Dr Richard Schulze - No Incurable Diseases

This story deals with the "White Plague," showing the conditions that arise in the life of a young linotyper, who contracts tuberculosis, while working on a New York daily. We are shown his deep love for a young girl and eventually his engagement and preparations for marriage. All goes merry as a marriage bell until within few days of his wedding when he hears from the doctor that he has become a victim of this dread disease. He staggers blindly to the home of his fiancee and there is enacted that pitiable scene where two young lives stand upon the brink of separation, forced apart by the cruel hands of the disease. Fond eyes look into eyes for the last time perhaps, and dear hands clasp dear hands and the victim goes pathetically to his little hall bedroom to face the black future with only one gleam of hope, the Union Printers' Home, Colorado Springs, Colo. He travels westward and arrives at the Institution founded for these sad victims of whom he has become one. After a careful examination by the physician he is introduced to his nurse and assigned to his tent. The strong willing hands of the hospital nurse slowly but surely push back the impending doom and bring him back from the edge of the grave into the bright future of happy, healthy life. During these hours of patient watching something steals in unexpectedly and that something is the love of a woman for a man. But the sad part of it all is that the eyes of the man never see the beauty of the woman who saves his life, but look far from the gray mountains towards the east, where waits and watches the woman he loves and longs to marry. The nobility of the woman who saved his life is brought forth when she learns of the dear one far away, writes to her and bids her come and claim the man who loves her. And when the victim, no longer a victim, steps forth into the world again, he is clasped in the arms of the woman he loves.