sachusetts we know from these locatives we
have read and for the names they brought; and for the liberty and
religion they sailed with across the seas, we remember them and love
them.

There are miscellaneous names, telling their tale, not of race
occupancy, but of who or what has passed this way, of beast, or bird,
or event, or man, which have left impress on geography,--things we do
well to study, and which will always lend a sort of enchantment and
vivacious interest to the pages of travel or geography. The villages
along a railroad are thus often of captivating interest. The Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, for instance, may illustrate this point.
Its name has interest of no common sort. Atchison is named after a
famous pro-slavery advocate, who came to Kansas, with his due quota of
"border ruffians," for the avowed purpose of making Kansas a slave
State. Topeka is an Indian name; Santa Fe is a Spanish landmark, tall
as a lighthouse builded on a cliff. At the Missouri line is Kansas
City, so named because this metropolis is created by Kansas. The
metropolis is in Missouri; but is made rich and great by Kansas men and
products. Kansas has not a large city in its borders, because this
Kansas City has engrossed the great business interests of a great
Commonwealth. The metropolis of Kansas, in other words, is in the
State of Missouri, and the name is as strict a speaking of truth as an
apostle could have commanded.

Passing along the line, find Holliday, so named from the projector of a
part of this railroad line; on is De Soto, always thrillingly historic;
farther is Eudora (a word of Greek genesis, and meaning a good gift,
though likely enough he who christened this village may have known as
little of Greek as a kitten); on is Lawrence, named for a famous
anti-slavery agitator and philanthropist of Massachusetts--for Lawrence
is a New England colony, as is Manhattan, farther up the Kansas River,
familiarly known as the "Kaw," which is the leading river of Kansas;
here is Lecompton, which keeps alive the memory of Lecompte, the Indian
chief; then comes Tecumseh, as clearly an Indian name as the former;
then Topeka, the capital of Kansas, and wearing an Indian sobriquet;
then comes Wakarusa (Indian, meaning "hip deep," the depth of the
stream in crossing); then Carbondale, so called because of the coal
deposits which created the village; then Burlingame, a beautiful
hamlet, wearing a famous name; then Emp