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WOODCRAFT IN KANSAS 5 Modern Woodmen of America SANATORIUM Free for the treatment of Tubercular beneficial members. Only curable cases accepted. Maintained by the society for the benefit of its members. For rules and regulations governing admission, methods of treatment, what patients must do, complete official instructions, address Head Clerk C. W.

Hawes, and ask for folder No. 743, which will give you full information. Send for it and fully inform yourself as to what our society is doing for our unfortunate neighbors who are afflicted with consumption and are curable. Every accepted applicant goes to the sanatorium as a patient, subject to rejection within thirty days from date of his arrival. If he is found not to be a curable case, he will not be continued as a patient.

SANATORIUM ENDORSED. It is indeed gratifying to have prominent men, although not members of our Society, interested enough to thoroughly inspect our sanatorium and speak praises of it. No man can visit our sanatorium without becoming so full of the great cause in which we are engaged that they really become great enthusiasts. Mr. Louis H.

Wulfekuhler, a prominent banker of Leavenworth, visited our sanatorium and writes in high prises of it. Mr. Wulfekuhler, although not a member of our Society, has certainly caught the spirit of the sanatorium. His letter will interest you and is produced below: EDITOR WOODCRAFT IN KANSAS: While on my vacation, journeying in Colorado during the past July, at the invitation of my old room-mate and friend, Dr. J.

F. Wallace, and who is one of your physicians at the sanatorium northwest of Colorado Springs, my mother, wife and together with Mr. Geo. H. Fisher and Walter C.

Kern, made a visit to the M. W. A. sanatorium, and I wish to state that I have never been better pleased, more gratified and thoroughly enthused than I was with the magnificence of this sanatorium, and I certainly want to congratulate your Order in instituting such a fine sanatorium. Not alone on account of its beatuiful location, but also on its architectural arrangements and healthful design for the princely cause for which it has been dedicated.

Our entire party were more than pleased at everything and I wish to state that if the balance of the good your Order is doing is one-tenth as good as your Order is doing in the direction of this sanatorium, which no doubt it is, that your Order is doing the very best thing on earth. Every one of the patients that we saw was audibly satisfied with their physical improvement and seemed to be well pleased with all their surroundings, which they could not help but be at such an institution. Although I am not a member of your Order, the excellent manner in which this is being directed and handled is almost enough to make one an M. W. because the handling of this matter shows completely that the balance of the Order must be most ably handled and conducted, and I wish to congratulate not only your officials high and low in rank, but every member of the M.

W. A. that belongs to such a progressive organization, and I certainly wish you well in the best of everything. Yours very truly, LOUIS H. WULFEKUHLER.

Dated at Leavenworth, Aug. 21, 1909. NEIGHBOR BURDETTE ROCKIE OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, RESTORED TO HEALTH. We are indeed glad to know, that our old friend Burdette Rockie of Kansas City, has had his health restored at the sanatorium, and will soon be back to his home with his family in Kansas City, Kas. He is a living example to what our sanatorium is doing for our unfortunate neighbors who are afflicted with tuberculosis.

Neighbor Rockie, as thousands of our Neighbors in Kansas City, will confirm, was in a very bad condition when he entered the sanatorium. I was very much in doubt myself, as to whether anything could be done for him or not. He had lost his voice and for a long time prior to his going to the sanatorium could hardly speak in a whisper. Our Kansas Neighbors will be glad to read a letter which I received from him September He writes as follows from the sanatorium: EDITOR WOODCRAFT IN KANSAS: Dear old -Maybe you do not know that our paper, "Woodcraft in Kansas," is interesting to us Kansas boys. I received my paper a day before any of the other did this time and before the boys went to bed think that everyone had read it.

We look for it the same as we do our meal, and I tell you that that is no small item with any of us, except ME; I am the only one that can't eat. I never send my plate back for more than the third mess at any one meal, and can't drink more than four glasses of milk, which we get six times a day, and it makes me very discouraged, my appetite is so poor. I don't think that I ever drink more than fifteen glasses in a day, and I would not tell you this if I did not know that you would sympathize with me and my poor condition. Why, I only weigh pounds, and when I came here on the 6th day of March, only five months ago the 6th of this month, I weighed 136 pounds; yes, I came here all in, down and out, and have gained pounds. The doctors let me go where I want to; I have climbed most of our beautiful mountains; I run foot races and can do anything that an athlete does.

