The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-12
MORE ABOUT CUBA'S
PRODUCTIVE SOIL.
The Climate Varies Very Little the Year Round Nnetywo Degree
Being the Hottest in Two Years and Sixty Above the
Coolest During Same Period.

"There Is tide in the affairs Of men
which taken at the food leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage Of their life
IL bound in shadows and in Iniseriea.
On such full sea are we now afoati
We must take the current when II serves,
Or lose our ventures"
If this was true. when written by
Shakespeare three hundred years ago,
is it any less true and applicable today?
The current serves, at this very mo-
ment. Cuba, Gem of the Antilles, /"
the fairest land under the sun, is open
and invites the capitalist, the farmer,
manufacturer, stockman, and all others,
willing to work, to come and develope
her magnificent resources OF forest,
field, mine, and stream, resources that
can not be excelled nor duplicated in
any other country on earth.
At the beginning Of 1898 very few
OF the inhabitants Of the United States
had any idea of the countries to the
southwark of their shores. and what
they had, were very perverted and In
correct ones.
The prevailing idea of Cuba was
that It was land covered with large
and deep swamps and other malaria
breading places, fit only for the home
Of the alligator, frog, pelican, and
fiy-up-the-creek, instead of civilized
human beings. It was the prevailing
opinion in the world, outside OF Cuba
that man going there, had to die in
side of the first twelve months OF resi-
dence, nine times out of ten, with vel
low jack, or some kindred disease
The experience Of the past two years
has changed the opinions, and it is 8
known fact that the death rate is lower
demonstrated by statistics, than in the
healthiest portions of the United States
even it the city Of Havana, with III
yellow fever, it can show a better rec
| ord than New York, or any OF thu
cities of the Southern states.
The climate is only few degrees
| of, from even summer and wintel
alike. It is not subject to the changes
that in very few hours sends thu
mercury whizzing down to forty-fv'
degrees below zero in the northern
states, freezes the oranges and vegeta
bles hundred miles south of the fros
lime in Florida in winter; and in sum
mer goes to one hundred and five abov
| in New York and one hundred and tel
| In the shade ia the Dakotas and othe
states of the northwest.
Ninety-two degrees above has bee
the hottest summer day in Cuba in tn
past two years, and 90 above has bee
the coolest winter day in the sam
period. These figures are of Havan
Fprovince and the city of Havana.
1.-THE whiriigig Of time" the cul
rent Of events, the results Of the Spar
Iish- American war, have opened to th
American people a country on tn
mainland and the island to the south
them, that bids fair to be the "storl
CENTER OF the greatest industrial az
tivities that have been witnessed
| the past hundred years: conques
but of peace. The man with the gu
will be replaced by ''the man with tn
hoe and in very few years the POI
ulation will be millions, where it
represented by thousands now.
1t is not necessary to go into a lon
series of ''preambles and resolutions
to tell what Cuba is, for too many hay
seen and written about it in the pa
two years to make it necessary. Som
man has said Of some country that b
was describing that the gods were
| good humor when they made it. The
were certainly in rollicking mood whe
they made Cuba, judging from tn
standpoint Of climate, soil, healtl
products and other conditions.
The writer spent several years
the real estate business, in the fiji
hills Of South Missouri, where he ha
to show a customer over 1000 acres
bad, rough and rocky land to show hi
40 acres Of good. On his return fro
one of these trips he registered a 50
emn oath in his lambs book" that
he ever found a country where !
could reverse the existing order /