Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13


said he would 60. but the proprietor had
made the greatest mistake of his life.
"Oi tell yez Dim white, he shouted.
Dim as white as yourself. Can't you,
tell a white man when you see one? Look
at my hair and see for YOURSELF
But the proprietor woudn { look at any
thing but Welch's mahogany face, and
out he went with discontinue Proba
bly, that made WEIGH madden than all the
rest, having been a waiter himself and
grinned at other people
He sought another restaurant and the
proprietor this time met him suayely at
the door and told him firmly, but kindly,
that be could not afford 10 have the custom
Of eol0red people. Welch protested again
but the proprietor was unmoved.
well. look at my hair, said Welsh.
''Yez can see that Oi IN no nagur.
The proprietor looked at the hair but
wasn't convinced by that either Why,
he said I've seen lots Of niggers with
straight hair. You can't play that on
me.
WEIGH said he was Irish. But the
restaurant man said he didn't care if be
was the Grand Duke of Ireland, he couldn t
come in there.
The next attempt was the last. After
that WEIGH gave it up. Here he was re-
ceiyed in grim silence, and after while a
waiter came and put down in front of him
an odd looking bill of fare and went away.
On this bill of fare the cheapest Wand was
liver and bacon, 1915. Coffee was 81
cup and braed Is cents slice A serloin
steak cost $50. Mr. WEIGH had been
around restaurants too much not to know
the significance of all this. He got up and
went out
II at day he dined at the hospital and
mas been contented TO stay there ever since.
His condition has not varied much from
| day to day, but he has not got any better.
His color has gone on slowly growing
| dlrker. The change is just perceptible
now about two shades darker than he was
when he reached the hospital Ii he lives
| long enough he will be totally black.
Tne real trouble with Welch and the
causes of his extraordinary change Of tint
/ Is being translated, trouble with his gall
/ duct, and is something like a very extreme
case of jaundice. TO the extent with
/ which be is afflicted with, it is very rare,
/ though such cases have been recorded.
/ The seat of difficulty lies in the gall
duet, which connects the gall bladder with
/ the liver which it supplies with the bile
used in the process OF digestion. In cases
/ of diseased flyer or deranQed stomachs
4 gall stone sometimes passes from the gall
/ bladder to the liver. The gall stone Is Il
bard fragment something like piece Of
coral. with little spurs sticking out all
over it, The gan duet is very small and
/ the stone passing along tears and scratches
. ~ . ia.
fering.
4 IC is usual in case Of severe pain to give
/ morphine. and after a few days the gall
stone gets through the duct and the patient
/ is relieved /. is possible, however, for
/ the little spurs on the gall stone to stick
] there and become impacted. The bile
! thereupon flows into the system, produc-
/ ing joundice or a disease analogous TO it
and finally death, unless the obstruction
works itself loose
! 1t is tine opinion Of the hospital surgeons
/ that this is what is the matter with WEIGH,
only in his case the flow of the bile into
/ the system has gone on very much longer
than in any previous case that they have
observed.
The hospital records show two previous
cases Of somewhat similar nature Both
( in Is suffering from jaundce. In each
/ case a gall stone was found to have become
| impacted in the gall duct The cC!5r of
these patients, however. was no darker
than that ordinarily found in cases Of
/ jaundice that Is to say. distinct yellow
ringe over all the body. 1t grew slightly
darker as the case went on, but was not at
any time dark enough to particularly at
tract attention
( Both Of thesecases ended fatally. In fact
there is scarcely any chance tor a patient
in such condition The doctors at the
hospital are doing their utmost TO save
Weich. hut they have not much hope
Nothing but an operation in all proba-
bility can remove the stone that has lodg.
ca in his gall duct. and an operation to a
point at such depth would be out of the
question. The present object of the doc
tors is to set up an sction that will clear
the system of the bile. but the fact that
Wech continues to grow darker is looked
upoa as evidence that be is not getting
better.
tie may nevertheless i've for weeks or
even months n ne mas Slreauy gone 50 M