The Press., 1893-06-08

GuQ0, must present every pOSSlDl0 NhIl01Js The rainfall graduates itself with some- thing of mathematical regularity from the parching skies of the north to the drench- ing clouds of the south of Chile.
 In a communication from Dr. Emilio Echeverria, of New York city, who is 8 native of Costa Rica, answers that with in the last 30 years tuberculosis has in- creased to great extent in Costa Rica, formerly only few and well known fam lilies being subject to it, thinks it's in- creased frequency may arise from inter- marriage with tubercular families; but the fact is that phthisis is by no means an uncommon disease at the present time in that part of this continent.
 The following is an abstract from the bureau of meteorology relating to 1888 in San Jose, the capitol of the Republic ssThe average temperature in thesopen air was 66o, the minimum being 500, while the maximum was S6o. The relative hu- midity was represented 82 per cent. on an average"
 The principal towns are upon the coast with a high relative humidity, and hardly width of 100 miles from ocean to ocean; the country is mountainous; the temper ature becomes mild and salubrious in proportion to the elevation, with a proba- ble immunity from the disease up in the | interior. They have, though he does not so state, evidently the same meteorolog- ical conditions that obtain upon the Pe- ruvian coast borders, with the difference l that Peru on the east has the width of the continent with it's varying mountain alti- tudes more remote from the sea coast. Juan N. Navarro, who is familiar with the climate of Mexico, writes me in reply to inquiry on that subject, "that tuber .1.., on the gulf coast of Mexico. but very lit- | tie in the interior on the table lands, where the temperature is very even and cool. A long experience has proved to me that persons affected with tuberculosis in m incipient state not only proleng their lives but recover on removal from l the sea coast to the table lands or to the city of Mexico"
 MT. John Hu1st, secretary of legation to Haiti, writes me that pulmonary dis eases exist in Haiti, but not as preva- | lent disease. He explains that this is due largely to climatic influence, our tenn perature ranging from 60 to roo in the winter months, and from 80 to 91 in the summer months; that it is due also to general life in that country, which is prac- tfcally an outdoor life like birds, we live | in the air; our houses are built so as to l dIIOfu lulJ buu COutIuudJ dCIuOSpueFlC ClT- culation." This island is is in 900, north latitude, remarkable for it's summer eli 1 mate and it's black unsettled government. | Hon. J. Mott Smith, of the Hawaiian legation at Washington, in reply to my | inquiries in regard to the prevalence of | this disease in the Sandwich Islands, writes me that ''there are no cases of tuberculosis in the islands, except such as strangers bring with them. That for con- sumption or cases of bronchitis no place | in the world is more favorable for inn provement or recovery than the islands. " The climate of Hawaii is that of endless spring or early summer; it is never hot in the shade, and is rarely chilly. There is so little humidity that, as a rule, it is never sweltering. There is perhaps no other land on earth so sweetly equally temperate. The mercury monotonously creeps up and down an almost unvarying range of 55o in winter and 700 in summer for the early. mornings to a maximum of 75o in winter and S5o for the afternoon heat. There is no sudden change. Cold waves and hot waves are things unknown. l The atmosphere of the island is phenom- enally clear. These islands are 2,1OO miles from San Francisco, 2OQ n. lat, and | situated within the tropics, and said to have a climate temperate rather than tropical. That in native language there is no word to express the idea of weather. because there exists no extreme of heat or cold. The climatic conditions ot these islands, 50 favorable to the arrest o1
 tubercular diseases. are beyond our reach,
 but they illustrate the fact that equability
 of temperature and moisture are not con-
 patible with it's development.
 Mark Twain once said of the Hawaiian Islands: "No alien land in all the world
 has any deep, strong charm for me but that one. No other land could so long, ingly and beseechingly haunt me, sleep
 ing and waking, through half life time, as that has done. Other things leave me,
 but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me it's balmy airs
 are always blowing, it's summer seas fash
 ing in the sun the pulsing of it's surf-beat
 is in my ear; I can see it's garlanded crags, it's leaping cascades, it's plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud-rocks.
 1 can feel the spirit of it's woodland soli- tude."
 With modesty and magnanimity nev- CT before shown by 8 great nation the United States now hesitate to adopt these
 islands as their own, the pleading of the
 Hawaiin princess as poor weak girl beg ging for her kingdom has had it's effect, yet one protest from other governments
 and these islands are ours. With the
 opening of the Nicarauga canal the islands
 as a health resort and residence for
 Americans, may become better known.