Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-29

poison. tn characteristic is persistency.
1t may be- TINT it often effects some slight
lodgment, and that, the surrounding It's
| sues being perfect, it is thrown off with
out any enc in the least suspecting that
anything has been the matter. 1t is GER
tainly the fact that when a colony of these
bacilG is formed it is sometimes ''en-
cysted," the surrounding tissues, by a
wonderful action, as if by generalization
and concert, build an impenetrable wall
around it, and effectuaily cut it of from
any posi- oility of working furtEe- harm.
This condition has been found in the lungs
of persons never suspected of having tuber-
culosis. And the fact that even in I'M
favorable climates many are able to fight
tie disease for years after it is known TO
have attacked them is ground of hope
for all in The early stages of the disease.
Let them get the best climate and the
best sanitary conditions they possibly can
This will certainly help them in the con-
test and it is not unlikely to conquer the
enemy. This Is the teaching of statistics
and recorded cases, and in view of this, the
mortality tables, and other data more or
less trustworthy, | left Washington and
proceeded TO Asheville, N c., seventeen
hours by rail to the southwest, without
breaking my journey.
Western North Carolina comprises fifteen
mountainous counties west of the Carolina
Blue Ridge. Most of their county towns
are little hamlets, but the immortalzed
county of Buncombe, which is the most
central has for its county seat Asheville, a
little city of some ten or twelve thousand
inhabitants. but which numbered only
about 1900 in'lSS0
Asheville is almost exactly two-fifths of
a mile above sea level, it is surrounded at
distance by mountains a mile or more in
height, while lesser ones fill in the spaces
between, presenting 10 the eye huge nat
ural amphitheatre OF great variety and
beauty. It's climate is between that of
Washington and Richmond for average
temperature in winter, and about that of
Baltimore in summer, but with this i'm
portant difference that it is less subject to
either extreme than any of these places,
while its atmosphere Is generally drier
and more salubrious.
These ia It's are clearly established. and
they are the foundation of Asheville's pros
perity. She is very proud of her climate
and of her rising Importance She made
strenuous eXertious - obtain the southern
Interstate immigration convention, and it
was conseQ nentlv held here on the nth
18th and 10Th of December The guests
were from every southern state excepting
Missouri, and the citizens fully expected
to show them in winter the perfection of
autumn climate
But a great storm was sweeping over
che country at that time, and Asheville
,eit is effects very considerably, notwith-
standing her sheltered position. She was
much chagrined, and her visitors from the
farther south were fairly Disguised Fine
weather followed, but Christmas was
cloudy, and the next day was worse.
From an upper balcony at the Swan
nanOa hotel | sweep the wide amphitheatre
Of the mouT tains with a field glass. The
great six thousand feet giauts show no
signs of snow. The bottom of the Ashe-
vile basin and the nearer mountains, 5000
feet or more in height, are bare But the
intermediate peaks, $500 to 500 feet in
height, appear to be deeply covered with
snow.
Without being perfect this climate i
good, and | shiver in the sunshine a. re-
member that | intended to spend my Janu-
AIRY in Brooklyn. EDWIN \. CURLEY