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price as window lights for log cabins.
They were piled up lengthwise or set
endwise into the windows. being chinked
round with mud
Some Of Mr.. Whites stories related to
the towns along the line. There were
settlements of log huts and cities Of
tents. The town of White Pass con-
tanned thousands of tents. occupied by
men and women waiting for RATS
and boats to be completed to car
ry them down through the lakes and
by way Of the river to Dawson. In The
spring Of 1898 there were 10000 persons
camped at the head of Lake Bennett
at the time of the breaking of the Ice,
and on the shores of the lake you can
still see the remains of Mike Kings
sawmill. which cut lumber at the rate
of $50 per thousand and upward for the
making of boats to go over the lake.
''All of these settlements continued
Mr.. White. had their saloons and dance
halls and games of chance of one kind
or another. The men were crazy for
amusement and did all sorts of strange
things. l remember one night coming
into a saloon at White Pass where a
gambling for drinks. The goddess of
fortune was the wee insect that Bobby
Burns immortalized in one of his poems
when he saw 1t creeping on a young
lady's bonnet. This kind of wee
beastie" was very common in those
days and the miners had no trouble in
finding one for their sport. The insect
was placed on the bar and the gam
blers laid their right hands about ii at
equal distances away. Then they wait
ed to see upon whose hand the beastie
would crawl first. That unfortunate
man paid for the drinks"
AS the crow flies the distance from
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The Height of Man.

IT HERE is no evidence to show tba.
men nave ever had a greater aver
age height than they have now For
long time there existed in France
near the junction of the Isere and
Rhone rivers, a deposit of gigantic
bones known as the Giants Field" Tn
recent times bones have been exbuned
there which were believed to be human
and were said to be those of Teu,o-
bodus. the king of the Teutons. wbo
the Roman general.
The researches of C,,yier b,r..
proved that these bones, together y,,h
an the others exhumed in the same
place, were those of the Dinotheriu,,o
glganteum, an extinct animal Of ths
tapir species, which measured about
twenty feet in length
Inc myth OF race of giants has its
counterpart in those other creatures of
the imagination. the pyemies. These
tabled people, who were so small thai
a stalk of grain was a tree to them.
hatchets and brush hooks were s,id -
inhabit Ethiopia. They were aIways
at war with the cranes but lived On
such excellent terms with the par
trldges that they were able to harness
them into their carriages They lived
at first, according to the ia BILE i'm
Thrace. but were driven out of Europe
by the cranes and took refuge in Ethi-
opia.
1t is now commonly supposed that
the pygmies were nothing more or less
than monkeys of small size. like mar
mosets.
The stories of the pygmies go with
the fables of the giants. The men of
ancient times were of the same or
nearly the same. height as those of the
present day. The doors of ancient
houses. ancient armor the Egyptian
mummies, as well as the fossil bones
of men. prove that theRe has been little
or no variation.
Among famous tall men was the Ro-
man Emperor Maximin, whose stature
was seven and three-quarters feet
MaNimin was young barbarian. the
son of Gothic father. who first at
tracted the attention of the Romans
by overcoming sixteen of the strong
est men. one after another in a wres-
Ting contest, and, having been made
centurion. he fought and intrigued
his way to the imperial throne.
The normal stature of men and wom-
en- ranges between i've feet ana six
feet four inches.
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ty-six women prominent in such work
form a board of visitors.
No hospital, except a very few which
have been enormously endowed, can
meet its expenses from its income. 1t
must practice preparedness-that is, it
must always be ready to run at it's full
capacity. 1t will not do to wait until
an instrument is needed before buying
it: it must be at hand when the emer-
gency arises. Pupil nurses must be
trained, gotten ready for the contest
That hospital is culpable which allows
an underfed, an overworked an ILL.,
housed and unhappy nurse, however
willing and conscientious, to take
charge of a patient or a ward.
