Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-08

And Death, I'll not resist hun,
For after death hopsto ger
The whole great solar system.
Sam Wnitor Foss, In Yankee Blade.
TAKEN AT THE FLOOD
DY OLIVE MAY EAGER.
(FgSN YOUTHFUL ply.
In \ siclan and his still
Va q IN ore youthful
~ bride were driving
;. fGa slowly along lone
S91SSCA.1, ly mountain road,
Cfc ID %tsSN. where the Int
EyEl S9S NSNh autumn sunshine
vF.4isshsS 81 En- shone mildly
,ss9g WE&AMY y through t h o al.
sSs,s'e a sssgasssssSlsss ready frost-striok-
en-, wind-stripped
trees. They stopped moment when
break in the hills gave them q
glimpse of their destination in the
narrow valley below. The Struggling.
hastily built village near the recently
discovered coal beds of that region
was not calculated to excite either
hope or admiration.
M.There is lido in tho affairs of men.
Whichs taken ut tho fool, leads on to for
tune.,"
quoted tho young man, adding, mus
singly: "[ wonder if any. tide in
yon group of shnnties will sweep us
on to fortune. Things are Mt a low
ebb with us-now."
The girl-wife made no reply. Int
taking advantage of their etandstill'
she made what she felt to DO an all.
Important change in her toilet. Draw
ing forth q slightly battered band
box she replaced her big shade hat by
very staid and sober bonnet, which
SO failed of the desired matronly Of
feet that the husband hurriedly logged
his horse to fresh start, lest be be
called upon to pass Judgment on n
face made still more blooming by Che
contrast.
To tell the truth, after graduating
with high honors from the good old
State University, DR.. Thomas Nelson,
aged twenty three, had done two
nasty, imprudent things: One was to
marry oifhand dear little school girl.
whom two thirds of the town still re-
membereda n famous romp and seat.
terbrain in short dresses; the other
dubious step was to settle down to the
exercise of his profession in the same
community where both of them lived
from babyhood
Hosts OF friends and relatives took
the deepest possible interest in srrom.
mics" cases and "dear Kittie's" house
Keeping, but somehow under the fell
swayiof aches and pains, their affection
waned to such an extent that it cou Id
be revived only after sight of the
regular practitioner, man of age and
experience. No young couple, how
ever economical, can manage to exist
on good wishes alone, SO after years
trial OF such dry fare, the Nelson's set
out to try their fate among total
strangers. Their goal was q mush-
room town, whose rapidly increasing
population was still left to tho tender
mercies of IN antiquated quack, very
well acquainted with Therapeutics as
tested through the medium of black
bottles.
In the chill, autumn twilight, tho
newcomers drove up to the long, low
tavern, relic of stngecoach times,
standing out prominently among the
newer, box-like houses which looked
SO like peas in pod that the obser-
want, quick'cyed doctor found him
self valnly searching for some distin-
gushing mark, and wondering if he
should ever manage to know where
his patients lived. The streets seemed
quite deserted, and the tavern unfre-
quented,: making tho doctor blue with
something worse than cold.
A warm supper and roaring fire
succeeded in cheering the travellers to
q faint interest in the chatty land
Observation-Disclosures as to the community.
at large, and the bibulous old doctor
IN particular. They we're beginning
to feel comfortably cozy and sleepy,
when q slouchy, ill,kempt Irishman
shuffied awkwardly into the dining
room, saying that he wanted the new
doctor.
ooh, go along with you, Mikel"
SAID the tavern keeper, unwilling to
ioso nio "PPiecietlVe audience.
Its me ould woman" insisted the
man. 'Shes that bad that / be
thinkin' it's q sthroke. ARA wurrd
have I had the day, and see that glib
Q, tongue since furst saw her, Biddy
o'Kiely. in the ould country"
Besides be ng very tired, the doctor
felt small inclination to trust SO I'M
promising q guide along unknown
mountain paths after night; for the
fellow was rather the worse for liquor.
III wouldn't co. said his seIf.con-
stituted Mentor. These fellows swear
by the old doctor. who is glad to take
his pay in Mountain Dew You may
whistle for money of any color" this
last being q thrust at the already de-
clarea temperance proclivities of his
guest. -
"But," urged the man in self-de.
Tense, "the ould docther's that drunk
he'll not be after, stirring the night
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