Connecticut western news., 1885-04-22

VhO OpAAoA "OAAOA ASa6Hs A"NS SOOOA@O exacting, and forgotten that it is honor enough to work and rear children for a good man, and reward enough to re- ceive bread in return.
 But the Mennonites, like other Prot estants, have not yet solved the prob lem of unmarried womanhood, and they looked with suspicion upon Marie Won Sulevitch, who was twenty-three, and had never cared for lover; not, at least, unless he had 8 fever for her delight and occupation was sickness of all kinds. As the colony increased in size, she came to be constantly busy. Babies grew quiet as she took them in her arms, fever became lighter at the touch of her cool hands, and pain was easier to bear after. Marie had band aged the wound.
 Those who had been sick growled when we'll that she should be indulged ID her whims, and the whole people came in time to consider her gifts, which were those of good nurse, as an especial provision for their necessities
 Dr. Hoyt, it chanced, had never before been summoned. It was a sight, pitiful even to professional eyes, that met his view, ss he entered the cabin.
 The boy was grooming and writhing on a pile of straw in one corner the close, dark room was crowded with men smoking and women chattering-men and women alike filthy as their sur roundings. The one mitigating circum- stance was the woman kneeling by the bed, gently bathing the wounds, but evidently ignorant of further remedy. The Doctor recognized her as the "one who talked for them"
 "Send these people out" he said to her. "They are killing him, using the little air there is with their vile pipes. i"
 "They will not go," she answered. 'Tt is not customary with my people to trust the worlds people,"
 With an ejaculation, expressive of dis gust, Dr. Hoyt turned to his patient. I shall not attempt diagnosis; there were broken bones and ghastly wounds. The boy was fast weakening from his more than mortal agony.
 Chloroform, that angel of solace to the sufferer, was first administered; and the long-bearded men, gathered close around the bed, watched the immediate effect of the medicine, and saw that the boy gasped little, grew more quiet, and lay dead.
 The enlightened reader will not find it easy to comprehend ignorance such as theirs; but these men had only the evil dence of their senses, with no past ex- porience, or even knowledge. It was only natural, therefore, that they should jump to quick conclusion, and that hatred of the alien and stranger, already strong enough, should, with this added provocaticn, call forth every mans knife, with intent to kill.
 Dr. Hoyt was too taken by surprise to be more than dismayed at first. The threatening glances at the bed, the redoubled howls of one of the women, made plain the cause of the murderous preparations. He turned to the girl by the bed, whom he had thought of 8 higher grade of intelligence than the rest; but her face showed only pained distress.
 ''It is chloroform. Don't you know ?' he said, appealing to her. 'It will make him sleep while set the bones. Then he will awaken. Tell them quick, or it will be too late."
 She looked at him long before sh @ spoke, and the rest waited, breathless, for her words. She noted the dexterity, the certainty of his motions, and her faith rose above the judgment.
 "He says it will be right" she said, in Russian, ''that he will sleep only till the wounds are dressed. I do not un- derstand; but I think he knows. See, he works in 8 good way. It is the l custom in America, perhaps. Do not kill him yet"
 The Doctor worked rapidly, and the men fell back into one corner and mum. bled together. One of them spoke presently, gesturing a great deal and pointing to his knife.
 "He says," translated Marie, "that they will not kill you, If your words are true, and the boy lives. If he dies, you will not leave us alive. That is but just"
 She spoke in tone of calm convic. tion, and, seeing that to argue was but to waste breath, the Doctor turned again to his patient, upon whose chance oi life his own depended. He was not g religious man; but think he prayed a. we'll as labored during the next half hour; for, humanly speaking, there wal every probability that some of inc many wounds were fatal, and that the sicl one would never revive.
 Marie watched more intently than an, of the others. Her confidence increased and every few minutes she turned to tn, group with an imperious nod.
 "He is right; he is right" she said.
 When, finally, the boy opened hi eyes, and knew pain again, the mel and women wished to bring altar gift to lay at the physician's feet; but Mari only said, tearfully:
 i've did not know that America helt so wise 8 man. I will never think hereafter, that am called to nurse tn sick"
 "Everything depends upon you now, he answered. Nursing must do tn rest" and, leaving directions, he drov away, meditating seriously, for so light hearted man, upon his strange escap from death.
 For two weeks he was daily caller g the cabin; and long before the end ( that time his interest in the boy had bt