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Show J WVS-4VVViV'TS,"i'VS-vViS,SiV'VsyVV'VS-kSy - . -, . , .s...,, -l.xil,vtxvtxtlxv 1tttlxV'iMl1'lVV'VV'VVV II j I Heroic Work in Labrador and Newfoundland & Metnoa of MaKina Poisonous mushrooms i-tarmiesst 'jH pvLUFORMING operations with thct Sl - temperature from twenty to forty dci-j grees below rero. working forty-clghlj hours at a stretch' and then running oiitj live to twenty miles in Ihe Arctic night; with a dog sledge l' lake care of au ctuvi-1 gency case are a few of the vu issiludes' that fall lu the lot of the nurse and phy-H phy-H -K im wo to Northern Newfoundland i ml Labrador to teach and to minister 10 ibc spiritual needs of tin- unfortunate natives Slanj heroic men and women have goto to tin. relief of those impoverished people in the North onlj to lock i ln.nl selves up iu a wilderness of povetty and illness tor nioatbs. ihe howling gales, i swifirng siiow nnd cry of siuTcring hamau- ity then coiwlant compauTons, In these wilds women of guijtif oree'IIt'ig ! W bijpnght face to face with primitive ami the p'uysieiaii and student vo;uo- tcer- wnli the hardest kind of drudgery. In ibc stimmcr the women ba,?e all the ! hbaieliaeplag nt Llie Loui'uis to attend Kj 'e. the ::nrsin- u tile wards, a tboUKUUU j dciaiis of cleanliness to superinton. uurs- 'ng ill the ncghborhwuU and on (be islands' ktoJ roundabuui. besides running a ClOthJug stoic. They must learn to sail p boat,! $M moor it, work sculskins, ineiid sails ch . p wood and 'ook In the winter they nnisi master the kouiati'k and dog team, which is a real man s job at the easiest. &jl '1 be young physicians work hard. Ouc may be scut off on a two weeks' cruise u Board the mis-ion mail brat, in the capae-iiy capae-iiy of cook On the vuyngu he will have EM, to prepare food foi from four to ten pe,- sous. lie must work from five o'clock in the morning until long after dark If lucky, In- may be made hospital Interna and sec all the out-patients iu the dis ler.sury. help with the dn -sings iu '.he ward ami oiilciute as anaesthetist; or he Ihe painting a shai k or a house i-arrviuj barrpbj of water from the spring to ibej hospitals, or delivering elegrams in a skiff to and from the wireless station on an island Live- miles distant. Some of tin nurses and physicians who ...... have -one iu the Ih -.1 ear or two to en-itagi en-itagi in this work at St Anthony aud I'il-I. I'il-I. y's Islaud, Newfoundland, and Battle Harbor nnd Indian Lioirbor, Uibrador, arc Vliss Sarah Cannon, Misa Plorcnce Abbe, Mis- ISmma Brown, Mrs. Jdb,n M. Little, I Jr.; Mi-. Mir.i'.iie Wakefield, from St Luke s Hospital. New Vosk iiy ; Mi-- Laura Coates, I'hilhdelpIuH (Jeneral llo pitil, Mi- Vgncs Clarke nnd Miss Beatrice Rarfiswortii, Johns Hopkins Hospital; Miss Margaret I. fjleason, Miss Liu TbWPkins and Mi-s I'.ii-y L. ("op ping. Mi- II Mather Hare nnd Mrs. .li Llalsej Mssbachusetts General ilos-Ipitnl- Mi-s I'inelitt t'orbes and M,--; Bertha Hemenyvay, "T :ii" Wallhaui .Training School Cor Nurses: Miss Kthel IStberiuglon and Miss Alice Appletop New tQU liospll 1 1 Some of the men workers are Ir .lohn J H. Kvans, I r .lohn Grieve, Dr A. C.I I'orbe-. nr 11 B Webster 1 r U P.' Greeley, of New York'; Dr. Jesse IlaUcy, IL Mather liar -. M. H Dickson and C P Stirling, of Boston. Storieti of ll.eir daily life arc i:ow liein- brought back by the workers returuing! m fore winter 9 pts in. Miss Copping tells! el ucr introduction to the dreary wastes I i rrouud St. Anthony. iuds were never colder than on1 panuary LI, the day we put iuto port."! is'.te -aid. "The fact that I rode from! 'the harbor tO the (Jllost House on a koinatik drawn by six lean and hungry looking doi; satisbed me romantically. Those first weeks were bitterly cold, though the. thermometer did uot reci ter lower than twelve to tifteon degrees below be-low cero. We found zrcot difficulty in making our l.ir-.