Orland Zenith, Volume 1, Number 47, Orland, Steuben County, 28 December 1900 — Page 8

, - i a ■ , ;i ORLAND ZENITH FRIDAY. DEC. 28. 1900.

' ' — ■ —— —— a Outsdde,' m~Tue Jane sunshine, his little daughter awaited him as he cam* down the hospital steps, and as lrf» stepped into his carriage she slipped her hand into his.

■ l operation. . j The surgeon had turned qmetly bad to his'work, and- with steady ttagj that never fattened or wavered, v,-.l -oina on with Ids task. Bur U:s so# was Id a tumult: Ids brain was on flrS The helpless wan Lag before Ulm-tlJ map whose life lay in h« hands-wd tiio friend who one short year befo# had stolen t o n him ids wile and hi happiness, f;« friend who had bee worse than an open enemy. Some km< forgotten words swung through hi

"Are you tired, daddy dearV” she said; "you are over so white.’* "Very tired, my darling,” he said, mechanically, and his voice shook. "Aad you’re cold,” the child went on, "I felt you shlyer, though the run is a* hot—as hot H” Another shiver ran through the surgeon’s frame. "Yes, 1 think t am cold,” he said.

DJ5L1VEE OS FROM EVIL, e~-r5 HE operating theater was packed jf with iookSi --on. ** Mr. iiaih.es' operations were far-famed. I'eutliug the arrival of the patient from tlip anaesthetic room on the other side 1 ol the passage, the great surgeon stood taxiing his bauds aad talking to his ptj is sers. An enthusiast himself, he always Inspired his sqbc dinates with asiu and his da lug and success as an operator mg do cm the envy and admiration of all is juniors. His hue but s "rn face relaxed into a smile over the i dye remarks of, one of the students. aV' a littio laugh even broke tjjou* iJsiiU.ps. It was unusual for Jfr. 5 Menzie; to laugh; he was hi;-.inn as a gra’o;J silent man, and the /lines of his fac; were severe, though I there was a kindliness in his keen j gray eyes, and ijisj rare smile was par- \ Ucularly charmlcgj The world in which he moved knew well enough what It < was that had carved the sternness Into what had been so pleasant and bright a face, knew wmt had caused the look in his eyes which never wholly left them. The world hM been loud in Its commiseration, a year before, when Mr. Menzles’ wife lad left him and their S-yiear-old daughter for another man, who had bce-dj the great surgeon’s friend. Equal loud iu its expressed sympathy-, bum he surgeon had made | all such expressions an impossibility. To no living *ul had he ever spoken of the blow wlilb had ruined his happiness, and noMviug sou! had even vepiuredglo tones upon the subject to him.

brain as his fingers moved mechanically in their work. “If it had been an open enemy that; had done me this dishonor, I could have 1 borue it. But it was even thou, mine own i’amltifcr friend.” “Mine own familiar friend:” A queer look flashed into the gray eyes; he raised them suddenly ami glanced again at patient’s white face. It was so very white that, except for ti c faint breathing that was just audible, you mlghivtoive supposed that the outlying upon the taSte was dead. Head!' the word sprang into Mr. Menzles’ mind, following quickly upon those words, “Mine own familiar friend.” Dead—well. If the patient were dead, there would be oae villain less in the world; the wrong would have been revenged— If—If the patient who lay so still and white were still forever in

He broke off abruptly. “I have—had a hard time,” he liuished after a pause. "Poor dadtU,” the child whispered. Her soft haml held his more closely, and her little forehead puckered itself iuto nusious lines us site looked into her 1 father’s white face and tired eyes. Dovjag little soul! Al! the way homesite wondered what could have made her father so terribly himself 'that afternoon; all the evcmng she watched him with tender. ions eyes, pondering tl,e pBh ,en - *•"" But perhaps she wondered most of U when, as was her wont, sue Aid nravers beside him, and at ■-he end or the* Lord’s Prayer he whispered, m a Strangely broken voice; , - "Say again, ■Deliver os rrom o' 1, wty. it —for —for all 'H=o are tempted. And-.Uni, golden carls fell ever his trembling lutud as she whispered, sottlys IJellver us from evil. ’’- The Argosy.

death. The surge, on’s eyes went back to their work; his steady fingers never relaxed their task: there was no outward sign of the tumult within his soul, s 3 '*’ a certain tightening of his iips. “Dead"’ The word surged to and fro in his bfain. until Le eoiud see it actually 'dancing before his eyes. The man whom tie had cursed so bitterly—the u ,an who bad vanished from his .life a rear ago —was heipess in his hands, absolutely at his mercy, and, if the knife slipped, ever so little, by the •fraction of a hair’s breadth, the faint breathing would cease—and—the life (hart had rutj.ed his life’s happiness would go down into silence.

