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HOW CONSUMP
Lifo of a "Lunger" at Saranac
Plenty to Eat the
Written for tho State
There ia no erroneous belief moro
widely preyalcnb and pone that works
greater harm than the idea held by a
vast number of people that tubercu
losis in au>" form io fatal and that
when once contracted all that medical
Bcienee can do is to ease the sufferer
into eternity. And, ead to say, a
great many physicians are just as an
tiquated in their knowledge of the
disease. Yet, of all the diseases, tu
berculosis is. the ?most frequently en
countered and to it 2s due more than
one-seventh of, all deaths.
Tuberculosis reaps such a rich har*
vest for three reasons. Its advanoe is
so insidious that the patient some
times fails to cou ault a physician un
til tho disease bas progressed beyond
the point up to which a cure can be
acoomp'ishedj - Then fhere are those
oases who do consult a ' doctor and for
foar the truth would kill aro "jollied"
along into thc last- stages of the dis
ease before thoy learn the nature of
their trouble-the wisdom of which
course is not easily seen. Men pre
fer always to fight the koowa rather
than the unknown and the third cause
is tho woeful Ignorance of the g?n?ral
practitioner as to the disease in the
early stages.. Serenad/Lake is often
called a oity of doctors' mistakes, for
to every oaae here who did not consult
a physician noon enough there are
eight or 10 who did consult one and.
did not got a "egjiare deal." The
first diagnosis ranged from malaria to
dyspepsia and usually three or- moro
of the classic symptoms wer? present,
before a correct diagnosis wea obtain
ed. And where several physicians
wera consulted- hut timi, is .an old j
joke.
No well informed physician holds
that consumption is incurable. The
wonderf ul work being done by. sanita
riums in this country and in others,
proves beyond. a" doubt thatihe dia
.ease cen be cured and that even in the
advanced stages' it oetf be so arrested
as- to be of not very great inconvenr
ienoe to the patient. A. great number.
of&jfca^D^ some i
time of life but never know it, their
constitutions hoing strong enough to
throw pS the disease in its in ci pie noy.
In the Vienna general hospital, the
largest general hospital in the world,
autopsies show tuberculosis ia soma
form in fally So per cent, of cesas.
However, tba fae* to jta impressed ia
that consumption ia a curable disease
and that in the early otages the ease
'is accomplished 76 to 85 tibes ont of
100, It ia most impertan i? wow
thal, while climate is a very valuable
aid, it ia not absolutely necesBary to
go to Colorado, New Mexico, North
Carolina, or tho Adirondaoka, bat
. that consumption caa - b? cor^f. ?i
home by. the judicious: usa of freBli'
air, sunshine, rest, water, aai ple???|y|
of good food? But ia ?v?ry' Oase
there should be expert medioabsuper
viaion. and a patient who goes without
' it ia taking grave chances. ,
In Saran ao Lake the rest oura; is
.employed in combatting tho disease.
Tho whole aim Of the motbW is so to
strengthen the resisting power of the
.. off by nature. ./ And 'ualoso the dis*
ease ia ?veil advanced, nature, given
half fa, chance, will do tho w'ork. Best;
fresh air, and plenty cf rro?ri?hmoat
^?.^.ajre^th?-.'b^
pe^^ure :';;of V't^
.th?;? If
the fever is 101 degrees or over; th?
, : patient goos to bed and rests absolute-,
ly. until 'ih?. temperature ::goei below*:,
when . ha is aliogged^ tb get up And
ap$jji?v";t^
Below 9{?| a small amount of eiercise
. ie;aftbWe^ and other
. more ssrenuoua exercises are mo wea
oolyVafter;'^
. normal for '-^^-^?^^?/BB^^
\WhcJ? thereis tubsrculoeis bf the
throat tho rest euro ia extended to in
cludeOho voice. In these ot? rest
0*1 the voice ia absolutely eaaeoUal to
rapio: improvement and tho- doctors
. herb insist on it. However, verniew
. .. patf&t?s^
so ik^Bt o? t?ie? wW?p^. ". j^|j?fe;
tient hero went without t^l^?^j?:
- ' youths* Aad. more remarkable still,?
the cas a ?5 point was ? yo?og wo
vraau? , , , * v''
We ali kno^ihat one if tho
? sliies for. ? eons^aptivo is fresh air
and when he arrtvaa aerft its lapor
tSu?>;^^
N V Taken constantly,, trash air ;ii oas of
th? beat tonlts in the world* H is
'/. co?p^?tively'iree frost carboa dior
'... ia^;|i^;i^
? tiit?
