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DR. GRENFELL A
REAL HERO OF
THE
FACTS ABOUT DR. GRENFELL.
Graduated from Oxford uni
versity, 1880, and from the medi
cal department, London university,
1800.
Began his life work on a mission-boat
of tho deep sea trawling
licet, 1S91.
Wont to Labrador to carry tlio
Gospel to the deep sea flsliera In
1S99.
He reaches 20,000 flHhormon on
the coasts of Labrador every year.
Ho got from Andrew Carnegie
30 portable libraries to assist him
In Ills work.
Ho hns started a series of co
operative stores In tlio north.
He operates on patients any
where, wherever called, without
charge.
Ho carries his other and Instru
ments In one pocket and his Mb a
In tlio other.
Ho raises $12,000 in Now York
every year for his work.
fOW ho did It. Dr. Wilfred Gron-
fell, tlio Arctic missionary phy
slclnn, enn hardly tell. Hut ho
did and ho Is safe homo again
now after an experience that would
havo ended In the death of nlnety-nlno
men out of a hundred.
Out In the Ice pack, surrounded by n
pack or eight hunger-mnddened dogs,
lighting him for their lives as hnrd
as ho was fighting thorn for his ho
had to faco them alono In a tempera-
turo ton degrees below zero. How ho
survived Is a nine days' wonder even
up In frozon Labrador, whoro men bat
tle 3fiG dayB a year to wrest a living
from forbidding nature.
And when ho had conquered tlio
dogs ho still had tlio olemeuts as his
deadlier foo.
( Dr. Grenfell lends a strango life
He has dovoted himself and his life
to the Esquimaux and the natives of
'Labrador deep sea fishers all. Ho Is
.their doctor, missionary, friend.
graduato of Oxford, ho haH choson that
Iniost barron spot In North America
.as one whoro he may do sonio good In
'the world.
His headquarters ho ninkos at Bat
itlo Harbor. Labrador. From there, as
u bneo of supplies, ho makoB trips of
hundreds of miles Into tlio frozen
north, carrying his surgical Instru
nients nnd his medicines along with
his Illblo and his great good cheer, to
Bay nothing of his books nnd His foot
brills. Until Dr. Grenfell went to
Labrador men and women lived ami
died without as much us ever scolng
a doctor, much los3 having his serv
Ices. Ho has had many adventures
but this is the story of his latest:
HAD left Bnttlo Harbor," ho said
i "t
mllos away In a llttlo settlement across
the Ice pack. It was bitterly cold
tho thermometer showed It to bo ton
degrees below zero. I was travollng
over tho lco with my pack of dogs
whon 1 found I was being carried
away from tho coast by tho moving Ico
Hold. Iloforo I realized it I was
lloundorlng In broken drift Ico, and be
foro I could stop tho dogs wo wero all
In tlio freezing water.
"They, of course, know no law ex
cept Belf-iireservatlon. Thoy tried to
save thomsolves by climbing up on my
shoulders. I had to light them back
before I could clamber to safety on a
'pleco of solid drift Ice. Then the
Jdoga had to save thomsolvos. Ono by
ono thoy scrambled, up on tho Ico
i floo besldo mo.
m urn
1 V;1WM&1 li
FAR NORTH
"I had lost overthlng. My robes
wero gono and tlio supply of food for
myself and the dogs. It looked as If
It was all up with all of us, because a
gale from tlio northwest was driving
the Iloo rapidly out to sea. And tlio
temperature was falling fast. My
clothing was soaked.
"So I took off my skin boots and cut
them In halves. Those halves I
strappod to my chest and back.
"Tlio wind and cold Increased as the
night enmo on, nnd I could sco tho
dogB wero growing ravenous. When
they aro that way they aro what their
ancestors were, nothing better than
wolves. Thoy wero yelping for food
and 1 knew It wns only a question of
time before they would attack me.
