the sanatorium was taxed on a valuation of $14,000. Since the sanatorium opened in October, 1898, new houses and improvements, with a tax valuation of $30,000, have been built. The demand for them is attributed directly to the sanatorium. The gain from this source in valuation is $16,000. Farms, small homesteads and village houses have increased in value; they are now at all times in demand. There is also an unprecedented demand for skilled and unskilled labor. On the assessors' books the total valuation of the town in the current year is $704,183; in 1895, before the sanatorium acquired any land, it was $518,180,-a gain of $186,000. "Because the sanatorium must have a water supply and would be à customer, the town was enabled to put in a public water system. About one-half the rental comes from the sanatorium, enabling the system to be self-suporting; but for this aid a public water supply to Rutland would have been impossible. "The number of inhabitants has increased. The exact figures to date are not at hand. In 1895 it was 978 and has not exceeded 1,060 in twenty years; in 1900 it was 1,334; in 1904 it is estimated at 1,500. The number of taxable polls was in 1895 268; in 1904 it was 333, an increase of 65 polls. "The public health has not suffered. The number of deaths in the town from tuberculosis (exclusive of those who came to the town to be treated for the disease) for the whole time since patients were first received, viz., 1899 to 1904 inclusive, six years, was 8; for the period of six years immediately preceding (1893 to 1898 inclusive), 11; for the period of six years 1887 to 1892 inclusive, 11; for the period of six years 1881 to 1886 inclusive, 14. The town has thus averaged for the last twenty-four years two deaths per year from tuberculosis in a population averaging about 1,000. During the last six years, with increased population, the deaths from this cause have been less than before." IS TUBERCULOSIS CURABLE? In order to ascertain the degree of permanency of the cures affected by the open air treatment of tuberculosis, efforts are made to keep track of all patients who leave the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium. They are asked to send in a report of their con dition at least once a year. Not long ago The Outdoor Life told of how the thirteenth patient, who left in 1885, had been unexpectedly heard from. Since then the seventh patient, who also left the sanitarium in 1885, and who had not been heard from in years, has sent in a report. Among other things he says: "It is now about twenty years since I was in the sanitarium, but I am glad to say I am able to hold my own in the busy, strenuous competitive life of a retail pharmacist with long hours and few opportunities for recreation." BACK NUMBERS WANTED. Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., January 27, 1905. The Outdoor Life, Saranac Lake, N. Y. I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of January 23, 1905, stating that you are unable to furnish all the copies of your publication desired by the Library of Congress to complete its file. May I, however, venture this suggestion, that a brief notice in the columns of your periodical, calling attention to the Library's needs, might be of great assistance in collecting odd numbers now out of print. If you are willing to extend this aid, it may secure to the Library the complete file which we are sure it will be your desire, as it is ours, to have deposited in the National Library. The numbers or volumes needed are Vol. I, Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6. Very respectfully, HERBERT PUTNAM, (The numbers of The Outdoor Life mentioned in the foregoing letter-February, March, June and July, 1904-are also needed to complete Vol. I for the New York Academy of Medicine and for several other libraries and individuals. Any person who has these numbers and who is not keeping a file will confer a favor by sending them to The Outdoor Life. They will be paid for either in cash or in subsequent numbers of The Outdoor Life. Copies of Vol. I, No. 3, issued in April, 1904, are also desired.) Here's to the doctor! a man of lore Who knows the why and how to do; He'll not forsake one at death's door, Nor leave until he pulls you through. Health and Contentment Outdoors. If you have camped out much and learned to love it you have often had the following experience: You leave the city life, feeling utterly miserable in body and soul. You cannot be optimistic if you try. No man can, if his stomach is out of order. It puts him out of tune with all his surroundings. A few days in camp work a veritable miracle. The appetite becomes ravenous, the whole bodily machine begins to work better, and everything looks brighter. What is it in out-of-door life with all its inconveniences, and often discomforts, that works the miracle? A lover of woods life has said that the instir.ct of barbarism that leads people periodically to throw aside the habits of civilization and seek the freedom and discomforts of the woods is explicable enough, but it is not so easy to understand why this passion should be strongest in those who are most refined and most trained in intellectual and social fastidiousness. The real enjoyment of camping and tramping in the woods lies in a return to primitive conditions of lodging, dress and food; in as total an escape as may be from the requirements of civilization. I suspect that many of us, after all, are really camping temporarily in civilized conditions; and that going into the wilderness is an escape longed for into our natural and preferred state. An enforced rest out-of-doors is quite a different matter in its effects upon the body and mind than such a rest in a dwelling at best poorly ventilated. Such a rest in-doors tends to depress all the bodily functions An out-of-door rest stimulates and invigorates