The Nome nugget., 1904-02-03

stricken mining camp where now the city of Skagway is nestled among the surrounding noun tains "but there is one to go along" he conclud ed, and stood waiting for some solution of the prob lem. To be more accurate than the attendant it should be explained that Mo- 13 had moved-had departed from the living and of the dead that the body of him who had occupied cot No. l3 for few derious days was ready to be taken to the tery among the rocks and snow ,he hillside
 It had been frequent journey from that rendez vous of suffering and death, and every assistant, nurse and attendant doing double duty in and about the place. and some of them Nearlv as ill as those who were moaning from cots in the big wards above. Ask that gentleman who Is passing to step in," requested the manager, and in a few ments an unkempt, ludicrousy grotesque individual stood in the hospital office.
 Have you any employment on hand?' he was asked. "Nothing particular he said "Would you accept commission in general utility work about this institution, largely for humanity's sake and partly for cash?" he was asked. "Don't care" was his somewhat ambiguous assent. His taken, and he instructed to proceed with the driver of the improvsed hearse to the cemetery and bury No. 13. And such was the introduction of Carrots into the big orguehospta of the pest;lence smiten, nondescript city of 'y7-9S. Carrots" of
 
 by everyone and he seemed to like that name as well any other other would have been so ap- propriate. His bellicose hair was of pale yellow and his bushy beard deepened into dull magenta glow His dress selected, doubt, with eye to the harmonies, and consisted of yellow sweater and trousers with large red shoes ending the symphony But it not time for inica exceptions; in truth it most serious time, and Carrots or anyone else might have pitched the ludicrous to the top of the scale and no note of merriment would have fol- lowed. Death always uncanny and awesome to those not dying assumes more fearful aspect when he lays his fateful finger upon community and strikes down the strongest without notice The work in the sick wards exacting and nerve-destroy ing that 1t was with the utmost difficulty that sufi cent nurses could be obtained. In respects the situation like that when "A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Agiers" yet it not entirely the same, for here there were many women who offered their services nurses, and some of the most efi- cient, without remuneration.
 It was in the days of the mad scramble of men, of all countries and nations to the goldfelds of the interior, and the dominant passion of selishness perched high above considerations of philanthropy few men and women there who would lift fallen comrade from the wayside and administer to his great necessities, but these few taxed and inadequate to cope with the malady that had fallen upon the of pilgrims that was strug- gling it's difficult way the pass to the Yukon valley. Men brought back from the mountain trail by scores, and thrown into the hos pita than their comrades partners would push on leaving the afflicted and dying to be cared for and buried by strangers. So it that anyone who could administer cup of cold water to fevercracksd throats, apply cold compress to burning brow, a ministering angel indeed. Here it was that the uncouth Carrots to an altitude of heroism that imperishably fixed his genius in altrusm and evidenced paystreak beneath his yellow vest of sur