The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1905-01-27


u wss fsrners1 sas e ths usachins
sheps II the railroad and b Eeeasea in
The center of the Russian settlement.
fhree and q half miIes from the brtek
walls Of Aukaen- During TIE sum
mer the doctor had Cor q hospital a
lama temple. whicA he had put into
good repair. II was q cool. pretty
place. with eourfyares crowded with
splendid trees. But after Llacyang,
when 10 was thought for awhile that Il
wsud be necessxry 20 retreat 10 Tie
Ing. the doctor IVES Obliged TO give M
temple end hiring his wounded
down 10 the new hospital In the old
machine shop. % that In case Of necss-
zffy his wounded could be readily put
on the ears and taken north
Since he came cut 10 Asnehnria In
June 1850 patients have passed
through DR. Butts hands OF this
number sixry were suffering from
wounds In the bead affecting the brain
Trepauning has been necessary in ev-
cry case Of shell wound. but bullet
wounds which extend quite through
the brain often heai without much
trouble. Shlmose shell wounds are the
worst to handle. as the fragments Of
the shell nangie and tear In frightful
fashion
Every available foot OF space In the
doctors hospital In covered with
wounded There are not enough cots TO
60 ground. and beds are made up on the
fooz 30 close together that there are
only narrow pathways for the doctors
and nurses to walk In On q Walt 90
the hospital the other day I found ave
japanese wounded being cared for
One Was shot through the bead. but
the doctor had removed n piece OF the
skuh and taken out the splinters and
otherwise operated on the wound -
that IL was healing nicely. and the pa
tient was sitting up IN bis bed. smoking
cigarettes and smiling. Two other jap
anese, one of whom had been shot
twice through the lungs and another
who had been bored through the intes-
tines by q bullet and stabbed a half
dozen times by bayonets In the de=per-
ate light for the fourteen guns cAptur-
ed by the Russians on the little hill to
the left Of the railroad. were both con-
valescent.
The little japanese were as well
cared for as the Russian prisoners and
looked quite contented- The doctor and
q Red Cross nurse meantime were busy
for more than half an hour giving soup
20 another poor little boy japanese
whose wound I'm the head had pro
dnced Iockjaw and who could Just bare
" open his mouth wide enough TO take
q little OF the soup that the nurse was
feeding TO him.
Sorry. awfuliy sorry" said the doc
tor when be Joined Us again. I've done
everything I could for that boy. but
I'm afraid I'm going to lose him. He's
q good boy. a brave. patient little soul
oh. war. war. war! It's horrible, horri-
ble-'
I watched the doctor that afternoon
as he unCiid some more Of the wantou
cruelty OF civilized warfare They
brought In to US q man. or. az least IL
was what was left OF q man A shI-
nose shell had almost done for him.
and there didn't seem TO be anything
but n tattered. bloody bundle left
Mans the same as dead" whispered
an assistant to me. Melody would
touch him hut Dr. ButL"
DIT. Butz did touch him. He worked
and worked and cut and sawed and
sewed up. IL seemed 90 me that he
took the man apart and laid the pieces
out on the table and tlnkerel up each
one and then put them all back know
I was terribly alarmed when the Op-
Grafton was about over for fear a
stomach or one Of the lungs or a heart
or something had fallen on the table
and been overlooked AMI the man
would get well aud ~ through life
minus one 81 these things
I never doubted hut that the man
would get well I know lie was hOrri-
hly mangieSi. But I know D-. Ru;z
tor I have the same CONFIDENCE in him
that every pcor tortured wounded msu
carried into his hospital has from the
moment the doctor drst lays BIS hands
on him l feel as muck ConedeuCs n
the doctor rs does a t'oSSiCk oiHCeT
who told NE that lie was going 10 tie
q card around his nsck ssyinS; that II
ever he got blown Into intniteslInal
fragments by a ShiE2Gse she'll Please
10 sweep up the pieCss into a cigar box
and mall 20 Dr. FuIx and that two
weeks afte: he got out % tie hospital
and returned 10 his regiment he would
send Il cheek for 4 hundrA1 rubieS %
the man who did the sweeping eN
pert the next tine so down 20 tA-
hospital 10 $40 the Ulzn I saw the do.
tor take apart and put together sitting
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who was shot through TIE heart