| Show i FRANK SMEDLEY the rhe well known author of 11 lewis frank fairleigh etc whose death lias has been announced in in the foreign papers was a remarkable instance of the triumph 0 of f in mental vi vior vigor C or over bodily infirmity froni from his infancy ancy he was afflicted with the most distressing distress illK deformity ef natural malformation mal formation to fo s uch such an all extent that lie he could neither walk nor ride nor indulge andul go in any active exercise whatsoever in ordinary cases such grievous ous affliction would have deterred tile the berer from any attempt at making king either cither a name or a position but by an exercise of the will mr smedley I 1 ariu triumphed 1 pied ov over er the artir trammels mels which nature had put on him fram lis his birth acquired a liberal education became a practiced and forcible writer and won his way wa y to a good place in literature by a curious curious I 1 a antithesis thesis to ilis his normal dinv inv invalid a lid condition the whilo aholo bent of his taste was in the direction of manly power feats of physical prowess bold action and daring enterprise ar mr Si neIley biot only was ivas never llever on horseback horse back in his life but even ny n or cr saw a race or a racecourse race course act yc from reading conversing and the power of a vivid ima imagination gi nation and a singular skill in reproducing t the lie iNT facts face 9 he gathered brorn from more physically favored people he wrote tho the best coun count t of t atie I 1 fe derby th theathus athus that hns i ever ap P feared JW AW amongst the guns in in pogi tion in grants camp is is one which tile the inc 1 have nam edthe petersburg express it its is a chii thirty ty ponder slid atud ly 19 said to mako make good time |
