MATIARIAT FEVERS.


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beyond Chicago, I
near Smyrna, on t
and son had been
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there some
e house thi
little ones.


was going some-
River. Her hus-
months, clearing
at was soon to re-
She talked as if


she was well posted in all the hardships and many in-
conveniences she would probably encounter. A slight,
pale woman, but in nowise disheartened after the
storm and seasickness were over. Her husband had
wisely kept her thoroughly informed of all he had ex-
perienced, and what she might expect, and his descrip-
tion of the country and climate disarmed the new life
of all terrors.
 These are the right kind of men and women to
make Florida all she can and should be.
 But what about the sickly summers, the malarial
fevers ? Is there nothing to be feared from this
source ? "
 Certainly. Where will you find a spot in which
one can not conjure up all sorts of terrors, if he pre-
fers to live in perpetual fear of what may happen?
There is almost as much to feed such weakness as
may be found in any country. But why not inquire
about the chills," congestive, typhoid, and the other
varieties of fever-of the acute diseases, pleurisy,
pneumonia, diphtheria, and a multitude of ailments,
seldom if ever known in Florida, but of daily occur-
rence in New York and Brooklyn-all along the banks
of the lovely Hudson and Connecticut, and other riv-