Now, Charlie, this may sound big to our Neighbors, but to you I know that you will believe me, for you know what I have gone through and I thank God that He has seen fit to spare me and bring me back to health, and now I am going back to my family, not to be a burden, but to once more put my shoulder to the wheel and be a help to them and I hope to my Neighbors who have been SO kind to me and mine. I wish that I could go all over our jurisdiction and especially our state (Kansas) and tell our Neighbors just what a great work they are doing out here in this home that they are so generously contributing to and of the heart felt gratitude that is expressed every day by some of the poor fellows that have been overtaken by this vampire, tuberculosis. I have not seen ten in over the 150 Neighbors that have been patients here since we started last January, that have carried that woeful face that you always see when a Neighbor first comes, but it does not last more than a few days after he gets here; everyone tries to make it pleasant and he soon forgets his homesickness and picks up our spirit and starts out to make a live of it. Of course this good work has only just begun and it will take a lot of money to see it through, but if every Neighbor would say, "I can spare one dollar for such a Christian work as the noble Order that I belong to is doing, now while I am well, for God may see fit to blast my life with this terrible disease; who knows how soon I may be asking admission to our sanatorium." These are sad thoughts, but are liable to come to any Neighbor at any time; then how thankful he will feel to know that when he was able to give that he did not forget his Neighbor in his affliction. Our neighbors from Kansas are all doing well.

When I first saw Neigh- bor J. L. Lashbrook I thought that he was a bad case, but today he is as brown as a berry and as strong as an ox. He is from Camp 1412. Neighbor L.

A. Briscoe looks as though he was ready for the prize ring; he is from Camp 600. Neighbor Geo. W. Tisron of Camp 566 goes around with that broad smile always on his face.

Neighbor W. J. Rogers of Camp 852 still has his hat full of funny stories and spins them out to the amusement of the boys. Verne Bement of Camp 499 is doing well, and Neighbor M. S.

Bardwell of Camp 566, who for the first five weeks was in bed all the time, is up. He gained eight pounds while in bed and now he goes to his meals and says that he is satisfied that he is on the gain for good, and so it is all down the line, from all parts of the country they are on the gain. Dr. Wallace, who came to us from Leavenworth, a while back, has come to stay and we boys all welcome him and realize that again Dr. White has not made a mistake in selecting Dr.

Wallace as one of his staff, for he is made of the same stuff as Doctors White and Morris are, and the word here is, "they are good enough for Dr. Wallace's cottage has just been completed; his wife is here and he is as happy as a boy with a new red wagon, always with a happy smile and a pleasant word for us all which is better than medicine. Work is going on as fast as it can be driven with what money they have. As far as I can see we have but few kickers and they are not to blame for they are SO narrow and their hearts are so small that you could put them into a millet seed and you would be unable to find them. Why, I was at the depot the other day and I met a man, I can't call him a neighbor, that had been out to the sanatorium, and of all the knockers you ever heard he took the cake.

He did not know that I belonged out at the sanatorium, so he began telling me all about it. He said that the management was a fake, and that they were robbing the Order; that they were feeding us on the poorest that could be bought; that we only got skimmed milk and so on down the line. Now, I want to say, and I voice the sentiment of every patient here, that he is a down right LIAR. The word perforator of the truth isn't strong enough, and I'll tell you why. He walked into Dr.

White's office and told the doctor that he had come to stay. He had made no application, but merely came on. The doctor examined him. Nothing was apparently the matter with his lungs nor could there be bacillus found in his sputum; now there is one for you. Just because the doctor would not take him and keep him for five or six months he was ready to go and do all the harm that he could, anywhere and everywhere, and he isn't the only one.

You will always find a knocker ready to use our Order to his interest, and his alone; and when he can't do that, he will tear up the earth to hurt the Order or even his own folks if need be. They are generally known or are soon found out, and their venomous talk goes to waste on a true Woodman. We will have at least 700 bushels of fine apples off of our own trees this year. We made 96 gallons of kraut and 48 gallons of pickeled cauliflower, Saturday. One-half acre beets, one acre beans, and one-half acre onions.

