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PAYS TO AVOID SUNSTROKE.
Well Known Summer Danger Into Which Man
People Rush.
(New York Sun.)
Every' summer about 000 Americans
die of sunstroke and twice or thrice as
many more are permanently affected by
It. Its effect at its mildest is observed
as a recurring headache, partial deaf
nes or some minor but chronic and an-
noying ailment. At its worst it is man -
treated an paralysis, epilepsy, meningitis,
Insanity or some serious tunctional dis-
order of the heart. Therefore it is plain
that a sunstroke, \even when it doee not
kill out of hand, is a very dangerous
thing, ani
d that t pays to take elabor•
ate precautions to avoid it,
Among laymen sunstroke is often con-
fused with simple heat exhaustion, but
In reality they differ very much. In
the latter the temperature of the pa-
tient fails below normal and he is pale.
In the former his temperature rises rap-
idly and he is flushed.
There are other differences, too, but
those noted will suffice for the first aid
amateur. In the treatment, of heat ex-
haustion it is necessary to bring the
temperature up; in true sunstroke it is
necessary to force it down. It is thus
obvious that a mistake in diagnosis is
very apt to prove fatal.
Sunstroke is one of the oldest of re-
cognized diseases, and at least two cases
are described in the Bible. It is caused
In the great majority of instances by
muscular activity at a high tempera-
ture.
A laborer is at work in a ditch shovel-
ling dirt and with the broiling sun shin-
ing down upon him, when suddenly he
throws up his hands and falls in a hemp.
'A fireman is at work in the stokebold of
▪ a steamship at a temperature of 125
• degrees, when suddenly be drops dead. A
golfer is chasing a ball across the links,
when without' a second's warning he
goes sprawling and dies half an hour
afterward.
Each of these men is a victim of heat
stroke, of which sunstroke is nothing
more than a variety. Other names for
the malady are thermic fever, siriasis,
Insolation, heat apoplexy and sun fever.
In all cases the stroke is caused by
the fact that the victim's body has be-
come incapable of getting rid of heat as
fast as it is generated or absorbed. Or-
dinarily, 80 per cent. of the heat that
enters the body is radiated by the skin.
But on a very hot day, when the tem-
perature of the sarrounding air is
greater than that of the body, this radi-
ation almost ceases. Then, if the bodily
temperature is raised by muscular ef-
fort, the extra heat begins to cause
trouble.
The usual result is dizziness and a
feeliag of -weakness, and these manifes-
tations commonly cause muscular effort
to be suspended ard so the imminent
sunstroke is avoided. But the foolish
person who insists upon shovelling dirt
or chasing a golf ball after nature has
warned him to seek rest in the shade
Coes not escape so easily. Instead of
a slight attack of dizziness he suffers a
sunstroke, and as a rule dies of it.
Anything which interferes with the
• proper operation of the thermal flywheel
in the medulla oblongata increases the
likelihood of sunstroke. Alcohol is one
such a thing. The man who ,has swal-
lowed a glass of whisky is four or five
times more liable to sunstroke on a hot
day than the man who has stuck to lime-
ade or cold water.
The usual symptoms of coming sun-
stroke are dizziness, pains in the head
and a feeling of oppression. The victim
has a sensation of suffocation and very
often this forces him to stop work and
seek rest in some cooler place. If he
does not do so nausea commonly follows
and after that insensibility.
By the time he gets to a hospital his
face is flushed, his pulse is rapid and his
temperature has gone up to 107 or 108
degrees—far beyond the danger line. His
breathing is labored and loud and it is
apparent to any one that he is a very ill
man.
In fatal cases these symptoms ATOM'
more and more pronounced until ammo
supervenes and the patient dies. In
those cases fated to end in recovery the
fever slowly goes down, the pulse grows
slower, the heavy breathing ceases and
consciousness returns. As a rule the
crisis comes in from twenty-four to thir-
ty-six hears.
It is obvious that the first thing to
do in a case of sunstroke is to reduce
the temperature of the patient.
In consequence the hospitals of the
big cities now treat sunstroke with ice.
The patient is carried to a cool place
and flooded 'with tee water. His head is
bathed, his whole body is sponged and
water is forced into his mouth. •
When a hospital is not at hand this
treatment should be begun at once, on
the spot. Carry the patient to a cool
place as quickly as possible and open
his clothes. Then pour cold water over
his body and apply ice or water to his
head.
Have no fear of using too muck. Let
the water be as cold as possible and let
It be used unsparingly. It is impossible
to have it too cold and impossible to
apply it too quickly or too generouelly.
Whenever feasible the patient should be
stripped to the skin.
Meanwhile see that he does not suffer
for want of fresh air. One of the most
alarming symptoms of sunstroke is a
sort of asphyxia or suffocation.
Place the patient somewhere where ho
may be struck by a strong current of
air and see that no throng of curious
spectators crowds about him. As soon
•as possible get a good doctor to his
side.
The asphyxia of sunstroke sometimes
becomes 40 marked that it is necessary
to combat it with artificial respiration.
