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"CONSUMPTION" Sir Wilfred Gre nfe ll .TUBERCULOSIS ON THE NORTH SHORE .. Donald G. H odd, M. D.SUMMER SCHOOL AT BARR'D H A R BOR-

llIustrated .. Jan Quackenbush , ..NEWFOUNDLAND FOLK SONGSERVICE FOR DR. LITTLE ...THE AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES I N

LABRADOR-Illustrated . . .. Fred C. Sears, Professor of Pomology , Massa -chusetts Agricultural College 144

MUDDY BAY SKETCHES . . Frances W. Conrow . . 141A PRAYER HYMN W. T . G. 150THE NEW MARAVAL-Illustrated . . Albert T . Gould 151"THE EYE DOCTOR"-IlIustrated . Frank D. Phinney, M. D.,

F ,A.C.S.BABY CLINIC AT NORTHWEST RIVER-Illus-

trated Elizabeth CriswellI N MEMORY OF CAPT. GEORGE BARBOUR . Varick Frissell .A PORPOISE HUNT-Illustrated . . Carl W. Eberbach, M. D.TROUT FISHING AT NORTHWEST RIVER-

Illustrated . . Wilson G. Smillie, M. D .ST. ANTHONY'S NEW MAR INE RA ILWAY-

Illustrated . Frances E. Baier .THE BUILDING OF A BOAT SLIP Er ic H . Thomsen ." W O RK, MISS, WORK"-IlIustrated . . .. H. R. P . .. .PARTING GIFT TO MR . AND MRS . BLACK -

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Among the Deep -Sea FishersThe Official Organ of the Internationa l Grenfe ll Associatio n

Yo!' XX\'I JA NUARY, 1929

"Co ns umption"Sir W ilfred Grenfell

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Fl{O~' all the doctors on the Coast re­ports keep coming ill of the one WOUIfoe of our people of th e No rth. Lab­

rador is a splendid ly healt hy country. Ithas no specific diseases of its own and noendemic diseases-s-uo ma larias, no anemias.l·anc..r is no more prevalent there than inotb ..r places, Tuberculosis is the realmenace.

This was first impressed upon me duringm~- urly days on the Coast. One year inthe fa ll I visited in a certain ha rbor a manill with tuberc ulosis who had a wife and sixchildren. Circums tances prev en ted m y see­illl{ that isola ted fam ily agai n for eig htmonths. \Vllen I did return to the place thelittl e house was in ruins an d all .....ere dcad,the man, his w lte an d their six children.

Glim pu, into Tube rculo,i, Ward'

I have juet received from Dr. ~foullt inSt. :\nthony, ..... ho ecmes straight from thegreat )'la r o Clinic. a le tte r containing thispara graph:

"Th ere is indeed the one big scou rge tothe Coast which still remain s, and it see msto me tha t it is gett ing wa n e. Thi s is prob­a bly simply beca use there a re mor e cases tohand now tha n wh en I was her e .before. Asevidence of this just let me say that severa lof the girls are off today to the Iune ra! ofElsie Dawe from Ir eland Bight. while hersist('r is still here in hospit.l suffering fromthe same acid-fast infection. Up on theporch wit h her sister a re five more pul­monary cases, one of these being the l.e th­ridg e girl from Dr, Pad don 's district . Sheis brin~ing up copiou s amounts of s putum,and she w as here last winter and has laryn­gea l tuber...ulos is as .....eli. Downstairs is the

brother 0; this girl. Wi llie Lethridge...... ithpuhnonar)' disease, which, howe\·er. seemsto be undcr contro l at the prese nt time, anda lso a tuber culosis wris t necess itati ng am­putation. In the next bed is Jerry Xe w el1with a Pirogoff amputation because of tuber­culosis, wh ile out ill the next ward is an'oth ..r similar infection of the bones oi thefoot. Cpstairs in the ward in a row arethr ee tuberculcsis knees which have OcC" re­sected."

To one .....ho knew all these bright childrenthat Dr. Moun r speaks ai, most of whomwcre as lu-althy as til)' o..... n eig hteen monthsago. it see ms impossibl e that we can carryon without specia l work to prcvent thisaffliction,

Prevent ive Mealu rea with Child ren

The Child Welfue work, begun under Missxtartcn Moseley and lIiss Eliz.belh Fullerand ably carried on by :Miss Elizabeth Pageand M i~s Elizabeth Criswell, has had exce l­lent results. But from all of our dist rictsthe doctors in cha rge wr ite that we mustintensif y our endeavo rs in thi s field. Amongs tour own ad opted children the perc ent age oftuberculosis is much lower than in ot hergroups. Even these, however, when they godIlt into life after.....ards, give us eause formuch disaJlPQintment. We real ize that. follow­ing Dr. Trudeau, we must en force preventivemeasures and curative treatment with all ou rpeop le of ...hatever age.

Poverty I nd Ilnor~nce aI Clul elT he causes as I see them are lar gely those

' tha t a re at work in other countries, namel y,povert y and ignoran ce : an d the chi ef ca useis poverty. \Ve a re t rying to me-et that a~ we

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think the Christ would meet it by endeavor­iug to raise the standard of living. Theestablishment of Cooperative Stores and theabolition of the old truck system of tradinghave had some effect iu improving Ih 'iul;'conditions.

The Industr ia l Department is doing a greatdeal to tide over those bad times when ourpeople, who are dependent on seasonal occu­patlons, may suffer from hunger and want.This Department is ably directed by MissPressley-Smith in St. Anthony, and has acentre for sales, in connection with the officeof the New England Association, under MissAnne Fitzpa trick.

The gain from labor given out by the In­dustria l Department, small though it may be,may often mean that a mother is enabledto buy milk or some other luxury for a tinychild which, with out this assistance, she couldnot afford. For this reason I want mostheartily to commend the industrial sales toall our friends. \Vill 1I0t readers of thisarticle get in touch with Miss Fitzpatrick at120 Tremont Street, Boston, and ask for somel ists of our industrial product? Each salemeans that we shall be able to give out morework and to assist our people to use profit­ably more otherwise idle hours. \Ve shallthus confer a real blessing on a well-wor th­whi le people of our own "kith and kin" andblood and race.

Th e Indutrial Depa rtmen t"! Hand icapMiss Pressley-Smith will SOOII be bringing

out her report on th e operations in her de­partment dur ing the past year; we hope itwill ap peal strongly to our friends. F romwhat she tell s me her greatest need is forthe sma ll ca pita l necessary for buying suffi­cient stock in the spring of the year withoutthe necessity for reso rt to borrowing. Thisshe has neve r had. T he pr ice of a pear lnecklace wou ld be a perfect godsend if in­vested as capita l for the Industrial Depart­ment. The cost of one big part y o r the pr iceof a first-cl ass fur coat would be a help.

Those who ha ve visited Labrador an d seenconditions there, who are interested in thesocia l welfar e of ou r people, should wantjust as much to help in this unselfish and. Ifeel, Ch ristlike effor t as they wou ld want tocome to the rescue of a little ch ild in da ngerof being run ove r in the road if the infinitepriv ilege and joy of saving the ch ild's l ifewere offered to them. Es pecially should those

help who want to do as Christ would do illthis Twentie th Ct:lltury,-to give a rea l mes­sage of love to fellow beings with all thecapacities fo r joy and so r row, achievementand fa ilu re, that we ours elves have.

Th e fun of life does not lie in selfish satis­faction. H ow 1 used to envy Peter and Johnfor making a lame man walk I What a greatday they must have had afte rwards! I usedto envy Dr. Andrews when, a fter having senthim a blind perso n, I was ab le to take thisperso n back to his home with his sight. Any­one with human love ill h is hea r t loves thischallenge to do good whereve r it is met\Vhat we are trying to do is to show thatlife can be made a glorious asset if we con­duct ourselves as knights who are hewing outa better world for others.

Agriculture as an Ally

I have 1I0t spoken about the AgriculturalDepartment as an invaluable factor againsttuberculosis. Und er two volunteers.c-Pro­Iessor Sears of the Massachusetts Agricul ­tural College and Miss Chr istine Feucwesof Yar mouth, England,-both of whom paidall of their own expenses and both of whomintend to come to the Coast again, thisweapon for gelling through the armor oftuberculosis has become a lillie more effec t­ive. The great gift made through Mrs. JohnSteers, President of the Garden Clubs ofAmerica, of three sma ll greenhouses spreadover four degrees of latitude has meant infi ­nitely more than the bald Iacr would lead om'to suppose. Unfo rtunately two of the green­houses arrived late last fa ll, but we are hop­ing they will be functioning befo re Christmasill spite of the difficult communication inLabrador. F rom the greenhouse already inservice thousands of young plants were sentout last sp ring, an d poor folk were encour­aged by being ab le to r ipen vegetables asnever before and by procuri ng food fromsources that had never befo re rende red trib­ute for their benefi t.

Th e Garden Clubs a lso have helped me tosend two young men fo r t ra in ing to be "me nbehind the guns," and il has been an infinitejoy to me 10 hea r from the Coast of the newhope that this has insp ired.

Educ ation Through Nuuing Stations

Another weapo n in the fight against tuber­culosis is the education of our people in pre­ventive and cu rative measures which is car­ried on from the nursing stations. These are

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aituated at various accessible poinb betweenthe hospitals. From them highly trained anddevoted nurses, such as ~I in Ferris, MinBehan, ~ i55 Brow n and ).tiss :Murray , toname a few among many, are labo ring toteach the people ho w to take ca re of them ­selves. T hese nur si ng stat ions a re littl eoases of inf or ma t ion of the sort t ha t "ietshome" an d insp ires and encourages.

It seems to me, as 1 think of the Ch risthanding H is message to us. that still toda~

He has to use endless numbers of humanlives of all kinds. from the unlearned andpenniless fishennan to the learned and highlytrained Pauls, from t~ traders like Matthewto the well meaning but Iiabte-to-Iailurelike Judas Isca r-ic t. It seems to me that lifecan be ma de glo rious not only to the wea lth)'who can give in la rg e sums, but also to the).[rs. \V iKgs's who radiate the same meSS:lll:('through their unselfish personalities on thecabbage patches of the wor ld, It seems infi­nitely divine that a job on earth challengese,-ery living human being-a job big enoughto merit "welt done."

NH'd for a n An ti -Tubereul ol il ruad

1 feel sure that, if a fund called the "Anti­Tuberculosis Fund" could be established andput at the disposal of the Counc il of theMission, a ll those who showed willi ngnessto he lp th eir bro thers and sisters ove r thisterrible sti le by contributing to the fundwould de r ive great satisfaction from theknow ledge that they had aided in the sa"ingof many li ves. And contributors to the fundcould have perfect confidence that it wouldbe administered, as dictated by the most ad­vanced know ledge of the disease, by doctorsand nurses whose unse lfish devotion to ourpeople keeps them year in and year out onthe Coast.

It is horrible to me to read this morn ingof the l itt le child, Willie, who, because of atubercular wr ist, is goi ng to have his righthand cut off so that his life may be saved.

Horeible thought ui facing life on the Lab­rador withvut lour right hand ! I hate tohave to think of th .. three all in a row withtheir knees excised beca use they were tuber­cular, 01 Je rry wi th hi) fout cut off for the0;.'1 1111' reason, and of another 101,1 wail ing forthe same fa ll' ill th e uext wa rd . E I, ie wasbr-igh t and smili ng and 01 su ch g reat I'0 ten ­tia l va lue when I la st saw her , and a lreadyshe l io:s a vict im of what we h..lie 'l" 10 be apreventab le disease. 1 know that the Direc­tors will wannly welcome a specia l anti­tuberculosis fund that could be 1,lac..d attheir disposal

baueDee of Summer Seb ool.I shou ld not omit to me ntion the summer

schools which have so val uab le all influencein educating the peo ple to make the bes t ofa ll avai lab le food sUPIIIi,·s in orde r to obtaina we ll balanced diet. For the unsc!f"h :<1Id

lovin g se r vice of gradua tes of Vassar, Br)1l~lav.r, Wdlesley, Radcliffe and oth..r col­leges, which has made these sunuuvr schoolspossible. we feel that we can never thankthem enough.

More ViUm in.Among the thin~ that would help us in

our light agai nst tuberculosis is a gift of th euew g lass which permits the passage of"vitamin" rays . In a cold clima te and insma ll ho uses, a ll of the w indows must bekept closed thr oughout the wi nter in orderto conserve heat, and so all vitamin r"ys areexcluded. This is a very dangerous co nditionto live in. The hospitals sho uld each havea stock of sunlight glass or l'itagla5S or othervitamin-paaaing material, so that there any­how the people wou ld not suffer from thisdisadvantage,

Sunlight. m ilk a nd fr esh vegetables areth ree necessi t ies in the war agai nst tuber­cu losis. An a nt i-t ube rc ulosis fund would bethe means for en sur-ing that our peopl e donot suffe r because of the lack of thesenecess ities.

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Tuberculosis on the North ShoreDonald G. Hodd, M.D .

M OST people seem genu inely surprisedto learn of the preva lence of tuber­culosis among the fishermen of the

Canadian Labrador. T hey say, "Why, Ithought they would be particularly free fromtuberculosis, with all the fres h. air and OUI ­

side life." Such. an attitude can be exp lainedby the lingering theor ies of air-borne diseases,by which we made bacteria to fly, and by ourgr eat faith in fresh air as a cure for the,lrea,{ disease.

T he fact is that our fishermen are afflictedwith tuberc ulosis to just as great an extentas city dwellers, or even more so. Fcrtu­uatcly, during my two and a half years illQuebec Labrador, the total nu mber of dea thsill cases of which I have had any intimateknowledge has been small; bu t, in four out ofsixteen instances, the dire ct cause was tuber ­culosis, Three of thc sixteen were due 10accidental drowning, four to accidents durin gchildbirth, and the remainder to circulatorydiseases . T he proportion of the cases ofsicxness due to tuberculosis to the total num­ber of cases, if we except such minor disu ­hilities as those caused by infected fingers,ctc., is the same as the proportion of death scaused by tuberculosis to the total number o fdeaths. Surg ical abdominal conditions havehappily kep t th emselves out of sight duringmy time here. From information gleane df rom workers in more northern zones, tuber­culosis seems to be as prevalent there as iuour litt le world. T he following remarks havereference entirely to the conditions foundamong the people of the Canad ian Labrador- those dwelling along the nort h shore of theGulf of St . Lawrence fro m Natashquan tothe Straits of Belle Is le.

Bone tuberculosis is surp rising ly ra re. Iknow of only two cases in onr comm unity­one a case of Pot t's disease where the bonesof the spine arc affected, and the other agener alized disease of th e long bones of thebody. Sc rofulous conditions, or tuberculousdisease of the glands, is also rare excep tamong the Indi ans. During my visits lastsummcr I sa w a whole family of Indiankiddies suffer ing from this horrible condition.If these types of . t e disease arc ra re. as

much cannot be suld of the pulmollary IYl'e,which attac ks its victim, in probably the mostsubtle fas hion of all . As we know, it strikesill the dar k with a slow but sure blow, andleaves the stricken indiv idua l appa rently wellbut unable to carryon the business of life .I have in mind a fine young gi rl, who, to allappearances, is in perfect health -rosy cheeks.br ight eyes and fair stature. Yet regularlyshe returns to the hospital for a per iod ofcomplete rest which varies fro m three to sixmonths -a victim of the insidious enem y

\Vhat circumstances of the lives of thepeople are responsible lor excessive tubercu­lous disease? In our dis tr ict there are twoor three hundred Indians who live in villag eswith white fishermen in three places' fifty toa hundred miles apa rt. It is a wen knownfact that the Indian is verv susceptible totuberculosis; probably we of the white raceare responsible for his acquiring the disease.The presence of the numerous tube rculousIndians is a tr emendousl y serious fact or inspreading the disease. At each of the placeswhere tbe Indians reside they furnish a breed­ing ground and act as a distributing centre.Becaus e of the Indian's habits of living,measures for checking the disease are almostfuti le. Every summer when he comes to livein the vil lages he brings with him a full quotaof tuberculous germs, and unknow ingly passesthem on to the unsuspecting fishermen-theseeds for the harvest of th e disease that issure to be reaped sooner or la ter.

Far from king a helpful factor, the out ­doo r life of the people is likely to be anothercause for th e spread and continuance oftuberc ulosis. It is necessary for an ambitiousfi,herman to be out in all kinds of weather.Exposure leads to various minor respira torydiseases. Colds a re by no means rare, andit is a frequent remar k that "the cold is goingarou nd again." When a cold str ikes a com­munity it has no let-up unt il nea rly every ­body bas been visited with sniffles or a cough.Although we know th at wet clot hing doesnot give rise to "lung trouble," we cannotdeny tha t ext reme expos ure render s the indi­vidual far more suscept ible to the inr oadsof the disease. \Vhile tr apping, men must

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etten live ami sleep for ,l..)'s in very poorshelters, exp05ed to "iole", changes of tem­perature, often with insufbcient Iood and I1CC­evearily with a poor ly balanced d iet. Lot, of/(001 1 iresh air, you say. Hut what about thosefreezing nig hts that folio'" wet snowy days,when the clothing is soake d thr ough and ,hen'is no chance in the world of chang ing into adry outfit. ~o, exposure does not cause thedisease, but it does Of>t" 11 up 'he path so thatthe ever-present intruder ca n come in anddo the d..mage.

In these days most of us are aware of the:importance to health of ultra-violet lighl.IJurilljl" most of the Labrador winte r the sunrises bin a short distance into the sic)', send­inl{ its ra)'s to earth very obliquely so that:, large part of th e curat ive ult ra -violet raysare filte red out by the ear th's atm osphere.The springt ime with its warme r. clearer days)'ields more of the prccjous rays. But sum­mer soon comes on with its fogs and cloud}'days, and agloin the valuable ra)'s are pre­vented from carrying out their mission ofdisinf«ting and curing. We believe thattuberculosis gets its hold in the ta rly ytars oflife and. by a series of re-infections, buil,l~

itself into a rncnstrous giant dealing disease"n,1 death. The children, especially thoseun der fou r years of age, lead a confined life.Even on fine days they Sla}' indoors fo r Icarof the dORS. Du ring 'he period of thei r lilt·~

when outside air and good health -laden sun­light would help to prevent tuberculosis. thl:yare compelled to remain in sluffy houses whereman)' known and unknown germs are lurk­ing. The lack of ultra-violet light resuhinefrom gC'OR:raphieal position and from tht"necessity that children be safeguarded is an­other important factor in the spread oftuberculos is.

Association with ' he tuberculous Indians.exposure to incle men t we.nher an d cold wil hits resuhing minor illn...sses, ins ufficient ultr a­vjolet light and, in occasional cases. poornourishment-c-all have an dfl:Cl on the healthof the people and predispose them 10 the,Iisease. But the outstanding influence is thegeneral unhygi...nic condition existing in theaveraee home. There are some communiucswhere comfortable and fairly large houM'smay be found, but the majority of the peoplemilch ci the t ime are confined to two orthr ...e small rooms in st ifling , hot, dea d a ir.Ven tilation, especially in th e wint er, is I1n·rhour..zbt-of. "Why burn wood to heat theout-Of-doors?" Tn many instances dis hes and

cooking utensils are left unwashed from mealto meal, or at best poorly was hed. Wholefamilies may sleep in one or two rooms ill thesame unventilated atmosphere. Th e habit ofsl'iUinK Oil the floor by car eless smokers isthe glar ing causative factor in the spread ofthe disease. I re me mbe r with some amuse­ment an incident during my overnight stayill a small house where th ree children livedwith a diseased father and a d isused rnotber.In the elening I had noticed the man of thehouse and a neighbor at frequent intervalssl-'ining on the floor with no attempt to usethe cuspidor (if there were one), Before~tting out the following morning I decidedto deliver a lect ure on the evils of spittingOil the 1100r, especially when child r...n areabout . I addressed my rem a rks di rectly to thehusba nd, who concu rr ed with all I hnd to~;IY. It appeared, for th e time being, t hat asuccess had been gaine d in the inte rests ofhygiene. However, about two minutes afterm}' remarks ....ere finished, he p roceeded todemonstrate the futility' of my attempt by~ritting on the floor wit'h just as great gusto;'5 he had the previous evening and. I sup­pose. all the days of his life. Th is is not anisolated case, and in ma ny places the customof spininll' on the 1100r is taken for grantednot on ly by male offenders but a lsO by th ewomen of th e hou se who mu st wash lip a ft e r­wards, It is an easy ma ile r to unde rstandhow even an abundance of fresh air is power­less to combat cond itions so encouraging tothe sl,reaa of the disease. The wonder 10 meIs that more children, and more adults too,Me not stricken, ~

Upon us Ialls the responsibility for check­ing the spread of the disease and for curingthose already affected. I n the cure we havelong since giv ...n up hope of hel p f rom medi­cines. Fresh ai r, good nou rishme nt and restare sti ll th e g rea t specifics. But far moreimportant th an the cure is the pr evention ofthe spread of the disease. Living condit ionsare improving remarkably, but a long wayhas yet to be traveled before tMy are ideal..-\11 factors that operate 10 sp read the di5r.l~

can be largely eliminated by thorouRh edaea­tion of the people l~..ith r~rd to the na tu reof the disease and the manner in which it isspread. Probably mos t can be done by war n­ing aga inst poor hyg ienic con ditions and giv­ing posit ive health rui n for evtryday living.Th en let us dedicate our efforts to thi s wor th ­wh ile cause. \Ve shall-see gratify ing re sultsto the benefit of the Norl h Sho re fistlt"rmfn.