Well, I will close, hoping to see you soon, as I am coming home. Everyone says stay in Colorado, but I think that I can live in good old Kansas, SO if I make a mistake it will be my own fault. I enclose 25c for in Kansas" and you may address it to me at 517 Washington Boulevard, Kansas City, Kans. I hope to visit Topeka this winter. Now, keep on boosting this great work that more than a million neighbors are boosting along with their finance.

The small amounts are apprecated, and talked about as much as the large donatons, for we know that they come from the hearts of noble men and women, who sympathize with their fellow man. Yours fraternally, BURT ROCKIE. ROYAL NEIGHBORS DONATE. We received a draft a few days ago for $5.00 in favor of Treasurer Murphy from Maple Camp 139 R. N.

of A. Kingman. These donations are greatly appreciated and needed, and it is very gratifying to have the Royal Neighbors assist. They realize the direct benefit of the sanatorium to the women, as husbands are sent back to their homes every few days from the sanatorium where they can take their old place as father and husband. Burdette Rockie would have been dead before this, had he not gone to the sanatorium and had his health restored.

He is now back to his family. Read his letter and see if you think he is a dead one. Our women should be strong for the sanatorium just as they should be for the M. W. A.

The women are the beneficiaries in both. ONE HUNDRED -FOUR COTTAGES Have Been Donated to the Sanator- ium by the Different States. Below we give a list of the States according to rank that have donated to the sanatorium. We are pleased to note that Kansas has given 10 and we know of many more Camps which have their fund about completed. The Deputies' fund is only $15.50 short and this cottage will be donated before the next issue of WOODCRAFT.

Illinois, 30; Indiana, Iowa, 11; Virginia, Wisconsin, 11; Pennsylvania, Kansas, 10; Oklahoma, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, New York, Connecticut, Washington, Kentucky, Missouri, District of Columbia, Ohio, New Jersey, Michigan, West Virginia, Colorado, Maine, California, Tennessee, Oregon, Montana, Head Physicians, Head Officers, 1. COTTAGES DONATED FROM KANSAS. We give below a list of the donators of cottages from Kansas: Camp 367, Leavenworth, Camp 1412, Kansas City. Camp 536, Topeka. Camp 566, Hutchinson.

Camp 759, Washington. Camp 384, Salina. Camp 546, Phillipsburg. Camp 852, Chanute. Camp 4095, Kansas City.

Camp Clerks of Kansas. DEATH CLAIMS PAID IN KANSAS, AUGUST, 1909. Camp Name and Address Amt No. 3395 James M. Hill, Bell Plaine $2000 961 George Bowers, 1000 1314 Frank Morgan, 2000 5080 Henry H.

Lesley, 1000 614 R. B. Peake, 1000 993 Rufus S. King, Partridge. 2000 356 Lee Johnson, 2000 2800 Robert H.

Hearick, Topeka 1000 4765 C. F. Stewart, 2000 2895 G. Bockemohle, Ellinwood. 3000 1198 Wm.

H. Ketchum, 2000 9745 Wm. L. Shelton, 2000 6699 E. F.

Gessford, Prattsburg 2000 902 John W. Collins, Augusta. 3000 1451 E. R. Burkert, Valley Falls 2000 1340 J.

S. Nestelroad, G'd'n PI'n 1000 4305 George Stewart, Maple Hill 3000 1114 Adam Hoehman, Halstead. 2000 6907 J. J. Myler, 1000 1569 David W.

Elder, Elk City. 1000 873 J. P. Lewis, 3000 603 Morris S. Savage, 1000 9026 Harry C.

Marsh, 2000 7140 J. H. Hobsom, White Cloud 2000 514 Floyd Hammett, Marysville 1000 499 Charley R. Culick, Ottawa. 2000 2219 A.

L. Schlobohm, Waverly. 1000 519 E. S. Bonham, 2000 1469 Charles Dancer, Elk 2000 29 claims paid amounting to $52,000 We are still $15.50 short on our Deputies' Cottage.

Many Deputies have not contributed to this fund and it would be a source of much pleasure for us to report the Deputies Cottage Fund complete before our next issue. THE TEST OF THE HEART. 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant When life flows by like a song. But the one worth while Is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble And that always comes with years, And the smile that is worth All the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox..