of
sir far beyond that which any home
ward bound steamer can give me In
the meantime ] am resolved to stay
where am and. in fat defiance Of my
doctor s orders, to take all the world into
my confidence You shall learn for
yourselves the precise nature of my
mslsdy and shall too, Judge for your
selves whether any man born Of woman