The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-08

began the practice Of helping her from ron
and to the building. ..#., NJ.
One afternoon, at the end OF long,
pleasant talk. she was abnut leaving, When
he suddenly seized upon her thin, white
fingers. that had been blighted by shak-
mo hands with death. and III Q rather
confused sort cf wav, as If the utterance
choked him, he poured INTO ner ears
passionate avowal OF love, ending Id ask
ing her TO be his wife
1t ia said by those inhuman shrutes in
human form who kill derby cutting the
thoat of the poor animal while swimming
that the startled, pitiful pleading look Of
the doomed creature is never forgotten.
1t was this sort Of look the girl gave her
wooer. She tried to speak as she with
drew her hand, but her lips only treln-
bled and then she abruptly reaahsd for.
her crutehes, and hobbled from her room.
That night she wrote long letter to
the man who had so strangely approached
her. lit was a despairing cry Ola lostsoul.
Her poor heart under that deformed body
was as keenly alive to the one passion
that controls humanity as that Of any
other heart. But she shrank in terror
from that for which she l1nged and
seemed dying to possess. But she put
away his love and never returned TO her
desk.
| Not long after she was desceding the
| Hudson upon steamer. and sat looking
6reamingly upon the beautiful country
| that seemed to swing by in tho golden
haze OF q summers day, when she was
approached by a tail gentleman, whose
| heavy black beard made him resemble a
benevolent old foey looking overa hedge.
| He introduced himself as Doctor-----ot
| New York, and apologizlng for his in in
| trusion, went on to ask her many ques-
| lions as to her condition. He ended by
asking her to try his system OF treatment
'srhe brain is all right; the heart, lungs
and stomach are sound,n he said. s'Thes
limbs of yours only need proper
training and exercise to make you WE'LL
Il would be glad, she responded, shut I
| am too poor
"Never mind that he said "come to
my establishment. All ask OF you is
to remain there unit! you are well, or
until / say you are incarable."
! The doctor il an enthusiast He does
! much Of that sort Of thing to q great in
I Jury to his pocket. But his theory is
| that If You make q leg, or arm. or back
bone, or any part of your body, do what
nature intends it shall 40, after awhile
nature will come in and execute its own
work. ...-.E. +.
He found employment for his patient
as ropyist and then devoted himself to
her as if she had been the daughter Of a
landlord of fashionable hotel, and that
is the highest position wecan think Of.
| And for seven long years that poor
girl worked day after day in the com pli-
Gated machinery of the doctors hotel for
invalids And slowly, Oh! so slowly. YET
surely. she gained On the enemy First
one crutch went and then the other. The
cane followed; and, after q long, long
time. the lameness disappeared, and az
last she stood up in the image OF hel
maker, human: handsome and liable tc
? love. ... ...-
The secret Of all success in fictitious lit.
erature is in that one word endeavor. Tt
struggle for something that seems almost
impossible to win, to make that struggle
, heroic in lis self deninal and high hope
is to seize on and hold the popular heart
: If there is success there is delight; i
5, failure, there is grief, as the fictitious
scters were alive and very. near t.
,r little heroine was fighting for hel
Her love had became her life. Da.
day, month after month, year tina
nto year, she had but one thought, 0
II one hope, and that was to appea
e her love, worthy his love and no
Orror. 49,.
'e long, dreary struggle was drawn
close, when one day she happened
up Western journal, and suddenL
threw it from her with a wild cry
good doctor and his attendants coul
comprehend the cause. She ma
hit the name Of her lover, and read
notice OF bis marriage. ...s. "a.
DOT little girl! She felt more wretche
er strength, health and beauty tina
Il a helpless cripple she sat IN tt
at Washington listening to tt
ct, sympathetic words of the man WI
forgotten her. "a