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Ipainting a shack or a house, carrying
barrels of water from the spring to tn.
hospitals, or delivering kilograms in .
skiff to and from the wireless station OF
an island five miles distant.
Some of the nurses and physicians who
have gone in the last year or two to en-
gage in this work at St. Anthony and Pill
ley's Island, Newfoundland, and Battle
Harbor and Indian Harbor, Labrador, are
Miss Sarah Cannon, Miss Florence Able
Miss Emma Brown, Mus. John II. Little
Jr.; Mrs. Marjorie Y. Wakefield, from
st. Luke's Hospital, New York city
Miss Laura Coates, Philadelphia General
Hospital; Miss Agnes Clarke and Miss
Beatrice Farnsworth, Johns Hopkins
Hospital; Miss Margaret I. Gleason. Miss
Ella Tompkins and Miss Betsy L. Cop.
ping, Mrs. H. Mather Hare and Mrs.
Jesse Halsey, Massachusetts, General Hos
pital: Miss Amelia Forbes and Miss
Bertha Hemenway, of the Waltham
Training School for Nurses; Miss Ethel
Etherington and Miss Alice Appleton,
Newton Hospital
Some of the men workers are Dr.. John
J.. II. Evans, DR.. John Grieve, DR.. A. C.
Forbes, DR.. H. B. Webster. DR.. d. p.
of New York; DR.. Jesse Halsey,
H. Mather Hare, NJ. 81. Dickson and C.
P. Stirling, of Boston.
Stories of their daily life are now being
brought back By the workers returning
before winter sets in. Miss Coping tells
CT her introduction to the dreary wastes
around st. Anthony.
winds were never colder than on
January II, the day We put into port" :"
she said. The fact that l rode from
the harbor to the Guest House On .
komatik drawn by six lean and hungry
looking dogs satisfied me romanically.
Those first weeks were bitterly cold,
though the Thermometer did not register
lower than twelve to fifteen degrees h.
low zero. We found great difficulty in
making our large schoolroom ft for the
children 10 work in, for ths stove -
small and stands in one corner. One
day when ! did not venture out It was
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healthy outdoor sport.

antimony and potassium tartrate mixed
with four glasses of lukewarm water, to
De taken in from two to four doses.
Should the patient fail to vomit, re-
course must be had to an oesophageal
sound, which may be improvised from 4
-ubber tube. Fitting this with funnel,
proceed to wash the stomach, and then,
covering the funnel so as to form 4
Slphon, allow the liquid to run out. Slim
ilants such as coffee and ether should
De given afterward.
Clean Out Stomach.
The first effect of poisoning by mush.
rooms being TO cause a healthy vomiting
or clearing of the intestines, nature
should be aided by whatever means are
at hand-lukewarm water with a large
quantity of salt, olive oil or sulphare Of
copper. which may be obtained any where
anu which should be used in doses of
ten centlgrammes diluted in two or three
of water, repeated two or
three times.
When the stomach has been cleaned ont
give the sufferer milk, water containing
gum. mucilage of althaea or Hnseed, the
white of an egg beaten in glass of water,
or. as precaution. a weak solution of
potassium iodide, which is q specific anti
dote to the poisons contained in certain
dangerous mushrooms.
Though purradves cannot have as good
IN effect as emetics, yet it is always we'll
to add them to the treatment. Use So
dunn sulphate. magnesium su.phate or
castor oil
Little can be expected from enenata.
heir effect being likely to be Insufficient.
enemata with salt and oil
nay be used to aid more rapid and COM
'lete evacuation and at the same time
prepare for subsequent medical treatment.
IN tine event of pains or Inflammation
ater. lavements with laud,num may be
escorted to. In case of depression or STU
'cr. employ enemata with coffee, tea or
vine.
To sum up. in an ordinary case of mush-
Dom poisoning begin by making the pa-
lent vomit, then administer a purxative.
nj at the same time give him q diluted
rink. milk or illuminated wassS
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n ERFORMING operations with the
- temperature from twenty to forty de-
grees below zero, working forty-eisht
hours at a stretch and then running out
five to twenty miles in the Arctic night
with dog sledge to take care of an emer-
Eency case are a few of the vicissitudes
that fall to the lot of the nurse and ply
Eician who 60 to Northern Newfoundland
End Labrador to teach and to minister to
the spiritual needs of the unfortunate
natives. Many heroic men and women have
gone to the relief of those impoverished
people in the North, only to lock them
selves up in q wilderness of poverty and
illness for months. the bowling gales.
swirling snow and cry of suffering human
ity their constant companions.
In these wilds women of gentle breeding
are brought face to face with primitive
life and the physician and student vviup-
teers with the hardest kind Of drudrery.
In the summer the women have all the
housekeeping of line hospitals to attend
to. the nursing in the wards, . thousand
details Of cleanliness to superintend, nurs-
ing in the neighborhood and on the islands
roundabout, besides running 4 clothing
store. They must learn to sail a boat.
moor it, work sealskins, mend sails, chop
wood and cook. In the winter they must
master the komatik and dog team, which
is a real mans job at the easiest.
The young physicians work hard. One
may be sent of on a two weeks cruise
aboard the mission mail boat, in the capac-
ity of cook On the voyage he will have
to prepare food for from four to ten per
sons. He must work from Eve o'clock in
the morning until long after dark. III
lucky, be may be made hospital interne
and see all the out-patients in the dis
pensary, help with the dressingA in The
ward and ofaciate as anaesthetist; or be
may be nut to the task Of shinglinx audl
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Method of Making Poisonous Mushrooms Harmless

