Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-06
SIX INCHES OF TWINE.
1t Stopped an Obstinate Nose-Bleed Ply
sician Could Not Stop.

sician Could Not Stop.
Pretty soon after the morning train
on the Consolidated road pulled out Of
New London Station the other day
westward bound, the conductor bolted
through the drawing room car door
and asked: "Is there physician in
this car ?"
All the passengers gazed at tall
man who laid down his paper, spoke
to the conductor, and went out with
him a minute later. Twenty minutes
after, when the conductor came in
view, every passenger asked him the
same question, and in reply he said
"Oh, it's man in the smoker. He's
got nose e-bleed-nasal he;norrhage, the
doctor calls it. His nose has been
bleeding ever since we left East Green
wich, and it hasn't stopped yet"
"What is the doctor doing 70 2' in,
quired man.
"He has just put in a tampon, and
we've all pooled in our handkerchief
for the poor fellow. He is getting aw-
fully white and weak"
In one of the rear chairs of the car
sat a young woman who had flushed
and paled at rapid intervals as the con-
ductor talked, and when she finally
beckoned to him, he quickly moved to
her side.
81 think 1 know something to stop
the nose-bleed. l never kney it to
fall" she timidly asserted, "but maybe
I ought not to suggest it if the gentle
man is in the doctors care"
"The doctor is about getting discour-
aged, and the packing in the mans
nose don't seem to staunch to flow at
all. If you know anything | guess
everybody would thank you to tell it"
A few moments later the conductor
took the young woman into the smoker
at the physicians request. The medi-
cal man said: "Pardon me, but if you
have any knowledge of remedy to
stop nasal hemorrhage, both this pa
tient and I would be intensely grateful
to you"
"Have you piece of twine-ordi-
nary wrapping twine?" said the girl.
Off from bundle quickly came a
piece. The girl took it, asked the
loan of knife, ard, cutting a piece OF
the twine about six inches in length,
tied it very tightly around the little
finger of the left hand of the man with
the nose-bleed. Then she asked the
conductor to escort her back to her
car.
1t was not five minutes later when
the doctor came through the car-door
and went straight to the place where
the young woman sat. She was busily
engaged in reading a magazine, but
looked up as he spoke to her.
"Your remedy has been perfectly
successful" he said, and asked per-
mission to take a vacant chair near
her.
at is strange" he continued, chow
many times in physicians life he
finds all his acquired science useless
before the common sense of some non
professional person. Why 1 might
have known, if had only stopped to
think, that your remedy couldn't fail.
"Just as soon as you began tying
that string around the little finger,
l knew it would stop the bleeding, and
it could not have done otherwise. Of
course you know the scientific reason
for 1.-THE fact of the arteries passing
through the little finger, and all about
that ?"
"No," she said, ~ only know my
grandmother told mother of it, and
she told me. l am teacher, and
quite often in the first warm days in
spring the little children in my de-
partment in school have nose bleed.
l always get some twine from the
boys pockets and tie it tightly around
the little finger of the child and it has
never failed to stop the flow"
| was in down town restaurant that
evening when the physician was tell.
ing the story, and he said at the end
of it: "She was a devilish pretty
young woman, with a mouth that said
all the time kiss me ~ and eyes that
said no man ever had or would but
her sweetheart-when she had one. -
New York Recorder.