Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-04-23
Our Kansas Letter.

Leavenworth, Kan, April t., 1855.
EpIToR EXroSITOR. - Noticing
that you kindly published my last
letter in your paper, in order to keep
my promise to write once more,
embrace this opportunity, as | have
u few moments toSPare before going
+, ont To make some calls this morning.
Your paper comes Il welcome and
valued visitor every Monday morn
ing, and ! can truly say, not wishing
to try and flatter; but in the way of
worthy praise, that when | see a
stranger pick the paper up To read
over Michigan news, do not blush;
hut my bosom heayes with an emo
tion of pride, for after visiting a
number of villages in Michigan,
some in Indiana and in this state, |
can say it will compare favorable
with any local paper published in
any village in the country with one
thousand of population, and |
modestly desire to wish the young
editor and the paper 'Long life and
a bright future"
Ny love for the Gar West" is Ia
creasing every day. The people are
very kind to me, caring for me and
encouraging me i'll my work. |
wonld like TO say to anyone who has
any inclination to lose faith in hui
manly, go from home and meet with
strangers and have them take you
into their homes and minister ten
derby to you in air your wants and it
Will effect n permanent cure.
With this J send some leaves pick
ed from al apple tree this morning.
/ gathered some flowers week ago
to-day. Would send them but they
dried up. 1t is nearly two months
since we lost our snow: but we had
one storm about q month ago. 1t only
staid one day though and We have
not seen any since, Reefs, radish,
onions, lettuce, etc, are growing nicely
in the gardens. | said in my last let
ter that the fafi wheat was looking
well. 1'heprospect was good then, but
now it is very poor. 1t seemed to be
cut off by some insect which killed it.
A great many have cultivated their
wheat up, sowing the ground with
oats and fax. People are about
through with their seeding. a fine
shower last night seems to give new
life to everything. Fowls are run
ming around the yard caring for
their young broods. Herds are wan
dering out over the fields like rest
less humanity looking for something
better. Birds have their voices EN-.
ployed singing songs of praise in
every grove. People out in Kansas,
amid such surroundings, are always
in a hurry. "Whatsoever their
hands findeth to do, they do it with
all their might" Even on Sunday
this same lively spirit is to be seen.
A preacher must pass on from
thought to thought just as quick as
he can, the quicker the better. So
with the Sunday school work. Move,
push, is the order in the west.
In coming to Kansas | supposed l
was coming to state where the SELL
ing of intoxicating drink was not al
lowed; but in this / was mistaken.
Leavenworth has | am told) $50
saloons; but the governor has order
ed them all to be closed by the first
of May or the keepers will suffer the
seterest penalty of the law and the
people are determined to see the law
put in force. 1t has created quite a
stir. The matter is the subject of
the conversation on every street
corner and every social gathering.
In Atchison a little more than a
week ago a saloon keeper struck a
preacher; but the preacher instead
of turning the other cheek, struck
back with terrible force. Now the
saloon keepers say eve will just get
$40 worth of drugs" Now for war
between prohibition and whisky. l
hope theformer will win the victory.
The prohibitory law is enforced in
all but the border towns. A great
number of the saloons are closed this
week showing that the whisky men
are giving up.
Kansas has had rapid growth, and
prosperity has been wonderful.
Large villages are situatad on the
very ground where the savage, TWEEN.
ty-fve years ago, sat in the door of
bis wigwam while his dusky mate
prepared his meal and the ground,
roamed over then by the buffalo and
the antelope, is now pastured by fine
cattle or sheep or producing "the
ripe golden ears" How wonderful
ly God provides. When the. Indian
held undisputed possession, He gave
him the buffalo for meat and now
that the race is dying out, crowded
into q small territory, we will know
the buffalo as a beast OF the past.
Thirty years ago the first newspaper
published in Kansas was printed un-
der the shade Of an elm tree whore
the city of Leavenworth now stands.
The sir here is very pure and
1s--lx Mill. s~Il..