Mr.. FRANCIS NJ. I. FABRE, the
venerable and illustrious entomolo-
sist, has in the tenth volume of his
Souvenirs" revealed method by which
ordinarily poisonous mushrooms may be
rendered harmless. During the thirty
years which he has lived at SGrignan
(Herault) he has never heard a report of
even the slightest case of poisoning from
thiS cause in the region, although mush-
rooms are eaten there in large quantities,
especially in the autumn.
At the same time he states that in his
walks through the forests in the vicinity
he has often seen in the baskets of the
gatherets the 'bolet pourpre," a variety
of mushroom which is classified among
the most dangerous and most poison
GUS; the ''agaric annulaire," which is very
at the foot of the mulberry
trees, and is consequently very frequently
employed; the "holet Satan" the smooth
headed "amanite," and many other varie-
ties considered extremely dangerous.
which, he found, are eaten indiscrimi-
nstely.
Reason for Immunity.
The reason for such immunity, says Mr..
Fabre, is that in the district it is Gus
tomary to bleach all mushrooms-thst s,
to boil them first in slightly salted water
and then wash them several times with
cold water. They are then ready for prep
aration for the table in whatever form
may be preferred. Thus, whatever mighti
tave been dangerous at the beginning, is
innocuous, the boiling and the
washinfs carrying of all the harmful prin-
ciples.
Mr.. Fabre adds that his own experience
proves the efficacy of the method followed
in the district. Very often he and his
family have eaten the "agaric snnulaire,"
which d considered very poisonous. One
II hin friends, 4 physician, to whom he
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sport like this. No sooner had one pair
of ice skates been produced by q woman
who had been in Switzerland, where the
lakes were frozen, than every passenger
on board who had skates dug them out
of his baggage. and officers of the vessel
who had them lent them to passengers.
Races were held and fancy figure cut
ting contests, in which some remarkably
clever work was shown in the way Of
cutting figure eishts. initials and scrolls
During the winter voyages many of the
sports which may be INDUCED in during
the summer months are precluded, but
there is always some one on board to
take advantage of an opportunity.
On one trip of the steamship Provence.
of the French line. to New York last win
ter the passengers were kept in the cabin
most of the time because of rough, bitter
cold weather. One night a heavy fall
of snow buried the decks and next morn
ing a young woman with love for siren
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IN ~ 81 may blow.
ERAS5 While We poor sailors 90
- skipping up the
ropes
And the landlubbers loaf down below,
below, below;
And the landlubbers loaf down below"
So runs the chorus of the old song, but
nowadays the landlubbers don't stay be-
.ow. Rather they get quite as much exer-
else, if not more, during a cruise on a
transatlantic trip as do the seamen who
60 skipping up the ropes and polishing
brasswork.
Landsmen about to make their first
ocean trip look forward to a lazy period
of eating FIVE times day, lying about in
a steamer chair and accumulating avoir-
dupois. Nothing could be further from
the true state of affairs on a steamship
to-day. 4 passenger vessel is a veritable
athletic field, where one may indulge in
the sports of the mountains, the pastimes
of the seashore and even some of the
pleasures of winter resorts A trip across
the ocean or 4 cruise to the tropics may
well be made one round of athletic ac-
tivity, and instead of becoming stout and
lazy men and women may harden their
muscles and develop their strength and
agility as well as though they were spend
ing a vacation in the woods or in the
country.
On the steamship Rotterdam, of the
Holland-America line. last winter pas |
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of Healthy Outdoor Sport.