Stretch the patient flat upon his hack,
tear off hie clothes and work his arms
up and down, slowly and rhythmically.
Nature usually gives ample warning
of the approach of sunstroke and it le
only the foolhardy man who is stricken.
On extraordinarily hot days it is well
to avoid all muscular effort hi the -sun.
If a short walk makes you feel maim -
lied and uncomfortable seek the shade at
once, If you grew dizzy and see colored
lights, seek the shade and send for n
physician. So long as you are able to
walk to shelter unassisted the danger
Is still but potential. After you have
once fainted your chances of dying are
uncomfortably large.
One reason why there are so many
eases of sunstroke in the 'Milted States
every summer lies in the fact that Am-
ericans have no proper respect for the
bummer sun. In mid-Auelint they insist
upon Pw oaring woolen elothee, high col-
lars, thiek shoes and heavy hats anti
upon taking their daily walks and indulg.
ing in their venal exercise.
aei the tropiee, where high tempera-
tures prevail all the year around, the
average white man takes elaborate pre-
tentious to avoid sunstroke Ana in most
00.0.0 is successful. He never Walks fik thi
sun and all of his exercise is taken in
the cool room. And his clothes show that
he has the power of the sun ever in mind,
instead of blue sem-gee he wears white
thick mornin?, noon and night. Instead
of narrow brimmed straw hats he wears
roomy white pith behnets.
:instead of high, stiff collars and heavy
cravats he weere a flowing scarf about
his neck. Instead of clumsy black leath-
er shoes he wears slippers of white can-
vas.
and other useless furnishing. Arising in
the morning he takes a cold shower beta
and eats a very light breakfaet.
At noon ho eats an even lighter meal
and after rising from the table takes a
ehort rest. In nthe cool of the evening
comes his principal meal of the day.
Americans would do well in summer to
imitate as far as possible this typical
white man of the tropics.
The inviatigationa of Swift Dar-
rach, Gerhard, Parks, Packard, Wood.
Pepper, Dowler, Levick and. the other
pathologists who have studied sunstroke
prove that with ordinary care it is
avoidable. Its younger brother. beat ex-
haustion, is also avoidable.' The latter
is less serious than the former, and us-
ually yields to treatment quite readily,
but it may pave the way for serious mats
tidies and should be regarded warily.
Sambron, a British investigator, is
of the opinion that sunstroke is an in-
fectious disease, caused by a definite
microseopic organism. He points out that
it often occurs dttaing comparatively
cool weather and 'that great heat does
not always produce it.
Ho also says that pont-mortem exam-
inations show changes in the brain tis-
sues of victims whieh can be accounted.
for only as the result of bacterial acti-
vity. His conclusions were set forth in
the British Medical Journal nine or ten
years ago at great length, but few path-
ologists agree with him. a.
Guiteras„ another investigator, says
that sunstroke is sometimes chronic, al-
though always in a mild. form. He says
that in Florida this. condition is called
Florida fever or country fever and that
it is frequently mistaken for malaria or
typhoid.
There is no reason to believe, however,
that such fevers are in anywise related
to sunstroke. That they are caused by
exposure to high temperatures may be
true, but that they bear any appreciable
resemblance to true siriasis, with its
sudden onset and quick course is ques-
tionable.
Heat exhaustion is foreshadowed by a
feeling of great weakness and restless -
nese. It may he produced by exposure
to the direct rays of the sun and then
again it may be caused by sleeping in
a warm room, by overwork in hot wea-
ther or by exposure to great heat for
hours at a time as in a kitchen or bake-
house.
The patient's skin grows cold, his pulse
becomes feeble and his legs scarcely sup-
port him. He is, indeed, much in the con-
dition of a person about to faint from
over-exertion, severe pan or loss
blood.
The most effective treatment involves
the use of stimulant% but these should
be administered by it physician.
The temperature of the body affords
a ready means of differentiating between
sunstroke and heat exhaustion. If the
patient's skin is hot and red he should
be flooded with cold water, as described
above. •
If, on the contrary, his skin is cold
and pale he should be wrapped in a blan-
ket. Inasmuch, however, as it is always
possible for the layman to make a mis-
take in diagnosis, and such mistakes are
apt to prove fatal, it is well at all times
to get a physician at once.
One of the unfortunate things about
both sunstroke and heat exhaustion is
the fact that they leave those who re-
cover from their effects unusually liable
to future attacks. The man who has
once suffered a sunstroke is apt to he
bowled over again, and this liability is
much greater than is the ease with the
average man. It is therefore advisable
for those who have recovered from such
as attack to avoid all muscular activity
in summer—at least for ten years.
,Airything which weakens or debilitates
the body increases likelihood of sun-
stroke.
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Out, •
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VICTUALS AND DRINK. e
Meat Eating Yankees -4o Years on Bread
and Milk—Water Cures. ,
(What to Eat.)
It is said that Americans are the
greatest meat eaters in the world, de-
spite the fact that they have the wid-
est choice of vegetables. Statistics
prove that $100,000,900 more ie spent on
meat than on vegetables each year in
America.
