A BRAVE GIRL.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 100, 30 August 1879, Page 3

A BRAVE GIRL.

The (Hean I ml. Times states:—Living a plain cottage situated between two farms on the main settlement near Portland, about seven miles from Olean, is a young women, named Mary Langdon. Iter mother has been a helpless invalid for many year?. She herself has long suffered with a terrible cancer on the upper part of her left arm. To cure thiol- to alleviate the torment of mind and body which it has caused has been her constant thought, her ever-pivscnt care. The aid of competent physicians has been called in, and every kind of treatment resorted to, but with no hopeful result. Expert medical men pronounced the ease a hopeless one, and the po.ir

girl was regarded by all, and by herself, as the doomed victim of the dreadful disease. A lady doctor, of reputed skill in the treatment of cancer, recently visited the sufferer, but gave no word of encouragement. After she had gone, Mary shed no tears, hut resolved upon a desperate and dangerous expedient, and, when she had resolved, speedily carried her design into execution. She ran a stout needle beneath the cancer, drawing a thread through it. With this thread she tied tho artery, using her teeth to aid her. She then took a sharp table knife and cut the cancer, which was of unusual size, out of her arm. This done, she took the mas* of quivering llcsh which she had removed from her arm. and, without, a word to anyone, buried it in the rear of the cottage. So quietly had the gill gone through with the terrible operation that no one in the house was aware of it until some time after. Having bound up ami covered the terrible wound in her arm, she went about her household work as usual. Of course the result of this fearful piece of surgery is difficult to predict. The girl is not at present suffering ill-effects,