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had had so many hemorrhages that we doubted the expediency of re 

 ceiving hiin. He had had hemorrhage after hemorrhage and was a 

 mere wreck and shadow when he came to us. He was with us be- 

 tween two and three months and he gained twenty-five pounds and 

 then left because he hadn't the means to remain longer, but he is 

 now back again. 



These are some of the cases that we have had there from which 

 have worked out good results. If I had time I could cite other cases 

 to you which would prove the good results of the open air treatment, 

 but I want here to allude to the work that the women of the State 

 have done. Last October I went to the camp from which I had been 

 absent a few days and found that the inmates were in a freezing con- 

 dition. Many of them were too poor to purchase wood; there was 

 cot a stick of wood in that camp. I did not believe that the Lord 

 would allow work of that kind to fall through, and without the 

 promise of a cent, without knowing where the money was to come 

 from, I got on my horse and ordered wood right in; didn't delay a 

 minute, and it came in and by night we had several cords of wood in 

 and men at work to cut it, and from that time until spring warmed 

 up the earth with the hearts of the people, we were never out of wood 

 in our camp, when we didn't have anything in the way of fuel to 

 keep that camp warm, and it was all due not to the benevolence of 

 the men of the State, but every cent of it to the devoted women 

 of this Commonwealth. 



I want to say, furthermore, that when I started to build those 

 cabins I hadn't a cent of money to build them with. I went to a 

 lady in Harrisburg and told her what I wanted to do, and she imme- 

 diately subscribed herself, and went out among her friends, and 

 before twenty-four hours I had all the money necessary to put up 

 ten cabins. I have now got more money for the running of that 

 camp than I ever had before and every cent of it has come from the 

 women of the State. 



Now the location has something to do with the cure of consump- 

 tion. It is true people can get well right in their back yards. There 

 are many of them getting well there now right in this county. But 

 location has something to do with it. Take for example the per- 

 son I spoke of in Montgomery county who was steadily going down 

 until he came to the mountain home at Mont Alto and gained thirty- 

 two and a half pounds in thirty-eight days and is now permanently 

 well. You asked me the question, are these cures permanent? My 

 friends, in some cases they are absolutely permanent; in other cases 

 it depends. Then you say, "Well, it depends." Fou might put that 

 proposition in another way, my friends. Suppose you were con- 

 demned to be hanged to-morrow morning, and word was to come from 

 the Governor saying, "I will reprieve you as long as you will live 



