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 ROUND THE WORLD

NUMBER ONE.

[Special Correspondence of Cleveland .]

“Westward the Star of Empire takes its way.” This is my motto; and as the lights of our Forest City grow dim in the distance, I try in vain to realize that, leaving all that is so dear to me behind, I am really started on my way “Round the World.” A day in Chicago, another in St. Louis, and I take the Kansas Pacific route to California, via Denver, in preference to the Omaha or Northern road. This route takes the traveler across the young and growing State of Kansas to Denver, the central city and capital of Colorado, about nine hundred miles west of St. Louis; thence north along the base of the Rocky Mountains, one hundred and ten miles, to Cheyenne, where he connects with the Union Pacific road at a point five hundred miles west of Omaha. The through fare is the same by either route, and although this may be half a day longer, it is a far more interesting, as it passes through the towns of Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka and Lecompton, places historical in “border ruffian” times, where still lingers the memory of John Brown and his friends, many of whom sacrificed their lives in trying to save Kansas to freedom. The events of the great rebellion that followed, and the names and places then made famous forever, have almost driven from recollection these famous men.

Of the six hundred miles from Kansas