Dr. Sevier

ler and brighter and with less distance between them than one notices in other streets. It is there that the stock and bond brokers hurry to and fro and run together promi

ng occupation, and at the hall's farther end you descry the "Future Room," and hear the unearthly ramping and bellowing of the bulls and bears. Up and

are served in lieu of the present exchanges; men made fortunes standing on the curb-stone, and during bank hours the sidewalks were perpetually crowded with cot

lder town, not yet impoverished in those days,-the French quarter. A single square and a half off at the right, and in plain view from the front windows, shone the dazzling white walls of the St. Charles Hotel, where the nabobs of the river plantations came and dwelt with their fair-handed wives in seasons of peculiar anticipation, when it is well to be near the highest medica

nted out like the muzzles of cannon through the embrasures of his virtues. To demolish evil!-that seemed the finest of aims; and even as a physician, that was, most likely, his motive until later years and a better self-knowledge had taught him that to do good was still finer and better. He waged war-against malady. To fight; to stifle; to cut down; to uproo

of knavery. To face it in its nakedness, and to inveigh against it in high places and low, seemed the consumm

of his kindred, to whom, truth t

can't do. A man must die! So, w

gh long, irregular files of fellow-beings thronging either sidewalk,-a sadly unchivalric grouping of men whose daily and yearly life was subord

, sir; it's life!" the

perquisites. At every jog of the Doctor's horse, men came to view whose riches were the outcome of semi-respectable larceny. It was a day of reckless operation; much of the

wreckers!"

ight, indignation at

nious; it was damaging. He grew sore

se I seek and render service for the service's sake. It will come

nto much disbelief of poor men's needs. For instance, he looked upon a man's inability to find empl

for begging, it ought to be easier f

the bottom of his belief concerning himself,

out his purse, "I'll help any man to make himself useful. And the sick-

s. Shall we condemn the fault? Yes. And the man? We have not the face. To be just, which he never knowingly failed to be, and at the same time to feel tenderly for the unworthy, to deal kindly with the erring,-it