artificial exercising chair In state Of ex-
haustion and 10 kneaded and pounded
after the manner Of . chuck steak until
he RECEIVERS. His first conscious remark
is usually. "How many teeth did I Ioser'
However, 1t must be admitted that forI
the man Of too generous proportions to
skin the cat" 'chin himself OF leapl
nimbly over leather horses the jclting|
chair is . remarkable institution.
The horseback riding machines are not
quite 90 violent as the jolting chair. These
machines initiate the motior Of horse sol
accurately that one may canter or troll
two or three miles every morning before
breakfast on shipboard. Owing to the
risidity of the horses back and the metal
lie inhexibility Of his legs Il Is advisablei
The Washington herald., 1912-11-03
American Trade IN Au,sr,l;..

In practically every line of goods of
American manufacture the increase last
year over 1910 in the value Of goods ex-
ported to Australia runs into thousands Of
dollars The United States ranks second
among the worlds suppliers to Australia,
Great Britain holding 6rst place and Ger
many tAird
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On the decks there ID always some form
of athletic exercise being INDUCED in. A
favorite sport is the three-legged race, in
which two contestants are bound together
ankle and knee 90 that they must run as
though one body had three legs. Many
are the tumbles experienced In this contest
when the vessel ID not on an even keel.
Another variation of this sport ID the
sack race, In which the contestants feet
are tied In gunny sacks.
Ice Skating on Board.
On one Of the Hamburg-American
last winter the passengers
sk.ted on the spacious promenade deck
after . storm during which the decks BE-
came coated with ice. Passengers seldom
miss q chance to enjoy an impromptu
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sengers played several games of baseball
during trip from Rotterdam when the
weather was extraordinarily clement. Two
teams were first selected, one composed
of men and women from the East and
the other made up of American passen-
gers from other sections Of the country
Five games were played on the promenade
deck. during which seven baseballs were
knocked into the sea, and the Eastern
team won three games.
So interested did the passengers from
other countries become in the American
national game that they organized a team
which played a close game against the
all-American" team.
Lazy Mans Exercise"
Many passenger steamships are fitted
with gymnasia, where almost any kind of
gymnas astics may be INDUCED in and where
chC thhc what 10 huOWu az lazy
mans exercise
The apparatus for lazy mans e1er-
cise' is herded into one corner of the
gymnasium, which looks much like q rep
lica of Spanish inquisition chamber, e1-
cept that it is brightly lighted. There is
4 chair in which the athlete" sits and
which is jolted in the neighborhood of two
hundred and forty times a second, which
causes sundry vibrations to ripple up and !
down the sportsman's spine, out to his
finge- tips, and even to the very ends of
his hair. Ten minutes of such jolting is
said to be equivalent to an hour of ezer-
else. Having once tried it, am con-
vinced of the truth of this statement.
The victim is usually removed from the
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-04-12
MINNESOTA RATE CASES UP
Argument Begins in the Federal SUI
preme Court.

Argument Begins in the Federal SUI
preme Court.
The argument of the Minnesota rate
cases in the United States supreme
court at Washington are on. Former
Judge T. D. O'Brien opened in behalf
Of the state. The first half hour of
his address was devoted principally to
relating the history of the case from
the legislature. and it's progress
through the courts to the opinion of
Circuit Judge Sanborn, from whose
decision the case is in the supreme
court on appeal
Judge O'Brien severely criticised
the findings of fact of the master,
wherein he found that the reduction in
the passenger rate from cents mile
to cents mile was reduction of
1913 per cent, contending such reduc.
ton was not a real reduction in the
revenues of the railroad, being more
than counterbalanced by the abandon.
ment of excursion rates at one and
one-third fare, or even less at times.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-04-12
Citation for Hearing on Final
Account and for Distribution.
Estate of ole o. Aasun1b.

