The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-12-14
NANIKIV.E,sS INSECTS.
By BEEMCS.

We arc told that the world and all it contains
| was especially made Tor the pleasure OF Divine
Power, and that afterwards the Creator satisfied
with his handiwork, pronounced it good, and
| then turned it over to man IL his patrimony,
giving him Dominion over the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea.
| Everything animate and inanima ate was made
for some particular use; every object filled the
exact place designed for it, and all constituted
harmonious whole. Looking back from this date
upon that remote age, this idea of absolute per-
lection and beautiful harmony is accepted az
| true. We picture very heaven upon earth.
Then man knew neither the cravings of hunger
| or thirst. The weather was SO tempered that
even the shorn lamb could, in the exhuber-
ance Of its animal happiness, kick up its heels
| and be positively gay 1t could sleep peacefully
enwrapped in the lions paws, and its head re-
posing in the lions jaws, with the king Of beasts
tongue for pillow. The bear and calf, young
pig and little chick, fox and goose gamboled
promiscuously on the green and sported in
ecstatic bliss. The bad game of poker" was
then unknown, but the animals, as a substitute,
had the giraffes for "Agh,' the slow of the
cow, and wild ducks, 10, for "game," The
patriarch played euchre with only one bower
that was the one where Eve met tie snake. This
was the fright bower" After this interview
With His Sliminess, Adam and Eve moved
hence it became the cleft bower" 1t will be
remembered that Eve, when eating the apple.
| ,;,,bt n ~, ;i,b svn ST.
OF tie tree of life. She didn't, and here WAS the
ace OF the gaIne-she came within an "ace" of
living for ever Failing to take this trick our
original great grand parents were "euchered"
out of the garden Of Eden But we digress
We perceive that every animal has some posi-
tive value, either as I'd or ~ servant to man,
or as conducting to his pleasure by being beauti.
full and rnAnental. 1t has been the standard
theory since Adams time every thing was m de
for man, and is to him positive benefit. How
about the insects? What WAS the design in
their creation? They are certainly not orna.
mentsl! In fact they are aplagus and IL con.
slant nuisance. Let him who asserts that they
are Of advantage or worth in natures economy
prove 1t. We cannot, III this enhs htened ago
accept them IS "A matter Of faith. We are un.
willing to accept the theory that nothing was
mAdo in vain, unless it is admitted that they
we're expressly created to annoy III ,nkind. In
this they are u success. Let some one explain
to us the use OF the potato bug the weavii, the
fly in tho wheat the army worm, the locust, the
grasshoppsr, the worms that live in the mouth,
bury In the flesh, fatten in the stomach, and
grow to DO halt mile long in the human intes.
tines! Explain to u the positive benefits to be
derived from trichiaM sojra!$, bot fly, flea, tick
aud the naineless insects that 90 to school resu.
larly with some children
We scout the idea that everything was made
tor mans benefit or enjoyment. These nameless
Insects were made to plague US. Every animal
Is the subject of war, waged by u smallar para.
site, and the microscope has revealed parasites
attached to parasites the smaller insect bearing
to its victim the same relative diminutive pro.
portions that the sand hoa does to the elephant
on which it browses. The whole world of ami.
mate objects is u continued warfare OF one species
upon another-not y war Of revenge but struy.
gle for existence. Man is moi only the victim
directly and indirectly Of all the parasites known
to natural history, but to those of his own species
The great man has swarm of smaller ones at.
tached to him; oliugins to him with the des.
perate energy of iorlorn hope. The Lesser
man has his parasites, and so On down to the
poor nondoscript who forms The connecting link
between the mau aud the bahoon.
. There are interopers or parasites in every
profession AZ the "shystet' among lawyers, Tia,
"quack" with doctors, the slop' to tailors
the botch" of carpenters and the "rat" among
printers. Even the noblest Of all professions
I that OF editors, is not wholly exempt from thes
o stnpds--these compounds of ignorance and bran.
n who verify tho SAW that:
: Fools rush H. where angels fear TO trcad"'
A As notable ex ,mpes we might point to par
= asite who lately orawled over the columns of
? newspaper ut NJ ,rseilics, and lcit his mark ~
the Initial of "Ilny,' his proper name. o,
we might name another iutcroper. in republ
Z can paper at Ottawa, who, wholly unable to al
preciate an innocent joke, retotts ia ooars
IL epi,hets, such us would DO expected from ifs
woman on the strands.
q. Literary man have always boon the subject G
t malgnity from scribblers like these whose eff,
le sions are APPLY Oh raoterixed by Pope:
ut "M,sgo,s, half formed in rhyme exactly meet,
Ana learn to crawl upon poetic icet"
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