The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-10-19

Sooner or Later All Wander
ers Will ERelurn.

Sooner or Later All Wander
ers Will Return.
Albert D. Keller and family, of
Iowa, have returned to Holton,
with the, intention of taking up q
permanent residence in our midst.
AL. has travelled over Iowa and ILL
inOis, and has come to the cOnclu-
sion that Kansas beats them ALL
Holton Recorder.
This is the way it is happening
every day. The Champion .recor-
ded, yesterday, the return of Mr..
Connolly, Q citizen of this county,
who left here three years ago, and
tried Indiana. He came back per-
fectly satisfied that Kansas is the
best State in the Unisn. We read,
in every Kansas paper we receive,
Just such accounts as that copied
above from the Recorder.
There is something wonderfully
attractive in Kansas. It facinates
every one who has eyer lived in the
State. The development of q new
Commonwealth is, perhaps, always
an interesting spectacle, and men
and women identified with It are
always charmed with the breezy
freshness and stirring activities that
attend such 9 growth. But Kansas
has ever possessed peculiar charm.
Her romantic and stirring history
has made her prominent figure for
nearly g quarter of q century. The
exciting scenes attending her earli-
men and women whose courage, in
telligence, energy, and devotion to
principle was of the highest order.
In the people who settled Kansas
was much of that sturdy independ-
ence and superb manhood which
characterized the Pilgrims Of the
Mayhower. And the country suit
ed such men and women. They
have been coming ever since. Like
attracts like. The very atmosphere
of Kansas is full of invigorating
healthfulness. The charm of her
landscape will never fade from the
recollection of one who has looked
upon il, or cease to be . thing of
beauty to those who live and work
surrounded by lite loneliness.
Possibly ali this goes to explain
the daring and dash OF Kansas. and
the signal triumphs the State mas
won in war and in peace. Kansas
sent more soldiers, in proportion to
population, than any other State in
the Union, and lost the largest per-
centage in killed and wounded.
Kansas carried off the gold medals
for the finest genealogical displays
during a number of years. Kansas
surpassed all other States in the
magnificent display she made ct
Philadelphia. In ten years Kansas
0utetripped three-fourths of the
states of the Union in the miles of
railway within her borders. Kan
sas has trlumphed over drouth, In.
dian raids and grasshOpper inva-
sions, and is to-day the most pros
porous State in the Union. She has,
for every inhabitant, more bushels
of wheat, rye, corn, barley, oats and
other cereals, more horses, cattle,
and swine, more fruit, more school
houses, more churches, and more
substantial wealth, than any other
State in the Union. Kansas is
growing and developing in popula-
ton, in manufacturing industries,
| In agricultural productions, in stock,
in railroad mileage, in forest area,
| in the number and substantial char
acter of her school houses, church
es, residences and business houses,
more rapidly than any other State
in the Union.
And through all this wonderful
growth, this unprecedented devel-
| opment, this rapid aggregation of
| population, wealth and productions,
there is a wholesome. exhilarating
State pride that will never let Kan
sas lag in the rear. All Kansans
are proud of Kansas, and hopeful
of her, and confident that there il
before her . future more glorious
than her past and more prosperous
than her present. Wherever one
who has been q citizen of this
| splendid young State may wander,
he always feels an interest and Q
| pride in Kansas. The State grows
into the heart of every true man or
woman who has ever lived within
its borders, and becomes dear to
them forever. Its charming land
ton, it's vast fields Of grain, lite en-
terprising cities and Pleasant towns,
its lovely valleys and gentle SWELL
/ ID 0lIIeBIu6eS 9uO IIb ioTS0"noSrLouS
energetic, intelligent people-all
these combine to make . residence
in Kansas an epoch in any ones
life, and, should he wander away,
make him long to return.
Temporary discomfort or disap-
pointment sends men away at times,
but they soon discover that Kansas
Is, after ali, the best So they feed
among the husks awhile, and come
back, reioiced to see Kansas again,
and resolved never to leave it. This
is the almost universal history Of our
wanderers.-Atchison Champion.