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Summer School at Barr'd HarborJ ane Quackenbush

I T is surely a true saying that a summeras an I. G. A. teacher brings out manylatest talents. If anyone had hinted a year

..go that I could conduct church, sing solos,pack lobsters or dress salt-water sores, Ishould have wondered if I had heard themaright. But all these things and many mOTC

grow to be everyday occ urrences.I left Boston on June third and reached St.

)nhll'~ Island on the tenth. There I stayed

noon. It was a Church of England service,bur was attended by both Catholics and Prot­estants. We WeTI' fortunate in having ParsonRichards visit us for several days in August.He praised the school in glowing terms, whichmade both teacher and pupi ls very happy.

There were sixteen people in Barr'd HarborCove and nine at Doctor 's Brook a mile or sodown the bay. Of these only seven were ofschool age ami able to come regularly. But

three days with Mr. and ~In. John Hali­burton, who spend their summers on theIsland. Theil the sea calmed down sufficientlyso that I could go to Barr'd Harbor by motorbo)t. And may I take this opportunity to paytrib ute to Mr. and Mrs. Haliburton, whn,while not directly connected with the I. G. A.,deserve the highest praise for the cheer andhelp they give to summer workers and for thesympathetic assistance they render the fisherfo lks of that district,

I remained at Barr'd Harbor unt il Septem­ber Ill. During that period we had fifty ses­iions of school from nine to three o'clock.Church. was conducted every Sunday after-

these seven are so eager for knowledge, andevery one so appreciative of any efforts, thatone feels highly repaid for the trip and thenecessary lack of some of the home comforts.Of course one does not expect to find luxuryalong the Coast, but I think condit ions atBar r'd Harbor are very favorable for summerworkers, and surely the welcome and theappreciation of those dear folk are worthmore than mere physical comfort.

For food there is bread, tea, molasses, beans,lobster, rabbit, seal, wild birds, berries of allkinds, fish, rhubarb, turnips and cabbage. Theseason is necessarily very short, but eachfamily has a garden to ra ise whatever is

AMONG THE DEEP-SEA FISH ERS '"pm~il,1c. Ther e arc thr ee cows at Barr 'dHarbor and the cream is made into butter foruse in the winter. Last winter the polar bearsbroke into the storehouse and ate the lear'ssupply of butter and pota toes, which W;JS aI:'r':3t calamity. Thi s year, however, the SUP'"

pli.', "ill be stored more care fully.The only community <u: tivity besides church

service was one all-d ay picnic. The day wasa holiday by unanimous vote. The lobsterSC<lSOIl was opened again this summer for thefirst t ime in three year s, so tha t each day

power of healing) swallowed some fly poison.But even with no movies or radios or tele­phones, one is 10 absorbed ill the people thatone hu no time to min such bleuings (1)of civilization.

The children ar c eage r for "book learning"but arc also very much interested in ha Ddj.craft. I would suggcst tha t next summer'.teacher take d ay for modelling and raffiareeds for weaving. A pair of scales wouldbe of great assistanc e. I was able to tell thechildTnl about being up to normal weight , but

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must be used to the fullnt extent and morcthan one holiday was impract icable. This oneday was given to a picnic .

I f one reaUy becomes acquaint ed with thepeople it is impossible to be lonesome, Wesaw no one else all surruner-and seldom even~,., the Sagon:.l on her t rips up and down.The grea test excitemen t wa s the picnic. andone day when the baby (a seventh son, andtherefore gifted with a magic, Cod-given

was unable 10 make a chart showing their.actual gain, I think they would be inter estedto work and improve the weight. W e hadschool chart s for other health projects, andthere proved to be great rivalry and enthu si­asm eve r th em.

My s~mmer at Barr'd Har bor was one oft he most enjoyable I have ever S1'('nt. and Ido wish thai everyon e might have the privilegeof one just like it.

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NEWFOUNDLAND FOLK SONG

[We do not know whether the following isan addition to the publisbed fo lklore of New­foundland. If it has already appeared, it willbear reprinting. It was culled last summerat Harr'd Harbor by M iss Jane Quackenbush,the summer teacher in that ...illage.]

TilE PLOWBOY

'-\5 I roved out one ~la.y mor ningThe mays were all in bloom.

I rov"d into some flowery fieldT o taste the sweet perfu me;

I rev ed into some m...adowsT o tu rn m y eyes awh ile;

There I saw Cupid , th e plowboy,Wh o did m y heart beguile.

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The~ I saw Cupid. the plowboy,\\"ith his ha rrows deep a nd low,

Tearing rbose clods to piecesSome bar-lev fo r to so .

I willh that prell)' ~'oung plo I>oy~l)· eyes they never had M~I1;

Hut I eared at that Cupid. ~'ounJl: plowboy."·ilh his harrows shaT"f' and keen

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If I write him a leiter,~ly mind to him un iold,

He'll write: me back an answerAnd sav that I made bold

I hope he'll lake it kindly,-\nd turn his heart again.

I 51001> for that Cupid, young plowboy."'ith his harrows sharp and keen,

IV

The plowboy hea rd the lady}o[os t sa dl... to complain.

He san, "M y ha nd some [ewel.I'Ii ease you of your pai n,

Since you hid for your plowboy ,Forever 1 will prove t rue.

Since you bid fo r your plowboy,1'11 wed no one but you."

v

Quickh· as she has jl"h'en her t'on_,'ntOf him to be the hride,

As quickly to the church ther went.And soon the knot wa ti..d.

And now the)· lives in pleasure;They have got i"otd in store.

The lady and the plowboyEach othe r do adore.

, SERVICE FOR DR, LITTLE

A SEkVICE .....as held on Sunday, Jul~·

2.M, t926, on the hill onrlooking Sr.AndlOO~·. where his ashes are scattered

about a boulder bearing a tablet in his honor,in nmembrance of Dr. John M;I.SOll Little.It was attended by the ent ire local staff and1». Iru1ny of the ruidents of St. Anthon~·.

The service inclu ded a bric:i re...ie..... b,Dr. Cu rtis of Dr. L ittl e' s ....ork with th~~li55ion and the reading by M r. Whitmanof the following lette r :

)Ofydear frien ds.

You are cons ta ntly in my th oug hts, and scIS the welfa re of the nort h end of Newfound ­land an d Labrad or . Th ere is 110 da y of theyear on which I would rather be ..... ith youthan today, when we meet to remembe r he­tore God our beloved f riend, D r. Joh n MuonLit tle . T he very fact that 1 am with you Jt).

day in spir it, though not in body, SUKKCSls toyou bo..... easily it could be true that Dr. JohnLittle him~lf, not the ounce of ashes thatlie ncar the rock around which we meet, icarf)ing on somewhere r-lse in such form ayou and I will soon assume .....hen this rna­chine lhat relates 11510 the phenomena of lifeon earth wilI not work an~· more.

There i, an old car I)-ing in the field out­side this house, It used to carry the famil~

everyw here. and enable them to do lots oithings they could not do without it; but nowit is worn out, and the spi rits tha t drove itno longer get in an d U~ it. I t is no good:it w ill not work. J ust so my body will ,·eT)·shortly be the same as Dr. Lit tle's .c.-worn outanti lying useless in the field instead of hcinl'"the home of my spir it. T oday I really believethat )'OU an d I meet arou nd thi5 hilltop topledge ourselves once mor e in the memoryof our f r iend who .....as the first of the M i ~ ­

sion staff tn lay down hi ~ lift' in the bill"hideals of service for ot hers which he demon­strated in St. Anthony.

Dr. Little left the comfortable surroundiugsto wh ich he had always been accustomed an.1ttis fam;ly and many friends to come ..... ithrot' to this coast. lie could have returned toBoston after the first ~-ear with me, duringwhich he saw the hard conditions of life here.hut instead of that he saw the opportunityfor helping us and remained.

It was throullh Dr. Little's vision and in­centive that the work here I["ot in fint srl~n<lid

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,t;<rt; and Jurin," Ihe IIU Il) )~'au of hi~ Old­nuuisaranon the St. Anthon}' hospital and themedical work connected with it went stC'add)for ward, always on the higliul plane, toreach the standard which has ill largemeasure enabled his successor to bring it toits present high state of perfection. Once thesurgeon s and physicians of Newfoundla ndthought that in the nor th we could not offerto people the kind of help in t ime of needthat they could give in St. John 's, and soevery penn}' ava ilable out of the taxes wasgiven to the 51. John's hospital , about $250,­000 a year, and everyone from all over theIsland was supposed to go there. Thousandscould not get to St . John's; hundreds diedwitbout help or 011 the way. In my travels1 used to see bone deformities of every kind,cancer, much e}'e disease. serious troublesdatin g fro m chi ldbinh and cases of man)'other kinds of sickness. The lives of aluntlesslillie children were sacrificed for lack ofmedica l aid.

Now we have a hospital in SI. Ant hony,thr ough the vision of Dr. John Mason Littl e,to which patien ts come from all over theColony, even from 51.John' s. Through tryingto give the message of the love of God to thepeople of St. Anthony by healin g the sick, asJ es:.!s himself d id, Dr. Litt le was able to buildup an establishment for medical service ofwhich the richest and wisest were glad toavail themselves. And this made it possiblefor me to get a grant from various source~,

and to produce with the aid of our localworkers the wonder ful hospital we have now.It is not too much 10 say that, with Twillin­gale , we stand first in the country in ab ilityto rende r medica l and surgical service. Thesetwo hospit al s have been rat ed by the Ameri ­can College of Surgeons, that wonderf ul bodyof men who stan d among the leaders of theworld in their hospital progress, and who arcoga n ized for no other purpose than that ofrais ing the standard of heal ing the sick.

I envy you being in body at the rock abovethe old hospital. I felt myself the personalpresence of Dr. Little when we stood las l yearand sang togelhC'r the- hymn he loved so well,"Oh, God, Our Help in Ages Past." Surely

LoJ "ill hdp )UU; and ii )01,1 will work illthe sl'irit in ....hich Dr. Little worked, lor­gt"ltinl; }ourself and wishing ollly to put intothis brief life all }·ou can for the sake oiothers, }oa will be really helpers, as he was,in advancing the coming 01 the King dom ofl;od on earth, for righteousness and peaceami joy. You need not be rich; you need nothe ctcvcr ; you need not be wise. The br ing­ing forward of tha t kingdo m is given, asChrist said , to "babes and sucklings." Youmust be unselfish; you must be brave ; youmu st scorn untruth ; you me et sco rn badwork; you mast love yourself last ; and in allthings }'OU must tr y to do the will of God.

When the day comes for me to part fro mthis old body and cross the Ust Divide, I amabsolutely confident that God ....·ill give me, asHe gave to the Master, a body like that ofHis glorification when this body of humilia ­lion is no longer of any va lue. And I praythat God may permit my ashes to lie side byside with Dr. Litt le's on the hillto p above thehospital and other centres of effort in St.Anthony tha t br ing comfor t and joy to t h..homes of the people of th e Ncnh.

I need not ask you to pledge your allegianceto Dr. Curtis. I know you love him as I do.He too might have all the world can offer iudollars and cents , in things material. I knowa daten places that would get him tomorrow ifthey could; bUI he, like Dr. Little, is stand­ing for the same ideals of service,-flot talk­ing of Christ necessarily, but just simply doingwhat Christ would do, giving what God ha..given him where it is most needed.

Pray for me as well as for yourselves andthe work, that we may continue to work to­gether, so that the world outside may secnol that we feel that we know it all and tha teverybody else is wrong, but that we meanto do the things that please the Master. Andmay our prayer always he, as Dr. Littl e'salways was,-a prayer that I have give n youof len, as to me it is the most viral in thewhole Bible. It comes from the t4Jd psalm:"Teach me to do the thing that pleases Thee:'

Always your friends,\VlUUO T. GusrELL and

A:ona: EU7.AP:TTI (;RF::>rr.J_L

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The Agricultural Possibilities in LabradorFred C. Sears

Profnsor of Po,,"olol Y, M"" " cb..uttr Agrlc.tltur"l Coll"ll"

To the average person who has never bor as an example. 011 the whole of Battlevisited Labrador, the idea that it may and Caribou Islands there is nothing but ahave any agricultural possibilities what- sub-arctic flora, mosses and low-growing

C\'C1' win probably sound absurd, for most of shrubs and herbaceous plants such as theus think of it as a land of snow and icebergs. fox berry, Vaccinium Vitis Idaea, the herba-But a little study of conditions there and of ceous dogwood, Comus Canadensis, and in thewhat has already been done will convince more sheltered spots the two peas, Lathyrusanyone that, while Labrador will never get maritimus and L. palustris. In fact, fullyinto the export trade in agricultural products, two-thirds of Battle Island, which is perhapsyet it can go far towards supplying its people one hundred acres in extent, is just barewith the vegetables so urgently needed for rock with no growth whatever, The appear- .home use. There are, of course, many 01>- ance of a large part of this island is wellstacles to be overcome if we are to develop shown in otle of the accompanying illustra-evt'll this modest enterprise, but from what lions.

A CORSf.R m' BATILE ISLAND 0:11 A FOGGY PAY. :110 GRK\T AGRICULTURAL roSSIBIUTtES HERE

I saw this past summer in a few isolatedcases where the proper (auditions had beensecured, there is not the slightest question inmy mind as to the final outcome.

When one studies into this possibility ofgrowing more crops in Labrador there isnothing more interesting, and even startling,than the rapidity with which the flora changesas one leaves the outer coast and proceedsinland up one of the many bays which indentthat coast. Take the situation at' Battle Har-

But twenty-five or thirty miles inland, upSt. Lewis Inlet, is Hatters Cove, to whichmost of the inhabitants of Battle Harbormigrate for the winter season and which isshown in another view given herewith. Aswill be seen this is an entirely different prop­osition, being a well-wooded country, withmany trees averaging twenty-five feet inheight and occasionally one of fifty feet ormore, And among these trees will be found

AMONG THE DEEP-SEA FISIIE.HS '4'growing many plants like the large purplefr-inged orchid. Habeuaria imbrlcata.

Another thing which must not be lost sightof in any attempt to estimate the agricul­tural possibilities of this region is the mar­velous rapidity with which plants grow andmature. I t is almost unbelievable to a personaccustomed to the more leisurely growth ofour own latitudes. In two or three weeks Isaw cabbages pass from the stage where theplants were just nicely started to fairly hard;Lllll good-sized heads. And in that sameperiod potatoes grew from small plants per-

almost universal sourness of the soil. Outof all the soils which I tested last summerthere were only two samples that were notsour and most of them extremely sour. Oneof these plots was in Sir Wilfred's own gar­den where the soil had been treated withlime, and the other was in the garden of Mr.Peter Blanchard, a trapper at St. Mary'sRiver, where he had recently cleared the landand had burned a lot of brush on it, thusleaving ashes which of course corrected theacidity. It is very evident that all ashesought to be saved and applied to the gardens

HArrER'S COVE AOOUl JO MILES INLA:SII FROM IIATTLEl ISLAND. A GOOO GROWlH OF' TRF.ES

AND PROMISE OF RUSOXAnLY GOOD GROWING CONDITIONS FOR CROPS

haps six inches high to fully matured plantsin bloom!

From my observations this past season itseems to me that this problem of increasingthe agricultural output of Labrador dividesitself naturally into about six heads-thereare six things which must be considered ifwe are to achieve the greatest possiblesuccess.

The first of these is to secure adequateand satisfactory areas of soil, It is difficultfor one who has not visited that coast 10realize the actual scarcity of soil, yet a glanceat the illustrations of this article will suggestit. The soil simply is not there in many cases.Moreover, the fact that the people migrate illsummer from the sections where soil is mostplentiful to the bleaker coast sections adds tothe difficulty. Hatter's Cove might give fairlygood soil conditions for growing crops butRattle Island does not, and the people are notat Hatter's Cove during the growing season tolake advantage of its better soil conditions.

The second factor in our problem is the

and that in addition lime should he usedfreely.

The third factor in success is drainage ofthe soil. This is absolutely essential if satis­factory crops are to be grown, and it is mostinteresting to see how any improvement in thedrainage of the soil results in a correspondingimprovement in plant growth. A most inter­esting illustration of this was at 51. Anthony.where Sir Wilfred has had some pits dug ina bog in an effort to produce peat for fuel.All along the borders of these pits the plantsof the baked-apple berry, Rubus Chamae­morus, have made an exceptionally vigorousgrowth and the ber-ries all them were severaltimes the normal size. This need of drainageis brought about by two factors,-flrst, thevery heavy rainfall of that region and thefrequency with which the rains occur; andsecond, the fact that most of the land isunderlain by a heavy clay subsoil.

The fourth factor in our problem is thechoice of classes and varieties of crops togrow. There are, of course, comparatively

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few tiling.> whkh call be 1,I.ull"J ", ilb all)'reasonable hope of success and for the mostpart these should be only these plants thatwill withstand at least a light frost, sincefrosts oftm occur even in midsummer. Ar­ranged roughly in the order of thei r impor­tance and value, as I sec it, the folio", iug isabout the most promising list of ,"eIl:Ttal>l",for this region-cabbage, lettuce, ChilwS('cabbage, carrots, turnips, ka le, I>l'\:t~, r;ulish"s,jo tat oe s and tomatoes. The last two will notwithsta nd frost, but are worth a1t"ml,till~ ill

;~;I~rt:~~1 i~:~ I;,c~:::e1:;';;:?;:li~~~~:ll:III~~n~;':~lOe~ a re !;O valuable as a source of v-il;,mins111 fact, l bctteve th is matter of vitamins .lc­se rve s most serious cOllside r;"ion hy tI"","who ar e inte rest ed in th e heal th of the peol''' ­of th at region. If t hey could be induced tog row and eat mor e let tuce 0111<1 10 cat th eir

I am hoping this coming Slimmer 10 getthis investigatjon started in at least a sma llway, testing out a few of the: more jlromisiliKvarieties,

The fiflh factor of th is agricultural prol,­lem is tbe I'rOloer U"C of the right IdlUls offertilizer. At pre'..mt little or 00 fert ilizeris used; ham manure is seldom available aw lcomme rcial fer,ililers are a lmost unknownThe only tJ11t of the latter which I found i"lise was sulfate of ammonia which is, ofcour-se, the wo rst possible thing 10 use Oil

their soil" owil\~ 10 the: great soil acidityalready mcutioued and the well-known Iactthat sulfate of ammonia aggravates that diffi­culty. An earnest attempt oug ht to be made tointroduce the lise of some comm e rcia l ferfil.izers ill the Kanlcn in~ of that region

Th e six th andfast facto r in our pro bll-m isthe very couuucn exis tence of th e club-ro o t

A PART OF SI R W I LHU>'S OWN GAIIPf.N I N ST. AN T HONY S n OW I NG CAIIDAGES AND LETT UCE

GROW tNG IN Tin: m::DS WITH DITC H ES FoR DRAI NAG E

cabbages raw, it seems to me it ought to loto f g reat benefit to thei r health .

