Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-04-02
Our Kansas Letter.

Our Kansas Letter.
! Leavenworth, Kan, Mar. II, 's5
EDITOR ExPosIToR:-From sunny
Kansas extend my hand to you and
all my friends in the cold north and
thinking that you will be pleased to
learn of my welfare and also little
about the state of Kansas, | would
say that leaving Brockway Centre
on Dec. l7ih, | came to Vandalia,
Mich, and not finding things in a
desirable condition, came on to In.
diana and then to Chicago, Ill.,,
spent a day there in company with a
minister acquainted with the city,
looking through few Of those
buildings called by Henry Ward
Beecher after travelling over both
continents "the grandest in the whole
world" 1t would take up more space
than / would ask in the ExPosIToR
or / would like to try and describe
some of them. Some rooms l am told
in some of the buildings are seventy
and ninety feet from the marble
floor to the beautifully decorated
ceiling. AT 10 p. m. i took the
Chicago & Rock Island train for
Kansas City and at daylight the
brakeman called ''Davensport, Iowa."
Here we stopped twenty minutes for
refreshments and the untiring steam
horse started again and at 10 p. m.
we arrived in Kansas City. When
Ileft Chicago the ground was frozen,
but there was no snow on the ground.
In passing through Iowa | saw the
sleighs standing at the store doors in
all the many villages and when / got
into Kansas City / found mud in
plenty. What a'couhtry we have !!
A man can get summer any time by
going where summer is; but he must
90 farther south or southwest than
Kansas. The winters here are mild.
Those who have lived in Kansas for
20 years say we have passed through
the coolest winter they have known
for 4 number of years. About five
inches Of snow stayed on the ground
for nearly two months; but has been
gone some time now. One man COM
menced breaking sod on the 9th of
March, some are going to SOW soon.
You say in the ExPosIToR that the
81 saw a robin coming down the
street man has not been seen yet"
II is about three weeks since the lit
tie pets came to cheer us with their
presence. might say that the
thermometer one morning said ii
was 90" below what the negros out
. here call ''freezo." / think this is a
delightful climate. The people here
are very intelligent and kind. They
took me into their arms and have
cared for me, paying me literally
for preaching to them. l am, at
present, preaching for two congrega-
every other Sunday with each.
The farmers here do not work on as
\ close and careful system as they
do in Michigan. implements are
\ not cared for but left out in the
weather when not in use. Corn is
not cut and cared for as the fodder
is not valued so highly. In fact
numbers of people have not husked
their corn yet; but are gathering it
now. 1t is not uncommon out here
q am told) to see them gathering
corn in the spring and planting and
blowing in the same big field. / am
told there are wheat fields in the
western part of Kansas that were not
4 harvested last season, the price paid
for wheat out in that section was so
low that the people did not think it
! would pay to harvest the crop al
though it was good. The amount
of wheat sowed last September was
not SO great as in former years; but
what there is in looks well. People
here are turning their attention to
stock raising more than ever.
i Now think my letter quite long
enough and in order not to weary
you with too lengthy an article, I
will, with best wishes for the editor
of the ExPosrToR and all the friends
in Brockway, drop my pen with the
promise to write again If this does
not go into the waste basket.
Yours Respectfully,
| RoBT. b. Brown.
Prof Cock Heard From.
Prof. Cook lately wrote: "HAving studied