Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-01-27
THE CLIMATIC CHANGE.

We believe that the few stubborn
scientists wEO have held out that there
has been no change of climate in Kan
sas consequent on the event of the
passage of the kansas-Nebraska bill,
are about ready to throw up the
spongue. So remarks the AtchisOn
Cbamion, and then adds:
When we contrast the old-time WIN
tiers. that first winter, for instance,
| that beguiled us when we came to
Kansas, with its bright days such as
John lanes Ingalls, pescribed in ''Blue
Grass" when we contrast that winter,
we say, with the present season, with
its billiards and low-spirited Their
mometers and detected railroad SUPER
intendents, we cannot deny that the
Kansas climate has suffered great
and awful change.
But we deserved it. We insisted
that Kansas was not a drouthy coun-
try: we whooped and crowed every
time shower fell: until finally show
ers in spring and summer got TO be
an established thing. and somebody
started postOffice out in far west
ern country, hitherto as dry as a
pOwder-horn, and called it Grain Bell"
We did not realize, however, that a
climatic change does not saw of in
six months but continues on through
out the year. More rain in spring
and summer means more snow in VIM
ter, and more snow mesns more cold.
more Billiards, more freeze. more
everything wiutry and Arctic.
With this change of winter climate
there cannot fail to be other changes.
Volumes have been written 10 show
that man is what his climate makes
him. The reasoning is that the climate
regulates the food supply and stimu-
lates or discourages exertion. In a
cold climate, but not too cold, man
must ''rustle" for his food and clothes:
the man of the northern temperate
zone transforms the earth in his strug-
gle to get broadcloth suit for himself
aud a sealskin sacque for his wife. In
the torrid zone man eats bananas.
dresses himself III 4 postage stamp and
is a loafer.
The accession Of the hew kind of
winter will, then, Increase rather Than
diminish Kansas energy. That Oh lie
-tc.,. es.tiv hccp;IIs. IA. v iiiie .HLiiIBS
at large all winter, conrradicted at
this moment by several thousand car
casse. sirewed over the country, will be
told and believed no more, and the
Kansas man will build barns and sheds
for his stock. With the approach of a
temperature that will freeze the teeth
oil Of Il hay rake, the Kansas farmer
viii cease TO leave his agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS out all winter: and he will
also bank MS house, erect storm doors
and put III double windows. and in
summer weather prepare fer frost.
The new frost-bound Kansas will no
doubt be the future home of the ever
lasting Yankee. who is disappearing
in his own native region. The Cham
pion learned from gentleman who
recently spent some weeks in Ver-
mont, that during his stay bu. one
baby of New England parentage was
born within radius of eight miles.
The Yankee has set up his household
goods elsewhere, or he is looking for
a location. Kansas viii be his chosen
seat, and here he will come and intro
duce bob-sleds, ''ring wrestles" and |
factories for manufacturing wooden !
ware. In time a genuine New Eng
land deacon may ornament some Kan |
ras church, last and most remarkable |
climate change but one: the Kansas
boy, now one of the most leisurely be- |
lngs, when engaged in industrial pur-
suits, admonishcd by the frost, will
learn, in Yankee parlance, to ''be
spry" and Fly round" With all
these New England Improvements, if
they are not accompanied by hard
cider, a New England beverage re-
for producing breath of
great potehcy and power, and drunk
that rivals eternity in duration, Kan
'as will be gamer by the climate
change.