Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-12-25
DENSLOW'S CURE.
London HyNth

The speaker was Il tall, Saunt Ar
kansas ..boy," and the lr.;y he address
cd was Madeline Field, smart. girlish
woman, standing bareheaded under the
bright. cloudless sky of an Arkansas
summer.
A soft, dimplcd hand shaded her
cyes and the floating white of her
morning dress enyeloped her like a
summer cloud; altogether it was
striking picture.
The big, rough-bearded fellow stand
ing in his ungainly market wagon. the
tired mules with heads down-hanging.
and their raggedlooking cars pathetic
ally Tapping at the persistent fl eS. the
rustic BASKET up-plled with luscious.
satin-cb eeked peaches. and the latticed
box uf fowl in the rear.
mot at all an unpleasant picture"
thought the weary invalid, Burt Dens-
low, as he sat down opposite them and
noted the homely events.
He had the eye of an artist, and al
ways found the picturesque especially
in this wildly romantic village in the
0Zarks.
So he watched the small figure of
this pretty blonde as she stood there
negotiating with the native for an ex-
change of fowls, as she said one of the
hens she had bought. at his previous
visit was blind; another, she said, had
fits and she was obliged to have its head
cut of. while the third laying hen"
persistently crowed every morning, to
her distress and that OF the invalid
mother, on account of whose health the
two mad come there from Northern
Town.
Matters being satisfactorily adjusted.
the man drove on with loud crack of
his lashed whip, and she went into her
cottage bearing basket of those
tempting peaches.
Twenty-three years before her moth
or had married DIR. Field, who was an
army surgeon, and she hospital
Lurse, self elected, coming South from
her quiet New England home TO do her
share IN the great struggle between
North and South. Her lover had been
killed in the first of the war, and she
look her aching heart down into the
biood-sprinkled Southern hospitals,
and DIR. Field had wooed and won it in
this uAromantic he, and Madeline.
tneir only child, was Il natural physi-
clan.
She could never see pain or illness of
any sort that she did not seek to. re-
lieye 1t. 1t was perfect passion with
her.
She had eagerly read all of her faith
or s books, and only the strongest OPP
position from both parents prevented
her from regularly studying f0- the
profession Like all lobbyists she had
agreat many theories
She practiced on her Young friends
when at school; all the servants. since
sne was a child. had come in for share
OF "Aliss Maddie's doctoring," and
even her parents were Obliged to sub
INIT to her tyrannous rule in that par
ticular.
Bringing her mother to Wanako
springs had been her idea entirely.
one had learned thai the water there
was absolutely pure. hence. she sad.
having very little of the solids, it must
eliminate i'll, which in her mamma
look the form of rheumatism, but as
she 10 tbs day suffers still from the
uread companion Of damp atmosphere
and north lake winds, il IS safe to AS
su,ne .s;n tnat Madolne's theory failed in
ms instance at least Another of her
.neor'es was that starvation would take
my poison from the system. and once,
nen only thirteen. she had starved
ielse,i Tor several days in order TO re-
nene herself from the poison of ivy.
ner cure whether it were faith"
or mind over matter" is not known
~ 'nls uay) was certainly effected. and
ample " '''i"S "a
AT the time of which write wa,olo
i;ps,ngs i;tag was not the thriving metropo-
an 'oWh u now Is, with its huge cut
stone hotel, its railroad, and lis omni.
~ was twenty miles from the railway
anu essentially backwoodsy. with II,
snaky little cottages set up on neos
anu It's unlighted streets, and Mad
society. "A' h'Aeo
a. tnat time they had regularly ex.
persehce meetings where the ;nyoliJs
ssood up and told what the waters nf
s sprlEgs had done for the qooj If
nsu afflicted bodies. At one of thoea
ssssnngs Madeline met Burt DsnsIow
rrnv; e ne Frankly said he was not fast i'm.
exusr;na' snea' was chance for her to
mibhenl. mirb, h Some one of her hobbies
Shs pere , De safely ridden.
rsa que looked at him earnos.l, uo
well.Sn;,, as IUi an uninteresting subiecI-taII.
odlll nsss a1a and dark, With the black'
,bon.sl Utmost nos Of an Italian in bis hair
Dsn;.p Dome Of the blOndncss Of his E far ne bacE
was na,a lry, and his complexion
F,os. Tos,, They became good - I'fp,e friends 4.
ihlecirleiiy and starvation O We're i'tI nIai"i,
sa. as'o@ s. WAS not SO IN that he eoul,
~. w. 'ss no" charming 4 little girl rhi