- ichooiroom lii for the chiLdraa to work in, for the stove is small and stands iu one corner One I day when 1 did not venture out it was impossible to et the loom warmer than fifteen degrees above ' My pupil-, si.me twenty-five iu num ber when I have u good attendance, sit on folding 'burs irOund two long im- provised table made of cough board supported on saw horses. M. attendance aries from four to iweniy-bv, accord-iug accord-iug to weathei conditions' Mrs Wakefield, describing one of her irips be fori Christmas with her husband, Dr. Wakefield, to treat and lecture to the men iu the lumber camps on health, says:- The driviug from one camp to another was all I ever want cd m the way of bumping. We. travelled in n strongly built sled, with neither Springs nor c:i-h Hons, drawn by a horec thai stopped for lllptbing. riicre was hardly miv snow land wc bumped gavly alon- over log-stones, log-stones, slumps, into bogboJbS, unii1 1 I .ally though: the .sled would fall to pieces "The condit ion of the " upl in Pin-eulia Pin-eulia Boy vanes from .b;i: pj c- mpniu-tiVU mpniu-tiVU ease tO U condition OI pi.veilv equal id snj in Labrador. While the wejl-w jo settlers luv: a fairly dietary (be poorer one subsist, as iu the north, on bread, tc'u and moloasc! n1' 1 1 ssionallj 11 iltllc bllttel IHC Dr H, Mather Hare, tcllinj,' of the work m Labrador, says. -"The lie-., boat not arriving by the time it was necessary for rac to go to the Musquarro to mcol the Indians, I had to i.ikc a barge, which look almost six days lo kci there I f"tind fifty-two families encamped there and thirty-one families totally out of food, all were ill with influenza in-fluenza of a pulmonary type and several died, partly of starvation ' The America u products thai show the greatest Increase of sale are: Wearing, apparel, linns ind ammunition, I t- anil shoes, ducks ami watches .oil cellouery. corsets, cot top and piece la engines, furniture, iron aud sled, jewelry, lumps and lamp w ire. lumber, niKCllilferj metal manufactures, motor ear-, paints and varnishes, rubber goods, siting ma-( ma-( hii.-s, soap stationery, surgical and scientific instruments, tools of trade, typewriters; type-writers; wood manufai lures and vehicles Spe. tnl attention is directed lo tie- in-.ceased in-.ceased Victorian trade in automobiles and thi large PliUlC "I li"' fade p. ic.ll red through ihe enterprise t Ann re in inan-'ufaclurcrs inan-'ufaclurcrs and cxporitTs Aiuerk" an (automobiles to ill" value of $ I LT'.f.rj were 'sold iu Mill Victoria uewsppjsr of I recent date sa. -: - i " hie hiiudii'd cars a week This is the .roll ol Victoria's purchases The man iu tin- SI reel iiinrht be inclined lo s;lv 1 1,., i jibe meal prosperity of the country ha-iiigi.l ha-iiigi.l tin people on in citraviigttuce. A carcful consideration ol the subject, bow-:ever. bow-:ever. would Drove that in 'he majority of jcasiis economy was the real reason It i-1 i-1 1 lot so much a matter of pleasure, but of Uc-rvit"-, that brings tin- people m to get a cm The fanner realizes I hill there is a saving in a good man: Waya in possessing possess-ing ii car- it. l.i' I. i saving in every way I he fanne, without a ear can no loliger compete with the farmer with one "With Igood voads and a good car, important I business Journeys can bo accomplwhed and work resumed again oh the farm I while the horses would be ,iili plodding on the way. Trips to the capital can be made by car where by horses I bey were i impossible. The business peppls of the cities arc wakiug to the fact, too. that lliey must employ the motor, nnd draper-. I bakers, butchers and all other trades are MUickly pas-;,,,; by the lor-" m faVOI of j Ihe h.-il.-r I cheaper m- in- of lo. omo- Itiop. Thus it will be easily een that the : growth of ,l,o r.r and ' cMCglon of its field Ol oprr.it ions are evidences of economy econ-omy M.ther than extravagance, and as tune goes on the aunibei sold row must soon be doubled.' XA H 1 Ii M is 1 b.ABUE, the 'enerable and illustrious entomologist, entomolo-gist, has iu ihe lentil volume of his i "Souvenirs" revealed a method by which ordjuarily poisonous mushrooms may be rendered harmles During the tlnrt.v i yeara which lie has lived at Bdrlgnini i(He'ranll) he has never heard a report of even the slightest case ol oisouing from this cause in tie region, hlthough mush: rooms ure ctiten there iu large quantities, cspecjiilly in the autuimii , t the sume tluio he ststes that in bis walks through the forests in the vicinity lie has often seen iu ihe baskets of the gatherers the "bolct ppurprc," a variety of mushroom which is Classified among i the most dangerous and nm-i poison-oiis. poison-oiis. the "agaric jiinnlaire," which is very abuudaul ai the fool of ihe mulberry trees ami Is conseijuentlj very frequently mployed; Ihe "bolct Satan," tie- .smooth headed "Umanite," and many oilier arle- Ijea considered extremely dungeroua, which, be found, are c.ueii indiscrimh initcly. Reason for Immunity. The reason for such immunity, says Mr. labrc, is thai in ihe district il is cus-jtomary cus-jtomary lo bleach all mushrooms- that i, !to boil them firsi iu slightly