The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-12-10
Copyright, 1859
PART I,

camp meeting was crowded to It's ut
most extent The excitement OF that
dense mass was at Its highest pitch,
Rev, Stephen Mastorton, the SINGLE
erect, passionate figure OF that com
fused medley of kneellng worshipers,
had reached the eliminating pitch, of
his Irresistible exhortatory power.
Signs and gToans were beginning to re-
spond to his appeals, when the reVer-
end brother was seen to lurch heavily
forward and fall to the ground.
AT first the Gffect was that OF a part
OF his performance; the groans re-
doubled, and twenty or thirty brethren
threw themselves PROSTATE In humble
imitation OF the preacher But Sister
Deborah Stokes, perhaps through some
special revelation OF feminine intul-
ton, Erasped the fallen man, tore loose
his black silk necktle and dragged him
free OF the struggling, frantic crowd,
whose paroxysms he had Just evoked,
II may have struck her that his own
condition was not essential to that con-
ditIon In others. Howbeit, he was pale
and unconscious and unable to con"
tinuc the service. Even the next day
when he had slightly recovered. It was
ferVid eXhortatlons produced the same
disastrous results.
1t so CHANGED that the medical prac-
titlOner OF the district was n man OF
large experience, OF military training
and plain speech. When, therefore, no
one day found In his surgery man q
rude western type, strong llmbed and
sunburRed but trembling, hesltatlnB
and neurOtic In movement, after listen
ing to his symptoms gravGly. he asked,
abruptly: And how much are you
drinking now?"
II am lifelong abstainer" STAN
mercd hlG patient, In quiver!ng indlg-
nation. But this was followed by an
other auehtion 90 frankly appalling TO
the nearer that he staggered 10 his feet.
I'm Stephen Masterton-known OF
men as a circuit preacher, OF the North.
orn California district" he Numbered,
"and an enemy OF the flesh In all Its
forms!"
II beg your pardon" responded Or.
Duchesne, grimly, but as you are sllt-
fering from excessive and repeated ex-
citation Of the nervous system, and the
depression following prolonged Uru-
fetal eXaltntlOn--it makes little dlner-
ence whether the chusc be spiritual. as
long as there Ia Il certain physical effect
upon your bOdy-which / believe you
have brought to me TO cure, Now as to
diet? you look all wrong there"
My food Is of the simplest-l have no
hankcring for leshpots, responded the
patient.
II suppose you call saleratus bread
and salt pork and napjacks simpler
said the doctor, cody. ''Fhey are COM
mon enough, and II you are working
fOufpuI Of
nerves, in that frame OF yours they
might not hurt YOU; but you are suf-
fering az much from eating more than
you can digest MS the veriest gourmand.
You must stop all that. Go down to n
quiet hotel In some Watering place for
two months"
II go to watering place." inter-
rupted Masterton; ITO the haunt OF the
idle. the frivolous and wanton-never!"
well, I'm not particular about
watering place." said the doctor, with
shrug, although u little idleness aud
frivolIty with different food wouldn't
hurt you-but You must so somewhere
and change your habits and mode OF
life completely. Call your vocation a
Calling II you llkc-lt's vocation, all
the same, and you.nre suffering from It's
excess: II you wish to be able 10 con.
tlnue Il you must do as say. viii find
you some sleepy old Spanish town In
the southern county whore you can rest
and diet. II this 10 dlstastcful to you,
he continued, grlmly, you can always
call It n trial"
stephen Masterton may have thought
1t so when. n week later. he found him
self Issuing from Il rocky gorge into n
rough, badly paved, billy street, Which
seemed 10 be only n continuation Of the
mountain road itself. II broadened sud
denly into square or plaza, thanked on
each side by an irregular row OF yellow
ing adobe houses.
Rev. Stephen MaEtcrton felt his
throat swell with his old eXhortntiVe In.
dlgnatlon. A gaudy yellow fan waved
lanEuldly in front OF black roge-
crested head mt white curtained win
dow. He knew he was Sliding with
righteous wrath, md Clnppcd his spurs
to his horse.
Nevertheless In few days. by the aid
OF letter Ia the lnnkeeper, he was in
stalled in dllapidntcd adobe house,not
unlike those he had seen, but situated
in tho outskirts. and overlooking the
garden and part of the rcfcctory Of the