/.:.)? : tho IttOgs.p ; It, V fr*e :,.f"rOt8?;??|
":J;pi?i^^';}^^ty^'? caut? tho. ?Jan
TION IS CURED.
Lake? N. Y.~Plenty of Air and
Principal Things.
? by It. G. Hempb.iH.
more difficult. Tho chair is plaoed ia
a protected part of tho piazza where
the wind is not strong. The patient
wears felt shoes and a far overcoat
and wraps his legs and feet in one
! or two horse blankets or steamer
rugs. In case that is not BufSoieut a
heated slab of soapstone or a hot
water bottle ia put under the feet.
When carefully wrapped the patient
can sit it ont in perfect comfort wheo
the thermometer is below zero.
While most of the consumptives
here content themselves with sleeping
in a room with all the windows open,
yet a great many sloop outdoors even
in the severest part,'of tho winter.
When the patient' docs net sleep out
he placea his bed in a sheltered cor
ner,of the piasza where there are no
strocg draughts.
Usually there are parts of the piatas
enclosed on two sides with glass.
Jibe patient wears along heavy woolen
night-gown and a half sweater over
I his shoulders and chest. Over his
chest he wears a wooleo helmet
j which/leaves only a small part of the
faoo exposed. The breath passing
through the nose keeps it warm but
on very cold nights a flannel shield
held in place by elastics around the
cara is worn over it. Bed shoes of
knitted woolen are necessary too.
The amount of covering varies accord
ing to the mdividual but an average
for weather when, the thermometer
registers 15 to 20 below zero io four
double blankets, ? comfort, a counter
pane, andover all a horse blanket to
protect from drifting snow. When
once accustomed to sleeping out the
patient likes it so well that he can
very rarely be persuaded to ole op in
doors, again.
The amount of exercise allowed the
patient ia limited and is not very
strenuous? Walking is the most
healthful and everyone walks except
the patient with the temperature.
The length of the walk depends pa the
condition of tho . patient and varies
from a few hundred yards to ? several
miles* Driving is Very popular and
on the bright'days mont of the sick
ones manage to get out. One hour of
driving ia supposed to be worth two of
kitting out. When the patient ia in
p ar tiou? arly good condition his ph y -
.ioian may allow him to snowshoe,
: .?ate, skae, or toboggan, bat for most
of them these forms of esorsiso ?^tu??s
entirely toa much activity, - *
AaV o^v^p^pu: ia a ' wWisoig dist
easo :th? g?nerai noatlBn?e?i ; &? w '
diet of ibo consumptive is planned to
give him just aa muet nourishment
Mjp?s;s|ble/<*nd. ^D. *Q ??aily digested
iorm, At . present .milk* raw egge,
S?:;vt^^e.y)hTo- liniversajly used
foods. Br. Hussell^tf New York hais
announced earea by ^?e an s nf vege
table juices, b +t his preparation ia i
valuable only, as an adjunct. Some
patienta take as many aa 18 raw eggs a
day and: eight or 10 glasses cf milk
but an average would ba. three eggs
and six glass?a of milk. The eggs
and milk aire not supposed to interfere
at all with three hearty meals a day.
iWft-BfAtr??? *f?.s?-:' thsi;.:-?at???b"? ! -^?is?'
reached his normal woight tho staff
?fag?prpp?sBstops and be IB allowed ? to
out down or omit ?ntircly the eggs and
inilk.
