The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-05-05
THE RAINY SEASON IN CUBA ,
Said 20 BE the Most Charming OF the
-Epidemics Due to Negligence.

WASHINGTON. April 26.-Mr. VIM. 7.
IIornaGay. chief naturalist OF the Smith
sonian Institution. has spent nearly ten
years in East India, Borqr and Sumaira
jungles collecting rare mails birds. in
sects and serpents foi 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.. Hornaday sald
to-day Because the Spanish army has
lost so heavily many uniformed persons
fear that the country would be as fatal
10 newly arrived Americans as it was
10 green Spaniards. The Spanish troops !
saw were wretchedly fed and clothed, and
absolutely no heed is taken 10 enforce the
most obvious sanitary regulations Ihen
the food, clothing. medicines, everything
the men should have to live upon, is iur-
nished by contractors. who stand IN with
the officers and simply starvc the poor
soldiers into disease and death. The
Spanish women have saying. When
our sons go TO cuba or the PmhpplneS
they never return Many Spanish
mother whose son is coming near the time
when he must do service In the army IS
be lost 10 Spain before her son goes
sway.
After five years Of living in the most
malarial jungles on earth. I'm tho midst
Of miasmatic swamps drinking swamp
water. and often having 10 eat unaccus-
toned and badly cooked food. never mad
but one touch OF jungle fever. and thot
only laid me up six or seven days. owe
nv excellent health to two or three pre-
cautions / never slept on the bare
ground nor in the rain. and always under
shelter. J always wore light hannei next
TO the skin. and never slept In damp
clothes Whatever else I might have 70
DO without. two changes OF flannel un-
derwear besides that l had on. were al
wavs M hand Take from six 20 I'VE
grains OF quinine every morning in a cup
OF hot coffee IL YOU have 10, II not then
I'm hot water. Have your shoes 10 NJ
YOU. even III you must by them yourself
though the United States is furnishing MS
troops with an excellent marching shoe.
with these precautions and dose or
some light laxative twice q week. there
need be no more fear OF fever in Cuna
than there is in Missouri
Mr.. Morrllas, a Cuban born ana toF
some wears an assistant surgeon 10 the
United states Navy. now in the Marine
OaUlf1l 0tIAlif III All' Aiph'''f
day: THE rainy season a. IL Is called
out of Cuba, IS 20 Cuhans the most
charming season Of the year. It begins
generally about the middle u May ana
lasts TO the middle OF September. ~
usually rains I'm the afternoon, and some
times the fall is very heavy and accom-
pnied by such thunder and lightning as
one never knows outside the tropics. II
generally stops al sunset, which is sim
ply unspenkably grand I'm its cloud Of
fects. 1 rarely ever have known IL TO
rain AT night. II is this so-calIed rainy
season that gives life and vigor 10 the
growing vegetation and makes our sugar
and tobacco crops what they are by
eating wall-cooked food and eschewing
| over-indulgence i'm the fruits or the
country. usually so tempting 10 strang'
ers. always sleeping under some sort Of
| shelter and not on the bare ground. the
green Yankee from New Hampshire hills
may laugh at the bOgy OF the rainy
season and the yellow fever. IL Is weu
| for the unacclimated man the first three
/ months of his stay TO take from three 10
six grains of quinine every morning. and
| mild pursative say twice a week. You
may be as wet as POSSIBLE IL You are
on the move. but when YOU stop change
your wet clothes for dry ones. socks and
an. You will never have this foyer ir
You follow these easily remembered
| rules. st. Louis Globe-Damocrat