all the body. So a long enforced rest may be taken out-of-doors with a constantly improving condition of health. come on You never catch cold in camp in spite of exposure to all kinds of weather and of often being forced to wear damp clothes and sleep in damp blankets, under leaky roofs or under no roof at all. In out-of-door life, changes of weather conditions gradually and the body has a chance to get itself together, as it were; while in city life we rush from a frightfully warm room out into a blizzard. Under such sudden changes, the body is put to a terrible strain and we choke up and catch "cold." It is the sudden change and not the cold out-of-doors that does the harm. Arctic explorers who live exposed for months to intense cold, are said never to take "cold." Out-of-door exercise, to be beneficial, should never be taken to excess. It should be taken regularly, whatever the weather conditions are. Rain or snow should not interfere in the least with a person's regular round of exercise. In certain German sanatoriums, patients are sent out in all kinds of weather to take their exercise. If a wetting of the clothes results, they are not allowed to change them on return. The changing weather conditions act as a stimulus to the heat regulating appar atus of the body and keep up its tone. It makes the machine delicate to respond to heat or cold, and so the body is protected from taking "cold." The habit of taking a cold plunge every day, helps to accomplish the same purpose. It whips up the nervous system to do its work properly. The peace of mind which comes with life out-of-doors, gives health. The vexations of life, which help to keep some of us de. pressed and sick, do not seem worth worrying about in the woods. Out-of-doors is our natural state, and not cooped up in houses. A proper state of mind is one of the first steps towards the recovery of sound health. Follow Isaak Walton's rules for life out-ofdoors, and for that matter, equally good life in-doors as well: "1st-You shall learn to desire nothing in the world so much but that you can be happy without it. "2nd-You shall seek that which you de sire only by such means as are fair and lawful, and this will leave you without bitterness towards men or shame before God. "3rd-You shall take pleasure in the time while you are seeking, even though you ob tain not immediately that which you seek; for the purpose of a journey is not only to arrive at the goal, but also to find enjoyment by the way. "4th-When you obtain that which you have desired, you shall think more of the kindness of your fortune than of the great ness of your skill. This will make you grateful and ready to share with others that which Providence hath bestowed upon you; and truly this is both reasonable and profitable, for it is but little that any of us would catch in this world were not our luck better than our deserts. "And to these four rules I will add yet another. "5th-When you smoke your pipe with a good conscience, trouble not yourself because there are men in the world who will find fault with you for so doing. If you wait for a pleasure at which no sour-complexioned soul hath girded, you will wait long, and go through life with a sad and anxious mind. But I think that God is best pleased with us when we give little heed to scoffers, and enjoy His gifts with thankfulness and an easy heart." News of the War On Tuberculosis. Dr. Farrand Chosen. Dr. Livingston Farrand, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, has been appointed Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Anti-Spitting Crusade. In New York City last month a number of persons were arrested and fined for spitting on the streets. In Brooklyn some boys have organized an anti-spitting brigade. Medical Examination of Teachers. The Board of Education of Jersey City has adopted a rule that teachers suspected of having tuberculosis shall submit to an examination by a physician designated by the Board and that no teacher found to be suffering from tuberculosis shall be permitted to continue her work in the public schools. Site for Ohio State Sanatorium. A site near Lima has been selected for the new Ohio State Sanatorium. The site comprises about 627 acres along the line of the C. H. & D. road, within a half mile of Lima. It will cost about $80,000. It is close to both railroad and interurban connections. International Anti-Tuberculosis Congress. An appropriation of $20,000 is asked for by the French Prime Minister for the International Anti-tuberculosis Congress to be held in Paris next October. In connection with the Congress there will be a tuberculosis exposition. The Ray Brook Hospital. In the first report of the New York State Hospital for the Treatment of Incipient Tuberculosis, at Ray Brook, in the Adirondacks, it is stated that although the institution has been open only since July 82 patients have been admitted and of these 11 have been discharged as cured, 19 have apparently recovered, in 34 the disease has been arrested and the remainder show improvement, except 5, who have been there only a short time, The Illinois Crusade. Concerted effort is to be made to stamp out the germs of consumption in Illinois as the result of the organization of the Illinois State Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis at a meeting held in Chicago. The chief aim of the organization is to impress the people of the state with the necessity of establishing a state sanatorium where persons suffering with consumption can be properly cared for. The organization also will urge the passage of a law to compel cities, towns and villages to keep records of sufferers from the disease and of those who die from it, in order that houses may be fumigated to prevent further spread of the malady. Phipps Institute Campaign. A general educational campaign regarding tuberculosis, and especially