Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-02
Minnesota for As,vsllids.

A gentleman Who has been cured Of con-
sumption by re slider ce in Minnesota, writes
as follows to the Cincinnati C0npnlercaat :.
Minnesota, all the year round, is one
vast hospital All her cities and towns
and many, Of her farm houses, are crowded
with those fleeing from the approach of
the dread destroyer. OF course, among so
many, a. large number cannot recover.
This is the last straw at which they clutch,
and it is vain, They come too late They.
die here as they would have died at home,
as soon or sooner. Others come early in
the summer, and remain two or three
months. They are greatly benefited.
They think themselves well, and return to
their homes in September, the worst month
in the year. They plunge again into the
cares and pursuits,-an immunity from
which has been great part of the medi-
cine. Their old enemy returns with great
er violence, and thus they soon yield to Its
power. s'4
Others still remain here They transfer
hither their business and their families,
tear out the million fibres that bind them
to the homes and associations Of youth,
and plant themselves with their interests in
this young and thrifty empire They, if
any, are the ones who succeed in gaining
| a perfect cure. That they do succeed is
written all over the length and breadth of
the land in the experience of half the mil
lion households Ask any man you meet
in Minnesota what induced him toqcome
here One-half at least, will tell youJit
was for the health of himself or some
member of his family. Did he succeed
Almost invariably, yea! Why? Because
he came in time. Because he came to stay,
bringing all his cares with him, leaving
Inone behind him to ache or pine for.
"Where the treasure is there will the
heart be also," and where the-heart is
there must the body be if it would regain
wasted strength sg-b.tg- .zr...,i.-- ..,-e.l9
So your correspondent decidedly con-
firms all reasonable reports as to the
healthfulness of the climate, and to itsspe-
cifc, beneficial effects in lung diseases. THE
winter climate is as essentially necessary to
complete restoration as the summer eli
mate, even more So for it is the warm
/" open" thawing, changeable winters of
| Ohio and Illinois that break down consti-
buttons and render recovery from disease
difficult.
/" Here the weather is dry, clear, and cold,
imparting vigor with every inhaled breath
of its bracing air And therein lies the
scientific explanation of the leading virtues
of Minnesota air. The moisture, in lower
ATTITUDES, falls in copious rains, on tenacious
soil, which holds it on the surface to be va
ported by the suns heat, and made to rise
again, filing the air with miasmatic exha-
lation, the operation continually repeating
itself through the entire year.
Here, that moisture is literally frozen out
hof the atmosphere in winter, and falls in
deep SHOWS, which in spring rapidly melt
and sink into the crumbling soil, to reap
pear through all the summer in a thousand
gushing springs. These fill shining lakes
and dancing rivers, but give, no poisons to
the air, now dry, and pure, and thin, but
rich with the life-sustaining oxygen, which
all breathing creatures must feed upon or
die.
Prince Kang, the actual ruler of China,
refused to allow the English there to build
a railroad His reasons in opposition were
that the preudices of the people were very