Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-03-21

amount Of work and skill and hoping only
Tor advantage in a more delightful climate,
IN more perfect health aud in the ability
to do more work
That this Is true in the south generally.
as well as in places that have come under
my direct observation, is a not unnatural
inference from certain action of the con.
ventlon which looked more to special in
Ierests than the general advantage.
such as they are, the remaining public
ianos IN the harvest belong to the American
people, and under proper regulations for
occupancy and use they should be made as
accessible to the people of every state as the
circumstances permit. But the competi-
ton Of this poor remnant of public lands
troubled the convention, and it passed
resolutions looking to concerted action by
all southern legislatures and by all south
ern representatives and senator's in con
gress for national legislation which should
withdraw all such lands from sale or occu-
pancy till the unoccupled lands in the
older states are disposed of.
These lands in the older states are In
private hands, and the resolutions simply
mean that their owners are either unable
or unwilling to sell them to immigrants
in competition with the remainder of the
public lands Of the far west. This, on the
one hand, is practical admission that
southern lands offer no great inducement
to the agricultural settler, while, on the
other, the cheapness of labor is one of the
chief reasons alleged for northern invest
ments in southern mineral lands, manu-
factories and town sites.
The delegates were generally armed and
pnIIIpnpH Wit h documents g., l. .
advantages of their respective localities.
supplied myself with these and looked
them over with care The most striking
of all is an illustrated pamphlet setting
forth the advantages of distant health
resort, where the death rate among the
residents, as stated, is G. II per 900 per year
that is, the average expectation of life is
134 years, months, 81 days
have had some experience with colored
walters. If those twenty-five or thirty
years old are slow enough both for appe-
tite and digestion how may good digestion
wait on appetite" if both have to wait for
a middle aged waiter whose years number
1874, 6 months q days2 How could Succi
himself abide an old waiter of twice the
average years.
This was by no means reassuring, but
was a death rate among visitors OF 1.32 per
1000. That is to say, if a reprobate of 50
years, broken down by his vices, visits this
strange resort, the chances are even that he
won't die for 75.7 years,6 months "a days.
This being the average, is it better or
worse than the days of "Mathusalem"
am afraid it is worse Among these play.
full middle aged visitors of some 800 years
apiece, or among the residents or both, one
died last year Of endocOlita, one of hBmo-
philia, one OF emphysemia one Of cere-
BIRTHS, three Of meningitis, one Of cystitis,
one Of myelitis and one of endarteritis,
four Of gunshotItis, one Of plain murder,
and many Of other diseases equally fatal.
The advantages of that place forcibly re-
mind me of those claimed for another
with which it may have some underground
connection, where the guests, freely ad
mitted and warmly welcomed receive the
most constant attention, and where they
are warranted TO live forever | shall give
no more of these interesting particulars
until have made "A personal inspection OF
this health resort, and certainly shall not
visit il till | have received a full descrip
ton of the accommodations provided for
me, with n menu accompanied by time
table for each course and free return pass
all in duplicate, properly authenticated
and with an adequate bond to be enforced
by my attorney for the benefit of my heirs
providing it is found that nulla vestigid
retrorsum. EDWIN A CUgLEY.