the treatment and prevention of the disease, will be conducted this year by the Phipps Institute, of Philadelphia, as an integral part of its work in combating tuberculosis. For this educational work the managers of the institute have prepared hundreds of lantern slides bearing on every phase of tuberculosis for use in lectures to be given by members of the medical staff. The idea is to have these lectures delivered wherever requests for them shall be made, in any part of the country, either before medical or lay bodies. Want $500,000 for State Camps. A plan for a concerted movement against tuberculosis by the combined medical societies of Pennsylvania, through the petitioning of the Legislature for an appropriation of not less than $500,000, which is to be Cheap Rates California, Wash ado. ington, Oregon, ColorWe secure reduced rates on Household Goods to the above States for intending settlers. WRITE FOR RATES. MAP OF CALIFORNIA, FRee, Trans-Continental Freight Co., P-355 Dearborn Street, Chicago, III. KENWOOD RUGS AND Kenwood Sleeping Bags afford perfect protection and great comfort to persons who sit or sleep out of doors. They are especially designed for this purpose. You should know about them. Write your address on a postal and mail it to We will send you illustrated booklets giving prices and full information about the rugs and bags, and samples of the materials of which they are made. THE KENWOOD MILLS, Albany, N. Y. us. used in the establishing of sanatoriums in the State forestry reserves and for the appointment of a commission of physicians to have charge of the erection of such camps and the care of the patients to be treated there, has been started by the Philadelphia County Medical Society. The Fraternal Sanatorium. The scheme to establish a national fraternal sanatorium for consumptives, an enlargement upon the work of the national colony for consumptives, is being vigorously pushed. It is practically assured that New Mexico will get the sanatorium. The plan of raising the funds with which to conduct the sanatorium is to get 1 cent a month from each of the 5,500,000 fraternalists in this country, whose 125 societies belong to the Associated Fraternities of America. is planned to reconstruct the Fraternal Temple at the World's Fair on the site selected for the colony in New Mexico. Outline of the Open Air Cure For a Day. It It is now quite generally agreed among physicians that the open-air rest cure is the most successful treatment for persons suffering from tuberculosis. As has been pointed out before by The Outdoor Life, many persons fail to improve because they do not take "the cure" systematically or because they are careless of what they do while outdoors. The following schedule may prove helpful. It is presumed that the patient is sleeping indoors with the windows open. A. M. 6.30-Windows closed. 7.30-Glass of milk before rising if necessary. Dress up to waist; cold sponge to waist. 8.00-Breakfast: meat or eggs, etc. 8.45 to 9.00-Out-of-doors for morning. 10.00 to 10.30-Glass of milk or both) if necessary. 11.00-Exercise if ordered. P. M. egg (or 12.45-Indoors to prepare for dinner. 1.00-Dinner; soup, meat, etc. 1.45 to 2.00-Out-of-doors for afternoon. 3.00 to 3.30-Glass of milk or egg (or both) if necessary. 4.00-Exercise if ordered. 5.45-Indoors to prepare for supper. 6.00-Supper: meat or eggs, etc. 7.00-Out-of-doors if weather agreeable. 8.45-Glass of milk or egg (or both) if ordered. 9.00-Bed. Warm bath twice a week. No attempt should be made to follow this schedule without first having consulted a physician. It is printed merely as a sug gestion and is not intended to replace medi. cal advice. Taking the Cure Alone. Editor, Journal of The Outdoor Life-It is seldom that such widespread attention has been called to any one disease as to tuber culosis and each day brings it more promi nently before the public. The vast number of articles written by prominent authorities the interest shown and space given by the leading magazines and newspapers, should and do educate the thinking people as to the cause, prevention and cure of this rightly named disease, "The Great White Plague." There are but few states now that are not active in the great work of stamping out this dread malady and it is hoped and expected that they will soon get into line. Sanitary laws have been passed, sanitariums erected, and many other commendable things done. The thought occurs to me, why not help each other and give the benefit of our experience, our travels, our success in treatment and such other helps as may benefit one who must take the treatment alone. It is possible that some idea you may suggest may be the means of helping some unfortunate to a better condition and a stronger faith in the "cure." It is with this in view that I undertake to outline briefly my method of taking the fresh-air treatment. For years I have been a sufferer from spasmodic asthma and during this time I have tried many so-called cures and in many instances have followed the advice of friends. Drugs seemed of no particular value. Change of climate was urged upon me so strongly that a few years ago I went into the Black Hills of South Dakota. For a time I seemed better, then I became as bad as ever and finally returned to Allegany County in New York State. Asthma continued to grow worse and in the fall of 1902, I again packed my outfit and started for Colorado and again I was disappointed, the altitude was decidedly too high and I was worse as soon as I reached the Rockies. Foolishly I followed a doctor's advice (sic!) and went on into Routt County over Tennessee Pass. In hopes of getting acclimated I suffered and stayed six weeks, then started for home. As soon as I neared New York State I began to get better and gained quite rapidly after arriv ing home. 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