The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-05
BEAUTIFUL WESTERN KANSAS
AS Seen by a Hiawatha Jayhawker.

AS Seen by a Hiawatha Jayhawker.
A trip to Western Kansas:
country that is young and growing;
where farm products are constantly
increasing; where wealth is rapidly
but BEAUTIFULLY accommodating with
the development Of local resources.
Western Kansas offers more to the
emigrant of today than any land be-
tween the two oceans. The climate
is charming. The soil for the most
part unexcelled. The variety and pos
sibilities of the soil are wonderful.
Schools are on every hill. Neigh
borly society is good, none better.
The country is healthful and more
beautiful than ! can describe. The
water is of good quality and is
abundant The mythical desert is
fairer today than the fable of Eden.
The land is richer than the African
Nile. This western Kansas is a rev.
elation of human progress. The plain
is transformed into fields and gar
dens. The growing barley, corn and
other cereals to fill the granaries of
the world. The table lands are graz
ing cattle on thousand hills to feed
the millions at the front.
This beautiful and bountiful wes-
tern Kansas is bounded on the south
by the Indian nations Of Oklahoma
and the magnificent ranges of no
Mans Land, on the north by the gol-
den wheat fields cf Nebraska and on
the west the radiant plains of Colo
RADIO. And what beautiful picture
of life itself. No pen can adequate
iy portray these western Kansas land
scapes. They are the delight of Wis
itors from every land. Overhead is
the pale blue of this glorious western
sky, underfoot, is the sea of buffalo
grass, decked with floral gems of
every hue. He does not exist who
can be unmoved by these grand
views. Ones soul keeps pace with
the wonderful range of vision an6
the mirage, and it is touched by 6
sweet sense of the infinite God. The
radiant expanse of the prairie reach
es to the golden sunset, and pierce!
the clouds. Nothing in Western Kan
sas is contracted or stinted. What
a grand, grand old country.
The wheat in western Kansas driet
out about the same time as it did il
Brown county. The corn, barley
rye, feterita, milo maize, kaffir corr
and cane are coming up and lool
fine. The grass could not be better
The first crop of alfalfa is being cut
Potatoes are assured. The farm
women of western Kansas are raising
thousands of chickens, something un-
heard of. At almost every home can
be found dairy herd and the house
wife pays the expenses with her pro-
duce of butter, cream and eggs.
l returned to Hiawatha, the home
of my birth, realizing more forcibly
than ever, that there is music in the
Sad Sea-waves Of Buffalo grass in
Western Kansas.
Tom D. Smith.
The above clipping from one of the
Hiawatha, Kansas, papers was
brought in several weeks ago by a
friend, but for the life of me l can't
remember who it was. 1t was our in
tention to print it right away but it
was placed in the desk and became
buried, and was only discovered this
week. Hundreds of people have been
brought to Western Kansas through
just such articles. The fact is the
writer is one of them. We were hold
ing down position as foreman on a
paper back in central Kansas, when
a citizen of that town returned from
a trip out here. He wrote descrip-
ton of the country and in the course
of the work of the office we run
across it and when the next home
seekers special left we were a pas
senger. The benefit of such adver-
Using cannot be estimated in dollars
and cents.