Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15
KANSAS
LAWRENCE. Kan. Nog. 3. 1889.


The weather for the month past has
oeen very uissgreeahle FIR the most
part as it has been cold, rainy. foggy,
and in one case snowy.
The week just past. however. the
weather has been beau'iful enough to
almost make up for all Deficiencies in
that respect. being ideal Kansas wealth
er, each day more perfect than the
preceding. Last year such weather
lasted until near the HOLIDAYS. it is to
be hoped it will this year. too.
The most notable thing which has
happened since my last letter was in
connection with the University, and
was the Inauguration OF The new Chan
cellor, DR.. Lippincott.
The Board of Regents was present.
and also, Gov. Click, Judge Usher,
Secretary of the Interior under Lin.
coin, and some other of the prominent
citizens of the State and city.
The inaugural address of Or. Lip
pincott was scholarly production and
was well received by all p"..srnt. His
subject was The Ideal University,
and it should have heen hnarl hv ev.
cry member OF the Kansas legislature,
as that body has the future of the UNI.
versity in its hands
Remarks were also made by several
of those present, among whom those
of Gov. Click deserve special mention,
not for their intrinsic merit. but for
their singular lack of any seuse of the
"eternal fitness of thugs
The Governor was very hostile 10
Chancellor Marvin, and was the real
cause of his being replaced by DR..
Lippincott. He ha! a chance to see
however in what estimation DR.. Mar
win is held by the students, for when
the new Chancellor, in his inaugural
paid his really beautiful tribute te the
retiring Chancellor, the applause was
deafening and long continued; he must
have known, too that the change was
very distasteful to the great majority
Of the students, yet to characterize it
as it was, in the presence of its author.
Take 1t altogether, the Governor did
not take we'll at all, and had better
have kept silent, for then everybody
would have thought lie could have
talked if he had wished. Personally
| was very much dissappinted both in
mis- appearance and in his intellectual
ability, his use oe English was none of
the very best. and no audience is so
critical as one composed of students.
The effects of the two years good
crops are seen all over Kansas. Every.
where is prosperity, and business is
more lively than it has been for
years.
Here IN Lawrence there are several
firms engaged in shipping fruit and
the quantity sent off is something i'm
mense. 1t seems to me | never saw
so many apples as are being daily sold
on the streets, the amount must be
thousands of bushels every week, and
the supply seems to be exhanstless.
This part of Kansas is one of the finest
fruit countries in the west, and the
time will soon come when Eastern
Kansas will supply fruit for all west
of here The market will always be
good for there is such a demand for
fruit in Colorado and the western
states and territories. AS plenty as
apples are here, they are bringing
from IS cents to 81 per bushel, which
is fine thing for fruit growers. Take
it all in all Kansas is not the worst
place in which to live, by any means,
but discounts Ohio in a good many
ways. Z. L. E.