"It felt Uko murder, but I killed
three of my largest dogs. I stripped
them of their skins whllo tho rest of
tho pack kept aloof, sunrllng and
yelping. Finally tho bravest of them
camo after me, but I was able to light
them off until I could skin tho three1
dead dogs. Then I throw tho meat to
the survivors and kopt tho skins to
wrap about myself.
"When morning camo I saw tho Ice
-wns rapidly drifting from shore. I had
nothing to put as a mast on which I
could swing out n signal of distress
until I thought myself of tho bones of
tho logs of the dead dogs.
"These I managed to spllco together.
Krom tho top of tho polo I Hung out n
plcco of my shirt. It was soon by
George Held and some of his men off
Locke's Cove and they camo out In a
boat and took me off."
Fw
OR 17 ycitrs Dr. Grenfell has linen
orklng thero nmong the fisher-
folks or nnybody olso that needed his
services. Ho has hud two hospital
ships lost In tho treacherous Ico and
now ho hns a third. Hut very often
whon ho gets a call miles away tho
ship Is powerless to reach tho patient
and ho goes over tho Ico with IiIb pack
of dogs.
Already ho 'has established three
land hospitals In Lnbrndor, 23 loan
libraries, nn industrial school and half
a dozen co-operative stores. Ho haB
seen to it that wireless telegraphy Is
Installed on land as well ns on tho
fishing boats. This gives him many
chances to nnswer calls which cost
nothing. ,
Occasionally Dr. Grenfell comes to
Now York to tell of his work. Ho has
Interested Andrew Carnegie and Uov.
Dr. Honry Van Dyke. Thoy solid ns
many footballs ns Bibles to tho Arctic,
but chlefest of all nro tho medicines
nnd surgical npplianccs.
"It Is queer doctoring," laughed Dr.
Gronfell when last ho was hore. "I
havo Canadian nnd Newfoundland
llsltermon among my patients, as well
as American, Scandinavian and British
sailors, whalers of nearly all nation
alities, and Indians and Esquimaux.
Some of tho diseases they spring on
mo would puzzle tho best of special-
lata. Why, only lust winter they callod
on mo to caro for a shipload of boil-
berl. It cleaned out tho whole vessel
every one of them had It.
TpHK Indians and Esquimaux of tlio
A frozen north aro gradually dying
off becauao of tho disappearanco of
tho Kroat forests. . This drives away
the caribou, which moans starvation
for the Indians. With tho Esquimaux
It is disease, brought by contact with
tho white men. Wo white people are
Immune against ninny diseases, but
when thoy strlko tho Esqulmnux tho
Bonus light on virgin soli. For ox
ampin, a whlto sailor brought a aim
pin caso of influenza Into an Esqui
maux village of 300 souls, Before it
ran Its course 11 of the nntlvcs wero
dead.
"The Esquimaux up hero aro nil
Christians tho Moravian missionaries
converted thorn years ago. Christianity
is a saving Influonco for them; thoy
would havo been oxtlnct long ago from
tho vices which rollow trado. As it
Is, their number decreases with every
decade. They nro now Installing tho
wireless nil the way up the Labrador
coast. It Is nlroady as "far north ns
Hello Isle, which has summer connec
tions with tho mainland nnd tho world.
Wlroloss litis now been put 200 miles
nearer the pole thnn It ever was be
fore. It is of great assistance In my
work: It puts mo within cnll whon
t there Is an epidemic or n serious case.
I "Wo havo found tho wireless n great
help to tho llshlng Industry, which Is
I what our pooplo live upon. Tho run
; nlng of the ilsh Is uncertain and when
one ship strikes the Ilsh It can sum
mon tho entire llcot.
"Wo aro gradually getting tho na
tives to llvo a proper life. Liquor has
crept In among them, mid has given
! us trouble. It Is not an essential in
cold latitudes for physical well being.
1 can toll when liquor has seized hold
of a place as easily as I can toll im epi
demic of diphtheria or borl-bori. Per
sonally I remain a teetotaller.