He faced life sternly now, instead of smilingly as befjre, that was all; and he flung Uimselfjbeart and mind, into his profession, jlviug apparently no thought to any tiling beyond it, except to his small dauater. The child wait with him everywhere. aud wnsweven now sitting in the carriage, to the hospital courtyard, , 1 gravely and htontiy scanuing the peo- I I pie who and fro in the full sunshine. There was a sadden hushing of the busy talk in operating theater, as the patient waj wheeled in and lifted upon the table,and the surgeon moved forward. “Patient r,t:!T ready, sir,” sa’.d the house surgeon respectfully. The surgeoo did not even glance at the face of the man upon the table, but proceeded to xamine tiis sc f the injury, asking i tew terse (jaestiua* *■“ he did so. “Came in early morning, you

POOR WHO BECAME GREAT. Former Senator Ingalls Tells of Note*! Americans, ■‘The story of the ancestry of Lincoln, the levoitiug hardship and privations jf his childhood and youth, of bis squalid environment, almost shock the sense of natural justice." says ex-Sena tor John J. Ingalls in the Saturday Evenin'' Tost. "We feel instinctively that destiny was unnecessarily cruel, harsh and severe, Ills great spirit !>ure the

leep scars of those early struggles to he grave. Scarcely any man in the •ountry had a past more depressing or

I was so easy, too —so absurdly easy! The operation was oue of extreme delicacy. If it failed, no one would over blame the surgeon! Few men besides hlmseif would even have undertaken it, still fewer would have been able to carry Jt to a successful termination.

a future more hopelessly gloomy, desperate and unpromising than Grant at the outbreak of the civil war. Ueury

Wilson, the ‘shoemaker of Natick,’

Senator and Vice President, was born in a vagrant community of basketmakers and tinkers, of unknown paternity. His real name was Jeremiah ColbaiU and he took the patronymic of his patron, Gen. Wilson, who. discerning the waif’s powers, sent him in the pathway of preferment and renown. Morton, the war Governor and Senator irott* Indiana, told me ti proudest suou t of his life, up to the age of hi, ■ * l | when he marched Into his ttive village at the head f b .. playing a Hiurta ,1-h — prentice. Garfield and bherklau. fiiu bavefoot boys upon the towpaths of the Ohio canals; Andrew Johnson, the tailor; Elaine, the country school teacher;. McKinley and Bryan, of humble origin —these anil many others of _ smaller fame, refute the instruction 'ftiaf the ambitious youth must put money m Ui» j.,--*,- before entering public life.

To fail meant such a tiny, tiny shifting of the instrument he handled with such skid and care. The most moment of the whale operation was appcoaching. There was a breathless silence in the theater, a%i across it the wh'sper of one studemt to another was distinctly audible.

■■tty dove, he has got a tough job there'"

c vmuiuiugf jwu ; jsax V’’ 1 „ '■" »■ ■ cWy i ;sb conscious enough to tell us helras tiBover.” s "Poor uU*v; w-lf j t is quite obvi- *° ous what wt be done. U Is a ease of life or dltil. The only chance of s saving bim is'to operate at once." The cicawucnled voice coaid be x ’ heard all ovMihe theater, the strong, steady handlwcre watched eagerly 11 from every ciner as they began their a work with » hesitation, no uucertainty of to’ii. For a cnuu-tl of an hour Mr. Xlenzlea j worked on iffeileuee, broken only by an occasU word to the dresser beside hint. 1 * \s usual hiatus absorbed tn the task * before him, ufy other thought for the moment rclejed to the back of his • mind. Outsii lu the courtyard, his little daughter sot in the carriage watching the | S e .ns strutting to and fro in the sunlit, and the people who passed to atidfcti* of the great doors, watched over jjersoif by the coachman, who adored mi Mir of the curly head, and woteiiU'hd the ground that was wall** 1 - by her tiny feet. There was toisbing’the small girl enjoyed more tjb coming to the hospital "to wait for {|ther.” it gave her a deI lightful eenssSou of being grown up, added to the jfc'feht of the long drive sitting besideifafl,ir, .and holding his hand and ci#titg to him upon the many and v;uried i ididents of (lie route. She giant d up -it the wludows and wondered where lather was just that very minute, and whether he would come soon. Then si* .turned her eyes back again to the Pt#?M in the sunshine, strutting t- idly up and down underneath the «wthe passers-by. Upstairs, in the.’tester, there was a breathless silence.