. The Sourhal cf The?atdo?r ?afe
gives the following synopsis oi|9j;
di o t ary f or pati e n t a not in bed at the
Adirondack Cottage ' Sanitarium,
which is probably ae carefully man
nged as any id the country: Breakfast
|p?ruit, two ^breakfast l?tolkij$%W$
Ssh or ham, (two times weekly,} pota
te o s:tea, coffee, milk, cocoa and raw
eggs ^when; praereu by physicians.
ding Bella for Her," "Wedded and
Parted," "For her Children's sake,"
and others of tho ilk.
i Tho oew arrival is always bewilder
ed by the jargon of elaog and techni
cal terras in uso here. Consumption
is known as "tho buggs," so-called
from the germ of tuberculosis which
after all ia a plant. "Lunger," for
consumptive, is practically universal.
Sitting in the opeo ?ir is "chasing thc
euro." Clinical' thermometers are
"trouble sticks" and one "smoke?" a
"trouble etiok" to find whether oue is
ruuniug a "temp," Adirondack for
temperature.' Hemorrhages are
"rubies" and to have a hemorrhage is
to "throw a ruby." For some reason,
more than half the people hero say
, "bronnioal" when they mean bron
chial. ?
In Saranao Lake there are 75 or 100
boarding houses or "oottages" in
which every opportunity is given for
taking the oore jost as it is taken in
the principal sanitariums. Fitzger
ald'a, six miles from tho village, is
said to acoompligh' as great a propor
tion "? cures as4ho Adirondack Cot
tage sanitarium herc. The daily
regime ie practically tho same in the
sanitarium and the boarding houses.
At 6 o'clock r, rasidolosce tho bedroom
windows whioh have been open all
night and by half past seven whon
the patient arises the room is com
fortably . warm. Strango to say the
climax as' tb excitement ooor.es first
thing in the morning. It is the cold
bath. A few venturesome spirits in
dulge in the plnnge b>:t the oold
sponge ia sufficient and the majority
eon teat themselves with it. At eigb.1
breakfast is served. For two hourt
after breakfast the patient takes thc
I oura in ? reclining chair. Then oomee
a i un oh of milk and raw eggs anc
shortly after, the morning oonstitu
tional. Dinner, the most - sub et an tia
meal of tho day, is served at 1 o'clock
and by two t$e . patient is supposed ti
be ohasiog the cure again. At fou
another lunch of milk and eggs i
served and afterwards the patien
takes a second constitutional. Af te
supper, whioh is served at six, iher
is another open-air poriod whioh last
several hours. By 10 everyone ha
retired. Of course, after the diseas
is well in hand and the patient oor
ti nues te improve he grows less fait!
ful to the rigidly proper life and live
very muoh as other mortals live.
In the Adirondack Cottage saniti
riutn the rest-cure method has boen \
operation for 15 or 20 years and tl
results 'accomplished there aro grat
lying to those interested in stampii
out the disease. Moat cf the eas;
there aro incipient but doctor
nurses, ministers,' and people wit
"pulls'- are admitted at any stage ?
aha disease. A resume of tho resol
ac oom pH ohed thara ia (rives by "Dr. 1
L. Trudeau, tba founder, in an a
"ureas delivered for the Philipp'e i
odtate in Philadelphia, Dr. trade*
laayaj . . -
j; "1= sy rspert ??? 1S02 we und tb
of .the really incipient oases, wait
"wera only .40 ia number, 75 per can
were discharged aa appsirently cure
15 per cent?, had their disease ajres
ed, and 10 per cent, improved; vj hi
or tba advanoed eases, 99 in numbi
12 per cent, were discharged as appi
ently cured, 57 per cent, with dises
arrested, 22 per cent; improved, 8 p
cent, failed, and 1 per cent, died
tho ina ti talion; of the far adyaoo
oases, none .was apparently cured,
33i. per cent, the disease waa arreste
h?ll per cont, improved, and 33? f
Conti -failed while under treatmer
I Thus, for the 1?5 oases at Whatev
liflK >ARR
.? ?^>W- our compet
^HL?>Mi^tO -De ? lui
auge treated during that year, we find
that 30 per cent, were discharged as
apparently cured, in ii per cent, the
disease was arrested, 19 per cent, im
proved, 7 per cent, failed, in 2 per
cent, tho diagnosis waa doubtful,
and 1 per oent. died in tho institu
tion.
