New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-12

to the ice edge though he was unable to crawl
the accident and at once started to run over the
ice TO his aid. AS she drew she heard men
to the Ice some distance away. They shouted to
her For Gods sake don't go near the ho of MIND
to throw herself full length the ice ana gnoe
arms to reach her brothers. hand. Already he was
half frozen to death. But she managed to get MN
lie perfectly still till the boat came. when she was
e the taken e Te tough ne OF salt water ice
nately does not spit as the brittle Ir d fheTe
the incident ended. ,,..,o
Besides sailors and the Esquimaus my clientele
includes some four to five thousand white settlers.
scattered an along the Gpasf 81 taSae e0ce end
aaDg fhe 9Srtb shores Of Ne%foundand They
have a firm belief in the healing power OF charms
stalwart fisherman aboard my little yesseI one
day holding his jaw and stating that ne was vel
Of forceDs that hang in the chartroom' Tor we DO
No. no doctor; / only want it charmed he
SAD NV good man. don't charm people
You can charm it, of course. II you Ike ne
Nothing could say to the contrary would CON
vince him SO I thought that failure would clncn
1ne fo make am elaborate flourish and
laid my finger the offending moiar 10 my utter
at once declared he better. ! saw him again
week later. Then he assured me she's had ne er
Late one evening a fisherman came off to our
and seated himself on the taffrail. where he had
apparently been waiting full hour or more pc
fore happened to so up on deck to see What Klnd
Of a night it was. and stumbled against him
Are you a doctor sir?' he asked; I want peed-
TO examine him. Finding, however, 1t was only a
case of impure blood, without any symptoms and
having no patience to spend time on nihilits, dis
missed him unbled and turned in.
AT daylight, when we rose to get under way. ne
board again. very detected ana coming up
TO me offered dollar TO bleed him. a dollar
cash on this coast is thing man so seldom gets
he never parts with it if he can help it Evidently
I did it. You see, SIR he said, while the opera
my feet a good spell ago, and ] haven't had ne FER
a pain since. So when they told me there was
doctor aboard thought IT was a good cnahce
But he added half regretfully, it didn't feel quite
the same. She bored the holes with kind o cork
ION one occasion when was visiting Esquimau
fishing station the head man announced that l
would the patients in his hut. ! seated myself
in the middle of the tiny hut, with butter rub for
throne while every inch OF spare room around enf
crowded with all the adult Espuimaus that
people as II is In monkeys II came at last TO the turn
of girl with an intractable frostbite of the toe,
for which the only cure amputation. Apparent
ly it was proud moment in her life Having ex-
planned best ] could the treatment her case
right down and held up the toe which gave her a
claim to so much attention, indicating that she
greatest interest from start to finish and left her
a marked person in that settlement. ESquimaus al
II anchored at dark one day under the shelter
Of g9Gg Of R iSa9fs nst as s gp9ng
a voice sang out to know if there was a doctor on
Ocsf What do you want with doctor?
=" There's a woman very sick ashore, sir Could
YOU come and see her.?
he had guessed my identity from my voice I went
ashore and found the mother Of a small family
as a Psoas abscess. In this case the treatment
involved opening through the muscles n the
eo+h the difference being the lessening OF ner e,1f
ferings She insisted on taking the chance and en-