The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-04-18

nerves or over-taxed brains. or upon
any kind OF physical prostration the
tendency of which is progressive en-
feeblement. Longevity is another at
tractive tendency of this climate, where
the average duration Of human life is
from ten to fifteen per cent higher than
in nineteen -twentiethS OF the balance
of the world
The death rate. I am informed by the
president of the board of health, is only
about eight To the 1,C0o in the county
The formers here pIow so shallow their
lands dry out early. If they viii take
the advice OF one who was raised on a
farm in Kentucky and piow twelve or
fifteen inches deep-as many of them
have been doing-they win till less
acreage and get a much larger yield
with less complaint of drouth. AS this
favored land produces nearly every
thing that human life can desire l
would say TO the devoteeS of industry.
frUgaiity, intelligence, temperance and
progress, if they would dwell in a eli
mate where bat little snow is ever seen,
where the winters are mild and pleas
ant, where the summers are recuDerd-
tive and serene. where lawns are green
and ffowerse bloom nine months in the
year, where centipedes tarantulas and
guilia monsters never come. where yel-
low fever and cholera are unknown,
they should come TO this fair and ia
vored land. where fifteen per cent is
added TO the average length of hu-
man life by the climatic conditions,
where a small amount Of capital judi
ciousiy invested will place them above
want and the necessity of severe daily
toll. Yes, come to this land where the
climatic and material resources are
prophetic of a future filled with the
chiefest blessing which can by any pos
Sibility come TO the human life.
Situated in the beautiful valley of the
historic Arkansas river, and overlap
ing both prOngs, is the beautiful city
Wichita, covering an area of about four
mics square with a slope TO the south
Of three feet to the mile. furnished with
a complete system of water works,
electric street cars and lights, the steets
paved with asphalt and swept daily
and sprinkled frequently. This city
the county seat of Sedgwfck county
is noted far and wide for its proficient
schools and accomplished teachers. \
large number of church edifices pro-
claim to the world that here is a Christ
ian people who are alive to the spirit
ual interests as we'll as the physical.
In harmonw with the eternal fitness
of things" lovers of dissipation are at
tracted to Baden Baden-scholars and
statesmen visit Wichita. This locality
is not only rich in the vaStneSS of her
coal, oil and gas deposits, but rich in
climat tic conditions and in the energy
Of her capitalists and merchants and
in the general intelligence and hospit-
ality of her citizens.
Why all these evidences of civiliZa-
tiOn on the border land of the once
great american DESERT" which is ig-
norantly supposed by many in the far
east to have but few of the advantages
of advanced civilizat ton? Why is il
q of ,,annla fhnr1Dh ya-
Gently comparatively poor, have beer
enabled to scale the walls of fortune
and have grim adversely lying at their
feet? Why in the city of Wichita and
vicinity are the children healthy, fat
and happy; the men genial, hale and
hearty; the women friendly. fair and
social? All of the above evidences of
zeal, activity and industry, and COM
mendable intelligence of her citizens.
But the great sustaining fountain of
this admirable condition of health,
prosperity and progress lies buried in
the generative and formative bosom of
Mother Earth"
OF course al parts OF the earth are
favored more or less with these subtle,
life-supporting elements, but one part
is more favored than another; hence
one part of he earths surface is better
adapted to produce intellectually. NOR
alty and spirituality than another, this
being undoubtedly true in reference to
the six grand divisions of the globe
After several years of careful obServa-
tons, study and compilation of facts.
we opine that it is a great truth, and
one of the essential principles which
should be embodied in the study of the
science of life
When this principle is better under |
stood mankind viii build their colleges, (
asylums and state build (
ngs in localities possessing the native, /
natural elemental and recuperative /
powers in abundance; for under their /
sXhiirating energiZing influence, insan /
ty diminishes, invalids recover, and |
students and statesmen are intensi- /
fed to greater and more comprehensive |
and profound scholarly accomplish /
nents. The city of Wichita and the /
county of Sedgwick, as we have found, |
is geogra phically inter-eelctro-chem- /
cally and climatically blessed. Wich- |
ia, the queen of the prairie pays tTib- /
lte to and gives evidence Of the exist /
nee of these conditions. by her lawns. /
flowers comfortable homes, palatial |
'esidences. wealth, hospitality and |
progress: hence her present embodies
much that is desira ble. admirable.
Ter future possibilities are great, aye,
nbounded.