A rabbit cannery is the very latest
American enterprise. Rabbits are the
most prolific of all meat producing ani-
mals, and the cost of the live stock will
be comparatively insignificant.
E. S. Sylvester, of Echo Mountain,
Ore., is to be at the head of this new
industry. He expects to can rabbits by
the thousands and front their meat he
will produce chicken tamales, all kinds
of canned chicken products, lobster salad
and many kinds or famous "Frenelr
soups.
The rabbit meet has been found to
make the finest kind of tamales and the
products are being shipped by the whole-
sale to New Mexico and California.
Whether or not the diet of bread and
milk taken exclusiaely for forty years
is responsible for the remarkable pres-
ervation front the effects of old age
shown In the body of Mrs. Mary Pay,
who recently died in New York at the
age of 105, is causing intense interest
among physicians.
Coroner's Physieimi has
made 4,560 autopsies, and he was so
surprised at the physical perfection of
Mrs. Fay's body, which was as well nour-
ished an that of a woman of 80, that he
called in all the other physicians and
surgeons of the coroner's dike to ob-
serve the unusual condition.
Dr. O'Ilanion and ethers who Sew the
body are wonderinewhether or noir they
have a corroboration of the t1msot7of
Prof, Elie Metchnikoff, of Paris, who
has asserted. that man does not live out
his allotted time of life because of the
cellular activities in the digestive tract
which produce old age. He believes that
by a diet of sour or curdled milk the
germs of putrefaction, which according
to his theory produce old age, may be
successfully combated.
Two years ago a wise stomach special-
ist in Boston told William Goodman, of
Jackson, N.1-1., that he had a malady
that could not be cured.
The malady had a long Latin name
Goodman failed to remember more than
five minutes, but it had each an awful
sound that he believed the doctor was
right.
"You can't live more than a couple of
months" the phyoician said, "so you
had better go home and take things
easy,"
Goodman went home, made his will
and waited for death. While he was
waiting an aunt from Concord, N,II„ via-
ited him and heard all about the terrible
stomach disease. She wasn't convinced
that her nephew had to die.
"I know a man in Concord who was a
lot worse off than you are, and he cured
himself by drinking water," she said.
"He just slushed it down by the gallon."
Goodman had always fought shy of
water, believing that it wasn't good for
the system, but he now began to take
large quantities of the fluid. In a few
days he was surprised to find that he
felt better.
At the end of a month the improve-
ment was marked and at the expiration
of six weeks he was considerably strong-
er and had gained two pounds. From
this time on the gain was steady, until
to -day the man is in perfect health and,
can eat a Welsh rabbit at midnight with-
out feeling ill effects.
In the two years Goodman drank four
quarts of water a day, being careful not
to drink twenty minutes before eating
or within an hour thereafter. He has
thus consumed 2,020 quarts of water. He
has used neither tea, coffee nor spirits,
but has drunk a good deal of milk. He
eats meat, potatoes, vegetables and
sweets. In fact he dines on ordinary
food, save that he abstains from weary.
*
SEED GROWING.
Meeting of Executive Council of Cana-
dian Seed Growers' Association at
Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de
Bellevue, Que.
A special meeting of the Executive
Council of the Canadian Seed Growers'
Association was held on July 5, 1007, at
Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de Belle-
vue, Que., for the purpose of transacting
the business of the annual meeting for
the Association year ending June 30,
I 1007.
Heretofore the annual meeting of the
Association has been held at Ottawa dur-
ing the month of June, lint this year it
was decided to change the date for hold-
ing this meeting to some time earlier in
the year, when: parliament would be in
session, and when for various other good
reasons it would be more desirable to
, convene. The next regular meeting will
I therefore be held sonic time in January
or February.
I The members of the Executive who
• were present at the above meting were
the President, Dr. Jas. W. Robertson;
the Secretary, L. H. Newman; Professors
C. A. Zavitz and L. S. Mink, and
Messrs. 0. A. Gigault and W. L. David-
son. The Seed Commissioner, Mr. 0. H.
Clark, and Messrs. J. 0. Cote and.T. 0.
; Raynor, of the Seed Branch, were also
' present, as were also several members
of the college staff.
The President, in welcoming the
offi-
cers of the Association to Macdonald
I College and to Ste. Amine, expressel the
! hope that the Association and the 'Col -
loge would co-operate as far as possible
in the future in promoting the interests
of good seed.
The report of the Secretary, as pre-
sented before this meeting, was a com-
prehensive treatise dealing with the
work in each of the six districts into
which the Dominion has for convenience
been divided.
The report gave the following swum:lay
of those affiliated with the Association
at the present time, as follows, viz.:
Total numberof applicants ... 461
Number of old members reporting
satisfactorily ... 57
Number of old members failing to
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Wile only adornments were a couple of
1
Dogs tan Clover big faded chromes of the Madonna. Dogs
and hens Rendered about the room,
toehno had with th-
A typical German settler in begunGolea-
practically
lug, but be owned, and had paid for a
house and barn worth $2,000. lie had
about sixteen acres of arable land, which
he leased at $145 a year. Tie had two
cows, six calves, seventeen pigs and two
horses. His animals were well housed,
his land well cultivated and he had a
good kitchen garden behind his house,
His children were clean, well dressed
and full of health.
