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Show THE DOCTOR'S STOILV. Tbe fuftr was at ita l:eilit. In nearly every f.innly there wa a case or to, aijd iu tome liuueei every meniber of the family lull the scarlet fever. Partita atieudiug a itiuerI would bo taken down upco their re! turn, and otbera wbo weut out to bury one child, wculd como borne to litid iin&tber dead. The physicians were ucarcely out of the aaddle till they were called away in another direction, auatcbiug an houm aieep at a patient's house, in the cilice, aLd Hometimes in tbe saddle while traversing at dead of night, wtll worn roada or bridle paths. Amorg others whoso ianiiliea sul-fertd sul-fertd by the d:eadfui ecouraje was Frtrmer Hoyes, who lived some eight miles in the country. The road to hia bouse led through a loug covered bridgo and alonu ihe bank of a beauti-lul beauti-lul river, then through a clearing in in the wooda, thence along a splendid splen-did country road. Three of the farmer's farm-er's children had been placed beneath the aod, and two more lay at the "point of death," with the same terrible disease. The doctors who had attended were disheartened and could nive no hope to the distressed parents, and every thing around the i once happy home wore a look of deepest gloom. ''Doctors, can you do nothing V cried tho troubled father, aa they were about lo leave, to yo to other pationla. "Alunt I see those two die belore my eyija and do nothing to help tluru? Cnu't you send uie anotlur phyeician in your absence?" The doctors were worried at this prayer ol their renpected friend. They bad tried Ihtir ' school" iu the cune and it failed. Wiw it to lighten their own ahauie, that at last they turned to thoold man and advised bira to call a phyeiciau of the despised school, counting on hia complete failure ? or waa it a sudden impulse from the very beet ot motives ? Enough; the old man enerly caught at the name of the new physician, and in a few minutes wivj rattling along tho road on tho back of bie nag, down the bridle p-ith in the wooda, along the hard macadamized iroitd by the bank of the beautiful river, and finally over the long covered bridge straight up (o to my cflice, which he reached as I was preparing to mount my horse lo ride oti to the twentieth case that day. A hurried explanation from the good larmer autliced, aud we were aoon upon the return track, making all headway for hia country home, ilo led me to believe it wna a case of life or death, and that if I cured he would believe in miracles, etc. There was in bis eyes tbe highest meed of praise that could be bestowed upon the physician whose skill could restore to health bis two children, and when I reached ibe bedside I found the case had not been over drawn, but witb careful nursing and a complete cbango of treatment I waa in Ihree days able to leave the case entirely to the now happy parents. Convalesence had eot in so rigidly and my presence was eo urgent in otner directions that I determined to leave a few instructions about diet, etc., and was taking my leave when a significant look from Mrs. Hoges to her husband caught my eye. This look meant something, and immediately the fanner ftbked me to step back with him to another part of the hou60. On reaching a door at tbe farther end of a long hallway hall-way I was ushered into a room of spacious demonsions and much more tastefully and richly furnished than any I had hitherto visited. The old gentleman who had preceded me suddenly turned and said: "Doctor, iere is the worst caaeoi all. This has baffled tbe beat skill I can fiud. You have succeeded beyond my moat reasonable anticipations with my other two children, and since by my own confession I now believe in miracles, I want you to work here the greatest miracle ol all, The case is Jane's, doctor. I stepped up to the bedside aud there lay the wasted form of a beautiful girl. The old mau'B eye moistened moist-ened as he 6tood by me, gazing in silence at bia darling pride. Now waa I capable of enduring such a sight without emotion ? There lay ihe household treasure of the good couple, the centre of their hopea, the child of their youug manhood and womanhood, tbe one of all the reat who had been the companion of their early married life. Their first born. The friends who had come from a distance to attend the funeral of the tbreo children bad not returned to their respective homes. Indeed, a dread something whispered them to remain, and they lingered in the unhappy homescarce daring to breathe the dark reason of their staying. They had taken kindly to the physician phy-sician who had given the good parents so much hope in saving to them tbe children they had considered on the brink of the gravi), and one by one took positions round the room as each learned that I bad been called to the eldest girl. I approached nearer the bedside of the poor girl who-was rather confused at the unexpected entrance and unusual un-usual Dumber ol visitors, and the presence of a strange physician. As our eyes met a light seemed to outer her heart, and tbe smile that came over her face seemed to speak the words "my deliverer is at hand." Indeed, "what strange divinity is it that Bhapes our ends rough hew then as we will?" What presence was it whispered to me at that bedside that that girl was not to die, and gave me such confidence that I could have sworn she could not die. Ayel what voice, but the one that called "Samuel "Sam-uel ! Samuel 1 I," when he answered "here am I," that told me as I stood there that this was a diteade ol the heart, and that the girl before me was no other than she of whom I neard casually, from a lady friend six months ago, now she had been betrothed be-trothed to a Bchool teacher from New tork who had settled in their neighborhood; neigh-borhood; and bow he had learned to love her; and how she had given him :ier whole heart as never heart waa iven; and how he bad gone back to io New York lo finish hi law studies; and how the news bad come, six months aco, that he had -died with tier name upon hia lips; and how the irl, upon hearing the newB, uttered a piercing ehreeit and fell back as one lead, and that her decline of health iated Irotn that time. i As I gazed upon the interesting 1 ace, I seemed to make an entirely liferent impression upon her than md any previous phys.ciau. She egarded me not with the same list-ets list-ets indifference aa she bd all ethers, iut seemed suddenly to desire a new teaeeol life, and took a