The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1881-04-30


Since ont mthlon iast Week ~
he reception II Harper Nagl
sine fef MAJ We have hefn fhoat
IN company wltb = friend win iold
~ u one very deB 10 her who
was threatened with consumption.
II not already its victim The
reading Of Camp Lou, In the
magazine soon afterwards, made
such an impression upon orr mind
IN connection with this convcrsa-
lion and the subject generally that
we felt II y duty incumbent upon
Us 10 call the SPECIAL attention oi
persons who n c the victims Of pul.
monary complaints Or diseases TO
this very article.
Our readers know very well that
we are happily free from anything
Of the kind, but such is the inn
preston which has been made
upon our mind BY the article in
question, that If wc should b.
touched with any symptom what
ever Of that slow but sure and
dreadful destroyer, we should at
once strike for the Adirondack re-
gion Of New York, unless we pre-
ferred the quiet of the grave. The
paper in Harper entitled Camp
Lou gives in clear and full detail
the experience Of a consumphve
who, in the very last stages, (whcn
his friends thought he could not
live beyond a few weeks, was in
duced by what he had read from
the pen Of a physician (himself a
Ansumptiyc), TO risk his last
chance Of life upon a trial Of the
Adirondack regions Of New York
State. lie went, took his wife
with him, and they remained there
through both summer and winter I.
They campcd out, living in a cloth
tent from June until November,
and then moved into a farmhouse
where they obtained board and
comfort through q long, drcary
winter. When they went into
camp MIR. Cook was too feeble,
perhaps, to raise a spli,-bottomed
chair. When they "struck' their
tents to move into winter quarters
he was strong enough TO pull up,
with his hands and unaided, the
stakes that had held down In,
tent through the entire five months.
and many who will read this par.
agraph will remember enough
about camp life to know that this
was no easy thing to do.
Mr.. Cook lthe author of the ma.
per in Iiarper's) attributes hi.
complete restoration to life ant
health to several causes, viz: tn,
high, pure air, the camp life, anc
The oompletc isolation from chroni,
grumblers and hypochondriaes
who always seem to try TO max,
sick people believe they are wors,
off than they really are, and thu.
retard their recovery. Mr.. Cool
thinks the Adirondack country SUI
perior to either Florida or Califor
ma Tor consumptives, and his cas-,
goes very far to establish his theo
ry. We cannot, in the limi,e,
space of an editorial, give any
thing like asynopsis Of Mr.. Cook
interesting and valuable paper
but its perusal interested us s,
much that we have felt impelle,
by a sense Of duty to others to cal
their attention 10 it. The pape
itself will be adjudged both inter
esting and pleasant by any INTEL,
gent reader, but j, will be peeu
liarly 30 to all OF that unfortuna,
class for whose especial benefit /
was, perhaps, written, and when III,
May edition Of the magazine shaI
have been exhausted, we do no
think that great and noble firm
the Harper Brothers, could do
more benevolent act than have ,hi
one article re-issued in a chea.
form for universal circulation. w
throw out the suggestion in goo
faith. and with an eye single to III
good Of those who as NJ,
Cook was when he wentto "Cam
Lou'--in the clutches Tor threa
ensd to be drawn thcre) of cor
sumption.
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