Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-06-14
the RAINY SEASON IN CUBA.
SAID 10 BIZ THE MOST CHARMING OF
THE YEAR.-KPIDENICs DUE TO
NEGLIGENCE.

Mr.. william +. Hornaday, chief natu-
ralist Of the Smithsonian Institution,
has spent nearly ten years 10 East India,
Borneo and Sumatra jungles collecting
rare animals, birds, insects and eerpents
for the Smithsonian. He 10 the only
white man who ever lived among the
bead hunters Of Borneo.
"All this talk Of danger 10 Cuba OF the
rainy season, yellow fever, etc., Ii great
" exaggerated" Mr.. Hornaday said to-
day. sBecause the Spanish army has lost
90 heavily many uniformed persons fear
that the country would be ~ fatal to
newly arrived Americans - II was TO
green Spauiards. The Spanish troops
saw were wretchedly fed and clothed,
aud absolutely no heed Il taken TO enforce
the most obvious sanitary regulations.
Then the food, clothing, medicines, every
thing the men should have to live upon,
10 furnished BY contractors, who stand
Ia with the officers, and simply starve
the poor soldiers into disease and death.
The Spanish women have q saying,
"Whcn our sons 20 to Cuba or the Phil
ippines they never return" Many n
Spanish mother whose son is coming
near the time when he must do service
10 the army, Is praying that Cuba and
Porto Rico may be lost to Spain before
her son goes away.
"After i've years OF living In the most
mslxrisl jungles on earth, In the midst
of miasmstic swamps, drinking swamp
water, and often having 10 eat unsccus-
toned and badly cooked food, l never
had but one touch OF jungle fever, and
that only laid me up six or seven days. |
owe INV excellent health to two or three
precautions. I never slept on the bare
ground nor In the rain, and slways un-
der shelter. l always wore light h,nnels
next to the skin, and l never slept In
damp clothes. Whatever else | might
have to do without, two chsnges of ftn-
mel underwear besides that | had on
were always at hand. Take from five to
.ix grains OF quinine every morning In
cup OF hot coffee IL you have IL, II not
then In hot water. Have your shoes 1T
you, even u you must buy them your
self. though the United States Is furnish
ing It's troops with an excellent march
ing shoe. With these precautions and a
dose of some light laxative twice week
there need be no more fear OF fever In
Cuba than there Is In Missouri"
Mr.. Morrillas, a Cuban born, and for
some years an assistant surgeon In the
United States navy, now 10 the marine
hospital service In the tropics, said to-
day: "The rainy season, ne II IL called
out OF Cuba, Is to Cubans the most charm
Ing season Of the year. IL begins geneT-
ally about the middle Of May and lasts
to the middle Of September. IL usually
rains In the afternoon, aud sometimes the
TALL Il very heavy and accompanied by
such thunder and lightning as one never
knows outside the tropics. IL generally
stops Mt sunset, which IL simply unspeak-
ably grand In Its cloud effects. rarely
ever have known TO rain nj night. IL
Ia this so He'd rainy selson that gives
life and vigor TO the growing vegetation
and makes our sugar and tobacco crops
what they are. BY eating well cooked
food and eschewing over-indulgence In
the fruits OF the country, usually 90
tempting TO strangers, always sleeping
under some sort Of shelter and not on
the bare ground, the green Yankee from
New Hampshire hills may laugh Mt the
bogy Of the rainy season and the yellow
fever. Il IL well for the unscclimated
man the first three months OF his stay "a
take from three TO six grains OF quinine
every morning and mild pursative,
say twice a week. You may be as wet
"a possible II you are on the move, but
when you stop change your wet clothes
for dry ones socks and all. You will
never have this fever II you follow these
easily remembered rules. st. Louis
Globe-DemOcrat.