Aside from this question o f the types ofvegefahles 10 grow I Ieel certain thai thevariety question deserves most careful 1'011 ­

side ration, and, ii possible, experiment. It isnOI enoug h to decide to grow lett uce ; whatva riet ies are best-s-shal l it be Buuerhead, orDeljcacy, or ~[iKJIOllette ? And in cabbagesshall we grow Danish Ball H ead, or EarlyJersey W"lkefitl d, o r Au tumn KinS?

disease in the soils of that region , a diseaseattacking all cruciferous plan ts such as cab­bages , tu rn ips, and rad ishes. The importanceof this mailer will be realized when one re­member-s the prominent place whic h theseplants hoM ill t he gardens of that region andthat this disease remains in the soil fo r sev­eral years. ROlation of crops, using plantswhich are not attacked by this disease, theuse of lime on the soil which tends to reduceIhe rava~s of the disease, and care in seeur-

A~fO~G T HE DEEP-SEA FISIIEH~ ."inlt plants that are free from it would be themost hopeful lines of attack on thi§ seriousproblem.

problema which I have suggested can be metand $01\"e,1 we shall witness a marked ex loan­sion in the agriculture of thai region, and, 1

TilE MISSIO:Ii H ERD OF ~nrr.p I N ~T. A:liTHO:liY WtTH TilE Il.U!ilS IN THE BACKGROUND

There are doubtless other items of iml'or- have faith to l~lio::ve, a corresponding im-';lllce which a further study of couditjons 'Ail! provemcut in the health of the people a!H1 in~lIggeSt, hut I fed certain that if the six the prospc rity of Labrador.

Muddy Bay SketchesFrances W. Conrow

F IRST IMP RESSIONS O F MUDDY BAY

T HROUGH the growing dusk the mon­otOIiOIlS "put-put" of the engine rose andfell mechanically as the motor boat glided

thro ugh the waves. It seemed such a differ­ent world: I felt more ready 10 turn backthan ever before. But I had come some threethousand miles from home and was now onlya mile away from my destination, 50 Ibraced UD

Some one spoke. "There's \VinteT's Point;we're nearly home now." I strained my eyesthrough the duck. Whal w..s I coming to?\\·hat 'nlS I coming lO? Suddenly a lighlgfeamed and everyone cried, "Here we are."The engine stopped and we came silently up10 the 'Ahar£. Then such a talking and laugh­ing and taking of packages and ba~! They

seemed 10 be all children. They surrounded usWe walked up the wharf and approached

the huge building looming ahead in the dark.Up a flight of steps we went, through a door,down a long hall and into a dimly lightedroom. Here l'OIl'ers,mail bags and bnlf-opcncdpackages were jumbled about in confusion.And such wild and excited talking I "Did mydress come?" "Oh 1 look what ~Iiss Smithsent the children I" "Did the cow's feedcome?" "How did you like the trip?" Therewas neither chance for nor expectation ofanswer.

After formal introductions were o\er wetried 10 settle down 10 supper, but there wereso many alluring packages that supper wasnot very successful. Once it WOl.S over Imight just as well not have existed. Each

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buried himself in his mail; for of what sig­nificance was a mere new worker as com­pared with Christmas mail? It was good formy pride to be treated so, and really put mein a proper frame of mind for the year'swork.

FIRST VISITI had hem at }.{uddy nay nearly a month,

almost long enough to begin to gel my bear­ings--to lind out thai the bungalo .... or nUT s'norm: had a piano and a bathtub, thai "BillDavis" was a mountain of the Mealy Moun­lain range, that the stent was a low-watercrossing between the pond and the bight.thai a bight was a small bay and thai therewere red berries, blackberries and blueber ricsgrow ing on the hills which were very goodto eat .E~rything seemed so big and modern at

the school that I forgot the shock of thelittle church and of the small boat I hadcome in. True. the children weren't dressedas in Oaicago, perhaps; and the scbootroomwasn't sealed with beaverboard ret, but itwas soon to be. 1nough we didn't haverunning water in ou r rooms, a smiling g irlbroug ht a pitcher of hot wate r each morning,closed the window and bade you a cheery"good morn ing, Miss," T hen, too, schoo lkept me busy, 50 I had not seen the realLabrador--on1y an imported school, quiteAmerican,

One Sunday afternoon Mi~s Davies, myLabrador co-worker, said, "I'm going to makea call with some of the children. Want togo along?" I did indeed, 50 off we wentover the newly made tee , ri~ht acrn~s thebight in f ron t of the school. Half 'wayacross Min Dav ies turned and said, "Nowyou can see Muddy Bay." And, tr ue enough,J eculd see it spread out in a semi-circlebefor e me.s-rhe wharf and schoolhouse tothe left, then the big school building awllaundry, next the barn . Mr. Bird's house.the wop Muse and last, but not least, thebunltalow. It was a pretty l"icture.-the hilldark, the bay white and smooth in front,the buildings all in red and white,-a trueartist had planned it.

We turned again 10 face an uneven shoreline set with SCfaltlty fir and unde rbrush,we were going towards a small rav ine, Thebalfica ter s rose at ir regula r intervals, unevenand lumpy yet smooth as glass, eaused by

the tide raising and lowering the ice on thehuge shoal rocks. They made walking vel")'difficult. \Ve .....ent slowly up the ravine 011

a snow-covered path, came out on a low mars hand finally reache d the shore of a f rozenriver. T here we fou nd a small log housealrea dy buried in a bank of snow. As weapproached, a woman carrying a small childappeared at the low door of the house witht .....o larger children crowding nca r her, Shegreeted us cheer Fully and asked us 10 enter.We did 50, ~tooping a~ we passed through thesmall back shed and again as we enteredthe house doo r. He re we found the ma inroom of the house, perhaps ten by ten, inwhich the re were benches about the wall,a cupboard in one corner and a table aga ins tthe wall. A cradle stood in the middle ofthe floor nea r a stove. we sat down , asmany as could. Through the open bed roomdoor we could see a hunk, buil t under aneighteen inch window, which extended thefull length of the room. A grown girl, cousinof the woman, Wa.5 living with her. Wlte~

they all slept is a mystery to me. Quiteevidently the baby had the best room in tha thote l, and he was all too soon to be crowdedfrom it by a new clai mant.

T he walls of the cottage were her e andthere covere d with newspa pers with no re­gar d as to whether they were right sldeup or not. An iron pot, a tea ket tle and atea pot seemed to be all the cooking utens ils.Alas, too often through the long tedioussprinlt the iron (lOt mus t be empty and coldfor wuks at a time, when the only variationfrom tea and bread is bread and tea

Yet we were welcomed as IhoUKh10 a [ovelesitting room. Our hostess talked to us me'-tinterestedly and entertainingly : and it wastrue interest, not the th inly veiled boredomof sodrty lad les. And 'when we left sheent reate d us to return soon, and apolog izedfor having nothing to offe r us to rat.

LATEIt was a bitterly cold day in Much Th e

wind. dr ift-la'den, was s.....CCfling over thebiltht so strongly that it would have ti redeven a man to filtht it.

T wo miles away across the bight a pitiabl yth in little woman wrapped beeselt moreclosely in her "only coat and tied her sca rfabout her neck as she prepared to set forth.teavinlt her cottage, fortified only by a cup

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oj tea aud dr)- bread. she hCilrJ her sick babymoaning in its sleep and little Bessie crying10 go with her mother,

At the bungalow, a church from eleven tilltwelve on Sundays since the big school build­ing had burned down. the minister of theday .....as hurriedly selecting the hymns, pray·crs and readings. Ready at last, she said,"\\'ell, let's go ahead and have service. It' squa r ter to eleven now. Ko one will comefrom outs ide today. Xo need to .....ail. 1haven't a sermo n anyway." So the bell wasrung, the fe w children (arne in, then thestall and kitchen girls, and the sen-ice began,

At the end of the last reading and jus tbefore the last hymn and bleHillg, a weary,snow- lade n woman came slowly in and IoundQ seat, She listened so auernively to thoselast word s and the aingi ng, and seemed loathrc go when the bless ing was finished.-1tdid tak e such a lime to come through tip6110W and dr ifts, and she guessed her doc kmus t be a litt le slow.

BREAKING THE NEWSIt was near the middle of that terrible

week in February when, from Saturday toSaturday, from batbday to bathday, I .....astemporary matron-principal of the LabradorPublic School. Having some forty children.three maids and a kitchen staff of three illmy charge was no picnic even for a week.To say that 1 was scared is purring it fartoo mildly; 1 was panic-stricken.

Ou r principal was taking a much neededvacatio n and rest at the bunga low, To besure she was within call if I had to haveher, but not for worlds would I have trouble dher. I would st ick it out if it killed me, Ourdistr ict doctor was making his winter visit,and ther e was an appearan ce to be mainta inedbes ides seeing \0 his comfor t and gett inghis g rub box ready for his depar ture.

It was on \Vcdnesda.y night as I was onmy way to supper at the bunga low that Ihu rd some one at Mr. Bi- d's say, "Guessthe fune ral will be next week when ParsonLawton goes up the hay." I went on, tn­rer ested in the news, for the speake r hadmentioned the name of the man who hadjust d ied, but not at all realizing the situationit created,

At supper I brought out the news only to begreeted ~-ith questions and exclamations, "HasFreddie been lold?" "Who will tell him?"

"Poor linte chap ; oul)' cue brother kit ;lIulFreddie so young." 1 grasped it ~ Iowly.

Fred was one of the worst beys in my du~,

a torment, a tease, rebelling against rules,never attentive nor studious. H ere was I,his none-too-well loved teacher , the one tobreak the ne..... s of his father's death to him

As 1 hurried off after supper a thousandquestions and misgivings beset me. Whatdid one say in such circ umstances? How didone approach the subject? Wbat did one do?I had been at the bedside when my ownfather passed the porta l to th e life beyond,so there was no help there. H ere was thislittle boy of eleven , who had left home andfather to come to a school which he evidentlycould ha rd ly bear, 110W to be told there wasno horne 110r father to go back to, for hi ~

bro ther was soon to be married and wouldmake a home 01 his own.

1 hurried on fea rfu l lest some one elsemight tell him the news cr uelly when he waswith the ethe r children and could not esca pe,Bat no, I found him playing happily withthe others, and, since it was not yet bedtimefor the younger ones, I took him to myroom. Poor child, he thought he had donesomething ..... rong again, and came most reoluctantly.

What I said I truthfuly do not know, butas it came to him he did not cry but stoodlooking qu ietly at the bed. 1 read to hima while , and then left him to pUI the smallgirls to bed. Aftcr reading some more Ilet him slip into bed just before the prayerfor the elder ones. After praye rs I told theothers quiet ly, and Miss Davis reported thatJ im, an orphan himself and one of our in­cor rigibles, had slippe d in and kissed Freddiegood nigh t.

Among the childre n there was no moretalk of the occur rence, The y a re very re­st ra ined in such matt ers. F red did not evenknow when the fune ral took place. Afte rit was all over it seemed to me like a baddream,

To the end of the term the re was not abetter behaved chi ld in my room than F redThoug h he did not do exceptio nally well inschool work, he Iricd hard and his conduct....-as of the \'ery best.

LABRADOR MOVIES, 19:16I should have been prepared, after coming

three thousand miles from home to the far.

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otl Labrador coast. to find things dijlereut.Especially should 1 have been forewarnedlJy finding St. Anthcuy such a let-downafter St. John's, and then by arriving atthe still smaller Cartwright. But the schoolhad quieted my forebodings. It was such abig place and everything in it so modern,111('0, too, at Cartwright I had only visitedthe Hudson's Bay Company station and thelittle church, and we had been so busy atthe schccl thoot I had met none of the people.

Then came the invitation to the mo\'ies inCartwright on the WedneMlay night beforeChristmas. This, it seemed, was to be thefirst of the social functions of the winterAnd with such excitement among the childrenthat had seen them before I somehow couldn'thelp but think we should SCI' Harold Lloydor perhaps even Colleen Moore.

So off we started, Miss Davidson and Igoing la~l on the komatik, and on foot in frontof us all of the older children who werepermitted to go. Such a gay time we had,­gelling off at the brook 10 walk becauseit wasn't properly f roeen yet, and catchinglJP with ttwxe walking, all of whom tried toget rides. The children went to several

A PRAYER HYMN

T H IS hymn is copied from "The West-minster Record": it was written by a girl

nineteen )'I"ars of age who is in domestic see­vice. Please usc it as "my sentiments" in themagazine. I think it fine. This is the vervspirit of our ,·ision of what we think Christasks of every human life,- not eomprehenslon.hilt reason grown courageous to accept Hischallenge to follow Him and live everywhereas sons of God.

Lord of all pots and pans and things, sinceI've no lime 10 be

A saint by doing lovely things, or watchinglate with Thee,

Or dreaming in the dawn light, or stormin~

Heaven's gates,

places to iet supper, and Miss Davidson an~

I to the parsonage.After suppe r Mr. Lawton disappeared 10

go to the hall to help, warning us 1I0t tobe late or we should lose the choice seatsSo, of course, we did try to he on time.And, of course, we were late. You knowhow it is.

It was a lovely, dear, frosty night, withthick hard snow and a new moen. \Ve trippedacross to the hall and entered with gaylaughter. .

To say that we were dis:lppOi'nted at whatwe saw would be under-statement. \Ve hadcome four miles by dog-team to sec- a ParheNews film of the \Var, and we were to walkback. I couldn't help laughing to myself.The hall was cold and we found no scats atall. The pictures -were so blurred that onlythose in front could sec them. As for my­self, I hadn't the faintest idea what the pic­tures were about. It seemed we had mi~!oCd

the best of the th-ee reels. But next davthe children tried enthusiastically to eXJllai~.

Trudging home that night near twelveo'clock we wer~ ~till lau~h;ng We shouldhave known.

Make me a saint by aetting meals, and wash­ing up the plates,

Although I must have Martha's bonds, I havea "Iary mind;

And when I black the boots and shoes, Thysandals, Lord, I find.

I think of how they trod the earth, what timeJ scrub the floor.

Acn pt this meditation, Lord, I haven't limefor more.

Warm all the kitchen with thy love, and lightit with thy peace.

Forgive me all my worrying. and make allgrumbling cease,

Thou who didst love and give men food, inroom, or by the sea,

A«ept this service that I do-I do it untoThee.

W, T. G.

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The New Maraval

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T H E generos ity of the loyal f riend whog~ve us th e fi rs l ~( AIlAV .\L has made pes­

siblc the new Mission boat of the samename, which was recently launched at lh~

yard of her builders, Charles A. Mor-se &Son, at Thomaston, ~Iain('. The new boatwas designed by John G. Alden of Boston,and is a seventy-five foot motor ketch, equip­ped with a sixty horse-power Fairbanks andMoue crude-oil engine, and having two mastsf rom which can be spread !.tOO square feetof canvas. Under power alone she has madebetter than 8 kn ot s, while unde r sail alone shehas made a good 7 knots.

T he boat is very suhstnntially constructed

workers. An Arcola bet wat er sys tem sup­plies heat throughout the boat, and will addgrl.";ltly 10 the comron of those on boar d incold or fogg)" weather, H ea vy towing birrsaft will enable the },hkAVAL to do towing andrender assistance to vessels in distress.

The new ~1.\aAVAL is an invaluable additionto the Mission flttt and ideally fills the needfor a mobile combination hospital and supplyship As the boat was not completed in timeto send her north this year , she will star tnorth next spring, poss ibly in company withthe Bowdoin, as Command er Dona ld B. Ma c­~[ i l la ll . who is a valued dir ector of the Gren ­fdl Avsociation, has st1~gestC"d that the

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with heavy oak timbers and planks and hardl.ine ceiling, and is sheathed with greenhear t

as an additional protectjon f rom ice. Anelectric generator, dri\'en L)' a crude-ott aux­iliary engine, sapplies elect ricity for lights.I,uml'" and windlass. A sixteen foot hold andgelll."f(lU~ dt>('k space for cargo will make theboa t most usef ul as a carrier of supp liesbetwee n Mission suu ions. A hosp ital roomamid shi ps will give the docto r on board nde­quate facilities for t reating- pat ien ts . Th ereare also staterooms for nur ses and ot her

~\IAkAVAL and the uowoorx sail at the samet ime for Labrador and make the trip togetherIt is also hoped that Sir Wilfred andLady Grenfell. and possibly Dr. and ~Irs

Curtis, may go north next spring in the~IARAVAL.

The new boat ha already proved herselfto I,,· ;1 staunch, seaworthy little ship on herseveral tria l tr ips this fa ll. Th e Minion maywell he proud o f such a splendid a ddition toour fleet

AUU T T. GoULD

.S' A~IOSG TH E DEEP-SEA FISHER::;

"The Eye Doctor"Fra nk D . Phinney, M.D. , F.A.C.S.

" ZII'PORAl The C}"C doctor is here."With these words Dr. Curtis an­nounced our ar riva] in St. Anthony

to one of the blind Eskimo women who hadbeen patiently waiting for weeks in the hos­pita l to see an oculist. Then he added witha smile, "They are good waiters in thiscountry,"

It was the middle of June when we werehonored by a request from the Grcufcl1Foundation to accept an appointment as theiroculist on the Coast this past summer. Fol­lowing such an eminent ophthalmologist asthe late Dr. J. A. Andrews of New York,it was with considerable hesitation that weentered upon the work, but the cordial reccpuon given by the physicians of the ~lission

and the spirit of eo-operauon shown by thenurses made our summer a most pleasantone. Xot only did we find abundant oppor­tunities for service at St. Anthony, but wewere able to visit the- nortbem hospitals atBaltle Harbor and Indian Harbor as well.

On our way Korth early in July ouranxiety lest we be delayed in Sr. John's,waiting for a mail beat, was set at rest bythe information that Dr. Curti had C'SIJC'Ciall)·asked to have us sent on as soon as possible.and that the Sn.uHcosA was waiting withsteam up ready to leave immediately uponthe arrival of the boat from New York. Itwas only the work of a few minutes \0 trans­fer our baggage, and within an hour of oura rr ival at St. j oho's we were steaming alongthe coast bound "down north." The honor andthrill o f a voyage in Sir Wilfred Grenfell'shospital ship, the celebrated STIlA'TnCONA, wascompensation in itself for any sacr ifices wewere making. A severe storm, howeve r, in­terfered with our progre~s and we weredelven 10 take shelter in the harbor of Goose­tMorrv hland. This was the oome of thecaptain in charge of the ship, and we hadour first chance to visit people on shore andto become acquainted with the fisherfolk ofthe northern Xewfoundland eeae. The Iol­lowing ev~ing at Twilfingate Dr. Parsonswarmly welcomed us and most courteouslylook us through the wards of the new hospitalthert It was our first tlirr[lse of thl" class

of case we could expect in the Xorth.51. Anthony finally came in sight, the har­

bor's entrance almo'lt completely blocked byan iceberg, and snow fields still showing inthe hills. With all her colors flying and hersiren blowing in the quiet of a Sabbathevening, the SnATHCO:-r" pulled in to thewharf and we were cordially greeted by~lis§ion workers and villagers.

The eye clinic already had many patients,some of whom had been in the hospita lanxio usly waiting for weeks. T hese had comenot olily from the lill ie villages in NotreDame and While Bays and along the Lab ra­dor Coast; a most interesting group was .made up of blind Eskimos from away northin H opeda le and NOlin.

It had nOI taken long for word to extendalong the Coast, in that mysterious Iash'onin which news travels in Iromier regions,that the eye clinic in 51. Anthony was inoperation. and eaeh day saw an influx ofnew patients, who arrived not only by theregular mail steamers but in all manner ofsmall craft. Some of these fisberfolk camemerely complaining of defective vision thata careful refraction and the supplying ofproper Rla§ses was able to relieve so thatthey could he sent home happy. Othe rs. un­fortunately, presented cases of blindness fromthe more serious tye diseases, such asll:laucoma, optic atro!,hy, cataract and tuber­culosis of the eres. Many requested to beseen at once so that they could re turn homebefore a stor m came up which migh t delaythem severa l days in St. Anthony. Othersfrom a greater distance were admitted tothe hospital,

\Ve were greatly impressed hy the eon­fidence these people showed in the hospital.The brilliant surgical work of Dr. Curti,has built up a reputation for St. Anthl'lnythat is enjoyed by few hospitals in America.

The percentage of people afflicted withpart ial or eomple!t blindness due to SC.1U

on the eyes resulting from a negltcted an,1at the time an apparently trivial injury, wasout of all proportion to that seen in tityclinics where ~:Jrgical cue is more accC'Ssihle.This served to ('mphasi~e the unfortunate

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conditions still existing along the Coast, due were alwa)s ill good humor and appreciativeto a lack of sufficient medical care. Cataract of the slightest kindness shown them. Theappears to be unusually prevalent. :\1<I1IY of invariable "Mik, noka mik" (t'Thank youthe patients came seeking relief from this very much") followed everything done fordisorder. In our first group of such patjents [he-m. Moreover they termed a remarkablywere two delightful white-haired old ladies, J.:ootl quaneue and their singing of the oldvistcrs and descendants of early pioneer Go~pel hymns in Eskimo was a regular partfamilies from Devon, England. ThouJ:h of the entertainment of the wart! patients.dwelling not far apart in the hays of northern A request for the Eskimos to sing was al-Newfoundland all of their lives, the sisters ways complied with, so they became knownhac! not scr-n each other lor over eighteen as the "Blind Hopedale Quartette."

..years. Both had (oIDC' to SI. Anthony blindfrom cataract, and we found them OCCUp) ingadjoining beds. They could visit but couldnot sec each other, and apparently werehaving a most enjoyable reunion without be­coming impatient over their long stay in thehospital. Operated upon the same day, theirvision was restored and soon they wereallowed to study the changes eighteen ye;trshad made in their personal appearances. Itwas by such experiences as (hi, that we feltour trip had not been made in vain.

The first Eskimo group, consisting of BartoBoase, Zippora Uisuk, and Barbara Noggasokfrom Hopedale, and Abia Green, a nativeE~kirno preacher from the Moravian Mi~sion

in far off Xain, had already firmly estab­lished themselves in the good graces of theentire hospital stalT. Though blind, they

The case of Abia Green gave u~ an un­usual in~ighl i11l0 the character of some ofthe Eskimo people. Blind in both eyes, onlyforty-seven yeats o! age, though appearingmally years older, having a wife and foursmall children dependent upon his ability tofish, to hunt, and to kill seals for food, hehad already made one journey to 51. Anthony,only to be disappointed about recover-ing hissight. Commander ~[acMillan, becomingiueerested in him this summer, had sent him"I{.lin down the long journey to the hospital.Ahia came, hoping against hope that somethingcould be done for him. His condition wassuch that we were unable to help him, amiwe found ourselves poslponing the inevitableday when he would have to be told. He sawhis fellow Eskimos go one by one to theoperating room, while he remained in the ward.

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Finally he came 10 us, ami ill his brokenEuglish said , "Doctor, please you tell me ITell me worse ! Me, 1 am Innuit ! \me.U1ill':all Eskimo Ill.m ) 1 call sl...nd it l" \\ 110:11the sta le of his eye s was explained 10 h im,he added, "No w 1 know I Now 1 go hOlllO: ~

I live my lifcl"T his man was a revela tion to us of 01

courage and strength of character unlocked­for . It is this qua lity which has enJ.1lcdthe se prirmtive people to survi ve We ordealsand hardships of life on that barren coast ,and Abia's nobility did mor e than any othercue thing to weld us to the great wor k still10 be: done in the Nonh. ~

T he a pparently rapid increase of blindnessJ.lnong the Eskimo pcoplc is a matter of gre ...tconc ern awl calls fo r an intensive study oithe whole situat ion. Labo ra tory work isurgently neede d and much scieuuuc iuvcsugu­ticn could be: done. Funds for such all ex­tension of the work of the Grenfell Missiollwould be: a real contrjbuticu to the cause 01

,uffering humanity.At the request of Dr. Curtis, we proceeded

"down north" to visit the hospital at HattieH a rbor under Dr. Mor et an d the IndianH ar bor hospit al in D r . P adden's district.Owing to th e shor tness of our st ay a nd tothe fact that travel along the coast had tobe undertaken in one of the regular mail boats,

we d id not ha ve much o f an opport unityfor an exa mina tion of conditions at the va­rious ports. Fr om wha t we did observe,however, it is evident that there are ma nypeople in the various inlets and bays suffcrillgfrom incipient eye diseases, who, if an oculistcould only reach them on an annual trip ,could be:helped, and f rom whom more serjous

t roubles could be ave rted. At Cartwrightwe saw thr ee cases of cat a ra ct in peopleover eighty years o f age, who for variousrea sons could 1I0t go this lear 10 th e hospital.

Labrador is a land where the people havelea rned to grasp opportunity as it passes iftlte)" wi~h to be helped. Whenever it wasjossible for them to avail themselves of thehosp ita l facilities, they appeared to do sowithout a moment's hesitation.

When the ma il boat stopped at I~aggecl

Islands on the way south, a woman cameaboa rd to sell baskets to Miss P rcssh-y -S mith.Mrs. Phi nney, who had proceeded farthernorth to Hopedale and wa s now re turn ing Oil

the boat with seven blind Es kimos she hadcollected for th e eye cl inic, called the atten-

tion of the ship's surgeon, Dr. HtoIUlt'll, toa peculiar vj e condition and suggcste,1 th.llit might be helped. D r. Bcuue u J.iIKU)offe red to tr;.uLS)lOn the 1,.ui " llI io S r. AlIt hullY.\\'i thout furth",r comment the woman jJas'c,1to the rail of the ship, and, calling to herbrother, who awaited hcr in their small beat,said , "Good bye, John, I am going to St.Anthony to have my eye cleaned," and for th­with began her Jou rney south.

It was a great disappcimment to be: unableto conduct an e)"e clinic th is summer atthe: Battle H arbor hospital. where D r. Mo retis doing such excellent work.

U~1r short st a y at Indian H a rbor WJ.Smost enjoy a ble , and cue of the delightfulexperiences of th e t rip was ou r associ ationwith Vr. I'J.UdOll a mi his stOll!. T hough V I'.Paddon had not been give n muc h time luarrange a clinic , we found several pat kutsthat req uired ope rative proced ures. Th isnorthern f,eld has net been visited by aLL

oculist of the Missioll for many ye.us andDr. Paddon has had to send his pariemswhenever possible to far-off S I. An thony.The territory offers abundant opportunity forwork, and we arc convinced tha t, if a r range­ments coul d be: mad e for the ophthalmolog istto visit it every summer, many pati ents couldbe helped who othe rwi se would have no 01'1>0' ­tunity of seeking his advice. Commander~ (adfillall sent word from Nain that lh"man most needed there was an oc ulist. IIIIact, the call fro m the far northern Esk imostations is most urgent , and, if funds couldbe obtained 10 enable the llission next sum­mer to send one of the yachts north with auoculist, a sun'CY of the entire coast couldbe: made and the work of the future planned.Th e nort hern hosp ita l needs modem ophth almicequi pment an d Dr. P addon already has ill hispossess ion a list (If such instruments a s ,irerequ ired. F unds for such an equipm ent.however, a re sadly lacking. H er e is anot he rreal need for cont ri but ions to the ~lission,

and anything that tends to increase lheefficil'ncy of Dr . Paddon would be mostworthy of anyone's all..-ntion and g..nerosity.At loath St. Anthony and the northern hos­pitals one of the most pressing needs isfor colo red glasses to protect the eles fromthe g lare of the sun on the icc and snow.The ordina ry cheap colore d glasses a rc prnc­t jcally wo rt hless, and, unfortunately, the

modern scientifically pre pared glass is 1Jc·yond t he financ ial reach of the stauous.

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In adduion to caring for a cou-rant sue­cession o f eye cases f rom Iar and nc ar, th eent ire gr oup o i ch ildr en ill the GrenfellOrphanage at St. Anthony was exam ined andabout sixty per cent were operated uponlor adl"noids and infected tonsils. La te illAugust we left ~ewfoundland and the Labra­dor, freling tha t he re at lea st was a fieldwhere a phys ician might well spend the bestye ars of his lif e,-not only from the view-

l~,int c! relieving sufle riug Oil the wast, but;, 11'(1 on account of the wonderful oppor tun ityit pr esent s for re sea rch work .

The summer ca me to all end all too soon,with the whis tle of the PROSPERa ill the middleof a cold fORgy night summoning us on ourhomeward jou rney , and we realized t~at

already the long winte r was approaching forour fr il:"n,Is in the Grenfell Mis, ions il­I.ahrado r anti Newfoundland.

Baby Clinic at Northwest RiverElizabeth Criswell

BETT Y, Robert, Garmel, Ruth and Berthacooed and crowed when their mothersbrought them each mont h to the baby

clillic conduct ed by Miss O live Nelson at theXcrthwest River hospital.

It was a stormy night in j ancary when:\lil'~ Sel'iOn was awakened from sleep and,

hurriedly donning her dickie and a heavy cap.waded through the deepening drifts to thelittle bouse where, a few hours later, Robertfirst saw the light of day. Two weeks later,br-acing hnself against a gill,', again \fls~

~('IS()l1 hraw.1 the cold in the middle of thl"

night, and aided Betty in her struggle forexisu-nce. Ju~t 01.1 midnight on Abra ha mLinrolns Bir thday Ru th made her appetu ­auce : and Ber tha , not to be outdone, took thenurse at fuur o'clock that same night to theuther end of the village and up the snowyIOdlh beneath the fir Utes to the linle houseIhat was 10 be Bertha's future home. Garmel\\;lite,l until the snow had disappeared andth,· 1I0Wt:fS were beginn ing to show the first' l~l1S of bloom before she appeare d in ea rlyJ",,,.

T he baby d inic began just OIS won as themol hers could bring the children 10 the hospi­tal in the spring. In the meantime :MissXelcon had l.een visiting each mother andchild wttkly in the home.

Careful and detailed instruction in the careof children, their- feeding an d the fonnat ionof prope r hea lth habits we re given to them(jthcr~ at the monthly meetings. The gainill weight each month was recorded andproudly reported to the home and the neigh­hurs. In tact a rivalry arose among 'them(jthrrs to sec whose baby would have thel,<'st earl". A clas s in prenatal ca re had beenformed in the fal l with these mothe rs inattendance. At this class, after a short talkby the nurse, the mothers produce d theirsewing, and the dainty dresses that the babieswore to the clinic in the sp ring testified tothe infinite carl" the mothers har! bestowed011 the layet tes.

A~{O~G T H E DEEP-SEA FISHERS

In Memory of Captain George Barbour

TH E news that Captain George Barbourdied last summe r brought sorro..... no!

only to his countrymen in Newfound­land but also to many Gn:nfell workers whofo r )'ears have known his kindness. andfrie ndsh ip.

I was glad to be able to count Capta inBarbour among the closest of my New found­land fr iends. In 1925 I first found him aboardthe schooner X E'THERTON far down theLabrador coast in Sag fek Bay, Thou gh ast ranger, he accepted me aboard without aword and gave me a bunk in his own cab inand a pass age south, declining to take forit anyth ing but my unskilled thoug h willingwork.

Eve n before coming aboa rd and meet inghim I had heard of his gene ros ity and kind­ness everywhere on the Labrador coast.During tha t first voyage with him, wheneverwe stopped in some litt le cove, scores ofEskimos, remembering his smile and warmwelcome of the yea r before, weald clambera board.. Hi s hospit ality was so well lmO\\"lIth<lt no one hes itated to come aboa rd for a"mug-up" o r cup of tea.

W hen the mail boat had steamed into$.aglek B<lY the magist"" te proudly pointedout the on ly ty..o schooners that far north,the MOUJsr.... and the ~ETHurrOS "unde r BobBullett and Georgie Barbour, the two finestskippers in Newfoundland." At anothert ime I hea rd a group of seamen in a fo re­castle enthus iastically nominating Barbourto he reinst ated as capt ain of the mail steameras he had been more considr ate of fishermen'srights than anyone else.

In a short time on the NETHERTON I 100felt the stron g spirit of loyalty which thecrew had for this fine old captain, and when,a year or so late r, I signed my name on theart icles of the 5.S. BEOTHIC for a sealingvoyage, I was glad to be with Barbour again.During tha t voyage our fr iendship r ipened,and I saw the qualities which had won himfa11M' and built his reputation as one of thetwo (rut sealing maste rs of Newfoundland.

The other master is Abrah.am Kean, wbosetribute to the life of Captain Barbour wa.spublished in the St. John's Daily Kews notlong ago. These two most eminent captainswere rivals for IIlilny years when se.archingfor the seal herd, and out on the whitewilderness of ice each resented the smoke ofthe othe r if it came too dose, A patch ofseals was never big enough for both. Buttheir mutual admiration was often eviden t,and I have never read anywhere a morehonest , heartfel t appre cia tion of a. fri endthan Ca ptain Kean wrote aft er h is r ival'sdeath .

1 know that Captain Barbour will not beforgotten. It is evide nt in letters which Iget from shipmates of the ~UII EllTON andthe BEQTHIC. Some of them have been thi rtyyears or more "to the ice." But with thei rcaptain's passing the sea ling d.ays for manyof them are over too. They can never findagain the spirit which animated the shipsunder his command: first the \VAUUS in tB9J.followed durin( the years by the GUZNLAND,,he VJlSGUJlaD. the BLO(I(lsOUND, the XI:PTtJSI:,the K£SalPIE and, lastly the BOOTHIc,--Q1lveteran ships of the Arctic that have madeXewfcundland sealing the great epic it is.

A faithful follower of Captain Barbour re­cently wrote to me, "I was up to the dock­yards this morning, and our old ship, tho:BEOTHIC. is there for some repairs. She re­turned from the Iar north last week. Iwande red th rough the saloon, over the br idge,along the deck, and everywhere I cou ldvisualize our old ca ptain, hea r him shou ting,see him gest iculati ng, hea r his commands ,'Sta rboard a Iittle-Ste .adee I Now, boys,j ump l Wh at be ye waitin g forI' And nowhe lies quietl y on the hill that overlooksTrinity Har bor."

\Vhen I return to Newfoundland I tooshall min myoid captain and f riend. BntI know that the loyalty and 10\'1' which heearned from all of us will not die.

V ..... ICK FI.ISSUL

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A Porpoise HuntCarl W. Eberbach, M.D.

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IT was a fine morning in August when the a bit of skillfu l maneuvering, Gibbs soon cameSTltATIlCO:-;A lay at anchor off Spotte d Is- alongs ide of the school of six porpoises run-lands,-one of those perfect summer days 11ing in pairs. \ViII Simms, standing in the

down the Labrador when the deep blue St'a is tow of the P£TIEL, waited his chance todotted everywhere with bursling whitecaps shoot. But the man at the gun bad a moreand the high rocky cliffs stand out in sharp difficult job than might be supposed. Our

relief against a cloudless sky. Sir \Vilfredand Herb Edwards were busily engagedashore dise ntangl ing a will appa ren tly notexecuted to the advantage of all concernedFar out in the harbor a school of porpoiseswas seen, The great fish were playing amongthe waves with the grace of brook trout.

For several weeks our diet had consiste<iof cod and canned bed. It was alleged thatporpoise meat did not taste like fish. Onthe contrary, it was said to be a sort ofcross between bed and liver. Surely a biteof fresh meat, even porpoise, was easily worththe risk of an ice-cold salt-water bath. Withtwo or three hours of time on our hands,a craving for fresh meat and tons of itswimming about in the harbo r , Gibbs She r rill,Will Sims and I set out to get it . Th rough

little Iourteeu-Ioot motor boat was loning upand down in the waves and we were COIl­stantly running in circles as the great fishdove beneat h us and came up again a hundredyards away headed in th e opposite d irect ion.Finally, after about half an hour of unre­warded chase, Will's trusty shot gun roaredand a great female threw her entire lengthout of the sea, viciously whipping her tailin the waves as she dro pped back, then laystunned 011 the surface. \Ve immediatelycarne along~ idl'. drove a harpoon into herand gave her the rOl'e, which was tied to animprO\'ised buoy-a sealed empty oil can.The sea turned red with blood. We feltthat the prize was ours ...... hen suddenly theporpoise whirled about and dove out of sight.P resently the buoy appeared on the sur face

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about a hundred yards away. \Ve approachedcautiously, hauled in the rope, and finallybrought the great fish alongside She

dead. Having lashed her tail to the

har rel. Late in the afternoon as we sailedslowly along toward Gready, a friendly look­ing iceberg have into view. Running up as~ps('; as seemed safe, a dory was lowered

stern of the l'lCTII.H. we "carried home thebacon"

The porpoise was hung from one of thedavits awaiting the arrival of Sir WifIrcd,who nitcrward s disemboweled her ami cutIh.. carcass into roasts to be distrilmt(',l inpart among friends ashore. Everyone (dt

that the day had been a success and that itwas time to get on, bUI there was one morelhrill in store for us. It was hot . Freshmeat and hot weather do not mix . . Icc andplenty of it was essential 10 O~ll: storage

and two of the men, armed with axes, pro­ceeded toward the peaceful mountain of icc.Suddenly, with a great crash and a thunder­ing roar, it rolled over. Fortunately it fellaway from them, and, except for momentarypallor ami weakness of the legs, no harm wasdone. Uncle Tom, the cook, was anxiouslypacing the deck as I came along. "Mo i, oh,moi, doctor," he said, "dat one trew da seain a confusion." Enough ice floated about10 provide for cold storage, and that nightnll was well

Trout Fishing at Northwest RiverWilson G. Smillie, M.D.

LA BRA [)O R is famous for its salmonfishing. \Vhen it was decided that wewere really going to Northwest River

for the summer, I made great prepara­tions to catch my first salmon and went fullyarmed with twelve -ounce rod and salmon red,tapered line, casts, salmon flies of all doscrip­tions, gaff ami all the complicated equipmentof the salmon fisherman. Halifax gave us

the first disappointing news. An old timbercruiser, who had spent some years on GrandRiver, said, "There are salmon there, butIlw)' 110 not take the fly; but trout fishingis gOO(\''' So as an afterthought when wereached St. John's, I got a light trout rodfor $1,50 anrl a few ten-cent trout flies. Thissmall investment yielded the best return ofany money that was ever expended.

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The second disappointment came on ourarrival a t Northwest River on Ju ly 1St."The trout haven't come in yet. The fish­ing doesn't begin unt il abou t August 1St."

I couldn't believe it. Evening afiereven ing, at the end of the day's work, I castthe river- in front of the Mission and theHudso n Bay Post with never a strike. Thcrewere no fish in the whole of Labrador.

Oue bright, clear morning in mid-July, Iwas astounded to find the whole river mouthal ive with trou t. T he surface of the waterseemed to boil. Great two- and three-pcunder eleaped clear of the water every few seconds .The flashing, graceful bodies in the brightsunlight were like silver rainbows. It didn'tsee m possible tha t there were that manytront in the worl d.

No work that day . I cast the pools amithe swift -running current, from the bank.wad ing to my waist, and from a boat, u"i1l!~

every trick I ever knew or heard about, hutnever a .ftrike,-thc trout simply trere no!feed ing. 11 was heartbreaking. T he tiny fly1l0;lted beautifully over the pools. and zreattrout would jump on all sides of it but neve r THE IND!AIi: EXC\lIPMENT AT NOIl;THW[ST R[\"H

touch it, I gave 1111, Labrador t rout werenot like other trout and I wasn't a troutfisherman anyhow, and besides I had come 10 hook-s-and a beautiful 11('0 poulld trout, 1I("Labrador to work and not to fish said that he caught it from the pier with

A day or t\\'o later, [ passed tile lhulsonBay pier and saw r r-year old Leslie Michelinwith only a cotton string and plain steel

,almoll {'I,a:' for bait. Unc couldn't be beatenI,y an rr-year old boy.

So the tackle was rigged up once morc,-

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the Loig salmon reel on the tiny rod, thetapered line and the tee-cent fly. But atlast the trout had come in. For reasonsknown only to themselves, they had decided10 lake the fly, and never was there suchtrou t fishing in the world

John Montague had tuberculovis and hadIJ«'fI in the ~Iission Hospital all spring, bUIwas sufficiently recovered so that he could goa long 10 guide the canoe and help net thefish. Every even ing after suppe r John andI crossed the r iver to the Indian encamp ­ment and anchored in about six feet of waternea r the sho re. The trou t came by in schools,all gra ded as to size as thouuh they hadIs-en sorted by hand.

"A n eight-inch school" would d ri ft loyTh ere was never a minute's Test. I f onehad on two flies and one fish was caught,a second fish inva riably took the second flybefo re the first fish could be landed, T heIndian chi ldren stood on the bank or wade dknee-deep in their exci temen t and shouted....hen the trout jumped into the a ir to catchthe 1'1)" befo re it reached the water.

A few minutes' lull gave one a chance 10light a pipe and fight the hordes of mosqu itoesthat had been ignored in the exchement, andthen a rz-inch school came by, Later inthe evening, after a quiet period of someminutes, the real excitement began, for theg iants decided to feed. The reel sang a high­pitched music, now sharp and staccato, nowlong and sustained and sweete r than anysymphony, and the little rod bent like thearc of a rainbow,

T ....o pounders, three pounders , somet imestwo giants on at the same time-s-eve rysecond full of action-a flashing r ise, anamazing str ike or the wate r boiling in thewake of a fish in full flight.

T ime make-s no impression when t rout arestrik ing , Eight o'clock-nine o'cloc k-teno'clock-the su n has set but the long, longtwi light IinKers- clevcn o'clock-the Indianchildren have gone to bed-the punge nt smokeof the Indian cam pfires and th e low murmurand occasional clear laugh of the Indians d ri ftacross thto water. \\'as there ever such troutfishing in the world?

St. Anthony's N ew Marine RailwayFrances E. Ba ier

T H IS latest, most modern and !oCienti ficpiece of engineering was completed onSeptember 27th, 1928, and the follow ing

Satu rday afternoon all St. Anthony gatheredon the wharf to watch the drawing up ofthe STRATHCONA,

Nu rses in thei r white uniforms, teachersand other worker s climbed to the br idge ofthe boal-the place so often occupied by SirWilfred-while others looked on from thewha rf and engine house.

Under the direction of the chief enginee r,Mr, R. L. H arlow, the cradle was lowered10 the end of the slipway. In spite of aheavy downpour of rain and a strong wind,the SftATHmNA, not under her own steam,was manoeuvered into po5ition and madefast. Tbe motor in the engine house "''"30$

srarted, and the STltATHmN'A, cradle and all,Il"lided stnQOthly and steadily upward andtoward5 the shore.

T he passengers disemba rked with the helpof a ladder , and hea rty cheers were raisedand congratu lations offere d to Mr. Harlowand his ass istants.

T he following technical description of theslip is in the words of Mr. Harl ow :

Th is dock, designed and built by the Cran ­dall Engineer-ing Company of Ea st Boston ,Ma ssachusetts, is of the railway type and hasa capacity of 500 tons. The princip le of thistype of dock is a carriage or cradle tra velingalong an inclined plane called a track. T hemedium for eliminating fr iction is a rollersyste m, whkh has been found after years ofexperience to he the most efficient systemkno'llo'"fl, many exper iments showing " generalaverage loss of only about 2 per cent, The

,c radle is operated by a single wroagbt-iron,open-fink chain, "no"'n as the "Crandall'type," connected to a Crandall, Ctass "B."steam-driven hoist.

AMONG THE DEEP-SEA FISHERS ,6,The track of this dock is of the a-way

type. Because of topographical considerationsit was necessary to build on a convex curve..E ven with that considerable dredging wasrequired. This was done by means of a13-clI. It., Sane-man. drag-line excavator.The material so moved was used for filling

In the dredging operations considerabledifficulty was experienced because of largeboulders and hard sand. The boulders thatwere too large to be handled by the excavatorwere shattered by dynamite fired by electriccurrent.

No difficulty was experienced in the con-

THE STRA TIICO:-;A, THE ZAnlR.~H .cxn TilE r.oon IS THE xew SUP

along and around that portion of the naccwhich came above the natural bottom uponwhich the foundation rests. The upperportion of the track rests 011 timber sillsembedded in firm ground. The lower portion(from low water out) rests on ooncrete placedunder water by a diver after the track wasin position. The building and placing of thistr-ack required considerable skill and e xpe ­riencc along that line of work in orderto assure a good alinemcnt and thegrading necessary for smooth operation of thecradle.

struction of the remainder of the dock. Itis of all-wood construction with only suchiron and steel work as is necessary for theparts thai take beavv strains and the wearingsurfaces.

The first timber for the dock was placedon June roth, 1928. On September 30th thedock was christened by Mrs. Mount, andthe STRATHCOl'A was hauled up without asingle hitch.

It is interesting to note that this is themost northerly dry dock of any type nowin existence in North America.

The Building of a Boat SlipEric H . Thomsen

PR E VIO US to getting there we had not for summer duty in St. Anthony to helpthe foggiest notion of what we were about. to build a boat slip for the fishing fleet,Di rectly or indirectly Sir Wilfred was and one of the first queer but amusing sen-

responsible for rootin g out a bunch of wop~ sal ions was to compare notes upon arrival

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ill 51. .l\IltI...,Il.li. Ulle lbuU llhl he ",.as tospend a lille summer I,jo licing ou the Lab­rador coast : another had visiHlls ...f a )'ilchlleisurely driftillg before the wind up anddown the Labrador from Belle hie to M,dnn'sIb)'; a third knew the f.shinli: .....as good andexpected to spend much time troutini. Eachand everyone had some Iavorire game inmind which had very Iiule to do with thebusiness in hand.

\'i ithin twenty-four hours ailer getting offa c rowde d K YLE loaded 11;1 the: looko ut wid lfishermen going north for the season, therewas a rude aw akening in our collegiate camp.Soon it d id comprise delegates from H a rva rd,Yale, Pri nceton, Da r tmouth, Pennsylv ania ,Michig an, Am her st and Williams, as well asrecent gr ad uates f ro m G roton, Sl. I' aul' s am iot her pr ep-schools. On e and all ha d to realizethat we were the re to spend oar 1J<:~t ti meami effort he lping to bu ild a 5'.HOIl m'ninerailway in the harbor of St. Anthony.

The next morning everyone reported lorwork at eig ht o'clock in the fanciest mar iners'rill:s eve r seen outside of a Gilbert and SuI·linn opera, By nine o'clock most of theglory had been covered with mud; by tenmost of the rubber boots were filled withwater, and backs were so sore Ihat, but forsheer grit, we would have been willing 10sell out , bag and baggage, to the firsl manthat offered a square meal and a comfortablecouch. AI noon most of us had revived some­what, but 1 can still hear the groan of onewho came crawling up on all fours that even­ing for supper, feeling as if everything wasout 01 joint and body and soul would hardlyhold together any longe r.

\Vh en we arrived it had already I...en ,1..­ciderl that t he boat slip was to lit' built southof the Mission wa reho use, am i, Iwcause itwonld have a tr ack 420 feet long runnin g outparallel with the Mlssion pier, T ed MeNei lami his village craftsmen were already build­ing an extension to the pier 10 force themail boat out farthe r and keep it from col­li'l inlt"with the marine railway. The technical~Iaff was headed by that genial, able CII­

gmeer, R. F. Harlow, of the Crandall En­lI:ineerinlt" Company, whe-e resourcefulnesvmort' than once left us .....ops open-mouthedwith astonishment and to all appearances idle.I hope it has been possible for the Editorto persuade )'I r. Harlow 10 give his versionof the difficulties that had 10 lit' overcome

ill the building of the boat slip. though hi,

characterivuc lIllKlol,)' will l,roLabl)· ddcl himf rom ~)"illg I....w much his own downrightabilitj- all,1 his clear headwork eOlllrih:lte.1to the rt'lnO\inK of obstacles.

Closely associated with Mr. Harfow ....d~that other astounding personaluy, !-.Ir. Edgar:\lcXcil, for .....hom difficulties seem to ar iseso thai he can overcome them uving thatpractical enginccring ver sion of Onisti,;"nScience in which he is a past master. Andyet Dr. Curtis told me that wha t we sawthis summer was nothing compar ed with th eamazing versat ility and resourcef ulness dis­played by McNe il an d his village worke rswhen a few years ago they moved f rom thepier up the hill the boile rs fo r the ne whospi tal.

Und er thl: command of these two menwork ed \1'00 jo lly, fine carpenters f rornT willing ar ,-, Fre d Whit e and Stanley Warr.with whom mauy of us hope to be li felongf rien ds, and th e Cr anda ll diver a nd hisas sistant. At the botto m of the scale-cor,should 1 say, at the botto m o f the mud, sofar as one could reach bortcmf-c wer e w(plain wcps. And what a bunch 10 look at­long and short, skinny and port ly ! Onewondered, alter seeing D r, A ndr ews' wopversjon of MUll and Jeff in tbe Missionhospital office, what Dr. Andrews or someother person ..... ith a sense of humor and anartistic disposit ion would have made of ourflock of suhway sailers.

T o anyone acquainted with college life andits tendency to defeat almost a ny atte mplat steady driving, j t is unbel ievable tha t somedozen of assorted collegians perf orm ed tht'f..at of working all summer f rom 8 a. m. to6 p. m. or longer, six days a week, ill all sor tsof weather, mostly wet and windy, in mud andwat er to thrir knees or higher. Starting inwith the Nsy-"easy"- things, such as haul ­ing" rocks, timbers, soo-l b. rail s, etc., some ofus we re gr ad ually promoted to hauling bciler s,eng ines of assor ted sizes and weigh ts, andto building trac k, which involved the han d lingof many inst rument s, including fine au gers,to which young lovers a flectjona tely gave thenames of thei r ewcetbeans at home:, as ofold, kn ights-errant, when they went to war,wt'luM carry the colors of their lady-love•.

The sort of lift' rbe wops It'd in 51. "'n lhon~

-admilttdly tbe hardest of the Grenfell sta­lions-should commend itsel f to any numberof flabby males and Iema les on and off oureotlege campuses. An d if, th rough livinK in

AMONG THE DEEP-SEA FISIIEl{S .6,a ullivcr~itf town-surely the rImst arnficialof all communtities-c-onc h;IS bC(;OnIC .sli~htlf

sour and has begun to doubt whether anythingis worth doing or anybody capable of doingit, the best cure is to spend a summer withthe Grenfell Mission. And by all means doit now! ' ...'hat a fine thing it was 10 secthe spirit with which these wops tackledthe job I Altogether it was a life which hadhardly' anything in it to which they wereaccustomed. And it left them better menIJy and large. It seems hardly possible thatany of them could return the same. Thl:,)'will not forget the experience.

They did good work for the GrenfellMission and for the people on the Coast inwhose interests the slip was built, but theMission has surely rendered them inestimableservice by crowding them outside themselvesand up to higher altitudes f rom which theycould not but catch a larger and more gener­ous view of the relationship of every indi­vidual 10 the rest of mankind and of theresponsibility of each for all of the others­of that social solidarity which is the meaningof the second half of the Great Command­ment,

After a while the work no longer left usso exhausted that we could not sandwich along night's square-dancing in between twodays of rock hauling. We had all sorts offun among ourselves or with the rest of theMission workers or with our friends in town.Or we would go fishing or hiking. \ ..... he willever forget the Odyssey 011 the Loox toHare Bay? Or S. S, S. doing the aria fromthe Barber of Seville in pl4ris na!ura/ibI4S

while his scant garments were drying on thehushes in Ballhcad Cove? I can still laughout loud when I call to mind Herbert Sim'sfascinated look as he contemplated him, notsure whether or not the chap had gone crazy

with the strain. But, kSI )"OU think I amspinning another yarn, let me quote fromthe recent comment of one wop in a letterto another; ~

"It's funny j all the gang at home wen:jJit)'ing me all summer and thinking upbig things ior me to do when I got home,while I was really having the best timeI've ever had and perhaps doing a littlesomething for somebody else than myself.I found myself in that first week's rushkind of wishing for the howl of the dogs,the cool of the nights and that com­fortably tired feeling we had at nightafter the days spent bolting the tracks.I don't think I'd trade in our week-endat Hare Bay for a Whole summer orparties, white flannels and Tuxedos."It was a man's life that taxed any fellow

10 the limit of his capabilities and resources!It was a great and memorable summer I

As for the boat slip, that has alreadymade a mark for itself. The first customer,a lovely little Twillingate schooner yachtwhich belongs to Gordon Manning of Prince­ton, reported before it was finished, andseveral of the fishing schooners that visitedSI. Anthony during the season would haveused it had it been ready. There seems nodoubt that it will be a great blessing to theCoast, and will become only another oneof those many remarkable means hy whichSir Wilfred and his co-workers have metactual needs on that barren coast. Barren,did I say ? Yet I wonder how many of ushonestly hankered to go back to that samecoast, barren as it is, when in the midst ofhomecoming our thoughts stole wistfully backto St. Anthony and the frozen North. which,\Vill Styles prophesied, would soon becomeso cold that you would have to use "a h'axcto cut the h'icc from off your h'eyehrows."

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"Work, Miss, Work"H.R.P.

"GDH1Ework! Mi~s. gimme some-thing to do, ple-ase:'

A shrill child's voice greeted us as.....e entered the children's ward, and !OOn ababel of voice. f rom all sides was hearddnnanding wool, saws, lett er-beard, de. To

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ST. ANTI/OSY ASD SOME P.-\TIESTS

hear these cher-ry voices and the laugh ingres ponses to a chilling "please, what?" onewould I1I'V( 'T suspect the owners of beingvictims of tuberculous spines, paralysis andothe r painfu l maladies.

T he sun came pouring in through the bigwindows I)Il two sides of the nursery andsbone on the snow outside besparkling th ewhole landsca pe with diamonds. "Well,ch ilrlren, today is so very beautiful. wha tdo you say we all go out 0' doors and workthis afternoon?" There was no aud ibleobjection to this suggestion, but after due

silent consideration came a deafening bawlillol:of approval and calling for "woolies" andskin boots. Tt.e sealskin boots with mallYpairs of wool socks or ~tockings underneathare much warmer than "hard lhou." Andbest of all are the sheep wool-lined boots;bat we are not all privilcgcd to havc these.All the patients able to be moved arc wrappedin blankets and put out on "the bridge" incomfortable chairs whenever it is sunny andnot too windy, in spite of cold and sncw.The wind ohen spoils ;I. ~unnf day on thebridge even in summer.

After "rest hour" the children have schoolwork ior an hour whether in bed or up andabout. Tbe teacher. Fred. is a patient him­self and a great suffcrcr with arthritis.Onl)' twenty-eight years old, he was a teacherin the lower grades before he became ill.and it seemed real occupational therapy forhim as well as for the children that be shouldunder take the hospital school hour. All lastwinte r his work proved mo~t satisfactory,the oM"r students being able to lake thesame exam inations all were given in thei rg rades at the town school.

The occupational therapy for the bed pa­tien ts is limited to sewing, knitting and em­bro idery, belt making, tin cutting and leatherwork. A small warrl, not used in winter ,was converted into a shop where F red heldschool and where the rest of the time allambulant pa tients came to work. Th ere waspainti ng of wooden toys fo r the Indust rialDepartm ent, wood can- ing, carpent ry, copperwor k and weaving. T he pat ients were of bothsexes and of a ll ages, T hey chatted andsang at their work, and we spent many happyhours toge ther.

In Ju ne, as the arrival of the first boatd rew near, this ward had to be reconvertedto hospital use, and the ques tion of an cccu­pational therapy works hop and supp ly roomwas unsolved for a while. Then it was dis­covere d tha t the old Caribou Club would lenditself admi rably to the purpose. By themiddle of Ju ne, after much scrubbing andcleaning and paintina- and arranging of oil-

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cloth, there was a fine workroom underway with ~ big sunny cast window. Herepatients worked all summer, and did goodwork.

Any well trained therapist with ingenuityand enthusiasm would thoroughly enjoy thework and the workers at the St. Anthonyhospita l.

PARTI N G GI F T T O MR. A N DM RS. BLACK BURN

BEFORE ~Ir. and Mrs. Blackburn leftSt. Anthony they were presented with a

ste rling silver tea service and an illuminatedaddre-ss by the Harbor people and the staff.The address is bound in choice leathe r beauti­fully decorated w ith Lab rador geese in flight.With it are bound pages showi ng the namesof those who contr ibuted to the gift , andalmost every family in the H arbor is rep­resented in this list. Following is the wordingof the address :

We are all so very ~ny to hear thatyou arc leaving St. Anthony. Some ofus can remember the day you carne hero:nearly 17 yeaes ago, and ~11 of us knowhow truly you have been our friends.We wanl to thank you from our heartsfo r all your many kindnesses to us, andto tell )'OU that we will neve r forge t youThat tile coming years may bri ng muchhappiness to you and your family is thewish of

Your loving frien ds,

THr; PEOPLE OF ST. ANTlIO:iV.

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Sir Wilfred's Letter

DEA R Editor:At last we arc: 011 board a ship boundfor Sew Yurko Aher three and a half

months of lecturing in Great Brit.in and ire­land we were to have nught the Celtic amito have: ken home with the: children forChristmas. But once more it has I.>cenordained otherwise and we arc 10 spend(hri~lmas at sea.

Where better could we spend it? A jMlatbJ..hip, a host of friends and acquaimunces-;<til ill the Christmas spirit! We have justl>ctl1 to the children's Christmas tTce in thethir d class saloo n, and seen that wonderfullook of hope and joy ill the fact's of folkgathered f rom all parIs of Europe as theyenter into their life ill the New \Vorld. Poo rold Father Christmas had to have severa linterpreters to speak to the children. II hadnever before occurred to me that, if an Ellg­lish Father O1ristmas gOI by mistak.. intoFrance or Germany, not 10 spt'ak of Ceecbo­slovakia or Poland, he must give the Christ­ma~ mes~ge in a strange lOngue" BUl FatherChristmas has the gift of tongues and s~ks

a spiritual language 10 the souls of all alike.It is understood in the eves and face andevery action of every man who is of 11:00<1

heart and who is satisfied 10 follow in Hisfootsteps with the faith that intellectual view­poinls form only a poor second to the dictatesof Tcve.

Our efforts on this lour have been moresuccessful than we could hnve e"'P<'cI(',1. :\It"r('at industrial revolution is lI:oing ou inEngland. Many coal miners and their Inmilicsare f:u:ing starvation. Much th.. same stateprevails in the colton tra de, while steel andiron in Scotlan d is so depressttl that WI' sa",thousands of men idle who will have 10 herelieved mostly by public dole and private('harity. The pottery and glass trade has sinceth(, \Var suffered a similar fate, ami 111.1111

men now gel but a day's work in a week.~Ieanwhile the real estate papers literally teemwith notices of old estate and slalely man­slons with all tm-ir gar<!l"llS and rarks forsal.. al ruinous prices. Mon"(wer the newtroul,les with the War debt to the Unitt-t!51..res makes living so dear and taxes 10 highIhal nearly every old charity is sufferingseverely, and hospitals now are obliged to

make c1t.;,Ugh ii they arc to be 1I:el'1 cpen,I see it stated that the mOlley paid this yearby England would meet the whole annualbudgets of the first six states in the Unionand would carry Harvard and Yale Univer­siries into the bargain.

It Wd, 1101 a good time for new ellorlslike that of the Grenfell Association of Gre.•!

Britain and I reland, which is gallantly tryingto secure the. assistance of fr iends ill theBritish Isles. But with ~Iiss Spald ing, whohas so wdl served the Mission for fourtecuyears, givillg her services as Secretary with·out payment, dud with the litt le new ufliccat 8~ Victoria Street, Westminster, new lifehas been injec ted, and ten thousand dollarsis bt:ing sent over as a Christmas contribuucnwith the hope that it may be increased nextlear. Every possible method thai we canthink of has been and is being utilized 10

give publicity 10 the lccatjon of the office, andwe most sincerely pray that American andCanadian fril"nds in London will note thenumber and street-82 Vidoria Strttl--<loouthalf way between \\"estminster Abbey ar,,1Victoria Station. My distinguished kinsnwn,Lord Desborougb, has accepted the chair­manship of the Advisory Council. and theEarl of Elgin, the Marquis of Ahcrdttn, ourfirm friend ever since his GoVt'ntorship ofCanada, Lord Maclay, the man who mana/j:C<l1merchant shiPfling for England during the\Var, ex-Governor Sir wm. Allardyce andother interested friends have joine,1 theCouncil. The Duchess of Somerset has 1\('1'11

vcry interested through the la te D uke havinf,:"been out in Canada in early days and havingbeen always iutcrestcrl in the welfare of allthe people of the northern part of Arnoricn.Lord Morris, ex-Prime Minister of "New­Ioundland. has also joined us.

But amongst so many interested people itis only possible to mention a few. ~r r. W. c.Job, 50 long our Prevident in Newfoundland.now resident in London, has again I[h·en usthe benefit nf his invaluable help, as has ~fi~s

Eleanor Storr, now of london, who for tenyears eave us volunteer service on the- Coast.The Olairman of our Executive Committeeis one of my oldest friends, ~rr" Harry M"Richards, now chief permanent head (If theDepartment of Education for the whale of

A\IOXG T HE DEEp·SEA FIS IIE I<S ,.,l::llo;lauJ. \Ve RIel at Uxiord and wcrk cdlOi;"c thc r in Whir cchapcl ill the old O.I)'S, andnow ill our dcchuiug )·eau it is a wouder fulpleasure to us both to be agaiu interested illthis ccmmeu ellurt fur the h.illgdom of lioJ.\ lie are not able to thank one tenth 01 thefr iends I',ho helpe d us. Th ere were :.0 mallY-from the men who sa iely and puuctu.. lly..Jr cve us, ofte n f rce of cha rge, tc our "V­IJOintmcllts, to the chair men ami orga nizersof the numerous engagements. Among Ihemos t remarkable croups were thuloC in theFree T ra de Hai l in Manchester, in the Usherllall ill Edinburgh, in the Royal DublinSociety Hall iu Dublin ami in the Great H allin Bel fast. Many, many times hundreds 01avpHants had to be turned from the doors.The admirable 1I1O,-ing pictures taken by l.lr.Varjck Frisscll and freely presented to ussecured the whole-hearted interes t and ap­plau se of the audienc es. The beaut iful coloredslides made and given by Dr. Wa ugh of Ne wYork and by other friends were also invalu­able helps.

In Scotland our old colleague of pre-Wardays in Labrador, Dr. Norman Stewart ofEdinb urg h, arranged an invaluable ser itS ofmeetings , H e has est ablished an importantbranch for Sco tla nd. Th e add ress to whichcomm unica tions for the Scott ish branc h shouldgo is his home at JO Polwarth Terrace. Edm­burgh. Miss Spalding has started what isabso lutely essential to insure the permanenceof this work a t home and on the Coast , thaiis, a Br itish branch of the Endowment Fund ,Among other ...Hort s is one to secure tellthousand shillings for a child's cot in thehospital.

Yesr...rday her ... on the Maj estic a tin)" book,which was giv ...n to be sold at aucti ...n in thesa loon at a concert for X...w York and liver­pool orphans , Ietched four hund red and fift ydollars, while the low field in the auct ion onthe day's run-a simple gamble-sold for eversix hundred dollars I It fe11 to my lot to bechairman at the concert, and after a friend.~Ir. Duxbury, had recited Dickens' QnistmasCaro l (it was Christ mas Eve) a subst antialcollec t ion for the ch ildre n was taken upT he qualification for speaking on a subjectis fiUl1iliarity with it, not special oratoricalgenius; and t certainly had the advantageof having been the happy possessor of anaverage of over one hundred orphans )·earlyfo r tbe past twen ty years,

We ar ... jus t now ou rselves asse mbling the

mate rial for the new buildings ior u braJoro rphans at COI n wrig ht, and w11l:11 aile looksback at the poor Iinle "Tjuy Tun s" that arcnow lust)' mechanics, eugiuccrs, ti"hernk'lI,Ilur:oe,., educa tors ;md industr ial and busilles~

worke rs, one has 110 qualms of conscience illcommending the orphan child ren of our Coastto the generous Chri stmas spirit of ourfri end s and readers. 1 am going 10 admitIr eely that jhese inspiring resu lts arc theoutcome of the g ift s of friends and of theCarnC£ie fUIId. But every bit of the en dle sswork, day after day , has been done by LadyGrenfell. All tha t is needed in these days,when we interp re t the call of Chr ist as notto save our sclvcs s but to help Him saveothers, is to have the need plainly pict uredfor us. 1 often wish m)· pen had the silvertip 01 Otarlcs Dickells·. 1 know well thateven the Scrooges. il there are any , wouldwant the erran d boy 10 run out and buy forthem the biggest tu rkey, even if it were aslarge as Ti ny Tim and "then some". Thereare still many "Tiny Tims" in the xcrth andwe want them never 10 go cold and hungryagain.

De·ar readers and fr iends, we ar e anxiousto secure some furt he r permanent fun d totake ca re of our child ren and to ed ucate themand prepare them for the new day that isdawning for OU f people of the Xorth. An)·­(tilt wishing to endow a cot in the Orphan.ageior all t ime can send to the Treasurer att56 Fifth Avenue , New Yor k, the sum offifteen hundr ed dollars and have a bed forone littl e child named in the honor or memoryof a 10'·00 one.

In Otrist's day men were not surprised 10

hear that a priest and a Levite left a dyingbro ther and passed by on the other side. Theyalmost thoug ht it st range that a man shouldcross the road, sac rificing his interests andendaug er ing himself, in orde r to help another.That is so no longer. All that is necessarynow is thai a need be known to exist, andthe most cynical a.nd pessimistic concerningthe meaning of li fe here would dash in tosave a litt le child in peril, even if il cost himhis own life, And al1 the world would endorsethe action. "La ying down" is infinitely grea te rthan "taking up".

I shall never forgel standing on the big(lam at Assuan and looking ove r the greatparapet into the foa ming ca taract whichhurt led its way through those enorm ousslu ices, and then recallin g that but recently

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t rcui thilt ,-ery spot a )UUllll: E&"l'Vliau L.J,sen of the Aboyar, bad leapt into the mael­strom in the endeavor to save the girl babyof a beggar woman, and had laid down hisvery li fe. And that he roic, Chris tlike lad wasa Mohammedan. Later, when in his Scripturenotebook 1 read in the childlike hand of anovice, written ill rude pencil, the words,"Quist said a man should loly down his lifefor his friends," I could not but feci howpoor a t ran slation of the divine message ofIhis greatcst of days in the yea r we are proneto give and how foolish it is to fight overwords and ceremonies ami ritua ls when thegJ,oricus challenge of that greatest ch ivalry isoffered us-in body, soul and spirit-in everydepartment 01 life. The solution of theriddle of life is thaI simple sen-icc of "fol­lowing the Maslrr."

When the big meeting in the palatial hallof th is grea t ship had come to an end, therewas no question ill any mind but that Scroogewas right -c-undeniably righI-in send ing thatturkey to Ti ny Ti m, even if it was a goodbit bigger than T im himself.

~Iar I now , Mr. Editor, rapidly and brieflyreview the outstanding events in the acuviuesof the Grenfell Association during the yearthat has just passed. These events are, indeed,both many and great. and neve r in all mylong connection with the work have we hadso much to thank God for in the way ofprogress.

Dr. Curt is has more than doubled hisprev iously gnat potential by uniting withh im in his life sen' ice our long-loved anddevoted co-worker, ~liss fbrriot Houghtd·ing. Dr. Hood has launcebd the first boatbuill at Harrington, which was specially de­signed and fitted fo r his work, and is 1i0W

on a well-earned holiday with his devotedwife. He is being replaced at Harr ington bya capable Engl ishman, Dr. Johnson. xttssMurray hall finished her first complete yearof valued service in the new nurs ing sIal ionat Multon Bay. Forteau has won undyingfame as the station of Miss Greta Fe rris whosent tbe splendid messages on the rescue ofthe flyers in the first plane to cross theAtlantic going westward. It was a great joyto us, aft er we had hear d of the fall of thosebrave men in "sa vage Labr ador", to lea rn thatwithin a few hours a spr uce, litt le, highty­trained nurse, on the Coast for Christ', sake,had t ripped over with her dogs to inquirewhethe r the heroes had hurt themselves II Miss

Ferri~'s station at Fcrteau needs rebuilding.Mud! has happened since Min Bailey's daythere, and the old house is no longer a fitplace fo r human bein gs to carryon ill such away as those who make sacrifice fo r theser vice of their fellows have a right to hopefor. It sounds romantic to have the wholehouse buried under SIl(lW for nearly threemonlhs, but this does not promole efficiency;and Miss Ferris is now out tf)'ing to raisehelp for her particula r eemre of service. Shecan be reached personally and directly at theoffice in Ottawa, 224 Wellington Str eet.

Battle harbor unde r Dr, Moret' s organizingmind has assumed a new import ance, an d hisprogressive plans-the result of two years'plolting and experimenting-will shortly bepublished. Only a final conference is needfulto settle what is tbe best and wisest plan ofprocedu re.

The fisheries a rc all in a t ransition state.Old methods are g iving place to new ; and,though this year, thank God, the fish caughtand salted in the old way brought in splendi dprices, new methods both for curing and ford istribution a re beginning to come intopractice, and there arc "great expectations"on the part of the people of Labrador andtheir friends.

The litt le induslrial houses at George'sCove, Boulter's Rock and Sea l Island werein use during the pas t year, and the experi­ment cer tainly encourages us to go ahead.The new greenhouses given for Car twrightand ~orlhwest River arrived but have nulyet been erected . This is owing to Dr. Moret'sha\'ing to come out and to Dr. Paddon's beinginvalided out for a needed change and rest.God's ways arc not ours, but they are alwa)'sright and wise ways though they may notSCent so 10 us.

Labrador's first yea r of "belonging to someone" and of having the ability to g rant firmtitles has been a notab le one. The new methodof brine-I reeeing, which has transformed themarketing of salmon and more tban doubledthe price paid to the poor salmon catcbees,is to be appl ied next year to cod. It is hopedthat the cod will be picked up by empty grai nsteamers returning to the te rminus of theHudson's Bay rai lway at Fort Churchillwhence it will be ca r r ied, when tha t railwa yopens next year , in acco rdance with a rr ange­ments al ready under way, to the great cit iesof western Canada, and even to towns andvillages, and give the inhabitants their fint

A~iONG THE DEEP-SEA FISHERS ...opportunity to get such glo rious f resb fish asour cold waters only can tupply. TheH udson's Bay Company is preparing threega ther ing stations on the Coast, the mostnortherly 10 be at Cape Chidley right in the1,at& of the g rain-caerying steamers.

Another new project of the Hudson', BayCompany is a great, central fox far m. Thisw ill probably be at Sa nd wich Bay ; every thingpoints to that place as the most advantageous.There already exists at Sandwich Bay a foxfarm which was started by othe rs many leanago an d abandoned after the \Var. One ofour own old helpers , Mr. Geoffrey Milling,has recent ly been chosen as a Director inJob Brothers and Company, our dearest andoldest friends in Newfoundland, and as anassociate with Mr. Townsend, the bri lliantindustrial adviser- of the Hudson's Bay Com­pany. Mr. Milling will direct the fortunes ofthe lan ee company's numerous new enterprisesfor opening Labrador. This certain ly portendsthe fullest cooperation in all efforts for ourpeople's betterment.

11Je berry industry is another one that willbe pressed next year, and there will be workfor every one that will ava il himself of thisoppor tunity provided a rrangements can beu .tidaclorily carried out.

The new ways of utilizing the parts of thecodfish hitherto wasted indicate that no partof the fish should be cons idered useless. Oil ,chicken food, catt le feed, phosphorous, saltsand ferti lizer can now be marketed profitably,and this fact should greatly help to bringback to our fishermen the days of prosperityof many years ago.

Peat also is to be experime nted with. Newprocesses promise to produce a ton of peatwith the caloric value of a ton of coal at acost of a dolla r and a half, and the ton ofpeat will nol occupy much more space thanthe ton of «Jil l. In these processes an oil isrecovered which may, we hope, be valuablea~ a fuel in heavy-oil engines. A largeschooner with provis ion for carryinlo': on inher these new processea has already been

built and will fu nction on our Coast nut)"eilr for the first time in history.

A great dea l of work has been done in im­proving the method of prepari ng seal skinsfor the mar ket. The skins of bay sea ls, ofbaby white-coat seals, of baby blue-coa t sealsand of the large r ccarse-halred sal. wereformerly only of value for the leather. Underthe new processes developed by the H udson'sBay Company these skins can be made intoa beautiful fu r fo r coats with the advantageover most furs that the luther is very strongand will last a long time. You cannot tear it.On our Coast I used to see poor people paythe minister's humble fee of one dollar peryear by gh'ing him a white fox or a whitesealskin. Now the former is worth fortydollars and the latter four or five dollars.The seal are not so plent iful now as theyused to be, hut they only need prope r pre­tecrion. I doubt if by any "legitimate" meansthey will ever be exterminated. There exists,howeve r, a very rea l need for more car efulprotec tion of the fauna of Labrador. The'annua l slaughter earrled on from steamersfurnished with every modem appliance fordestruction cannot fa il to des t roy the sealherds, and the unrestricted shooting of wildanimals an d birds in the closed season ofsummer by the increilSUtg number of semi­scientific exploring expeditions, which can gonorth on ly when the sea is open, are doingreal harm. T he wal ru s and the polar bearsuffer with many others.

So faith in the possibility that reindeermight make Labrador barrens to blossom likethe rose is steadily nearing realizat ion. Cana dahas incorporated one, if not two, la rge re in­deer companies for the northe rn prairies andfor the west coast of H udson's Bay.

Wn.n..ED T. GR.u:rllL

At Sea,Christmas, t()28.

[Si r Wilfrl':d adds that more will follow.The rema inder will be reserved for publica­tinn in theneltt issl1e.]

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A Letter From Dr. Paddon

DE A R Editor:I write as a convalescent patient ill

the St. Anthony hosp ilal---quite a flewrole for me and a very unwelcome one. Butthe role has beee made leu unpleasant thanit might have been by the extreme kindnesswith which I have been received and treated,both professionally and socially , and by theunique opportunity this convalescence 11.;\5Riven me to study at cjose view the head sta­tion of the International Grmfell luo;«ialion.

Hitherto my "isia in St. Anthony have beenlimited to three or four days. at in te rvals ofsevera l yea rs. T his ti me I ha ve ken her e forseveral weeks. Naturally the hospital serviceis my chid interest, and the period of myconvalescence has been extremely useful. Fora rusty, wilderness practitioner to have anopportunity 10 sit at the feet of a product ofthe Mayo clinic such as Dr. Mou nt is Inde eda privilege, It has been my Rood fortune towatch some beautiful surgery and to get somevaluable suggestions in diagnosis

On Thanksgiving night we had a delight­[u] dinner party with ten British an d tenAmerica ns present. It is inte rest ing to findtwo nurses fro m southern Xewtoundland.graduates of an American hospital. inchnledin the staff. Too rare and too slight havebeen the contacts between all that is best inXewfoundlund and in the Inte rn at ional Cren ­fr ll Associat ion, an d such associa tions as ~fiss

Chalker anrl Miss Canning have formed ca n­not hut be beneficial. There can be little roomfor dou!>t that the starting of a London officeis alreadv having a wholesome reac tion onthe cout ribution of Great Britai n to the wo rkboth in money an d in personnel. It is deligh t­ful to find five English and Scotch on th e~taff. No one is more pleased Ih:11\ I wit hthe international (and inter-denominatjonal}aspect of our work. and no one Ieels a greate rsense of humiliation when thr Mother Connlryis 001 ade qua tely re presented.

11 is at once pleasinl( ami sad 10 haw beenl\f"re to SOl\' Iarewetl 10 Mr. 0111<1 ~frs. Black­burn at tile end of their !'t:'u·nlt.....n rears ofdevoted, unobtrusive sen-ice. The Associadonand the SI. Anthony community exte nd ahea rty welcome 10 ~I r. Blackbur n's succeseor,~{ r. Davison, another English recruit, who

brings to a heavy task the enth usias m of youthand robu st health.

Since I have been allowed to go out it hasbeen of great interest to visi t the \\' ilfre<1T. Gr~nfel1 scbcol here, It is a pleasure 10

find that the graduates of our Gordon's Coveschool, who have come to pit their wits agahlstlocal talent, ar e Riving a good account o fthemselves.

.-\. visit to the Industrial Depaetmem i~

always worth while, not only because of the\'arieh' and attractiveness of the products.bUI also because duri ng such a visit one real­izt"s more clea rly what the proceeds mean 10

handicapped wage-earners. Of interest alsoare the Orphanage with iB 50 to 60 children.the Clo thing Srere, a hive oi activity in thepre-Christmas season (s ince toys are housedthere}, ami the barn with its prosperous cattlea n,l pigs.

In the excellence of the varied sen-ice inSt. Anlhony and in the efficiency and kl:'Cn­ness of the staff there is certainly much rea ­son for pride and thankfulness. BUI in anyhuman enterprise there must be room, a ,t he re cer tain ly is in the phase of th e workin which 1 am interested, for tho ught, dis­cussion and criticism and for a wbclesomesense of problems still unsolved. It is to beregretted that intimate association amongmembers in fa r-flun g st a tions be comes I>OS­sil.le only th rough illness

\ \'ithout wish iul( further to obtrude personalailments on )'our columns, I can hard ly dosethis leit er unless I give some public expres­sion of gra titude to those who proved truefrien ds in th e t rying ci rcum stances of theacuter period of my illness,-to th e veterancus toms officer in Rigolc t, who insisted on mymoving from the YALE (which is hardly anideal sick room) 10 his own qua rte rs, to theofficers and crew of the coas ting steamerKYL E for their considerat ion an d kind lye fforts , to the Go\"crniug Commission of theNewtonndland Ra ilwa)'S and Steamship Seev­icc, who spared no effort to speed my trans­po rt to SI. Alllh"ny, am i to ('al'lain ~lIIi1h

of the whaling sta tiou at Gready. Cap tainS mit h 1101 only se nt hi s nurse with me onthe k,.vu : all the way 10 SI. Ant hony ( whichmeant alsc sending a whaling vessel here 10

A:\IOXG TilE DEEP-SEA FISHERS .,.Ietc h her back to Grudy) , but, when helearne d that .11 my worldl y belongings except....hat I had broug ht for use on the Y ALE wereshut up for the winter in Nor tblliest River.he actual ly sent a whaler all the way toNorthwest River (a 3:ZO mile round tri p) toget my baggage out , and has since landed itfor me in St . John's on his way hack 10 Nor­way for the winter .

Such kind nesses as these are wor th record­ing. So is the fact that my friend an"colleague of fou r summers, ),tiss )'fartha Gib­bons, deviated f rom her intended route home­war d in order to see me safdy under Dr

),Iount's care. At a time when I fdt leastable to think for m)"self the appearance of:Miss )'Iallalieu (the nurse from Gready men­tioned above) was an inex pressible relie f.

Once more the great comfo rt and convent­ence of the ra dio has been emphas ized" Th esepar at ion from my sta tion, so sudden andso entirely un foreseen, crea ted a sit ua tionwhich would have been very awkward indeedwithout the opport unity for frequent com­munication"

l{AItIY 1- PAOOON, xr.o.St. Anthony. Xewfoundland,l Jeeember 2<.1, 1926.

Miss Fellowes Writes From En gland

TH E very name Xcrthwest River appealedto me for )"ean before I was fortunateenough to go there. It has a sound of

the Arctic and the unexplored abo ut it thata lways remin ded me of that pictu re in theTate Gall ery of the old sa ilor sitt ing day­d reaming amongst hi , chart s and saying to hisdaught er , "It might he done, and Eng landought to "0 it." Wh en I did at length ar rivethe re I was in no wise disap pointed; it is alljus t as roman tic as it sounds" I remember sowell waking up after a somewhat uncomfortablenight in the little Iorepeak of the motor l>Oatin which I had done the eig hty odd milesfrom Rigolet and seeing the end of what hadseemed the intermi nable Hamilton inlet w ithhouses 011 the shore, a grea t river open illgout and then mysterious mountai ns in thebackground"

Th e "R iver " itself is only the na rro wingof the lakes beyon d in to a swift, broad str-eamabou t half a mile in length, and here Dr.Paddon has his new hospital and the trimbuildings of the Yale School sheltered I,yfine, tall trees. Here too are the ....-h..evesand warehouse of the If!ldson's Bay Compally,for it has long been ali important tradingpost, and the litt le hoUM:S of the inhabitants"

Th e comm unity of tr appers who live hereare an interesting gro up. mostly descendedf rom the English and Scotch Hu dson Daymen, and are quite distinct fro m the roas tfishermen .

The men go off into the forest for monthsat a time, travelling sometimes t .....o or threehundred miles on their fur paths trappingfoxes and other Iur-bea rillg animals. Theirfamilies really deserve a good education, andthe new school is providing this " The twonice, homely litt le houses look very attract ive,and a third was built thi s summer and I haveno douht is now occupied. The boys makequite a lot of their own furniture, whichteaches them to use the mater ials at handand to be self-supporting, even if the furnituredoes occasionally crash during school time I

\Ve ....'ere a very busy, cheerful piirty at thehospital this summer, The Yale studentswere doing true "wop" .....ork in fetching sandfro m Grand lake and mix ing cement for thebasement of the new cottage. )'liss Nelsonwas kept busy wit h the sick folk and theIndians. Miss Cr iswell had a knack of com­mandeering all hands to can salmon. (Ithi'lk she did five hundred pounds.) Dr.Smil1i~ and his assistants hunted microbes,and ~Ir. Dcarlove called up the world atlarge with his radio set. I assure )"00 therewas not ;J. dull momem. \Ve were all de­ligbted ....hen Or. Paddon came on a flyillg\-i~it awl ...."ere sorry his stay was so short.

I 111;"le the acquaintance of little j anetGuu.!i.. who has I....-n "adopted" by a f riendin Enuland. She was spending her holidayswith a kindly fami ly, having no home of herown to go 10 when the school dosed fo r the

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summer. Miss Cri swell says she is doingwell at school and she certai nly looks welland happy. Perhaps we could get a fe w more

children "adopted" here. It would be anothe rlink betwee n the old country and the new.

CIIRISTINR C. Peu.ow s.

Sir Wilfred's 1929 Lecture Tour

By the time th is issue is off the press Sir W ilfred will have started on his lecture tourthrough the South and into the \Vest. In former years he has spoken under themanagement of a lecture bureau; this season he has turned over all his t ime to the

supporting Grenfel l Associations, and all engagements are being booked through their offices.Following are the definite engagements made up to the date of publication of this issueand the names of the persons in charge of the arrangements ill the various places. If heis to speak in year vic inity will rou not give the fact as much publicity as possible; if not,and if you know of the possib ility of all eng agement, will you not communica te with theIntern ational Grenfell Assoc iation, 156 Fifth AvelJul', New York City.

Monday, January 14th 1t)1'. };I'W York Correspondent :~Irs. Wm. J. Demorest,Upper Dogwood Lane , R)'e.

T uesday ,

Wednesday,

Th ursday,Fri day,

Sa turday.Sunda)/',

Monda)' ,

Tu esda y,

wednesday,

Thu rsda y,

Friday.

15th Brooklyn. N. Y.

16th Wilmington, Del.

17th &himon:, Md.18th

I')th Washingtun, U. C.corh

Owings ~Iills, Md.

aand Roanoke, Va.

23rd Athens. W. Va.

24th Roanoke, Va.

25th Thomasville, N. C.

Correspondent :Dr. Th omas M. Brennan,J9---8lh Ave., Brook lyn.

Correspondent:Rev. B. ~l. Johns.Grace M. E. Church, Wilmington.

Correspondent :Mrs. John ~f. Fluney,I J UO Eutaw Place, Balt imore.

Correspondent:Dr. James H. Taylor,J045-IS1h 5,-, :\. W., Washington.

Correspondent:Rev. Philip Jensen,St. Thomas' Rectory , Owings MiII ~

Correspon dent:Dr. Hugh 11. Trout,1301 Franklin Road, Roanoke.

Correspondent:George W. Diehl, Pres.Concord Slate Normal, Athens.

Corr espondent:Same as above.

Correspondent:E. Norfleet Gardner,Orphanage Baptist Gurch,Thomasville.

A~fO~G THE DEEP-SF:A FISHERS ."Saturday, ,,;,h Ashe\'illc,~. C.

Su nday, ",h Knoxville, Tenn.

Monday, :lHth Asheville , N. C.

\\'ednesda)· JOth Char leston, S. C.

Saturday, Februa ry znd Athens, Tenn.

Correspondent ;John G. Thomas,z5 Lawrence PI., Asheville.

Correspondent :Dr. Wal ter Whitaker,St. John's Church, Knoxville.

Correspondent:Same as above.

Correspondent:Dr. Alexander Sprunt,Finl P resbyteria n Church ,Charleston.

Correspondent;James L. Robb, P res.,Tenn. Wesleyan College,Athens.

Sunday,

Frida,)",

jrd Chattanooga, Tenn

8th Memphis, Tenn.

Correspondent;Dr. Dliver"}. Ha rt,St. Paul's Church,Chattanooga.

Correspondent;Dr.Olas. Blais<lell,Cah·ar)· Chu rch, ~lemphis.

From the South he will go west to California, and in February will speak in Lo 5 Angeles,Sacr amento, Berkeley and San Fr ancisco. Returning he has the following engagements;

~fonday. March "h Cheyenne, \\'yo. Correspondent;A. S. Jessu p

Tuesday, S'h Eaton, Colo. Correspondent;A. Z. Hall

\\'edncsday, '.h Denver, Colo. Correspondenr:Rev. Gordon Poteat,Cily Pa rk Church, Denver.

Thu rsday, 71h Colorado Springs, Corrcspondent :Colo. Pr es . Chas. Yi erow,

Colorado College,Colorado Springs.

Sunday, 17th Aurora, 111. Correspondent;Aitemoon Millon D. Jones

River Forest, III . Correspondent:Evening Max A. Berns

\Vedr1l's<lay, aoth Gra nville, Ohio Cor rcspcndent :A. D. S t. Cla ir,Granville.

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F riday, zcnd johnstown, 1'('1III a. Cor respondcnt:

~In. J. J. M('~ (' r,

Jl9 P alli "'Cl St.,JO'hn~lon.

On Sunday, :\farch Jut, he ..... ill go into Canada for two weeks. Information rtgarding histngagtments there may be secured from Miss Annie :\1. \\'arnt'. 72'1 Gilmo ur St., Onawa,Canada.

O UR CH RISTM AS CA.RDS

TH E enthu siasm with which our friendsresponded has been a real inspirat ion tothe Committe e who this year unde rtook

the special \\ork of distriluning Christmascards.

More than ever this year orders came inwith a rush so that the litt le group engagedin the work were at t imes completely snowedunder. Three times it was necessary 10 wire10 the printers for additional deliver ies, an d,until t he shipments ar rived, it ",as necessary10 postpone filling OUT orders. Anxious let­ten indicated that man)' of our friends weretroubled, wondering whethe r their orderswere going to be filled; but f rom the consid­eration shown us when we were slow in fill­ing orders it appeared that all ful1y realizedhow p.;I.lienlly and painstakingly the littleRrouv were eating their way into the pile ofletters tha t seemed to grow lar ger each day.

From this year's experience it is evidcmtha t the Christmas card endeavor has theardent support of our friends, and that itwarrants for another year a larger aTHI bette rorganization to handle the work.

\Ve have had many comments 011 the de­signs chosen for thi s yea r-many of them en­thusiastic, several, alas , critical, Lut all ofthem helpfu l.

Th e Commiuc e will 1>1' "leased to receivesample designs for nex t )'ea r's cards. Or dersmus t be placed with the printer not laterthan April 1St, so that the selecfiou must bemade Lefore that date.

A. A. W.

O RGAN NEED ED I N S T . ANTHON Y

IN the Orphanage in St. Anthony there areGo or more child ren, and just like anyother children they seem to have a way of

~in~il1j;l" whenever thc)' g,·t together in groepe.

especially when the)" gat her in the evenings,There has always been an org an in the

Orphanage aro und which the childre n couldga ther, and it was almost constantly in UM '

until it went to pieces about two years agoIt has been a helpless invalid ever since.

Pian os a re a lmost useless at our sta tio nsbecau se they so quickly get out of tun e. 111tr ying 10 a rrange fo r a tun er thi s last SUIll­

mer I found tha t the best price I could obtainwas $150.00 to rover his ser vices and a roulldt rip from 5 1, j chn's,

Music the Orphan_ge must have, hewevee.Lpon my return to New York I got in touchwith the Estey Organ Company, woo quo tedan extremely low price for an ext remelygood organ. I fed that, if we an find somefriends will ing to help us with this, .....1' shouldship an org;t.n to the North without any delay.The total amount required is $125.00, andalready $.zS.oo hils come in to r this purpose.

Will not some of our friends, who appr eei­at~ the joy and helpfulness of group singingamo ng children such as these, (Orne to ou rhelp 50 that we can ship th is splendid ins tr u­men t by the first hoat that goes north in till'spring.

A. A. W.

A NEW .BOOK BY SIR WILFRED

SIR\VILFRED'S latest book appear s UlI-der I!le title, " Lab rado r Look s at the

Orien t:'_a mos t fitti ng t it le for a book byhim on travel in the East, since he, if an y­one, has won the r ight 10 ident ify himselfwith La brador . But one canno t help th ink­ing how aptly it migh t have been calle d the'1'ravc:l Dia ry of a Ph ilosophn " if that t itlehad ..~ . a lread y bc:-en used. T his t imC',how­eve r, it is a philosop her whose observa t jonof places and JlC'ofllu and personalitiC's neverleads him 10 set down dry speculations. Si r

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"'ilfrt"d's warm human sympathies keep himfrom jbat,

The re .. der is taken through Egypt and theSudan, th rough Pale st ine an d the neighbor­ing coun tries of the Nca r East that owethe ir a uto nomy, such iIS it is, to the W or-ldWar, th roug h Indi a , the Matay Pen insula ,China, Korea and Japan . Meeting eve ry­whe re those in autho rity or in posi tions ofpromin..m:.., Si r \\"ilfrffl had oppo rtunity forseeing much more than the ave rage tourist.\\"hal h.. saw h.. r ..cords vividly as ph..­uornena of tbe present against the remoteperspective of the pest of these anci..nt c ivi­lizations and againat the pe rspective of Lab­rador, in another sense remo te.

In Palestin e especially Si r W ilf red findsa r ich field for histor ical reference. At thesites of places whose very names would longaRO have been forgotten if they had not beenperpetuated in biblical history, he reviews...-ith a light but reverent touch the episodeswhich have made these names householdwords, And he points a tolerantly d..riaivefinlrtr at the superstitions that have grownup about holy places 100R: sinc .. buried in th..debris of the centuries, and, Sir Wilfredthinks. fortunately buried.

In this book Sir Wi lfre d contin ues in hisdel igh tfu lly d iscursive style. Read er -s of hispreceding publications need not be remindedof its captivating- charm. Humor a lternateswith pathos; description with anecdote;penttrating glimpses into present-day social.economic and political systems with rumina­tion over the syst ..ms of the past. The bookhas a fine unity notwithstanding the fact thatthe thread of the narrative is so l igh t thatone may open it at ra ndom and read a pagewith interest. The writer has a faculty forproducing what imprt"55 the reader as cine­matographic effects without distracting ca p­tions.

Th.. book contains numerous ill ustrat ionsfrom rfiotographs made by members of theauthor's party.

F. Eo S.

RE Q U ESTS

Y ·~I~~de;~~~~Lil'a:cti~~i:t:\\~U~ra~:t%Club, the efforts of which suffer because the rei, '0 lillie obta inable locally for cost uming.Fro m )olin Elizabeth Criswell we have re-

ceived a request for discarded costumes foramateur theatricals and for costume, forHallowe'en, St. Yalentme's Day, St. Patrick',Da)", etc, Donors should send gihs to theX",," York offices.

r e,~7~;r~~~iin~:~o;fth:O~di~~Government to the Northwest River- £annmake- it lhe more urgent that the farm besupplied with adequa te machinery.

With in the next two years there will beneeded a ha)"-mowing machine aed a hay rake.There i) immedia te need for a IlCW harnessfor the one hone that the £arm boasts. Agr i­cultural machinery of any sort suitab le for asm;l,lJ farm will be very acce ptab le.

THEI XDC5T RIAL DEP ARBI E1>IT . illSI. Anthony is in need of an adding

machine and a pcrtable typewriter, The ad­ministration of the Department requires eon­sl.lerable accounting and it. large amount ofcorre~C1lCe. and Miss Pressley-Smith, itsDlrecroe, would very much appreciate these:ul,litions to her office paraphernalia.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

WE desire to make belate d acknow ledg­ment of the gift of thirty Biblesreceived last June through the kind ­

ne,s oi Mr. Samuel R Boggs, NationalTru-tce of the Gideon Society, Philadelphia.These have long since been sent to the Xcrth,

A CO RR EC T I O N

O N page J6 of the issue fo r Apri l, 1928,appears a quotation fro m a lett er wri t­

ten to Sir Wilfred by Dr. John Bry antof Boston. in which Dr. Bryant mentions thesum of $13.000 as having been realized fromthe sale of goods made in the OccupationalThn2P)' Department in St. Anthony. It is01\1)' in a very 12rge hospital with many pa­tit"nts engaged in occupational therapy workthat such a sum ill this could be returned b)'their industry. In the St. Anthony hospi talthe average of yea rly sales is some thing undera hundred dolla rs , and the sales fo r the yea rto which Dr. Bryant ref ers should, tm doubt,have been $150.

.,., A~fO~G THE DEEP·SEA FISHERS

From the Doctor's Mail BagNEWS FROM THE STRAITS

August 4th, 1928-

DEAR SIR,I hope my letter will reach .)·ou en­joyin g the best of health , as It leans

me at pr esent. \Ve have ha d a very sturmysummer. T he fish struck in here the las tweek in June. We did well ior three day)"and then we had a heavy wind from thesouthwest which wrecked our traps. A fte rIhal we only had a soon spurt. I did bidywell for the time, gett ing nea rly 200. Theydid fair ly at L'A nse au O aire, For tcau,L'A nse a u Loup and Capstan Islan d. Upwest it', a blank. All the vessels have gonenorth. and tome with not a fish unde r salt,­the wont year ever known with the vessels,And over al Flowe" Cove it's a blank.

We had two accidents here this summer .The last day of Jun e two young fishermenwere setting a t rawl and a sea capsized theirboat. I saved one of them but the otherwas gone before I got to him? On Saturdavand on Monday two more men were drownedin the same place. A sea capsized theirdory. They belonged to a vessel.

I received the knife you sent me, and thankvery much. You will find enclosed in thieletter a piece of the Bremen that landed onGreenly Is land this spring. They took heraway this week on the 5.5. XOkTn Saon.

Now I mU5t close as the 5,5. 5AGO:<f.-\ i~

coming.Your sincere friend.

Now I wish you health , I wish you wealth,I wish you riches' store,

And after deat h a heaven ly home;What can I wish you fDCITe?

FROM THE SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE

King George V. Building ,St . John's , Newfoundland,Octobe r 8th, 14)2&

D EA R Sir Wil f red,Yr. LeMessurier has eeneeyed to tl~

your very kin d nquest that we maila renewal membership card, and it is indeed

a glut pleasu re to enclose the card herewi th.You will be interested to know lhat we ar e

,Promoting our third annual membership cam­paign this week. There is promise of a geedresponse and we are expect ing to enroll atleast as many as last year when the enrollmentwas Soo. Grenfell Hall and the . wimmingpooJ have been re-decorated and look finefor the winter'. prOCram. The opening sociallast F riday brought together about JOO }'ourtK

people although it WOlS a very wet and stormynight.

The summer has been very busy; it include dthe assisting of two shipwreck ed c rews, bothfro m French ships. T he first was a party ofJ6 including the captain, who wer e landedlast July. Since their departure I have reoceived a "ery appreciative letter from theGove rnor of St . Pierre, and this I am en­closing for your perusal. Per haps it wouldbe good reading for the Du:p S£.AM"'G.~ Z INL

Now, Sir Wilfred, I could write a verylengthy leiter if I began !O relate the manyexperiences that have been my kot since takingcharge of this work in 51. John's, bUI sufficeto ~y it has ba-n an enjoyable flrivile~e

and no problems yet have been unsurrneunt­ab le, thanks be unto Him who leads andguides.

W ishing Lady Grenfell and yourseli ever,blessing during the coming season, and mayyour labors cont inue ah..-ays to be fruit fuland crowned with success,

I ~in.

In H is service,

A. L. SWITt!,

Sur,lary, Y .M.C.A.

T H E communicat ion from the Governorof 51. P ierr e referred to in Mr. Smith',kiter follows in translation;

Office of the Governor,St. P ierre and Miquelon,St. P ierr e, August 8, 1928.

Mr . A. L. SM ITH ,

Di rector, Young Men's Christian Ass'nand Seamen', Inst itute,

51. J ohn's, Newfoundland.

Dea r Sir,I have been in formed of the unfailing

AMONG T HE DEEP- SEA FISHERS

enthusiasm and tireless energy with which youprovided aid and comfort for the crew of theFrench three-master, LA FklUUSE. CaptaUJ.E. Delepine, from SI. Servan, who wen:landed at St. John's after the wreck of theirvUl>CI.

It gh·es me &reat pleasure to e~press toyou the gratitude of my countrymen, and tosend you, on their behalf and OIl behalf ofthe Govern ment of thf Fr ench Republic whichI have the honor to represent in 51. P ierreand ),fiquelon and for which I speak, my mostsincere thanks.

Be pleased to acce pt, dear Sir, the assur­ance of my high rega rd.

ADalw )UVASON.

FROM A N EWFOUND LA N DAGRI CU LTU RA L ST UDENT

Ol.dacre Hall, Hartest,W, Bury St. Edmunds.October aad, 1928.

DEA R SIR ,I t is with great pleasure that I writeto let you know how I am progressin&

at the Chadacre AgriculturaJ Instiune.To begin with I will describe the surround­

ings of the Institute. Altogether there are6cP acres of land around the Hall, 300 inpasture and ,...oodlands and the remainderarable. The scenery is \'ery fascinating. Yes­terday I walked six miles through the WOOtloJ

and stopped at intervals to see the rabbit srun acron rny path and the squirrels scamperup the trees, to hear the birds sing and thewind whistle through the trees. It was per­fectly lovely. I sha ll send a photographof the Ha ll in a month or so.

Xow _bout the su rrounding fanns and thework done by w on them. There are threebelonging to the Hall, which is in the centreof them. The Home Farm suppl ies the Hallwith milk, eggs, butter, etc. At Rivvet 's pigsare kep t to fatt en fo r the bacon f_eto ry atBury St. Edmunds. Bullocks are killed andlllso fattened at Little Chad .

We do all kinds of work,-milking, be ttermaking, da irying, vete rinary work, horse!Shoeing, harness mending, etc .; and we havelectern on soib and manures, poultry keep­ing and dairying, impletnnlts, farm accounts,

mensuration and s:.trH:)'illg, the chemistry ofscience and medicines for sick cattle. Thework is very intel"t"Sting and I enjoy it everso much. •

I rea d the book, "Yourself and YourBody," and found it very interutin,lt. 1think all lads should have one like it.

I will get on here, Sir, as you told me,asking Ch ris t to help me, and by His armimpart my lear ning to the people and for thegood of the Mission. Labrador needs onlydetermined men to open up its resocrces, andalso to be a help to the people.

With best wishes,

Fro m your sincere f rieud,

.KATH.'X Ik OQ:u..

FROM ONE or S I R WILFR ED'S WA.RDS

Pittsburrh, Penna..September tzth, t928.

DEA R Sir Wilfred Grenfell,I mel ever so many splendid people.Mission workers and those interested

ill the work, on board the boat coming out.I just thoroughly enjoyed the tr ip, and loverhe water an d our dogs more and more. Evennow I find myself wishing for the Labradorout-door life-the woods, . waterways, ete.­hut I reali'e oow that that will probably neverhe again. I can, though, interest P«lple illthe work.

Surely, Sir \Vili red, no one but you canrealize the wonderful work )"00 have donefor our people on the Labrador through yoarMiss ion and its helpers. Can you imagineour people 'way back before the Missionwas, and see the change that has been duringthese many years? A stranger going on theCoast can't realize the inAuence !h;J.t has been;but we do, even though it is difficult for usto express ou r gra thude and app reciation.May the work alway!S continue. I love it

.and truly wish J might have done so muchbetter among our people.

