Show from the new york times A sad hour in the tombs when he was born of whom we have now to speak there was lamentation in the parsonage at a sweet english vill viii village aee in the lake like district em bosomed among hills which there they term mountains Skid daw liot ilot unknown to fame on this side of the atlantic atlantiel being of the number his father was the respected pastor of the village his mc mo theron the sad morning when she able gave him new born to her husband folded her hands upon her breast and went her bez way to god he grew as befitted the son eon of such a father a amid m id the amenities of irke life a well weli tutored and apt boy the stripling was tall well formed and handsome hand sonie ile he was the beautiful young appollo of the neighborhood beloved by young and old and well deserving their love his father had pride in him hith for lie he and that marble tombstone tomb stone in the church yard vard were all that were left to the old man in this world first at harrow and afterwards at O Oxford the youth gained at among giong the tutors and his hii fellow classmates class mates the renown of a promising and even of ofa a brilliant scholar his acquaintance with the dead languages was superior to that of any collegian of if his years while to the other usual studies of his college lie he added fre pre french cil cli oil german italian and spa spanish unish which he learned to read with ease and speak with fluency his father received flattering accounts of him the old man lonely among the the hills was proud in idis iris loneliness he fie had a son of whom he was not ashamed the choice of a profession being offered him the ther successful aspirant for college honors decided upon studying medicine his natural bent was to that science perhaps his father would have been more pleased with another choice the ministry was a holy vocal ion lon but he yielded his consent without the least manifestation of disappointment and th the e young man sat himself down to resolute study under ul lider rider a surgeon of great repute he ile was well dowed endowed efi eh indrea by Nat nature tire for his new preceptor r expressed his astonishment at the rapidity and exactness with which lie he mastered the difficult branches of his art for him was wa prophesied a splendid career nis his name wo would u id rank hereafter he with the benefactors of h humanity 1 perhaps the world would talk of va him m as of a hunter a Jenn eror a blumenbach the old man was indeed very proud among the hills member of the it etoal 0 yal yai college of surgeons and subsequently odthe of the college of physicians and appointed to a post of importance and emo ermo lution in hospital in point of rank and usefulness ful ness the first in london to this ment he had reached at the age of awen y eight years besides having traveled on the continent and studied some time in the medical schools of paris there was wag soma talk too that his hig father would see another child before he lie died and that he hoped soon to press hla hia lips upon ulon the forehead of his sons young wife poor old oid man so happy tho alone at thy fireside all goes gaes well with thee she awaits thee yonder and has awaited thee these many years but thou must most first thou set a grandchild upon tipon thy knee and wonder whether the angels in heaven have knowl knowledge edme edve of what passes upon earth nay die rat rather freer fi firs told d rii man an thou art aged and thy sands are nearly run out make haste to die dle that thou not find thy grave with a sad heart but she is taken away from the ahe evil to come there is comfort in that thought athis at his 1 age the old oid man did not think that he should have to journey to london where he had been but once since his own college days but he arrives at the babylon at a late hour one night and seeks a hotel for rest while the drunkards bawl through the streets ets so hoarse and disguised with liquor was the voice of one roy ry that he dij did not recognize it wearied as he was he might not have slept at all or would have slept less sound if he had his son was not at home nor at the hospital they aid ald did the next morning they did not know where lie he was but he would come perhaps certainly but he was uncertain in his hours they pitied and spared the old man from the small wineglass wine glass to the brimmed brandy goblet repeatedly filled at an early hour in the tile day our A al member of the Royal College of surgeons of the college ot of physicians aud and resident physician at hospital had hurried harried so 8 soon oon the story is soon told rumors of ti the e sort so r I 1 th tho co far W weaker weaken eaker than the reality had reached his father when the old man was brought to hi his 9 bedside by one who discovered him through fie tle tte agency of a dissolute associate he ayas was insensible exhausted by the effects of mania manla mania manla a potu botu when he was able to ze his father and tell the sad tale he confessed that he had been a secret drinker for or n many I 1 any years that the habit had been growing on him since he left college where ii indeed deed it was first formed but he would reform yes yes he would reform the old man returned to his villagers partially comforted but many an eye noticed that lie he had grown much older in appearance during that short absence in london 01 older der and his white while locks whiter whlter and Ms his step tremulous and uncertain ile he could not knot preach now nor pray ss as he was wont want his curate must take his iris place wholly ile he would sit in a pew only as aj a lay worshipper wor shipper it is a very cold january mornin morning tr when he again leaves his parsonage for abnot another her journey to london it is a long journey lourney of fifteen hours when he be reaches the hotel his limbs fail and they have to put him to bed beadlike like ilke an infant and the ne next at day as he seems more helpless they ask him for directions and send for his bis son they fear pear arto to communicate the tidings but as they have only str strangers angers argers sym bym sympathy p athy fur for him they do so without preparation hisson his son is is in prison not committed for crime crime oh no but for violence under the iffla ence of intoxication that thatis is all but he speaks no more the old man Is there room beneath that marble gravestone gravestone for another tenant do we know them our dear ones when we join them above reputation gon gone gonrand cand and remorse remo arse preying on him what shall he now do there is a world elsewhere As an englishman 0 gi hman itis natural he should seek eng english lish te territory aided by his friends with a large sum of money a ship bears him to canada where he will indeed reform and repent with many tears her who should have been his wife he has left behind he will send for her and wed her when happier days arrive but the happier days do not arrive arrive here were there is brandy in canada and he cannot resist it he must again tie lie e a fugitive most of his iris money spent ile he reache reaches boston and for nearly a year seems to reform ile he g gathers athers friends around him hi m and gets into good practice lahe if he drinks now it is st crelly done and nobody or he thinks so is the wimer wlmer the y imprison people in boston for street brunke drunkenness aness and one morning when rot rit restored to sense tense he himself incarcerated in the fall of 1854 he came to new york his 11 is morrey monney was gone and his friends refused to remit him any more from england for some time he kept afloat just drifting oh on the surface of decent society not yet submerged the least eddy would upset his frail eha shai shallop lop llop and that eddy soon came ealce ahen when stronger men might have braved a whirlpool lie he sank rank helpless insane in in his desire sire gire for drink and having no means to procure it he lie robbed a drunken companion of his watch and pledged it we saw sav him two weeks since iq iii ihie thie the ifie tombs and spent a sad hour with him gleaning this history reader it is not fiction buttery but arery avery stern truth lie he pleaded guilty last list week before the ct city y judge at the court of sessions obsessions and is now undergoing punishment hi his nis 9 name we withhold though the records of the court will furnish it to the tile too curious s what moral we cn can derive from his bistor history y and his bis misery miser y let us derive are the minutes relating to an affair of fi honor nor always drawn up by the second how flow doe does S pig iron ballast apeci a ship when caught caugh tin in a violent sou wester if general simpson were to scale caie the abe walls of sebastopol sevastopol Seba alone could the act be regarded as a general assault if a man were to rub rob the queen 0 01 england of five shillings wold woid he not be liable to trial for treason for dip depriving riving her majesty of her crown should the russians carry the war into the polish territory and take up a position on the banks of the river but would it not be necessary for the allies to attack them and make them flee nee away ex men want la Is not talent it Is purpose in other words not the power to achieve but will to labor |