The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-09-12
DIR. HOYTS WIFE.
The Peculiar circumstances Under
a 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 hcr 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 1t 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
appointment. Sass
HALF an hour out Of Office hours is not
much for even a rising physician to de-
vote to amatory obsequies, and DIR.
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 a vapid affair,
not worth the answer it had never re-
ceiyed, when the Jingle of the office bell
and the entrance of farmer from o
neighboring town reused him to reality.
tWell now, DOCTOR said that indi-
vidual, Il calculate that you re wanted
considerable smart up Helersville 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 lean 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 heathenish
jibber. 4 was riding by, and the girl
that does their talking for them ran out,
and asked me to- send you over. It's
that foprteen-year-old that brings in hay
often, ! reckon's the one"
DR.. Hoytsh keen professional in
stlnctss and shis spreparations for de-
parture were completed with the old
man sstory, and few moments later
he was driving rapidly toward the
"koosians, as thescolony of Menno-
mite settlers was commonly called.
These are apeculiar people, who unite
the principles 81 the modern Quaker
with the prHettoeof the ancient Ishmael-
it, Exiled from Russia. because of re-
ngious scruple agRinst military service,
!. they are still a bit OF Old-World, old
time barbarianism, planted in the new
est New World civilization, because of
its newness equally savage. They are
.fercely content withtheir own manners
sand customs; apart from their own peo-
pie, Hence enemies and reluctant friends.
! Their long, uncompr PROMISING coats and
their long, uncut boards dor the Mem
MONTE iss.a Nazarehe in that matter)
give nit expression to their characters.
So far as the pay neRt of taxes and the
cultivation of the soil goes, they are
good citizens; bnt socially they are
Asiatics and Mennonites still, and with
Americpand the world unacquainted.
Among all nations are born-more
often, too, than is supposed women
who are best described by the word de-
voted They arethe Jephthas, the Iphi-
genias, the Joans OF Arc of history; de-
MED individual life, and destined to be
objective, they are more frequently, il
less gloriously. found in the old maids
who care for other peoples children;
thu leavens Of others Jumps, who, fill
ing out the measure Of lives not their
own, are themselves destitute. They
are beautiful or ugly as it happens;
they wear no mark on their foreheads,
unless it be the sign of @high and holy
purposei nothing distinguishing, unless
it be an expression of Che eye which
seems always TO see outward, never to
look within.
OF such was Marie Won SuleYitch,
also trial and puzzle to the orthodox
members of the simple community.
Without excuse she had refused to
marry Ivan in Russia, and when her