' itWTH havo many cyo-dlseases In tho
TV frozen north, duo chiefly to tho
glare of tho sun on the Ico and snow.
The groat white plaguo Is creeping l'
upon us, too. Hut Labrador Is still al
most germloss. Wo can perform op
erations out In the open nlmost as
easily as thoy do In tho marble lined
operating rooms In Now York.
"We wenr dressed rolndeer Bklna for
clothos, nnd tho lighter nnd softer tho
garment Is tho warmer It Is. ou
could almost put your overcoat In your
pocket. With the thermometer nt 20
and 80 below zero, with your bread
and condensed milk frozen, your but
ter no good, thon's the tlmo for fat
pork It Is ncctnr! You can never
understand It till you llvo in tho
frozen north.
"There aro more foot In Labrador
than shoes nnd wo are often called
upon to amputate frozen limbs, not
only of men but women nnd children.
I remember ono case that shows wo
havo no creed In tho Arctic. Tho
wife of a Roman Catholic had n frozen
leg amputated and l was called upon
to supply an artificial limb. I had ono
In Btock, and aftor I had given It to
tho patient 1 learned Its history. It
had belonged to n llaptlst soldier who
lost his leg In the civil war lighting
for the union. His wife was a ProBby
terlan, but. when ho died she gave It
to an Episcopalian cripple. It worked
around to my mission In n dovlous
way and I gavo It to tho Homnn Cath
ollc."
Now just a little about this man who
works away In tho Arctic that tho poor
creatures who dwell there mny havo a
little light and comfort in their frozen
lives.
"It I wero asked to nnmo tho most
useful man on tho North American
continent to-day, tho man who most
nearly approaches tho heroic Ideal, I
think 1 should nnmo Dr. Grenfoll," said
Lord Strathcomi of Canada not long
ago.
THE man ho was 'talking about Is
just n plain, weather-beaten, self
deprecatory doctor, who 1b living his
llfo Just where he thinks ho can do
tho most good. Ho Is a captain of In
dustry under God!
Don't think for a moment that ho
la a Boft-spokon, smug country parson
no, Indeed! Ho can play a gamo of
football with tho best of them, and ho
Battle Harbor, Labrador, Showing Two
to th
can amputate a frozen limb, sot u
broken bone or euro for a desperate
pnoumonla caso. Ho can also put up
a pretty good fight against tho wrong
kind or men, Just ns well as ho put up
his fight against the hungry dogs.
Ho Is a robust, doopchosted, jolly
sort of a fellow. Ho loves adventure.
Ilo'd rathor set u broken shoulder a
thousand miles away from civilization
than preside over a well-ordered op
erntlon In a city hospital. Thoy never
know what a surgeon was up In Lubra-
dor until he went thoro to muko It his
i llfo work, lie Is known now from tho
I Arctic clrclo down to where real civil
izatlon begins. If ho knows ho la
neodoU ho will take uny chnnco this
doctor who carrlos his Iauuotu in ono
hand, his ether In the other and his
Hlblo in his pockot. And If tho opera
tion la a success ho may bo crowding
a football or a lmsobnll and bat upon
his patient aa soon as ho Is able to get
about. Ho may also hand him u tract.
S.ono English newpapor said of Dr,
ronfell: "Ho Is a Burgeon, a
master manner, n magistrate, an
agent f Lloyds In running down the
rascuU who wreck tholr vessels foi
tho Insurance, a mnnnner of a string
of co-operative stores, a koiiqi-u) oppo
nent of till fraud and oppression.
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"Hp ran amputate a leg, contract
the walls of n pleuritic lung by short
pnlng the ribs, or cure with tho nld of
modem methods nnd homo-inado an
pllanres a man suffering with cortaln
forms of paralysis; a hundred miles
from n shipyard, ho can rnlso tho
stern of his llttlo steanior out of wa-
tor by tho rough application of tho
principles of hydraulics and mend her
propeller; ho can handle dynnmlto and
blnst an excavation under ono of his
hospital buildings In which to plnco n
heating apparatus; ho can start a
lumber mill and tench tho inhabitants
of lonely Labrador not only how to
handlo n saw but how to soli the
product na n living wngo."
