The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 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
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.. Hoyt's beautiful, sunny
disposition that his future plans were
always too vague to admit Of severe dis
appointment
much for even a rising physician to de-
vote to amatory obsequies, and DR..
Hoyt was still engaged upon a 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 a vapid affair,
not worth the answer it had never re-
ceived, when the Jingle of the office bell
and the entrance of a farmer from a
neighbOring town reused him to reality.
"Well now, Doctor" said that indi-
vidual, II 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 / made
out about that from their heathenisf
jibber. | was riding by, and the CIR
that does their talking for them ran out
and asked me to send you over. It.!
that fourteen-year-o that brings in hay
often, | reckon the one."
DR.. Hoyt had keen professional in
stncts, and his, preparations for de
parture we're completed with the ole
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 an
fercey content with their own manner
{ and customs; apart from their own PEG
pie. fierce enemies and reluctant friends
Their long, Incorporating coats AM
their long, uncut boards tor the Men
monte is a Nazarene in that matter
give nit expression to their characters
So far as the payment of taxes and th
cultivation of the soil goes, they ar
good citizens; but socially they ar
Asiatics and Mennonites still, and wit
America and the world unacquainted.
Among all nations are born-mor
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,