The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-06-27
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
uoyance.
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.. Hoyts beautiful, sunny
disposition that his future plans were
always too vague to admit of severe dis
appointment.
Half an hour out of office hours is not
much for even a rising physician to de-
vote to amatory obsequieS, and DR..
Hoyt was still engaged upon line OF
memories which began with "seeings
home" when they were both in theiI
teens and ended with that last letter,
which he remembered as a vapid affair,
not worth the answer it had never re,
ceived, when the Jingle of the office bel
and the entrance of a farmer from q
neighboring town reused him to reality
"Well now, Doctor" said that indi-
vidual, II calculate that your wanted
considerable smart up Hellersville way
One of the Roosians is nigh about done
for. He fell off a hay wagon fust, ther
the hay wagon fell Oh to him, and, a!
near as | can make out, the horses anC
wagon took turns finishing him up by
rubbing him in the ground till the re
mains want of much count l mad,
out about that from their heathenisl
jibber. Twas riding by, and the cir
that does their talking for them ran out
and asked me to send you over. It
that fourteen-year-old that brings in ha,
often, | reckon's the one."
DR.. Hoyt had keen professional in
stlncts, and his preparations for de
parture we're completed with the oil
mans story, and few moments late
he was driving rapidly toward tn
"Roosians," as the colony of Memo
mite settlers was commonly called
These are peculiar people, who unit
the principles of the modern Quake
with the practice of the ancient lshmael
lite. EXiled from Russia, because of re
ligious scruple against military service
they are still bit OF Old-World, old
time barbarianism, planted in the new
est New-World civilization. because O
its newness equally savage. They ar
fiercely content with their own manner
and customs; apart from their own pee
pie, fierce enemies and reluctant friends
Their long, uncompromising coats an
their long, uncut boards Qor the Mer
MONTE is a Nazarene in that matter
give nit expression to their character;
So far as the payment of taxes and tn
cultivation of the soil goes, they al
good citizens; but socially they ar
Asiatics and Mennonites still, and wit
America and the world unaequainted.
Among all nations are born-moI
often, too, than is supposed-wome
who are best described by the word d,
voted. They are the Jephthss, the Iph
genias, the Joans of Arc of history; d,