REMARKABLE STORY

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14768, 6 October 1921, Page 3

REMARKABLE STORY

WHAT A STRONG W'LL CAN DO. A remarkable story Is told of a liospital at Qantico. Virginia, where n private of marines was lying with 'touble pneumonia. His name was Frederick Ladd. "How is Ladd?" inquired Briga-dier-General Butler; and die surgeon .aid: "He is dying. He has about 15 -ninutes to live, and he realises that the end is near." The general ran to the sick ward, •vith the astonished surgeon after lim. "Look here, Ladd," said General Butler, "marines don't die in their 'jeds. You've got to fight for your •]fe, and fight liar*. Do you hear? What would you like to drink?" "Buttermilk, sir," the patient gasped out as best he could. But it •vas out of the question to give buttermilk to a patient in his condition. «aid the doctor. "What's the odds?" demanded the general, rather angrily. "Didn't you say he had only Ir> minutes to live?" 'Hie surgeon' gave Ihe order for the buttermilk. There was none in the station, and the nearest place where it could be got was "20 miles away. "Take the" fastest car we have and tret it," said General Butler; and in >imc the car returned and brought the milk. Ladd was still, alive, able to take a ernod drink, and he is coining back to health from the Valley of the Shadow. "The old. man himself came here and ordered me not to die," he says to his friends, "and of course I had to 'iney. So would you if you heard him bark an order."