The nurses of Columbia Hospital are
fortunate in some but not in all re-
of theoretical training: they are not.
this sort. compelled to do the scrub
work of the place. which is here done
by workers and orderlies. but since the
work is so specialized they have not
the opportunity for broad course in
practical nursing. They are well fed
and well treated. but certainly they
need a suitable nurses home. They re-
quire comfort and the opportunity for
relaxation quite as much as any other
human beings. and they must have
these If the hospital is to get full eff
cheney from them That is plain BUSH
ness proposition.
All this plant and preparation must be
kept up; 1t is as necessary for the
wealthy as for the unfortunate. Its
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place and may take any of his patients
there for treatment.
Some persons, not unkindly at heart,
take the cold blooded position that
hospitals are an evil that from their
standpoint 1t is better that the riff
raft. the wastage which drifts to the
wards. should, following natures law,
he nermitted to wear itself out and die.
One should hear the views of Surgeon
General BREASTED on that subject:
1T is not" said he. the privilege
of any one to pass Judgment upon an
inmate of any hospital for the general
proposition is not true. 1t most GER
tainly does not apply to a place like
the Columbia; and should not to any,
even where the most vicious people are
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has very much increased in price of
late, but that there is still plentiful
stock of the plants growing wild in
dertaking its cultivation. Another
name for deadly nightshade" is
"atropa belladonna." The particular
property it possesses when applied to
the eye of causing dilation of the pupil
was known to Pliny nearly 1000 years
ago. and if Matthiolus is to be trusted,
the drug came to be known as bella
donna from the fact that in the seven
teenth century ii was used by Eene-
tan women as an aid to what the
fippant would refer to as eye work.
The plant is partial to lime-bearing
soils; it is not quick grower, and as
ii must be raised from seed, which is
none too plentiful, growing it is not a
gold mine.
Foxglove, a rather common wild
plant, is another of the herbs which are
in demand. A writer has said that one
should go into the cultivation of this
plant warily, and his caution is in the
following words: The common wild
foxglove tDigitalis purpurea). from
which digitalis is extracted, is a case
in point, for this is not a plant for cul-
tivation by those whose tent is pitched
on limy soil: again the garden forms
of the foXglove are not so suitable Tor
the herb farmers purpose as the wild
plant, and certain strains of the latter
are better than Others
The aconite plant is widely distributed
in its growth, and it is said that be-
cause its distribution is so nearly uni
versal that it is hardly worth cultiva-
ton. ..
Oil of chamomile is prepared from
Anthems nobilis, beloved of the old
herbalists, and, though it is a native
weed, America and British chemists
have for years drawn their supplies
mainly from the plant farms of Bel
gium and Saxony. The flowers are
harvested in September, and. though
in dull. wet autumn they lose much
of their value, the closing of conti-
mental supplies seems, 1t has been said,
to make the risks of cultivation worth
running, especially as cultivated flow
ers yield a more uniform extract.
AS everybody knows. the dandelion,
from which taraxicum is extracted is
and the wild supply is in
exhaustible and easily obtained. Among
the many other common herbs which
grow in the open fields. the meadows
and the woods, are valerian, penny
royal marshmallow. horehound. meadow
saffron and coltsfoot.
Though an increasing number of per-
sons are embarking in the business of
medicinal herbs. an author
ity on the subject of drug plants bids
them beware. Jus, how far" he says.
they are good investment is nice
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snow PLow THE WHEEL IN FRONT OF THE ENGINE HAS
MACHINE TWELVE DEPTH.

mountain plateau. In fact. Alaska is
world to climate. and in speaking
of it 1t is impossible to compare it with
any one region. The conditions of
the different sections. There are parts
of Alaska as warm as Tennessee and
Kentucky. There are parts where the
rain pours almost every day, and there
are other parts, such as the far north,
where the rainfall is only two or three
inches per year. At Skagway the
thermometer seldom falls to zero.
Here at White Horse, 100 miles away.
it now and then drops to 10 below. and
40 to so degrees below zero are to be
had every winter.
