The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-06-27
HOME AGAIN.

Tie Atchison Champion OF yesterday
morning contains Il lengthy,an interesting
account of the late editorial excursion,
written BY Ccl. Martin, and from which We
learn that those who went with the party
enjoyed a royal good time. They did not
stop at their original objective Point-Put-
in-Bay-Ju; ;,,ok trip to Niagara Falls,
sail across Lake Ontario, 4 ride OF three
hundred miles through Canada, visiting
Toronto and other Canadian cities, and
coming home enjoyed a steamboat ride up
the Mississippi from st. Louis to Hanni-
bal. After all, they found mo place like
home" and Col Martin concludes his arti-
Gle as follows.
Wenever made visit TO any section, since
our residence in this state, that we did not
return home more fully convinced than ever
before that Kansas has no superior and few
equals among all the States OF the Union.
And never was this conviction so strength
eaed, never were we more confident of the
great future Of Kansas. than after making
This Journey from the Missouri 10 Toronto
and return. We passed, during our trip,
througs the centre OF three Of the great States
of the Union, through portions Of two 9TH
CrS, and for n distance OF three hundred
miles through Canada. We saw larger and
richer towns rlan any we have in our State.
and an older better settled and more careful
" improved country than ours, nearly every
where We Travelled. We saw regions that
the labor and capital OF from fifty TO hun
dred years have been beautifying and i'm
proving. We saw thousands of farms that
have descended, from generation to genera
tion of thrifty farmers, for a century past.
We saw beautiful lakes and rivers, charm
ing island resorts, fine meadows and cultiva-
ted fields, and great forests. And We saw all
these at a season when nature is clothed in
her richest robes, when her skies are bluest,
her sunshine brightest, and her atmosphere
clearest and most invigOrating But we
came back satisfied that Kansas is the most
beautiful State, the richest and most fruitful
State, of them all.
Until we crossed the Mississippi, coming
home through Missouri, We never saw a
shock OF wheat. When We told people We
met, daring our Journey, that the wheat har-
vest in Kansas had been in full progress for
two weeks before we left home, and would
lie almost over by the time we returned, they
looked incredulous. Through Illinois, Indi-
ana and Ohio we saw no wheat that would
be ready TO cut IN less than three weeks, and
the best corn we noticed, east of the Missis-
sippl, was not oEer six inches high. In Kan
sas, before we LETT home, We saw corn nearly
six feet high, and almost in every field in
the State il averaged from three TO four feet
in height. This difference in the appearance
ofthe crops was surprise, aud 1t impressed
all OF our party with marked astonishment
and satisfaction.
II any citizen of Kansas is troubled with
apprehensions concerning the future OF the
State, or believes that there is a better coun-
try to be found in some other section, let him
travel, evil return with such a wonderful
exaltation of spirits, such a confident pride
in Kansas, such a sublime satisfaction with
his home and all of his surroundings, as he
never had before Give Kansas half the age
of Illinois, Indiana or Ohio, and she will far
suppass them IN wealth, in Improvement,
and in all that mskes life pleasurable and
contented. Time, capital and careful culture
have been at work there for many
years, yet they have not made, with all
their efforts, as rich or as beautiful a land as
Is Kansas to-day. Fairer and bluer skies no.
where bend over landscape SO lovely as our
Kansas prairies; a richer and more prodigal-
~ generous soil than that of Kansas can be
found nowhere on this wide continent; "a
clearer and purer atmosphere nowhere en-
velopes such a charming suconkion Of gentle
hiIlsides and peaceful valley fhose of Kan
sas; aud the bright sun, as he travels from
continent bntinent, nowhere shines upon
a country rf6ler, in all the elements that go
to make a people prosperous and a State