The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-25

D ined to travel alone entirely to avoid any more narrow escapes and delays.
 Arrives at Nome,
 After two years Of nursing, doctor ing and studying In Dawson City with out any nearer approach to the gold mine of my dreams, I determined to reach Nome at any cost and look about. was going to open q restau- rant there but upon arriving in tho mining city found that many others before me had ventured upon the same business with utter failure, so the idea was abandoned. i had no money and must have food and -sheItek.
 "rhe men In the mining camps of the Klohdike and Nome are rough, but good-hearted on the whole They have little respect for women. because. with the exception of the wives of the miners, the female inhabitants of that country are low, common and soon de- generate into creatures scarcely better than beasts. kept entirely aioof from them.
 "At this point Tn my expepience l heard the miners talking about q sick man In q camp down by thk water, so made up my mind to see him and do what could to nurse him back to health. The poor lad. whom I found lying in water-soaked blankets. with boots and clothing damp and soggy. was suffering from pneumonia. His partner had done All he could. but he had no knowledge of medicine They needed a womAn's help. Together we pulled the boy through the siege and to show their gratitude they offered me partnership in a claim they had just staked out on the Eldorado, sixty miles from Nome. If 1t pans out, they said. 'there'll be plenty for three, and if 1t deesn't--well,. It's just the ehanee every miner takes
 Her Golden Opportunity.
 Here was my golden opportunity. and, backed by the spirit doctor, there seemed every chance for striking 1t rich. Summer had just begun, so the three of us Journeyed to our claim on the Eldorado and put up temporary tents. The first months were easy. and we got the mine working in good shape. Meanwhile winter was comine on. Snow piled up around us and blix- gard succeeded blizzard. It was the hardest winter during the seven years I spent in the KlOndike. For days we had nothing to eat Then between blizzards. when the snow would stop falling so that could venture out without freezing to death, would go down to the water and fish for tom- cod in the Joe hole. Sometimes the fish would bite, and again I could not get so much as a fIbbie. When this source of food proved a failure l was reduced to desperation. Time and time again the fierce wind blew our chimney down, filling the tent with suffocatlng smoke, and then i would run to the neighbors implOring help. Relief always came. howevef. in one form or another. Once l covered u lot of frozen potatoes which someone had thrown away, marking the spot. and went back at night and gathered them in. These Kept us alive for sev- era1 days.
 More MysterfOus Aid.
 "Why didn't l call on my spirit friend? I did, and he never failed to respond. I lent him occasionally 10 my partners, and more than once they owed their lives to him.
 one otthem set out on a long snows shoe Journey, and as he started from the cabin felt a premonition Of dan ger. so offered him the protection of my spirit doctor. I knew his disbe- lief in the supernatural guard an, but bade the doctor accompany him and said in the last extremity my partner must remember that the little West Indian could be relied on. My com- rade protested and started off
 All day I missed the unseen com panion ship of the doctor but felt that he was with my friend, so made the best of my lonesome vigil The res- cue of my friend may sound incredu- lous. but it was told by him, and he Is as great 0 seoffer at spirit aid as anyone. When he had travelled part of the distance his, snowshoe snapped and there he was helpless intthe deep snow. IT emade several attempts to fasten the broken shoe together with