In travelling from Skagway to the
tops of the mountains the vegetation
shows the changes of the climate ac-
cording to altitude. We start in
trees are spruce and pines of various
varieties Some of them are as big
around flour barrel and as tall
as four-story house. AS we ascend
shorter and shorter. until at last they
range in height from that of ones
waist to his shoulder. Higher still they
become mere shrubs that crawl on the
ground. And still they are perfect
trees. although they have been f1atten-
ed by the snow that lies on them dur
ing the greater part of the winter. At
little distance they look like car
pet of green on the sides of the hills.
Close to the track they make you
which may be centuries old. although
less than two feet in height.
All the way up the mountains you can
see the remains of the trail which
the gold hunters climbed before the
iron track was constructed. They
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taken for treatment. Half the time
depravity is the result of sick bodies.
almost always of ignorance. No they
must not die, but be given chance to
live and be shown in the hospitals
how to live decently.
I hope the time will come when the
care of the sick will be of such concern
to the public that there will be hos
pitfalls for all, where every one who
is i'll may go for rest and care and
real restoration.
In Columbia we handle only special
cases. and who could bear to deprive
mother and a baby of anything which
Will protect both and make them bet
ter and stronger? For care in such
times there is no place like a good
modern hospital
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the wings of the wind over the perpet-
ual ice, his breath sends a chill to your
bones. This is perceptible as you cross
the canyon and catch the cold air of
the Muir glacier not far away. This
whole region was once great
glacial garden. You can see glaciers in
Skagway. and there are glaciers here
and there on the sides of the mountains
along the railroad. I saw one with a
thread of silver falling down the green
slope below it. A little lower the thread
had swelled to a rope. Lower still it
had become great cable. and it ended
in the foaming Skagway river. dash
ing down over the rocks to the sea.
x r
Passing over the mountins of the
Coast range, you come into a new coun-
try as far as the character of the air
is concerned. skagway is as moist as
Puget sound. while White Horse is as
dry as Denver. In southeastern
Alaska it rains almost every day, and
the soil is like wet sponge. Once over
the pass you are in a region which has
not had a bit of rainfall for months.
The country is as dry as bone. and
in midsummer as hot as the Sahara.
There are frequent forest fires. AS we
climbed to the top of the pass we saw
thousands of acres ablaze on the sides
of the mountains.
There is plenty of soil on the north
ern slope of the range. and at first
sight the country would seem to be
excellent for farming. l am told that
it is not: The soil is sand on a bed
of gravel and the rain sinks through
and is lost. Farther north the soil
changes, but the air grows dryer. and
the climate is like that of our Rocky
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CARPENTER Were Laid MuainsThe First
$2OOOOOn the Coast
the Early Min
Boundary Hawats Usual Tourist
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TN HE herb garden is no new thing.
and in the centuries gone the
herbalists were regarded as men
of considerable distinction, and were
In numerous instances men of consid-
cradle learning. as knowledge of the
sciences was measured in those remote
times. The herbalist was botanist. phar-
macist and physician, raising his own
herbs, making from them his cwn
medicines and administering them to
his own patients. A number of the gar
dens of these old herbalists are historic.
a few of them have been preserved in
Europe, and in more than one instance
a great botanical garden has been de-
yeloped out of what was once an herb
alist's garden.
But the herbalist who raised his own
plants passed into eclipse. Medicine
making and the practice of medicine
became separate occupations. The
worlds demand for medicines increased
to such proportions that the herb gar
den could not nearly supply it, Recourse
was had to wild medicinal herbs, and
the gathering and curing of these
plants give work to thousands of men,
women and children, and is a large in
dustry which is scattered throughout
the world.
OF late there is a tendency to return
to the herb garden, or it would be bet
ter now to call it herb plantation or
herb farm. No longer is it considered
meet and proper that in one garden
should be gathered all the plants that
are called for in the treatment of hui
man ills. The knowledge of medicine
and medicinal plants has been very
much extended within the last century,
or the last two centuries. and today
plant life from all climates and all
soils is drawn on to meet the demand.
Because of this. herb growers special
ize. raising particular herbs which
flourish in that particular climate and
soil.
As yet the great bulk of weeds and
other plants, banks and seeds called for
in materia medica are of wild growth,
but men who send large supplies of
these to the chemical manufacturers
who need them are slowly but gradu-
ally turning to the cultivation Of the
plants.
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maintenance places upon the directors
and visitors a heavy burden.
The hospital has a wonderful staff,
but any physician or surgeon Of good
standing has all the privileges of the
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point for the adventurer. If country
man. he has most of them to his hand
in quantity; moreover. the demand
though steady. is not great. and the
supply may easily be overdone In
deed. that is the risk in the case of Ali
medicinal plants"
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WHAT New Structure Takes Place Build
w BuldngTh
NuseWhe the Cooking Washing Don-Need ola Home for Nurses
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"A IL hospital work is gracious,
A\ but none more SO than that
N\ which cares for women and
q x ba bies, such work. for exam
ple, as is done in the Columbia Hos
pftal for Women. at Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and 25th street.
This institution is not solely chari-
table one. 1t is a boon to the daugh-
tiers of wealth. a refuge for the poor
and aba ndoned: and women of every
grade between these extremes of pow
erty and wealth will find there every
attention that skill, thought and mon
ey can provide
The social life of the city has left
the section where the Columbia build
ing stands. and not many now know
or recall that this was the STE OF the
old MAYNARD house, the one-time home
of the British minister, and that trade
then was far away from these scenes.
The property subsequently was ac-
ouired by the national government,
which provided the funds necessary 70
alter the old mansion into more Mt
ting building for the little organiza-
fion already formed as a hospital Tor
amicted womankind.
In 1872 the mansion was occupied as
q hospital and was so used until 1872
when the new structure was erected
The present hospital. although NOT the
! largest. is one OF the most perfectly
arranged for its purpose in the coun-
Try. The building. which is of rough
gray brick, with heavy tiled roof. IS
| Spanish in architecture. and while me
: design. of necessity. does not iehd IL
: self 10 beauty OF outline, its ntness 10
the purpose OF the building gives II a
: chzrrn empha sized by its originality
The construction OF this building was
placed by Congress in the hands OF
+: Elliott Woods. superintendent of the
Capitol building and grounds, who had
superyised the erection of the Senate
and House ONCE buildings. He called
, in the assistance of architect and engi-
neer, and in cooperation with the
: directors has produced building
> which is described in these words:
The design shows the main portion of
the building rectangie l16 by ~
feet. running east and west. with Y
shaped wings at each end OF the
front
The main building is five stories
high, with a basement underneath and
q roof garden on top. The wings are
two stories lower. and across each Of
the four ends of the Y-wines are
floor.
The whole building is devoted to
maternity cases and the diseases
of women. and has two divisions.
one for each class Of case. Each
service provides for both free and pay
patients and separate quarters for
white and colored patients Besides
provision for the service. which in
cludes treatment, nursing and living, a
dispensary in the basement has been
added.
The FIRST floor is for coIored free pa
tients. the second for white free, the
third for private patients. while the
fourth floor contains the operating and
delivery suites. and the fifth the
kitchens and dining rooms
IL one can obtain the privilege of in
speeding this building he will on en-
terinE. hnd himself in a large hall
with central counter, suggesting a
simple hotel desk. A uniformed nurse.
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Naturally they are turning first to the
plants which are most dimcult to OBJ
tain in the wild state and which bring
the highest prices One OF these is the
deadly nightshade. from which afro
pine is made. 1t Is said that this drug
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The next floor. if inspected, would no
longer be thought of as a gallery of
horrors. II contains the operating
rooms, with every appliance known to
science to save life, to ease pain and
relieve poor humanity. feature of
this floor is the rooms where patients
from the wards. their trials over. are
taken to rest alone for a day or two
until, after their excitement has sub
sided. they are taken down stairs.
