The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-22


murmurs of t.nderness; while the
vegetation deepans undisturbed above
these poor, fOrsaken DEAD, whose name
less graves are unvisited by any but
loathsome reptiles. With shudder we
turn away, hoping in our heart that
God remembers.
Blood curdlipg tales are told of that
fearful time when the scourge walked
abroad in Costa Rica, and his victims,
lin many of whom, doubtless, the
breath of life yet hngered) were hus-
ried by hur dreds into the trenches.
They tell US that one of the pits be-
came so heaped with bodies that the
sexton was obliged to jump upon the
last layer to Level it with the ground,
and as he did SO, more than one faint
moan was distinctly heard. 1t was
impossible TO tell from which OF the
supposed corpses the cries proceeded,
and he did not dare unpack the CHASTITY
heap; SO he kept on with his work IN
til his boot-heel happened to strike the
stomach of one body-which instantly
doubled up and began to swear in good
round Spanish. And the man is still
living TO tell of his "hair-breath escape"
from the comotose state that is fire.
quently part of the disease.
Though yellow fever is common along
the coast of Central America. it seldom
climbs the highlands to this altitude.
During the last three years, many e1-
periments have been made, in Costa
RIGA as elsewhere, to test the theory of
DR.. Gaime Ferran. the young Catalan
physician, who believes that the disease
can be prevented by inoculates, as for
smallpox. Hundreds of persons have
been Vaccinated with germs" the in
mates of hospitals aud prisons being
turned over to the doctors by the
authorities. The difficulty has been
that those who understood what was
being done, actually died of fright; but
it Is officially stated that in those cases
where the patients were kept ignorant
OF their treatment, every one recovered,
and though after wards put TO bed
alongside of yellowfeyer sufferers none
of them contracted the disease.
The municipal council of San Jose
consists of three chief magistrates and
two syndie prOenrddores. The officers
are elected annually by the property
holders of the city, and are presided
over by the Governor of the Province.
They employ secretary and door
keeper, and hold meetings at least twice
q 4AC O0b4CS VI Wis COuLOLl
consists in framing all necessary local
regulations, the designation of those
ciuZens liable to serve in the militia,
the collection and disbursement Of the
municipal taxes, and the assessment Of
the expenses of each canton, or dis
trict, within the province; besides
superintepdence of the agricultural
interests, trades, manufactures, and
70 nd Mt n E
council is also empowered to negotiate
loans on the municl pal revenues. The
latter are partly derived from the to-
bacco and other customs duties, but
principally from the license tax imposed
upon shopkeepers and traders gener-
ally. ..-.-....
The educational system of Costa
RIGA has establ she'd free school in
every town. In addition to this, there
are in San joe a normal school, a
lyceum, female seminary, and a
Catholic college, besides the celebrated
University of st. Thomas, which, in an
architectural point of view, occu pies
by far tn. finest building in the coun-
try. The grandest structure, so far as
size is concerned, is the hos pital of san
Jose de Dios, which stands few rods
from the main boulevard lesding to the
Campo de Marie. The entire length OF
the building is $50 feet, including two
wings, each 100 feet square. The left
wing contains the SICK and insane OF
both sexes, while the right is used, tenn
porarlly, as prison. In this A.adian
valley there is not much need OF hos
pita1, except in seasons of epidemic, and
those are 60 rare that the Oldest inhabi-
L. H, rs
them. This saint John of God" hos.
pltal was established by charitable
! association called Ell Junua del Caradad,
mentioned, with view that il another
should strike the people, it would find
| them not wholly unprepsred, nor the
poor without proper treatment. Fol-
many years the medical superior OF
San Juan was DR.. John Hogan. a
| Philadelphia, who gave his services
gratuitously.
The inmates are few indeed, the N :
jority being females in the Iunasic
wards l suppose the reason is that
while, as a rule, the people of the
! tropics are not long lived, and seldom
Iinger with chronic diseases, as at the
north-the passions of love, hate, grief
and jealousy, intensified so near the
equator, unsettle the reason Gore
readily especially among the weaker
sex. It is a significant circumstance in
Central American prisons, that while
many male prisoners are incarcerated
for drunkenness, and other minor
crimes, nearly every woman land the
jsils are full of them) was committed
Ior the murder of her lover, husband,
or rival, the moving cause being;love o!
| jealousy, and the agent. poison, or the
small sLiletto, which every female wears
in her hair or stuck in her garter.
The San Jose theatre is pretty edi-
fee, adorned with a Grecian front and
occupying an area of seventy feet
square. The street door opens into q
vestibule, hung with Chinese lanterns
beneath which barefooted soldiers
lounge about on benches during every
performance. There are two tiers OF
boxes, ard beneath the lower tier ar
several rows of seats partitioned from
the parquette by horiz ontal bars of iron
The Presidents box is draped with the
Costa Rican colors, and he is generally
present on Sunday nights, the fashion
able time for Misunderstanding in this
part of the world, when the performers
GRO oIwqvG at their host thu hnyLc rust.