Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-07-25


were gone and the supply of food for
myself and the dogs. 1t looked as if
it was all up with all of us, because
the foe rapidly out to sea. And the
temperature was falling fast. My
clothing was soaked.
$50 took off my skin boots and cut
them in halves. These halves 1
strapped to my chest and back
1.-The wind and cold increased as the
night came on, and I could see the
dogs were growing ravenous. When
they are that way they are what their
ancestors were, nothing better than
wolves. They were yelping for food
and l knew it was only a question of
time before they would attack me-
''It felt like murder, but 1 killed
three of my largest dogs. 1 stripped
them of their skins while the rest of
the pack kept aloof, snarling and
yelping. Finally the braveSt of them
came after me, but l was able to fight
them off until 1 could skin the three
dead dogs. Then 1 threw the meat to
the survivors and kept the skins to
wrap about myself.
when morning came 1 saw the ice
was rapidly drifting from shore. 1 had
nothing to put as a mast on which l
could swing out a signal of distress
until 1 thought myself of the bones of
the legs of the dead dogs.
These 1 managed to splice together.
From the top of the pole flung out a
piece of my shirt. 1t was seen by
George Reid and some of his men of
Locke's Cove and they came out in a
boat and took me off !"
Tor II years DR.. Grenfell has been
i working there among the fisher
folks or anybody else that needed his
services. He has had two hospital
ships lost in the treacherous ice and
now he has a third. But very often
when he gets a call miles away the
ship is powerless to reach the patient
and he goes over the ice with his pack
| of dogs.
| Already he has established three
land hospitals in Labrador, % loan
| libraries, an Industrial school and half
a dozen cooperative stores. He has
seen to it that wireless telegraphy is
installed on land as well as on the
fishing boats This gives him many
chances to answer calls which cost
| nothing.
Occasionally DIR. Grenfell comes tc
New York to tell of his work He has
interested Andrew Carnegie and Rev
DR.. Henry Van Dyke. They send as
many footballs as Bibles to the Arctic
but chiefest of all are the medicines
and surgical appliances.
1T is queer doctoring," laughed DIR
Grenfel1 when last he was here. 81
have Canadian and Newfoundland
fishermen among my patients, as vel
as American, Scandinavian and British
sailors, whalers of nearly all nation
alities, and Indians and Esquimaux
Some of the diseases they spring or
me would puzzle the best of special
ists- Why, only last winter they called
on me to care for shipload of beri
beri. 1t cleaned out the whole vesse
EVERY one of them had it,
SSTHE Indians and Esquimaux of the
frozen north are gradually dying
on because of the disappearance OF
| the great forests This drives away
the caribou, which means starvation
for the Indians. With the Esquimau,
| it is disease, brought by contact with
the white men, We white people are
immune against many diseases, bul
when they strike the Esquimaux the
germs light on virgin soil. For en-
ample, white sailor brought a sim
pie case of influenza into an Esqui
maux village of 800 souls Before 4