The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-03
Vi,n.,ota As a Climate for conSumpt lives.

communication from Mr.. Mattocksi "F
the climate Of Minnesota. As suPoHn'enu
en,of health at st. Paul he has eAee,en
opportunities of knowing Of what he writes
and his views and statements are worthy
confidence.
We are 81 inland state, away from larg'
ho5;os ~ water: therefore We are not sab
49, 20 marine or lake winds, with the ex
o.n,ion of part of our northern border, where
We claim no particular immunity from con
sumption.
Along the New England seaboard, includ
ing Vermont, which is on lake, consump
ton prevails to an alarming degree. The
deaths from this disease alone average one
in four or five. The same holds true to a
great extent along the chain Of lakes in the
west.
Then, too, we have no mountain ranges
in our state TO prevent evaporation, another
fertile source Of consumption.
We have soil which easily absorbs mois.
ture. A great portion Of the state is rolling
prairie, which admits Of perfect drainage
The soil is Light, with very little clay
Neither havo we sandy soil, with fine
particles Of slick to be brought in contact
with the lungs at every breath. We have
little Or no fever and Ague. There we're no
deaths last year from that disease.
Our climate is favorable for health.
Much has been said about the climate OF
Minnesota. No state 10 the Union has
been more often misrepreSented than our
own. find it generally believed that our
winters are arctic. A southern paper states
that last winter there we're thirty days when
the mercury was AZ deg. below zero in Min.
nesota. While deny all such extraVagance
Of language without regard TO facts, will
admit that we have q peculiar climate per.
haps no state in the Union has climate
exactly ike our own. Yet we think that it
is simply because no other state is situated
like ours,
In the frat place, we have less moisture,
lighter rainfall, than any other state in
the Union. The average rainfall here is
about twenty tive inches Of the New En-
gland states and New York, from thirty-two
70 iortyGvs inches; and owing to the ir-
Irregularities Of our land, II is at once drained
of We are 20 far north that the moisture
that falls from November 70 the middle o.
March or first of April is in the form O
snow, with scarcely day Of thaw in tn,
mean time.
The transition from winter to spring i,
rapid. Vegetation in May is nearly two
weeks in advance of Michigan, several De.
grees south of US. An observer Of thirty
years in tue northern part Of New York and
ten years in Minnesota tells me that we
have green peas two weeks in advance Of
New York. The river at this point WAS open
from two to three weeks IN advance Of Lake
Champan this spring.
Our summers are very warm the average
mean is 10 deg, equal to the mean Of states
four degrees south of us. Yet as a general
thing we have q cool breeze most all the
time.
We pride ourselves upon our Indian sum.
mers. correspondent has already por
trayed our sutumns in your columns IN t
way that would seem extrsvagant in me-
Our winters are cold and crispy, but rs
general thing dry. | think our winter mcaI
Is no lower than that Of Boston. Yet ",
miss those sudden changes here which chill
through and through. Last winter wa
walking home from d lecture with the me
curry 10 deg. below zero, and as | wake
rapidly | was not particularly cold. Will
walking over some frozen peaty soil, re
called walking over the same road in Sel
TENDER several years before, clad with tn
same wrappngs precisely, yet thought
never was 50 cold. Such is the dlti'erenc
between a winter in Minnesota and an ea
tern one. While one chills YOU through tn
other stimulates to faster motion.
lady told me some time since, who lie
IL II / 90, a..
in st, Paul, that she suffers less with co
feet here than at home, and requires les be
ding at night.
The question is often asked, Is not yOl
Minnesota air too stimulating; will 1t II
produce hemorrage? We answer that '
think not. Perhaps in some rare instau
It might have that effect, but where one
stance Of that kind is on record, many
stances are known where hsmorrhages ha
ceased entirely upon visiting our state,
experience with cOnsumptives is that air
what they want and the more it stmulat
the better. Very seldom do wa hear that
is too pure, too eXhIlaratlng.
The season to visit Minnesota is in
summer or late spring months, /. e., from
south from the eastern states 1t does l
make so much difference, although it
never well for an invalid to leave home
the early spring. We should advise, if p
sible, to spend at least year in Mlnncsot
and, much better, 10 change ones residen
permanently. When a person is once
tackled with tubercIes, even though they
cured by change Of residence, yet aseco
attack is to be feared should they be 81
rounded by like circumstances
1t would be easy at this point TO give
stances Of cure performed by residence
Minnesota, to quote from writers on the Il,
ject lndorsing our climate 81 flee it to 81
that, as u general thing, physicians now, b,
north and south, are directing their patie
to Minnesota, and seem to be satisfied "
their improvement
One fact never should be lost sight of
invalds visiting this country for their heal
In the first place, remember what they cat
for; and remember, without care no china
be it ever 80 healthful, will cure consuu
ton. have often noticed that u little /
proyement, like a little knowledge, is
dangerous thing" Many lives that
lost here can be traced TO some foolish lit
ind secretion.
Once here the more time spent in t
open air the better. This admonition
already been dwelt upon by previous c.
respondents, and it only remains for me
call attention to their coed sound advice.
Revolutionary Disfranchisem ent Of the Es
uraliEed Citizens.
During the late election in Pennsylvsni
thousands Of votes Of nRtursli1ed citizeI