I hope you and Lady Grenfell a rc feelingreste d an d ready for your work back on theCoast again.

Very sincerely,R.'CH[L Ru);:!: ~BlsnS" .

A~IOXG THE D EEP--8EA FI SHERS

Sincerely)'ours,W, B. BltOw!(,

S,c-,.t'tars. t~ Ca".mittu.

FROM RED BAY

Red Bay, Labrador,October Jd, 1918.

O I..:',:\R Sir Wilfred,A,s we are expecting the ruailboat ill to­nIght, I must get off a few linn to you.

Firs! I must tell )'00 about the new boar,.he ~h~OH& Pin She is il first-clus boatin c\"ery particular-c-hae good rigging, sails,chains and anchors, She draws about threein'l of water and will carry about threehundred quintals of dried fish. There is~ct about a mouth's work to be done on her ,.mu she has been hauled up so that they canwork on her in the spr ing,

We ha ve done abou t $687 work of weavingthis summer counting the runners at $5.00a pai r, T his has not aU of it been sen t toS I. Anthony yet . I have sixty-eight runners)'ct to finish.

\\'e received you r lette r this morning andwere delighted to hea r from )'OU, The twinswere not at St. Anthony this sum mer, \\'eare getting up a pie social Icr them, ande'"er)ixxI.)· in Red Bay is helping with it toshow appreciation to you and the girls forthe he-Ip you have given them and the thingsvcu have done for them, ~5C' two girlshave been a great help to the peeple of RedBay and to the church. Nothing is too muchfor than to do for us. They are interestedin the children and in C'Yeryone they corneacross, and everybody likes them. I am doingall I can for these girls.

\\"e- have not had many visitors th is yea r.I was at west St . Modest on business whenDr. Curtis came and when MacMillan washere, When I was at West St. Modest thepeople there offere d to put wood on the bankof the r iver where We could reach it in theschooner for $5,00 a cord. It is impossible'to get wood in Red Bay, If the schoonerhad been finished we could have brought homeour winter's supp ly of wood.

I am sending you a piece of my own wor kmade out of the mate rial that Lady Gren ft llI:'a"e me a year ago. I started to work outa pattern for gentle men's ties, but I did nothave any material fine enough to do it with,That requires some very fine allk in colo",

TIle store- vessel came- here )·tsttrday, andall the people are busy today booing sup­plits for the winte r. Mr, O rgan is expect inl:'his schooner in from H ali fax tomorrow.W illiam Organ, tha t is, :\Ir. Organ's IOn,

went with joe to Bailie Harbor and lowedthe Mnou& PI KE up for him. Thev arewonderfully good and do all they can f~r thepeople up and down the coast, They e-vencarry the people's s<lpplics to their doorsfor them.

The people of Red Bay did fairl)" wellwith the fish this year, and are expecting toget a good price. There are onh· tWQfamilitsin Red &y that are badly off, and I suppas.:the Govern ment will help them through thewinter, The people here hook mats and brinltin wood, and that helps the m to clo the them­selves and gives them more money fo r food

I am looking forward to seeing you andLa dy Grenft\l in the sp ring, I can not forgetyour kindness. I wish I could be in Brooklineto meet you both when you come back, butthat is impossible.

I have quite a lot of flowers, I am send ing'you some roses. You remembe r the rose­tree you gave me'? It has grown all overthe exhibit room and is very sweet, Beanehas been successful io passing her examiaa­tions this ye-ar, and is trying for the tenthgrade,

I am wishing you and Lady Grenfell asuccessful autumn,

Yours sincerely,Mt!(!(u:~. Pili:!:,

NEED FOR A DOCTOR INBONA VISTA BAY

SIR WIT.FRED asks that the Followingletter be published in the hope that itmay catc h the eye of some one who might

be intereste-d in the position described.

Salvage, Bcnavieta Bay, Newfoundland,Decembe r. 14th, 19zh:,

Dea r Si r:Your lett er re a docto r received, and I

cabled an answer on the rzth inst. In caseyou did not gct the cable I am writing to)"OU at the addr ess you gave me,

We are prepared to guarantee' $JOClO peryea r, and surgica l operations and midwiftl')'extra, As pe r ),our letter we would like toknow what time- the doctor ""ill be able torome- out as we are in great need of a doctor,

Hoping for a reply at your ea rliest con­ven ience, and thanking )'OU vel)' much foryour interest in us in lI'ying to seeure adoctor,

A ~I O \' ( ; TH E DEEP-SEA F1SH E HS

Association ItemsNEW ENGLAND GREN F E L L

ASSOCIATION

T H E .Xo,;w England Grell.fell Associatjou\\ishu to tha nk all of Its frie nds andcomnbutors for the assistance they have

dn"1I to Si r \\"i liro:d's wo rk dn ring the pastj car, \\"c are very g ratefu l to all who con­tiuuc thdr support and respo nd to so manycalls, and we wish them all a happy 0111<1

prosperous Sew Yea r,\\"e are glad to welcome the new members

\\ ho have joined our ranks during the latterI'art of the year, It is mos t enco uraging to:-'ir Wilfred an d his staff to have new fr iendscoming in to lend a ha nd; we are sure thenew will prove as lo)"al as the old.

\\e have made several late shipments Ihisyear, Our neighbor, th e Lend-a-Hand Soci­ety, fo rwarded th rou gh us this fa ll two sple n­did gifts-suppl ies sufficient to refi ll theL. nd-a-Hand medicine case, wh ich is used byOr. Curtis 011 his long dog-team tr ips. and agilt oi books for the Lab rado r children. Thelatter donation consisted in sao volumes oftextbooks and story books" Th e-y we-re fo r­warded on December r rth, an d we hope verymuch tha t the-y were ta ken north 011 the 101111boat, which sai led from 51. John's on Dece-m­her I')th" One h und red of the books wereto be distributed to the children for Christ­111as, and the rema ining 400 wer e to be de­posited in hospit al. aw l schools as the dis­trihuting aJfcnt on the Coast thinks best.

Sir Wilired bas only th ree appcintmeutsduring the time- he is to be in Boston for are-t. Ou ~l111tlay, January 6th, he will speakin the morning ill the Uhl No rth ( Ch ris t)Church, which welcomed him so cordia lly lastyear, and in the evening in th e F ifJl Cong re­garional Church, Hyde Park. Un ] a nua ry7th he will speak in Ford Hall 10 the mem­bet-s of the- Boston Baptist Social U nion . Th electure tour in the Brit ish Isl es wa s so busya period that Sir \ \'i lfred nee ds th e remai n­ing time in Ik>~ton for rest and a complete

rhuugc of thoug ht before beginning his tourill th e South am i the .\l iddle West.

\Ve ex tend a co rdial invitat ion to all volun­teers who have be n on the Coast to drop in atour Boslon office to see us. and to bring intheir pictu res so that we- Illay look them overfo r poss ibilities as slides.

We are very g ra tef ul to ou r Branches andto their effice r s for the splendid help they ha vegiven the ~Iissioll during th e past year. 111nearly every Branch there has been an in­crease in the number of comrib urors a nd inthe totu ! receipts. \Ye are greatly encour­ng ed in having such able lieutenants a s manyof the Branch offICers ha ve proved them sel vesto be.

)'lay we not make- our slogan for the NewYe-ar, "Every member Ret a me-mber," and sodouble ou r membership? \\'e need a thou ­sa nd new members.

Miss Selma Carlson of Boston, after a fewweeks of vacation in England and Fr ance,arrived in 51. John's in xcvember on her',uy to St. Anthony 10 lak e once aga in he-rpo st in the new hosp ital as nu rse in cha rge.She returns aft er an a bse-nce of a yea r tofind that D r, Curlis is on furlough an d thatMr. and ~Irs. Blackburn have lef t . Herduties 'A'i11 requi re the utmost ecerage, butshe has ma ny time-s sbown her abilily to ad­just he rself to circ umstances. She was atInd ian H arbor dur ing th e winte r o f the g reatepidemic in 1918, when the doctor himself wasill wit h influenza and unable 10 make dog­team "journeys. and it ....·as her great jo)" tolake hi s place and 011long eled t rips ministe-rto the str icken people in isolated pla ces. H erlett er descri bin g the experiences of th e win­te r was copied a t the req uest of many fr iend sand sent 10 va riou s people and places th rou gh­out the United Slates. We sincerely hope shewill not encounte-r like cond itio ns du ring theappr oa ching wi nter ill St. A nth ony"

EJoIJoIA E. WH ITE,

Su,.do",

rsc .\~IOS<"; TH E DEEP-SEA. F IS HERS

News From the StationsFQRTEAU

Our annual exhibition took place on Thurs­dOlY, September 20th. The .-cather wassplendid-a cloud less, Junny day. The re wassome wind. which almost caused a postpone-

pies. The house flowers made a wondcriuldisplay and the ga rden flowen were not brbehind in add ing .pl;u~ of COlO T.

On one side of the ha ll all the industrialwork was displ;tycd-hookM mats, crochet -

ment, for I was called away to L'Anse auLoup on a case of sickness, and it was blow­inK so hard when the time came fOT ret urningthai my boatmen were heaitant about the t riparound Point Amour. \ ""c did make it fin­ally, howeve r, and I was back for the exhibi­tion, though a litt le lat c.

T he Iour judges were wa it ing for me, and,as soon as I had chang ed an d had my lat edinner, we procee ded to the local OrangeHall where the tastefully a r ranged ex hibitsmade a fine showi ng. T he girls who had putthe finish ing touc hes to the arra ngementsduring my absen ce deserve grea t cred it.

The exhibits were on ly local country prod­ucts, but we had a good varidy. There weredried lalt fish, potatoes, on ions, turnips, let ­tuce, car rots, cabbage, rhuba rb. bee ts, allkinds of jam and jelly cakes, white and brownbread, butter, eggs. chickens, calves and pup-

ing, knitting and embroidery. First and sec­and prizu were offered in each class of work.and the judges had a d ifficult task in mak­ing the awards for there were so manyexhibits in each class.

I t certai nly sur prise d me to see some of thevegetables. The potatoes were equal to thebest th at a re import ed, which is quit e rema rk­able when our s hort season is taken in tocons ide ra t ion.

It was a grea t pleasu re to d istr ibute thepr izes-the reward s for the yea r' s ind ust ry-and the winners showed pride andgrati tude.

The exhibition was a real success , and 1believe it will encourage the people to dotheir best in the coming yea r ,

KAU~ BUTH£LS£:(.

November loth, 1928.

A~IO:-;G TH E DEEP-SEA FlSH~I{S ,',NOR THWE ST RI V ER

BCSl~ ESS i. flourishing in our litt lesettlement, The staff, both old and new.is hard at it. T he new mcmben in

particular are Quickly adjusting themselves.and are realizing what is expected of themas well as lea rn ing to apprcwte the workdone by tbetr predecessors. In our raremoments of rea.lization we sometimes mar ­vet at our predecessors \\00 gave this stationilS bt'ginnings. Here we are slepping in totake cha rge of a well ordered machine. Whatmust it have bem to lhose who assembledthe pans?

We, the suff. are looking forward withhappy expectation 10 a very enjoyable winterand. needleas to sa)', a busy one.

Our sUff for this coming winter mightolmost be likene d to a Leacue of Nations.We !lne represented in our midst AUSIr;lIia,Eng'land, the Uni ted Slates. Labrador, Xew­foundland and Canada.

),Iiss Austen, ...ho has come half-way aroundthe world to a light on this picturesque spot,has already soo.n us that Australia producesmost energ ectic workers. She is business-liketo her finger tilli. She makes a charminghostru. and we do not hesitate to ask forher auinance..

},lin Pauline Colbath hails from Boston,U.S.A. Min C,lbath is of the kind thatdelight in trying new things, and that' s thekind we need here, a, jobs of all sorts arenumerous. Min Colbath has at rrady suc­ceeded in taking part in everything, frompersuading Maggie, ou r lone steed, that to bea tiller of the soil is no disgrace to a self­re§pecting borse 10 f)aint ing a ceiling in aprecarious position with a half-inch ledge forQ foothold. This young lady is willing to1ry all that cornell her way, which, as a rule,ill lIufficient for any ordinary human being.

Mr. Ayers Ilea l arrived somewhat latefrom Winnetka, Illinois. S ince his arrivalhe has been furions ly making tip for losttime, and most successfully. One of hisgrtatest achievem ent, ill thai he perseveredwith the afor~ment ioned Maggie, linal ly im­pr~ssinR' upon her to a fair degree her duty3. a citizen of Xorthwellt Rive r. \Ve fre­quently have repairs to be made, and the

membe rs of Mr. Boa!'s manual training clan:have been much in evidence.

The new Wood Cotlage is ill cha rge of),Iiss Annie Baikie, a quiet sincere )'outlgwoman, bur "still walen run deep." MissBaikie holds the affection and esteem of thechildren in her charre and of the people ofthe community.

Miss Ethel I'le has a nlO$t efficiently runcottage, The boys and girl' inevitably mustbenefit by her training. The new GibbonsMemorial Dinini H all in the Gibbons Cottagewas finished this fall with Miss Pye's ani,·tance and under her supervision. This roomis one of the mOlt charming at this 'tation.

Mr. John Waus represents Newfoundland,and most ably too. Jack is called on at alltimes to give information on nearly all mattersconcerned with the Mission. He keeps usconnected with the oUllide world. supplie sthe necessary cash, issues orders, J'ilolS theYAU, advises and directs, and works in­cessantly.

The YAU i' being prepared for her la"cruise down the bay as a Mission boat withSkipper Watts at her helm. The mailboatis due, hence the ~ense excitement!. \Veanticipate our pleasure in the in-eoming mailwhile we make violent effort' to bring ourout-going mail to a close.

This particular trip of the YA-La is of grea tsignificance, not only because she no longerbelongs to the Minion but abo because shecarrie, away with her our friend, MissGibbons, who ha' been a visitor with us slneethe dose of the Ind ian Harbor hospital. W edon' t like that word "v isito r" with ref erenceto Miss Gibbons. We shou ld rath er call hera permanent membe r of our sta ff. We ar equ ite sure she could be kep t busy. We wonderhow we shall manage witho ut her lovingdispositio n and her helping hand, She refusesto he a "visitor" while -here, but works longand late. A conspiracy is on foot to causethe YAI.E to min the mail -boat. Miss Gih.bons has charmed all with her lovable nature.\Ve reg-ret that she Ieels she must leave us.and we sincerely hope to see her back withus next Summer.

October 2Jd, 1028.FANNY 1.. P ArrDSON'.

A~IO~G THE DEEP-SEA FISHERS

Form of Bequest

The Int ern;uional Gren fell Asscctatton is the gene ral governing body of the vuiou.

~~~~~I;l~~::'~·nsl~~;c~~:~:=r.~e~~~:t~:edi~~e~v~e;t:1 :t:e~~rld f~::~;~~the Grenfell work. All man e,'s for the Grenfell work should be ginn to these tat terinstitutions, and bequests of money or propcny should also be made to them.

The incorporated inst jturicns are ;lS follows, the territory cover ed by them beingindicatcd :

I. The RO,·;l1 xauonat ~I i ssion 10 Deep-Sea Fishermen, incorporated under the l;lwsof Grc:at Britain-c-covers Briti sh dominions other than Canada and XewfolUldland. Inease the gift is to this cor poration, there should be added the following .....ords : "to beapplied to the .....ork of the Inll'rll;lti unal Grenfell ..Association."

2. The Grenfell Aswciati on of Crear Britain am! Ireland. incorporated under the­laws of Grear Britain-c-c overs Grea r Britain and Ireland. Thi s is a London branch of theInternational Grenfell Association.

J. The Grenfell Association of America, incorporated Ulllkr the laws of the Stat e ofNew Yorke-covers the United States outside of New England.

4. The New England Gr enfell Association, incorporated under the laws of the Stateof Ma~~achtlsetts--covers New England.

5. The Grenfell Association of Newfoundland, incorporated under the laws of N ew­Ioundlaud-c-covers the colon y of Xewtoundland.

6. The Grenfell Labrador :Mcdical ~lissiOtl , incorporated und er the laws of. the Prcv­ince of Onraric-c-covers Canada .

Th e fonn of bequest shoul d be as follows :

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to be used fo r its co rporate I'U..lO....:~.

Subscription Coupon£0'

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' .Inclosed please find $.1.00 which makes me a mcmll('r oi your Associat ion and includes

a ~llh scriPtiOI'f to AMO,, (, TI l E lln:r· ...r..\ F IS H ERS for one yea r.

Seree r and Xumbe r .

City .. . St ate .

"Is this ;l firs t subscri ption or a rene wal? .

PRODUCTSof the

INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENTof the

In ternational Gre nfell A ssociationare on sale

Through out the Year

HOOKED ,M AT S in an assortme nt of sizes

GRENFELL CLOTH DICKIES for winter sports

N10CCASI~S

SEALSKIN BOOTSFIRESIDE BENCHESFIRESIDE FOOTSTOOLS

TOYSIVOR Y NOVEL T IES

HOMES PUNSRUNNERSBEDSPREADSETC.. ETC.

Products displayed and orders received by the

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120 TI\UiO;-.,;T STlU£T, Bo'TO:-'-, :'th.,;s.,

and by the

I:'\TERl'\ATIOl"\AL GREI'\FELL ASSOCIAT ION

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BOOKS ABOUT LABRADOR

PU IlLI:" HED TN T HE U:-JITE D STATES

SIR \YILFIU:I) GI{EK FELL, K.C.;-'\,(~., ~1.lJ. (Oxon) , F.RC.S.:­

AORIFT ON A" I CE-PAN. l llus. Boa rds, $1.25; Jillm, gcc.: paper, 35c.A L An ll.AOOR DOCTQIt-AuTOnUX;RAPHY. Illustrated. $5,00.A MA)I;'~ F,\ITII. $1.0E1.

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TALES OF Til E L AIIRAOOR. With frontispiece. $2.25·TliAT CHRISTM,\S II' PEAC!:: H AVEN , SOC·

THE ADVENTURE OF L IFE. $200.

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W HAT THE CHUilCII :"IuNS TO 1 iE. SOC.

YOL:ilSELF AND YOUR BODY. I1illslraled bS Dr. Grenjell, $2.50.

I.A[I Y G]{[·:NFEI.L:-L -IIIIU [)(JR ArW NEW.·UUlo>lll.ANIJ. Illuslr(l/,·d. 25C.

LALlY GRENFELL Ar\"J) KA TIE SPALDlNG :-LE PETIT XORI': ASN.\l.S OF A l,.,nR.-II'OR lIARBUIl. IlIrHlraled b)

Dr . Grell/ t il. $2.00.Tl,e ahove book. will I... forwal',l ..,l, on I'eceipt "f the price, l>y The Grenfell

.h.ocialion "f America, '56 Fifth ,\venue, ~ew York City, "r by The :-lew t:n~la'l(l

(;renfell A...,.,ialion, IZO 'fremon' Slrcct, BO'I"n, ~ra... "",taKe Exira.

punLISHED IN El\GL1\NIl-

SIR W ILFRED GRENFELL. KC.1LG., :"I.D. (Ox",,), F.R.C.S,:­A L ABRADOR DOCTOIl-AuTOI\JOGRAPII'l. (Abridgrd.)

".!6net;post free 4/-L ABRADOil LOOKS .vr Tilt: OiliEST 15/-])et; post free 15/9

L ACRAOOI<: Tllf: COUSTRY ASll TIlt; l'EOI'I.E. 1O/6 ne l; po,t free 10/')

XOKJIIERN !\UGHBORS 7/611el; post free 8/-

TALES OF TilE LAIlRAIJOR 5/- net; pos t free 5/6

TIlAl CliRISHIAS IN PJ::ACE HAVEN 1/-t1et;po~tfree IllY,THK CHRISTMAS \'O YACt: os-TIn: "HANDY Less." II-net; post Ircc 1/10\VIIA I CIIR TST ~[EASS TO ~IF.. 2/611CI: post Ircc 2/9

YOURSKI.F AND YOUR RODY. 3/611("(; post free 4/-

l. A DY GRENFELL AND KATIE SPALJ)]:-:lG:-L F. PETIT KORD 2/611Ct; post free ;>,1-

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