L. H. JONES Custom claim as its victims nearly as many as all the Tailor and altered conditions of mankind in later times were unheard of, and it exists to-day when those diseases, by scientific research into medicine, have been alleviated or destroyed. And I have no doubt it will exist for time to come. Science has made steady and rapid progress in establishing its cause, and it only remains to permanently effect its destruction. Methods have been produced by which the cause of the disease has become a known factor; no longer startling the mind with grave doubts and strange misapprehensions. Danger could not daunt the scientist in his efforts, nor could any influence divert him from his animated work; obstacles, however apparently insurmountable offered him no discouragement; but strong in his convictions and fortified in his hope he at last consummated the realization of his dream. To-day we hear throughout the land the scientists proclaiming to the people the necessity for immediate action where the disease is known to exist, to be careful in the sanitary conditions, to have abundance of fresh air, of nourishing food, of needful rest the salient features in effecting an arrest of the disease. But they have reached only the richer and more prosperous ones. It yet remains to Adirondack Souvenirs educate the lower classes of our population in Groceries, Stationery, China, Etc. SARANAC LAKE, N. Y. GEORGE F. SCHRADER ARCHITECT SARANAC LAKE, N. Y Formerly Rochester, N. Y. Cut flowers and Plants * The Adirondack Greenhouse Best Assortment of Souvenir Spoons in the care of the disease, and the means to stay its advancement; for among those classes is the disease more prevalent. One of the prime factors in eliminating the disease is the careful consideration that should be given the poor. Housed as they are in the large cities in great numbers, in stuffy tenements, under depressing and demoralizing circumstances, the mind shudders to contemplate the awful risks human life is every day running. True lovers of humanity should turn their attention to the poor. How many people, valuable assets to any community, have been entirely taken away from a sphere of usefulness, even in those desperate homes, by not having proper attention? Philanthropy has done much for Our F. E. HULL needy poor by establishing hospitals, readily EXPERT WATCHMAKER accessible, where temporary relief may be procured, but it yet remains to establish suffi cient sanatoriums for the proper treatment of the disease. Already such institutions may be seen in various parts of the land, but only in limited numbers. Our legislators have awakened to the necessity of State endowed institutions in suitable climatic regions to care for patients. From all sides come proof of the great good these sanatoriums are doing, and each year the number of persons benefited is augmented. Glory to those pioneers of the tuberculosis movement who have gone out, under circumstances sufficient to dampen the ardor of less courageous men, to establish in congenial climates institutions for the treatment of the disease. Reaching with the current of its resistless tide into every country and clime, tuberculosis has so established itself that it requires the best efforts of the great and small to check its advancement. The constant endeavor of every one, from whatever station in life, should be to disseminate the necessary information to those less fortunate ones in our several homes to instruct them in the cause and treatment of tuberculosis. Let us, then, each in our own way, prove ourselves equal to this lofty mission, and let us shirk no sacrifice, however great, in the fulfilment of that duty. D. C. McI. 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PROTECT YOUR HEALTH first then your PROPERTY and PERSONAL EFFECTS by insuring against FIRE with Insurance E. R. YOUNG, Agency, SARANAC LAKE, N. Y. J. A. LATOUR & CO. Dealers in D. L. & W. and D. & H. N. Y. SAFE HORSES CAREFUL DRIVERS RYAN'S LIVERY MAIN STREET All Kinds of Vehicles. Opposite Town Hall SARANAC LAKE, N. Y. Mail and Telephone Orders Given Prompt Attention When dealing with Advertisers please mention Journal of The Outdoor Life. Before the advent of the railroad, the invalid and the summer visitor, the first of September was a red-letter day in the Adirondacks because on that day the season for hunting deer was formally opened and hunting deer and catching trout were the main objects which brought nine out of ten of the visitors to this inaccessible and little-known region. IN CAMP. Game laws were not strictly enforced in those days, and an unwritten law allowed campers to kill deer for their own use before September. This they did in August by floating for a sun-down shot and by "jacking" with a light at night, but "hounding" was the real hunting, and "hounding" was frowned upon before September first. Long before that date, however, active preparations for the coming hunting season were going on at the various hotels of the region, guides and sportsmen, with rifles between their knees, were arriving in dirty stages under which were tied long-eared, panting hounds of every description, and every evening groups of eager, laughing, talk ing and smoking guides and sportsmen could be seen discussing the details of the approaching hunt. A couple of guides were usually dispatched in advance in boats laden with tents, provisions, cooking utensils, etc., to some distant lake, in the vicinity of which deer were known to abound, to build a camp and have everything in readiness for the coming of the hunters. How vividly, even after all these years, I recall the stir and excitement and the busy scenes on the boat slip of the hotel when the day to start had arrived and each sportsman pushed off in turn in the boat laden with his own special accoutrements, on the bottom of which a veteran hound, inured to many such trips, lay curled up in the smallest possible space stoically trying to sleep on the hard ribs of the boat. Then the boats would form into line and the long day's journey through lakes and streams and over wooded carries would begin. The carry reached, the boats were unloaded and a procession of guides, with their inverted boats balanced on their shoulders, looking like huge turtles, preceded the sportsman, each carrying his share of the accoutrements. More lakes and streams were left behind, and as the sun was setting the camp was reached at last, where a good supper and a bed of balsam boughs was ready to welcome the travelers. Before the grey dawn next morning the camp becomes the scene of intense animation, more steady notes, and at last his quick, continuous, eager barks warn the watchers that the game is in flight. The instinct of the deer teaches him when pursued to seek water, which leaves no trail of his passage through it, and, heading straight for stream or lake, he bounds at top speed. But to the watcher, fainter and more distant becomes the sounds of the chase until finally, perhaps, they are swallowed up entirely by the great silence of the woods. The hunter's interest begins to slacken and his thoughts "THE HOUNDS DID NOT RETURN TO CAMP UNTIL NEXT MORNING, AND I KNOW THAT BUCK HAD A LONG SWIM SOMEWHERE BEFORE HE SHOOK OFF SUCH PURSUERS." One and while a cup of hot coffee and a hasty breakfast are being disposed of, two guides, to whose broad belts are fastened several yelping hounds now fully aware that their turn has come and eager for the chase, strike into the woods in different directions. hound is allowed to run at large while the guide travels rapidly through the woods letting a fresh dog go as each finds a trail where the deer have fed the previous night and gives vent to the discovery by a series of long, dismal howls, and as the scent grows warmer the voice of the dog changes to shorter and perhaps wander far away, to be suddenly called back to his surroundings by a loud splash in the lake or the admonition of the ever watchful guide, "There goes a deer," while across the lake, a broad wake leading from an antlered head, shows the game rapidly swimming for some headland. Then a swift row, the overtaking of the quarry and his death follows (that is, provided he does not land and escape before being overtaken). Hounding deer to broad water is certainly unsportsmanlike in many ways, because, if the deer can be cut off from shore in his at |