LUMBAGO 



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LUMBER 





medicine. He was a believer in Christ before 

 he joined Paul, but was probably a Gentile, 

 although some authorities say that he was a 

 Jew. The time and manner of his death are 

 unknown. See GOSPELS; ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. 

 i- LUMBAGO, lumba'go, a very painful ail- 

 ment, seated in the lumbar region. It derives 

 its name from the Latin lumbus, meaning loin. 

 Usually it is due to a toxic condition of the 

 system arising from intestinal fermentation or 

 to infection somewhere in the body, and is akin 

 to rheumatism. The pain may be a dull ache, 

 but is generally sharp and produces stiffness in 

 the muscles. Rest and warmth are of first im- 

 portance in the treatment of lumbago. The 

 affection may last for a few hours, or it may 

 continue for weeks and completely incapacitate 

 the patient. Hot drinks, a Turkish bath, and 

 in severe cases, a blister may be employed to 

 relieve the pain, but a physician should be sum- 

 moned if the attack persists. 



LUM'BER is prominent among those natural 

 resources which have made possible the rapid 



THE PRESENT STAND OF TIMBER 

 In 1917: (a) 2,826 billion feet of merchantable 

 timber were standing in the United States, and 

 800 billion feet in Canada; (&) 2,200 billion feet 

 in the United States were in private ownership, 

 and only 40 billion feet owned or leased privately 

 in Canada; (c) 626 billion feet in the United 

 States were in public ownership, while 760 billion 

 feet were so held in Canada; (d) in the United 

 States 340 billion were owned by eight private 

 companies. 



growth of the two great nations of America, 

 the United States and Canada. When the rise 

 of cities, is counted in years or days, rather 

 than in centuries, as in the older parts of the 



world, wood must be the chief if not the only 

 material of which they are first built. It is said 

 that for every person in the two countries 

 named as much timber is cut as for two people 







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THE GAIN AND THE LOSS 

 (a) In the United States 9 billion cubic feet is 

 the annual growth, 5 billion cubic feet in Canada; 

 (b) 23 billion cubic feet is the annual cut in the 

 United States, 3 billion in Canada, including that 

 used as fuel ; (c) 7 billion cubic feet is the annual 

 fire loss in the United States, 2 billion feet in I 

 Canada; (d) an unknown quantity is killed by 

 insects, blight, etc. 



in Scandinavia, seven people in Germany or 

 eighteen in Great Britain. In the United States | 

 about half of the timber consumed is firewood, j 

 one cord for every person; in Canada an equal 

 amount is burned by each inhabitant, but the 

 total is two-thirds of the timber consumed. In 

 recent years steel and concrete have supplanted 

 timber in larger structures, and there has been 

 increased use of brick, stone and terra cotta. 

 But paper making and other industries produce 

 a growing demand for lumber, and the amount 

 of it milled has been about the same each 

 for a number of years. 



How Trees Are Made into Lumber. Lum 

 ing is one of the most picturesque and inter- 

 esting of industries. In some parts of the great 

 forests of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minn 

 and of Eastern Canada the trees are cut o: 

 winter. The "lumberjacks" are hardy 

 they carry on their task of cutting and hauli 

 in the worst of weather, and in their spring 

 on the river with the floating logs they en 

 icy baths with no apparent discomfort, 

 times the logs float downstream singly, 



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