The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-12-06

TIA lian, " that is another tenet you must
abjure.
Its skies may be soft, unfathomable.
lpalpitating azure, but.Colorado is no more
| Like Italy than spicy Baldwin pippin re-
sembles a banana. 1t does not enervate.
but invigorates and inspires instead of
| the sensuous trance of the lotus-eater. it
/ intoxicates as with new wine. There are
| no Campagna fevers here, no miasma. no
damps.
| In Ell Paso county. where Manitou and
| Colorado Springs are situated, the climatic
conditions for invalids are most favorable.
The eastern portion of Ell Paso is tilted
to the south, with an angle of two degrees.
| so 1t. recelyes rays of the sun with slight
obliquity in winter. This is supposed to
make difference equal to two degrees
south latitude. North of the divide the
case is reversed. West of Manitou and
Colorado Springs the mountain spur serves
as sheltering wall; eastward. the unob-
structed sunshine spreads beneficently over
| the plains
In winter, nights. and mornings are very
cold. Between 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. the
invalid can usually drive, walk, sit out of
doors, and the thermometer in the sum
shine, ranges, in the sixties During the
winter of 1928 the average temperature
Tor the winter months was $50, and this
was reckoned an unusually cold season.
wi arm clothing is needed, and provisions
| should be made for sudden changes of tenn
perature. A heavy shawl OF overcoat are
good travelling companions. So hewinter
passes, succession of pleasant days, lying
between the months of lowering Noyem-
Der and snowy April, least pleasant of all
the Colorado year. Sometimes you hear of
so and so, who has picknicked eyery Sat
urday for three months on Cheyenne, cool
ing his champagne in snow drift, and
holding an umbrella to keep off the sum-
or Jones has not missed his diurnal horse
back ride for thirty days.
Between September and March there is
no rain; a few inches of snow fall and dis
appear within twenty-four hours. The
annual rainfall occasionally reaches twelve
inches sometimes it is only nine Oh ten
| MUD IS curiosity The drawbacks are
dust and wind, and very, very seldom a
cold snap" lasting few days, when in
Vsllds must house themselves. In Colora-
Go Springs the street-sprinklers ply all win
ter, and dust is only might-be. Man.
lt0u is in great measure sheltered from
the high winds by towering mountains
These winds, though exasperating and dis
agreeable while they blow, are beneficial
no miasma, no impurity, remains where
they have swept their Bosom, and there is
a special quality Of purity in the air. Our
Coloradois not perfect We never claimed
that she was. She is sublime in her noun
talns and canyons, tender in her soft air and
azure sky. There are winter days that drop
from the heavens, $50 tender, so mystically
soft, so dreamily beautiful, so throbbing and
alvey with the lluttering of invisible wings,
so replete and bounteously overlooking with
anawakening and joyous resurrection not
taught by man OF limited by creed Then
all houses are emptied of their dwellers,
gone to enjoy the complete Colorado day.
You may spend it in some sheltered canyon,
whose sides still hold patches of snow,
whose cascades still keep their ice -fringed
garments.
Under that grey and red rock are daisies,
turning responsive yellow faces to the sun
beams, which cast their spell over bios
SONS and icicles We see as through
a glass darkly, save under Colorado sky.
Fines on lofty SUBMITS miles away,
fret the blue with interlacing twigs.-
Castled columns of red and orange rocks
blaze out against q ''lazuli'' background.
A riot of color like one of Gerome's pic
lures. Perhaps you would pass this day
on the plains, driving over those smooth
est roads, which needed no engineering
to complete, with the breeze rustling with
cred grasses. and the dull, brown expanse
looming the tints of an opal ocean. Or
you might turn to the ''pineries,'' that
| rich, green belt which extends thirty miles
across the Divide, where the resinous
breath of the wind is busy in the branches
and ruffiles the beds of glossy green and
copper colored kinnikinics, with red ber-
!, ries, showing their jovial faces in rebuke
Aof the pine shadows.
| In April comes heavy snow, which fills
! the streams, starts the gramma grass of the
: palms, and the green lawns of the two
1 towns When it melts, spring is here,
then comes summer aud the rainy season.
! so-called. Blankets are still indispensable
: at night, when fresh breezes blow down
: from the snowy range. Mosquitoes are I'M
known, and it is not necessary to prepare
S any airy summer toilettes, OF to cast aside
merino underwear. Days are hot, dashed,
S with cool breezes, nights chilly and reviv-
4 ing.
e The only rain which ever freshens the
!, plains falls in ten minute showers every
t day OF SO. Then rugged mountain arms
, encircle patches of verdure, and then
4 jagged pinnacles catch the torn fringes of
: the blanched clouds !; the plains are gree n
e as a giant lawn. The pink cactus. the
h lemon-eolored prickly pear, the tall spines
u of soap-plant, lilac columbines with golden
i centres, the pink, scarlet, and white gilia.
h and the violet mountain lily. lavish their
/ beauty in lonely canyons and ON desolate
prairie. White tents of campers dot low
t land and mountain, and the Bohemian
; summer lie begins. M. V. D.
It Ayers Ague Cure should be in every
v household In regions where fever and ague
:, prevail 1t should be taken as a prevent
> I've by every resident and traveller in ma