Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-02

tiles, of which 1 cannot but be con
scious, there is better use that mai
like me can be put to than making
wooden chairs for twenty years. I an
tresolved that somehow these ston
walls shall open to me before then.
do not impugn the justice Of my sen
tence. 1 shall submit to it, heavy a!
can serve my time better by expiatinl
to God than to prison authorities. L
can once go forth through these bar!
again. 1 can make my profession al
to the poorest, the lowest withou
money and without price. Not one day
of Judgment would I abate; but thinl
l could make the world the richer fol
my sin-not by few chairs, but b.
lives saved and souls uplifted. Some
day, doctor, 1 shall find my way t.
freedom Of the body, and in the mora
imprisonment of my purpose 1 shall
work out my salvation"
Never in his life had DR.. Girtney beer
so touched. He sat quite silent for
moment, his eyes bent upon the ground
he could not trust himself to speak;
the eanestness, the resolve, the self
abnegation, betrayed more even by the
manner than the words, stirred hin
with unusual sympathy, not only be.
cause he had been before possessed Of
something of the same idea- but also
he was impressed with the intense ver'
ity of the spiritual individuality.
Il came to talk to you about this
he said at last. 81, too, have this faitf
in you You and 1, think can safely
take hold of higher law than the law
of the land. I will compass this end
These bars shall be undone, these walls
shall be opened to you. But it will be
matter of time. Have patience tc
wait. All the philosophy Of life is ir
that one word-wait Do you think yor
will know how to wait without chafine
your heart out?"
He gazed steadily as he spoke into
Fletcher's face. No JOY flashed into
it; no light of hope illumined the eyes;
no gladness quivered the sad mouth
Only a stern solemnity deepened all the
lines, as, with a long breath, he lifted
up his thoughtful brow.
1T is Gods WILL" he said, "since he
has sent me such a friend. If it was
for anything this world could give me
for myself I would not care to wait
could vegetate and brutalize here til
my death: but to keep alive my man
hood for the only reparation that I rec.
ognize as fitting-ah, yes, can wait"
AS DR.. Girtney was passing on his
way out, he said to the turnkey:
This is a sorry business of yours;
do you like it?"
There's not much Of liking goes
with it." was the reply; but fellow
must take what he can get to do, ant
not what he likes"
The doctor slipped him coin, ant
by the way the hand closed on 1t ne
knew it had an itching palm.
BE as good to my poor friend as
you can, will you?" he ventured.
"Ay, sir it's hard times for such q
gentleman as him."
There was something bucolic in the
mans manner, which was coarse with
out being haksh, that could not escape
the doctors sharp sense.
You were brought up in the coun-
try?" he said, carelessly.
"Yes, l was" the turnkey answered
with a short sigh. 81 was a drovel
once, and had a place of my own" an6
he gave the keys a vicious jingle as II
he hated them.
"Ah, we'll, WELL" returned the doctor
I'VE all see many changes in lifetime
perhaps you'll get out of this some
day" And he nodded kindly to him as
he left him at his post, and went pas
the stony eyed warden out into the
free air again.
"Discontented and avaricious," hi
mused-"pitiful and pining for the
fields That's my mani"
Slowly the summer went by. Fletch'
err lived within himself and waited
waited and exercised his fortitude tc
consider labor, deprivation, disgrace as
the accidents of his fate apart from hi:
real existence, or as instruments Of
| training for future use. His turnkey
watched the traces of youth pass away
| from the sorrowful face, and noted, II
his dull way, that the elasticity had lef
the graceful figure, and, for some rea'
son or other, he twisted and clinchet
his keys more savagely than ever.
| About autumn it was suddenly an
nounced in the newspapers, with
mingling of pride and regret, that the
| city had lost the celebrated DR.. Girt
ney, who had been called to the high
est professional chair in the metropolis
and had departed to New York will
the regrets and best wishes Of all th'
community
Then dragged along more wear!
months-days of waiting, weeks of en-
durance-and then, one morning, TIT
hard-faced warden was astonished ant
| infurlated 10 ma llat pllSollei ANuiii
Der 2S1, as we'll as one of the stoutes
turnkeys, had both disappeared.
There was a great Outcry, of course
and a long and energetic search: ant
when this. too, proving unsuccessful, hat
dropped into oblivion, sturdy drove
chuckled over his cattle on small
rancho far out west, and, at an humble
office amid the lowest haunts of vic
and poverty in New York, a certain DR.
Anthon began his ministrations to suf
fering humanity.
Thus was begun a new life-a lif
of utter self sacrifice, of untiring, un
ceasing labor of obscure but incom
parable utility, of marvellous advance il
professional experience, wisdom an
skill-a life of severest privation, devo
ted to Others-the pauper, the outcast
those that perished in the byways call