Evening journal., 1898-05-13
THE RAINY SEASON IN CUBA.

William T. Hornaday, chief natural !
list Of the Smithsonian Institution, has
spent nearly ten years In East India,
Borneo, and Sumatra jung.es collecting
rare animals, birds, insects and SER
penis for the Smithsonian. He is the
only white man who ever lived among
the head hunters OF BorneO.
"All this talk of the danger in Cuba
OF the rainy season, yellow fever etc.
is greatly exaggerated" Mr.. Ilornaday
said to-day. Because the Spanish army
has lost so heavily, many uninformed
persons fear that the country would
be as fatal to newly arrived Americans
as it was to green Spaniards The
Spanish troops ! saw were wreched-y
FED and clothed, and absolutely no heed
Is taken to enforce the most obvious
sanitary regulations. Then the food,
clothing medicines everything the
men should have to live upon, is fur
nished by contractors, who stand in
with the officers and simply starve the
poor soldiers into disease and death.
The Spanish women have a saying,
when cur SONS go to Cuba or the
Philippines they never return Many
a Spanish mother whose son is COM
ing near the time when he must do
service in the army is praying that
Cuba and Porto Rico may be lost to
Spain before her son goes away.
after five years of living in the
most malarial jungles on earth, in the
midst Of Nlasmat.c swamps, drinking
swamp water, and often having to eat
unaccustomed and badly cooked food,
! never had hut ONE touch of jungle
fever, and that only laid me uD six or
seven days. | owe my excellent health
to two or Thrice precautions. / never
slept on the bare ground nor in the
RAIN. and always under shelter. / a
ways wore light flannels next to the
| skin. and never slept in damp clothes
Whatever else 1 might have to do with
out. two changes Of flannel underwear
| besides that l had on, were always at
hand. Take from six to five grains Of
/ quinine every morning in cup cf " Z
coffee IL you have it; if not, tho..
| hot water. Have your shoes to fit you
| even if You must buy thsm yourself,
| though the United States is furnishing
! it's troops with an excellent marching
| shoe. With these precautions and o
dose OF some light laxative twice a
| week, there need be no more fear Of
| fever in Cuba than there is in Ms
souri,"
Mr.. Morrillas. a Cuban born, and
for some years an assistant surgeon In
the United States Navy. now in the
marine hospital service in the tropics
said to-day: THE rainy season, as il
is called out of Cuba, is to Cubans the
mcst charming season Of the year II
begins generally about the middle Oi
May and lasts to the middle OF Sep
tember. 1t usually rains in the after
noon. and sometimes the fan is very
heavy and accompanied by such thun-
der and lightning as one newer know.
| outside the tropics 1t generally stop'
att sunset, which is simply unspeak-
ably grand in it's cloud effects. l rarel J
ever have known it to rain at night
It is this sO-called rainy season THAI
giVes life and vigOr TO the growing
vegetation and makes our sugar anC
tobacco crops what they are. BY eat
ing well-coOl1ed food and eschewing
over-indulgence in the fruits Of tn.
country, usually 50 tempting to strang
, ors. always sleeping under some sJr
Of shelter and not on the bare ground
the green Yankee from New Hamp
, shire hills may laugh at the bogy OF tn
rainy season and the yellow fever.
is we'll for the unacclimated man tn
| first three months Of his stay to talk
: from three tOsix grains OF quiTine ever
morning and a mild purgative say twic
a week. You may be as wet as posi-
, | bic II you are on the move but whe
4 | you stop change your wet clothes 10
dry ones, socks and all. You will neve
. | have this fever ifyOu follow these easi.
remembered rules st. Louis Globs
q | Democrat.