In the living room of his bowie the
fire place was prettily tiled and a dres-
ear with well washed plates and dishes
amid cups and glussee was a handsomp
ornament to the room. There was a sofa,
too, and armchairs, fine mirror and a
nickelled tea outfit. The room was de-
corated with all sorts of pretty odds
and ends.
The sleeping room contained two good
beds, a dressing mirror, wash table,
sewing machine and cradle, and Bible
texts and mottoes in woolwork adorned
the walls.
The proprietor of this neat place em-
ploys two native laborers who live on
the farm. The civilizing effect on these,
Huret says, is remarkable,
Their ambition now is to set up for
themselves and live like the German. Ile
considers that the Prussian Government
Is doing a great work of civilization in
exploiting the country through German
colonists.
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So far no dog lige been found who -win Sub -
Mit to wearing spectacles. TO pleat.* Moir
masters and for their own Conned large
number* of does have eheerfuby were Wood-
en, Vulcanite and leather legs, Mize eyes(
Of celluloid or glass, and artificial teens, too,
but all dogeom draws the line atepecte,-
eleleao.mething like thirty crippled dogs in Eng-
land are now skipping about merrily on'ar-
Uncial legs and realistic 100Wing paws, says
the Ladies' Realm. Tater learn, to want with
abeoluto ease on their surgical limbs, some
pt which cost as much as several guiame.
One prospesoue peace' French poodle pea -
seems a gorgeous artifielal leg of loather with
side supports of handamuely chased gold.
Me aver trimminga combined With teeth -
or are by nO Mons uncommon expensive
accessories which make extra precautione
against the dog stealer o necessity,
The dogs of the poor content tbeinselvea
with a cheap thought (Ancient 'wooden leg at
about 5 Ocents, A dog with a wooden or
metal trimmed loather leg speedily diseov-
about GO cents. A clog with a wooden or
defence In dealing with ether and fighting
dogs, And with a little practice the false
limb, especially when tilted with a move-
able, flexible joint and paw, serves as well
for locomotion as the real article and forma
an efficient holder for a delectable bone,
A Pharisaical pride and uppishness enters
into the heart of a dog wearing a glass eye,
a ewe of false teeth or a vulcanite paw, Ho
is net gs other dogs are. Therefore he car-
ries his nose in the air and sniffs superell-
loualy at former canine companions.
Even a cow with a wooden log has been
known to give herself insufferable airs in the
Pastures. When the accident occurred which
necoesitated au artificial limb her owner
was offered 52 for her, As soon as the leg
'wee fitted her market price rose to ale.
The proverbial nine lives of eats preserve
them from some of the accidents to which
more ventuiesome canine flesh is heir; atilt
puss frequently comes meter the skilful min-
istrations of the veterinary surgeon. Fridley,
a handeome, heven-year-eld tabby, which
broke its foreleg, was in splints for three
woes at the animal hospital but were as
frisky as ever when she canto out.
An elderly Schipperke had a fine set of
false teeth put, in by his owner, a dentist.
The dog, hith5rto of blameless record, cele-
brated his acquisition by stealing a chop the
very first day. It had been so long since
be had bee nimble to enjoy a bone that he
could not resist.
The same dentist made several sets of
teeth for an old collie, rhe dog swallowed
the first set, enmeshed the second over a
toothsome bone and became .an expert In
removing them with his paw. Finally a
iPermanont plate on the American bridge
plan, which effectually prevented him from
taking them out and losing them, was put
in with bars of twenty-four carat gold.
The consulting room ur a famous veterin-
ary surgeon during consulting hours is full
of interest. Patients of every kind arrive,
from a pigeon 'with a broken wing to a sick
rabbit.
A three -months' old puppy comes with a
broken leg. Ho is speedily put up in a
Plaster of parts splint, which, after the cus-
tom of his kind, he tries to eat.
Bandages, splints and every type of sltr-
gloal appliance are as grist to the dog mill,
but cunningly made collars prevent this
pleyful esleureaulsm. Prof, Hobday, a no-
tebie veterinary surgeon, has invented an
electrical motor pump ter administering an-
aesthetic vapor to dogs to obviate pain dur-
ing operation.
The fitting of a glass eye In a dog or eat
is now quite a commonplace in veterinary
practice. Peggy, a beautiful Cap spaniel,
was fitted out with a perfect match for her
single eye, but the first day she sported it
she lost it. That is to say, being out with
her mistress, she unperceivedly extracted
the new eye and not being able to carry it
in her raw dropped it oy the Why.
But it was brought back for a shilling by
a street toy who found it.
Peggy did not always wear her glass eye,
but it was invariably put in for afternoon
Sea,
At the dogs' sanitarium, Beddington Lane,
Michaele some .SOD dogs may be seen under
treatment in the wards. The hospital cov-
ers about three acres of land; the air is
bracing, and scented from the famous Mor-
ena lavender fields.
