Thibodaux minerva., 1855-04-28
The Love Cure-A Sketch from Life
BY OUR FAMILY PHYSICIAN.


travelling North one Summer for health and
rest, | stopped for few weeks at beautiful
! village near st. Lawrence, where was some
what known.
I had only been in the village two days Wher
was called in to see the young daughter OF
wealthy farmer by the name of Summer.
| Ida Summer had been the belle of the coun
try, and, though only seventeen, her mar
vellous beauty had already kindled quenchless
fire in the heart of many an unsuccessful sulto1
to her favor. Frank coufding and at once
playful and modest, arch, yet innocent, full OF
wild spirit, yet utterly devoid of coquetry-te
see her was to love her.
| found the peerless girl, whom had remem-
bered from the summer before as buoyant and
rosy with health, now pale and wan a sum-
mer cloud and apparently in the closing stages
of a decline.
A careful investigation into the state of he,
| lungs convinced me that hers was a mental
rather than physical consumption. studied
her case carefully, watched the various express
| sions of her speaking face, and at last came tc
the conclusion that her malady was one purely
| of heart.
! Of unrequited affection? could not think
! that-beautiful and good as she was. The case
was a difficult one. Tenderly and gently
probed every sounding, but could arrive at no
conclusion. Thus much discovered-that she
possessed no particular regard for any one oi
| the youths far or near, whose name could get
hold Of And notwithstanding all my efforts
she seemed rapidly declining.
made minute inquiry into all her past life
and of her mother, but so cautiously as not to
let my motive be apparent. | learned that she
had spent q few weeks of the winter preceding
with an intimate friend in an adjoining town,
IL, A<:-. lc~ c,Io
To that town 1 repaired; but by closest in
ascertain no clue to her illness. To all the
swains alike she had been friendly, but nothing
more.
The clergyman of the church which she had
attended-and she had been exceedingly regular
and devout in her attendance-was young
man, but one much given to study and seclusion,
and one who refused to mingle in any manner
in social gatherings. She had consequently
seen nothing of him, except while he was Off
ciating in his pulpit had made pretext to
call on him, and found him man altogether
made after the model of what might be the
highest aspiration of true woman's heart. In
fact, all the unengaged young ladies of his
parish were all nigh crazy about him. But to
all alike he accorded nothing but friendly greet
ing; and leaving them all, sought the privacy
of his own quiet study.
He was eminently handsome, and, added to
his tall, manly form and beautifully ehiseled
features, he possessed benignity of expression
that was nearly divine.
l had much conversation with him, and
among other things, I casually mentioned Ida
Summer and her evidently dying state, enlarg-
ing somewhat on her beauty and goodness.
His color deepened somewhat as he assented
to my remarks, and expressed his own regrets
at her untimey fate; but otherwise he mani
tested no emotion.
remarked, before I left him, that it was
time for him to give his pretty parsonage a
mistress
81 may many years from now," replied he
with sudden and deepening sadness; "bQt
early learned to distrust the disinterested and
abiding affection of our modern young women.
If l marry I shall probably marry late in life. "
ga fallacy, take my work for it, Mr.. Stuart.
Our modern women, some Of them, are as fond
and true as any of the danes of old. The thing
is to find the right one." And thus saying,
babe him good morning.
On my return, found my patient rather
lower than left her.
l told her had been to the village of -.
Suddenly and tumultously the warm blood
rushed up to her bosom and face, and she looked
at me with her soft inquiring eyes.
told her of her friends, and casually men
toned the name of the young clergyman, Rober,
Stuart.
To her clear, blue-veined temples the same
truant blood sped with fearful force.
had seen enough. l now knew her disease,
| and most probably its remedy. l instantly
wrote o note to Mr.. Stuart, merely saying:
eff you would save life, lose not moment
| in Fastening To-, (the name of the town.
will await you at my lodgings"
signed my name, and dispatched it by q
private messenger.
Sooner than expected, the young clergyman
was at my hotel. 1 had prepared Ida for a
conversation with clergyman, specifying, how
ever, no one in particular.
led him to her chamber, saw her blush and
| start Of joy and modesty.
What then and there transpired, no one but
| the great searcher of hearts and the two of his
choicest handiwork thus brought together
| dying girl and minister of heaven-can
| answer. left them alone as long as I though,
| her weak state might bear, and when opened
| the door found him sitting beside her bed, he1
slender hand fast locked in his, and his soul
beaming eyes pouring life and love upon her.
| My eyes filed with tears as caught sight
of her radiant face, SO full Of peace and serene
| bliss and life, but the tears I shed were the
| tears OF Joy.
Ny patient, with almost one bound, regained
her health and strength, and the glorious repre-.
| sentative of Gods minister upon earth, chang
| ing his mind upon the subject of matrimony in
favor of the "right one," is now one of the few
| truly happy men on earth, happy in a life mar
riage with one every way congenial with him,
and every way worthy of him.
ANOTHER "DoDGE."-A few nights ago, be-
tween one and two O'Clock, in Baltimore, gen.
tleman was aroused from his bed by man
dressed like watchman, who informed him
that friend of his had been arrested by the
watch for q breach Of the peace, and that the
| friend had sent for him to cone and be his bail
The gentleman knowing his friend to be very
| exemplary man supposed that something extra
| ordinary must have occurred to cause him to be
| locked up. He took all the money he had in
his house with hin, $45. At the time it was
raining very hard, and procuring an umbrella
he started for the station house, but he had
scarcely got ten yards from the door, when two
men rushed out Of an alley, and before he could
cry out he was gagged and thrown upon his
| back, after which he was dragged up an alley
and robbed of all his money, and watch valued
at $50. After robbing him they tied him tt
the latch of gate and decamped. No othel
violence was offered him. After kicking with