II the visitor is really interested. not
merely politely. Miss Nurse will show and
explain the things he sees. and then take
him to the floor below. where are the
rooms for the pay patients. Severely
simple but very pretty they are. with
their bare. tinted walls and polished
floors for there must be no place for dust
to lodge. narrow bed on long legs Is
the main piece of furniture, and chair
or two a dresser. table which will stand
right across the bed. nearly complete the
equipment A low couch which rolls un-
der the bed serves. when pulled out, as
sleeping place for the special nurse. who
Is provided II the case Is such as to re-
quire one.
Private wards which will accommodate
two or four patients are provided for
those who wish not to incur the heavier
expense of the private room. None Of
these rooms open upon the porches. but
all corridors lead to one Of these resting
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accept his credentials. without which
he cannot go further. and direct him on
his way.
Dr. Skinner. the medical superin-
tendent. will see him in his Office. and
il the visitor promises to be very good
he will let him go almost anywhere,
except to the nursery. but that he can
not enter. He may look through a glass
panel in the door, but he may not
cross the threshold-he might carry
germs.
II one is very fortunate a nurse will
conduct him through the building. A
there are three-lifts him to the roof,
where a covered pergola keeps off the
heat of the sun and leaves the space
open to the breezes from all directions.
opposite and all Washington below
Convslescents can be taken there in
wheel chairs with little strain to OBJ
tain that change of scene which so aids
recovery Descending to the top story
he viii find himself in the kitchens,
where there is every device for prepar-
ing, cooking and serving food for the
inmates. including the sixty nurses and
the maids and orderlies. One sees cal
drons which hold soup enough for a
company of soldiers and an electric po-
tato peeler which will prepare tubers
enough for regiment. Coffee perco-
lators make and keep hot enough of
that precious stimulant to supply a
rush hour lunch counter.
one may enter great cold storage
rooms where there is never a sign of
ice, Pipes running from tank in the
cellar convey brine. chilled by am
monia, In coils about the ROOM keep
ing il at a temperature that food can
be preserved in the hottest weather.
An electric ice cream freezer is e nov
city. Windows on three sides make
this room light as photographers
gallery. and IL there be any odor of
cooking. IL is blown into the outdoors
and never reaches the patients below.
On the same floor are two dining
rooms, well furnished and equipped
the smaller for the superintendents
and resident nurses, the larger for the
pupil nurses. One little thing Is
characteristic of the whole organi-
cation. Near the dining room Is a
steam box for the express purpose of
keeping warm the food for the girls
whose duties keep them from dining
with the other nurses. Flowers were
on the tables and the rooms were spot
less. Mr.. Woods selected the furnish
ings.
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IL one can obtain the privilege of in
speeding this building he will. on en-
terinE. md himself in a large hall
with central counter. suggesting a
simple hotel desk. A uniformed nurse.
who presides over the telephone. will
The Little River news., 1916-05-20
Graduating Exercises.
X LARGE DEWBERRY CROP
Thousands of Acres Run Riot in Little
 River County.

Literally thousands of acres of wild dewberries are ripening and most of them going to waste in this county, especially in Red River bottoms. Pee, pie from this city and other places in the county have been gathering them. Some families have been able to gath CT 20 to 40 or more gallons in a day. They report that in some places there are hundreds of acres in the woods covered solidly by the berries. Wood < Hull at Ogden are buying the ber- ries and shipping them to the mar kets, where they are said to be bring ing fancy prices, around $4 per crate. The dewberry crop in this coun y, if taken care of in an organized way, would practically assure carload ship ments and outstrip the strawberry in- dustry in vOlumn. The berries grow wild and belong to anyone who cares to pick them, as the farmers are in different to them as they are to the wild blackberry. Maybe it would be a good idea if in the future we would capitalize the dewberry, which seems determined to grow and multiply and bring forth abundant harvest whether we care or not.