Dr. Oronfell roaches 10,000 people
every year. Ho found an lmbecllo
girl bound In harness nnd ho rescued
her. He stamped out smallpox In n
Dr. Grcnfcll's Ship,
llshlng llcot. lUi hns operated out at
sea on board n tossing smack on two
men who were doomed to death had
he not como nlong with his merciful
other and his Intelligent knlfo.
Dr. Grenfell Is u grndunto of Christ
college, Oxford, and of the medical de
partment of London university. Ho
began his medical missionary work on
board a hospital boat of the North
Sea llcot. Ho was sent to Labrador
for a vacation nnd ho has been there
over' since. Krom tho Now York
World.
CHILD AND THE RATTLESNAKE.
The Little One Played with Death,
Dut Knew It Not.
The child Haw tho Beautiful Death
that lay In tho Bunshlno on tho odgo
of tho bending grass; ho had novor
been afraid of nnythlng; ho was not
afraid of tho unako. Ho stretched out
his llttlo rosy amiB townrd It and
laughed and gurgled. Tho snako
shortened IiIb coll. and In IiIb IiIbb now
thero was menace. Tho last rayB of
tho sun shono on tho head of tho rep
tile: they seemed to light up all his
ovll fcaturos. They showed that his
ovos had a touch of red la them and
wero lustful; thoy showod a flock of
dried blood, not his own, on tho cruol
curve of tho Hp; thoy Bhowod tho
spreading nostrils and tho Jiiwb of
Iron. Hut tho child could sco nono of
those things; for tTio child know noth
Ing of liiBt, of cruelty, of blood. Ho
rolled over on his Btomach and, taking
hold on tho grass, pulled himself play
fully toward tho snako; hu touched the
monster's cold head with his llttlo
warm flngors. And not ovou then did
tho Handed Death strike tho child's
touch was ii caress; In tho child's faco
and voice was neither hatred nor fear.
Then tho rattlesnako glided slowly
out of his coll and disappeared In tho
grass by the fence. And tho mother,
Buildings of'the Deep Sea Hospital
e Left.
coming up, found her llttlo boy talking
faithfully though sleoplly to his toes.
That night, after tho child had been
tucked In his crib, tho mother and fa
ther sat on tho porch by the open door
nnd planned for tholr boy's future.
Then sho told him of her afternoon
trip; of how good tho little boy had
buen; of tho quiet snfty of tho green
fields; of tho sunset over tho plnos.
And as her lovo for their child and for
111 in thrilled In her voice ho bent near
and kissed her tenderly, for they wore
lovers for nil time. And nono of thorn,
not oven tho child, over know how
near the Bunded Death had passed,
That night, fur up in tho dim and
silent plno woods, the rattler found his
old den and his mate. Why had ho
not struck tho child? It Is n mystery.
Archibald Hutlcdgo, hi Outing Maga
zine.
Corn Long a Kansas Crop,
The earliest mention of corn In
what la now Kansas Is found lu tho
account of Coronado's expedition lu
1541-42. Prof. Wllllstou found chnrrod
corn in tho ruins of prehistoric In
dian pueblos lu Scott county, esti
mated by him to bo at least 2 cen
turies old. Bourgmont found tho Knw
uidlaus cultivating corn on tho pres
ent town slto of Doniphan In 1721.
The Wakening
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By Stanley
aitwiiii'iiiijiitiiiiit'iiwiii''wm'""
(Copyrlsht, by BluirUtory Pub. Co.)