"To all who aro familiar with tho
relapsing nature of tuberculosis, an
inquiry bearing tho permanence of
tho results obtained, promised most
discouraging revelations. Thanks to
a most exhaustive and yet unpublish
ed inquiry by Dr. Lawraeon Browo,
tho resident physician, as to tho per
manency of tho rosults obtained by
this method of treatment, I am able to
present to you tonight acourate infor
mation on thin all-important subject.
From Dr. Brown's exhaustive study
and careful figures, I will quote only
briefly:
'.'Of the 1,500 oases under consider
ation, whioh have boen disoharged
from two to co von teen years 434 could
not be traoed, leaving 1,056 whioh
have been traced. Of these, 46.7 are
still living. Of these, 31 per cent,
aro known to be well at present, in
6 5 per cent, the disease is still ar
rested, 4 per cent, have relapsed, 5.2
per ceut. are chronic invalids, and
5c3 per cent, are dead. Au to the in
fluence of the stage of the disease on
the permanonoy of the results obtain
ed, he found 66 per. cent, of the 258
incipient cases disoharged and well at
present. Of tho 563 advanced oasos
28.6 per oent. are well, and of the far
advanoed oases 2 5 per cent, only ro
main cured.
"Thus we learr, that 31 per oont.
of all oases disoharged from 2 to 17?
years ago have remained well, that 66
percent, of tho incipient esses dis
charged during tho s&mo time con
tinue well at present, and thone figures
discouraging as they may scorn to
those of you who are not familiar
with this fatal malady, emphasize the
importanoo of making au early diag
nosis, and teach us exaotly to what
extent we may count on saving and
prolonging life by this
treatment."
Her Adios Around a Rose Bush
When the fi;31 warm sun of spring
softens the earth a littio funeral party
will make its way from Brooklyn to a
grave in Woodland Cemetery near
Newark. The party will bo composed
of tho ohildren of Mrs. Barbar Hoch,
of 70 Schermerbor a street, Brooklyn/
They will take with them the ashes of
their mother, whoso body was oremated
yesterday, and they will place them
around the roots of a rosebush that
has bloomed for ten years above the
grave of her son.
It waa Mrs. Hooh'a request that ber
aahes should go to co rion the soi! about
the reeta of th? rosebush. She es
pressad the with several months before
abe died and repeated it just before
abe breathed her iast on Tuesday.
Mrs. Roch same io ibis country
from Germany twenty-five Jraara ago,
when her husband died brioglog her
eis children with her. The only one
of these to die WSB Oar!, who is buried
in the Newark cemetery. All the oth
er ohildren married except Amelia
who lived with her mother at the
Sohermernorn Btreat house. Ever
sicco her son'was buried twelve yeara
ago Mrs. Hoch bad made frequent
visits to hts grave to care fe? ike rose
bush, which she bad planted herself.
-(New York Sun.) _
- A good way to make money is
not to loso it.
imeerest Fh
BliT y . - / ' ', ?-MM .
ike tmpreccdei?tcd papular!
KS' ; BONE fertig i
rs to advertise Fish Guano,
as ^
Guano, and, to prevent bdn
Appropriations Exceed Levies.
Columbia, February 24.-Anion?
other things the recent Legislature
diu was to make appropriations
amounting to over 8100,000 in excess
of last year's appropriations and then
paBeed a supply bili in which tho SUito
levy was reduced half a mill. In
other words tho appropriation? pro
vide for expenditures of $100.000 iuex
cess of Just year, whereas tho suppl
bill with a reduction in tho levy ol
half a mill cu's oft'$110,000 this year.
