The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-26
Mas no i'll dreams disturb my rest
Nor powers Of darkness me molest!

Mas no i'll dreams disturb my rest
Nor powers of darkness me molest!
Evening Hymn.
Cne OF the few advantages that India
has over England is a great knowabili-
ty. After five years service man is
directly or indirectly acquainted with
900 or 800 civilians in his province, all
the messes of 10 or IL regiments and
batteries and some 500 other people
Of the nonohcial caste. In ten years
his knowledge should be doubled, and
at the end of 90 he knows, or knows
s something about, every Englishman IN
the empire and may travel anywhere
and everywhere without paying hotel
bills.
Globe trotters who expect entertain
penG 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
Polder 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 FOLDERS bedroom. Polder
behaves as though he had been placed
under eternal obligation by Rickett
and yearly sends the little Ricketts,
box of presents and toys It 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 blackea your
character and misunderstood your
wife's amusements will work them
selves to the bone in your behalf if you
fall sick or into serious trouble
Heatherlegh, the doctor, kept in adj
dition to his regular practice hospital
on his private account-an arrangement
Of loose boxes for incurables, his friend
called it-but it 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 alwaysa fixed
quantity and the only liberty allowed
is permission to work overtime and get
nofhanks men occasionally break down
and become as mixed as the metaphors
s5n this sentence.
Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor
that ever was, and his invariable pre-
scription to all his patients is, ellie
low, go slow and keep cool. /" He says
that more men are killed by overwcrk
than the Importance Of this world JUS
tifes He maintains that overwork slew
Pansay. who died under his hands
about three years ago. He has, of
course. the right to speak authorita-
lively, and he laughs at my theory that
there was crack in Pansay's heau and
little bit of the dark world came
through ard pressed him to death.
"Pansay went off the handle, says
Eeatherlegh. 'safter the stimulus of
long leave at home He may OF he may
not have behaved like blackguard to
airs. Keith Washington My notion is
that the work Of the Kata bundi settle
ment ran him of his legs, and that he
took to breeding and making much Of
an ordinary P and O. 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
devils Write him off to the system
one man to take the work of two and 3
half men.
do not believe this. | used to sit
up with Pansay sometimes when Heath
erlegh was called out to patients and l
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 sick man 8
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
up On a door And this also is liter
ature
He was in d high fever while he was
writing. and the blood and thunder
magazine diction be 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
to help an undermined commission
stagger through deficit be preferred
to die, vowine at tie last that he was
hag ridden. got his manuscript before
he died. and this is his version Of the
affair. dated 1855
My doctor tells NE that need rest
and change of air It is not improbable
that shall get both ere long-rest that
neither the relocated messenger nor the
midday gun can break. and change Of
air 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