Litchfield enquirer., 1881-12-08

I will gladly do all can for you. Anna, the doctor resumed, s'and when am con- pelled to go back will leave yon in good hands but it must be on condition of the most perfect obedience on yonr part. You have hard coughing spells every morning, do you not?" .' -sz IEtii has ,ssFat .ta; 7i
 "Yes, Mary. but how in the world did you know that ?"
 "No matter how know it. That Ido know it is sufficient. To begin with, Anna, syour husband must find other places for his work men, and some one must be found immediate ly to do your housework. You must go to bed every night at eight o'clock, and remain in bed until after breakfast. You must have all sorts of nourishing food, and pork and codfsh must be eliminated from your bill of fare."
 Mary, what do you mean ?"
 There was a look of terror in thepoor wom- ans eyes. and her lips quivered painfully.
 'l mean, if you do exactly as 1 tell you, you may get we'll if not it is impossible" re- piled tho doctor. ''lf you think am exag- gerating, Or don't know what I am talking about, send for any reputable physician you please, and ask him to tell you the truth"
 aOh, Mary There isn't any way of doing the things you speak of. Clarke feels awfully poor this summer, and I have been tryiug harder than ever to Eiake the ends lap over.' .''
 ''Where is Clarke ?" inquired the doctor.
 ''He's down at the creek. haying."
 sI will drive down and have talk with him right away" said my friend, making ready to leave.
 ''Ch, Mary! Don't you think there is any other way ?"
 The poor woman had broken down con- pletely now, and the doctor held herxor a mo- ment in her strong arms and caressed her fondly.
 "No other way, sis," she replied, but we will do the best we can. There's no telling what a good rest and careful nursing will do for your poor, tired body, my dear"
 Il was going to take you to some other place." the doctor remarked, as we drove away, ''but it would have been the old story work, work, work, without rest or change, from years end to years end. My mother killed herself by her attempts to get ahead of time. Two sisters have travelled the same road that Anna has started on, one of them absolutely dropped dead in her kitchen, in the midst of her work This is the kind of thing could not endure to see go on. I know it was all wrong as soon as knew anything, as soon as 1 became old enough to have 8 voice in my own education I persisted in talk ing different course. My sister Anna has tired so hard to get ahead of time and make things ''lap over" that sue has abused and probably killed herself, besides criminaly neg lecting and mismanaglng her children. don't suppose she has averaged over five hours sleep out of twenty-four during the five years; and think of that amount of rest for a woman whose brain and muscle are forever in use Every year come up here and find things going from bad to worse among the relatives and most of my friends and the hor- rible part of it isnothing one can say or do will have the slightest effect"
 Don't you think your very natural anxiety about your sister may have colored your diag- nosis little ?"I inquired.
 Mot in the least, " my companion answered ''Anna's pulse was one hundred and twelve. The respiration was labored and ominously frequent. There is no mistaking such signs. D
 "How could she keep at work with such a pulse as that?" asked.
 By the exercise of will power," said the doctor. 'In our family will power is direct inheritance, If it could only have been put to good use, how much might have been ac- complished! My dear, this will power eats salt pork when good beef and the most nutri- tious food are absolute necessities. It makes all it's cream into butter that the cash may lap over.' It drinks skim-milk, and works nineteen hours out of twenty -four"
 Soon after this the doctor dropped me at my boarding house.
 ''Now you knew all abou9 it., she remark ed, in parting, ''and if any one ever asks you why Mary Stedman did not remain among her relatives, you can say she declined to live among criminals and suicides
 Five months after the above incident sister Anna dled ; and one year from that date the widower married again. The second wife is a duplicate of the first, working night and day and ''laying up'' for future which it is more than likely she never will enjoy.-Caristian Uni0n