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Show BY PATH AND TKAIL. 207 wondrously colored little lizard, called by the Mexicans " chiquita," coquetted with the magazines on the table. The patients who are here taking the " air" treatment rarely enter the city. Every morning, from 6 to 12, butchers, milkmen, grocery boys and Chinese vegetable hawkers make the rounds of the camp and isolated tents. They are all here, the rich, the middling rich and the comparatively poor putting up a brave fight against an insidious, treacherous foe " not so well to- day, but to morrow, to- morrow, we'll be better" always nursing tEe consumptive's longing and cherishing the " hope that spring's eternal in the human breast." " What's the per centage of the cured?" I do not know, I may only say that if pure, dry air can accomplish anything for dis eased lungs, you have it here day and night abundantly. Neither Spain, Italy or Southern France may compare with Southern Arizona in dryness and balminess of cli mate, and I write with the knowledge of one who is fa miliar with the climates of these countries. I know not any place on earth better for pulmonary and nervous diseases than the desert lands around Tucson from No vember to April. Bear in mind I am not recommending any man or woman to come here in the final stages of disease nor any one whose purse is not large, deep and well filled, for druggists' and doctors' bills, groceries and incidentals are " away up" and almost out of sight. The winter nights here are cool and bracing, and the early mornings sharp when a gasoline or oil stove is a most convenient piece of furniture. But from 8 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon every day in winter is a delight and the air an atmospheric dream. The sum mers are hot, " confoundedly ' ot," to use a Wellerism, when the heat will at times run the mercury up to 120 |