Show ON THE ROAD from topeka city jenion travels enst east KANSAS an 0 usually brig lit interesting letter from our special 11 HERALD iRALD it is 1 9 67 milea from topeka to kansas city the latter is a city CUT of in inhabitants situated in missouri just across the line on the missouri river the country to kansas city cit y is wooded with rolling hills til tho principal apal place between the two cities is lawrence the hist historic otic city of kansas where the great massacre took place just before the war viar which told missouri with bloody certainty that kansas would befree be free over all the road ad as far as one ahn can eee are grocea of ot oak ak maple birch bitternut and cottonwood coU onwood along the side of the road the smoky kansas rolla rolls its it muddy yater water to empty them near kansas city into the still muddier Alis missouri some distance eat cast of lawrance is the little town of eudora hidden among the trees there lere is nothing unusual about it except the lightning rod and its name every little house haer aas from three to five lightning rods on it iland and the larger ones a proportionate number it is said bat the place isa ia a perfect pandi when a storm arises the artillery of bean rag raging i in g b here are with h unbounded and anu unu unusual sual fury kansas city 14 is a great railroad and business center A large num her of the leading railways of the country branch from this city to all larts of the union if they do not drink in kansas they make up for fr it in missouri and kansas city does oes it share judging bom from the num ber er of saloons na the papers here claim aim that eyen even kansas c citizens iti zens are in n the habit of purchasing material in n 1 ita and freely using it asa as 1 cure for indigestion speaking of saloons reminds me that rev sam jones ones is bow in missouri he apok in a camp meeting a day or t ivo ago 6 as f follows his remarks arc are mot more s true than elegant a ahr heres ou k members of tho the in missouri Misso url to vote whisky out any day before breakfast applause and i a member of the church that wont vote for prohibition that member of the church belongs to the devil from ilia hat to his ills heels voices amen and got era em 19 A little old one horsa horse preacher that wont take sides on a question like this and says that he lie cant take sides a miserable pusillanimous god godforsaken wretch with a little cotton string run up his bis back with a rib or two knit to it and the only essence essence or backbone that hos hes got in this word applause the worst enemy that god almighty lias in the state of missouri is a preacher who ia is daily dallying with this qu question tion of prohibition im not cit going to take any tides arother you get down on 5 our knees if you are here this thi afternoon and slipup botho reat ear car of god on our knees in honest deo deetion tion and eay say 0 thou great maker of this universe which ade of thlu great issue art thou on which side do you i ou heakon god will answer he lie is au an old fe fellow you go up to jesus of nazareth ya zareth tho ilie o 0 fering savior of men wh for the good of his raa and died to save caverns his race and nna aw jesus the savior of men which bide side of it he stands on and an d then you slip to of the angels as the they look down from above and anti ask the angels which side they are on and hen you go lo 10 the buried moth ere and anti wives of 0 ibis this country and dig ti tha iq dirt off their bodies ant and say buried wife or which side of this question are you on ga to the tile P precious re clou s sainted mothers of every one and an d ask them which side they are on go to the precious little children of earth and ask them which eid ethey arc on all of these with common answer 1 I am for and well comins to the practical tea fea orthis of this question k want to gay say thier iri id missouri you have what you call high license ll censo that ia is the worst shape yon you can get the ahing in at all is high license lau laughter and cries of ot so 11 I 1 tell you how I 1 eland I 1 want avant free whisky or no ahir whisky ay iriti sawood thine to let us turn it loose and let it bless altale all the world thing 9 let ue us strike etri kelt it on the tail or body but let ua us cut its head right smooth off on A headier beadle snake cant bite to isay say tho the least of it kansas city is situated an a large hill below the tho hill are the the manufacturing and many of tho the wholesale houses also the ali 0 railroad depots or more prope properly ali speaking I 1 the union tinion depot which ie is a magnificent ent structure ruc ture the cable street road has ita its depot above the street here and climb climbs the hill at an angle of 37 degrees leading through tho the city fo for r two miles the streets are narrow and are paved with wooden block het on end they rhey do not run cast east and besil west but change to suit the pei peculiar uliar circumstances of the city after passing t through the business center with its grand busi business ouss blocks public buildings opera houses churchea church es and schools we get got int aiato iato 0 the residence portion n of the city t Y here hero are stately mansions mansions surrounded by cinq lawns power ower gardens and vina shady walnut trees leading far fur butiu out ia thil bercut dirac eions over the gently rolling land aro are clean green lines lined on either side by walnut and birch trees from which the cicada ch or rather rasps his elenin 9 melodies rr ea to the north towards iowa a beautiful panorama is spread out to view in the foreground is the boiling missouri with hero here and there a ai little steamboat plying in its rolling waters and beyond are the wooded hills and hollows odthe of the northwest north west portion of the state with its stacks of grain and growing corn speaking of corn re minds us that there ie is not much dill difference brence between a forest and a corn field one could as easily dwell unseen in one as in the other leavin leaving kansas city on the chicago T fe alton railway in in one of its easy and comfortable reclining chair coaches the first town reached is independence almost in the heart of jackson co the surroundings as well as the historic interest of this is place and country rendered it of unusual interest to your carress P pon ondene dent the residences here are unusually shabby but the groves are perfect cylvan retreats unlike those of eastern kansas there is no underbrush in the woods of this part of the country what the residents lack in true yankee and western thrift nature has supplied bb by y freely bountifully and super superbly ly lavishing beauty and fer tilita on the landscape and the soil Cou considering the age agre and advantages of the cities through i gh western mis j 1 ri western wester n kansas though of course not quite as thickly populated or as largo large stands in the front JENION TF NION RoOD illinois july 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