Show wo tiit valne avalne tf cf aure mr W J hammond engineer and general manager of the western sao paulo railway company brazil bears pleasant witness to the virtues of coffee and strongly denounces the we use of adul tenants te rants many people will be able to indorse his high opinion of the value of strong pure black coffee as a stimulant when the body is run down through physical labor but his assertion that beyond this stimulating power coffee has bas great dis infecting properties and is used by many who have to travel through miasmatic districts as a preventive against fevers will be new to many ho he states that the rev father kene lam vaughan who but a few years back mado made a journey by land from panama I 1 down to the river plate passing in and among and over the andes during a space ahrea years used coffee alone as I 1 a atiat hh bs had once to run tho the ga 06 through a long kocg rock hound bound valley i m Colom colombia bilt in which the water I 1 remained remain stagnant year after year and the tha narrowness of the gorge prevented sufficient sunlight and heat from entering to dispel the vapors when asked what retook betook ha took in this boi horrible place called by the natives by the significant name of vall valley T of f D death ath he replied why coffeo coffee of I 1 course the same rame gentleman also reli reports gria that since the die natives in the pestilential districts near guayaquil ayaquil Gu in ecuador W have substituted coffee tor for their former beverages bevel ages the death rate has fallen T very ry considerably home knowledge |