The bright wards are built bungalow
fashion on one floor. Each dog has a self-
contained flat or cage, consisting of a large
bedroom with straw and litter couch, and a
nice sitting room or excreta:n.7 yard. An
oven warm temperature is maintained' by hot
water pipes out of reach of doggie's paws
and investigating ne.se.
The sick -beds of all are surrounded with
every comfort and Milder care. Expert-
eneed kennel men watch over the invalids
throughout the day and night. Their tem-
peratures aro taken and recorded, their diet
carefully prescribed awl cooked in a deity
little kitchen. A qualified resident surgeon
in charge lives in et delightful old-fashioned
farmhouse in the grounds, while the special-
ists and consultants pay periodic visits for
inseectio and operation. The surgery is
fitted up with the most elaborate appliances
eueh as electroscopes for the examination
of canine throats. The pills, potions and
liniments are varied and attractive.
The distemper hoepital is absolutely cut
off from any possible contact with the other
departments. A separate stay is told off
both for the distemper sections and the
isolation wards, where cases of infectious
troubles are treated .
A special ward is provided ear healthy
pet dogs whose owners are abroad ,and a
separate section also for imported doge in
quarantine. Dogs from every part of the
world find a happy home, here while in -dur-
ance vile—or the six months' quarantine pre-
scribed by the Board of Agriculture for doge
coming from foreign parts.
There are two forme of quarantine, indoor
and outdoor. The regime depends on the
climate from which the dqg bas come.
Each dog from quarantine has—by order
of the Board of Agricultures-to take his
walks aud runs abroad In solitary state in
time exercising grounds lest he may com-
municate rabies or infection of some sort
to his canine companions. It is said that
Balrmiteast.$3,000,000 is invested In dogs Lou,reat
Britain.
Number of applicants reporting sat-
isfactorily . 24
Total number of members in full
standing .. . 00
•
Total number now affiliated with
the Association . 557
While the above list is a substantial
one, yet it was explained that the list
does not give an adequate idea of the
actual place which the work of the As-
sociation is taking in the rural districts
of Canada, as many farmers are carrying
out the work themselves independent of
direct affiliation with the organization.
Reference was made to the general
awakening of thought and practice along
the lines which the Association sought
to encourage, and the various agencies
which were responsible for this were
designated.
During the year the principles of
plant improvement have been applied,
under the direction of the aseociation,
in connection with practically all culti-
vated crops and in all provinces. The
results which have been realized from
the system and: which have been given
in the report in question are notevror-
thy.. While this report will be pub-
lished in bulletin font, yet the matter
contained therein was considered wor-
thy ccf publication by the press. It was,
therefore, resolved that el:tracts dealing
with certain portions of the report,
which are of special interest, be offered
the public through the press from time
to time during the summer. The first
of these will be entitled "Work done
in the improvement of small grairrs un-
der the direction of the Canadian Seed
Growers' Assoelation." The second ex -
treat will deal with "Seed Pairs." The
third, appearing some time in August,
will- deal with the question of "Corn
Breeding," while the fourth, appearing
some tane later, aall dismiss tho matter
of "Potato Improvement."
Many important matters were dis-
cussed at the meeting and a progressive
policy was adopted for the ensuing
year. The matter of field competitions
and the utility of ouch ht creating a
greater interest in better crops was dis-
ensued and the following resolution was
passed, viz.: That the, Council approves
of the principal of holding field tompe-
tition of crops' and el:mitten& the (valor'
of these agricultural societies, whieh
have arranged for such competitions its
being one of the excellent means for en.
eouraging the improvement of crops. It
was also decided to prepare a collection
of special selections to be placed on teed
Whin at the Dominion Exhibition to be
held at Sherbrooke, Que., between Sep-
tember 2nd and 14th, with a view to
demonstrating the system followed by
the tiseoelation arid. some of the reeitilte
tablieVido
PRUSSIA'S RULE IN POLAND.
Colonization of the Country a Work of
Civilization, Says French Observer.
A Frenchman, Jules Hum -et, 'who has
been touring Germany for months has
made a visit to the Polish regions of
Prussia near the Prussian frontier, where
there has been great friction in the last
year or two owing to the efforts of the
Government to Germanize the country.
He went into thia region with strong
anti -Prussian prejudices.
After going over the field and compar-
ing the German and Polish settlements
he completely changed. his mind. First he
pictures a German village.
There ia a, public water supply in the
middle of the settlement. There is a pub-
lic bathhouse, a neat church, a good
schoolhouse. The houses are roofed with
tiles or slate and they are surrounded by
orchards, duck ponds, well built poul-
try runs and outbuildings. The planted
land is neatly laid out.
In the neighboring Polish village of
Lagiewnik dirt and misery confronted
him at every step. The hovels were fall-
ing to pieces from neglect. The roofs
were thatched and. out of repair; the
doors so low one had to stoop to go
through them, Children hi rags wallow-
ed in the muddy village •street.
He mitered houses in bath places and
he thus comparies the furnishings. The
interior of the Polish but is a single
narrow room with one tiny, dirty' win-
dow.