etrange ioter-wt ioter-wt in all 1 said aud diJ. A strange uission is mine, thought I, to bring tack to this once bcautilul form ita anlfd lovliness; to bring back to -.hose shrunken cheets their teauliful ;rt?auueas and roundtd d:mjlJfi to start once more the I mpid btocd upon u ro-y errand; fjr mission it waa I felt sure. Auer a thorough examination of Ve case I became convinceJ there tas but c:i 'ciir-e to pursue, at.d niiy ouelh.a w uid lusiiru a ucceds-; ucceds-; it 1 istiic, and ih -t was lomecmer'zei the patient. I had my duubts about th- coLtsent of 'he p-irtru's, a::d will the reader believe it when I teil bun th-U .t as religious -cm plea, and no other, that I teartd? Al er some p w-Irying w-Irying the cuuhlkI ot a'l p.iriit-s was given, and none moru o Hutu the patient herseil, wno set in d to have implicit coutidence in my mode of treatment. Iu twenty mitutea 1 had her so completely under my influence thit she saw everything just us 1 saw it, and her thoflghta were a perfect reflex of mine. My first action after putting her into (tie mesmeric slate was to r.tise her out of bed and teat her iu the room. The interest 1 excited on the part of our audience was intense, none of them having ever witueeed anything ot the kind before. As we sal there 1 gradually grad-ually brought her to think wo were attending a gnuid ball, and after some lime I presumed to 6 her to dance. She gracelully accepted and we arrse and wnlktd, or rutiier strutted strut-ted through the room in mock dance. She seemed, much io the wonder of her Iriends and parents, to feel all the exliilaiaiion of the daucc and by many tokens showed that she eijoyed the occasion immensely. After wo had danced, or seemed Co dance rather, 1 proposed to lend bar to a Beat. She took my arm in perfect ball-room style, and wo found a seat. Mean lioie 1 had prepared a goblet of medicine medi-cine enougn nauseous slufi lo vomit any throe persons then in the room and with all the grace anil poetry of motion I could command, aBked her if she wculd not have a glass of wine. I need not scarcely say sue accepted, and ouafled tho nauseous medicine and to all appearance it was to her the real wine. Throughout this panLmimo her pareuts and friends had looktd on with bated breath, in pei feci amaze- ment. They had probably hoard of Hiii'h things as mesmerism, and tho helpless condition of the Biibject, and the great amustment it was to have a subject under control, and make him cut up all kinds of antics; but that tho science (?) should by used for good, as they now eay it, waa something they had never dreamed of. They knew ttte girl had not been out ol her bed for wieks, and seemed in a slow consumptive decline, and altogether a hopeless cae. Alter being seated (or Borne little time I proposed a walk, and she again took my arm, and we promenaded round the room, I making ber believe she was out in the open air, and by the banks of a wide river. She betrayed iu ber con (finance every fresh rapture ol her soul, and as I delineated to her mind tbe choicest eceuery j could conjure up, it was a sight never to be forgotten bow Bhe acted every part in keeping with the pictures I brought before her mental vision. Presently she heard a steamboat come puffing up the river. She Btraiaed every nerve to catch tho sound of the escaping es-caping steam. Gradually it came rounding to, and steamed briskly up the channel, and at every pufl I brought it nearer to ber. She was delighted with the prospect and seemed Lo watch with intnse gaze the approaching Bteamer. Everything Every-thing seemed real to her. Presently I brought the beat near enough to distinguish forms on board, and I acted my p irt by straining my eyeB to catch a glimpse of someone wbo seemed to wave a haoderohicf from the deck, Said I, aiill straining my eyes iu the direction of the supposed boat, "Who id that gentleman I see on board 7 He aeema lo be waving a handkerchief. Perhaps be waves it at ua. We will just wait a minute till tbe boat comec nearer, and perhaps per-haps we may know him." All in the room by this time saw what my whole plan of action meaDt, and the interest ws intense as to what would follow. Meantime the girl, whoae face waa a perlect index of what waa passing in her mind, had never ceaBed to gaze iutontly on the phantom stranger who waved tbe Luindkerebief, and as I willed the boat to ccme gradually nearer, ber face became a most wonderful study. No-thing No-thing was bidden. The tviodowa ot her soul were open; her maiden heart stood revealed beyond coutrol. Now the flush of hope, now the look o( disappointment, now the returning hall-reatrained look.of hopejber whole being, as the still gazed with undiminished un-diminished interest at the approaching ap-proaching fi'oamer, seemed to ask the queBiioo, "Waa it he?" "Can it be he?" As the boat came nearer and nearer, and the stranger atill kept waving his handkerchief to the girl she at last could not be mistaken, mis-taken, and hope succeeded anticipation anticipa-tion and joy succeeded hope, and love succeeded joy. All the kindlier passions pas-sions come and went until one loud cry of recognition, "It is he, It is he," was uttered and in a moment the delusion was gone. I changed it just in time to lock the gladdening phantom in her bosom. I changed it to lovely scenery, and after some further promenading, Bhe enjoying immensely the scenery I pictured in her mind, we retired (o a seat. I again asked her if bhe would not bave u little wine, she could not refuse, and once more she took a large druught of nauseouo medicine. I willed it to stay in her Btomach and then it had to alay. After a little desultory conversation we pul her to bed, aud by a few passes I brought her out of the mesmeric mes-meric stale, and then for the first time Bhe felt the eflectu of the medicine. medi-cine. Never was oue more astonished than was she upon recovering her senses. She asked where she had been, and in an animated manner that startled her parents, told of tbe magnificent mag-nificent acenery she had beheld and the boat and her lover on board, and thus entertained ua until lease of strength gave way. I then asked her to take a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of light medicine, and it being 11 o'clock, i asked her to think of me at the same hour next day and 1 would see that she took her medicine at that hour. From that day Bhe commenced rapidly to recover, and to-day is the wife of an eminent physician of Illinois. |