St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-06
Late Of Minneapolis, Mimi, Gives His
Opinion Of Springfield and
Southwest Missouri
Comparing the Climate Here With That
OF the Misunderstanding
fields Present
Appearance and Its Prospects for the
Future---A City That Is Devel-
oping on Solid
Basis, and Bids Fair to Reach 10e, 900
Souls in Very Short Time---An
Article Based on Truth.

We often hear people talking of
things we know very little about: we
listen, it sounds reasonable and we say
yes, that is so, yet we have no intelli-
gent idea in relation to them. People
bear about the difference in climate be-
tween place in the North and another
in the South, they assent and claim to
know all about it. They do know as
far as being informed upon the subject.
but very few realize it, perhaps none
who have actually seen the difference.
If they will avail themselves of an eX-
cursion soon to be offered by the Chi
cago, Burlington & Southern railroad,
as number of US did OH the eighth of
Mo-, they will see what is more con-
vincing than all the talk they can
hear, should that not be the case
they will be constituted very
differently from most people. To
lis the difference was Wonderfully
apparent. Stepping out of early spring
into what seemed to be midsummer in
a few weeks makes person feel as
though he had been playing Rip Van
Wrinkle on a small scale. When we left
Minneapolis there were no leaves on the
trees and nothing to indicate the an
proach of spring but very short grass.
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long to the North more than the South.
The seeding was not near all completed.
No corn was planted and gardens gener-
ally not made. There was an inch and
half of snow few days before we left.
and nearly every night when it was not
raining or cloudy there was a heavy
frost or freeze. When we arrived here
we found the trees all in leaf
and the leaves nearly full grown,
the time for fruit blossoms past
and the fruit well started. Cher
ries were from two-thirdS to full
size. have seen some since that were
turning red. Apples and pears were
about the size of acorns: peaches as
passed their beauty and were falling to
pieces; roses were in full bloom, also
flowers i'll the yards. Vegetables raised
here were being sold in town and home
raised strawberries are on the table
every day. The day we arrived in town.
May II. a gentleman, +. E. Atwood, took
us out riding. While out, we visited
the National cemetery, where the SOL
dIers who were killed at the battle of
Wilson Creek are buried. While look
ing over the ground and noting the care
that is taken of the graves of the noble
men who lie buried there, and the
lnOnuilenG rdlSeu 10 tnelr memory,
we could not help noticing the
flowers that are so nicely arranged
through the grounds to make them
beautiful; we saw peonies and any num-
Der of other flowers in bloom. On our
way back along the National boulevard
we saw wheat two feet high and appar-
emily just ready to head. These things.
with many other evidences that could be
named, convinced ME that the spring
is at least six weeks earlier than in
Minneapolis. That being the case, win
ter must lie that much later coming on.
Reasoning from cause to effect, if win
ter is that much shorter, it must be pro-
portiOnately milder. To the argument