Tim furniture censiets of one big bed,
SUMMER AILMENTS
Can Best be Banished by Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
In summer your blood gets thin and
watery. You feel simply wretched—
tired, worn out, dull, your nerves are ir-
ritable, your whole system is out of
gear. There is just one medicine pan
banish this summer feeling. Just one
medicine that will give you strength and
vim to endure the fag of even the hot-
test days—Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
They have helped thousands. Perhaps
your neighbo'rs have already told you
they have helped them. They're the
medicine that makes that pure, rich, red
blood that everyone needs for good
health—they never fail to do that. Mrs.
L. A, Carrie, the popular stewardess
of the Jacques Cartier Club, Montreal,
Que. says: "For two years I was a
cone:taut sufferer from general debility.
The least work fatigued me and some-
times I could not work at all. I could
not raise my hand above my head with-
out feeling pains in all my muscles. I
was very weak and sometimes became
so dizzy that I would fall unless I could
lean against something for support.
'While in this condition I was advised
to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I did
so, and by the time I had taken ten
boxes I was in perfect health and am
now able to look after all my duties
without the least fatigue. When 1 be-
gan taking the Pills I was a great suf-
ferer—to-day I feel as if I never was ill
—thanks to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills."
Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills strike right
at the root of anaemia, debility, rhea-
matism, indigestion, the. secret ills of
women and growing girls, etc., when
they make new blood—they do just that
one thing, but they do it well—good
blood always brings good health. Sold
by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50
cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, from
The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 33roek-
ville, Ont.
High Speed Trains.
High speed trains may properly be
,called vast testing machines and though
I they do not measure maximum streses
In track and equipment they are relent-
less in showing weak points and are the
most potent factors in suggesting im-
provements which tend to the better-
ment of the service and to develop all
those details which make railway travel
(*fee and more comfortable. High speed
is expensive from every point of view.
The consumption of fuel is enormously
Increased, more expensive equipment is
required, the cost of maintaining track
largely augmented, and train or ton-
nage capacity materially reduced. For
these reasons two cent fares are the
more to be deplored. In the operation
of trains at high speeds safety is insured
only by eternal vigilance and the con-
stant and heavy expenditure for the
most efficient appliances (which are ex-
pensive), and everything which reduces
the ability of the railroads to procure
these i so menace to the safety of pas-
senger travel.—Building Age.
First Bareback Rider.
Riding on a broad pad strapped on a
horse's back is very old; bareback riding
is compartively new, says Everybody's
Magazine. It was no longer ago than
1854, on the Fourth of July, that E. B.
Washburne's circus, playing in Boston,
was pecked to suffocation by the an-
nouncement, spread broadcast, that', on
that particular day, for the first time in
the history of the world, a man would
ride three times around the ring stand -
leg upright on the bare back of a gal-
loping horse! The rider, Robert Almar,
actually accomplished this feat, and also
he carried an American flag, which he
waved uncertainly, thereby arousing tre-
mendous enthusiasm. Contrast that
with the present, when there are scores
of riders who mu turn a somersault on
horseback. A clever boy can be taught,
in about three days, to stand up on a
horse and ride around the ring. •
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Regulating Electric Light,
It is possible that the incandescent
electric lamp will soon be susceptible to
the same amount of regulation as gas,
for there is now on the market a lamp
operated by a ehain which is capable of
three degrees of illumination. One point
sheds an illumination of 80 per cent, of
its total capacity, withal, in the case of
the 16 candle power lamp, is barely suf-
ficient to indicate the location of the
lamp to one entering the room and who
may want to reach the light in order to
turn it up higher. Thi e tiny glow does
away -with the necessity of groping
around in the dark in search for the
lamp, often at the sacrifice of some of
the bric-a-brac or furniture of the room.
The second point of adjustment onuses
the filament to glow at about three-
quarters of the lamp's capacity.
4..
The Conversationalist.
Tho true, full blown, conversationalist
is selfish to the core. His aim is to get
an audience and to hold it. Balked of
his prey, he is like some dangerous ani-
mal. Superficially, lie is pleasantly in -
(crested in our scholarly chit•cliat on
main drainage. Put in reality he is
slowly but surely laming us off to
Mozambique, where lies the .omplutlos
of Ids best lineed<ftes.—London Globe.
A e*
Tommy —"Pop, what does it mean
to be neighborly?" Tommy's Pop—'
"Well, my son, a. great many people
0 m to think it Means to borrow an
J 3"
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New York Consumptive Wards. 1
Some 500 Men Patients on Black well's bled. I
The Department of Health is ,grodu- ; ties Commissioner, has ellISOlelM941 ble
allv but Sureir reducing the deaths from intention to do away with these sheiks.
tuterculosie in lelew York. Th death AR the patients except bed. patients
rate has been decreased from 4.27 in dine in common in a large dierag hall
everythousand of population in 1881 to on the first floor of the infirmary. T.