The most critlpl moment of the operation had bet- reached, when the surgeon paused a moment to glance up the tatf".« the face, of the patient, and to a>*» a Question of the house surgeon. But the onestip was only half uttered, his words broke oil suddenly, and a student, tore observant than his fellows, not °d what a curious grayness ot his face. “Something gorf wrong over the anaesthetic.” the thfugbt flashed through the student’s br<i«. but even ns the flash of thought ‘ dune, he saw Mr. Menzies pull UJuP e « together with a strange, jerky ujovenient, and heard him say quietly: “Paiieut all rig|t- Lcttesda’e?” “Quite right, sf.” The house surgeon’s voice w3siifisk and confident. The student idly what had made the usualT halm Mr. Menz.es break off in tbn sudden, irrelevant maimer, then bis tendering* were forgotten :n_the ab-.*b;ug ’atercst u: 'M

rutn me oiamess uci.-«me<oiuuai raugible again as the steatly tiugers went on with their work. As though it had been yesterday. Instead of a year ago, there rose before Mr. Menzics’ eyes a sudden vision of the last day on vrbieh he and the patient had met. He saw his wife’s draw-ing-room, flooded with the sunshine, and Uis wife smiling up lb to Ids face,

with laughing eyes. Thu fragrance ot roses pervaded everything; she had always loved roses; and a vivid recollection came to him of great roses upon the tables. A mass of gorgeous ted ones had caught the flushing sunlight and shone blood- red in Us gleams. She bad bad a big pink one at her belt; and she had held out to him a dainty orange-colored bud. "Vor your buttonhole, dear,” she bad said softly. Ueside her stood the man who now lay unconscious under his hands, and their tvto laughing faces rose up and, mocked him with their falseness. Such a little slip of the hand, so easily! compassed, and the life of the man be- 1 fore him would slip forever into simuce, and revenge was sweet. His lips tightened, his eyes grew hard.

«f,\aoiher rejneriaUfe Illustration k» affoided by the life anti career .of Satuot.l Jackson Randall, of Pennsylvania, whose extraordinary qualities- an.l achievements should have gives hha there conspicuous renown, but whose billing fame gives new pathos to Jefferson's mournful ejaculation: ‘So soap forgotten when we are gone!’ lie died in possession of an eslate valued at less than $1,000 after thirty years spent ia legislation.

“No tainted breath dimmed the bright mirror of Randall's reputation. Twlca Speaker, acknowledged leader of tho House and chairman of the most Important committee, he had opportunities for illicit gains beyond the dreams (of avarice. • • « “Few Presidents have gained In public estimation by their incumbency. Jlauy have lost. Grant would have occupied a higher pedestal had lie remained at the head of the army and IJncoln and Garfield both died at a fortunate time for their fame. But, wearing and grinding as are the stress aadSOSirain. few. if any, have been prMjmn by the tension. Thfe White HdSfe has been exceptionally free from tragedies. Taylor died from a surfeit cherries and miik and Harrison from a cold contracted by riding bareheaded in a snowstorm up the avenue from the i Capitol the day of his Inauguration. I fcssibly Polk was the only President i who succumbed to the wearisome burd|us of his office. He died June lb. l&ib. three months afier the close of ids term, at the comparatively early age of 54.”

"Wrong? absurd!” There was no ; wrong in avenging your honor. Keavj en bad thrown this man in his way. the vengeance was meant to lie. It was childish, ridiculous, to draw back now# when the game was in his hands. His lips had tlgbtenod dll they locked] like a thin island of steal, his eyes wered for the moment devilish. Ker what seemed to him like a cen-' tury.' but what was In reality a quarter of a second, bis hand stayed it work, i.ml the patient’s life bung in the balance. Then all at once the tense look on Ids face relaxed, his hand moved on steadily, firmly, surely and on# that again one student more observant than the rest, noticed that he was white to the very lijSs. "Strain too much for him,” was the thought la the young man’s mind; "no wonder he feels bad; that was a nasty moment, a slip of u hair’s breadth, and good-by to the patient.” "Never saw anything like It.” another student murmured; "the finest bit of operating anybody could wish to see. That fellow ought to be grateful to ilenaies.”

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Perhaps there was-a little surprise in the minds of all those in the theater that day. that Mr. Menzies did not improve the occasion by a lecture upon the esse. Indeed he uttered no syllable during the remainder of the operation, and never once again did he raise his eyes to the face of the patient. “Get Mr. Stiles to see the case now," he said briefly; “1—1 shall not be able to come dowr to-morrow.” ;

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