Litchfield enquirer., 1869-04-22
WHOLE NO. 22eOe

to meet his guide he was too reduced to
 walk. The guide seeing his condition re- fused to take him into the woods, fearing. as he plainly expressed it, that he would "die on his hands," At last another guide was prevailed upon to serve him, not 60 much for the money, as he afterwards told me, but because he pitied the young man, and felt that 'sone so near death as he was should be gratified even in his whims. !"
 The boat was half filled with cedar, pine and balsam boughs, and the young man, carried in the arms of his guide from the
 house, was laid at full length upon them. The camp utensils were put at one end. and the guide seated himself at the other.
 and the little boat passed with the living and the dying down the lake, and was lost ands of the south. This was in early June.
 The first week the guide carried the young
 man on his back over all the portages, lift ing him in and out of the boat as he might child. But the healing properties of the
 balsam and the pine, which were his bed
 by day and night, began to exert their
 power. Awake or asleep. he inhaled their fragrance, Their pungent and healing odors penetrated his diseased and irritated
 lungs. The second day out his cough was
 less sharp and painful. At the end of the first week he could walk by leaaing on the
 paddle. The second week he needed no support. The third week the cough ceas- el entirely. From that time he improved with wonderful rapidity. He "went in." tue nrSL or Juno, 0ss1E iIA ssI Gxs IIxs guide. The second week of November, he ''came out, 'bronzed as an Indian, and as hearty. In five months he had gained six ty-fve pounds of flesh, and flesh, too, ''well packed on," as they say in the woods. Coming out, he carried the boat over all portages; the very same over which, few months before, the guide had carried him, and pulled as strong an oar as any anna teur in the wilderness. His meeting with his family leave the reader to imagine. The wilderness received him almost Q corpse. It returned him to his home and the world as happy and healthy man as ever bivouacked under it's pines.
 This. l am aware, is an extreme case, and, as such, may seem exaggerated; but it is not I might instance many other cases which, if less startling, are equally corroborative of the general statement. There is one sitting near me as write, the color of whose cheek, and the clear bright. ness of whose eye cause my heart to 90 out in ceaseless gratitude to the woods, amid which she found that health and strength of which they are the proof and sign. For five summers have we visited the wilderness. From four to seven weeks, each year, have We breathed the breath of the mountains; bathed in the waters which sleep at their base; and made our couch at night of moss and balsam boughs, beneath the whispering trees. feel, therefore. shat am able to speak from experience touching this matter; and believe that. all things being considered, no portion of our country surpasses, if indeed any equals, in health-giving qualities, the Adirondack Wilderness. 4.-...
 HEALTHFULNEss OF CAMP LIFE. ,
 lam often asked if ladies would not !" catch cold in the woods, and if the physical exertion which one must put forth is not such as to forbid that any but robust people should undertake the trip. To this I reply, that believe it to be phyical impossibility for one, however fragile or delicate, to "catch cold'' in this wilder ness. Remember that you are here in mountainous region, where dampness and miasma, such as prevail in lower sections, are entirely unknown. Consider, too, how genial and equable is the climate in the summer months, and how pure and rari- fled the atmosphere. Remember, also, that you breathe an air odorous with. the smell of pine and cedar and balsam, and absolutely free from the least taint of im- purity and when you take all this into account, you will see how very dissimiiar are the conditions and surroundings of life in the woods to life in the city or village Acquainted as am with many ladies, some of them accustomed to every luxury, and of delicate health, who have " camped ont" out in this wilderness, have yet to meet with single one who ever " caught cold" or experienced any other inconvenience to the bodily health in the woods.
 As to the physical exertion, there is no such exertion known here. It is the lazi- est of all imaginable places. if you incline to indolence. Tramping is unknown in this region. Wherever you wish to go, your guide paddles you. Your hunting, fishing, sightseeing, are all done from the boat Going in or coming out, you cross the necessary carries, which, for the most part, are short and good walking, and you can take your own time for it. In this, I refer, of course, to the most frequented parts of the wilderness, and not to the portions seldom visited and difficult of ac. cess. There are sections which ! have wis. tied by dragging my cedar shell behind me up narrow creeks and through tamarack swamps, middle deep in mud and water; but no guide would think of taking par ty, unless urged by the party itself, into any such region and, ordinarily speak ing, there is no need of exertion which Q child of i've summers could not safely put forth, from one end to the other of trip.
 Senator Anthony was permitted by the Senate Thursday to deliver defence of the Rhode Island firm, Messrs. Brown & Ives, who were so severely assailed by Senator ,.~,-o ora of hiS roonnt nxtpo0P6i n aPw