Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-09-24
A TRUE TALE.
nv ELLEN ASHTON.
ALMOST OUT OF HEART.

:. WHY 80 sal, EamestG" said the young
wife to her husband additionally twining her
arms around his neck and kissing him.
He looked up with a sad smile, and re-
piled:
am almost out of heart, MARY | think
oi all pursuits, a profession is the worst
Here have been week after week and month
alter month may soon say year after year
waiting Tor practice, yet without success. A
lawyer may volunteer in celebrated case,
aud 50 make himself; bat physician must
sit patiently in his office, and II unknown.
see men without half his requirements rolling
IN wealth, while he perhaps is starving
And II Will soon come TO that he added,
bitterly IT do not get employment
An unbldden tear started INTO the wiic's
eye, but sc storve 10 smile and said
" do not despond, Ernest. | know YOU
have been unfortunate 10 far, but YOU have
talents and knowledge TO make your way, as
soon as you get a start. And depend upon it
she added, with u cheerful look, that will
come when you least expect IT.
" 30 YOU have told me often but the lucky
hour has never come said her husband. DIES
pondtngly. Aud now every cent of my lit
he fortune has been expended, and our credit
viii saoa be gone when it is found we do not
pay. What then, is 10 become ol US ?"
nest was IN mood which the most san
Suins sometimes experience. when disappoint
'nent alter disappointment has crushed the
spirit, and the voice of hope il no longer heard
within. His wife would have given way to
tears, IL she had been alone but she felt the
necessity OF sustaining him and answered
cheerlully:
What il every cent is gone Have no
fear that we shall starvc. God sent ravens
TO feed Elijah. and he will yet interposc for
our aid. Trust in him. dearest
The husband felt rebuked, as she thus spoke
and answered less despondingly
." But really, Mary, this want of success
would try the stouest spirit The mechanic,
the day-laborer, the humblest farmer, is sure
oi his food and rdimeut, but /, after having
spent years in study have wasted years be-
sides waiting Tor practice and now when all
my fortune IS gone, i'll resort to other means
OF livelihood. | lose all have spent, both of
time and money, and must forever abandon
The idea OF pursuing my profession. II is too
BAT Aud lac arose aud walked the room
with rapid strides
His wife sighed; and remained silent. But
alter moment or two she arose went up to
hun, aud iondly encircing him with her arm,
said
Dear Ernest, YOU must not worry vour-
sell So You think it painful Tor me lo bear
poverty, know hut woman never regards
such things when She loves. A crust OF bread;
a log cabin, would h. preferable TO me. il
shared them with you, than palace with any
other. But twill not come to this Some
thlng within assures me you will vet b. great
anu flch. lave patience only for a little
whiie longer. There-there is knock at the
door now--it may BE- for YOU" As il her
words hal been prophetic, the little girl. fheir
only servant, appeared at this crisis, and said /
me doctor was wanted in a greC hurry
WIN an exulting smile, his wife ran for his |
nat, ana then sat Gown with a beating heart
10 wait his return.
IL was almost the first summons that the
young physician had received. though lac had
{ sided IN the village for more than a year
he place, too, was large and populous; but
here were several physicians OF large practice
md oil these combined To put down their
ioung rival. More than once, heretofore.
Ernest would have abandoned the field in des
pair; but his young wife cheered aud encour-
aged him, though sometimes her own heart
lclt ready 10 give up. Mary Linwood was In
deed that greatest of all blessings. a good wife:
she sympsthised with her husband, economis-
Ell 10 the utmost, and by her sauguinc words
chased dependency from his heart.
Hour after hour she sat there, awaiting her
return, vet sill he came not. All
last darkness set in, and she began 10 feel un-
when she heard her husbands foot on the step,
and hurrying out she met him in the hall.
God bless you, Mary, for an angel as YOU
are were his first words. " Ii it had not
been Tor you, should have given up long ago,
but now my fortune is made.
Brcathless with anxiety to hear all, yet not
unmindlul OF his probably wearicd condition.
Mary hurried her husband into the little Sit
tins rom, where the tea-things were laid.
and began to pour out the refreshing beverage
with trembling hand, while Ernest told the
history OF his day s absence.
IL found, he said. IL was sent for to old
Governor Huston's-the richest and most in.
ilUcniial man, YOU know, in the county,
aud when | got there learned TO my surprise
that the Governor had been thrown from his
carriage, and was thought TO be dying. All
the physicians of the town had been ssnt for.
one after another, but none could aid him. In .
despair, his wife without orders had sent for |
me. | saw his only chance for life depended
ON new aud difficult operation, which none
of the older physicians had seen pcrformed.-i
Luckily had assisted at one when student /
stated what thought could be done. The /
old Governor is a man Of iron nerves. and !
quick resolution; so when he heard the Others /
say they could 10 nothing Tor him, he deter /
mined 10 commit himself TO my hands. !
succeeded beyond my hopes; even other ply
sicians were forced 10 acknowledge my skill:
aud there is now nothing but care required to
make my patient as we'll as ever. On part
ing. he put this roll of notes in my hand
Mary was in tears long before her husband
finished his marathon; hat her heart went up
IN thankiulness to God for having thus inter.
posed Just at the crisis when hope seemed
gone.
From that day Ernest was q made man 49, 4
The fame OF his skillful operation was in ey-
cry ones mouth; and by thc AID of hi patient.
who now became his patron be- stepped al
once into practice among the best families of
The place. Wealth as well ss reputation
flowed ~ upon bin; bat be always attributed
hls success TO los wife, Whose affection. bee
said had checred and Sustained him when
out OF heart
There's nothing. De- would say dix, n
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