Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — The Virtue in a Texas Norther. [ARTICLE]

The Virtue in a Texas Norther.

The fact that the climate of Texas is pure, temperate and remarkably salubrious is generally understood, but littl% is known by the generality of readers of the important bearings which the Texas northers exercise in the development of organized existence. We find the cause of these winter visitors, which have given Texas a climate sui generis, in the absence of mountains or forests on a line due north between the coast of Western Texas and the Arctic regions, the consequence of which is that the uninterrupted polar currents of air southward take their course, proceeding with a velocity gradually accelerated by a more rarified atmosphere, until, with the rising temperature, an equilibrium becomes established in the tropics. The great value of the northers consists in the recuperation under their influences of the vital forces, which, in similar latitudes, are seriously weakened by the enervating effects of an eternal summer. Close observation of the . phenomena of nutritive growth, shows that a sensibly cold season is a necessary condition of active life, and this theory is supported by the facts that lazzaroni aro indigenous to tropical countries, and that vegetable life in such countries suffer for a period of rest. These drawbacks are prevented in Texas by the northers, which in other ways prove an important factor in relation to the wants and labors of man, making the State a separate province sot a higher order of animal and vegetable distribution. Texas Siftings.