Twenty yoars ago nobody went to
i
Wlldwood, and yet. 20 years ago, Its I
tnountnlns wore ns picturesque, Its
sunsets as gorgeous, the white moon
light, streaming through tho tops of
Its tall, dark pines, wiib as glorious
and lmproBBlvo ns to day. Hut now,
from an unknown cross-roads, It has
become ono of the moBt noted and Im
portant places on tho Whlto Mountain
map of summer travel. Tho llttlo
placn that slumbered Is hounding with
llfo. From tho llrsdny of July to the
urn wook or uctoucr, ovory year,
more baggage Is handled at Wlldwood
Junction In a single day than hud en
tered tho township In the whole
course of Us existence prior to Its
awakening. And Its awakonliiK wns
brought about by tho Kront transform
er, Death. This Is how It camo to
pirns:
In tho "boBt room" of tho lonoly
hillside farmhouse of Abraham Jen
kins n room Boltlom opened nxeopt to
the minister nnd book agents wore
assembled.' ono November day, tho
clans of tho Jenkinses nnd Perkinses,
to nttend the fnnornl of tho Into Mar
tha Perkins Jenkins, tho farmer's wlfo.
A stalwart son, the eldest of a family
of nine children, had, after Abraham
himself, given voluble testimony to
their high appreciation of tho depart
ed. The leanest of n covey of muldon
sisters of tho deconsed took the wit!
owor asldo nnd said: "1 only hope she
knows how yo'r feolln' for hor; It
would be n good bit satlsfyln' to hor,
I'm sure. Sho noz to mo once, nor
she, 'Ef 1 go, I know that Abo'll marry
some young thing that nnvor'll tek no
Interest In the young nuos, and thoy 11
bo loft tor Bhirt.' Hut yo wouldn't do
1in umiM vo Alio?"
Disregarding this pointed nppoal,
Abraham Jenkins cleared Ills throat
and addressed tho assembled com
pany: "I've Jest decided tor loll ye, H'long '
yor all here, that I've sort o' foil oz
of I sh'd follor hor Boon. So 1'vo
bought u lot In tho graveyard to bo
paid for In Instalments nnd whon 1
die I want yer tor put mo by tho Bldu
of Marthy. Thon 1 shell rctit In ponce.
Thorn's my final Instructions." Turn
ing to tho ninldon Bistort) of his la
mented wlfo, ho added: "I know yo'll
tek good enro o' them thai- youngsters
that Mnrthy sot so much store by.
Thon ho broko down and Bobbed wild
ly, "Oh, Marthy, Marthy, why hev yo
gono;
Four montliB after tho funeral an
other Mra. Abraham Jenkins wub In
stalled In tho lonely farmhouse, and
Bho wns all that tho first Alts. Jenkins
had foroboded. Young and frisky,
pretty Matilda Biico had attracted
Abraham Jenkins at a Grungo soda
bio, and his mourning had ceased from
that moment.
That there should bo great ludlgnii
Hon nmong tho Jonklnsoa nnd more or
less astonishment In tho community-
nt-lurgo was a matter of course, but it
was sonio months after the wedding
of tho widower beforo a marblo Blab
mysteriously appeared In tho now
Jenkins lot In the village cemetory,
bearing tho following Inscription:
Tho first Btrangor to notice tho od
dity of this bit of mortuary sculpture
wns a touring bicyclist. What could
it mean, ho wondered. -The sexton,
whom ho happened to cntch on the
premises, denied all knowlodgo of tho
significance of the- Inscription, hut ho
grinned. Tho bicyclist wnB followed
not long aftorwarda by a visitor In
buggy. Soon tlio country bwiiIiih, with
their companions, drove from places
25 miles away to read and ponder
upon the strange Inscription.. Picnic
parties camo and gazed upon It nnd
after eating luncheon In tho grovo of
tall pines now known as Wlldwood
went away to spread the lutelllgouce
of the peculiar monument In Wild
wood coinotery and extol tho charms
of the neighborhood.
The years sped swiftly by, and bits
of moss and lichen gnthorcd In tho
deeper lines of tho en'rved Index and
clung to the angles of tho sculptured
letters, but an Increasing army of vis
Horn noted that the traces of tlmo and
decay wero periodically cleaned uwny
by unseen bunds. The seasons passed
WASN'T
MEWASIYMWE
Visitor Look on tho bright sldo, ok' man. Alt?iough you're laid up,
your wlfo is all devotion to you.
