The Nome nugget., 1904-02-03

passing worth Day after day and often through the long watches of the night he labored in that fetid atmosphere passing to every cot in turn seeming to know intuitively just what should be done at each unceasingly uncomplainingly and largely, under the terms of his contract, for humanitv's sake.
 Wha, mattersd, if his ponderous paws rem- niscent of Westphalia hams; their touch light to those lain-racked victims the of baby fingers, and while his feet shod for heavy noun tain climbing. the noise they made in walking only infrequent r the neighborhood of each fever-stricken comrade. Carrots genuine, felt by every inmate, and over and over again was heard that appreciative refrain: Thanks, Old Chap God bless you n'
 One morning. about six weeks after Carrots had been installed general nurse in the main ward, at time when all available room in the building was occupied by some unfortunate argonaut. and the plague at its height, young man, whose chart, pinned above his cot showed him to be Australian raving, and in paroxysms of frenzy, caused by acute attack of the maladv. Carrots always assigned to the extreme and difficult cases because he could handle them better than anyone elsy, had charge of this one At times it required the united strength of three to hold the athletic young fellow in his cot and his pleadings to be allowed to go, were pa
 
 of gold, and every minute he was detained gave others that much advantage. This fancy all ab sorbing and startngly real with the young man. and his efforts to free himself at the utmost of his desperate strength In these phases of the fever the great strength the cool head and infinite patience of Carrots invaluable. Succeeding in quieting his patient the nurse, although he had been duty continuously since o'clock the day previous and it wa ri he he nail . supporting brace the cot which had been almost ruinously racked during the morning strug- ges Proceeding with this work, he incautiously laid his hammer the medicine table by the cot within reach of the sick man, and was standing for mo- ment with his eyes turned in the opposite direction In flash the young Australian on his feet, and grasping the hammer in his hand, swung it high in the air, and in swinging stroke brought it down with terrific force the tufted head of Carrots The sudden and exertion the part of the pa tient caused apoplectic condition, and he fell simultaneously with the nurse, to the floor. With his own life scarcely in him. and despite the fact that his scalp gaping horribly his head, Car rots gathered up the prostrate tenderly he would have raised child, and laid him back on the cot where he administered such remedies to the pa tient, in the emergency, at hand. The parox- the pilgrim to the golden mecca had but few mo- ments of life remaining; the nurse still had one arm beneath him; he would not depart for a moment yet, and not until the huttering pulse still. Speak ing in abored and dazed way, the dying said: 'I had wonderful dream; thought I was seized by something and carried up high the clouds, there was caught between two mountains and crushed as thin as thread You were with me- too, nurse," and he laid his head against the shock of red beard above him. but instantly withdrew it, as he realized, in acme measure the revolting spectacle presented by the in- jured who, bending over him. "Ah, Car rots, you were hurt too ?" And these were his last words. Carrots folded the pulseess hands drew the red hecked sheet the pad face on the cot took up his hammer and sosmnly stalked to the surgeons office below.