St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-07-11
DIR. HOYTS WIFE.
The Peculiar Circumstances Under
Which He Found Her.

Dr.. Philip Hoyt was annoyed when
he saw Alice Bayard's name upon the
wedding cards which he received from
Boston. To be sure he had never
definitely asked her to be his wife, but
he had never expected her to definitely
marry anybody else; not, at least, while
he remained an indefinite bachelor.
He was one of Dakota's multitude of
'.rising young physicians" and when
he considered that he had not visited
his home for three years, that his let
tiers, from the first intermittent. had,
after SIX months, become altogether re-
mittent, he had to acknowledge that
circumstances did not warrant even an
noyance.
Her image had been constantly en-
gagged in pouring imaginary tea for his
imaginary family. until the coming Of
these cards; but it was one of the attri-
butes of DIR. Hoyt's beautiful, sunny
disposition that his future plans were
always too vague to admit OF severe dis
appointments !,
Half an hour out of Office hours is not
much for even rising physician to de-
vote to amatory obsequies, and Dr.
Hoyt was still engaged upon line OF
memories, which began with 'tsee1ngs
home'' when they were both in their
teens and ended with that last letter,
which he remembered as a vapid affair,
not worth the answer it had never re
ceiyed, when the Jingle of the Office bell
and the entrance of a farmer from a
ueighboring town reused him to reality.
ssWeIl now, doctor, said that lndl-
yidual, Il calculate that you re wanted
considerable smart up Hellersville way.
One of the Roosians is nigh about done
for. He fell off hay wagon fust, then
the hay wagon fell on to him, and, as
near as / can make out, the horses and
wagon took turns finishing him up by
rubbing him in the ground till the re,
mains want of much count L made
out about that from their heathenist
iibber was riding by, and the CIR
that does their talking for them ran out
and asked me to send you over: lt's
that fourteen-year-o old that brings IN nay
often, reckon's the one. I"
DIR. Hoyt had keen professional IN
stlncts, and his preparations Tor de
parture were completed with the ole
mans story. and a few moments late
he was driving rapidly toward tn
stRoosians, as the colony of Menno
mite settlers was commonly called
These are a peculiar people, who unit
the principles of the modern Quake
with the practice of the ancient 1shmael
tie. Exiied from Russia, because OF re
ligious scruple against military service
thew are still a bit OF Old-World, old
time barbarianism, planted in the new
est New-World civilization, because Q
its newness equally savage. They ar
fiercely content with their own manner
and customs; apart from their own PEG
Die. fierce enemies and reluctant friends
Their long, uncompromising coats AM
their long. uncut boards (for the Men
monte is a Nazarene in that matter
give lit expression to their characters
So far as the payment of taxes and tn
cultivation of the soil goes, they AZ
good citizens; but socially they ar
Asiatics and Mennonites still, and W.T.
America and the world unacquainted.
Among all nations are born-mor
often, too, than is supposed -Wone
who are best described by the word &c
voted. They are the Jephthas, the Jpn
genias. the .joans of Arc of history; dt