Connecticut western news., 1885-04-22
Dr. .Hoyt's w fife
BY HARRIET B. WATERMAN,

BY HARRIET B. WATERMAN,
 Dr. Philip Hoyt was annoyed when he saw Alice Bayard's name. upon the wedding cards which he received one day from Boston. To be sure, be had never definitely asked her to be his wife, but he had never expected her definitely to marry anybody else; not, at least, while he remained an indefinite bach elor. .a..H..
 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 ters, from the first intermittent, had, after six months, became 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 Dr. Hoyt's beautiful, sunny dis position, that his future plans were al- ways too vague to admit of severe dis appointment.
 Half an hour out of office hours is not much for even rising physician to devote to amatory obsequies, and Dr. Hoyt was still engaged upon line of memories, which began with "seeings home" when they were both in their teens and ended with that last letter, which he remembered as vapid affair, not worth the answer it had never re- ceived, when the jingle of the office bell reused him to reality and the entrance of farmer from neighboring town.
 "Well, now, Doctor," said that indi. vidual, 'I calculate that you're wanted considerably smart up Hellersville way. One of the Roosians is nigh about done for. He fell of hay wagon fust, then then the hay wagon fell on 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. I made out about that from their heathenish jilber. I was riding by, and the girl that does their talking for them ran out, and asked me to send you over. It's that fourteen year old that brings in hay often, I reckon's the one."
 Dr. Hoyt had keen professional in stincts, and his preparations for depart ure were completed with the old mans story, and few moments later he was driving rapidly toward the "Roosians, 9 as the colony of Mennonite settlers was commonly called. These are a peculiar people, who unite the principles of the. modern Quaker with the practice of the ancient Ishmaelite. Exiled from Russia, because of religious scruple againet military. service, they are still bit of Old-World. old-time barbarianisrn. planted in the newest New World civil . ization, because of it's newness equally savage. They are iercely content with their own manners and customs; apart from their own people, fierce enemies and reluctant friends. Their long, un- compromising coats, and their long, m. cut boards (for the Mennonite is 8 Nag arene in that matter) give fit expression to their characters. So far as the pay ment of taxes and the cultivation of the soil goes, they are good citizens; but socially they are Asiatics and Mennonites still, and with America and the world unacquainted. ..... .-..
 Among all nations are born-more often, too, than is supposed-womer who are best described by the word de. voted. The are the Jephthas. the Iphi. genias, the loans of Arc of history denied individual life, and destined tc be objective, they are more frequently if less gloriously, found in the old maids who care for other peoples chil. dren; the leaven of others Jumps, who filling out the measure of lives not theil own, are themselves destitute. They art beautiful or ugly as it happens; they wear no mark on their foreheads. unless it be the sign of high and holy pur pose; nothing distinguishing, unless be sign of the eye which seems always to look outward, never to look within.
 Of such, was Marie Won Sulevitch also trial and puzzle to the orthodo1 members of the simple community Without excuse, she had refused tc marry Ivan in Russia, and when hel father foolishly indulged her, and would again have permitted her to marry, thi. time in America, Alexis, who was ricI ia land and cattle, she refused as before some quality in the girl, which the res found it difficult to appreciate, enabled her again to have her own way.
 That had been years before, when sh was marriageable now she was twenty three, and no longer counted among tn girls. She had never really bee counted among the girls to danc with her had never been so much ful as with those who laughed more. Onl, Ivan and Alexis had wished to worship her as saint. It was, therefore, forth nate, perhaps. that neither had masris'