The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-17

even the poorest doll is an amending delight. Dr, Grenfell tells how once. in Montreal, he appealed to a school of 80 children for gifts of toys, and next morning was informed by tele- phone that the library was full and that youngsters were still arriving with other toys, and leaving s grail of dolls legs and arms along all the streets that led to the school. Out of this lot he was able to supply the entire coast, so far as the children could be reached: and the donors could desire no bet ter thanks than to witness the hap piness which even the least of these little toys brings to some poor little tGddler in an isolated hamlet on the dreary foreshore, where infant hands are set to toll almost ere the legs are strong enough to stand erect,
 However, Labrador has another winter aspect besides this, and it is that of the tragic accidents which at- tend any serious mishaps or ailment on coast line which had not d soli- tary civilizing influence until Dr. Gren- fell's advent 12 years ago. Human be- ings were born, met diease or accidents and paid natures last tribute, and un- tiL then were without any medical aid, Even now, though the physician traverses the coast from end to end once or twice every winter, journeys of at least 2OoO miles in the aggregate besides undertaking many shorter trips to nearby patients, he cannot att ltend to everybody, though the amount of human misery hegis able to allivi- at Is incalculable. Today it is a lt- tie boy, aged who while sliding down lag hill breaks his thigh in the middle and is dragged home by his comrades across the snow by his head and his sound leg. His father hurries 20 miles over the frozen wastes to sum- mon the doctor, who by the aid of chloroform and splints, the latter inn provised from a plank outside the door, which is brought in, scraped clear iof, ice, dried planed and then padded, and provides the facilities for his even- tlial recovery.
 From there he travels 50 miles to another point to sooth the last hours of Catholic priest dying from hemorrhage Just in time to ease his final pains and take his farewell mes sages to his family, hundreds of miles away, in their distant Newfoundland home, to coffin his body and decently inter It, and then a 60-mile journey in another direction has to be made to see a child suffering from a great sore which its mother could not heal though she had anointed 1t with deer marrow, bathed it in tansy water and rubbed 1t with sharks gall, local nos- trums believed to be of unfailing virtue. Ten miles further along and a 3-year-old boy with a club foot so bad that he trod on his outer ankle is met, and after much persuasion the parents are induced to allow the the chap to be conveyed to the hospital where in due time he is treated so suc- oessfully that he is able to walk we'll as any one, against the aftermath of. being a cripple for life on coast Where a man with all his physical or- ganism perfect finds 1t hard enough to make a livelihood.
 More grewsone, indeed, is the next incident. Travelling off to sick man on an outlying island the doctor is met at the foot of the cliffs by young man standing by the path patiently waiting to see him, and who took him to visit his aged mother, widow, liv- ing alone with her one boy, miles from any neighbor, and the only Protestant family within 50 miles. The complete Isolation In winter of the old woman's position could not be lessened very much even by the kindness of her .neighbors, seeing that there ever seems to be gulf fixed between brethren of the different faiths on these shores. Could you bear word" she said, Ion your rounds to Mr. Elliott to come on as soon as he can? He promised to come to bury my boy (another son. and now he has been lying dead in the house since December" (sx weeks be- fore). Mir. Elliott is Protestant fish erman who reads, the burial service most of his. creed who die on this coast, which is seldom visited by a Protest ant minister.--Ne York Tribune.