Estate OF Ole ~. AaSumD.
State of Minnesota, County of Stevens,
in probate court.
In the matter of the estate of Ole o.
Aasumu, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to Ole Peter
Aasumb, Ole Payner Hansen, Hans Han
sen, Mary Hansen, Charley Hansen, Emil
Hansen, Olof Holt, Mary Holt, Olivia
Holt, Emil Holt, William Gibson Claffy,
Annie Mary Claffy, Hanna Marie Olsdata
Aasumb Larson, Karen Andreas Aasumb
Kngebretson. all persons interested in
the final account and distribution of
estate of said decedent:
The representative of the above
named decedent, having filed in this
court his final account OF the
administration of the estate of said deced4
ent, together with his petition praying
for the adjustment aud allowance of said
final account and for Distribution of the
residue OF said estate to the persons there
unto entitled; therefore, you, and each
of you, are hereby cited and required to
show cause, if any you have, before this
court, at the probate court rooms in the
court house, in the city of Morris, in the
county of Stevens, state of Minnesota, on
the 18th day of April, 1872, at !
o'clock p. NJ, why SAID petition should
not be granted.
Witness the Judge of said court and the
seal of said court, this 10Th day OF March,
1912.
Court SeaD "A. L. STENGER,
Probate Judge.
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and Jabez, would you believe 1t when
tell you that Captain Barnabas Fish
took that heather savage monkey
man on board the Indus and put him
In the crew and made a man of him?
Now, if 1t hadn't been for my adven-
turous spirit that heather monkey
man would never have been civilized.
What do you think Of that, eh?"
Ananias Slime brushed the crumbs
Of the last doughnut from his coat
and reached for his overcoat. Jabez
Honey had listened to the story with
growing skepticism showing in his
face. He had witnessed the disap-
pearance of 80 cents worth of food,
and he appeared dissatisfied with the
returns.
"What do think Of it?' he asked
unpleasantly. Maybe I'd have en-
joyed it better, Ananias, if Captain
Fish hadn't told that same story here
last night, setting in that very chair,
only the story was different in some
ways"
GLOW was it different?" Ananias
was evidently taken aback, for his
face Redeemed even to the lids Of his
bullying light blue eyes.
captain Fish he said he stopped
for water at the Weary islands and
that he sent his first mate the didn't
mention no names> ashore with some
men after fresh water. The mate
was missed after awhile, and they
found him, Ananias-they found hin
drinking rum with a shipwreckeC
Portuguese sailor he'd found on the
island, and Captain Fish took the for
eigner aboard the Indus and let hin
work his passage homes
Jabez Honey smiled quizzically a
the abashed story teller.
THAT was a good story. Ananias.
he said as he removed the debris o,
Mr.. Shines feast. most as good al
Captain Fish's story"
But Ananias had vanished into TIN
snowstorm, and If he heard the las
remark he made no answer.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-04-12
News Of Especial interest to
Minnesota Readers.
WILL SUPPOR7.THE NOMINEE
Edgar Weaver of Mankato Out Of
Race for Republican Nomination
for the Governorshlp.

Edgar Weaver of Mankato, who an
nounced his candidacy for the Repub-
lican nomination for governor on
March 25, has formally withdrawn
from the contest. He gives no reason
except that his canvass of the situation
has caused him to change his mind.
He was preparing for struggle in
Blue Earth county with Governor Eb-
erhart and the coming, contest had
aroused considerable interest.
Mr.. Weaver said that he has not
talked with any of the governor
friends since he entered the race. He
will support the nominee of the con-
vention.
Il have made careful canvass of
the situation" says Mr. Weaver's
statement, "the result of which, to.
gether with other developments that
have taken place, has caused me to
alter my determination"
He declares that he will not be a
candidate for any political Office and
that his motive is to promote harmony
in the Republican party.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-04-12
EVIDENCE IS INSUFFICIENT
Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Mime
apoIis Murder Suspect.

Frank ]. Quartemont of Minneapo-
lis, assistant superintendent of the
commissary department of the 500
line, held for several days in connec-
ton with the murder of Alice Mat
thews in the Mill City on March %,
has been released from police custody.
Quartemont had been held on a war
rant charging murder in the first de-
gree.
The grand jury reported mo bill -
Quartemont refused to make a state
ment after his release.
The action of the jury was predict
ed. Deductions were made from the
fact that the police introduced no wit
nesses before the grand jury other
than those who had been interviewed
by newspaper reporters and who knew
but simple circumstantial evidence
relative to Quartemont. Even this
circumstantial evidence fzzled out.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-04-12
c. B. RANDALL
Attorney for Plaintiff,
Morris, Minnesota.