A levy of Uvo mills na provided for in
this year's supply bill will yield, ou
the estimated increased tax valuation
of $220,000,000, $100,000 leBS than tho
appropriations call for even after the
8121,000 income from franchises, taxes
and license fees ia counted in. The
appropriations this year amount to 81,
?81,000. A low of iive mills on a total
valuation of 8220.000,000 plus the $121.
000 will amount to 81,221.000 which is
8110,000 lesa than the total appropri
ations.
All of which means the knocking
into pi of the Governor's commendable
scheme- which was working so well
since tho increase of tho levy half a
mill last year-1 o got the State back
on a cash basis. Last year approxi
mately 850,000 waa devoted to this
pnrpoBe, whereat) this year the S tat o
will have to go deepor ioto debt by
over $100,000. Tho borrowing will bo
gib early in the summer, as it will be
impossible to stave this ott' until after
the August primarle-. With the same
'tax valuation as last year tho deficit
would bo 8100,000.
Tho sentiment the newspapers havo
created in backing th a scheme of
Comptroller General Jones to get
property on the books at more equi
table rate has manifested itsell in de
cided tax return increases in a num
ber of counties. Lancaster, for in
stauco, shows an increase of about 40
per cent. Cherokee from GO to 75 per
cent, and land has been returned in
Anderson County for ?2 an acre more
than formerly, the increase in land
j values alone there amounting to a mil
lion dollars.
But since thu Legislature refused to
firovide flexible levies, refused to give
ts moral support to tho campaign for
honest tax returns, it is expected that
in tboae counties showing decided in
creases the county boards will Beale
down the values so ns to avoid pay
ing an ?njust proportion of the Stato
taxes.
They Wouldn't Hear Him.
Angie invited ber young man to sup
per. Everything passed off harmon ?
ously until the seven-year old brother
broke tho blissful silence by sating:
"Oh, mo, you oughter seen Mr.
the other night when he oallcd to take
Angie to tho drill. Ho looked so nioo
sittin' longsido of her with his arm-"
"Fred!'' screamed tho maiden,
quiokly placing her hand over tho boy's
mouth.
"You oughter seen him," continued
the persistent informant after gaining
his breath. "Ile had his arm-"
"Freddie!" shouted the mother, as,
in her frantic attempt to reach the
bc upset the
?iir?nnl??
contents of the teapot.
"Iwas just going to say," the half
frightend boy pleaded, between a cry
and an injured whine, "he had his
?rm- M
"John," thundered the father,
"leave the tablet"
And the boy did so, eioieiming as he
went, -I Was oniy going J* say Mr.
had bis army olothes OD, andi leavo
it to him if he didn't/'
??? ^ ?3 ^S? ?2^ ??^L 3? j?a? ?
Hewett*. J^IWYOBHWI
? " - It is far easier to find fault at a
boarding-house than it is to find a sat
isfactory meal.
- Our idea of a pestiferous man ia
ooo who waits until Saturday night to
get his hair amputated.
- There ?B nothing calculated so
completely to take the humility out of
a man who blames himself as agreeing
with him.
-. Sunday saorifioo will not' make
np for weekday wrongdoing.
ilion J
miter j" I
tl, vi
ty of Koysters
induced some o?
\ claiming theirs
BONE is the
g imposed tspon>
is on every h&g.
tting the genuine
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OW PEAS draw nitrogen from the
air in large amounts, if sufficient
POTASH and phosphoric acid are supplied
to the plant.
The multitude of purposes served b~ thc
remarkable cow pea, are told in the 65-page
illustrated book, ?The Cow Pea," which also
tells of the splendid results obtained from
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is free to farmers for the asking,
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Have just received one Car Load of HOG FEED
(Shorts) at ve?y close pr?tes. Come before,they are
all gone. ?Tow IB the time for throwing--,
LIME
Around your. premises to prevent a case of fever or
some other disease, that will cost you very much more
than the price of a barrel of Lime ($1.00.) We havo .
a fresh shipment in stock, and will be glad to send you .
some, If yon contemplate building a bara or any
other building, see us before buying your- V? -
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Aswe sell the veryjbeat'qualities'only." . , ? .
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