2.10 n 1900, or about 50 per cent, morning meal for those on full diet et -
The decrease would be still greater ii sista of oatmeal and milk, two boUsti
the lower East Side could be put Under eggs, a, bowl of coffee and all time breed
thorough sanitary regulation and the and butter they can put away..
army of consumptives it furnishes sub- For dinner there as soup, beef stew oft
jected to surveillance. Mondays and roast and boiled beef a334
The city cares for about 500 male eon- mutton on other week days. Vegetables,
bet:putiartment for women. The general it:lb:Wes in the tuberculosis infirmbread and, pudding are given with (hi.ary
ne and treatment are alike for
on Blackwell's Island.
There is also a midday meal. Supper consists of
detea,
bread and butter, with stowed prune*
routine and apple sauce and: one boiled egg.
The meals are brought areund on
The patients sent to the tuberculosis wheeled trays by patients Who reedy*
infirmary, which is a branch of the Met-
ropolitan Hospital, are with a few ex- a little pay for working je the kitchen
and, bucket brigade fashion, are passed
ceptions from the East Side. Some- along the tables from one patient to time
times they are sent there on report of a other,
private physician, in accordance with Every second Sunday the patients are
but much oftener they stagger into
the rules of the Department of Health,
en is generally of ancient vintage,' but •
treated to a chicken dinner. The chide -
Bellevue, not knowing what is their it is enjoyed as a. relief from the ordinp
trouble, and are sent down to the foot wry routine,
of East Twenty.sixth street, to the There is a little store on Os Island,
office of George W. Weeks, Superintend- where patients may. purchase sense little
eat of the Department of Public Char -
additions to the regular diet, and they
ities, where eaeh patient is examined, by are allowed such little dainties as their
one of the department's physicians. friends may bring them in. All liquors
The East Side, with its "lung blocks,"
are forbidden.
is the storm centreof the tuberculosis
Visitors are admitted from 10 a. m,
plague. Poor and overcrowded lodgings, to 4 p. in. every day in the week. They
must procure a permit from the office
insufficient food, bad air and over -in -
at the foot of East Twenty-sixth street,
dulgence in five emit whiskey are among
which is readily granted, and: entitles
ing from phthisis at the foot of East city's ferryboats to and from the Woad
the holder to free transpost on the
Twenty-sixth street exhibits a pronounc-
for one month. .
ed case of the disease. The examination As the great object is to keep eon,
does not last long. The stethoscope tells sumptives in the open air and in the
sunlight as much as possible, a large
the story, and the man who thought he
had. only a bad cough is soon On. his way playhouse occupies a prominent phase
in the grounds, commanding a. fine view
to Blackwell's Island.
of (oh river. This is the solarium. It
The tuberculosis infirmary occupies
is about 280 feet long by. 30 -feet wida
the old building at She north end of the
In it is located the sniall library, from
island, which was the insane asylum in
which the patients draw books, the ta-
bles
days. In the adjoining grounds
bles at which they play cards, a, shuffle -
are twelve tents, or rather wooden
board and plenty of easy e.hairs.
shticks, with beds for a dozen patients
in each. he• course of pinhole, except what
taken up to the infirmary in a kind of
On leaving the boat the patient Ls
Is commonly cation, is protracted, sprea-ng coding In many
red gallonimmons.
broken-down patrol wagon, unless he is cases over a term a years. There are
a bed patient, when a regular hospital
patients in the tuberculosis infirmary
ambulance is sent for him. On arrival who have been there three or foal'
he has a bath, his clothes are taken fromear
him and hospital clothes are given him.
Patients are dim:barged when the die-
ys,
disease, or requires to be put to bed,
If he is in an advanced stage of the
the progress of plitheis is evidenced in
ease seems to be arrested. Its stay in
he is, after an examination by the house
physician, assigned to Ward Q. This to normal physical eon:lit:ions. !Ovary
an increase in weight and an approach
ward is on the third storey of the build -
week the patients in all the wards, with
the 'exception of Q sire weighed.
When the patient continuos to gain
in weight it is plain that the disease
has been arrested, If not cured, and be
can return to the city once more. MO
may live on for years and eventually
die by being run over by an ambulance.
What the city does over on Black -
well's Island for its warda is the ours
for consumption will& every one can
have at home—pure air, plenty e
milk, all the eggs you can eat and mod-
erate exercise.—New York Sus.
lug, which is cruciform. He is provided
with pajamas, a, hair brush and comb
and is assigned to one of the rooms.
These rooms, when the building was
first constructed, were cells, but now the
Iron doors have been taken away and the
bars removed from the windows. They
are furnished with spotless beds, a small
table for each patient, and chairs for vis-
itors. The cells offer nose comfort,
free of charge, to the inmates than could
be had for a price in many hospitals. In
this ward, as in the other, there are ac-
commodations for 100 patients.
The first and second storeys are Wards
M and N. Here the patients are able to
be up and around, and were it not for
the peculiar form of consumptive cough
one hears you would not think they were
cases for hospital treatment. These
pa:tients dress in a uniform which dif-
fers little from the one worn by the
inmates of the nearby penitentiary, but
it is warm and serviceable in winter,
and, provided as he is with a good army
overcoat, a man can take exercise on
any cold day when snow is not flying
or rain falling.
