The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-15

4css where an eduylnS tide had kept IL open. The men with 1t. One disappear ed under the ice and was drowned. The other got free and held on to the Ice edge, though he was unable to crawl out on top of it. From the shore his sister saw the accident, and at once started to run over the ice to his aid. As she drew near she heard men shouting and saw they were pulling a boat down to the ice some distance a. way. They shouted to her. For Gods sake, don't go near the hole Instead Of stopping. she had the presence of mind to throw herself full length on the ice and glide along till she got near enough, with outstretched arms, to reach her brothers hand. Already he was half frozen to death. But she managed to get him up enough to rest on the ice near her, and then to lie perfectly still till the boat came, when she was at length taken off. One of her own legs was through the ice. The tough salt water ice fortunately does not split as the brittle fresh water ice does. Her brothers life was saved, and there the incident ended.
 Besides sailors and the. Esquimaus, my clientele includes some four to five thousand white settlers, scattered all along the coast of Labrador, from Cape Chidley te' the Gulf of St. Law renee, ahd along the north shores of Newfoundland. They have firm. be- lief in the healing. power of charms, the efficacy of which, of course, lies in faith. A stalwart, fisherman came aboard my little vessel one day holding his jaw, and stating that he was 'Well-nigh crazy with pain turned ; to the long row of forceps that hang in the chartroom, for we do our dentis- try on deck.
 -'' No, mo- doctor I want it charmed he said.
 ,." My good man, I don't charm peo- ple.'
 4" You can charm it, of course, if you l like he replied. ] Nothing I could say to the contrary would convince him., so I thought that a failure would clinch the argu- ment. Telling him to open his mouth. l proceeded to make an elaborate flourish, and then laid my finger on the offending molar. To my utter as- tonishment, and, I may almost say. ehagrin, he at once declared he was better. saw him again a week later. Then he assured me she's had ne'er ache since
 Late one evening a fisherman came of to our vessel, a shy sort offellow. He had tied his boat and seated him. self on the taffrail, where he had ap- parently been waiting full hour or more before I happened to go on deck to see what kind of a night it was, and stumbled against him.
 1 Are you doctor, sir?" he asked; T want bleeding, please, sir To ease his mind I called him below to ex- anime him. Finding, however, it was only case of impure blood, without any symptoms, and having no patience Ito spend time on nihilitis, I dismissed him unbled and turned in. "At daylight, when we rose to get under way, he was on board again, very dejected, and coming up to me offered me dollar to bleed him. A dollar cash on this coast is thing a
 man so seldom gets he never parts With 1t if he can help it. Evidently lit was best to bleed him, for his minds sake. So I did it.
 You see, sir he said while the opera squaw, she bled my feet good spell ago, and haven't had ne'er a pain since. So when they told me there was a doctor aboard I thought it was a good chance But he added, half re- gretfully, it didn't feel quite the same. She bored the holes with a kind b eerkscrew.'
 "on one occasion, when I was visit ing an Esquiniau fishing station, the head man announced that I would see tthe patients in his hut I seated my self in the middle of the tiny hut, with a butter tub for throne, while every inch of spare room around the tiny space reserved for the patient of the moment was crowded with all the adult Esquimaus that could get in. Curiosity is as marked in these little people as it is in monkeys. It came at last to the turn of a girl with an Eintractable frostbite of the toe, for which the only cure was amputation. Apparently 1t was proud moment in her life. Having explained as best I