The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-03-20
TWO RIDEs-FHEIR CONTRAST.

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Eleven years ago, come June, we
started on an exploration of terra an
cOgnita" from Lawrence TO Fort Scott. |
The route lay through an Indian coun-
try, in which friend, Judge Cunning
ham, had disappeared, reported lost.
That was all we knew of it.
The Office of Lowman and Reynolds
was our point of departure, a span OF
little mules our locomotive, long, mar
row, covered wagon our Pullman's pal
atia1 car. The corn put in our sacks,
for the pilgrimage, was crackers, cheese
and dried beef: game must do the rest.
Reynolds put some sod corn in the
i sack of one of our party, by one of those
exped1ents iii which he is ever fruitful.
!, In that better time of her primitive life,
Lawrence allowed no beer or liquor
sold. Her one little ice cream room
was an oasis to which we could only
come by turns. The one drug store
across the corner from where the Free
State hotel slept in its ashes,- was priv
LEGGED to sell wines on physicians pre-
scriptions only. Reynolds, doctor for
; the first time, felt the pulse of his new
found patient, led him up before the
austere druggist, and, without the twin
kle of an eye or the play Of muscle,
deliberately wrote out a prescription
! for four bottles of blackberry brandy,
and signed s'George a. Reynolds, NJ. d"
The druggist honored the draft of Doc
tor Reynolds. That was Georges frst
; if not his last practice
Then we got into the little wagon, six
of rs, and shook hands "good-byes' TO
the new friends-old friends, by Wes-
: tern custom, already. Inside, we felt
the tie of old acquaintance, though most
had never met before. How quick We
seemed to know each other through, by
intuition, in those old squatter days /!
It was mid-afternoon, when, leaving
/ tho New England village. we struck
, out our snail's path across that uneN-
: plored and unsettled sea Of June grass
and roses.
The Santa Fe road lay white and
broad across our way-nature's great
highway, west. Caravans of slow cat
: tie and white wagons seemed to stand
against the horizon, rather than trail
themselves along. There was no tree
to sight against and see them move nc
: wayside Eden homes. Those slow prai-
RE schooners were the only trains we
had. The locomotive was yet east, at
Hannibal and Jefferson City, never
dreaming of his grand leap of $50 miles
beyond the Missouri to Coyofe.
The first stake had not been stuck for
Baldwin City. It's prosperous Univer-
sity had yet no place even in the hopes
? OF Its FOUNDERS. The city Of Ottawa
lay too far in the future for the chief OF
the Ottawas to have given it thought
:. :, We reached his home on the reservation
long after dark, and crowded ourselves
: on his hospitality. Hiatt and his sred
Z shirts" were there, on their way from
making Arny's :'Hiatt" the railroad
u center of the State. s.Toy Jones' wa
: king of the reservation. Far on, For
e Scott was an abandoned post. w.
l. might buy if we liked. We "liked.
and laid it out.
III We took our other ride the other da,
d our first over the Leavenw orth, Law
ct renee and Galveston Railroad. How
5iuCC lIiCn1 CTepDl1Is
q up the Missouri river and the Kaw, hac
20 meantime poured stream Of wealth
10 into the burnt city of Lawrence, in
ID creasing her property million of dol
2 lars in a. year. Sturges, Henning ant
is Vliet had been at work with their face
mr. to the Gulf The locomotive, feelin
II his way on temporary bridge acros
al the Kaw, then over a track laid b
k moonlight as well as by day, had reach
er ed Ottawa, twenty five miles Gulf-wari
Sc We found the Lawrence of old days
ch city of 5000; the Eldridge House aboy
NJ the ashes of the old hotel; great brids
to in place of a ferry-boat, spanning Il
of Kaw; mills and factories hummiI
r. their song of labor and thrift; the gial
his windmill on the hill thrashing its hus
en- arms against the sky; three daily p
d. pers discoursing English one Germa
iaI press. This is the Lawrence of our +
FL cent visit.
to Along the railroad as it hurIies sout
to farms, gardens, cottages and trees, hay
IS been charmed into being. Coal Cree
ed Nursery is a broad patch of beauty
ad Baldwin City is a home of learnin
ny Order and culture are its grace and o
,ss nament. Prof. Rice and his assistan
So and one hundred students are livir
ire witnesses along that iron path of pr
nat gress that .'the world docs move" VI
at, win remember their kindness for "aye
ca Then the iron horse brought US
Tas Ottawa. The bridge and college groun
IS. appear elsewhere. Visit very brief
t very pleasant. The great town burs
I'd ing its bonds and swelling to the pr
ter. portions of a city, surprised and gla
to dened US. The new hotel, in the han
he of Lndington, was not open yet.
an doors were wide ajar to us, howeyi
nay and we came away from its refreshen
,ro- bed and table, in the early morniI
ing blessing the travellers home, chat,
ted Ottawa parlance, SIS as large as.the
sol bridge House.
to AS Col. Welt swept by US in his {
iere the day previous, in cloud OF dust
nse- smoke, at thirty miles an hour, we
zone fourth Of july rising IN heart .
says eyes, and could but think how strang
: at the ride of 1868 contrasts with that
nm nm 1s57.-Kansos Farmer for 1karch.
sees
-FOUR A manufacturer in New York cit
be filling an order for 100000 thimbies.