salted water lOpd iheu wash them several times wilhj Icolu water, They arc then ready for preparation prep-aration fur ibc table In whatever form IncOy be preferred. Thus, whatever migbti Ikavs been dangerous at the beginning, is J rendered innocuous, the boiling and the washings carrj lug oil all the harmful priu-ctjdes. priu-ctjdes. i Mr. I'abrc udds that bis own .vperieiiee proves the efficacy of the method followed ill the district Very often he anil his faiullj have eaten the "agurii nnnula,ire," whn h is considered very poisonous. Uue of bis friends, a physician to whom be i l.ad expressed his ideas upon the lieat-; lieat-; n cut of mushrooms by boiling, desired to try the method for himself. He made use I of two particularly noxious varieties, yet felt no evil eft ei t. Prom these facts it is evident that a 0 rd initial hoiliii is ihe hos( safeguard au'.iin-t a ci ideiils from Ibe eating of mushrooms Ii musi not be thought that this treatment will reduce ibe vegetable tc a soup or will deprive it of its flavor tor succulence. The mushroom undergoes ! this buidng without the least damage, ltl l. sos none of its sapidity aud its odor is 'not lessened In any way Moreover, Itsj digestibility i greatly improved The general conclusion may be drawn that the, isc of mushrooms as a food should always al-ways be preceded by boiling, even when, it is a ijueslion of Ibe most vholesouic kinds, such as the "oronge." While it will always be wisest to use only (hose kinds of mushrooms which are known to be harmless, the precaution of 'first cooking tin in iu sailed water, which is thrown away, will prevent the accidents which the eating of doubtful kinds might c-a use. ' It is well, however, to know what should be done iu the cveut of Ibis method bj any chance proving to be inefficacious aud "t the appearance in the persons who have partaken -f mushrooms of such symptoms of poisoning as a heaviness oi the stomach or other epigastric trouble, a feeling of rapidly Increasing nausea, follow, fol-low, d by vomiting, frequently of n violent character, by colic and repeated and painful evacuations, swelling of the ab-l domen aud great sensibility ,,f the t"in." Ii. accompanied by n rapid but I snrall pulse and coldness of the extrcuii- tics. The first thine to be done is to relieve the digestive organs of ihe poisonous' products by tin emetic compound of 150 enilgrammes of powdered ipecacuanha, I to which nre added live centigrammes of p.ntiniony nud potassium tartrate toiled B with four glasses lukewarm water, to ; be taken in from two to four doses. Should the patient fail to vomit, re- g course must be b-d t" an oesophageal s sound, which may be improvised from i rubber tube. ITitting this with a funnel, 'i " "I to vs .-i -1 1 t In M"iii:v li. and iben, low,i lin- the tunnel so ns to form si fj siphon, allow the liquid to run out. Stim- Jj ulanta such as coffee and ether shonli v be given afterward ? Clean Out Stomach. 'I lical effl ' i of poisoning by ;u'J--o-rooms bemg to cause a healthy vomiting ( or a clearing of the ind nins. aaliire should be nd.'d by wbaleier means are , !j Si hand lukewarm water with i larse quantity' of salt, lne oil or sulphate of Copper, which inn be obtained aiivwlierl U .Hid which should b- n-. ! iu dorcs ot fQr ten centigramme- diluted iu two or tare tablcSpOOIlfuls cl w.tlcr. tepejted twoot ji, three times. ben (he si,, ma. h has been cleaned cMiti cue ibe siiffeiet milk, water cnlai:u"I 1 IgUUl, mUCllllgC of althaea or bu.-ecd. 1 1)3 ".' M bite "f .-in egg beaten iu a gla-- of water, Un or, .is a jireea ution, a weak solution o notflSSitim iodide. Which is a specific autH Tl dote to the poisons contained in certM particularly dangerous mushrooms. Though purgatives launot have a.- M. an effect as emetic.-, . t it is ulwny to add theqi to :h treatment. LS(-' "". dillUB supbatc, inagnesium sulpliate rJfW C i. -i or oil. Little can be expected froiu eoeiafl'K. 'their effe. I bl MIX bl.elv to be I II - n t"'ntj J Nevertheless, euemaia with .-all Jjj. inay be used to aid more rapid anJ coia-JJhr plele evacuation ind at the s.iuie l,lU,gt3" prepare for sulseiiient medical treatu"'"y In ihe eveni of pains or inllamuiaH0" liter, lavements w ith laudanum m ' r- sorted to In , depi r por, employ cnemata with codec. tCJ 0 Shp wine. B" rw . . (' Ill'l-tl OQ I ') .urn up. in an ordinary case "i room poisoning begin by making the V (lent vomit, tlien administer a purgiti' fj and at the same lime give am' ;1 Cft ,j drini-- uiilk album inatcd water. i |