[SUNSET FALLS AND MOUNT INDEX, 40 MILES EAST OF EVERETT.]

The normal annual precipitation during a 36 year period, according to the government statistics, was for Seattle, 36.6 inches; Spokane, 18.8 inches; Walla Walla, 17.7 inches; Chicago, 33.3 inches; New York, 44.6 inches; Jacksonville, 53.2 inches; Kansas City, 37.4 inches; Boston, 43.3 inches; Los Angeles, 15.6 inches; and San Francisco, 22.3 inches.

MONTHLY AND SUMMER RAINFALL OF U. S. CITIES.

June July Aug. Sep. Sum'r
Puget Sound District 1.590.670.742.015.01
Seattle1.410.610.461.984.46
Tacoma1.970.690.662.795.91
Spokane1.610.670.481.013.8
Walla Walla1.20.40.40.92.9
Chicago3.523.623.023.0613.22
New York City3.414.084.383.4415.31
Boston3.143.514.153.4414.24
Washington, D. C.3.744.344.983.2516.31
Philadelphia3.274.144.693.3617.46

The same forces that affect the temperature and precipitation also offer protection against the extraordinary meteorological occurrences that so often terrorize the people in more exposed regions. "The Weather Bureau has no authentic record of a real tornado anywhere in the state of Washington" says G. N. Salisbury, Washington Section Director of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Violent thunderstorms are in most parts unknown. Loss of life never occurs from any of these causes. The atmosphere is always pure and salubrious and the death rate is lowest of all states in the Union, while its two largest cities have the lowest death rate of all cities in the United States, having a population of 100,000 or over.

After all has been said it were best to come and see. Spend a season where no dreary winters will engender melancholy while waiting for a lingering spring, and where no sizzling heat will threaten prostration. Come to a state that is as free as possible from the ills of unfriendly phenomena, and where one beautiful day passes into the next as a pleasant dream shades into the sweetest realities of life.

[YACHTING ON PUGET SOUND.]