Crabbod Old Grouch Yes. confound H; I don't know wlmt'B nllluu her.
of
Wildwood
E, Johnson
ench bringing now curloslty-sookera
from a wider radlim to behold tho In-
explicable legend and oxorclBo their
ingenuity upon Its interpretation.
Summer bonrdora began to como from
Now York nnd Boston, and tourists
from tho south nnd tho lint, treeless
regions of tho inlddlo west, to whom
the towering poaka nnd denso, sweet
smelling woods wero as lnflplrlng ns
they wero unfamillnr.
Then, to the amazement of every
body, whon Abraham Jenkins became
a widower for a second time, tho lone
ly nlnb wns discovered to have n com
panion on the opposlto side of tho
family lot. It was thus Inscribed :
He was Mine
This second dnzsllng gravestone ap
peared one day In March. Before tho
season wna over Wlldwood hul mllt
Its first summer hotel nnd phthiied and
subscribed tlio capital for the narrow
bhiiro branch around Swallow Hill to
connect with Ihe railroad nt what Is
now Wlldwood Junction.
The now road had hardly boon run
nlng two aeneous when Abraham Jen
kins, whlto-lmlred toltorlng, fol
lowed his second w to tho grave
yard to which, alter his funeral, all
eyos were again turned, Among the
townspeople It had nlwaya been sus
pected that tho first slab was put up
by tho Porklnses and the second with
money left by tho consort who had
boon Matilda Hrlce. Thoso conjec
tures wore conllrmod whon tho will of
iMiruham Jenkins wiib rend and a
gravestoilo was erected in accordance
with hit) last Instructions, between
those of his departed partners, nnd It
was iiIbo concoded that In death ho
had proved equal In wit to nil his
wlvos' rolatlons, for this was tho itr.ulp
turo It bore, surmounted by hands nt
tachnd to arms spread out us If In
benediction:
Tourists to day throng to Wlldwood
In greater numbora than over. Tour-
naiuoiits aro played on tho golf links
of Hotel Wlldwood nnd tho tonnlB
courta of tho Mlnstor, near tho Clois
ter PInoB. Bern- Nook glen, Artists'
point nnd Lectern lodge nro visited by
shoals or slghlseors In buckboards, lu
automobiles, uwhoel, on horseback and
afoot, and tho vlows from Sunsot rock
woro novor liner. Hut tho tide of curi
osity has obbed away from tho llttlo
coiuotery on tho hill whoro tho bonea
of Abraham Jeuklna rest between
thoso of his two wlvos, nnd thoy unci
tho feuds of tholr famlllea are almost
forgotten.
Breaking the News.
At a rocont dinner of "Tho Fossils,"
given recently, JamoB M. Beck wan
ono of tho Bponkors. "Tho Fossils" la
an organization composed of farmer
amateur Journalists, and Mr. Bock, na
ono of tho orgnnlzers of tho National
Amateur Press association In Philadel
phia lu 187(', has novor lost his Inter
cut in this most admirable training
school for young writers.
"In looking hack upon thoso days
when tho publishing of amateur pa
pors scorned tho most fascinating
thing lu the world," snld Mr. Beck lu
tho courso of IiIb addross, "I fool In
deed that I am qultu In tho fossil
class, Tho organization of tho Na
tional Amateur Proas association
seams nlmost prehistoric. In looking
back through tho years It Is almost
ns misty as tho Htono ago. I waB n
very small boy when I took part In
thoso wolghty deliberations. I feol
like the youngster who said to his ra
thor: " 'Father, wub writing dono on tab
lets or stone In tho old days?'
"'Yes, my son,' replied tho dutirul
parent.
"'Geo!' mused tho boy. Then It
must havo taken a crowbar to break
tho nowa.' "
USED TO IT.
