Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-06

erably. In despair we tried TO be Sociable,
while the driving snow and sleet beat upon
the window-panes, and we shuddered as the
wind shrieked in fury. The winter had
seemed 10 be passed, but had doubled on US
again with vicious snap, and here we were
caught like flies in trap
Haven't had such a storm for years. 1t
must have been nearly as bad that night"
muttered the doctor. standing a moment by
the IRE. / suspected there was a story in
tho background.
"Do you remember the circumstances"
inquired, suggestively.
EYES," responded he, seating himself
comfortably. Il will tell you the whole
story. 1t may serve to while away our
tedious waiting
% had been prscticing in my profession a
number Of years. when there occurred q
vacancy in a neighboring town occasioned
by the death OF the Oldest and most popu lar
doctor, in the place, and it was not long be-
fore my sign was out in Silver Springs, and
1 had plenty Of cases.
alt was a night like this, wild and stormy,
when, as / sat reading. l heard great
noise IN the road near by, and going out
found that wagon load of young people
going home from party had become stuck
in a snow-drift.
blowing a gale and we had great task get
ting the horses out and into a neighbours
barn, while the young ladies huddled around
the fire in my Office. They made the best Of
the situation and were very jolly during the
remaining hours Of the night, for it was use
less for any one to venture out.
alt was then 1 made the acquaintance Of
Cora Williams, a pretty young school
teacher, and Lulu Dutton, with whose
mother she boarded, two of the most charm
ing girls 1 had ever met. In the morning
all returned safely to their homes, and
only mention it as the occasion of my first
meeting one who afterwards influenced my
whole life"
The doctor unused moment as il to linger
over a sweet memory, and then went on.
"SOOn after was called in great haste by
the terrified scholars of the Summer street
school to attend heir teacher, who had
fallen in a dead faint. She soon revived,
but in my treatment Of the case discovered
a serisus irregularity of the hearts action,
which she herself had long suspected, but
| tried. unselfishly, to hide.
MADAM, there are people who think a
doctor has no feelings, but it is false. One
would scarcely be human could he behold,
unmoved, lovely girl, accomplished and
refined, with the symptoms of deadly dis
ease in its incipient stages. 1t is like seeing
a worm at the root of beautiful flower, or
the fatal blight which swiftly destroys the
precious tree in our garden. l was young
then, with romantic notions of life and
duty, and was deeply interested in this
maiden, whom / longed to cure. 1 had
studied the heart and its diseases faith
| fully, and had evolved a curious theory of
my own. AS the nervous system is bene-
1 fitted by electricity, and the application Of
/ the battery had restored many to health, so
the heart is reached and influenced through
| the mind, and whatever would produce a
! pleasant impression there would quicken
the lies current and restore healthy
action Of the heart. did not place any con-
fidence in the airy theories of faith and
Christian science doctors, but founded my
concvitons ON the plain reasoning Of sound,
/ common sense.
"Of course, you understand refer to the
strong stimulus of love, but you must also
know tn 1 was interested only as the