NOTICE OF LIS PENDENS 10
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County of Stevens
District Court, Sixteenth Judicial Dis
trict.
BENJAMIN Busch, Plaintiff,
VS.
Henry S. Judson, also all other parties
or persons unknown, claiming any
right, title, or interest in the real estate
described in the Complaint herein,
Defendants.
Notice is hereby given that an action,
has been commenced in the above named
Court by the above named plain
tiff against the above named defen-
oants, the object of which is to obtain a.
judgment that the said pIaintif is the
owner in fee of the following described
real property and that the defendants,
and each of them, have no estate or in
terest in or to said real estate, or lien
thereupon, to wit: Ellen Pushor's Rear
rangement of Block Four "a of Suther.
lands Addition to the Village, now City
lof Morris, Stevens County, Minnesota.
March 9th 1912.
c. B. RANDALL
Attorney for Plaintiff,
Morris, Mimi.
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TANGLE AT FERGUS FALLS
Strange Middle Result of the Recent
Election.

Strange Middle Result of the Recent
Election.
The Fergus Falls city council has
canvassed the returns of the recent
election, but the result leaves the sit
uation as badly muddled as it was
before.
The vote on license stood SAG in ia
vor, 600 against and 81 blank. 1t has
recently been discovered that under
the charter majority of all votes
cast must be against license In order
to prevent the granting of licenses, SO
that the blanks count the same as if
cast in favor of license. On this the.
DRY the city council officially declared
the city wet"
w. H. Mcbride, the no license candi
date, and E. T. Nelson, the license
candidate, each received 603 votes fol
mayor. The council cast lots, Mr.. Nc
Bride won and was duly declared
mayor of the city.
This further complexities the situa
ton, as three of the eight aldermen
have taken the ground that majority
OF the people voted against license anC
they do not propose to vote to gran
licenses in view of this showing. It ii
presumed that the other five will vote
to grant them, but if the mayor inter
poses a veto no licenses can be grant
ed with three voting against them.
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The Last
Inhabitant
A Sailors Yarn
By CLARISSA MACKIE

Yes, siree," calculated Ananias Slime
as he hitched his chair little nearer
the rcdhot stove in Jabez Honey's
store Il could tell you the strangest
sstory you ever listened to in all your
Hife if l didn't have to so to supper
now. That's the trouble with hotels
and boarding houses. If you amt
around at meal times you don't gel
enough to eat. It's poor enough as tits
without being scrimped on it"
Jabez Honey looked both anxious
and apprehensive. He wanted to heal
the story that Ananias would tell sc
convincingly that one could almost be
Iieve it, even Ananias himself. Then
again, the price of the story would be 8
supper served to Ananias from the
shelves of the grocery store. If Jabe1
did not fall to the bait Of the hinted
story, why, Ananias would simply car
.ry his tale across the street to brakes
where the clerks would be glad enough
to hand out anything Ananias asked
for rather than to miss one Of his stO
'rtes.
1t was a stormy winter evening. Il
had been showing for an hour, ant
now, at supper time, the fakes were
hurling themselves against the stor'
windows with little Kissing spats tina
BODIED long storm. It was lonely il
.Eabez Honey's store. The lounger
were more likely to frequent Drake
larger store.
LAS I was saying, If had time
could tell you the queerest story yo1
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ever heard" repeated Ananias, rising
to his feet and buttoning his overcoat.
"Ho, tlum!" he yawned. Guess I'll
stop in brakes minute. Good night.
Jabez."
What's the use of going?" asked ia
bez weakly. Cant you pick up a
supper here? I'll treat so long as
you're going to entertain me with a
story"
II don't mind if l do" said Ananias
with alacrity, and he whipped out Of
his overcoat. tossed it on a convenient
barrel aud rubbed his hands expectant-
;dy.
Jabez got up and moved toward the
cheese case. "What'n you have?" he
asked. Crackers and cheese and q
glass of sweet cider?"
HUM grumbled Ananias, frown-
ing. "I've kinder cut out cheese and
crackers, Jabez. They seem to give
me indigestion.
"Well." began Ananias between huge
bites Of corned beef sandwich, iii
was when I was sailing past the Wea
Try islands down in the south PACING
that this adventure happened to me
We was bound home from Calcutta
and the ship was the old Indus, Cap
zEain Barnabas Fish commanding. but
If you expect Captain Fish to sub
stantiate this story you'll be disappoint
ed, because he was always a Jealous
anan and calculated to discount any
thing might tell. Some captains are
chat jealous Of their first mates.
"As 1 was saying, we sailed past thu
Weary islands and was leaving 'en
Tar astern when Captain Fish took {
action that the water we'd taken OF
at Calcutta was bad tasting, and 81
we put back to the Wearys for a sup
ply Of fresh water. You can't bea
them tropical islands for cold. spark
ding springs Of rure- wafer