LETTERS FROM FLORIDA.


ers-or wherever a new railroad is


being built, or a


public


park


the first


stages


construction


excavation-even


up among


the frosts and snows of


White Mountains ?


currency throughout our


These afflictions, of 'daily oc-
country, are not supposed to


be sufficient to deter people from settling North, East,


or West, any more than


the record


of fearful crimes


constantly


committed


in all


large


cities,


or the re-


preaches, insinuations,


temper,


violence,


common with both parties in times of political excite-
ment, scare people from seeking a home in our cities.
 But if Florida, or the South generally, catches the


echo of political recr
the same unchristian


elimination, and


tone, that


answers


"is awful


back in


wicked


Yes, it is wicked, North or


South.


But we have not


seen or heard.half as much here of political or climatic
malaria as is transpiring weekly at the North. The
Ibause or remedy of the first it is not our business to give,
but there are a few.things to be said of the latter.


Those


who


careless


about


unprotected


exposure


the early morning air before eating, or


before the sun is fully up, almost anywhere, and espe-


cially where


find a


many of


fever of


there are river fogs,


some


kind


close


the present generation in our


I be likely to
I don't think
cities will suf-


fer much from any exposure before sunrise.


But our


new settlers can not allow the sun to find them napping.
If a cup of hot tea or coffee, or a little bread and but-


ter, is taken before going out, then we


fear of


should feel no


any harm from the morning air anywhere.


Careless exposure to night air-tempted by a beau-