Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-13

was shooting up into great lump of a
lad and Anna Mark growing ever lighter
straighter, wnsomer. the old dominic
OF Moreham died one bitter March day.
de was observed 10 lean long against the
wall of his little school but as that was
his ordinary in the act of prayer, none
took any notice till he had been more than
an hour IN that posture. Then one John
Dailas, a smith, Went and clapped him
kindly on the shoulder TO tell him that
the BARNS We're waiting for their Scripture
BUT ne found The old man dead on his
1eet, with his forehead against the cold
whlnstone of the gable end.
1t became necessary to fill his place, and
as Mr. John Stansfield was now so forward
in matters of the kirk and so great with
my grandmother and Mr.. Bell also, it
chancea tnat the choosing Of who should
succeed the dead man was left in his
hands. And late one night he brought ore
from Edinburgh to be the new dominic.
ne was man far beneath the country
s'diidato OIL height, and as he stood at the
master desk, small, lean, swarthy man,
MS eyes very close together and his hands
corded and hairy on the backs, he looked
lci'e 9nanle to cope with the urchins of
tue otolilaiS classes, and when the folk re-
membered the burly pillow lads and young
nehtlhs cocks of farmers sons who would
De mere in the winter, they smiled with
slsn EN-, and said. God help him.
But IN the meanwhile he did Well enough
bernard Ringrose was his name, and he en-
teFed on all the offices and emoluments of
the Ola dominic without opposition or COM
ine .i ne mad store of Latin that was
wiahout caFii, and to a humanity man., as
ne was called, the folk of Scottish parish
would forgive almost anything. Mr.. Bell
had examined the new dominic, it was said
ana found him wondrously well equipped.
Sow, ms is What happened. as l had long
al'er from Mr.. John Bell himself, when
ne had risen to be regent of the college
and a great man.
me minister had a PHYSICIANS prescrip-
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known at the college of Edinburgh. 1t was
mace out in the English tongue, so that the
unleafned could understand it; but of late
MI. sen had found no benefit from using
II. 90 ne was sending it, with a letter, to
one Samuel Paterson, in the I.awnmarket
OF edinburgh, who was the main poticary
ana herb doctor in the city. With this pa
per IN his hand, the minister one day en-
tered the school of Mr.. Ringrose, in kind
Of maze.
Dominic RnGrose, 1 have sore trouble
on me- he said. Il am even like St Paul
Inc morn in the flesh doth sore wound me.
Mnat think You of this prescription, which
ne?"
The new dominic took the paper in the
shaklhs hand which made many think him
weak whenever the weather was moist and
warm with south or west wind his hands
were wont to shake so that he could not
nolo a book to read it Alright. At first
Inns was set down to drink; but after, when
bernard RinSrose, it was discovered to be
an lntermitting or tertian ague, gotten from
MS NE in strange lands SO now his hand
SHOOK as ne took the paper from Mr.. Bell,
very careless like, and glanced at it.
You have not been able to have this
made up to your mind, minister" he said
very high and clear.
No., said Mr. Bell; seemingly the vlr-
Tue IS gone out of it. L am worse troubled
than ever
1hese are vulgar names, SIR" said the
dominic, and when such are used often
tunes commoner growths are foisted on the
unWary Permit me to write the prescrip-
tion IN the Latin tongue, with the proper
signs and quantities, and you will find that
the virtue will quickly return
80 ne took a pen in hand and wrote rap
ldly, muttering to himself:
instead Ct tutsane / will write aenus
castus; instead OF house leek, a common
mlsnomer, L will write singrene."
AND SO IN trice, with a quick dash of
learned signs scattered athwart the paper,
ne handed the prescription back to the min
lSter. VINO was so greatly impressed that if
the dominic had told him to eat the paper
II Would nave benefited him as greatly. AT
ieast, when the medicine was brought back
from the apothecary in Edinburgh, Mr. Bell
went everywhere telling of the great skill
ana prowess of the new dominic in the
Latin tongue
Likewise the people of Moreham need not
have troubled about his ability to cope with
any offenders in his school. 1t came speed
lily to crisis. Allan Allison it was who re-
FUSED one day to leave his place, and be-
ing great fellow of we'll nigh twenty
years and known fighter, told the master
10 come and take him out of the bench if
he wished and was able. Whereat, with
out waste of a word, the dominic made a
spring, sudden and fierce as that of cat
after bird. He used no entreatins He
made no apology. He simply flew at Allan
Alllsons throat, and the next moment AL
IAN ian was lying on the floor with the DOM
lnie erect over him, his shod heel uplifted
above the rebels face and threatening to
stamp the life out of him
verify. there was order in the school
mouse OF Moreham all the days of Bernard
Ringrose, which, however were not to he
many. ~ ~
For about this time the noise of terrible
break1ngs of houses and bloody murders
done upon their owners it was said nv
smugslers) ran with mighty bruit through
all scotland south of the Tav Strong men
went IN fear, women Shrieked at the cry of
plrd, and BARNS swarfed if left alone,
JUST as IN the days when Philip Stansfield
was hrSt lost in the woods
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