Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-11-23

HAYWOOD seminary was q fashion
able boarding school for young
ladies. 1t was delightfully."- situated in
the suburbs of a small city, and was
near neighbor to the medical college.
At the beginning of this story the fac
ulty of lakewood was giving little re-
ception to the elder pupils, and few
guests were present, among them
Charles Sanford, senior in the medical
school.
The school year was drawing to
close, and it was we'll for Charlie that he
was safely through his examinations,
for he was past all studying for the
present. The fact was he was dead in
love. The object Of his ardent affec-
ton was Miss Lucy Long, one OF the
very young and very pretty teachers In
lakewood.
No one attempted to blame Charlie
in the least for being in that serious
condition, for Lucy was charming
girl, who was not only beautiful but
so sweet and lovable that she was ad-
mired by everyone, although it was
we'll known that she was very poor.
AS both her parents had died when
she was a mere baby she had been left
to the care of wealthy uncle, who,
some Is years previous to the opening
of this story, had placed her in lakewood
seminary while she was only wee girl.
Her uncle was her sole guardian, and
he was to have paid her expenses and
look after her; but he had suddenly
and very mysteriously disappeared
soon after Lucy had entered the school,
and no trace of him had ever been
found.
For a long time the teachers in the
school had kept Lucy as a swell parlor
boarder, expecting her uncle to return
and pay for it, but as year after year
went by and no news of him could be
obtained, they allowed Lucy to remain
and continue her studies; and being an
extremely clever girl she was able at
20 to teach in the school, thus trying
to repay them for their kindness to
ner.
At this reception Lucy was every
where an object of pride and admira-
ton, and somehow before he left the
seminary Charlie Sanford managed to
see a good deal of her and secure her
promise to take drive with him in the
park the following day. The drive was
brilliant success. Charlie declared to
her his great love and she listened to
him. Charlie was poor and had worked
his own way through college, and Lucy
was even poorer, and although they
contemplated marriage and loved each
other dearly, they saw that it must
necessarily be long way off. But DIR.
Charlie had great ambitions, and he
proposed to seek for place to locate
and to begin to practice Immediately.
DIR. Charlie was very young for prac-
ticing physician, so they both agreed
that he had better locate at first in a
country village, where doctors were not
so numerous as in the city, and where
he would have better chance to show
his skill. They parted with many good
wishes and good-by kisses and in the
best of spirits, Charlie to seek his for
tune, Lucy to remain at the seminary.
One balmy June evening lot long
after their engagement had taken place
Charlie found himself quite distance
from his native city,, in a small, pic
turesgue village. He was looking for a
place to locate. He took a room at the
village inn, and after supper he started
out to inspect the town. His fancy
took him to the village graveyard, and
finding the gate open, he strayed in and
was soon amusing himself by reading
the various epitaphs upon the tombs
and noting the ages of the departed
This, he thought, would give him an
idea of the healthfulness Of the town
Upon one of the very old tombstones he
read the following:
Here lies man who did no good;
If he had lived he never would;
Where he has gone and how ne raree
Nobody knows nor nobody cares"
This ridiculous epitaph struck the
young doctor as SO comical that he burst
into peals of laughter, which attracted
the attention of an aged grave digger
who was at work in one corner OF the
yard removing skeleton from an ole
grave. The young mans hearty mirth
had startled him, and he dropped nil
spade and gazed at the doctor with as
constituent.
Charlie had great love for anatomy
and, observing what the old man was
doing, was at once interested; and, ar
nrpaehing the spot. incurred; !"Mygood