Ward Q is the one feared by the con-
sumptives. The death rate at times is
large, from three to six a night.
Tossing on his bed, one, hears in the
corridor outside a purse hurry by, fol-
lowed by art orderly, bound for some
other room. Then comes the young doc-
tor an night duty and the listener knows
all is over for the patient.
The morgue awaits eharp upon the
agony. Two men, patients themselves,
put the corpse in a box, place it on a
stretcher, and cart it off to await the
legal time for some one to claim it ere
it goes to potter's field.
The Q patients are usually upon light
diet, which copsista of milk, boiled eggs,
coffee, buttered toast, cereals, etc., tea
being substituted for coffee atm supper.
In the night time, and espegially toward
morning, when vitality is at a low ebb,
milk is brought to every patient who
asks for it, hot or cold.
As a matter of fact the patient may
be kept waiting and left to call for more
Important things than milk, as in each
warA there are only two night orderlies
for /ifty patients, and they are kept on
the jump. This Q ward does up an or-
derly in short order. The city pays the
orderly, who has to attend on the bed
patients and do the work generally of
trained nurses, $12.50 a month. They
seldom last more than a month.
Tho medical routine of the tuberculo-
sis infirmary would restore to health
many now in the early stages of con-
sumption if they only adopted. it in their
daily lives. All patients are mad;e to
keep in the open air as much as possible.
They eat three or four eggs every day
and drink about half a pint of milk four
times a day where the case is not seri-
ous. The patients in Q ward are en-
couraged to ask for milk night or day
when their stomachs can stand it.
The city's consumptivesreceive very
little medicine. Drugs are used, chiefly
in easing the cough and affording sleep
and surcease of pain. The Metropolitan
Hospital is homoeopathis in its system,
but its practice is more or less of the
old school.
There is a general idea. that the
death by consumption is an easy one. It
Is not. Patients in Q yard often die in
suffering, their cries arousing the pati-
ents around them.
In the infirmary, in addition to the
MOMS there are tree aleOree in each
woad, where beds are arranged as in
ordinary wards. The orierflosv goes to
the tents. These tents are as a rule
&ceded, by the patients, especially- in
winter. They are eold and damp, while
• the ventilation is that of drafts from
the gas works and dump which lie
es • e
CHILD LOST IN DESERT.
Wanderings of a Baby Over time Cactus
Plains of Southern Arizona,
Friday evening the seventeen-months"-
ond son of John lirown was lost on the
desert northeast of town, writes a. Mesa
correspondent of the Arizona Republi-
can. A large number of men started out
at once to search for the wandering
baby and the search was kept up an
night. The early part of the night was
(lath, and lanterns and bicycle lamps
were used, but no trace of the little one
was found until about 1 o'clock Satur-
day morning, when the moon was shin-
ing.
A' tiny track was found nearly two
miles from the child's home. Tide was
soon lost, but the tired .searohers contin-
ued the teak of looking for a very eroall
child in a ;big desert covered with cacti.
About daylight a new relay of searchers
put in an appearance and took up the
hunt. It was feared by that time that
the little one had perished. frOm thirst
and exhaustion, and only the lifeless
body, it was -bought, would be found.
It was just a short time before 8
when Charles and. Paul Lesueur again
found the trail of the baby, which they
followed, and at fifteen minutes past 6
they found the lost child standing in a
group of cactus itself so covered by the
cactus thorns ;hat it Was almost indis-
tinguishable from its surroundings. TM
child was literally covered with cactus
on its face, its arms and body, mut even
in its mouth the cruel therms were tor-
turing the little one. It was incapable
of crying or making a sound of any
kind, and the men who found it night
have passed within a very few feet and
missed. it but for the tracks which had
been made in the sand.
It seems that Mn. and Me. Brown
came to town Friday, leaving the baby
with the other children. It wandered
away and the children could not find
Si. The parents retitrued about 4
o'clock and themselves spent consider-
able time in searching for the chila be-
fore the alarm was given. According
to the older children they mimed the
little one about 11 o'clock, so it must
have wandered on the desert during the
fierce heat of the afternoon, and then
went on in the dark until unable to
travel any longer,
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Returning to Business at 84.
A dealer in furniture named Pietro
Abbato, aa. Italian„ who hes lived in
Bagshot for very many years, recently
retired from business and, taking with
hint his life's savings, went to Italy, Up-
on arriving there, Mr. Abbate, finding
all his relatives had died daring his long
absence, decided to return to England.
When near the French frontier he was
set upon by brigands, who robbed him
of all he had, 'with The exception of £4
and left him for dead on the road. After
undergoing much suffering and many
hardships, Mrs. Abbate managed to
reach Bagnshot once again, and is now,
at the age of eighty-four years, beton-
along the shores on both sides of the rung to make n living for himself at his
river. Hobert W. nebbard, the Mari- (Ad business.
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That hacking cough continues
Because your system is exhausted and
your powers of resistance weakened.
Take .S4coit'a Etriattion.
It builds up and strengthens your entire system.
It contains Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites so
prepared that it is easy to take and easy to digest.
ALL DRUGGiint 80e, AND 81.00
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